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1) Why? is a hip hop indie rock band based out of Berkeley, California, originally only featuring Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf. It has since gone on to include Doug McDiarmid, Matt Meldon, and Yoni’s brother Josiah Wolf. They are one of the founding groups of the anticon collective of Oakland, California. Current members are the Wolf brothers.

Yoni Wolf was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the summer before his first year at High School, Wolf discovered an old 4-track in his father’s synagogue and began to experiment musically. Forays into rapping, drumming, and poetry followed.

In 1997, while attending art school at the University of Cincinnati, Wolf met fellow student Adam Drucker — better known as Dose One — at the semifinals of the 1997 Scribble Jam. Doseone and Wolf formed the live improvisational group Apogee along with Yoni’s older brother Josiah and DJ Mr. Dibbs. The partnership of Wolf and Doseone continued for many years, under many guises including cLOUDDEAD and Greenthink.

In 2005 Why? released Elephant Eyelash, which deviated considerably from their previous full length Oaklandazulasylum, primarily as less of an independent solo-project to the sound of a full indie rock band. To accomplish this sound, Yoni enlisted the help of his brother, Josiah Wolf, on drums, Matt Meldon on guitar and Doug McDiarmid as a random-task member. The group toured much of 2005 in support of the album as a four piece; however, by the time of their May 2006 tour with Islands, the group had become a three piece because Matt Meldon moved to an island off the coast of Seattle to live with his girlfriend.[1]
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