Bedhead's laid back style and penchant for atmospherics over blues licks have turned the Lone Star State's guitar community on its collective pentatonic ear. Brought to national attention via Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey on his Trance Syndicate label, Bedhead brothers Bubba and Matt Kadane and third guitarist Tench Coxe cop a minimalist, live to 2-track vibe on their current 4-songCDEP19:10 (to be followed by EP The Dark Ages in January and a full-length Beheaded later in the spring). "We take a fairly egoless approach," Bubba explains. "On the upcoming Beheaded, we wanted three guitars to sound like three guitars, yet intertwine them as seamlessly as possible."

On the gear frontier, Bubba threads his '66 Fender Jaguar and '81 Telecaster through a Fender Twin Reverb amp, while brother Matt's '66 Fender Mustang and Japanese Fender Tele whup a '64 blackface Princeton Reverb. Coxe's Telecaster rides high through a Fender Deluxe. Bedhead often get likened to the once and future kings of mope rock, The Velvet Underground ("I'd rather be compared to them than some of our contemporaries," admits Matt), but the band sees their mission differently. "A lot of current alternative or independent rock sounds about as fake and calculated as AOR, observes Bubba. "We're just trying to fill a void and make the kind of music we're not hearing anywhere else."
- Mike Mettler

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