ECCC Wrap-Up!

THANK YOU Seattle for the amazing, wonderful, loving response we received from all of you at this years ECCC! It was special for us not only because of the heartfelt response, but also because it was the 1st of our 10 conventions this year in support of our new album, E FOR EVERYONE!





We had so fun meeting the fans new and old, and hearing the excitement grow as the early listeners to our disc gave us some feedback on what they liked and wanted to hear more of. All accounted for and taken into consideration for song ideas so thanks for the free material yo! ;D





Besides the good face time with local Krackleheads, we had the amazing opportunity to play with friend and MARVEL Comics E-I-C Joe Quesada on stage for the first time. He even had special MARVEL embodied guitar picks made up for the performance and for a kids who grew up playing guitar in-between issues of "What If?!", we're still trying to wrap our brains around the coolness of that...

An accomplished musician and performer in his own right, Joe joined us for "One Of The Guys", "Secret Identity", "On And On", and "Tony Stark" to the delight of the crowd and for what Joe deemed on stage "The First KK / MARVEL Team-Up".

Issue #1?! We'll take it!




Enjoy the video, photos, and catch us on our next stop in San Francisco at WONDERCON as the KK train keeps going!


Peace, Love, Rock, Comics!


KK

E FOR EVERYONE Out Today!

E FOR EVERYONE is out today! You can listen to the ENTIRE album now via our site and pick it up while you're there to have it shipped to you right away via KK HQ! Prefer to purchase E4E digitally? Head over to DIGSTATION and CD BABY!





We'll let you know when the album is processed and up at iTunes/Amazon and expect that in a few weeks...

THANK YOU again to all the Krackleheads, creators, family, and friends who supported us through the recording of E4E. It took many more folks that just us to make it happen and with any artist, it's important to recognize that!

This week we're gearing up for EMERALD CITY COMIC CON and our CD Release show featuring MARVEL Comics Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada as he rocks the stage with us!

Without further ado, let's review the final 4 songs off of E4E!



DUSTY CARTRIDGES & LONG BOXES

We wanted to write a song about a perfect night with that perfect someone, and maybe what might seem to be a perfect night to some of you as well. The delicately stripped down acoustic finger picked songs is the more basic track on E4E and something that might not be out of place on a John Denver album...if he wrote songs about making X-Babies. Aw yeah! A nerd fantasy (ours anyway) rolling right 2 minutes and 46 seconds of spending some sexy times bagging and boarding comics with your certain someone...

"There's not better place to be when you bag and board my comics you're always careful with the crease...CGC says 9.3 but you're a 10 to me..."



GOING HOME


"Going Home" is a song we were commissioned to do for the LONG BEACH COMIC CON back in October. We were asked to write something that we felt summarized the convention experience and what better way to gain a storyline than to take it from the 7 conventions we had already experienced throughout the year! That is, minus the whole waking up in the hotel room "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" style. Those aren't pillows!!!!!!

"We're Going Home! We're Going Home! To the place where wild nerds roam! With pretty girls and dudes in capes! Going to cons is our escape..."




GREAT LAKES AVENGERS


We had room for 2 more songs on E4E when we went to a Pearl Jam concert last October in Seattle and after soaking in the concert, we KNEW we wanted to bring the rock to round out the album. Sometimes you have inspiration strike you in the way you least expect it, but after that show we in no way wanted to perform concerts this year with out playing hard...and fast. This is the most manic sounding song on the album and good reason since it's from the perspective of a hero auditioning/getting rejected from every major team of heroes out there again and again. Despite the failed attempts to join the Green Lantern Corps, JLA, X-Men, etc...the hero in question is repeatedly approached by the GREAT LAKES AVENGERS; the most useless band of heroes ever assembled under the sun. Sometimes though, heart goes a long way...and free beer always helps too.

"I got a message from the GREAT LAKES AVENGERS, they offered me a membership but I did not accept cause they're a walking disaster...like a narwhal with a fireball they don't make sense at all..."


CAN I WATCH YOU?

Aw, the song that when we wrote it was debated over drool induced laughing on the floor and pounding on the side of the wall so the dog got freaked out.
We've come to realize that for better or for worse, there are some things that once thought of need to be created and fully realized. Are all these things appropriate to bring into this world? Not at all, and most we come up with actually should be repressed...like "Can I Watch You?"; a song that is from the perspective of MARVEL Comics character "The Watcher" the all knowing, all-seeing Celestial. But hey, just because you're 3 stories high with a big baby head and a wear a toga don't mean that you can't gets yours, right? RIGHT!? If Uatu is gonna sing a song to his boo, why shouldn't it be in the form of a 70's love jam over sexy ass guitar and a slutty solo? Slutty indeed. Oh Watcher, you crazy baby...you crazy.

"I never instigate, IKOR didn't raise no fool. You say I instigate, you think it's hot...Celestial bad boy from the blue side of the moon, you like the things I do, things I say I never do...but I still do...so call me UATU!"






That's a wrap, and the most damage we could do on disc #2! We hope you like our second offering and now is when the fun for us all starts! Shows! Concerts! Conventions! Con Sars and shaking hands with people that just sneezed on our cd players!

WE CAN'T WAIT. :)


True,

Kyle and Jim

KK

New Song "Take It From Me (Mega Man Song)" Now Streaming! Descriptions of 3 New Songs.

Check yourself Krackleheads! Why?! Cause this week we bring you another new song streaming now from E FOR EVERYONE! We're a band that writes about and from the perspective of comic book charaters/nerd culture. So keeping with the balance of the world in that the last song we debuted was about a comic book character, this week we show our love for fellow video game nerds with our song about MEGA MAN..."Take It From Me". As promised we'll also unveil a few more song descriptions from E4E so read on!







TAKE IT FROM ME

There are video games you grew up on, and then there are video games you were RAISED by. For us, that was the 8-bit parent we and 1.5 million other kids who loved it called MEGA MAN 2. For a long time we wanted to write a song about Mega Man but didn't know how we were gonna do it until we wrote the opening riff and had our Eureka moment. See, if we were born in the year 20XX and Dr. Light sent us across 8 levels to kick ass, this is kinda song we would hope to have running though our headphones hooked up to our blaster arm. Just sayin. With shredding solos provided by good friend Patrick Porter, we wanted to create an-in-your-face song worthy and confident of kicking robot ass...not matter what those bastards were made of...

"Born on a table in 20XX, open my eyes and I disconnect...look down to see the future glowing in my hand, an artificial man..."




RING CAPACITY

In July of last year, we released "Ring Capacity" as a way to reach new fans by offering the single as an email-list only exclusive. After the fan response and coverage we received from the track we knew it was a no-brainer to put it on E4E not only because of that, but we just love playing it! The song chronicles a moment in time from the perspective of Green Lantern Hal Jordan after he is attacked in space by Sinestro. The chorus was written by Kyle on a trip to Mexico after he obsessively delved into many GL back issues while trying to be eaten by scorpions (not the band).
When he returned we both sat down and RC came together in 20 minutes. Crazy. Wish it could always be that easy. Hint? ITS NOT.

"I'm flying through the cold of space, it seems I've yet to find my place...I'm guarding 2814, I don't know why it's chosen me..."




HENCHMAN

If you were a professional Henchman, would you have to go interview for a job with the super-villain you were "henching" for? Damn straight you would, and in this song we think we got a pretty accurate portrayal of how that might go. The narrator of "Henchman" is your everyday goon; a guy who is getting older and knows that his skill set though maybe limited to the rest of the world, is pretty bad ass. Fired lasers from a sub? CHECK. Spent a month up on the moon? DONE. In the henching world, your resume is all you have so you can be sure during the course of this song he sells himself to his potential future employer while at the same time letting it me known what his needs are including covered parking and 401K. Even when you're a little bit nuts and work on death ray machines, it's important to know that your family will be able to eat next week. This henchman has his priorities straight, even if his head is a little backwards...

"I'm curious what you pay and I could start today, have faith in what's inside like Cringer turning into Battle Cat...So here I am again and with this leaky pen I summarize my skill set, realize my path in life is set...I'll always be a henchman..."



There you go! That's 3 more track descriptions before next Tuesday's release of E FOR EVERYONE and where we'll debut the names of the final 4 tracks! Remember, you can pre-order E4E now over at www.kirbykracklemusic.com NOW to have it shipped to you to be the first to receive when the album drops March 9th. We hope you're having as much fun hearing about the new songs as we are spilling the beans and sharing what we've been working on for the last six months. Can't wait for EMERALD CITY COMIC CON, and the convention season ahead. Album release next week...WOOT!


Be well all!

Love,

Kyle and Jim

KK



TAKE IT FROM ME
(Mega Man Song)

Born on a table in Two Thousand Double X
Open my eyes and I disconnect
Look down to see the future glowing in my hand
An artificial man

Doc says lets charge you up and get you on your way
Battles ahead no sense to slow this race
Time's running out now I'm an agent of the Light
It's time to start this fight
No man of air will burst my cloud
No man of heat will melt me now
No man of wood will chop me down

And through these obstacles I'll blast
Take it from me, take it from me
I'll be the one to last
Through the final stage
Take it from me, take it from me

Grind my way through and I've created quite a scene
A mix of melted gears and kerosene
I only look ahead to see the final boss
And never weigh the cost
No man of speed will slow me down
No mortar blast can take me out
No water man can make me drown

And through these obstacles I'll blast
Take it from me, take it from me
I'll be the one to last
Through the final stage
Take it from me, take it from me

And when the music's through fading
It won't be too long
Fill my energy tank cuz I gotta stay strong
Through these obstacles I'll blast
Take it from me, take it from me
It's time to start this fight
No man of air will burst my cloud
No man of heat will melt me now
No man of wood will chop me down

And through these obstacles I'll blast
Take it from me, take it from me
I'll be the one to last
Through the final stage
Take it from me, take it from me

And when the music's through fading
It won't be too long
Fill my energy tank cuz I gotta stay strong
And through these obstacles I'll blast
Take it from me, take it from me