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Anthony Newes is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based musician, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer. We've covered Newes' music here at The Witzard by way of his Wax Poetic Records-signed project, Bones & Beeker , with Brendan "BK-One" Kelly, but Newes has been actively making, recording, releasing, and playing live music since the age of 16. We, actually, got a chance to speak with Newes' partner in crime, BK-One , back in 2018 about the (re-)making-of Bones & Beeker's Bones & Beeker (2015) companion remix EP, Inside A Different Mind, with help from Cut Chemist, P.O.S. ZuluZuluu, Brother Ali, Open Mike Eagle, and J-Zone, Prince Paul (De La Soul, Gravediggaz) & Sacha Jenkins' SUPERBLACK. In the Dark of the Sea by Anthony Newes Across the genres of Folk, Punk, Pop, Melodic Rock, Indie Rock, Hip-Hop, and Synth-pop, Newes has released a sprawling back catalog of music with Bones & Beeker, Manifesto, Rosetta Rosetta , Superbal...

"This music makes me wanna make more children. It makes me feel like things are gonna be alright," Atmosphere emcee Slug once proclaimed concerning Minneapolis-based duo Bones & Beeker. Consisting of Anthony "Tony" Newes (vocals, guitar, keys, and other sounds) and Brendan Kelly AKA BK-One (production, drum programming, keys, glockenspiel, kalimba) Bones & Beeker released a self-titled 2015 album on Wax Poetics Records . While it's hard to peg Bones & Beeker's output as one distinct genre label, they draw influence from Jazz, Funk/Soul, Indie Pop, Hip-Hop, and a multitude of genre-eschewing sounds; however, the most fitting descriptions of Bones & Beeker's overall sound I've found comes directly from the band themselves—Tony describing it as "The Toys meet Hip-Hop" and BK-One likening their sound to "a sample-based Paul Simon"—during a 2015 video interview with THEOREMATIC . Bones & Beeker also features inst...