Steam Powered Giraffe: MK III

The steampunk robot band, Steam Powered Giraffe, has recently announced that their new album, MK III will be released fall of 2013. The band includes three singers/songwriters, David Michael Bennett, Bunny Bennett, and Sam Luke who dress up and act as robots on stage. The great singing and pantomiming act is family appropriate, and are usually found playing at conventions around the US. What is unique about this band is that while they are characters on stage, Bunny Bennett (one of the singers), has also created a whole world based around the three robots, The Spine, Rabbit, and Hatchworth, which is what they base most of their songs off of (interesting happenings of the fictional world.) In creating these characters which are actually more thought out than may seem at first glance, these San Diego performers have sparked a whole fandom (community of fans) who actively participate with members of the band to create more stories about the fictional steampunk world. While you may automatically think that this is a band just for children, their audiences are typically teens to young-adult. To read further about the band, you can visit their official website, or if you want to read about the fiction behind the characters, you can click here.