Dengue Fever Gallery Spotlight: SF, CA - Jan. 8, 2010

Even if you're up to date on Southeast Asian history, you probably wouldn't know that before the dictator Pol Pot took over Cambodia in the mid '70s, it was a pretty hip country--right down to the music its people were making. In fact, they were playing Fusion before the genre was even named, mixing Western and Eastern sounds.

It is precisely this music that gave rise to Dengue Fever. The LA band consists of Chhom Nimol (lead vocals) Zac Holtzman (guitar/vocals), Ethan Holtzman (Farfisa), Senon Williams (bass), Paul Smith (drums) and David Ralicke (sax). Williams explains in a press release , "In my opinion, they were trying to play Western rock songs, [they] incorporated their own folk music into psychedelic rock."

San Francisco fans can catch Dengue Fever at The Independent tomorrow night (1/12) at a show that was added after Friday's (1/8) concert at the same venue sold outâ€"-for which yours truly was there to take some photos.