Doug Stephen writes the songs and then asks friends to record his records. Doug often plays all the instruments on the albums, but has also asked people like Jason Warriner (ProCon Records), Via Nuon (Bevel, Manishevitz), Geoff Atkinson (Telenovela, Pyrite), Jason Toth (The Zincs), and Ben Schulman (Contraphonic Records, Branches) to lend a hand. Doug sings all the songs, too, although he'd really rather not.