fayetteville, staten island and portland. someone said this about us on our blog:
::://////::: "ok, that album is basically the soundtrack to my happiness. I love every single song on it and I can't stop listening to it never oh never ever ever amen.
I got to see them play live and the lead singer is this tiny sprite of a man and he just SHREDS on his guitar and spazzes around the stage in his beat-up NBs and the drummer will change your life because she makes beats that didn't know they were so hot til she made them and the bass player is like "hey guys, I'm just a big teddy bear and you'll love me 'cause I drop the bass like a hot potato."
what I'm saying is that I love kickball. and that's all."
this is what we look like::
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=10501986
Influences
baguettes, francois, charles, amelie, swimming, cheese, stoempf, settlers of catan, yellow van, jullian dupont, camille, roundabouts.
last week in the willamette weekly:
Kickball, Starfucker, Ghosties, Forty Hundy Thundy, Southern Belle
@ The Modern Age at Portland State University [PURE ENERGY] What more is there to say about Kickball? They’re pretty much the best band in the world, and we still get to see them in basements.
from the portland mercury::Kickball are like an old friend you don't see enough. Once you finally do catch up, you say to yourself, "Damn, we've got to do this more often." And you should, because the three of them just nail it. They're a spring of good vibes that put on consistently tight, danceable, and cathartic shows. And they do it in a humble, accessible, and almost effortless way. There's a connection Kickball makes with the audience that most bands only dream of. It's like you really know them and they really care how you feel. Part of that's because they came up in the touchy-feely Olympia scene, but unlike many of their hushed, wispy, and sloppy cohorts, Kickball shows aren't a sit-on-your-hands affair—they're all about getting loose, honest, and free. Best of all, just like hanging out with a couple of good friends, seeing them tonight won't cost you a dime. ANDREW R. TONRY
everythingisamiraclenothiingisamiracleeverythingis REVIEW in the Stranger:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=237814
two reviews from the portland willamette week:::
Kickball, Clara Clara, Gal and Lad
Valentine's | 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600
[THE BEST KIDS] A Kickball show would be a party even if the audience never showed up to see it. The trio creates its own energy with frantic, schizophrenic disco beats that drive adventurous basslines and start-stop buzzsaw guitar?the whole mess of which can juggernaut from sexy, bleeding-heart dance funk into soaring, ecstatic Arcade Fire-style choruses before your oft-shaking ass can tell the difference. Those who have seen them will agree: One of the Northwest’s best bands is still playing some of its smallest venues. I have mixed feelings about this. CASEY JARMAN. Valentine’s. 8 pm. $3-$5. All ages.
Kickball, Typhoon, The Good Good
Food Hole | 20 NW 3rd Ave.
[AWKWARD LOVEMAKING MUSIC] No two Kickball shows are the same, but whether the group is in a sparkling new club, a dive bar or a dingy basement, the Olympia trio always seems to embrace and exploit the inherent awkwardness of each performance. In a small venue, Kickball sets up in front of the stage and makes it seem even smaller. Band members turn their backs on the crowd and carry on unintelligible conversations between songs. Singer-guitarist Jacob Wilson treats shows like disastrous first dates, his Robert Smith-meets-Will Oldham voice fluttering to each corner of the room in search of a window, his lips seldom touching the microphone. Somewhere during the band's set, each eccentricity becomes endearing as Kickball counters its introverted awkwardness with the kind of warmth and intragroup chemistry veteran jazz groups long for. First Kickball makes you blush; then it makes you wish more bands could be this good and, moreover, this free to be itself. CASEY JARMAN. Food Hole. 9 pm. $5. All ages.
Someone wrote nice things about our concept of time here: http://www.fensepost.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=675&Itemid=210
NEW RELEASE:::
"everything is a miracle nothing is a miracle everything is"
NOW AVAILABLE ON 10 inch WHITE VINYL!!
((on High Fives and Handshakes Records))
The Vinyl has the same tracks as the Cd.
ALSO AVAILABLE:: [[the self-titled - an ancient pop EP]] [[huckleberry eater:: gentle sounding for singing along]] [[ABCDEFGHIJKickball:: the louder dinosaur]]
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everything is a miracle nothing is a miracle everything is (2007) $10 - VINYL
everything is a miracle nothing is a miracle everything is (2007) $10 - cd
Hey Kickball,perhaps you are thinking.......I wish a band would cultivate a new sound like mystical fantasy grunge wave and put on a killer show with giant puppets that dirty dance like wild wizards doing sex battle with herds of unicorns juiced up on teenage sugar wolf pills? Well it's here my friends. Finally this is the show for you!
holy hot shit, lisa. this is david from el trade-upo. i just witnessed your performance on your "sounds like" section, and i must say, shazaam! it blew my used second hand socks out of the second hand water.
kickball HI i like your name. i like your band. i miss you bad. i'm in copenhaguen and tomorrow i'm playing with Jeff. i think we should do that in Olympiiiiiiia too in september what do you say ? xoxo
abcdefghijkickball (2006)- $10 cd 
