Back in the summer, I put out a call for protest music. To be featured on a compilation... There were over 60 submissions. And 37 tracks were chosen to be included on 2 volumes. The preorder and first listening party is tomorrow. 1st December. Follow us here! theweaponandtheshield.bandcamp.com

The King Teen supports and condones the use of drugs while watching the Wiggles. I mean, Go Captain Feathersword Ahoy is a banger in whatever state you're in, but a half hour's a long time to rawdog most of their stuff.

It also raises the question — and answers it — about how easily replaced executives are.

Sure why not. #xmassongoftheday Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December Got laid off down at the factory And their timing's not the greatest in the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TB...

It's Back Friday! So we're going back to 1997 and my band The Smokejumpers with their xmas classic, or one of them: Punk Rock Christmas. Featuring jolly ol' St. Sid. This might be the start of my almost annual Xmas Song of the Day, if I feel like it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_zy...

I know what a morning rundown is. I also know how headlines work. This is not how you do it.

You're doing the Mass Blackout boycott till Dec. 2 right? But you can and should still buy from small businesses. Digital music makes a nice present. CDs even nicer! Prices as low as $1 at TheKingTeen International Industries— I mean from me. thekingteen.bandcamp.com/track/dream-...

Come on out! Dec. 6 at the Cave in Chapel Hill Jimmie Ray Swagger & The Fussy Eaters Chicken Ranch Road Show The King Teen

Huh. Well, thanks again for the giant cache of Ziploc bags and Saran Wrap I found, Mom.

Gift guide for dad.

Busking some uplifting Christmas music. I'll be doing more of that today at 1:35 pm on the North Carolina Songwriters Co-op stage at the Downtown Durham Artwalk Holiday Market. Outside the Durham Arts Council building, corner of Morris and Morgan.

We know we will win We have confidence In the victory Of good over evil

You can spend $10 to read Ryan Lizza's new post about Olivia Nuzzi and RFJ Jr., which you'll regret forever. Or you can buy two CD copies of my EP Us Ugly Guys Got Style and give one to a friend. Or you can buy two digital copies and have $2 left over. thekingteen.bandcamp.com/album/us-ugl...

Saved the throat-grater for last. Hard to Get Loaded is also going to be the big finale on my upcoming EP True Stories of Time Travel.

My country's "swastikas are cool" policy has people asking a lot of questions about my country already answered by that policy. apnews.com/article/coas...

Imaginary drums. Easy to load in. Hard to play. Damn near impossible to record. Crazy Flyin' Dave's a virtuoso. Recording Time Traveler's Blues for the EP True Stories of Time Travel, out in 26. Follow me on Bandcamp to be ready — and enjoy what's already there! thekingteen.bandcamp.com

Oh hey look. Someone tried one of those naive, pie-in-the-sky, progressive ideas that people spent decades saying would be a disaster and it led to positive outcomes. That's so weird! The only time that's ever happened before is every single time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Sarah Kendzior and a walk in the woods. Oliva Nuzzi and California fires. Two women writing about nature, their emotions and their life. It's the difference between reading something written by a writer and reading something written by Olivia Nuzzi. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

Mimi Kramer of Supermutt singing her part on The Ballad of Pnut & Salty for my next EP, True Stories of Time Travel. As you can see she adds something to my records that I don't have: Standards. Also good singing. Follow me on Bandcamp to be ready for the release thekingteen.bandcamp.com

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I never thought the We Love to Hurt Our Own Voters Party would hurt me. Don't they know I voted for them?!

Our tax dollars at work.

Thread! I'm thrilled to be a part of The Weapon and The Shield compilation. It goes on preorder at Bandcamp December 1. theweaponandtheshield.bandcamp.com

Recording horns for The Ballad of Pnut & Salty. James Phillips at the board. And you know you're in good hands when the Durham Bulls are present. EP True Stories of Time Travel will be out in the new year. You can go buy it now if you have a time machine.

Haven't they sacrificed enough?

Lonnie Rott warming up on the blackandwhites before recording The Ballad of Pnut & Salty for my next EP, True Stories of Time Travel. Sounds pretty good without me singing doesn't it? Probably a lesson in there somewhere. Here's more on Lonnie Rott! blanktapes.co/interview-lo...

A band for a day. Great while it lasted. 1 - 3/5 of Chicken Ranch Road Show plus Paco Panhandle, who is in 3/5 of all Triangle bands. 2 - Patsy Sibley 3 - Isabela O'Hara Walsh and Paco made it so we were playing both kinds of music. 4 - Your boy. We didn't record You Don't Bring Me Flowers, obv.

Describe the Trump regime in one sentence.

if you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Post you from a different era (c 1985)

Rehearsing to record the difficult second EP. I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever played music with horn players. Lonnie Rott, piano Luis Rodriguez, trumpet Danny Grewen, trombone Eric Sommer, guitar

Recording "Happy Jack," The Who locked Keith Moon in the control room to keep him from singing as they recorded harmonies. He tried to distract them through the window. It's why you hear Pete Townshend yelling "I saw ya!" at the end. Unrelated to that, I'm locked in the control room ...

Just announced! Come on out.

For once I'm doing the opposite of doom scrolling. Mood scrolling.

I like whiskey The drummer likes Bud The bass player's feasting on virgin blood

Democrats: Vote blue no matter who! New Yorkers: Fuck yeah we're voting for the Democratic Party nominee, Zohran Mamdani! Democrats: No. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Bobby Troupe, the jazz pianist who wrote "Route 66" and "The Girl Can't Help It," among other things, and Julie London, who sang "Cry Me a River," as Dr. Joe and Nurse Dixie on "Emergency."

Bedroom Sessions version of a late-breaking Halloween song youtu.be/t17a9vxEtNM

Last-minute Halloween costume ideas for you.

Same. www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

Tom Tomorrow is a national treasure. Let's get this book out there.

In honor of Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco sorta kinda reopening, here's a pic of baby The King Teen, left, playing bass with Cult of Bigness or Oblivious* at the Fab Mab around 1987. * Same band. We changed our name. What I'm talking about: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Something something something like a trunkload a monkeys is going in the next song I make up, somehow.

You said you would be home at half past two Then you were gone all spring and summer through But you come back, you smile, and somehow I forget Cause I love you, you lyin’ sack of shit

Prediction: We're going to find out soon that before they started the demolition of the East Wing they didn't even bother to move furniture out of those rooms, take art off the walls etc.

Those dimwits you go out with, they don't ever make you smile. EP: Us Ugly Guys Got Style thekingteen.bandcamp.com

stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Journalism is just respectable gossip. Hey, did you hear about the thing that happened? People who have never worked in journalism rarely understand that. They don't know that journalists are, by nature, gossip queens and kings. It makes sense that Bari Weiss doesn't know that.

Trump is so reflexively anti-whatever the libs are saying that even as he denies wanting to be a king, he responds to the No Kings rally by posting AI slop videos of himself as King Trump. Hear me out: We should be holding NO FREE HEALTH CARE rallies.