The Lineup: Cash Pony, Prog Rock with a DIY Punk-Rock Aesthetic

A band with brains, Oakland’s Cash Pony channels 70s progressive rock with horn blasts, a healthy mix of other influences and dose of humor.

Their back story (answers submitted by Cash Pony).

Band Name: Cash Pony

Hometown: Oakland

Born Date: 2008

Sounds Like: Psychedelic and progressive rock that channels the instrumental prowess of 1970s progressive rock with a generous helping of modern-day attention deficit disorder. Cash Pony bridges academic and avant-garde music with a DIY punk-rock aesthetic, yet somehow delivers whispers of North Indian Classical music and Frank Zappa through their algebraic rock ensemble.

Fun Fact: Cash Pony is comprised of two doctoral students, one complete jerk-off, one straight-laced goody, one acid-induced visionary, and a shadowy mystery elemental being that has all the answers but tells no one.

Most Memorable Show: The New Parish in Oakland with Battlehooch and Sun Hop Fat.

When not making music, find them at: Farmers Markets, The Starry Plough, Totally Intense Fractal Mind-gaze Hut, naked in bed.

Listen to Cash Pony and six other finalists on The Lineup voting page.

Matt Crawford is content director for Boulevards New Media, Inc. and Metro Newspaper and managing editor of SF Station. Follow him @Metro_Matt.