Hi and Welcome to J Lee Arts and Music, Dateline 5/11/26 FYI I am angling off Youtube and am sending all our content over to either Subamerica or the Internet Archive. Big tech is bad for you and is ruled by a bunch of bros with way too much power and fascist inclinations so the less time you waste there and actually find alternatives and make shit not about computing the better for your well being and happiness. Below is a Starry Skemes Subamerica playlist with live vid of brand new song Drips & Drabs, band praxis vid of another new one, None the Wiser and a track from our latest batch of recordings, Rainy Sunday. Skemes played a fun show up in North Beach on the sidewalk of Grant and Green St. We are the modern incarnation of Willie and the Poor Boys (Bring a nickel/Can’t be beat). If only John Fogerty stopped by he would have got it. Thanks to poet and impresario Jessica Loos for the gig and activism with NB 1st Fridays. OK, what else? Warm Spell played a very fun show with like minded friends and musicians Flatways and Agnes Martian. I was blown away by these two bands who take music to new and exciting places. Been doing some plein aire painting, one of Devils’ Slide the other at Wildcat Creek, Berkeley. View them here. What else? Bill of Starry Skemes and I made a mobiles/video synth/electric sitar/ambient noise video and will be riffing and grokking some ideas for that. It was pretty 3rd Eye psychedelic I must say, maybe even 4th eye. I dunno. Will post vid soon. Special thanks to our Archivist Tom Scharff for recording our shows, some light stagehand work and especially the friendship, positivity and encouragement. See below for several of his recordings. Thanks for checking out the site!
Upcoming Shows:
5/22 Marigold Fold @Winters Tavern, Pacifica
5/30 Warm Spell on KALX Live, 9pm KALX 90.7 CAL Berkeley Radio
6/13 Starry Skemes, Marigold Fold, Angie McLaughlin (Dublin, IRE) @ The Make Out Room, SF
6/27 Starry Skemes @ undisclosed location, Oakland, CA
Starry Skemes on Subamerica
Skemes and Spells Recorded Live

J Lee Mobile Unit Live @ Other Cinema/ATA
This was a very interesting night. Thanks to Craig Baldwin for having me. I’ve been wanting to do the “19th Century Light Show” for some

Warm Spell Live @ Z Space
Warm Spell was invited to play Jackhammer Park at Project Artaud for the Spring Open Studios festivities with Conspiracy of Venus. It rained so they

Starry Skemes Live, May Day 2026
We played a North Beach show a couple years ago at Tupelo’s for a KXSF benefit and I was schmoozing up the bar owner/booker and

Plein Aire Spring ’26
Wildcat Creek, Berkeley Hills Wild Cat Creek, 11 x 14 acrylic plein aire ala prima. Headed back to the woods of the Berekely foothills again