When you’re a student at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, all of New York City can be your audience. James Muschler, Wenzl McGowen and Mike Wilbur took full advantage of this, ...

The Moon Hooch trio of drummer James Muschler, Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen got the Velvet Jones nightclub grooving with their dance-inducing music. (L. Paul Mann / Noozhawk photo) [Click here for a ...

Moon Hooch captured the imaginations of thousands with its infamous stints busking on subway platforms and elsewhere in New York City: two sax players and a drummer whipping up furious, impromptu ...

It’s a Monday night in south London, and the crowd at Omeara is going absolutely wild over a vegan experimental jazz band. One saxophonist looks like he’s on loan from a metal band, the other fixes ...

Moon Hooch has long called its output “cave music” — a genre “like house music, but more primitive and jagged and raw.” The infectious, high-energy dance music is rendered by two saxophones and a drum ...

It began in balmy New York City subway stations. Two guys blaring through saxophones, accompanied by an often-shirtless drummer. Somehow this trio, who’d eventually call themselves Moon Hooch, ...

Moon Hooch play “cave music.” The saxophones-and-drum trio coined the term after developing a unique sound busking in the cavernous subway tunnels of New York City. With the architecture of jazz and ...

A trio composed of two horn players and a drummer, Moon Hooch got its start instigating impromptu dance parties in New York subway stations. There was no stage, just a banner hung over the platform.

Mike Wilbur is in a surly mood when the Inlander calls him on a recent afternoon. He's in a van with his Moon Hooch bandmates somewhere outside of Houston, and because his mind-changing substance of ...

Brooklyn jazz trio Moon Hooch started out as buskers in New York City, where they were responsible for a mass breakout of dancing that got them banned from the subway station where they were playing.