Rich Good, Andi Good, David Torch, Jonathan Hischke, Art Echternacht, Ryan Donnelly (Contributors: Noah Georgeson, Neal Morgan, Peter Newsom, Lee Bob Watson, Todd Roper, Dana Gumbiner)
Influences
Peter Green, Life without Buildings, Nick Drake, Can, Sour Patch, and Roxy Music and Neil Young and on as usual.
Kings & Queens is a four-piece project from Nevada City, California. The Sierra Nevada forest and the hot skies of the Mojave yielded a new song book for singer, guitarist and closet Englishman Rich Good, after the demise of his first California band "the Pleased" (with Noah Georgeson and Joanna Newsom). The music trips down the mountains to the scrubby desert, landscape affecting sound. Kings & Queens is darkly psychedelic dream-pop (sparkling with tints of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, Neu!, Roxy Music and Nick Drake); a layer cake of delayed guitars and analog organs twist and grind while harmony vocals float above a relentless rhythm section. These songs will see you warmed and alarmed. It gets under your skin.
The current Kings & Queens lineup consists of Rich and Andrea Good, David Torch, and Art Echternacht.
Story so far: In 2006 the first Kings & Queens EP was self-released closely followed by the LP 'The Dream Ends in Fury'. The band also contributed a live track to the Grass Roots Record Co. 'Family Album'. 2007 yielded another set of songs that formed the second EP including the epic 'Celebrate' and 'Like a Warning' that were quickly snapped up by RCRD_LBL, and the fuzzy dance of 'Olbers' Paradox' which found its way on into a british art experiment. In 2008 their sounds featured on A&E television and some BMX stuff and work began on a new set of songs that are currently being recorded at Orderly Manor. Spring 2009 will bring this full-length record to light. See some more recent songs here.
And how about a short video with exclusive soundtrack by clicking this.
It was great seeing you with The Psychedelic Furs at The House of Blues in Atlantic City, NJ last week and getting the chance to meet you and talk with you for a while. My son, Jesse and Greg our friend and bass player were blown away by the great show that you guys put on. I am also glad that you told us about THIS band of yours too! I really like what I am listening to here!! Great stuff and right up my alley. It is a shame that THIS band couldn't open for the Furs in the fall and you could get TWO pay checks! ;-) We are really looking forward to seeing you again in the Fall. Also, thanks for being so friendly with my son. Guitar is his life and I try to get him out to see as many great musicians as I can and it is always great when he gets to meet players as good as you and as nice as you were too!
A special DVD set of the February shows is now available to pre-order at the wire-sound shop
This strictly limited edition 2 disc, region free, PAL format DVD set will be shipped in June.
The ‘Real Life + Thereafter’ DVD contains the entire concert filmed at Manchester Academy …
PLUS … Extra features include ‘Feed The Enemy’ filmed at the rehearsals, an alternate take of ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’ and exclusive images from the period …
PLUS … On the second CD disc, you get an audio recording straight from the desk of 11 songs from the show at The Forum, London …
PLUS … In the package, you get a free tour T-Shirt in any size you like ranging from Super Small to Mighty XL and all stops in between.
well that's lovely to hear. it is nice to meet you as well. i found your music off my friend adrienne's page and think it's wonderful. have fun in the studio. goodnight!
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