hometown: Florence, AL
current town: Alabama (Birmingham, Florence, Gadsden, and Huntsville)
music icon: White Reaper, The Strokes, and COIN
favorite food: It’s hard to choose one — Asian food, fried chicken, and anything spicy.
fun fact/secret: Fun Fact: we’re roller coaster freaks! Secret: we have a country band called The Pontiac Sunfires.
bio: Carver Commodore is an alternative rock band from the modest town of Florence, Alabama.
The band is composed of guitarist and vocalist Payton Pruitt, guitarist Phillip Blevins, drummer
Noah Freeman, multi-instrumentalist Clayton Christopher, and bassist David Smith. In contrast
to the “swampy, soulful sound” that put their hometown on the map, Carver is known for fusing
garage, indie, and pop influences into stadium-worthy rock anthems. Modern alt-giants like
Cage the Elephant, Jack White, and The Strokes tend to inform Carver’s guitar-laden hooks,
recording aesthetics, and signature sticky songcraft.

Founded by Pruitt and Blevins in the fall of 2016, their first single “Stars & Galaxies'' released in
April of 2017 to a modest, yet eager audience. Fast forward to 2021, and “Stars & Galaxies” has
amassed over one million streams on Spotify alone. Part-time drummer Noah Freeman became
a permanent member of the band in late 2017 after several months of touring. In 2018, the
group cut their debut record Tell Me What You Want at The Smoakstack in Nashville,
Tennessee with engineer/producer Brendan St. Gelais. The record hit the market on October
25th, 2019, and was celebrated with an Audiotree Live Session in Chicago, Illinois.
Just like everyone else, nearly all of their 2020 dates were canceled immediately. Looking to
make the most of their newfound time off, they entered the studio with Brendan St. Gelais to
begin recording their sophomore album. The band released the song “Cancel Culture” alongside
a cover of The Beatles’ “Revolution'' from the sessions on September 4th, 2020, saying that the
songs were too relevant to hold until a later release. Frequent creative collaborator Clayton
Christopher joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist in late 2020. The final recording session
wrapped in December of 2020 and the band is expected to release the album in late 2021.