Music

The Knux

About This Incoming! Artist

"It's funny," says Al Millio, the younger Knux brother (yes, they're blood kin separated by 2 years), "Because people make such a big deal about the fact that we produce and play our own music, and that it sounds 'different' or whatever, but to us that's more hip hop than making lame sh** that sounds like everybody else."

For those of you who like to put things in boxes, it's like this: The Knux are a self-produced group comprised of two brothers from New Orleans. They play all their own instrumentation and fight like The Kinks. Their debut album sounds like Outkast, Juvenile, Tha Pharcyde, and The Strokes concurrently blasting out of a drop-top Jag on Sunset Blvd. on a Saturday night in the summer. Wrap your head around that.

"When we made the album we refused to give the album to the label one song at a time," says Krispy, who at 25 is the elder Knux brother. "We knew that they wouldn't get it, they'd think we were buggin' and they'd try to make us change things." Instead, the two, who signed to Interscope in 2006 thanks to an incredible demo, "We played it for all the executives at once," remembers Al, "And you could see in their faces they were all shocked to hear something like this from some new artists that they barely even knew were on the label."