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The NEW KINGS
Rock / Punk / Ska

"YOU are the New Kings"

Toronto, Ontario
Canada

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Last Login:  7/26/2008
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   The NEW KINGS: General Info
Member Since1/3/2006
Band Websitecdbaby.com/cd/newkings
Band MembersMichael Louis Johnson - vox/trumpet, other members have been: Jud Ruhl - guitar, Lenny Miller - drums, Darcy Yates - bass, Tara-Lynn White - bass, Andrew Innanen - drums, Derek Downham - drums,, Dean Drouillard - guitar, Tarik Zaky - guitar, Jake Ulrichs - drums, Mike Overton - bass, Ben Huband - bass -- plus many collaborations with Richard Underhill and the Kensington Horns, Ainike & Sambe Elegua
InfluencesACDC, The Clash, Bad Brains, Toots & the Maytals, Stooges, Dead Kennedys, MC5, Bad Religion (Suffer), Tom Waits, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Zeppelin and Sabbath
Sounds LikeLiberation Rock--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...(Michael Louis Johnson) has funneled his earnest commitment to humanist, anti-capitalist rabblerousing into a charged, confrontational mix of Strummer-ish outrage and galvanizing, jazz-warped rhythms...." Ben Rayner, Toronto Star, Sept. 22, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...the New Kings' Take Back the Streets makes scathing indictments against everything from corporations to bad "police-state propaganda" TV shows. Nothing light 'n' frothy here, to say the least." Chris Rolfe, Eye Magazine, Mar. 31, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My first face-to-face encounter with New Kings mastermind Michael Johnson happened when he was dancing atop an über-gross Hummer obnoxiously parked outside the El Mo.... a goofy political performance that took big cojones and makes the title of the Kings' new disc seem particularly apt." Sarah Liss, Now Magazine, Mar. 31, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Take Back The Streets!" is real music. It has teeth, a reason to exist, a sense of humour and is quite simply great rock'n'roll. Michael Proudfoot - TV producer
Record Labelany suggestions welcome
Type of LabelNone




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Michael J solo show at Tranzac Feb 6. plus new slide show History of the New Kings  (view more)

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   About The NEW KINGS
---------------- We are the New Kings, you and I, each and every one of us. We have the right to work, and the right to buy whatever we want, whenever we want it. But pursuing our own happiness is not the only right of royalty. True nobility comes with obligation. The future of the Kingdom is in our hands. With every choice we make, we must consider not only what’s best for ourselves; but what is best for our community, our country, our world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New Kings is a Rock ..n’ Roll band formed in 2002 by front-man Michael Louis Johnson. After spending most of the nineties as Swing-Punk side-man to Big Rude Jake, Michael J took up the reigns of cultural revolution and brought it to a new level. Ever the protest singer, the music draws from old-school punk and ska, while still being schooled in the lessons of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. As Tim Armstrong of Rancid commented, “It’s punk rock, but you’ve got the smarts to back up your ranting.” (or something to that effect, it was late, there was booze) The band worked its way up through the clubs of Toronto in ..03 and ..04, and made a successful cross-Canada tour in 2006. They released a five-song EP – STREET FIGHTER in 2004, a full-length – TAKE BACK THE STREETS in 2005, and recorded a live record 16.05.06 that has only been sold off the stage. The live show is very energetic; hard-driving music propells Johnson about the stage, taunting and tormenting the audience like an angry dog. As one fan put it, “… it's like watching Johnson walk uphill in a lightning storm with a golf club over his shoulder. Someday it'll end with two husky guys in uniforms carting him away.” The band could nail you with a barrage of three-minute punk songs, then go into an instrumental dub jam. Corporate Child is a walking-talking blues number that was never the same twice, Johnson improvising a story from his family history while the band simmered away, only to explode in the chorus, “I was raised by a corporation”. The New Kings are mostly known for it’s radical reclamation of public space: playing concerts in road-construction closures, and vacant lots, parking-meter parties and of course leading the “everyone is in the band” jams at the car-free PS Kensington street festivals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEW KINGS: Take Back the Streets!
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soul Shaker by the New Kings, opening for RANCID at the Kool Haus Dec.10, 2006 Let's Make a Deal by the New Kings with the ReEvolution Day Arkestra at PS Kensington, July 2005 video by Michael Proudfoot


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Izzie





Jul 15 2008 9:52 AM


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Jul 12 2008 1:41 AM

Izzie





Jul 7 2008 11:17 AM

greetings comrade!
where's the show on sunday?
peace
iz
tHe_UpRiSe!(RaDiO!)!





Jul 6 2008 6:53 PM

hey whats up, i just put up last weeks show. its on my page. check it out tell what you think.
www. myspace. com/the_uprise i played "hollywood north". it should play automatically.


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with: john kedini a.k.a johnny uprise
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Jul 4 2008 7:27 PM

THE NEW STAUMP. COM SITE IS NOW LIVE


Lots Of New Features!!

AND

Staump has teamed up with OurStage


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Happy Records





Jul 4 2008 3:09 AM

Thank you for the add, friends, great music!
schastia





Jul 3 2008 6:28 AM

Dear friends,
my elder bro Dima has made a page dedicated to our lo-fi studio “Happy Records” based in Kyiv, Ukraine, created for non-profit purposes. The focus of the studio work is producing indie artists we subjectively find interesting.

So please, find some time and listen to our friends’ music recorded by us at:

http://www. myspace. com/hepirecords

With best,
Volodia:)
Danny Echo





Jun 28 2008 3:14 PM

Thanks for the add! For that you get a...

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Cheers,
Danny Echo
Eastern Music Underground





Jun 28 2008 1:47 PM

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Jun 28 2008 9:53 AM

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Jun 16 2008 11:47 AM

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May 26 2008 11:04 PM

hey thanks for accepting my friend request, so anyway hows life?


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tHe_UpRiSe!
cfmu 93.3fm
with: john kedini a.k.a johnny uprise
wed nights 11pm-midnight (EASTERN TIME)
http://cfmu. mcmaster. ca (click "webcast")
www. myspace. com/the_uprise
Mr. King is Mr. Lucky!





May 14 2008 5:26 PM

Thanks for the add from a guy named Mr. King...In Oakland,CA...
your music is great!!!
Blues Element





May 13 2008 4:05 PM

Hey Michael, thought I'd stop by for a visit seeing how I was in a street fightin' kinda mood and all!
LA Sound System





May 5 2008 4:18 PM

Thxs for adding LA Sound System. Hope to see you at our festival!



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May 5 2008 12:36 PM

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Apr 17 2008 12:04 AM

Izzie





Apr 15 2008 2:28 PM

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Apr 9 2008 11:44 AM

hcr trusay?
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Apr 3 2008 5:08 PM

it's cowboy time!

Run With The Kittens





Mar 25 2008 6:03 AM

it's pony time!
Izzie





Feb 28 2008 4:10 PM

Joey Shithead's band (DOA)is coming to TO in May. wouldn't it be great if the New Kings open for them? you kicked ass openin' for Rancid et al... mnhé...
schastia





Feb 25 2008 5:27 AM

THAT'S TOO PERFECT:)
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Feb 25 2008 4:17 AM

HAVE A Beautiful week!!
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Feb 18 2008 3:57 PM

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Feb 16 2008 11:58 AM



HOpe all is well!
The Gruesomes





Feb 14 2008 1:38 PM

Hey New Kings,

Hello from Montreal!

Thanks for the ADD Request!!

Fuzz Forward...Rave On!!!

Gruesomes
**Shadow**





Feb 11 2008 9:56 PM

hey, can you get your tunes anywhere?? haha that might be a dum question but i dont know :)
Izzie





Feb 11 2008 1:29 PM

well... i think that if you haven't seen 'The Future is Unwritten' - about the The Clash's front man Joe Strummer -- then... i think you should go! playing at the Royal until wed... so i think...and know nothing!
Toronto Punk





Feb 8 2008 1:05 PM