String Cheese Incident Music Group

Since banding together in 1993, the Colorado-based group the String Cheese Incident has released three albums on its own label, Sci Fidelity Records. The first two "Born on the Wrong Planet" (1996) and "A String Cheese Incident" (1997) sold a combined 40,000 copies; the band's latest, " 'Round the Wheel," is reportedly moving about 800 units per week.

As bands grow in popularity, they often lose sight of what sparked them in the beginning. Not the String Cheese Incident, a quintet based in Boulder, Colo., whose freewheeling mix of rock, bluegrass, jazz-funk and the kind of whimsy indicated by its name (whose origins the members don't discuss) has made it a favorite of many looking for the vibe of a Grateful Dead concert.

As bands grow in popularity, they often lose sight of what sparked them in the beginning. Not the String Cheese Incident, a quintet based in Boulder, Colo., whose freewheeling mix of rock, bluegrass, jazz-funk and the kind of whimsy indicated by its name (whose origins the members don't discuss) has made it a favorite of many looking for the vibe of a Grateful Dead concert.

Since banding together in 1993, the Colorado-based group the String Cheese Incident has released three albums on its own label, Sci Fidelity Records. The first two "Born on the Wrong Planet" (1996) and "A String Cheese Incident" (1997) sold a combined 40,000 copies; the band's latest, " 'Round the Wheel," is reportedly moving about 800 units per week.