Horrible Things are routing a tour this weekend, galloping across the Midwest! Try to check them out at one of the shows, especially Dumb Fest, happening at Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield.
The shows section has been updated! Catch Horrible Things as they play around the Illinois area or Kowabunga! Kid if you live in Champaign/Urbana!
The Easter/Kowabunga! Kid tour has completed! Thank you to everyone who made it out to see the bands while they were out!
There are some left over Kowabunga! Kid shirts from tour available in the store or at http://ratkingrecords.bigcartel.com/ for all who are interested!
This Friday, Easter and Kowabunga! Kid embark on a bit of a tour! If you are in the area, come out and hang out. It is going to be a lot of fun.
It has been a long journey, but we are here. RKR-006, Dumb Days is finally out! We have been working on it for a long time and have had set backs due to school, but it’s out. I am so happy with how it turned out. I was blown away by what Bill Fore was able to do with the poster and how well the stamps for the case came out.
Also, Tim, from Horrible Things, has been working really hard on our new website, http://ratkingrecords.com
“Things are looking up finallllyyyyyy….”
Kowabunga! Kid does an interview with Pizza FM.
Check out Kowabunga! Kid at one of their various shows this weekend:
10/11 - Champaign, IL @ Mike N’ Molly’s w/ Minor Characters, Ryan McCoy
10/12 - Bloomington, IL @ The Marilyn Mansion w/ Short Stories About Their Distance
10/14 - Bloomington, IN @ 700 Club w/ Wringer, Tooth Soup
Check out more from Pizza FM @ pizzafm.org
For any fans of Easter who are patiently waiting for Kyle (Easter) Lang to come out with new material, I promise you that he has been busy writing and recording for a while now. It may still be a while before he releases anything though. In the meantime, Kyle has (with the help of Rat King Records) rereleased an old EP from his earlier project called Pontow. Pontow is a lot like Easter, except it featured a much younger Kyle Lang and has songs that are maybe a little slower and not as heavy on different instruments and effects going on in the recordings. Kyle says he began writing these songs when he was just 15 years old. Before (to me and others) it has seemed that Easter had come out of no where with the release of Demonstration last year. Now listening to Pontow it is easy to see that Easter more evolved from this project rather than Kyle’s spazzy punk band Nunpuncher. For the rerelease of the Pontow tape, Kyle played a special Easter set in Champaign featuring a few of the Pontow songs. He decided to have me join him on trombone for some of the songs last minute, including Pontow’s “Insects” which I really enjoyed playing along to the second guitar part and I thought worked out really well. I have yet to hear what full-band Easter sounds like playing these songs but I am sure it is great. Anyone can listen to or download the Pontow EP for free here.
Woah, also check out this nice post about Pontow! An oldie, but most definitely a goodie. ;)
The Kowabunga! Kid demo cassette has been repressed into 30 more cassettes. It features the same art, but the tapes themselves are new colors (a beautiful lilac color) with white paint (instead of black).
These fun little guys are available at: http://ratkingrecords.bigcartel.com/product/kowabunga-kid-by-kowabunga-kid
And always available for free download at: http://ratkingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kowabunga-kid-by-kowabunga-kid-rkr-003
Also, a big update is on the way! I am excited. :)
Rat King Records 2 the rescue. ;)
polyvinylrecords:
Someone’s Paralytic Stalks cassette case was recently damaged during shipping, but luckily mailorder part-timer Aaron was able to supply a replacement due to his spare time gig of releasing cassettes on his own label, Rat King Records.
(I may or may not have promised him some publicity in exchange for the case.)
