As the supposed tale goes, the origins of The Hot Apple Spider began between Moravian College students John Newcomer and Mike Kolinsky late one evening when Kolinsky revealed he owned 1964 Slingerland drum kit. Days later the entire kit was set up in the kitchen of Kolinsky’s apartment. A profusion of longform jamming commenced and, sometime after, they encountered keyboardist Justin Deangelo through Bethlehem area painter Chris Kosztyo, and before long a 1973 Rhodes electric piano was filling the remaining space next to the fridge.

What playing would result during these early kitchen sessions usually didn’t amount to much more than gratuitous jamming, typically drum and keyboard duo material made up on the spot and soon after buried to near-forgotten status.

It was at this moment, as the delay pedal-infused space/psych rock sensibilities of Newcomer’s guitar met the harmonic direction and vintage keyboard timbres of Deangelo's keys all backed with Kolinsky’s solid drumming, that the central core of The Hot Apple Spider was created, though not officially appellated (by Mr. Newcomer) until almost a year later.

It took them about 18 months to write their first song. After that, the rest was easy.

After a 3 year stint performing regular gigs in and around the Lehigh Valley, followed by a 2 year hiatus (as Mr. Deangelo musical studies dictated), the Hot Apple Spider returns to the Lehigh Valley again, this time with the addition of the adaptable and dynamic Daniel “DanO” O’Connor, from Reading PA’s popular dance-rock band Indian Rope Trick and obscure underground New Jersey-based Psychedelic Folk-Tune Trio Cat Head Mange, who serendipitously swooped in and filled out their sound in August 2008.

Describing The Hot Apple Spider’s music style is challenging, since each of the Spiders has a varied, vastly broad, and wildly eclectic taste in music. Indie Rock or Lo-fi Lounge, sometimes 50’s rock ‘n’ roll, sometimes 80’s New Wave, and sometimes early 70’s Progressive, (They like to say “From ABBA to Zappa”) they take each song they forge as a new opportunity to delve deeply into a different music genre and from there try to exploit it to its fullest or invert it to its most unrecognizable.

The Hot Apple Spider is poised to be not only be wildly popular, but to carve out its own musical niche by the sheer efficacy of their own voice of originality. All that is needed is a rabid fan base, which augments with each new audience, and they will be well on their way to a stage near you.