Don Caballero

Don Caballero hail from a hell of a place to father a child; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Affectionately known as "the Don", Don Caballero make their musical bid without the din of vocals. The Don spawned in the summer of 1991 as drummer Damon, bassist Patrick, and guitarist Mike met and got the petri dish experiment started.

The first record For Respect, was all dense and menacing bricks of sound that built sever structures as cheerful as the Berlin Wall. That gave way to a second record, that was just as solid, yet show it girder melodies skyscraperly, de-emphasizing denseness in exchange for taking up a large area. As "math rock", a definition for which there is no agreement, became an easily recognizable concept and word, the band sought to avoid those markers and released it's third record What Burns Never Returns, where time signatures were harder and harder to follow and form was more confusing. After redefining it's sound in these more protean terms, a hard rock thread still remained that bound all of the band's efforts up to that point. American Don marred it's relationship to "heavy" as much as What Burns troubled the band's relationship to "math rock".