Who is Mighty Joe Castro?
Mighty Joe Castro is an accomplished Pennsylvania based artist, musician (Mighty Joe Castro and the Gravamen) and designer. His work has been shown in galleries and art spaces across North America and Europe and have been featured in The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art (Gestalten), Arkitip, The Baffler, Esquire, GQ Style, Glamour as well as on a board series for Element skateboards.
His latest music project, Mighty Joe Castro & The Gravamen have been described as sounding like Buddy Holly (if he'd had access to a stack of effects pedals and some Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds records).
“Philly-based singer-songwriter Mighty Joe Castro would fit right in at the Twin Peaks roadhouse. His retro-rock stylings channel the uneasy underbelly of 1950s American life; think equal parts film noir and Chris Isaak’s “Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing....” – John Vettese, WXPN’s The Key.
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