BlackMahal September 2, 2011

You’ve heard urban groove music, but chances are that “turban groove” is a new sound to you. That’s what the unique San Francisco-based band Black Mahal calls its blend of hip-hop, funk and Punjabi music. The nine-piece band is fronted by the grey-bearded singer and dhol drummer Ustad Lal Singh Bhatti, known as the godfather of Punjabi-American music. He has performed for nearly every US president since Gerald Ford, and is just as at home singing at the alternative South by Southwest festival with this rollicking, unpredictable, wildly danceable band. This is what Rolling Stone magazine had to say about Black Mahal: —the band plays rollicking, “Their sound is perhaps unlike anything else out there today…It’s awesome!”

Official Website: http://www.ocgp.org/2011/06/black-mahal/