Kingsley Flood is an Americana band by accident.
Two years ago, lead singer Naseem Khuri, 30, was another graduate student slumming it in Cambridge and pursuing a master's in public policy at Harvard.
But through a roommate ad, he wound up living next door to Nick Balkin, a 30-year-old guitarist who was then playing with a Boston band, and the two struck a friendship and a working relationship.
You might say Craigslist made him a rock 'n' roller.
"I was gonna do some fancy international relations job," said Khuri, who now lives in Washington. "I never set out to be in a rock 'n' roll band. I just had these songs tucked away."
Friday, he and the other five members of Kingsley Flood play Hampden's Golden West Cafe as part of their first multi-city tour.
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