Halfcast’s sound on their new album, Return, is marked by Tyler’s virtuosic guitar playing, which is not only technically proficient but versatile and dynamic as well. Listing among their influences An Endless Sporadic, Failure, and Queens of the Stone Age, Halfcast also serve as a callback to progressive rock of the 70s and 80s, but with a taste of the heavy dirty guitar tones and screaming vocals that often flavor today’s prog-rock.
Attending a rehearsal, Dickerson clicked with Tyler and Moore, and in this three-piece lineup, they decided to begin promoting the album created by Tyler. As the release of Year of the Fox loomed, Tyler was looking for a bass player to help him play his songs live. Running into Tyler frequently on campus, Dickerson made his acquaintance through numerous mutual classes. However, seeing a need for bass players around town, he decided to pick up the instrument and slid perfectly into the niche. Playing trumpet throughout his youth, Dickerson was primarily a drummer when he first moved into the city. After a jam session in which the two bonded, Tyler asked Moore to join the Halfcast project.ĭickerson, born in Nashville, was raised in Short Pump and moved downtown later in life to attend VCU. After moving to Richmond, Moore lived next door to a friend of Tyler’s who heard him playing drums and offered to introduce him to Tyler. When Tyler came to Virginia Commonwealth University to study classical guitar, he met Moore, a drummer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland who had been playing music since the age of seven and playing in bands since the age of eight. Writing and recording in Hubble’s basement, playing almost every instrument himself, Tyler continued working on it over the course of the next four years. Starting the project that would eventually be called Halfcast in 2012 with a friend, Jack Hubble, Tyler felt that they had a high-concept story to tell and they began work on what would eventually turn into Year of the Fox, Halfcast’s first studio album. What started as a fantasy after playing a game of Guitar Hero turned into a reality as he got older and began working in music stores in order to be around the instruments he wanted to learn. Tyler growing up in Alexandria begin teaching himself guitar from an early age. I sat down on one couch in my living room to begin the interview, while they all sat shoulder to shoulder on a separate couch, despite the ample seating.
Ryan Dickerson showed up a few minutes later wearing a shirt emblazoned with the logo of what I can only assume to be his favorite hot sauce and smiled at me as I opened to the door, apologizing for his fashionable tardiness. We exchanged pleasantries as I gave them the tour of the house and showed them my basement studio where I often work and record my music. Both were casually dressed in jeans and t-shirts, a “MOM” tattoo poking out from beneath Tyler’s right sleeve. Jason Tyler and Alex Moore of the band Halfcast showed up at the front door to my townhome in the fan at 11:01 for our 11:00 AM meeting about as punctual as can be expected from musicians.
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