Kimon & the PROPHETS have won the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation battle of the bands, and competed in Memphis, TN along with 110 other bands at the International Blues Challenge, this past February, 2011.

While constantly performing live every chance they get, the PROPHETS have recently painstakingly completed and released their new album TRENTON BLUES which is going for a run at Blues / Americana radio and press as of April 2011. With these new recordings, the band continues to develop their own melodic blend of blues, funk, 70’s rock, and hip-hop.

The Prophets 2009 album Roadhouse Party garnered international reviews, international radio play, including being played on the nationally syndicated radio show “Blues Deluxe”, reaching over 100 U.S. radio stations with two million potential listeners.

Whether raising eyebrows with their superbly crafted originals, exploding the hits of Stevie Wonder into the ultimate groove tune, or funkin’ up a Stevie Ray Vaughn blues jam, anything is possible in the vast PROPHETS library of songs. And they do it all with a blues style all their own, and a funk back beat that will make you stand up and move your feet.

Veteran musicians who have long since paid their dues in the NYC club circuit and beyond, the members of the Prophets have been in numerous bands with national releases. Early on Kimon (pronounced kéy-mon) survived a long stint as guitarist and co-writer with an over-the-top, edgy NYC garage band called The Wilsons, later joining Hoboken NJ favorites Fear of Falling as guitarist, there gaining much experience in making albums and performing via touring in Europe and the U.S. He went on to form Psonica, signing with the now defunct Navarre Entertainment. They released their national debut effort, but disbanded soon after due to internal disagreements, at which point, Kimon went on in the following five years to release 4 critically acclaimed solo albums, methodically cultivating his own brand of protest blues, while simultaneously developing an incendiary guitar technique.

Touring around as Kimon & the Prophets with various members, in February of 2008 Kimon was joined by long time friend and musical conspirator Marc Gambino on bass and vocals, to begin the creation of a solid band lineup. Marc enjoyed much European success as a member of the rock band Concrete Jungle and later a six year stint with Asbury Park favorites Maybe Pete. Quickly solidifying their own melodic blend of blues, funk, 70’s rock, and hip-hop, joined by Jason Kronick on drums, they charted a musical homecoming back to their roots.

A true working class rock band, the members of Kimon & the PROPHETS have a long history of performances from up and down the I95 corridor from MA to TX, and as far as England and Germany, and as this lineup, from venerable original music clubs The Bitter End and Arlene’s Grocery in NYC, Maxwell’s and The Stone Pony in NJ, The Trocadero Balcony and Grape St. Pub in Philly... to local cover music joints like the Whiskey Bar and Texas Arizona in Hoboken, Kroghs in Sparta, and Crossroads in Garwood, New Jersey. They have performed live on radio stations including WDBK, WPSC; they’ve shared the bill with stars like Gavin DeGraw, Alana Davis and Mark Copley. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.