Billionaires hit me up for synch rights. Satan is real.

Newsletter? I meant The King Teen New Sledder! thekingteen.beehiiv.com Thanks to everyone for a great night at The Sidetrack Bar & Lounge in Chapel Hill, esp. Keith in the back there, who books and runs sound and when he's not doing that plays guitar that is NOT bullshit.

Come on out to the Sidetrack in Chapel Hill Friday. I'll never tell.

The others are liking dogs and Dolly Parton and hating J.D. Vance.

Come sing with me Friday Feb 6 at the Sidetrack Bar & Lounge in Chapel Hill. 7-9:15 p.m. Two sets!

I have tickets to the Hurricanes game and I'm telling people I'm not going because of the road conditions but really it's because they blew another three-goal lead last night. I am, in all ways, a fair-weather fan.

#palinfey n. 1. A thing indistinguishable from a parody of that thing. 2. Such a parody

Protest Music... a lot of it.

Some pix by David Prather at The Cave in Chapel Hill a few weeks ago. David and Danny Grewen — on trombone in pic 2 — host and play as a duo at a show the second Wednesday of every month that you should go to if you're nearby.

You know things are serious when Bruce Springsteen writes a song, records it and releases it all in the same decade.

You come at Ilhan Omar, you best not miss.

Terrorists!

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

The fun fact behind my elegy for dead malls is that I have always HATED malls. With one exception: San Francisco Centre on Market Street in San Francisco, which died Monday. Rest in vacancy. My family called it The Circle Mall for its circular escalators. Also Centre isn't how you spell Center.

To the 34 people who followed me on TikTok: I have deleted my account. Please adjust your lifestyle accordingly.

Seems like a day to repost this.

"'W.A.R.' stands for 'wins above replacement,' a baseball term." Continuing the baseball theme, this consultant bible for Democrats to win elections is like a guide to winning the World Series written by the Pittsburgh Pirates. theconnector.substack.com/p/why-dems-k...

A little disturbing that today's pic of Trump in the NYTimes reminds me of the pic of me impersonating Johnny Cash on the cover of a 7-inch 45 in 1994.

A little of me goes a long way. Let's see how 2+ hours of me goes Fri Feb 6 at the great Sidetrack Lounge in Chapel Hill. Sound up: What's that song? Time Traveler's Blues off my upcoming EP True Stories of Time Travel. Follow me at thekingteen.bandcamp.com to be ready for it. Pre-sale soon!

I really hope this IU win closes the portal to the dark place the Cubs opened in 2016

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen. Stone Temple Pilots, minor league ballpark, South Bend IN Darius Rucker, parking lot, Columbia SC Joe Cocker, amusement park, Santa Clara CA America, city park, San Francisco Hanson, in-store, San Francisco These were all shows I happened across.

In the 80s I worked for the Oakland Tribune, the first metro daily newspaper in the US owned by a Black person, which was a leader in the campaign to make MLK's birthday a holiday. The first year it was a holiday I asked if we'd get it off. My boss said "Are you kidding? It's not a real holiday."

I don't make the rules. Cole Cook (dirtglam on IG) of The Rattletraps and Severed Fingers does. New shirt here: thekingteen.bandcamp.com/merch/no-kin...

New merch just dropped. Get yours. NO KINGS BUT THE KING TEEN Also that's no ordinary T-shirt wearer but the great Em Gee, whose music you should check out here: em-gee.bandcamp.com thekingteen.bandcamp.com/merch/no-kin...

Good times at The Cave last night. This is the first time I've ever played live with a horn player! The great Danny Grewen. Thanks to Jason Bales for the video, yoinked over from another site. This song will be on my new EP. Follow me on Bandcamp for that thekingteen.bandcamp.com

Bandcamp has banned AI music from the platform. If you want a great way of supporting the little guy against AI slop and corporate billionaire oligarchy - join Bandcamp You can stream for free (even without an account), find great music & support creatives. Ours is in the thread to check out!

Max Lane and I will both be on the bill at The Cave in Chapel Hill Wednesday for David Prather & Danny Grewen's* 2nd Wed of the month show. David and Danny play too. Come on out. This guy's great even when it's not snowing.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and a picture of the band/ artist. (Plus ticket stub) The Vapors at the Whisky in Hollywood in I think 1980, so about the time of this photo. Turning Japanese was out, but not a hit yet. They were good. Proteges of The Jam.

Please ignore your Vichy Dem “leaders.” As someone once said: Please get out of the way if you can’t lend a hand.” Sound up please.

In March when congressional Dems held up little Wile E Coyote signs as Trump spoke, I asked "If we pay you a little more, could you be even MORE pathetic?" Asking yet again: Where do we send the checks?

#FindASongToExplain #MusicChallenge #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyCn...

The EP artwork is just about done and I think it's good — but you gotta work through all the ideas on the way. True Stories of Time Travel out soon. Follow me at thekingteen.bandcamp.com Model: Kiley Williams 📷 Nikky Carrington

It has come to my attention that Johnny Rotten now looks like Jerry Stiller doing a Johnny Rotten imitation.

Meet me at The Cave in Chapel Hill on the 14th, cats and kittens. 9 pm And pregame with me at Speakeasy Carrboro for the Grit Diaries at 7:30. Songwriter circle — 4 of em, and I'm in the first group.

Always have the confidence of a mediocre man. Guy sitting behind the New Jersey Devils bench has a message for the Devils' coach, whose shoulder you can see, and who is giving the fan all the consideration he deserves.

I always appreciate The Cave calendar giving my shows a little extra love. This 9 pm show is the nightcap of a doubleheader. I'll also be playing the first set of The Grit Diaries Nashville round songwriter showcase at 7:30 down the street at Speakeasy Carrboro.

Subscribe to this trust me. One of the most incisive analysts of our current politics, or "politics," i.e. authoritarianism.

The 2-volume protest music compilation The Weapon and The Shield is out!! And I'm on Volume 2 with Left Two Three. Here's a link to Vol 2. Just change the ii to i in the URL for Vol 1. Listening party at link: Vol. 1 today, 2 tomorrow. 3pm EST theweaponandtheshield.bandcamp.com/album/the-we...

Going into 2026 like ...

Das Kapital

Doing dry January. Just my hands.

It was a always a problem in those band-forming conversations. "What are your influences?" Me: Oh, you know, the Minutemen, Charlie Chaplin, Ogden Nash ...

If you mapped the chronology of the universe onto 2025, I went to Yonder in Hillsborough for the first time all year just as dinosaurs went extinct — an event you’ll remember from There Goes the Neighborhood, available at thekingteen.bandcamp.com. Are you following this? 📸 @drlunchbox.bsky.social

It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.

2025: Some music, some acting, a record, dressing up, being part of a study/posing for the artwork of The Human Touch single, getting a one-snip haircut, only one since '22, and yeah I got your email. Let's do another one but with less fascism whattaya say?

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

My Bluesky timeline is pretty much wall-to-wall people dunking on yet another NYTimes story about how billionaires say they're going to leave California if a wealth tax is enacted. Everyone knows they're not leaving. Except mainstream journalism, which is a million miles behind its own audience.

One more highlight from The Smokejumpers' 1997 Christmas show on Bay TV, a local cable channel in San Francisco. "Christmas Every Day," which, I have to admit, has a little less impact on Dec. 25 than on the other 364, but work with me.