OCD: Moosh & Twist

House of Blues presents OCD: Moosh & Twist. With Jared Evan.

OCD: Moosh & Twist (pictured) is made up of 20 year old Philadelphia natives DeQuincy "Moosh" Coleman McRae and Oliver "Twist" Feighan. After bonding in first grade over the love of music and poetry, Moosh & Twist formed a group shortly after and the rest is history.

As independent hip-hop artists, OCD have amassed a devoted fan base which has resulted in over 100,000 mixtape downloads and over 7 million Youtube views, all without a debut album. Since their first mixtape, OCD has appeared continuously on syndicated hip-hop news magazines and blogs such as XXL, RESPECT MAG, ILLROOTS, 2DOPEBOYZ, HIPHOPDX, and many more.

Today, Moosh & Twist can be seen touring the country and performing for their thousands of fans as headliners as well as opening for acts such as The White Panda, Hoodie Allen, Wale, and others.

Jared Evan grew up in Great Neck, New York playing the drums, hoping for the chance to one day become the next Keith Moon. With an introduction to music at an unusually young age, Jared found himself discovering and listening to artists that were way before his time.  He soon began to experiment with several other instruments and taught himself how to play a number of them.

He later became heavily influenced by older seminal Hip Hop artists such as the Wu-Tang Clan, Mos Def, The Roots, Kool G Rap, Tribe Called Quest, KRS-One, The Fugees, and others. At this point, Jared started to fuse his new passion with his old, taking musical cues from his classic rock and soul influences such as Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Al Green, Radiohead, Sublime, James Brown, and others.

Jared began to produce and rhyme over new genre-blending beats while introducing heavily melodic hooks to create groundbreaking undertones.   Hip Hop superstar director Rik Cordero (whom he met while interning at The FADER) said “Jared meshes Hip Hop lyrics, Neo Soul and Post Punk influences with Classic Rock to create a truly unique sound.”