.

October Jams.

2010-10-17T07:53:00.000-07:00

its been too long.

2010-07-19T10:28:00.000-07:00

velvet underground - femme fatale
Uploaded by erioluk. - Explore more music videos.

Madres Feliz Dia

2010-05-09T09:45:00.000-07:00

Headed West

2010-04-30T10:12:00.000-07:00

The Next Two Months:

The Babies:
May 14th: Brooklyn, NY - Monster Island Basement w/ Golden Triangle/Fresh and Onlys
May 15th: Seattle, Washington - The Black Lodge w/ The Cave Singers
May 16th: Olympia Washington - Phoenix House w/ Rainbow Bridge
May 17th: Day Off
May 18th: Sacramento, California - TBA
May 19th: Oakland, California - TBA w/ The Mantels/Young Prisms/Nodzzz
May 20th: SF, California - Lipo Lounge w/ Grass Widow/Brilliant Colors/White Fence
May 21st: San Pedro, California - TBA w/ Stoned at Heart.
May 22nd: LA, California (early show) - Echo Curio w/ TBA
May 22nd: LA California (later show) - The Dig Wear House w/ White Fence
May 23rd: LA Echo Park, California - Day Time BBQ w/ White Fence/Young Prisms

WOODS
Mon-Jun-07 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
Tue-Jun-08 Vancouver, BC Media Club
Wed-Jun-09 Portland, OR Holocene
Thu-Jun-10 Arcata, CA Jambalaya
Fri-Jun-11 San Francisco, CA Slims
Sat-Jun-12 Big Sur, CA Henry Miller Library / WOODSIST FESTIVAL Big Sur
Mon-Jun-14 Santa Barbara, CA Jensen's
Tue-Jun-15 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex / WOODSIST FESTIVAL Los Angeles

the best bands apparently all live in california.

2010-03-09T23:02:00.000-08:00

As if Fresh and Onlys, Thee Oh Sees, Grass Widow, and Nodzzz weren't enough amazing music from California...

...here are yet two more records, from more CALI bands, that I can not stop listening to! I'm trying to talk both of them into playing with The Babies when we go out there in May.

White Fence (the yellow record) is Tim Presleys, (Darker My Love and The Strange Boys), solo record out on Make a Mess Records. Soon to be digitized via Woodsist!

The Mantles debut record, out on Silt Breeze, came highly recomended to me by everyone at Love Garden Sounds in Lawrence. It's a total killer. It the one up top, with the distorted picture of a suited man holding a picture of jimi hendrix.

check it/dig it

I have also included the flyer for Jeremys show case in Austin. Dont miss it. It will be good times and solid rock inside the healing hut.

<3

KM

Another Snow Day///No Work

2010-02-26T08:34:00.000-08:00

Snow Day

2010-02-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

2010-02-02T11:19:00.000-08:00

Some pix of 09.

2010-01-19T15:12:00.000-08:00

The Year 200010

2009-12-31T00:17:00.000-08:00

It's been a little over a year since I started this thing, teary eyed and in kc!
Well here I am, yet again, on mom and dads couch - bored and restless - alas: another post.

Check these videos!
1)The Byrds playing some Dylan songs on Hugh Hefners "PlayBoy After Dark". At first glance this seems to be a super trippy Thanksgiving living room style party with The Byrds as the house band.

And now here's Dylans 1971 version of You Aint Goin Nowhere. I personally like the lyrics (and the recording in general) a lot more on this than the 1967 version he recorded with The Band, which is released on the Basement Tapes Sessions, which is the version the Byrds cover ^.

All I listened to in Spain was Bruce Springsteens Nebraska.
Nebraska, Nebraska, Nebraska.

To be honest - I found myself skipping over Atlantic City more often than not. It's the one song from that record I was already super familiar with and I just wanted to get to the other songs. Most notably State Trooper and Reason to Believe.

Here's the boss in '93 and then in 2000 playing Atlantic City. These versions are awesome. The mandolin leads between breaks in the verses are so prominent where on the recordings you can barely tell that they're there. Bruce recorded Nebraska to serve as demo tapes he would send to the E-Street band and later re-record with them, but just went ahead and released it as was: A four track record with acoustic guitar, electric guitar plugged straight into the board, Alan Vega styled/reverby vocals, mandolin, harmonica, and 10 tragic tales. Def his darkest work, but here, you will see he has turned it into something fist pumping backed by the E-Street gang.

The woman playing guitar in the black leather is AMAZING.

and again in 2000.

So tonight the calender will change yet again. 2009 was a busy year for me. Woods toured pretty much non-stop the last six months, and I went places I never thought i'd go/made friends I never expected to make. We have flown in something like 12 planes since November, playing countries in Europe such as Russia, Spain, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Even America suprised me. From playing places like the Henry Miller Library in the Big Sur in California, to playing a teen rec-center somewhere in Conneticut, we really covered a lot of ground and im glad to have seen it all.

Heres our set in the Big Sur back in August. This was a part of our US tour with Dungen. We played in the grove out infront of the Henry Miller Library around high noon.

One of the highlights of '09 for me was playing the Whitney Museum as part of Dan Grahams retrospective.

Rain on Acoustic: Recorded in April in Dijon France in a big and beautiful wooden attic with a huge tin roof. If you listen closely, right after the last chorus (when Jeremy sings 'you wouldn't pass it up...') it starts to rain and then lets up before the vocals come back in again. So cool!

so long '09, it's been real.

XO
KM

son of a gun

2009-05-19T13:31:00.000-07:00

Woods was privileged enough to share the stage with the Vaselines Sunday night at the Bowery Ballroom. When I first arrived, arms full of equipment, I was greeted with a friendly smile and wave from Frances who was in the middle of their soundcheck. It was a lot of fun playing a bigger stage with good sound, and the whole night turned out great. Lots of friends, lots of family. After the show we wandered into the greenroom where they let us drink their beer and the above picture was taken.

Here are some pictures I ripped from Brooklyn Vegan.

Frances sure had a lude and crude way of passing time between songs. She said everything from "I don't suck, I blow" to "I like to drink the blood of virgin boys, so if you are a virgin boy please come find me after" all in her traditional Scottish accent. She seemed to have left the humor on the stage, though, seeing as within the few words that we exchanged she was as sweet as could be. That and, I couldn't tell what the fuck she was saying.

kevin.

ALSO

2009-04-06T10:50:00.000-07:00

2009-04-06T09:57:00.000-07:00

I turned 21 last Thursday, Tomorrow Woods goes to Europe again, and last week I was just getting home from SXSW. The Tour to and from Austin was killer. Woods went down with Blank Dogs and back up with Crystal Stilts, playing and hanging in Kansas City/Lawrence and hanging with my parents both times. My dad said seeing the shows and meeting my friends was the most fun he had had in ten years.

Being sandwiched back in New York for a week inbetween tours is exausting. I've been working all my jobs (delivery, babysittin, moving), Woods played two shows, and my new band, Babies, played our first show.

Rain On, off of Songs of Shame, got best new track on Pitchfork last week. You can read the review here http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11144-rain-on/

Laundry's done!

xo

2009-04-06T09:55:00.000-07:00

2008-12-25T12:11:00.000-08:00

2008-12-25T12:02:00.000-08:00

2008-12-25T11:44:00.000-08:00

Christmas Eves Eve

2008-12-23T09:32:00.000-08:00

Here I am on the brink of 2009 and i've finally indulged in a blog. Im home in Kansas City right now, trying to stay out of the negative degree weather, lying on mom and dads couch, building my new virtual world. Welcome.

///First thing first: Last night when I got home to my parents house, I went up into my old room and noticed an issue of People lying on the floor with Paul Newman on the cover. I had watched Cool Hand Luke the night before with Grant in Chicago, which made me think of the first time I watched it, at the beginning of November, with my friend Jamie, who is no longer with us. The magazine had belonged to a friend of my mothers who had recently been in town and my mom said that since his death the family has switched to his pasta sauce instead of Prego. Cool Hand Luke has become one of my favorite movies and will forever remind me of my buddy Jamie who has left us to go tour in the sky, or as he would have said, 'taken the day off, to j off'.

Here's the scene of Luke (Newman) singing Plastic Jesus in the prison bunks after getting news his mother has died.

and then theres this: The Troggs: With a Girl Like you. Also shown to me by Jamie. He used to dance around the living room playing his guitar and singing along to the record. I have been listening to it a lot lately and I was told the singer looked super creepy in the video, but after checking it out for the first time today, I don't really think so. You be the judge.

1925 - 2008

"And when my friend and I were
done we went to rest upon the
sun 'cause life takes from us
the things we love and robs us
of the special ones and puts
them where where we can't climb
and we only miss them all the time"

1983-2008

I miss you everyday