A couple or so years ago singer/guitarist Scott Evans of Kowloon Walled City passed along to me the bands debut EP Turk Street and looking back on it he must have had an idea as to whom he was sending it to because it was very much within my tastes. Unsurprisingly the music stuck with me and I've sporadically kept tabs (or really the powers of social networking sites have) on them since. I was pleased to learn that their new album Gambling on the Richter [...]
Since the Kentucky Grilled Chicken fiasco, we've all developed a deep-seated mistrust of things purported to be free. Yet San Franciscan noise rockers Kowloon Walled City want to re-instill that sense of HOPE everyone felt this time last year when Barack Obama ran for President against a grumpy old man and Tina Fey's retarded [...]
And you thought Outside Lands Festival was a shitshow for people that live in San Francisco. Wait until all the crazies and hippies descend on Golden Gate Park this weekend (October 2nd - 4th) for what may quite possibly be one of the best free concert festivals in the country. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is exactly how the title suggests, the bluegrass but in the mix you'll find Nick Lowe, MC Hammer, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Tom Morello, Steve Martin (Yes, THAT Steve Martin), Okkervil River, Old 97's, Emmylou Harris, Robyn Hitchcock, Billy Bragg, [...]
When a band names its debut full-length Gambling On The Richter Scale, you pretty much expect it to be heavy as fuck. If San Francisco's own Kowloon Walled City's two new tracks (now streaming here) from said forthcoming record are any indication, you'd be goddamn right. "Clockwork" lurches with sludgy riffage and disgruntled white guy [...]
I'm very pleased to share with y'all the exciting news that San Francisco's bad-ass motherfuckers Kowloon Walled City will release its new album with Perpetual Motion Machine, home to other rad acts such as The Catalyst. Boasting a sound that gives noise rock royalty like Unsane a run for its money, the sludgetastic band [...]
I've been to San Francisco once, and as a born-and-raised New Yorker I was kinda surprised that I sorta liked the place - in a totally heterosexual Jesse-from-Full-House-way. At one point during this trip, my gracious hosts intentionally drove me through the Tenderloin, a notorious neighborhood home to roughly 300% of the city's vice [...]
"Freshly Baked" is a new feature on crustcake (but by no means a very creative one!) in which we'll be focusing on promising young bands that haven't received much attention yet. Kowloon Walled City , who hail from the Bay Area, are a young band. Their first show was a mere two months ago and they have less than 100 friends on MySpace . These guys aren't amateurs, though, and one listen to their Turk City EP will validate that. Their sound is a potent mixture of [...]
Yeah! I have not been this excited by a demo in a long, long time. For an extremely young band (their first show was in November), Kowloon Walled City are absolutely killing it (if you don't know what the band is named after, one of the Earth's most unique places ever, rectify that here ). The members themselves are music veterans, having done time in bands such as Redemption 87, Lord God Bird, L'og, Boy Found Floating, and others. Turk, Taylor, and Jones My Hands Are Turning to [...]
I received this fine little 3 song EP called Turk Street from San Francisco's Kowloon Walled City a few days ago in my e-mail and I've been listening to it off and on for the past few days on the computer. It was mentioned in the e-mail that Kowloon Walled City is intended to be no-frills, undecorated, and heavy. If that is indeed the intention then I believe that they've definitely achieved that, in my opinion. Kowloon Walled City is pretty much everything that I [...]
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