Alternative indie rocker and guitar pop singer/songwriter Jason Eric Rubin hails from Seattle, Washington. In solo artist fashion the music of Jason Eric Rubin is often compared to the sounds of David Bowie, Elliott Smith, and the guitar pop side of Beck, with a flavor of the Bee Gees and Elton John thrown somewhere in the mix. With his new release Songs of Queen Anne, Songs of Japan, Jason Eric Rubin chooses a simple medium of mostly multi-textured guitar and voice, bringing feelings to light ranging from the super flashy to just about “shoe-gazer,” only without crossing fully into that border. In whatever way influenced by ‘70’s Glam and indie-pop, the songs take you on a straightforward ride from catchy hook to catchy hook but like a purist John Lennon type of philosophy, the songs are true to Jason Eric Rubin and from the heart.

Jason Eric Rubin was the lead singer and primary songwriter for Seattle based rock and DJ montage The New Digs which had a run from 1999-2001, doing shows and radio play with 107.7 The End, and opening locally for the likes of Crazy Town and the Flys. Other members of The New Digs now find themselves in Redlightmusic with Peter Klett of Candlebox fame, and as part of the edgy groove oriented Supermassive. Jason Eric Rubin continued taking his songs in an independent direction, finding that which was the most natural, was the way.

Though the finishing mastering touches of his new release Songs of Queen Anne, Songs of Japan were added in Hollywood, California with Peter Perdichizzi, formerly of The Flys, the album was co-engineered by Jason Eric Rubin with a friend up the street from his home in Seattle and self-produced and mixed by Jason Eric Rubin in authentic indie fervor.

Jason Eric Rubin spent some time in Japan in recent years, and that experience was much of the inspiration for this record. The album was recorded in his native Seattle neighborhood of Queen Anne, hence the album title Songs of Queen Anne, Songs of Japan.