Freak Machine: 1 - Ben Levin Group

As both composer and guitarist, Ben Levin pours every drop of his energy into the band’s gritty and provocative performances.

Though Levin began banging on piano keys at age seven, one of his earliest passions was for graphic novels and comic books. One day, he hoped to share his own unique fiction with the world.

At age thirteen, however, Levin found a new vehicle for stories: the guitar. By the time he left high school, Levin had already composed and released four albums of original music as lead of two bands—We all Miss Gracie and Tritone.

After a tumultuous four years of theory, composition and highly classified musical experiments, Ben Levin graduated from Berklee College of Music as a Guitar Performance major. Here, he earned both a degree and a band.

In addition to Ben Levin Group, Ben composes and performs in the band Bent Knee (a collaboration with singer Courtney Swain.) He also plays in thrash metal band Black Trip and accompanies jazz flute wizard Geni Skendo. He endorses D’Addario strings.

Ben has been teaching guitar privately since 2005 (including clinics at the National Guitar Workshop) and has a weekly music instruction show called Dr. Levin’s Music Lab on his Youtube channel Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.