MacGregor

Sun Staff

April 29, 2004

Hometown: College Park

Current Members: Wax, vocals and guitar; Eugenic, alto sax; Fraz, drums; Jake, trumpet; Devin, tenor sax; Herbal T, bass and vocals.

Founded in: 2000

Style: rock infused with hip-hop, soul and funk

Influenced by: Soulive, James Brown and Primus are just a few.

Notable: Last May, while playing in North Carolina, MacGregor caught the attention of national recording act 2 Skinnee J's and wound up opening for the band on a two-week tour.

Quotable: Wax on how the band fused diverse musical genres to form its style: "Everybody's into different stuff. We didn't really think about it; we just wrote it, and that's how it came out."

For more information on MacGregor, visit www.macgregorband.com.

-- Sarah Schaffer