After bonding over their love of classic jam bands and American noise artists, longtime friends James Jackson Toth (aka Wooden Wand) and Nick Mitchell Maiato (guitarist for Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura) finally joined forces in 2016 to form supergroup One Eleven Heavy. The band looked to heroes of fried boogie rock and cosmic Americana for the soupy grooves and spacy soloing of their 2018 debut Everything's Better.
Toth and Maiato met in 2008 when Wooden Wand was touring the United Kingdom. They got into a conversation that eventually revealed their shared love of Neil You...