Dave Pehling
Web editor for KTVU.com.
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Kylesa's Phillip Cope talks to KTVU.com
Founded by guitarists/vocalists Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasants in 2001, Kylesa has refined its sound over the course of four albums to become yet another leading light among forward-thinking bands hailing from Georgia alongside Mastodon and fellow Savannah-based group Baroness. The creative outfit has been weaving together elements of Sabbathy ...
Kinski
Touching on elements of hooky dream pop, fuzzed-out shoegazer drone and visceral psychedelic rock, Seattle-based band Kinski has been making it's unique music since first coming together in 1998. Formed after a discussion at a pub about analog recording between guitarist Chris Martin, bassist Lucy Atkinson and original drummer Dave ...
Man or Astro-man?
Futuristic Auburn, Alabama-based outfit Man or Astro-man? first made noise during the burgeoning surf and garage-punk revival of the early '90s, bringing a costumed collision of staccato Dick Dale guitar frenzy, extra-terrestrial sound effects and sci-fi movie dialog samples and punk energy to stages across the country. Built around principle ...
KTVU.com talks to Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman
One of the leading bands of Britain's second wave of punk in the late '70s and early '80s, Killing Joke forged a dark, apocalyptic sound that has resonated with a host of punk, metal and industrial bands that followed in their wake. Drawing together elements of punk, dub, funk and ...
La Plebe
Long a force to be reckoned with on the Bay Area music scene, SF-based Mexican-American quintet La Plebe (Spanish for "The People") has been dealing out its politically charged, brass-powered bilingual punk rock since its formation in 2001. Sounding not unlike The Clash in the midst of a beer and ...
Dirty Ghosts
Guitarist and singer Allyson Baker took a long and circuitous musical journey to end up where she is today as the principle creative force behind local modern-rock outfit Dirty Ghosts. Baker cut her teeth on punk rock as a teen in Toronto, Ontario, eventually playing guitar in a variety of ...
KTVU.com talks to Jello Biafra
Former Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra started Alternative Tentacles in 1979 expressly to put out music by the seminal SF punk band prior to their disintegration in 1986 after the DKs highly publicized obscenity trial. By then, the label became a cornerstone of the burgeoning underground punk scene. The ...
Dark Star Orchestra
With a built-in audience of thousands of Dead Heads scattered across the country, Grateful Dead tribute outfit the Dark Star Orchestra has long been acclaimed as one of the most faithful cover acts to focus on the career of Jerry Garcia and company. In fact, the group doesn't play songs ...
KTVU.com talks to Clutch singer Neil Fallon
With a sound that nods to the classic heavy grooves of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath while managing to deliver elaborate and original riffs, Maryland-based hard rockers Clutch have built a loyal following with 20+ years of bone-crushing albums and a deserved reputation for delivering incendiary live shows. Founded in ...
The New Mastersounds
A British quartet that mines the sounds of classic '60s and '70s sounds of gritty Hammond B-3 organ trios and instrumental funk combos like The Meters and James Brown's incendiary backing group The JBs, The New Mastersounds deliver a modern take on vintage soul-jazz, funk and rock. The prolific group ...
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