Band

“Moody midtempo rock with layered vocals and a sophisticated sonic palette.”

– Mark Jenkins of the Washington Post

Rooted in the basic tenets of rock, Jackie and The Treehorns create music from just outside the nation’s capital in Alexandria, VA and just outside the mainstream. Formed in 2009 and fronted by Steven Rubin under the guise of an altered ego (Jackie) and his band (The Treehorns) the group fight to keep the flames of the rock and/or roll fire lit with inspired original inventiveness.

The band has been described as creating full-throttle music with a fluidity of sounds atop a smooth veneer that is wildly interesting and unpredictable as well as playing super-catchy, pumped-up indie rock with addictively clever rhythms and subtle, smiling, muscular menace.

The bands most recent EP, Are We Not Dinosaurs? (2025) was recorded with J. Robbins at Magpie Cage Studio in Baltimore, MD.  Go Get Your Ghosts (2023), singles  Made You Run (2021) and  Hidden Cameras (2020) and It’s Never Too Late (2019), were recorded at Ivakota Studios in Washington, DC with Ben Green.  For their previous releases, The J. Album (2018), singles Writer and A World Gone Mad (2017), RU4REAL? (2016), and Do You Mind If I Wear A Clown Mask? (2015) the band worked with legendary engineer Don Zientara at the famed Inner Ear Studio in Arlington, VA.

Pam has performed with various 7DrumCity Flashbands, The Corvids, The DC Lunatics, Joe Lies, and infamously played Starlett Treehorn in The Jackie Movie.

DC/ NOVA area Bassist, Songwriter, Producer, Frank Caputo has played in various bands such as The Circle Six, Eight Track Mind, Exit 8, The Corvids.  After playing with the original lineup of Jackie & The Treehorns from 2009 – 2011, Frank shifted his focus to recording, mixing and producing his own side projects, Sono Franco & Highway Nomad and returned to The Treehorns in 2021.

Steven is a Washington, DC-area musician, producer, filmmaker, guitar instructor, and songwriter that has played in numerous bands and projects over the past 30+ years including Girl Loves Distortion, The Circle Six, ALOHA!, and The Corvids. He released an instrumental breakbeat inspired solo album in 2022 entitled “Deep Rooted.“

Brian is a Washington, D.C. area native who has been playing in the local jazz, rock, and musical theater circuits for over 20 years. His previous musical endeavors include The Perfect Souvenir, Rancho Notorious, and Memories from the Space Age. He has also been a percussionist for a number of D.C. theater productions, including Passing Strange and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Studio Theater and Anything Goes and Godspell at the Olney Theatre Center.