Rina Kleege (Guitar/Vocals)
Stephen Kleege (Keyboard/Vocals)
Influences
Henry Purcell, Leadbelly, Chuck Berry, Wolfgang Mozart, NRBQ, Bonnie Raitt, Igor Stravinsky, Richie Beirach, Booker T, Randy Newman, George Clinton, Carl Perkins, the Fugs. Gilbert & Sullivan, the Pretenders, Frank Zappa, Lydia Lunch, Kurt Weill, the Replacements, the Talking Heads, various blues players named King and blues kings named Guy...
Axiom Addicts started in 2002 as a duo of Singer/Guitarist Rina Kleege and Keyboardite Stephen Kleege, with the objective of freeing lyrics and melody from the shackles of bass- and drum-driven rock. After hastening the demise of such New York venues as Bar-B, the C-Note and CBGB's, Axiom Addicts in 2006 added performances as a full rock band. Other band members have included John Herman on bass, Ned Matura and Irv Gotbaum on lead guitar, Carl Spataro and George Robers on drums, and vocalist-bassist Debby Schwartz. In addition to performing regularly in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Axiom Addicts provided sound tracks for Birdshot Mountain (a vice presidential parody that appeared on Arianna Huffinton's blog) and Caveman Robot, a multimedia musical comic strip with music by Debby Schwartz. Axiom Addicts also appear in Debby's soundtrack for Chris Harcum's play American Badass, performed in the 2008 Frigid Festival in New York.
1st Top Artist - Fusion Brazil - 207 days - 166 times in a row (07/26/07 - 01/07/08) 1st Top Artist - Fusion Any Country (10/15/07) 2nd Top Artist - Rock Brazil (10/16/07) 4th Top Artist - Metal Brazil (10/16/07) 7th Top Artist - Any Genre - Brazil (10/15/07)
