MAKING A SPLASH IN LA :I had planned to go to The Echo last night for the Rumspringa residency, but something about JAX's endorsement of the Silverlake Lounge bill that night told me that I should flip my Mondays around. Brilliant move, if I may say so myself. Just when all the shows start to sound the same... something like last night happens.
After The Fuckin' Kennies set I wanted to buy a CD. They asked for two dollars. I gave them ten."They were my favorite out of town act of 2008 to date. Better than Holy Fuck.""Good fucking lord.""The Tuscon, AZ band played a brilliant version of danceable garage rock re-engineered for the noise sect. Had the The Black Keys been aborted on the bathroom floor of CBGBs, the discarded fetal matter might have grown-up to be The Fuckin' Kennies. There was a psychobilly / rockabilly characteristic, but I'll tread lightly now because I'm venturing into a territory I don't know much about. But I know this: the crunch, plug, jangle-bang, and pow coming out of the PA at The Silverlake Lounge until nearly 1am was utterly electrifying. Even when the band paused to banter and adjust instruments, the set never seemed to stop.Sweat, beer, sex, and joy filled the air. It was the sort of thing you hope gets video recorded so in thirty years some teenaged kid will look at the tape and go "Damn, I wish I could have been alive then." The 10 or so people who stayed couldn't stop dancing at the front of the stage and I don't doubt for a minute that what might have been the smallest crowd on the first residency night of the month in fact saw the very best musical offering available in a ten mile radius. It pays to dig down for your music.As for the CD... the lo-fi recordings show a more clear-cut punk influence than the set I saw live. It is equally wonderful.The Fuckin' Kennies closed with a song named after themselves, and then the band lobbied for its own encore. When it got one, front man Kenny Alden (by this point clad only in sticky tighty-whities) played for about 15 seconds before handing off instrument duties to a friend so he could walk to the bar. That, Classical Geek Thespians, is fucking rock n' roll."
- Mouse of www.classicalgeektheatre.blogspot.com7 inches will be available at shows and better stores in your cities soon. A free digital EP is in the works on All My Friends Are Gold and will be availible soon. Or you can download the free digital Ep right now on www.last.fm, also look for the full length on itunes and cdbaby.com.
The F_ckin Kennies: "Im F_ckin Kennies"
BANDS WE HAVE PLAYED WITH/ARE PLAYING WITH: golden boots / vampire weekend / no bunny / lymbyc systym / asleep in the sea / impossible shapes / dr. manhattan / captured by robots / leslie and the ly's / plus others
the fuckin kennies - Klaus
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