Husky In Denial
Husky In Denial is gutsy music, combining elements of indie rock, progressive rock, and trip hop with animal nerve and autistic eccentricity. With an exploratory musical style truly unbound by genre and lyrical themes of doom, redemption, and social commentary, Husky in Denial blows through your chakras and awakens parts of your spirit untapped by mainstream music.
It is harsh. It is indefatigable. It is the harmonic dissonance in every soul.
It is Husky In Denial.

More about Buck Riley
Buck Riley is a twenty-two-year-old writer and musician working into his fifth at the University of Memphis.

Buck has always had a gift for music. Even as a child, he grew up with influences as diverse as R.E.M., Beethoven, Cat Stevens, Notorious B.I.G., and Elton John. Since then, his music base has expanded to include jazz, metal, electronica, rock, and anything else he can get his paws on. He has an insatiable appetite for new sounds and challenging structures. As a musician, Buck's prime goal is to create something new, interesting, or challenging to the ear. Over the years, the definition of "new" has evolved as his understanding of what music really means continues to develop.
Life is meaningless without a rhythm.

It wasn't until well into high school that Buck discovered his gift for words. It started with poetry and lyrics, but his real gift turned out to be prose. Growing up in Memphis, the racial tension and economic hardships of Southern culture have influenced his work. However, his greatest inspiration comes from studying people and American culture through the lens of autism. This disconnect allows him to perch outside the boundaries of norms and unspoken rules, to see the patterns that most take for granted, and to consider things from a (slightly) less biased standpoint.
Buck continues to develop and learn, but he has an intuitive sense of image and emotion, and is never afraid to challenge convention.

Buck has been around theatre all his life, and has even travelled to Scotland for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a performer. Outside of school plays, Buck has played on the stages of Playhouse on the Square and Theatre Memphis, and has been hired out on numerous occasions.