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.  Now, we gotta go write and record.  We’ll keep ya posted!

To read more about STARK’s crazy antics, go to the website at www.starknyc.com.

Instrumentation
Lani Ford--vocals, bass
4 time Ascap Plus Award winner.

Eric Robel--drums

Joe Hogan--guitar, backing vocals

Discography
"Put It To Your Head", Release January 26, 2008
Tracks with airplay: 18 Again, OH NO!, R-D-R, Disturbed, Nothing's Wrong, I Pay, Co-Dependent

"The Curse" LP, released May 15, 2004
Tracks with airplay: Cryin' In The Mornin', Somewhere, White Trash Rock & Roll Diva, Summer Girl, Look at Me, Beautiful Mistake, Slut, The One

"The Morgue The Merrier", LP, Poptown Records (2005)
Compilation CD of New York City Bands--featuring STARK song "Slut"

“Women of Rock”, LP, MJR Films and Audra Hardt (2008)
Compilation of female-fronted rock bands—featuring STARK’s song “OH NO!”

Samplers include:  Under the Radar October 2008, Bubblegum Slut Zine (UK) Summer 2008, Danimal Promotions November 2008

“Surf Rock, Vol. 2”, LP, Versailles Records compilation, released with Guns ‘n Roses Tribute CD (2008)

"Live at CMJ", EP, limited release 2005

"Lani Ford Acoustic Live", EP, limited release 2006

Lani Ford sings backup vocals on the F.P.ToZ LP "Housebreaking Oui Oui Pads" (2005)