Most bands are composed of at least four members with a few extra appearances here and there of a brass instrumentalist or a tambourine man. However, a new duo comprised of two singer/songwriters is headed to Athens.

Hailing from Chicago, the members of Fair June, Jarrod Cooper (guitar, back vocals) and Michael Mikosz (guitar, lead vocals), will light up the stage tonight with their jazz, pop and rock sound.

The guys met while interning for Aware Records in Chicago right out of college. They began to write together and created what has evolved into a musical adventure, Cooper said.

“I was living in Nashville, and Mike was in Toledo, Ohio. We took off to Chicago and ended up interning together,” Cooper said. “I took a couple of other jobs, but I wasn’t happy. It was the ideal life that your parents want for you. I just didn’t want it.”

Cooper said he studied business management in college assuming he would be on the quiet side of the music industry. He said that he became a guitarist during college for the simple enjoyment of it and that Mikosz was the talent in the group.

“I’m actually self-taught. Mike, on the other hand, is just a phenomenal musician. He has been involved in music all his life, whereas I always saw myself working on the business side of it,” said Cooper.

He said the sound is comparable to John Mayer but that there is something specific distinguishable in the band’s mix. The two have very different leans when it comes to music, giving the music a balanced effect.

“We both have such different influences. I’m into Sun Kil Moon where he is more into pop, R&B, even rap – we both like the John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughn stuff. That kind of brings us together, and that is the common ground that we come back to when we write.”

Other than when they collaborated while interning in Chicago, the Fair June guys have since never lived in the same city.

“Not too many people do it that way, but it just works for us,” Cooper said. “We bounce ideas off of each other over the technology we have, which allows each of us to work on it on our own time.”

He said the band’s music is for those who genuinely appreciate good tunes rather than for those who adhere to a specific genre.

“The people who enjoy the singer/songwriter type stuff will enjoy us. We are not really genre specific,” he said. “Anyone who limits themselves to a genre ends up losing out. For us, it’s just a creative form.”

Fair June’s attitude toward their music and fans makes it easy no matter where they are to make music that says what they want it to say, he said.

Working in the industry for a while, Cooper said, helped him to see the fa�ade so easily created for those without talent, leaving truly talented artists in the dark.

“I do find myself more interested in the indie artists because I see them as being so down-to-earth and passionate about their music,” he said.

Cooper said he was talking as he packed his bags for the week-long tour that Fair June will be on when they grace the stage at Tasty World tonight. He said they are excited about promoting their new material and about getting back on the road this year.