Researching Joan of Arc in anticipation for their show at The Firebird was somewhat akin to a genealogy exercise, beginning with Cap’n Jazz, the Midwest emo band that split up in the late 90’s, leading to the handful of its offshoot bands after its demise. I was familiar with a few of them (The Promise Ring, Owen, American Football), not even knowing their ties back to Cap’n Jazz until now, but Joan of Arc was one offshoot that I was unfamiliar with. If you’re brave, you can try and read the band’s history. Or you can have these cliff notes: Joan of Arc’s core remains Tim Kinsella, but around him was built an ever-rotating cast that somehow managed to create twelve studio albums to date.
