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Lani Ford and Joe Hogan will also play duo acoustic on 4 stages (Main Stage, Nette Radio stage, Tryxo stage and the Women's Radio Guerilla Showcase) for the Indiegrrl Conference and Showcase in Nashville in August 2009.

Thanks to Elke and Oliver at NY Discovery for the great video footage of our show at The Annex!

STARK is a New York City rock trio with old school roots and original tunes! They make purgatory fun by sleazing up the NYC rock scene honest, raw, intense rock and roll!

Lani Ford--vocals, bass, main songwriter of STARK--
4 time ASCAP Plus Songwriter Award winner. Texas native living on the Lower East Side, slinging poetic hillbilly angst dipped in sleazy underground NYC rock.
Lani has played for The Bicycle Dogs, The Blind Pharaohs, The Heather Larkin Band, The Wood Nymphs, Killer Pang (and other Pang projects), Sweet Ami, W/Dylan, and The Love Pirates. She's also toured as back-up singer for TEMPTRESS and sang backing vocals on the F.P.ToZ album "Housebreaking Oui Oui Pads".

Eric Robel--drums!
Formerly with Nova Express and Heroin Sheiks.

Joe Hogan--guitar/engineer/co-producer
NYC producer who has shredded in many bands, especially Roarfiend and Gorgon.

STARK—Honest, raw rock and roll from the underbelly of New York City. Original old-school style rock dipped in poetic hillbilly angst.

STARK was started by Lani Ford in 2003 after a while of playing bass and singing with all sorts of other bands and kicking around the Tobacco Road open mic with original members, Dylan Grewen and Greg Schiff. STARK started out as more of a lo-fi/singer-songwriter/indie rock combination of country, punk and blues. After the release of The Curse, Dylan left and Jonesy stepped in on guitar and added more of a Johnny Thunders/Ramones/Blondie sound to the fold. After Jonesy, Josette came on board for over a year and a half and brought with her a more AC/DC and Motley Crue glam/metal feel. With her, Rob Endemann, and guest vocalist Pam “The Metal Queen” Grande, Lani released a sophomore STARK CD in 2008 called Put It To Your Head. Joe Hogan engineered both records and both albums reflect what was going on with the band at the time.

Now, with Joe Hogan and Eric Robel taking over in the guitar and drums positions, respectively, prepare yourself for the sickest, hardest, tightest version of STARK yet. Keeping their punk and metal roots, now STARK offers up their original mixture of bluesy Southern rock and underground NYC rock while staying melodic and lyrically intriguing. The band has been together a short time and has already been touring and writing new material. They bring together all the past elements of STARK but more intensely with a sense of humor and craziness, darkness and depth, and simply kick-ass rock and roll. The new STARK is eager to be in the studio, on the road and in a bar near you. STARK is actively promoting Put It To Your Head and the new line up with a current press and radio campaign. A plan to tour on the West Coast is in the works. Thanks for all your love and support.

We've mixed recording album number 3--Race To The Floor. Now gotta get some badass vinyl artwork!!! Send us your ideas! We’ll keep ya posted!

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STARK's video for "OH NO!" is done. Thanks to Joe Covino, Marla, and East Village Studios.

STARK is in the middle of a press campaign with Mindsweep Entertainment

and a radio campaign with Creativity in Music

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