Album Notes

Dorks In Space are a three-piece rock and roll band based in Tempe, Arizona. The band began to emerge from the primordial ooze in the winter of 2001/2002 as three unhip science dorks gathered in a small room to eke out primitive renditions of their favorite U2, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Ramones, Social Distortion, Type O Negative, etc. tunes. Grizzled rock veteran and guitarist Stash Kovac endeavored to teach to neophyte bassist Black Susan and drummer Q everything he knew about rock, specifically "keep playin' them eighth notes". This educational process was recently dramatized by Hollywood in a major motion picture, but the evil movie studio resorted to the dirty trick of replacing the rhythm section in the story with a class of elementary school kids in order to deny the band their rightful royalties.

Slowly, a powerful, muscular, dagger-toothed, fire-breathing, multigender-vocal-harmonizing, out-of-control Rock and Roll Monster began to take form, devouring large portions of Stash's stash of original songs to add to its bellyful of tasty covers. Over a space of only a few short years, the band conquered house parties, bars, and even weddings across vast stretches of the 85281 zip code. In the early months of 2004, the band gathered once again in the same small room and spent many hours discovering ways to put highly advanced digital recording technology to insultingly primitive uses. In April of 2004, Dorks In Space finally released their full-length debut CD, "Free Range Astromeat". The fifteen high-protein, high-calorie tracks of Astromeat provide the potent fuel for Dorks In Space's further journeys into the unkown...


Individual band member bios are available on the band's website. They can be very hyperlink-intensive, so to merely reprint the text here would not do them justice. Please skip over to http://dorksinspace.com/dorks.html for the low down on the individual Dorks.