Singer, songwriter, cellist, and pianist Ian Cooke has appeared in SPIN magazine, finished #1 in the Denver Post Music Poll in 2009, and has been voted Best Avant-Pop for 3 years by Westword Magazine. He also plays cello on Crooked Fingers' album Forfeit/Fortune and his two songs appeared alongside Billy Bragg, Owen Pallett, and M Ward on 'Versions of Joanna' - a Joanna Newsom covers-album. He has toured in the US and Australia playing with: The Dresden Dolls, Crooked Fingers, Built to Spill, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips (Monolith Festival), Blonde Redhead, Devotchka, Rasputina, Wovenhand, Pedro the Lion and many more.

Cooke's 2009 album, 'The Fall I Fell,' has sold out of two pressings and has been re-pressed with a DVD.