Brian Akey
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Brian Akey is a musician
Musician
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 and writer
Writer
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 from Northampton, MA. He is the singer/songwriter
Songwriter
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 and sole member of File of the Storm, an experimental recording project. He currently performs with Winterpills
Winterpills
Winterpills are an indie rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. Its members are Philip Price, Flora Reed, Dave Hower, Dennis Crommett and Brian Akey. They are also joined on tour sometimes by José Ayerve and Henning Ohlenbusch...

and Spanish for Hitchhiking. File of the Storm came about in the winter of 2006, after a long period of unemployment.

He recently contributed music to the Eric Mendelsohn film 3 Backyards (2009).

Brian also continues to write absurdist prose and is currently working on publishing Ocean of Justice, a body of work spanning two and a half years of observations and altered memories set against the rigor of 21st century life. He contributed to his blog, The Infinite Corner, for some time, but appears to have removed it from the internet sometime in September 2010. His new blog, The Sunset Quarrel debuts in the fall of 2011.

He lives in upstate New York with his wife and two cats.
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