Third EP on the way (summer 2022 ish)

https://dorathedestroyer.bandcamp.com/

School Yearbook - Class of 1990

* DJ at house parties in the SFV as well as some very dubious Hollywood Teen clubs. (2 Technics and a mixer, 2 crates of records, and a love of hip-hop).

* MC/Lyricist - "Season Of The Vic" from the LP, QD3 Soundlab, produced by QD3 (I had dreadlocks & rarely wore a shirt, but I was all over the radio, MTV-Raps, BET & Pump It Up in high school, so fuck it).

* Signed by Quincy Jones to Qwest/WB at 16 (After 2 years of working with and learning from QD3 his father signs me and the two become mentors to me, off to a good start).

* MC/Lyricist/Producer - Debut solo album, "My Field Trip To Planet 9". (A classic in the UK, too bad no one told me, stateside I was massive in Boulder and a few college campuses).

* Singer/Lyricist/Guitar/Keys - The Justin Warfield Supernaut, S/T Debut album. (An endearing but confused classic rock/grunge/pop band which had we had time to gestate could have been great).

* MC/Lyricist - Bomb The Bass, "Bug Powder Dust" and "Braindead" from the LP, "CLEAR". (First of an ongoing collaboration with the man who would change the course of my life, Tim Simenon. Respect).

* Producer/Guitarist/Singer - One Inch Punch (Secrets Of The One Inch Punch EP, Tao Of One Inch Punch (Rising from the ashes of Supernaut, consisting of Gianni Garofalo & myself, signed by Tim Sim).

* Remixes - Depeche Mode, "Barrel Of A Gun", The Boo Radleys, "Joel", Kylie Minogue, "Confide In Me" (so fucked up), Korn, don't remember the song, but they hated it.

* Guest Vocalist - The Chemical Brothers, "Not Another Drugstore,  "Pretty Piece Of Flesh" & "The Montague Boys" on OST Romeo And Juliet, The Freestylers, "Broadcast Channels", Cornershop, "Candyman", Placebo, "Spite And Malice", LHB, "No Transmission", 

* Vocals/Guitar - Tape (Garage-gaze LA based band who only ever played in NYC & LA, was subject to a label frenzy, only to burnout after 2 great EP's and several years of blinding shows. Awesome).

* Vocals/Guitar/Lyrics/Production - She Wants Revenge (S/T LP, This Is Forever, Save Your Soul EP, Up And Down EP, Valleyheart. (Finally worked with childhood friend Adam 12 to great results).

* Vocals/Lyricist/Guitar - Timbaland, "In Time".

* Remixes - Placebo, "Meds, Ringside, "Tired Of Being Sorry", Tatu, "Outer Space", 

* Vocals/Lyrics - Crystal Method, "Kling To The Wreckage".

* Various Remixes - (Kimbra, "Settle Down", Jason Derulo, "Breathing", Childish Gambino, "Heartbeat", Depeche Mode, "Heaven". (I feel like I'm forgetting something).

* Producer/Executive Producer - Nova Rockafeller (My little sis. Your new favorite artist).

* Secret projects coming....(Plural).


I'm really tired, so if this doesn't make sense or is incomplete, bear with me, I'm switching to Sanka.

However weirdly I came to hear of Queen Kwong is overshadowed by the fact that she’s managed to hold my attention for so long. Queen Kwong is the brainchild of LA based musician Carré Callaway.  Her rawness and charisma remind me of a young Iggy Pop or Patti Smith at the peak of their careers. Queen Kwong’s volatile stage persona, no doubt sits in the lineage of such primal and visceral acts as The Stooges, Nirvana, Swans, even Queens of the Stone Age. 

Her songs and stage show are a blatant protest at the “sanitization” of Rock in recent years. Queen Kwong’s work stands out from the sea of rubbish I keep hearing on the radio. Carre embodies the true and uncompromising spirit of Rock.  This LA based musician’s unwillingness to play it safe is rare and admirable. Someone very wise once taught me the importance of metaphorically, “passing on the torch”.  I say with utmost sincerity that Queen Kwong deserves that torch more than any performer I’ve come across in the last decade. 

     - Roger O'Donnell (The Cure)
      

Queen Kwong is Carre Callaway and a coven of cats

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