Nathan Cody

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Nathan Cody is a Sacramento musician and commercial producer. He is best known for his many commercials produced for Entercom and Clearchannel, as a radio personality on the top rated Top 40 station KDND, and for his work with Quasitone Productions.

[edit] Early musical career

Nathan Cody Kessey grew up in a log cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he played the violin from ages 4 to 12. He taught himself the guitar, and soon formed the group Serum, with high-school friends Jerry Leonhart, Silas Hoffman, and Chris Swaim.

While attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the group released several EPs, and a full-length album, "Chemical Dream," which brought moderate radio airplay on a few corporate, and many college stations, and some attention from record labels such as Boston's Naked Ear Records, just before the group disbanded in 2000. During this time Cody became known as an evening radio personality on FM station KKED, 104.7 "The Edge," and as the morning show host on KAKQ "Magic," 101.1.

After moving to Sacramento, California in 2002, Cody attended California State University, Sacramento, and formed the group Another Single Day with Casey Fowler and John Marshall, who had just finished work with Bay Area band Doomfinger. The hard alternative rock act was picked up by indie label Quasitone Records, and first enjoyed success with a self-titled demo in late 2003. The 6-song recording rendered the single "Perfect" which found itself in the hands of KWOD 106.5fm, and put the band into heavy radio rotation. Cody also produced the acoustic single, "Wait," which began to gain radio popularity in 2003.

The band recorded a self-titled, 5-song EP in 2004, followed by a 3-song demo in 2005. Among the singles to gain radio popularity for the band were "Blind," "Perfect," "Rearranged," "Days of Fire," and "Overground," which was chosen in 2005 for inclusion on KRXQ 98 Rock's "Sacramento Rocks Volume 12" compilation CD, to benefit the Mustard Seed School for Homeless Children.