Stephanie Smith -

As the dust was settling over the 90's and a four year stint co-heading rock outfit Spectator Pump, Stephanie Smith stepped out on her own to form Kleveland in 2000.

She says of the band name's origin - "You know Wonder Woman's 'Paradise Island' which consist of all badass ladies? Ok-- I worked at this bar, with a couple of bad-ass ladies. This guy Bruce, the owner of the old Ozone records store on Burnside, was partying there late with us, and commented that we were woman that he imagined lived on that Island of Wonder Woman's..he called it cleave-land. We laughed and told him he would never know, because no man could get to cleave-land. Soon after I started making 4-track tapes, giving them to friends, and just wrote Kleveland on them for laughs, but I secretly always wanted to be a super-hero with a magic lasso, so it stuck.".

Kleveland released an EP Everybody Wants To in 2002 and a self titled full length in 2005. They have a reputation for explosive live shows and are currently going strong with Danny Carbo on drums (Thrillbilly), Allen Hunter on bass (The Eels), and Morgan Grace on second guitar and vocals. Check out the hilarious Kleveland Infomercial, Kleveland Documentary and keep your eyes peeled for their soon to be released LP.

Morgan Grace -

MG has made a name for herself as singer, songwriter, and bandleader of her own garage pop group. She's released two solo albums The Rules of Dating 2003 and The Sound of Something Breaking 2005. In 2006 the title track to her first album The Rules of Dating won 1st prize at American Idol Underground to the tune of $10,000.

Despite being a shameless mouth-breather she does indeed have a college education and plays a mean classical guitar when she's not ripping the fat leads in Kleveland. She also sings the part of Exene in an X Tribute band Gimme an X, and is working on her 3rd solo album to be released sometime in 2008.

Allen Hunter

Allen Hunter plays the bass. He’s been doing it for a long time. A lot of people think he’s pretty good. There is recorded evidence: with the Eels on Vagrant Records, Michael Dean Damron & Thee Loyal Bastards on Rosa Records, Black Angel, James Low, Alan Charing, The Vibrasonics, Jim Mesi. He does it in public, too: witnesses include, in addition to the above, Morgan Grace, Miss Michael Jodell, Matt Brown, Dirty Martini, Lemonade, AG Donnaloia, Bo Diddley, Jaycob VanAuken, substrate, Storm Large, Jen Folker, Paul DeLay, Robbie Laws, and others.

He does what he's told. He's easy to find in a crowd (he's tall). He speaks Japanese. He's not that old.

Danny Carbo -

Bio coming soon.....