Belikos

When the Belikos family takes the stage they can make the good kids dance like dosed up sex addicts and convince clergy to give the devil a chance. Once the music takes off and the boys lock in, the House of Belikos becomes a symbiotic, chaotic swirl of motion. The crowd moves to the pull of the music. No one sits, their bodies won’t allow it. This show and its music are something unique, but while the energy of Belikos is born from passion and their sound from inspiration Belikos is influ...

When the Belikos family takes the stage they can make the good kids dance like dosed up sex addicts and convince clergy to give the devil a chance. Once the music takes off and the boys lock in, the House of Belikos becomes a symbiotic, chaotic swirl of motion. The crowd moves to the pull of the music. No one sits, their bodies won’t allow it. This show and its music are something unique, but while the energy of Belikos is born from passion and their sound from inspiration Belikos is influenced by generations of rock legends and hip hop heroes. Since joining forces in Ann Arbor in late 2006, Belikos has moved east to New York City and has been taking over the east coast piece by piece. They have played clubs, venues, and festivals from the Virgin Mobile Free Fest, CMJ College Music Marathon, Piano’s, Santos Party House the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, and Webster Hall in Manhattan, the Chance Theater in Poughkeepsie, headlining the Utica Music Festival in Utica, to even performing alongside Bad Brains, Mos Def, Fishbone, Lifehouse and Matt Nathanson. Belikos is not tame and they are not clean cut pop stars. They are rockers, they’re funky rappers with a cocky grin; they scream with a cymbal crash and their bodies thrash when the guitar wails, distorted and shaking the stage. And when you look out across the floor of a Belikos show you’ll find they have found fans in nearly every circle. Hardcore kids, the jazz aficionado, the soul fan and the die-hard hip-hop devotee all move with the music. Their live show is intoxicating. It’s music that commands a crowd to its feet and gives their hips a pulse. Their shows, their songs, the boys, they give it all up on the stage and you can hear on their record that it doesn’t stop there. As the Belikos sound is a collision of musical traditions Belikos itself is a collision of unique talents and personalities. Belikos is: Ethan Hampton- Guitar/Vocals Justin Hampton- Drums Aaron Orr- Vocals Maurice Page- Vocals Keith Reed- Bass/Vocals