After surviving a kidnapping in Colombia, a trial for felony assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, and a humdinger of a heroin addiction, Kevin Kendrick decided that life was too short to keep denying his true love of pop music, and once and for all abandoned his classical and jazz upbringing to start Brooklyn-based A Big Yes and a small no. Calling on his former band mates from the critically acclaimed Fat mama, he, Jonathan Goldberger, Sir Joe Russo, Erik Deutsch, and Jonti Siman assembled a group hailed as "the hippest pop band you've ever heard in your life" by Village Voice critic Richard Gehr, and released Jesus That Looks Terrible On You in May of 2008 to much critical success and heavy college radio play.