New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ STARK Official Website) - "STARK's new release 'Put It To Your Head' hits with a bang - sometimes hard, sometimes gentle, always rockin'. Streetwise tunes that will have you smiling, raunchy guitars and a kick-ass bottom line. This one comes on strong and then goes for broke, the perfect soundtrack to your insane life. " Starr Tucker - New York Waste
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 embracing their bad luck and traumatizing people everywhere they go!
Their latest CD 'Put It To Your Head' is receiving great press and radio , with recent reviews in Big Takeover Magazine, Music Connection and Jersey Beat and recent play on Roots Rock Radio, Women's Radio Review, 'nette Radio, Radio Gets Wild (UK), Radio Crystal Blue, Indie 104, Portland's WMPG-FM, several podcasts and more.
Music fans and radio programmers can go to www.starknyc.com, www.myspace.com/stark, www.cdbaby.com/laniford, www.digstation.com/stark and www.itunes.com for more STARK information and CD ordering.
Lani Ford, lead vocalist, bassist , and main songwriter of STARK is a 4 time ASCAP Plus Songwriter Award winner. Slinging poetic hillbilly angst and rocking it like a man, Lani Ford (of Fox 5 traffic reporter and WPLJ DJ notoriety) is one of those girls who guys want to take home after the gig, but they're afraid she'll write a song about them. She doesn't mind perpetuating that. She also loves to give the other girls in the room a platform to let their wild sides reign free. That alone makes STARK compelling to watch. What makes them a great band is that the songs are songs, the guitar rocks and the lyrics are more than interesting.
Lani laughs, cries, hollers, wiggles, writhes, smokes, drinks, passes out sweets, all the while rocking her P-Bass and singing her ass off. Then, you've got Joe Hogan wailing on his Les Paul and running around the stage like a wild man. He supports Lani, antagonizes her, leads her deeper into her frenzy while playing kick-ass guitar leads that make your jaw drop. In the meantime, Eric Rock n' Robel is rocking out the drums with a big smile and a solid stare, like he just might barrel over the drum set and start dancing or beating on the heads of the sweaty, sexed-up, drunken audience. Well, yes, there was the topless incident at Piano's, the smoking fiasco at Grand Central Bar, and the shattered beer bottle as Pyramid, but all in all STARK's rowdiness is nothing compared to the in-your-face rock and roll the band pours out of it's soul at every show for every audience member every time! The sparse arrangements and honest lyrics will make you laugh, cry, dance, drink and get nasty. Influenced by blues, country, punk and metal, STARK can't be labeled as easily as most, but they play straight-up rock and roll, mostly described as Pretenders meets The Ramones.
STARK blasted onto the NYC scene in 2003, Before that, it's 3 original members, Lani Ford (lead vocalist, bassist and songwriter of STARK), Dylan Grewen and Greg Schiff spent a year and a half kicking around together at open mics and playing together in a couple of other bands. STARK then played the NYC club scene for 4 years with Lani always out front, busting up the norm and lifting hearts everywhere with her dirty, intelligent, harsh, honest, and funny lyrics and huge voice. In 2004, the band recorded its debut CD "The Curse", instantly making fans out of big players in the NYC rock and roll scene and beyond from Genya Ravan to Lenny Kaye.
STARK's sophomore record "Put It To Your Head", released in 2008 with former players Josette and Rob Endemann, featuring Pam the Metal Queen Grande on backing vocals, is harder, more punked out, and has fun, dark, groove-based songs that will blow your mind!
