“We store our amps and gear in our mom’s basement – that’s where we go to practice and write”: Joyer combine sweet pop hooks with tension, weirdness and gritty guitar solos – and their mom can't get enough of it

Joyer’s Nick Sullivan [left] and his brother Shane performing live.

Guitarists Nick and Shane Sullivan, who lead the East Coast-based shoegaze/bedroom pop band Joyer, credit their parents with providing them a solid musical education.

“They were into so much music, starting with the ’60s and ’70s classic rock and stretching into the ’90s and alternative rock,” Shane says. “We heard all of it – everyone from the Beatles to the Feelies. I think that created a through‑line for all the bands Nick and I got into on our own.”