bio

The Real Zebos began as a dorm room project between co-founders/songwriters/frontmen Connor Brandt and Jordan Gaul after meeting on Craigslist in late 2014.

After nearly three years of releasing demos online to an audience of virtually nobody, The Real Zebos filled out their lineup to become a real band and begin playing live shows in January of 2018. The band hit the studio later that year to bring their demos to life. The result is the debut album “Strictly Platonic” – a nod to their Craigslist roots – which earned an “Album of the Year” nomination in the upcoming Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards.

You can find them performing live in Omaha and throughout the Midwest, winning over crowds with a combination of sugary hooks, strobe lights, and razor-sharp jawlines.

Come see why this band is being called, “Wait, you guys are like, actually good.”

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ATTN: PROMOTERS AND MEDIA PEOPLE:

if you’re coming here to grab a short and snappy bio for us, go ahead and use that ^

it feels weird to write about yourself in third person but it needs to be done. that way, if we are playing at a festival or something, it looks as though maybe a publicist or respectable journalist wrote about us. but it’s all a trick. here’s a bit longer of a bio if you’re into that:

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“Looking to start a band, become world famous.”

So read the ad that Connor Brandt posted to the Craigslist musicians section, immediately catching the attention of fellow bandmate-seeker Jordan Gaul. 

Thus, The Real Zebos were born.

In early 2015, they began recording cover songs and GarageBand demos as The Zebos, and occasionally floating the results online to an audience of zero. A year later, they recorded a 9-track demo album, Missed Connections, in Jordan’s dorm room over Spring Break.

When attempting to release Missed Connections on Spotify, the album was unexpectedly placed on the page of an existing band named “The Zebos” – a husband-and-wife country gospel duo. In a move that was motivated partly by Search Engine Optimization, but mostly by spite, they decided to officially change their name to The Real Zebos.

Thus, The Real Zebos were born. 

Yet, they still needed a real band. After nearly 3 years of biding time and sifting through Craigslist posts, the rest of the band began to fill in. They played their first show in January 2018. 

And thus, The Real Zebos were born.

The band hit the studio in late 2018 to bring their dorm room demos to life. The result was the debut album Strictly Platonic – a nod to their Craigslist roots – released in June 2019.

And thus, The Real Zebos were born. Again.

But wait, what’s that you say? Unforeseen circumstances forced the band the be reborn once more? It’s true. After a triumphant 2019, certain events occurred in 2020 that wrecked the live music landscape as we know it. Still, The Real Zebos persisted, releasing a steady stream of singles and eventually their full-length sophomore record “no style” in September 2022.

Now, with two more EP’s under their belt, The Real Zebos are currently working on a blockbuster third album and ready to be reborn once again.

And thus, this bio is over, thank god.