THE FED

DC Rock & Roll power trio, the fed, was born out of the infamous Tuesday open mic nights at the now defunct Adams Morgan institution, Staccato Music Hall and Lounge in March of 2006. As the group reared their sound in a Columbia Heights basement, news spread quickly of their boozy, high-energy live shows. The group became a neighborhood fixture, appearing most weekends at Staccato, and enjoying warm receptions as performers at Adam’s Morgan Day, and the Mount Pleasant Music in the Park series. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

DC Rock & Roll power trio, the fed, was born out of the infamous Tuesday open mic nights at the now defunct Adams Morgan institution, Staccato Music Hall and Lounge in March of 2006. As the group reared their sound in a Columbia Heights basement, news spread quickly of their boozy, high-energy live shows. The group became a neighborhood fixture, appearing most weekends at Staccato, and enjoying warm receptions as performers at Adam’s Morgan Day, and the Mount Pleasant Music in the Park series. The departure of keyboardist Ian Walters in December of 2006 led to the addition of bass player David Pauk, and the organic growth of a more mature, classic Rock & Roll sound. Pauk completed the line-up of DC Public School teachers that included Kevin Brown on drums and Cory Chimka on guitar and vocals. The fed continued to win fans in Washington, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Pauk quit the band for creative reasons in May of 2007. The Fed continued to perform as a duo until Brown departed DC for Togo, West Africa in October, 2007. In June of 2008 Chimka traveled to West Africa where Brown had assembled Togolese musicians to accompany the band on piano, bass, and saxophone. The fed became an overnight sensation in both Togolese and ex-patriot circles. August 2008 saw Brown's temporary return to Washington and the fed's triumphant return of the stages of Adams Morgan, DC. Multi-instrumentalist Ben Burdick joined the band for a jam-packed rawkus live show at Adams Mill Bar & Grill, and was made a permanent member of the fed(Burdick is host of the popular, long-running monthly Open Window Open Mic Night at Solly's U Street Tavern). Fed fans were forced to wait nearly a year later for the band's next show, again at Adams Mill Bar & Grill, in March of 2009, and again a raucous affair. Brown, Burdick, and Chimka reunited in Owensboro, KY in October of the same year for a show at the Boiler Room in Brown's hometown. Chimka & Burdick continued performing around DC as a duo in Brown's absence, keeping "the fed" moniker alive. They enjoyed a successful run of shows at Chief Ike's Mambo Room in Adams Morgan, capped off by a full band show with Brown on April 8, 2010. The group's next show packed Solly's U Street Tavern in the historic DC live music district on June 10 2010. The band began with a set of their original punk rock catalog before inviting bassist Jeremy Borrego to join them for their more mid-tempo classic rock tunes. On August 24, the fed revisited the stage of Asylum in Adams Morgan to "battle" Mobius Strip to benefit Compassion Over Killing. Two days earlier the band spent a long day at Listen Vision Studios on Georgia Avenue where they laid the groundwork for their long-awaited debut LP. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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