Kate Vargas / The Good, The Bad & The Fugly (Zee, McFadden, Kehoe)

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A reformed wild child, in recent years Kate Vargas has traded the party for meditation, yoga, clean eating and a renewed focus on what she values most—her music. The New Mexico-raised, NYC-based artist is building ever more mindfully on her sound, and the music press is taking notice, Vargas receiving praise from a variety of respected outlets including Billboard, NPR, Noisey, and the Huffington Post, the latter assessing, “There is an unlimited amount of potential in this superstar on the rise.”

Vargas has packed houses from Ireland’s Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival to The Troubadour in London, The Mansion on O Street in Washington D.C. to New York’s Bowery Electric. Featuring her singular folk-style storytelling, Vargas’ songs are grounded in a darkly melodic, reverb-washed sonic palette of dream-pop, dusty folk and junkyard blues, all carried by rough-hewn vocals and guitar playing. In equal measure, she channels a surprising array of artists, from Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, and16 Horsepower to Lana Del Rey and K. Flay.

Her debut, the DIY affair Down to My Soul, was released in 2014, hinting at the promise of a vibrant new voice. Her follow-up, 2016’s Strangeclaw, was recorded at New York’s Mercy Sound Studios (Blondie, Macy Gray) and mastered at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, capturing Vargas’ impressive growth as an artist in gorgeous fidelity.

Vargas really hit her stride with 2018’s For the Wolfish & Wandering, connecting with audiences like never before, culminating in invitations to perform on NPR’s Mountain Stage, an official showcase at Nashville’s AmericanaFest, several performances at the 30A Songwriters Festival, as well as her songs appearing on television shows Stumptown (ABC), Midnight, Texas (NBC) and Good Trouble (Freeform).

With Rumpumpo, Vargas continues her meteoric rise with songs that stir the emotional cauldron, blazing a genre-bending path that is both sonically and lyrically daring.

PRESS

- SPIN / “a sterling effort that allows for her distinctive gravelly voice to shine alongside her blend of melodic folk and blues.”

- NPR / “raggedly delicate vocals and the kind of sonic landscape that conjures other worlds.”

- Rolling Stone / “Kate Vargas’ ‘Glorieta to the Holy Place’ creaks and sighs with otherworldly atmosphere”

- American Songwriter / “this year’s most unconventionally intoxicating and intricate album.”

The Good, The Bad, and The Fugly

GBF is a guitar onslaught from 3 of the Bays most notorious guitarists, Josh Zee, Eric McFadden and Bryan Kehoe. Prepare yourselves for mind melting devastation.

Josh Zee

Josh has recorded 2 major label records on the SONY/Work label as the singer/guitarist and songwriter for the Rock group "Protein". He has toured the world with his bands Protein and The Mother Truckers (who won best roots-rock band in Austin, TX), and was formed with his talented wife, Teal Collins. They played along side such greats as, Willie Nelson, Hank III, Avett Brothers, Merle Haggard and Supersuckers. Other past projects include Phantom Power and Whiskey Sisters. Josh has been nationally recognized in such publications as Guitar Player Magazine, Village voice and Thrasher.

Eric McFadden

Eric McFadden has crafted a rare and enticing brand of high desert blues and gritty, flamenco-infused carny-rock that leaves listeners spellbound. McFadden’s sound has not only charmed audiences all over the world touring with his own band, but garnered him invitations to tour with the likes of funk legend George Clinton, The Animals’ Eric Burdon, and New Orleans sweethearts Anders Osborne and Tab Benoit.

Eric’s other collaborations include: Joe Strummer, Bo Diddley, Les Claypool (Primus), Reverend Horton Heat, Fishbone, Jackson Browne, The Coup, North Mississippi Allstars, Widespread Panic, Dwarves, Samantha Fish.

Bryan Kehoe

The Bay Area’s treasured madman of the 6 string, Bryan Kehoe, has played with many notorious Bay Area and international acts over his illustrious career including, Exodus, Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Ministry and M.I.R.V., as well as in Duo de Twang, with his old friend, Les Claypool (Primus). He’s also gallivanted around the world with Cheap Trick and Run DMC. His band, Kehoe Nation has been slaying audiences with their garage-twang, for years.

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