This weekend, we’re off on tour for 2 weeks with New York doom merchants BATILLUS. We’re beyond stoked. Check out the dates and please consider coming out to one (or more) of these shows. We promise you will have a time.

Sat 9/18 NYC – Cake Shop w/Riff Cannon (early show, doors 5pm)
Sun 9/19 Boston, MA – Great Scott w/Disappearer, Riff Cannon
Mon 9/20 Providence, RI – AS220 w/Tongue Dynasty, Witch King
Tue 9/21 Baltimore, MD – Hexagon w/Oak, Salome, Akris
Wed 9/22 Pittsburgh, PA – Garfield Artworks w/Drought, Ancient Shores
Thu 9/23 Knoxville, TN – The Pilot Light w/New Brutalism
Fri 9/24 Atlanta, GA – Eyedrum – Forward to the Apocalypse Fest (w/Thou, Man Will Destroy Himself, more)
Sat 9/25 New Orleans, LA – Koenji House (2608 Magazine @ 3rd) w/Thou
Sun 9/26 Baton Rouge, LA – Rachel Haus w/Thou
Mon 9/27 Birmingham, AL – Magic City Wholesale w/Black Hole Kids
Tue 9/28 Raleigh, NC – DIVEbar Raleigh w/Machete! (free!)
Wed 9/29 Chapel Hill, NC – The Reservoir w/Machete! (free!)
Thu 9/30 Richmond, VA – Strange Matter w/Lord By Fire
Fri 10/1 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie w/Fight Amp, Ladder Devils (7:30 pm)
Sat 10/2 Brooklyn, NY – The Acheron w/Liturgy

We’ll have copies of the represses of both Turk Street and Gambling, as well as copies of the new Lose/Lose/Lose split. There may also be some tour-only stuff, like shirts and cassettes.

Hope to see you.

A month or two ago, we recorded two new songs for a 3-way split with FIGHT AMP and LADDER DEVILS. The split is called Lose Lose Lose, and it’s coming out next month on Brutal Panda. 12″ vinyl, beautiful package, 300 copies. Rad!

Here’s the track list. Rather that just putting each band’s songs together, we tried to sequence the songs in an order that works like an album.

1. The Busker (Kowloon Walled City)
2. Get OK (Ladder Devils)
3. Thankless (Fight Amp)
4. Leavers (Ladder Devils)
5. Old Soul (Fight Amp)
6. The Commuter (Kowloon Walled City)

[Sep 8 2010] Buy it from Brutal Panda, and/or download it for free.

This fall, we’ll do two weeks on the east coast with our friends Batillus, and a lot of great bands along the way. We are very stoked about this.

Tour dates are over here.

What really happens at KWC practice:

• “Best of Michael Schenker” download party
• Watch Youtube videos of dudes filming themselves in their garages playing Billy Squier “Lonely is the Night”
• Evans keeps talking about “Moody Blues harmonies” and “men singing together”
• King Crimson: are the remasters any better?
• Repeated Captain Beyond listening
• Those six amazing old Charlie Daniels songs

Which leads us to SNAILFACE TWO. Thrown together in a week or two, these ten songs explore some dozen yeti myths. Mind-blowing mix work by Grammy Greg Thompson. Narration by Victor Miller. Mellotron by a free plugin.

Just like last time, this is not to be mistaken for a KWC record.

Go. Trudge across the great glaciers.

Good year.

We played some great shows. Here’s Annandale in a basement in Oakland. Here’s Sleep Debt at the DNA, opening for Kylesa. Here’s our friends Madraso, killing it at our record release show. Here’s an idiotic but accurate video documenting the one bit of touring we got to do this year.

We recorded and released a record. HAVE YOU BOUGHT A COPY.

The record got some good reviews. 9/10 at Lambgoat, 8/10 at Decibel, etc.

The record also made some “Top XX of 2009″ lists. Here’s one, here’s another.

Snailface.

Good year.

We’ll try and do the thing again this year.

Heading off today to play a few dates out of town. Tonight – Chico CA. Friday – Eugene OR. Saturday – Portland OR.

If you live near these places, come see us and we can play Pass The Pigs and talk about Billy Squier.

YES! Our new record, Gambling on the Richter Scale, is available today.

You can buy it at the Perpetual Motion Machine Store. The LP with included CD is only $11.

You can also download the entire record for free.

We owe big thank yous to Paul from PMM for putting out this record, to Greg Thompson for mastering, and to Bradee Evans for graphic design. Thanks, guys. Next time we’ll totally pay you. Not you, Paul.

Spent a bunch of time this weekend silkscreening 500 CD sleeves, to be inserted in the vinyl package. We did the first color with the regular silkscreen rig, added type with a Gocco printer, then glued everything together. The results are pretty great.