Brown-Star began in 1994 as an acoustic side project for two notable local musicians, vocalist Moon trent and guitarist Brett Klinker. trent was singing with the techno-pop combo Pale and Klinker was part of the gothic ethereal pop band Tel Basta.
Both craved a more relaxed and simple outlet for their creative inklings. With trent on vocals and Klinker on guitar they began playing small clubs in 1995. The act was very well received and immediately caught the attention of the local press and music fanzines. Their music was deemed "quiet-core" to describe the fast, hard hitting acoustic sound that just couldn't be called "Folk".
The current incarnation of Brown-Star features Scot Callis on drums and Andy Lund on bass. These two veteran musicians hailed from the disbanded local act Spackle, whose noise/grunge sound had gained them a following. Filling out their line-up with this powerful rhythm section has catapulted Brown-Star's Sound into the realm of power-pop.
They've turned up on Bay TV, The Joan Jett-Blakk Show, the Folsom St. Fair, and recently played a concert at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. They've been written about and photographed for the SF Weekly, the Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, BAM, and pictured twice in the San Francisco Chronicle's Pink Section in 1998. Early in 1998 they performed a live internet concert for San Francisco's Nine Up.Com's archives.
In 1999, they twice appeared on national television (The Howard Stern Show) and played both in New York and Los Angeles. With their first single, "A Bee's Dream" playing on college and commercial radio (the song was also included on Milkshake: a CD to benefit the Harvey Milk Institute) plus their second single "Something's Happening" creating a buzz with video-viewers, and the release of their debut CD,"Due Damage", Brown-Star can expect to continue to enjoy their growing popularity and may very well become the next local band to break nationally.
We do play live, our favorite show?
A toss up between the Great American Music Hall
and playing with Phranc in front of 7,000 people.
Aztec Camera, The Cure, The Velvet Underground
We love-email and always write back, especially to those who send saucy pix!
timmikat@hotmail.com
