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Grand Ole Party
Biography
Despite their name, San Diego's Grand Ole Party have nothing to do with the Republican Party; instead, they play tough, no-frills indie rock energized by the rich, wildly passionate vocals of drummer and lead singer Kristin Gundred. Grand Ole Party were formed in 2005 by Gundred, guitarist John Paul Labno, and bassist Mike Krechnyak while all three were students at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Labno's grew up in the San Francisco area, where his dad made a living playing music and repairing instruments; Labno formed a punk band with some friends when he was 13, and a later group, Staircase, earned a big enough following in Santa Cruz to get an offer to sign with Epitaph Records, though the band had already broken up by the time the A&R man made the call. When Labno heard Gundred sing, he was immediately impressed with her vocal abilities, and invited her to sit in with his band, the Virgin Suite. Gundred, a literature student who was born in Alameda County and raised by school teachers who gave her violin lessons as a child, soon joined the group and Krechnyak, who quit a lucrative career in computer programming to study philosophy, became a passionate fan who briefly managed the group.
Selected Discography

Humanimals
2007
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