Jeff Martin and Steven Padin have been making music together for nearly nine years. They wrote, recorded and toured as lead singer and drummer of This Day & Age until 2007. For both, it was important to not only maintain a friendship, but to be involved with one another’s musical endeavors whenever possible. What started out as Jeff recording a few songs for fun with several friends in the outskirts of Philadelphia, somehow became much more and inspired Steven to record some music that he had been hiding from the world.

This album is a unique, organic and refreshing blend of songs that might separate them from the genre which brought them up. They have one goal: to present honest and thoughtful music with hopes of reaching those who are willing to actually listen. Jeff Martin and Steven Padin present “The First Joke & Other Matters.” Enjoy. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.