Indie-pop act Foxtales gets back on stage after a bicycle accident and spinal surgery.
On March 31, Jonathan Fox, the 33-year-old artist behind the indie-pop act Foxtales, was headed to a family lunch on his bicycle. On West 29th Street near the Breed & Company hardware store, he was struck by a van.
Upon impact, the musician was immediately concerned about what the accident would mean for an upcoming Foxtales performance. “I was thinking, ‘My legs are broken; I’m not going to be able to play the show,’” he remembers. After waking from emergency spinal surgery, Fox became painfully aware that his legs weren’t broken, but his injuries were far more severe.
In the busy months before the crash, Foxtales had headlined at Empire Control Room for Free Week, and played for sizable crowds at South by Southwest. “We were making a lot of headway,” he says of Foxtales’ growth. His accident froze that momentum. But there was another force keeping him going: music. “It was something I went to. After not listening to music for a week, I was listening every single day to this playlist that I made,” says Fox. The melancholic playlist consisted of songs by Beck, Blaze Foley, Nick Drake, and Maggie Rogers. “It made me feel a lot, and realize how important [music] is to me in a visceral way.”
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