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London, Ontario rock band Texas King brought out their EP 'Changes’ earlier this month and are working on a full-length album that they hope to release next year.

The band comprises frontman Jordan MacDonald, Colin Gray (lead guitar/back-up vocals), Phil Spina (bass) and Melvin Murray on drums. MacDonald formed the band in 2012, having met Gray and Spina at Fanshawe’s Music Industry Arts college in London, Ontario. Their name has a brilliant provenance: 'I’m adopted,’ MacDonald said, holding up his fingers.

'My name before was Austin James. It’s a little word flay with the fingers. If you go “Austin Texas and King James”, then, in the middle, there is Texas King.’ [ Read more ]