Welcome to the official BEDHEAD web site.

While BEDHEAD have split, the brothers Kadane are continuing to make music as THE NEW YEAR. click here for THE NEW YEAR website.

BRIEF HISTORY/CHRONOLOGY:

BEDHEAD WERE:

Matt Kadane - guitar, vocals
Bubba Kadane - guitar, vocals
Tench Coxe - guitar
Kris Wheat - bass
Trini Martinez - drums

Brief History:

Matt and Bubba have played music together since the late seventies, when they were in their single digits and early tens. They have had various proper bands since 1987. The earliest of these had a violin player, the following band, a viola player. About 7 songs from WhatFunLifeWas and a couple from 4songCDEP were played in these different groups from around 1989-1991. The band that immediately preceded Bedhead included Trini (around 1990) and, on occasion, Tench.

After parting ways with the viola player in mid-1991, Bubba, Matt and Trini (Tench was going back and forth to Russia to teach English) started practicing again, re-working the older songs and working on new ones. Tench returned, and Kris, who had neither played bass nor been in a band before, joined the group. Bedhead officially came into existence.

The general idea of Bedhead when we formed was to incorporate the texture and presence of a bowed viola/violin with the timbre of a guitar, hence the unusually high number of guitarists.

Chronology:
January 1992	- first Bedhead show in Austin for a friend's art opening
May 1992	- release of Bedside Table/Living Well 7-inch on Direct Hit Records
December 1993	- release of The Rest Of The Day/I'm Not Here7-inch on Direct Hit Records
February 1994	- tour of Germany (with an invitation from a German band)
April 4, 1994	- release of WhatFunLifeWason Trance Syndicate Records
Summer 1994	- failed attempt to record songs later to appear on Beheaded
October 25, 1994	- release of 4songCDEP19:10 on Trance Syndicate Records
June 1995	- toured the West Coast and played various shows in the rest of the country
July 1995	- recorded the songs for The Dark Ages EPand Beheaded
January 1996	- tour of deep South
February 20, 1996	- release of The Dark Ages 3-song EP (CD/10-inch)
June 18, 1996	- release of Beheaded11-song LP/CD
June/July 1996	- 4-week US/Canada Tour
March/April 1997	- 3-week Eastern US tour (last week of dates cancelled due to an illness in the band)
May 2-9, 1997	- recorded the songs for Transaction de Novo
August 1997	- Shows in Austin and Dallas to preview the yet-to-be-released Transaction de Novo
November 4, 1997	- release of one-sided 12-inch vinyl version of 4songCDEP19:10
February 10, 1998	- release of Transaction de Novo 9-song LP/CD
March 9-22, 1998	- Western US tour
April 10-May 2, 1998	- Eastern US tour
May 9-20, 1998	- European tour
August 3, 1998	- BEDHEAD call it quits.
October 20, 1998	- release of "Lepidoptera"/"Leper" 10-inch
Summer 1999	- Matt and Bubba Kadane form THE NEW YEAR
April 25, 2000	- release of "Macha Loved Bedhead" CDEP