Videos from Bottom of the Hill show now up on Youtube

Brand-spanking-new videos by professional videographer Gavin Murray are now viewable on youtube. Cuts from the Bottom of the Hill show include Adolf Hitler's, Golden Years, What Should You Do, and My Brain Is... .

Here's a link to footage of Adolf Hitler's:
AdolfHitler's

Enjoy and share!

King Baldwin Performs at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts on 8/3

King Baldwin is performing at San Francisco's ultra-nifty Yerba Buena Center for The Arts from 6-8 pm on Tuesday August 3. The show is very free, very all-ages, and very outside, so come on by to hear a ton of new tunes and check out the amazing facility. The band will also be giving away copies of the new EP "Castle Of Love"!!!

"Boots You've Never Seen" EP now available at Bandcamp!

The full King Baldwin EP "Boots You've Never Seen" is now finished: 6 varied and engaging tunes bursting with memorable melodies and waiting to be heard! Enjoy!



http://kingbaldwin.bandcamp.com/album/boots-youve-never-seen

"Turn 28" from new EP now available for free

We've got another song in the can and we're quite proud of how it turned out. It's a very personal piece for us, with touches of Eno, Bowie, chamber music, and West African rhythms. Click below to hear and download "Turn 28" for free, we hope you like it!

First Single From Upcoming EP Is Here

We're pretty happy with this piece, and we think you'll like it a lot also. Give it a listen, download for free, whatever you'd like... just make sure to enjoy it.

Bottom Of The Hill w/ Birdmonster on June 18 - get yer free tiketz

We've got a big fat show coming up in June and we think you'll like it. It's at San Francisco's famous hipster-mecca, Bottom Of The Hill, where we'll be playing with our always-excellent friends Birdmonster, plus San Diego's Dynamite Walls (recently signed to Universal, yaaaaaay). It's 21+, starts 9:30pm on June 18.

Here's the thing: Birdmonster has sold out Bottom Of The Hill every time they've headlined there. This show is going to sell out, potentially even before the event begins. We'd hate to see you turned away at the door, so if you want to come to this show, you have two options:

1. Buy advance tickets online @
http://www.stubmatic.com/bottomofthehill/event/4550

2. Participate in our Guest Spot Giveaway....
We have 2 guest list spots to give out for this event to 2 of our best fans; these give you free entrance and the opportunity/nightmare to hang out with us throughout the night. Given our propensity for general subversion and academia, we'd like contestants to email kingbaldwinmusic@gmail.com with their best possible lyrical explanations of either "Old Soul" or "Campfire Song" , both available for free download on our Music page. The two most accurate and/or ridiculous explanations win. This contest ends at 12am June 8 so be sure to send your entries before then!

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Starting On New Album Today

So aside from prepping for a great show this Friday (Starry Plough in Berkeley @ 9pm), this is what we're about to be up to...

We've got a crapload of new songs and figured it would be good to track a bunch in the studio these next 2 weeks. We'll be laying down rhythm tracks today, doing a flurry of overdubs next week, and then Jonathan Eccles is mixing the whole thing in his studio / creepy windowless basement. These new pieces are very exciting and represent a great evolution of the sounds from our last record... we're not sure what comparisons to make, but we've been studying lots of arrangements from Talking Heads, Bowie's mid-70s period, and The Magnetic Fields, and these all seem like fine aesthetic guideposts. The best part is that, once we finish this EP, we'll even still have another 6-7 unrecorded songs to work through for an instantaneous follow-up.

We'll prolly start posting some unfinished mixes in the next month or so, and for now, wish us luck!