Hurt Hawks consists of producer/composer Jake Bowman, and transgressive fiction writer/song and dance man Joel Zimmerman. The duo writes and performs their own brand of dirty realism, wryly labeled Americana Drunkwave, which is a form of jittery electronic post-punk, sung to the tune of an alcoholic life in a Los Angeles suburb.

Hurt Hawks has been referred to as a punk rock Leonard Cohen, or a dark wave Tom Waits, and are revered for their wild live beer soaked performances.