Friday, July 28. 2006
It is now Friday July 28 and it is time to play WTF Friday, the game where you tell us the first 10 songs that come up on your music player when you hit the Random or Shuffle button. At stake is a classic kingsnake.com T-shirt and the last chance to win the monthly grand prize, a black 30Gb video iPod.
Here is my list...
1. MC5 - Just Don't Know
2. Devo - Head Like A Hole
3. Earshot - Get Away
4. Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
5. Toadies - Santacide
6. Suicidal Tendancies - War Inside My Head
7. Rolling Stones - Sympathy fo the Devil
8. Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy
9. Sevendust - Denial
10. Moby - Thats When I Reach For My Revolver
Once again, we give away a kingsnake.com T-shirt to each of our weekly winners and the monthly winner gets a spankin new 30Gb video iPod! For the complete set of rules see http://club.kingsnake.com/index.php?/pages/wtfcontest.html
You MUST post your list TODAY, Friday, for it to qualify for the contest so POST AWAY.
Wednesday, July 26. 2006
In addition to the 1000 free shirts we are giving away at the National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona, Florida, we will also be giving away 1000 free shirts at the North American Reptile Breeders Conference in Anaheim, Callifornia in September and another 1000 shirts at the same event in Chicago, Illinois in October. We are also planning on giving away another 1000 shirts at Snake Day in the Netherlands again IF we can find a Dutch T-shirt vendor. So, all told thats 4,000 T-shirts on two continents!
Finally, we are looking at doing some in-store and in-club T-shirt promotions, giving away 100 T-shirts at a whack at some select locations in North America and Europe. If you are a reptile-oriented pet store or alternative/metal/indie music club and would like information on how you can participate in this promotion, contact me.
Once again these shirts are FREE - we DO NOT SELL THEM! They can only be aquired by participating in our on-site contests and at special promotional events. Oh, you might find one on Ebay or in our classifieds, but who's to say it's not some cheap counterfeit. Come out and get one of our 100 percent AUTHENTIC cheap T-shirts for FREE!
Monday, July 24. 2006
We have posted some new pics from Ozzfest today, that is Unearth to the left shot by Brian Rampacek.
We have just passed our first milestone in the photo gallery with over 1,000 concert pictures uploaded so far. We are well on our way to our goal of 10,000 photos by May 1, 2007.
So far the photos include mostly shows reviewed somewhere on our site,or will be soon like Ozzfest, but we welcome the general public to share their photos here as well. Some great bands are on our list, and we will have even more coming up with things like the Hedgepeth Festival, Sounds of the Underground, ACL Fest, SXSW07 and others on our list to cover.
Check out this list of bands we have concert photos for so far...
Friday, July 21. 2006
Once again I am late. I should quit going to Thursday concerts.
Since I was so late today we will accept entires through midnight Saturday for this weeks drawing and I will spend the weekend dogsitting as pennance.
It is now Friday July 21th and it is time to play WTF Friday, the game where you tell us the first 10 songs that come up on your music player when you hit the Random or Shuffle button. At stake is a classic kingsnake.com T-shirt and a chance to win the monthly grand prize, a black 30Gb video iPod.
Congrats to our last 2 T-Shirt Winners, Dave Tracer and Catherine Maynard who should be getting them about now.
Here is my list...
1. Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
2. Godsmack - I Stand Alone
3. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
4. Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
5. Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
6. Staind - Black Rain
7. Eels - Damn, I Wish I was Your Lover
8. The Offspring - Hey Joe
9. Frank Zappa - The Dangerous Kitchen
10. Butthole Surfers - The Colored F.B.I. Guy
Once again, we give away a kingsnake.com T-shirt to each of our weekly winners and the monthly winner gets a spankin new 30Gb video iPod! For the complete set of rules see http://club.kingsnake.com/index.php?/pages/wtfcontest.html
You MUST post your list TODAY, Friday, for it to qualify for the contest so POST AWAY
Wednesday, July 19. 2006
This is pretty much a can't-miss disc for fans of the South African band Seether. Continuing with MTV's unplugged concept, Seether performs a special live acoustic set of some of their best songs at a small club. Lucky for us, not only did they make an audio recording, they also recorded a DVD, which is included.
I love Seether, so for me this was like a slice of hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream, hard to turn down, and when finished I was left greedily hoping for more. Even though this is an acoustic set, it still rocks. One thing that really struck me when listening to this disc is Seether's aural resemblance to Nirvana on some cuts. Seether is known to cover some Nirvana tunes live, and sometimes the resemblance on this disc can be spooky.
This is one of the cleaner mixes I have heard for a live disc. Kudos go out to the engineers that put this down. There are 12 live songs included on the disc(s). Each one is great.
- Gasoline
- Driven Under
- Diseased
- Truth
- Immortality
- Tied My Hands
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- Fine Again
- Broken
- The Gift
- Remedy
- Plastic Man
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An extra bonus on the DVD is a one-hour interview with the band and the CD includes a special "radio edit" of "The Gift."
Rancid
Hometown: Berkeley, California
http://www.rancidrancid.com/
Friday, July 10, 2006
Emo's (Austin, Texas)
Also: Street Dogs, Complete Control
Rancid Tour Schedule
Rancid Concert Photo Gallery
In the documentary film Punk: Attitude, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders states that "punk" only lasted 100 days back in the 70s. If that in fact is the case, no one bothered to tell the band Rancid, currently ripping through a 100+ show cross country tour over the summer and fall, including a two-day gig at Austin's Emo's. That's a lot of days crammed into a tiny tour bus. Lotta bad food, hotels. That's pretty old school punk, if you ask me.
This show was in Emo's open air stage area, half of which is covered, but the open air didn't mean cool refreshing breeze, Austin's neverending heat wave roiling all. This was purely a punk show, by definition. There was no mosh pit. The whole audience was the pit. Loud, fast, long, this was a great old fashioned get in there grind 'em up and sweatfest.
Rancid played for more almost two hours, covering a number of songs from their catalog (they say they are picking from 150 songs each night and each set is different), including a number of acoustic songs towards the end of the set. I kept pushing into the crowd taking a few pictures, then getting slowly pushed back, then trying to work my way up again. Luckily everyone who saw me with my camera kind of helped out, but I always seemed to end up behind the same tall guy.
Unfortunately in all that slamming and crowd surfing I wasn't really able to keep track of the set list (I was too busy trying to duck the steel-toed boots), but Rancid seemed to play forever, stopping only to save a fan from being crushed and again later to gear up for the acoustic set. They wandered all over their music catalog, covering most of their charted songs as well as a number of crowd favorites. They did cover most of their songs from " ...And Out Come The Wolves." Tim and Lars were defintely the real energy focus coming from the stage, but Matt and Brett slogged away in the heat, not missing a beat.
This is a great band to see live if you want to go see a punk show in a small venue, but be prepared for the crowd. It's not often you get to see such a big name band playing small clubs. If you get a chance to see Rancid, this would be the tour to do it.
Unfortunately I didn't make it into the show in time to catch either opening act. Thanks to Bill at Emo's, Rancid's tour manager, and Rancid for hooking me up with the photo pass.
Saturday, July 15. 2006
As dry and gritty as a West Texas sandstorm, Ray Wylie Hubbard's latest release "Snake Farm" is a slice of texified outlaw blues rock best washed down with a cold Lone Star. Some Texas musicians have earned the right to be called legendary and this disc is a perfect example of why Ray Wylie Hubbard is on that list.
This release couldn't come out of L.A. or Nashville, it just doesn't fit into any of their genre labels and Ray's fusion of Texas country, rock, and blues show much of where Rick Rubin must have come up with the "distressed country" direction that he took with Johnny Cash's final releases. Never mind that I am already partial to the artist, having seen him during the "Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mothers" cosmic cowboy days at the Dillo in the 70s, never mind that the album is called "Snake Farm" and has snakes on the cover and you know I am goin' to be partial to that, this is one damn fine disc.
It starts with the title track "Snake Farm" about a guy and his relationship with a gal who works at the snake farm. Though the song is not specific to any particluar snake farm, Ray in fact got the idea and words for the song as he drove past the "infamous" snake farm in New Braunfels, Texas. Not sure if Ray knows of that particular institution's history as a "bawdy house" in the 60s, masquerading as a snake farm, but I digress. It's a great song that evokes the feelings most people have the first time they encounter one of these roadside attractions. I know I felt that way when we would see the signs for one up in Oklahoma on family vacations. We would always scream "EEEEWWWW" and then "Can we stop and see the snakes PLEASE!!!" Of course we never did. I finally saw a snake farm, the one in New Braunfels, but only after I became a herper and by then the reaction had changed from "EEEWWW" to "WOW."
Songs like "Killowatts," "Heartaches and Grease," and "The Way of The Fallen" are masterful and robust yet raw and unrefined. I absolutely love the song "Rabbit," its got a real "thwack" to it. Songs like these could only be penned by someone who has been to the very edge of the precipice and had a good hard look at what lies beyond.
Best Line: "Young pups ask me, what makes my kind, shameless women and pork rinds..." Ray is a true Texas poet laureate. I liked every song on the disc.
Friday, July 14. 2006
Yes the rumors ARE true, we DO have a new T-Shirt coming. This time it is a reptile & music T-Shirt!
How can you buy one of these awesome new T-Shirts? Answer - YOU CAN'T! We will only give them away as usual. The first chance anyone will have to get one will be when we hand out 1000 at the National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona Beach, Florida.
It is now Friday July 14th and it is time to play WTF Friday, the game where you tell us the first 10 songs that come up on your music player when you hit the Random or Shuffle button. At stake is a classic kingsnake.com T-shirt and a chance to win the monthly grand prize, a black 30Gb video iPod.
Our first iPod winner has received hers, maybe she has had time to fill it up so she can play again.
Here is my list...
1. Elvis Costello -Olivers Army
2. The Skunks - Cheap Girl
3. Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death
4. Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco
5. David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Crawling Kingsnake
6. Harry Connick Jr. - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
7. Leadbelly - Mama Did You Bring Me Any Silver? (Gallows Pole)
8. Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
9. The Stranglers - Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)
10. The Zico Chain - Rohypnol
Once again, we give away a kingsnake.com T-shirt to each of our weekly winners and the monthly winner gets a spankin new 30Gb video iPod! For the complete set of rules see http://club.kingsnake.com/index.php?/pages/wtfcontest.html
You MUST post your list TODAY, Friday, for it to qualify for the contest so POST AWAY!
Wednesday, July 12. 2006
No, this is not a companion event to Austin's infamous Spam-O-Rama potted meat cook-off, this is actually an event commemorating October 8th, 2006 as Randy "Biscuit" Turner day in Austin, Texas ( as officially proclaimed by Austin Mayor Will Wynne). As important in Austin's early punk scene as the late Clifford Antone was to Austin's blues scene, Biscuit could probably be considered the original poster child for the slogan "Keep Austin Weird."
My favorite memory of Biscuit was seeing him and the rest of the Big Boys, in drag, blasting though the soul track "Hollywood Swingin," with their amps set to 11 and a full horn section, at the old Duke's Royal Coach circa 1981.
The 2 day Biscuitfest event starts with a parade (they are looking for participants!) and ends up at Emo's with bands, films, and lots and lots of people from the old school punk days who used to haunt places like Raul's, Dukes, and Club Foot. I will be there with my camera trying to document as much as possible for the site, and I have heard there will be a number of special guests from the era. According to the Biscuitfest.org web site Exene Cervenka, Standing Waves, Hickoids, Pong, and Shooting Pains are all scheduled to perform with more bands to be announced.
I think Biscuit is up there giggling his ass off about the whole damned thing and wishing we wouldn't make such a fuss.
Saturday, July 8. 2006
Henry Rollins has something to get off his chest; lucky for us IFC has given Henry his own weekly show. With a sardonic wit that is as dry as it is cutting, Henry keeps us up to date with world events, politics, and entertainment, saying the things that Jon Stewart wishes he could get away with.
This week he has a no-holds-barred conversation with controversial musician Peaches, and has Ringside as his special musical guest. Upcoming shows include guests like club.kingsnake fav Slayer, and the New York Dolls. Un-cut and un-censored, Henry's show is definitely not for those who have an aversion to either profanity or truth. Hats off, Henry, for telling it like it is. You can catch the show on Saturday nights. For a look at the full show schedule and to download clips check out the web site at http://henryrollins.ifc.com/.
(BTW - Henry - help a bro out man, hook me up with your band intro girl ;) )
Friday, July 7. 2006
Ouch - I actually FORGOT it was friday (all week has felt like friday). I guess it is the holiday that has me all outta whack. Anyway it's time to play WTF Friday, the game where you can win fabulous prizes just by hitting the "shuffle" button on your music player and tell us the first 10 songs that come up.
Here is my list:
1. Surrender - Cheap Trick
2. Peaches - The Stranglers
3. Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
4. Never Been Any Reason - Head East
5. Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
6. Airbag - Radiohead
7. India - Psycadelic Furs
8. I'm waiting for the man - Velvet Underground
9. Shiver - Cold Play
10. Voices - Disturbed
Once again, we give away a kingsnake.com T-shirt to each of our weekly winners and the monthly winner gets a spankin new 30Gb video iPod! For the complete set of rules see http://club.kingsnake.com/index.php?/pages/wtfcontest.html
You MUST post your list TODAY, Friday, for it to qualify for the contest so POST AWAY!
Monday, July 3. 2006
Congrats go out to Kim in Scarborough who won our first 30Gb video iPod.
Her response "Wow, I'm not even sure I believe it. uhm, thanks! "
Kim you BETTER believe cause sometime in the next 10 days your postman is gonna pod you up courtesy of club kingsnake. June's T-shirt winners were Dawn from Mishawaka and Tim from Belfair.
Our contests will get bigger and better as we go along so everyone stay tuned. The next time you can enter the iPod contest is this Friday. For the complete set of rules for our iPod contest click here.
Saturday, July 1. 2006
Hot on the heels of the announcement of the Back Room's closing, Austin's Redrum picks up the (spiked) ball and runs with it, hosting the Extreme Texas Metal Fest III this weekend. With twenty-three metal bands over three days, the black leather and spikes were out in force to show that Austin still has a sharper edge. We will have pics from this show up in the gallery on Monday. For more information on Extreme Texas Metalfest III click here.
Friday, June 30. 2006
Time to post your playlists!
Quit playing with your pod and do something with it.
Last weeks number of participants was astoundingly low, with entrys having a 33% chance of winning something. Lets see if we can boost those numbers this week. Congrats to our first shirt winner Dawn Flury!
Today is once again WTF Friday where YOU tell US WTF is on your IPod or other music player. Hit the Random or Shuffle button and jot down the first 10 songs that come up. A random sampling of my music player today comes up with the following:
1. "Its Raining Men" - The Weathergirls
2. "Angel of Death" - Slayer
3. "Snake Farm" - Ray Wylie Hubbard
4. "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" - Willie Nelson
5. "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" - Butthole Surfers
6. "Can't Find My Way Home" - Blind Faith
7. "Heart Attack Man" - Beastie Boys
8. "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall" - Bob Dylan
9. "Head First" - The Babys
10. "Mirror in the Bathroom" - English Beat
So... I showed you mine
WTF is on yours? Tell us and you MIGHT win a prize. Maybe even a 30GB video iPod!
Click Here for the complete contest rules and prize announcement! You MUST post your list TODAY, Friday, for it to qualify for the contest so POST AWAY!
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