How we love our heroes who speak truth to power. As long as they do it in the past. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Happy birthday Ozzie Canseco.

Great American State Fair live feed. So impressive how they keep the grass so green. You'd think people walking on it would kill the grass hang on a minute I'm being handed a note. Seriously I'm keeping this on in the background like a yule log. So peaceful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ez0...

@billybragg.bsky.social write an answer song about The King Teen challenge!

If the 250 thing weren't going on, there would be a LOT more people on the National Mall. Just on an ordinary summer Tuesday. The media is mis-reporting the story. The fair doesn't have light attendance. It has NEGATIVE attendance. Also: Audience of 1? This guy's career is going better than mine.

A climate change love song for my shvitzy European friends enduring the annual once-in-a-lifetime heatwave. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5c-...

Scratch an establishment Democrat and a Republican bleeds.

On the off chance that this is not satire, I hereby renounce my diploma* from Mark Twain Junior High School** in Los Angeles. No offense kids, I just want NOTHING to do with this shit. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/l... * I don't think there was a diploma ** Now Mark Twain Middle School

Can't wait to play with Chicken Ranch Road Show on July 11 in Durham. It'll be a fun hangout backyard show at Frog Hollow Outdoors — behind the Cocoa Cinnamon on Hillsborough Rd. All ages. 6 pm. Cheap tix here: www.tixtree.com/e/the-king-t...

Look I'm sorry I don't know what to tell you I'll show myself out I'm a Warriors fan even. pixelframe.design/new-york-kni...

There's a lot of folks messing up my neighborhood. Everyone but me, as it happens ... More songs and stories of extreme self-awareness Wednesday at Slim's Dive Bar in downtown Raleigh. It's J Candeed, Jason Bales and me come on out! 8 pm 5 bucks.

Here's a list of A-list celebrities at the Stanley Cup Finals: The Stanley Cup

What a fun time on WHUP Pass the Hat. Come on out Wednesday at Slim's Dive Bar in Raleigh and prove me wrong about the crowd! J Candeed, Jason Bales and me.

Watch me on the radio. A fun-packed hour of ... well a few seconds of slight technical difficulty and then 59-plus minutes of good times. Songs, stories, questions, answers, jokes, chocolate and me saying Jones Bell's name wrong. www.youtube.com/live/n5Dfvq1...

See you at The Cave in Chapel Hill tonight. These Wednesday songwriter showcases that David Prather and Danny Grewen put on are so much fun. The drab, navel-gazing, woe is me gloom you're picturing when you hear the word "songwriter"? That ain't it!

We heard you on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com, Alex Wagner, but alas San Francisco legends The Smokejumpers are no more. But you can catch singer The King Teen at The Cave in Chapel Hill June 10 & Slim's in Raleigh June 17. Get the classic album Flat Tear It Up! free: thesmokejumpers.bandcamp.com

"‘If you want a picture of the future ..."

Cheer up everybody! And come see me and J Candeed and Jason Bales at Slim's Dive Bar in downtown Raleigh on June 17.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Newsletter's out. I'll be on the radio tonight and tomorrow, singing and talking. Tonight 8 ET: Stuck in Rotation on Next Door Radio Listen here: bit.ly/KingStuck Friday 9pm ET: Whammy Douglas Radio Hour, WCOM 103.5 Carrboro. wcomfm.org. Click listen live thekingteen.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-rad...

Chip Roy wearing a Chip Roy vest and losing once again proves the power of The Iggy Pop Rule, which states: You may not wear your own merch unless you fulfill all of the following conditions: 1. You are Iggy Pop. And no one has ever not been Iggy Pop harder than this chud.

I do. thekingteen.bandcamp.com/track/luigi

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live Connie Stevens Yellow Sloth Chicken Broth Nuclear Rabbit Beltfight Mommie's Friend Blanks 77 Johnny Cash Hyperdrive Kittens Luckie Strike The Fibonaccis

Describe the Republican Party in one sentence: theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

Next week: Monday 5/25 at Slim's Raleigh with Bobcat, The Salt Creeps and Mary Anna. Thursday 5/28 at Ox4d Music in Oxford NC. Stuck in Rotation live radio show 8 pm. Livestream at NextDoorRadio.com

Subvert has launched and I'm a co-owner! That sounds like I'll be cheating you out of overtime pay but no — it's an artist-owned co-op. A good way to think about it: Every day is Bandcamp Friday. All my recorded music's for sale there. Check it out. You can join! www.subvert.fm/kingteenmusic

Horns? In this economy? Come on out May 25 Slim's Dive Bar Raleigh.

If you have ever used the word "poptimism" in any way other than to ridicule it, please lose my number.

"I don't get why people would go to WATCH a DJ." Here's a clip of Björk DJ'ing. Hello? Hey where'd you go? "Sorry. Was just watching this clip for the 900th time."

Very forward thinking, that Johnny Cash. blanktapes.co/interview-th...

I don't use AI and it looks like I've saved 10 minutes. www.wired.com/story/using-...

Mr Narrator, this is Bob Dylan to me. youtu.be/cfzhq1CjJG0?...

Tonight at The Cave!

Swaggering into The Cave in Chapel Hill Friday May 1 like ... (w/ Taylor Hollingsworth and Rod Smoth, 9 pm)

I'm worried. If the CBS Evening News ratings go low enough I'm afraid my contrarian nature is going to make me want to tune in.

The room you're in. The town, the county, the state, the country, the hemisphere, the planet, the galaxy, the universe. All of these things would be improved by orders of magnitude if there were no billionaires in them.

Describe America in one sentence.

I only saw The Minutemen once. D. Boon said "This is a song by our fathers" before they played Have You Ever Seen the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival. This is a story about 45 songs by my fathers.

Highlights from a fun interview I did with Aldora Britain Records, "The Global Independent & Underground Music E-Zine." It's in the UK hence the UK spelling. The whole thing is here in PDF form. Free. drive.google.com/file/d/14b3c... I'm just as fascinating in person! May 1 The Cave Chapel Hill

If you're going to play sitting down you have to do some slow sad songs. I'll be STANDING UP at The Cave in Chapel Hill on May 1, with Taylor Hollingsworth and Rod Smoth. I'm not even 6 feet and I have to mind the ceiling there.

You have to ask yourself, if Betty Potter bought a bit of better butter, where is the bit of better butter Betty Potter bought? Or ask Betty. Three times. Or come to the Grit Diaries North Carolina songwriter showcase tonight at 7:30 at Speakeasy Carrboro.

I'm in the first group. 7:30 p.m. Come on out. Lineup subject to a few changes.

New newsletter's out. Read it and subscribe for free if you want. Photo by Emma Esser. thekingteen.beehiiv.com/p/breaking-t...

Everyone's all upset about this. I don't get it. When something important is happening, there's no place I'd rather Trump be than somewhere else. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

If you can't time travel to Slim's Dive Bar in downtown Raleigh Monday the 13th to see me and Joe's Cousin's One Man Band doors 8 show 9, just wait till Monday and come on out. Jaxon Wilkerson on the tubs makes me a two-man one-man band.

Now that you've got 2 weeks, maybe probably, before the next nuclear war, this EP's a pretty good investment. Should amortize completely! thekingteen.bandcamp.com

“In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” — H.L. Mencken

So um ... wanna be friends? Come hang with me at Slim's Downtown Raleigh Monday the 14th. It's me and Joe's Cousin's One Man Band. 9 pm.

Nostalgia is an illness. Yes! But it didn't used to be.

Thanks for kind words, blanktapes.co @jax.blanktapes.co "From the post-punk Dylan provocation of "Luigi" to the barnburning honky-tonk closer "Hard to Get Loaded", True Stories of Time Travel pulls back the curtain on a side of The King Teen that demands to be heard." blanktapes.co/new-music-nc...