Shiver Fox

Trey Tosh and Kyle Baker, both fixtures on Fresno’s erratic music scene, started penning down collective ideas for the better part of 2009. The goal was simple: write music they could stand behind. What was realized was a hole they both felt passionate to patch up. Enter Shiver Fox. With the heat of each of their recent successes – The Trey Tosh Band and Flight 409 – lighting their heels, Tosh and Baker knew they were onto something big. Tosh has opened for Peter Frampton’s main stage, play...

Trey Tosh and Kyle Baker, both fixtures on Fresno’s erratic music scene, started penning down collective ideas for the better part of 2009. The goal was simple: write music they could stand behind. What was realized was a hole they both felt passionate to patch up. Enter Shiver Fox. With the heat of each of their recent successes – The Trey Tosh Band and Flight 409 – lighting their heels, Tosh and Baker knew they were onto something big. Tosh has opened for Peter Frampton’s main stage, played that of the Music Mountain Blues Festival as well as the ever-popular South by Southwest in Austin. His talent is also highlighted on Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s latest album. You can read more about his accomplishments in “You Can’t Stop a Comet” by Cutter Brandenburg, Stevie Ray Vaughn’s long-time manager. Kyle Baker is a man to be reckoned with all his own. Having toured internationally, throughout the U.S. and Canada with major record labels, you may have caught him on the Rockin’ Roots Music Festival main stage, any number of Vans Warped Tours, Taste of Chaos or South by Southwest. With a CD released in Japan on Radtone Records, a #1 placement on CMJ 200 radio charts for multiple weeks in a row, and features in AP Magazine, Skratch Magazine and Fresno Magazine, it’s safe to say the collaboration of Tosh and Baker is as good as dangerous can get. Meanwhile, back on a farm outside of Olympia, WA, drummer Jeremy Luvaas began playing when he was five and touring at seven. His first performances with dad’s rock ‘n’ roll bands led to statewide festival tours every summer growing up until he formed a band of his own, HydroPhonics. This Hip-Hop-Funk/Rock band served as the soundtrack for much of Southern California, until fate named him the wild, beastly drummer of Shiver Fox. When it comes to the Shiver Fox train, the name of their first full-length album says it all… RIDE IT! And ride it they have, most recently all the way to Nashville, where the boys injected everything they had into their music once they got there. Drawing passion from one long cross-country adventure, Shiver Fox’s inspired state of mind is evident in everything from electric lyrics to heady beats to provocative guitar licks. Produced by Brian Virtue, whose expert work can be heard with the likes of The Deftones, 30 Seconds to Mars and Jane’s Addiction, “Ride It” was mastered by industry legend Richard Dodd, whose signature can be found on albums by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Johnny Cash, George Harrison and Freddie Mercury. Trey Tosh, Kyle Baker and Jeremy Luvaas have ridden the ride of life from small town beginnings to making a record with rock ‘n’ roll icons, opening for KISS, car surfing a highway river in the middle of a Tennessee storm and plotting their next mission: taking over the universe. This band is a rowdy revival of a time when rock “rocked” and does it wickedly well. Far from literal, Shiver Fox expertly concocts a frenzy of rock and roll, laced with heavy doses of blues, punk, western and soul. Stay tuned for intoxicating libations from Fresno’s take on deep-rooted, modern vintage rock: SHIVER FOX.