Marion Walker is the LA-based Rock’n’Roll Art Punk project of Jessie Marion Smith and Kyle Walker Akins. Smith is a dancer, choreographer, designer, and musician. Akins is a musician, visual artist, sound engineer, and filmmaker. Together they play as a band and make interdisciplinary video and performance work. Their music is a blend of psychedelic Rock’n’Roll and angular pop. It is a head-on collision between doomy, bleak worlds and fuzzed-out, technicolor tones.

Marion Walker have been artists-in-residence at Center on Contemporary Art and PROJECT: Space Available. They have also received funding from The Nevada Arts Council, The National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, and Office of Arts & Culture Seattle.

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“It’s fuzzy, it’s buzzy, it’s muscular, mysterious, and maybe even a little dangerous. There is a shiv hidden in this band’s glovebox.”
– Chad Werner, News Whistle

“…purveyors of oozing, grinding psychedelia with droning masculine-feminine vocal harmonies…”
– Leilani Polk, Creative Loafing Tampa

“…it would be easy to become wrapped up in the electrically charged blanket they [Marion Walker] are wearing: it’s exactly what the listeners would want. …a unique dichotomy of high energy and sullen angst.”
– Jeremy Wood, Innocent Words