Customers are a rock band formed in Los Angeles, CA in 1995 by Ryan Sexton. A demo of Sexton’s songs found its way onto the desk of Neil Young’s manager, Elliot Roberts, who was then in the process of launching Young’s fledgling label, Vapor Records. Roberts inquired as to whether a band might be formed to support the songs, and the Customers band was born, becoming the first band on the label, recording the debut album “Green Bottle Thursday” at Jackson Browne’s Groove Masters Studios in Santa Monica.
After moving back to Minneapolis (Sexton’s hometown) in 2000, The Customers released the five song EP Severybuddyappy which included the college-friendly “Until Now.” A bunch of years passed while Sexton pursued other interests, but writing songs nevertheless. In 2022, he teamed up with renowned Minneapolis producer, Kevin Bowe, to make the post-punk/Americana LP, Sweet Fatality. The album features appearances by Daniel Murphy (Soul Asylum/The Scarlet Goodbye), Terrance J. Fisher (Run Westy Run), Ivan Julian (Richard Hell and the Voidoids), Patricia Lacy (Luther Vandross), and Minneapolis phenoms John Eller, Terry Isachsen, Peter Anderson, Pat Frederick, Ian Prince, and Noah Levy.
Over the summer of 2024 the Customers band – now featuring a permanent lineup of Sexton, Terrance J. Fisher (lead guitar), Jon Sawyer (bass guitar), Kirk Hall (drums)- went back into the studio to record the guitar laden EP Living Like Gods, Produced by Soul Asylum founder and alum Daniel Murphy. The record will be released Spring 2026.
The Customers 