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Dylan Hicks

Dylan "Sticks" Hicks is originally from right outside of Chicago, Illinois. He started studying drums in Jr. High School, and began private lessons with Don Skoog. He played in his school bands, as well as attending Jazz jam sessions all around the Chicago-land area. Then he attended The Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and would go on to tour twice with their International Jazz Band in two, one month tours. He then went on to join the Midwest Young Artists jazz program, an intensive jazz performance program masterminded by the great Chicago guitar player/composer, Frank Portolese. Another tour of Scotland took place with this group.

Dylan Davis Hicks

Born: December 16, 1970

Musician and writer Dylan Hicks was born in Austin, Texas, in 1970, and has lived since 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With his six-piece group Dylan Hicks & Small Screens, he plays exploratory pop with literary ambitions and far-flung musical influences including jazz, R&B, freely improvised music, and various song traditions.  The group’s forthcoming album, Modern Flora, is centered on inviting multi-part songs arranged for nonet. Other recent recordings include Accidental Birds, a largely electronic album recorded during the height of the pandemic, and Munson-Hicks Party Supplies, a collection of Hicks’s songs mostly sung by John Munson. Hicks is also the author of two novels, Amateurs and Boarded Windows, and has written journalism, criticism, essays, and word puzzles for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Slate, the New England Review, the Paris Review Daily, and many other publications.He has also published two novels with Coffee House Press and written journalism, essays, word puzzles, and fiction for the Village Voice, the New York Times, the New England Review, Slate, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review Daily, Mpls.-St. Paul, and other publications, many of them now defunct.

Modern Flora

By Dylan Davis Hicks

Label: Soft Launch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: If Spring Comes like They Say; The Head of a Dog; The Unicellular Spore; Modern Flora; All Thumbs.