2-$-Cockroach is a Poetry-Blues-Jug-band / Performance-Art group. How can all that work you ask? Well, their genre is self-described as ---a whole lot of whatever,--- but their sound is defiantly Americana. ---It---s as if you can hear the melting-pot being stirred.--- They defy genre, age group, and the line between audience and performer. Expect the Roaches to move from a spoken word piece over a dirty blues lick to three-harmony-rock song, from an experimental noise piece to a medieval flavored folk song, and from a metal cover deconstructed to its blues roots to a free-form jazz piece with toy instruments passed out to the audience. There is always something for everyone, but also something no one---s ever heard before.

Nathan Xander was born a Pisces in, Union City, Pennsylvania in 1983 and currently lives in Chicago. After playing in a variety of bands, Nathan eventually fell in love with American folk and classic country music. An active writer and musician, Nathan has written and recorded nearly 100 original tracks over the last two and a half years.