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Thirteen years after playing their first note together in Philadelphia, PA, The Disco Biscuits continue to make mind bending, genre defying music. With their fifth studio album on the way, the band's first since 2002, the Biscuits once again look to redefine what it means to be a live band living in a studio setting. The product of three years in the hole with Philadelphia hip-hop duo Don Cheegro and Dirty Harry, along with some close guidance from the UK electronic duo of Simon Posford and Benji Vaughn (Twisted Records UK), will once again satisfy fans of the band in a way they have never heard before - a quality many have come to find synonymous with the band's releases and performances through the years.

The Disco Biscuits are excited to return to Colorado for the third installment of Bisco Inferno, an event which will serve as the kickoff for the band's summer touring. This will be the first time Red Rocks has hosted the band's epic series of Bisco Inferno concerts, and will also mark the first time the band has headlined the legendary amphitheater. The two day weekend event will also feature a May 29 performance at Denver's Ogden Theater. "As a band, we couldn't be more excited to headline Red Rocks during the two-day Bisco Inferno event," said The Disco Biscuits' bassist Marc Brownstein. "Colorado has always embraced us. We feel at home here, and we're thrilled to celebrate a career achievement, such as headlining Red Rocks, in Colorado with two great nights of music. We've been working towards this for a long time."

Jon "The Barber" Gutwillig, Marc Brownstein, Allen Aucoin, and Aron Magner met on the University of Pennsylvania campus and formed Disco Biscuits there in late 1995. They started out with frat party gigs all over Philly, but quickly moved to the nightclub scene. In 1996 they released their indie debut, Encephalous Crime. In addition to their own shows, they toured in support of Merl Saunders, the Black Crowes, the Jerry Garcia Band, and Morphine.

Their music, a crazy-quilt mixture of rock, techno, jazz, soul, blues, and classical, quickly took them to the upper echelon of the jam/groove scene. Guitarist/lead vocalist Jon Gutwillig has declared that the goal of the group is to create the wildest -- or craziest -- music of all time. Their highly danceable style has been dubbed "trance fusion" and has drawn some comparisons to Frank Zappa (even though the band members themselves don't hear it). They've been known to break into a classical piece -- or a slice of classic jazz -- in the middle of an extended rock jam. Disco Biscuits songs are written for the live show and a record then results -- not the other way around.

The band was signed to Hydrophonics Records in 1998 and then released their second CD, The Uncivilized Area. Their third, They Missed the Perfume, hit the streets in 2001. Continually growing into a more adventurous combo as time went by, the more organic Senor Boombox came out in the fall of 2002. Four years later, the group released two live albums: the two-disc The Wind at Four to Fly and the one-disc Rocket 3.