Andersen Silva is a left-handed guitar-playing singer/songwriter from northeastern New Jersey. "Joy in the New," his 21-track self-recorded debut album available from iTunes, CDBaby, and other sites, was released on CD in 2004; the follow-up, "Tougher than Flannel," is still in progress. All songs are written and instruments played by Andy and recorded onto various Macintosh computers.

"Sporting black Converse sneakers, purple T-shirt and disheveled dirty blond hair, Silva equally resembles...