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arms around the worldstraight up, feedback-soaked rock'n'roll storytelling

As the voice behind Garagiste, the cult wine phenomenon profiled in The New York Times, GQ, Bloomberg, Forbes, and The Seattle Times, Jon Rimmerman seeks out and distributes wine and food from producers working outside of mainstream systems. His daily email is passed around by chefs, screenshotted by buyers, and pounced on by collectors. The appeal is not simply access. It's the way he connects a bottle to the weather, the soil, a method, a family, a moment, and makes us understand why any of it matters.

His approach is simple and sensory: let your experience lead you. Look closely. Listen. Taste. Follow what moves you back to the people and practices that made it possible. Wine is never only wine; food is never only food; music is never only sound. Each belongs to a larger human system, and paying attention changes the experience.

The Music

arms around the world grows from that same instinct. The project is grounded in the belief that culture is something to participate in, not merely consume, with Jon embracing performance on new stages.

His first album turns decades of storytelling into sound: Rickenbacker jangle, analog warmth, and melodic hooks that one UK A&R veteran described as “Kings of Leon having a spot of tea with Cheap Trick.”

Recorded with Grammy-nominated producer Elliott Lanam at Hidden City Studios in Santa Barbara, the album feels less like a departure than a long-delayed arrival, a musical point of view shaped by years of writing, tasting, traveling, listening, and connecting seemingly distant dots.

“Jon Rimmerman seems to have emerged fully formed out of nowhere.”Hobart Rowland · Magnet Magazine

Premiered in Magnet Magazine, January 2026 · #16 NACC Sub-Modern Album Chart peak · #21 Most Added nationally across a 42-station campaign