Jeff Mitchell w/ Attack Octopus - $6

Art in the cafe...

John Isaac Lyons


"Drawings and Paintings by Isaac Lyons"


November 2025



Isaac Lyons grew up in an artistic family in the woods west of Madison Wisconsin. While surrounded by nature in his youth, Lyons was drawn to the urban aesthetic of trains, street art and Hip Hop culture. As a teenager he spent most of his free time painting graffiti in abandoned buildings, under bridges and on trains. He has also completed many murals around Wisconsin and the midwest. Isaac’s recent works on canvas have moved away from the Postmodern Figurative/Symbolic, as he is now embracing a Neo Abstract Expressionist aesthetic. These paintings, exude raw brush work, and reveal his knack for color and...
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Friday, March 5, 2010

Jeff Mitchell
Jeff Mitchell's songs are flashes of memory, emotion, and dry humor. His raw approach to fingerstyle guitar swerves from pedestrian to bizarre without warning. Live shows have earned him a reputation for emotional intensity, lyrics that silence a room, and genre-bending electro-roots music that can bring the house down.

Mitchell has played everything from metal in dive bars to jug band music in grade schools, sharing the stage with folkies, punks, honkey-tonkers, barbershoppers, hip-hoppers, yodeling cowboys, and cardboard robots.

Attack Octopus In its acoustic form, Attack Octopus is a solo looping project that layers textures and tones with guitar, piano, bells, drum machine, and vocals.

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