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

Pre-Order E FOR EVERYONE Now! Descrptions Of 3 songs! Special EMERALD CITY COMIC CON Special Guest Performer Announcement!

Bonjour Krackleheads! Today over at www.kirbykracklemusic.com we now have E FOR EVERYONE available for pre-order for our March 9th release. If you pre-order now for $10 you'll be able to be one of the first to receive E4E the beginning of that week! Pass the word...

As we stated last week, we wanted to start unveiling the songs subject matter on the album today and let fans know what we concocted on this second helping of nerd rock. Obviously, you need to make sure that an album being described as full of comic book/video game homages isn't filled with laments of easy-bake oven malfunctions and Midget lust right? Sorry, dwarves. Here's the first course...


VAULT 101

We're obsessed with the game FALLOUT 3. It's obsessed with us. How do we know? Well it seemed for days, and weeks, and months in a row whenever we had down time after traveling to conventions and writing/recording it called to us like the ring of Sauron. Most of the time it made us turn the lights down low, the volume up high, and open a Victory Brewing Company "Storm King Stout" to devour while blasting mutants with our mighty shotgun. Yep, that game tastes like that beer till the day we die. Anyone relate? It was a no-brainer that we needed to write a song professing our love for the hours of enjoyment the game has given us and we did just that. In fact, it was the first song written of the new batch and we love it. The chorus speaks of "In a world gone mad I gotta believe, I gotta believe it's getting better" relating to the experience of leaving the safety of Vault 101 in the game, and also relating to how we choos,e to deal with stress in this life. Hope and belief reign above all in the human spirit and for a game and song whose lyrics have Raiders, an atom bomb, and a hard working Pip-Boy scattered throughout, we find it's no exception.

"Vault 101! Vault 101! I've seen the lights, I've seen the lights of Megaton"...


ON AND ON

Our song about and from the perspective of an overworked, overly committed Wolverine. (See last week's post for description).


SECRET IDENTITY

Ok, hands raised for who DOESN'T want to be a super hero?! Yeah we thought so, and guy in the back with the hand up put it down cause the Old Spice ain't working. Now that that's done, SECRET IDENTITY is a weezer-esque light-hearted but heavy in spirit declaration from a guy who's more than any of us working for the weekend. Why? Well, when he's done buying tile at Target and after tucking his kids into bed he's a vigilante jumping rooftops and trying not to die in the process. Inspired by The Incredibles, Millar's "Kick Ass", and our own overwhelming urge to roam the streets delivering the KK brand of justice; SECRET IDENTITY hopes to speak to the inner crime fighter in all of us. Worth getting shot and the embarrassment of having your friends bail you out in a bright yellow costume? TOTALLY.

"Secret Identity, and nobody knows but me...patrolling the city streets...my ears to the ground..."



ROLL OVER

Started and mapped out to the surrounding passengers dismay on a the tarmac leaving Fan Expo in Toronto last year, ROLL OVER is the sister song to last year's "Marvelous Girls". First we gotta back up a bit...
A few years ago, there was a period of about six months where many of the big rap hits on the charts had something to do with a nursery rhyme as the hook in the chorus (A la Jay-Z's "Hardknock Life"). During this time of public domain inspired catchy hookery, Kyle swore up and down that someone soon would do a song using the childrens song "Roll Over" and instead of the lyric being "10 in the bed and the little one said "Roll Over! Roll Over!"...", it would be "10 in the bed and the Asian one said..." or "10 in the bed and they white girl said...", and etc. The play on the famous nursery rhyme seemed an obvious declaration of a rap artist's always important to describe sexual-prowess and he was shocked when no one snatched the idea up that seemed to hang so freely in the ether. Fast forward to last summer 2009 when we started writing E4E and the idea came up again only this time we instead of "white girls/asian girls" we were inspired to write about "Fraggle girls/Thudercat girls/Amazon girls". Also, no pressure was felt of convincing others of our sexual prowess, mostly cause we're horrible. Not impressive. Basically, the Cuckoo girls gave us six-thumbs down.
The song layered with 808's and Dr. Dre-esque production hopes to leave you with the feeling that you've just spent the night with 10 cartoon girls at the bar at the end of the world. The song also marks the first time we've ever had a rap artist spit 12-bars on tape for us before. We turned to GMK THE GREAT our boy L.A. who was kind enough to take time out of his schedule and let us fly him up to lay down one of the sickest odes to cartoon girls we've ever heard. Yes, we've memorized the rap. No, you don't want to hear us do it...

"Final call came, there were shots all around with the Gummi Bear juice and the Getafix potion...feeling all right we broke into the night, Dagger had an in on transportation..."


Next week we'll have the next 3 songs off of E FOR EVERYONE ready for you, but before we go we have a special announcement we'd like to share...


On Sunday March 14th at 2:00pm, we'll be performing at EMERALD CITY COMIC con for the E For Everyone official CD Release show. Today, we're very happy to announce that as a special guest at ECCC this year, Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief and friend Joe Quesada will be joining KK on stage LIVE on guitar blasting through songs with us from our new and previous album! We're psyched, he's psyched, and we're excited to see what happens when the worlds of Marvel and nerd-rock meet in a swirling mess of distortion and 3-part harmonies. It will be epic to say the least...see you there!


KK