Paul & Storm, Jonathan Coulton March 23, 2007

A Lennon/McCartney comedy songwriting team, Paul Sabourin and Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo have been writing and performing original music together for more than a decade. Millions are familiar with Paul and Storm and their material from the years they spent as one-half of the widely acclaimed a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook.

Bravely picking up instruments in 2004, Paul and Storm continue to write the kind of material that helped make their former band a hit at clubs and major festivals across the country. No subject is sacred to this energetic pair as they keep audiences laughing with their humorous and satirical original songs. Be it Corporate America ("Rejected Commercial Jingles"), opening bands ("Opening Band"), or over-earnest folk singers ("The Ballad of Eddie Praeger"), Paul and Storm leave no cultural stone unturned.

Jonathan Coulton is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures. He recently accompanied Hodgman on his book tour, singing songs about hobos and furry lobsters, all while wearing a funny hat. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, self-loathing giant squids, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good. They repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. And the sick part is, you keep coming back. Coulton's is the voice of every spooky elementary school kid who could never quite keep his shirt tucked in or shoes tied; every lovelorn mason and mad scientist; every one of us who has ever sat despairingly on the floor, surrounded by parts of an Ikea endtable, weeping over our allen wrenches.