Artist description DragKing at first listen would have to be called "indie" rock. The kind of stuff you hear on college radio stations.Non-commercial to say the least. DragKing is anti-pop music. We tread a fine line between more traditional"songs" and noise. DragKing is in an interesting nitch. The pure noise camp finds DragKing to be too "structured"and song oriented. While the "college rock" crowd finds DragKing to be too noisy. In many ways, like most bands,DragKing is the sum of each of it's members influences. These influences are wide ranging. Everything from dub,to free jazz, to noise, to punk, to funk

Music Style Post Avant Noise Punk

Musical Influences Can, The Slits, Captain Beefheart, The Ex, Bikini Kill, Frontier, Directions in Music, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Public Enemy, King Tubby, Scissor Girls, This Heat, Dog Faced Hermans, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Rage Against the Machine, Chumbawamba, C.R.A.S.S., The Raincoats,Sun Ra and his Intergalatic Love Arkestra, George Clinton and Paraliment/Funkadelic, Star Vehicle, The Adjusters, Ill Ease, DJ Chubby Flea,

Similar Artists Rage Against the Machine, Sonic Youth, Wilco

Artist History DragKing is a Chicago based music collective that has been performing and recording music since 1991.

Group Members StiliosSluggo Guru Ted E.JenniferMark WardoMark Lazo

Instruments Drums, bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion instruments too numerous to mention, sampler, turntable, four track recorder/mixer,effects pedals, garbage, trash, found sound, other instruments of our own invention

Albums Kill Yr Boss(1996), Indie Authenticity Crisis(1998)

Press Reviews Chicago's DragKing is the deconstruction of anything relevant or tangible and as a result often draw an imediate comparison to Capt Beefheart. IAC is the bitter bite of black coffee as it intentionally works against the mass hysteria of popularity. An aquired taste both sporadic and numbing. While DK will never reach the level of popularity that warrants magazine covers, at least they can walk away knowing that they owe no favors and never have to answer to anyone but themselves. ...reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in The Wire number 182, April 1999, published in London. More from one of my favorite no-wave bands. These guys are in the right town (Chicago), and even in the right part of town, for this sound (I learned more than a bit about the musical geography of the city on a trip last summer). Just like the first disc I heard, this puppy is chock full of highly orchestrated noise and fairly lengthy samples.The music isn't too far removed from the mellower moments of Flying Luttenbachers, which is to say that it's pretty weird and rather intriguing. Lots of instruments (horns, piano and other more "orchestral" implements) fill out the basic sound.But the real genius is in connecting the found sound to the music, and the different pieces together. DragKing manages to craft a whole sound from wildly disparate parts, and I'm simply amazed that it holds together at all, much less so well.On the fringe? Definitely. But DragKing has a lot to say, and it's not too painful to receive the message. In fact, if you're not careful, you might find this managed chaos addictive....reviewed by John Worley in Aiding & Abetting #180, Vol. VIII, No. 11, April 11, 1999, published online http://cent.com/abetting/ for other reviews please visit: http://www.dragking.org/reviews.html

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Location Chicago, Illinois - USA

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