Kaki King

DOWNLOAD: Beirut – Elephant Gun (MP3) Beirut @ Sasquatch 2008 (more by Chris Graham)Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival is a borough-wide celebration of Brooklyn’s musical talent, comprising mainstage events at BAM (performances, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Kaki King, and Chairlift), music in BAMcafé, off-site performances at thirteen Brooklyn venues (The Bell House, Bodega, bushbaby, Le Grand Dakar, Frank’s Lounge, Goodbye Blue Monday, Monkey Town, Pete’s Candy Store, Solomon’s Porch, Sputnik, Southpaw, Union Hall, Zebulon), and a BAMfamily event (featuring Guy Davis)…

DOWNLOAD: My Brightest Diamond: Tainted Love (Soft Cell/Gloria Jones cover) (MP3) My Brightest Diamond is playing a show with Clare & the Reasons at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on December 13th…

words and You know who I’d like to see duel? Kaki King vs. Gabriela from Rodrigo y Gabriela. just a random thought. Anyway, Sunday night, Kaki King closed out almost a year of touring…

Kaki King @ SXSW 2008 (more by Ryan Muir) The Hold Steady and Drive by Truckers play their second of two shows together at Terminal 5 in NYC tonight (11/7), and two more big indie rock pairings are rolling into town to play their own doubleheaders this weekend…

The Mountain Goats @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)When I try to talk about Kaki my usually reliable fund of superlatives seems insufficient…

Kaki King @ a BV show in Austin (more by Ryan Muir) Kaki King slayed the crowd at Club DeVille just before midnight. Playing with her full band, the diminutive guitar virtuoso demonstrated how finger-picking is really done…

words & I flew in to Austin on wednesday morning and the festival was already going strong. After picking up my credentials and looking out from the top of the convention center I started to get a feel for the scope and scale of the whole event…

DOWNLOAD: Kaki King – Two O’Clock (MP3) I’ve mentioned in the past that women with guitars make me weak. Foremost on that list is Kaki King, one of my favorite guitarists…

DOWNLOAD: Kaki King – Two O’Clock (MP3) Kaki King returns with her fourth album after her contributions to Foo Fighters and Tegan & Sara‘s latest albums, and having been nominated for a Golden Globe award for “Into The Wild” together with Eddie Vedder…

I’ve gone “official” again. The lineup of the first-ever official BrooklynVegan SXSW showcase is… (in no particular order…):* Shearwater * Martha Wainwright * Kaki King * Jeffrey Lewis & The Jitters * Deer Tick * AA BondyI couldn’t be more excited for this bill…