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...

Newsletter's out! I’ll be playing two sets of The King Teen favorites tonight at the wonderful Sidetrack Bar & Lounge in Chapel Hill. OK there aren't 2 hours of The King Teen favorites but there's a few favorites and a whole lotta pretty good. Come on out! thekingteen.beehiiv.com/p/quick-one-...

JUDAS!

See you Thursday at the Sidetrack in Chapel Hill. Sing with me and you might win a trophy. Plus it's just a great bar. 7 pm, 2 sets, no cover.

Sound up. See you out there. #nokings Full song: thekingteen.bandcamp.com/track/left-t...

Been waiting for this: I've set up my artist profile at @subvert.fm Subvert is a co-op, owned by its membership base of artists, labels, supporters, and workers. Check it out if you're an artist. It's in alpha. Social images not there yet I guess. Pic in reply alpha.subvert.fm/kingteenmusic

Two one-hour sets with hardly any covers and if you sing along with me you might just win a trophy.

It's Patsy and Isabel from Chicken Ranch Roadshow singing harmony with me just like they did on the record. Stream or BUY the song here. It's BANNED on YouTube! thekingteen.bandcamp.com/track/luigi This was a throwback for me to singing with Gene Vincent's Clapper Boys. 1/2

Band practice. My two-man one-man band hits the stage at 7 pm tonight at Rubies on Five Points in Durham NC. It's a record release show for True Stories of Time Travel, with The Rattletraps and John Rodney.

Newsletter's out. It's about being in other newsletters. And my show tomorrow in Durham NC. thekingteen.beehiiv.com/p/record-rel...

The songs are whatever but my real talent is avoiding predators by blending into my environment. blanktapes.co/interview-th...

It's the grand finale of my series Meet the Badasses What Helped me make my new EP, True Stories of Time Travel. I'm making today's a thread. 🧵 If you're in the Triangle, or even if you're not, my record-release show is Friday at Rubies on Five Points in Durham. Early show: I start at 7 pm sharp.

There's also an anti-gentrification song that complains about how bars get more expensive after the rich people move in that goes "it's hard to get loaded since all these fuckers moved to town." It's even better given that @kingteenmusic.bsky.social acknowledges that he's part of the problem.

He has a new EP out on Bandcamp too. There's a song about Luigi on it. @kingteenmusic.bsky.social DNGAF. thekingteen.bandcamp.com/album/true-s...

"I'd strangle Baby Hitler/It'd sterilize Fred Trump" A fun and funny new single, "Time Traveler's Blues," from @kingteenmusic.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL91...

Part 2 of Meet the Badasses who made the True Stories of Time Travel EP with me. It's out now and you can get it thekingteen.bandcamp.com or for nameyourprice dollars at my show with The Rattletraps and John Rodney Friday at Rubies on Five Points Durham NC. tickets.venuepilot.com/e/the-rattle...

Pick up this song for a buck or go hog wild and get the whole EP for $4. I jam econo so you can too. "Confident, chucklesome songwriting ... proof that a good story beats a fancy trick." — @addtowantlist.bsky.social thekingteen.bandcamp.com/track/time-t...

First full review of the new record. Hey, they like it! Thanks @addtowantlist.bsky.social. addtowantlist.com/index.php/20...

#JustListened Now here's something that can brighten up the Monday morning blues! The new EP by @kingteenmusic.bsky.social is fun and anarchic, but still feels honest and heartfelt. Even the production is spotless. Great stuff! Highly, highly recommended! thekingteen.bandcamp.com/album/true-s...

BANNED BY YOUTUBE!! You can let The Man push you around or you can stream or download my new song Luigi on Bandcamp. Let your conscience be your guide. thekingteen.bandcamp.com/track/luigi

New EP is out! It's #bandcampfriday so if you buy it today I don't have to pay their fees, which I give instead to @projecthopeorg.bsky.social. Want to see the whole video for Time Traveler's Blues? Go here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL91...

My new EP True Stories of Time Travel is available for pre-order at Bandcamp, but you can buy a CD at tonight's show at Local506 in Chapel Hill. I go on at 8, and then there's Severed Fingers, The Malamondos and the 20th anniversary show of Blood Red River! thekingteen.bandcamp.com

Newsletter is out because guess what: So's the new EP. For pre-order. thekingteen.beehiiv.com/p/true-stori...

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Really who saw it coming? I always seemed so nice! Come to Local 506 in Chapel Hill Friday night. I'll sing for you and won't try to eat you or anything.

Come on out Friday!

I was masked up as usual in a crowded nightclub the other night and someone went out of their way to stop me and say "Why the mask?" Within 5 seconds it was apparent they didn't want to know. They wanted to argue with me about masking. No thanks. I walked away. This is why.

Here's why you're never safe from xmas music with The King Teen. Come on out to Local 506 in Chapel Hill Friday and I'll sing about the Fourth of July too. Time is a flat circle, babies. local506.com/event/blood-...

Time for some baby The King Teen. Neighbor Girl by The Smokejumpers at Chava's Taco Hut in Stockton Cali. I think in 1998. Tom Double D Thumb guitar Rusty Strings bass Big Stick Mick drums Grownup The King Teen will be at Local 506 in Chapel Hill February 27 w/ Blood Red River & others.

I’ve passed no milestones lately but the advertising algorithm has decided that as of today, I am no longer “here’s a T-shirt that hides your pot belly“ and I’m now “here’s underwear that won’t let your leaking pee stain your pants“ years old.

My Jesse Jackson story. During the 1984 campaign, he visited the Oakland Tribune, where I worked. Word got out. 13th Street filled up with people. When he walked out, they roared. He stepped up onto the bumpers of two parked cars and shouted his campaign speech. It was electrifying.

Saving you a click: NOPE. www.eater.com/food-culture...

No one knows it but my house is famous. Come on out to Local 506 in Chapel Hill on Feb. 27. I'll be opening the Blood Red River 20th Anniversary Show! local506.com/event/blood-...

It's the New Trolley Problem kids! Researcher: If you don't pull this switch, this one terrible person will die. If you do pull the switch, 14 million people will die, but the one terrible person will be saved. WHAT WILL YOU— Trump regime: {Pulls switch] www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

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.