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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

@SamAdlerBell no

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@katythekyng

3 months

got my record in the mail

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@katythekyng

3 years

@ThreatNotation note narcs

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@katythekyng

6 months

explained to my therapist what an album release rollout is today

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

4 months

my debut single is streaming! my debut album is out june 28. thank u ryley

Ryley walker

@ryleywalker

4 months

HPR-028 June 28 2024 Katy The Kyng "Selfies Of You" Mega fried shreds noise pop project feom @katythekyng Avail on LP/Digital Stream single "Shithole" NOW

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 months

welp, i’ve been placed on a playlist with joanna newsom, help

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

people keep hiring me as a “textural” guitarist, and i’m like can the texture be a ripping two-minute solo with a wah-wah pedal on every song

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

5 months

wrote about why i’ll never listen to beethoven on acid again, dig it!!!

arielle

@reallygordon

5 months

happy birthday, weed! this 4/20, i am so proud to present DRUG MUSIC, a zine about drugs and music. preorders available now (very limited - these WILL sell out)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

11 months

every day i thank the lord for marc ribot, the 187th greatest to ever do it

Joshua Minsoo Kim

@misterminsoo

11 months

Yes!!! When I think of Keiji Haino I think... he's the 214th greatest guitarist of all time!!!!

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

@JWilliger kris davis and matt mitchell

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

now's the time for me to finally explore my true calling as perceived by some sophomore who came up to me after my first-ever show of original music in the basement of the michigan student union ten years ago and called me "kinda like a sexy weird al"

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

cdc changes isolation time to john cage’s “as slow as possible” (between 20 minutes and 639 years)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

just realized i released thirty-two songs in my thirty-second year

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

dancing to eighties madonna hits at a party tonight a stranger waltzed up to me and whispered “i feel like you like frank zappa,” hereby halting all of my future dance moves

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

you want me to read rolling stone. the thing that almost killed indiana jones

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

yeah sex is cool but have you ever walked a stranger’s fuckin’ dog around a park in nyc for four hours in the freezing rain with no umbrella for $16/hr, biked w bad brakes up a hill against raging wind, stripped off a wet raincoat & soaked socks and stepped into a steaming shower

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo gals are always just about to close up the library!

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

blocking out the jam band playing a loud country number on the main stage at this festival so i can focus in on bill callahan sound-checking “hey, hey, hey, hey” in a low mutter from his little airstream trailer side setup

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

just submitted my debut record to one (1) label. sat down with the expectation to send it out to like thirty but none of the others felt right. i couldn’t get it up for them. lol turns out maybe i’m a mono(phonic) gal after all. anyway feeling proud send good vibrations thank you

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

8 months

all of this— pitchfork was an easy target but comprised countless extremely talented writers who cared about art, people, music. seeming increasingly dire environment in which to release my debut album this year. no streaming royalties & all the journalists i love laid off, cool.

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

if it takes longer to read the book you borrowed from a person you were dating than it does to break up with them so that the book remains in your possession for the rest of your life haunting you from a cardboard box in the back of your closet we call that an infinite jest jacob

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

One evening the summer after college I came home to Jeff Lewis singing his song “Life” at my music venue apartment. It always restores my appetite for its subject & I am beyond honored to have contributed my dreamy Stratocaster cover for this banger comp out on Bandcamp tomorrow.

WE ARE JOINERS

@Wearejoiners

2 years

Wilbur & Moore present our first release: a 15-track hommage to JEFFREY LEWIS! Check out Oropendola's take on "Bugs & Flowers" and pre-order now or grab the record this #bandcampfriday !

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

@dniellechelosky if he ghosts you, join his favorite band

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 months

there will be a very special guest & btw he’s named in the banner pic on my profile 😘🎸✨

Andy Cush

@cushac

3 months

6/27 at the owl music parlor I play bass with @katythekyng , who made this amazing watercolor poster of all the musicians who will be helping to celebrate the release of her new album. might have to make this portrait my new profile pic on here.

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

spent all day living on nerves and feelings with a weak and a lazy mind without even realizing it was court and spark’s anniversary

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

on valentine’s day i do drugs and dance to albert ayler

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a perfect record called Aja by Steely Dan on which every track ends with a full fade-out. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass … Ideas, language, even the phrase “cold ending” doesn’t make any sense.

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 months

melted ballad 🤘🫠

Ryley walker

@ryleywalker

3 months

Katy the kyng Newest single "Go fuck yourself" Melted ballad Out now Lp "selfies of you" out 6.28 #preorder here

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

watching andy edit this piece into its final, beautiful, insightful form from the passenger seat of our diy cross-country tour this summer was a rare marvel. i highly recommend dipping into the singular genius of dionne warwick on a hot, blockbuster- season sunday afternoon ☀️🎶

Andy Cush

@cushac

1 year

for this week’s Sunday Review I wrote about the greatest performer-songwriter team in pop history

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

i was 12 when i started playing guitar i was 25 when i got hired to play jessie’s girl in a casino cover band i was 28 when i recorded my first studio album i was 34 when i was about to release it any day now i was 80 when people stopped asking if i knew how to play “little wing”

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

4 months

making a shredder blush … 😊🎸

speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted guy

@sad13

4 months

it’s very easy to listen to this song like a hundred times in a row. i should know, having done so this morning

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

hell yeah; three of my top five songwriters of all time are now boycotting spotify: joni mitchell, neil young, and joanna newsom. the only two left are bob dylan and me :)

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@katythekyng

1 year

why’d they call it Feeld when KinkedIn is right there

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

when i reach 100 followers i’m gonna post ass (a sad song)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

last thing i said in an interview with a record label is "i'm the beatles, bitch!" think it went well

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@katythekyng

2 years

my dad called and left me a voicemail late last night, initiating a heightened state that reached full hysteria when upon calling back he informed me the family emergency was that he and my mother had been at the newport folk festival when joni mitchell made a surprise appearance

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

turns out i can without exception call the master take of every let it be tune from the intonation of george’s vibrato or a semiquaver of billy preston’s pinky my family is very proud thank you for listening good night

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@katythekyng

2 years

jeff beck was special because he knew to start a rock guitar solo with awooga hummina hummina bazooing! and also how to dial the volume knob back half a centimeter with a pinky to achieve the exact soaring vibrato necessary for the feedback he’d sustain for the rest of the chorus

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@katythekyng

3 years

in the course of an hour my sister has trained her two-year-old to gurgle “rock n roll!” whenever i enter a room; my legacy as a generational influence is complete

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

holy shit i almost forgot my purpose in life is to produce garageband sadgirl jangle bangers in my bedroom :)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

if you fuck w me i will write you as a character who likes the m*ghty m*ghty b*sstones

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

using gravity’s rainbow and v. to prop up my makeup mirror while i watch the bachelorette

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@katythekyng

3 years

my album’s better than animal collective’s

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

showed my boyfriend a joanna newsom song while on mushrooms last night, we sat in silence in the dark for eight minutes then i asked him earnestly if he liked it & he was like “ya it was really good, reminded me of stairway to heaven”

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

up all night in the studios girlfriend and brushing out a brood mare’s tail boyfriend

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

the feminine urge to attend all of a guy in a fedora’s exceedingly average experimental improv shows while objectively harboring a deeper more informed understanding of not only the new york music scene but also what constitutes a coherent creative catalog and personal philosophy

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

saw the restoration of stop making sense last night and can declare it not only “the best concert film ever” à la spike lee but also the best use of 70 mm imax i’ve ever seen— chris nolan’s million-dollar power-of-100-suns no-cgi h-bomb has nothing on david byrne dancing w a lamp

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

i can’t wait for the masterful tear-jerking perfect 10 p*fork review of my grammatically impeccable long-awaited debut album to come out next year & redeem the concept of music criticism— & mayhap prose itself— as a whole

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

i learned today that if you are out in public wearing a steely dan shirt and pass by a dude in a grateful dead t-shirt it is custom nay mandate to maintain eye contact from a respectful distance followed by a slightly smug conspiratorial nod

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

got commissioned for an experimental video festival & i'm literally just gonna like sit on my mattress & eat sugar out of a bag like chantal akerman in je tu il elle

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

have started searching “neil young” on spotify every hour to experience the serotonin rush previously reserved for repeatedly revisiting a new crush’s inscrutable inactive instagram

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

came across an old email exchange w marc ribot wherein we ponder why i’ve transcribed many classic rockers aka slash gilmour page yet don’t often employ that language in my own work & we came up with a. too male? b. represents alienated labor? c. too appropriative? d. im too cool

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

queefing in the lobby of the fanciest building i have ever been inside

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

a win for music today when my bratty millionaire guitar student couldn’t stay focused during 45 minutes of a planned lesson on a chainsmokers song only to become fully absorbed when i showed him the first two chords of “don’t think twice, it’s all right” in the last five minutes

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

8 months

not to make it about me/my cohort but this has been making my heart sink over the past 24 hrs as well

Thomas Hobbs

@thobbsjourno

8 months

what breaks my heart is how the pitchfork thing is going to mean so many innovative underground artists are going to struggle to pick up coverage, get disheartened, and end up giving up their dreams. there truly is barely any places left with the budget to commission these pieces

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

submitting only to record labels marc ribot or deerhoof have been on

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

i am now in possession of a photograph my mother took of my father crying to “a case of you,” which was my parents’ wedding song in 1976, as joni mitchell sings it live at the newport folk festival in 2022

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

@NatalieZed guy at a diy show told me i looked like leonard cohen. was wearing a black coat black dress black boots. took it as an extreme compliment of hipness.

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

me awaiting joanna newsom’s next album

Threatening Music Notation

@ThreatNotation

3 years

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

finally stopped dreaming about boys & started dreaming about shows; my subconscious is healing

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

someone told me tonight i look like a scooby doo character and i’m taking it as the best compliment i’ve received since someone told me i look like leonard cohen

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

ultimate fit check: a woman literally running the new york marathon just complimented my dress

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

my mom & i teamed up this yuletide to get my grandma to watch a music video for “shithole” in which i wipe coke off my nose, puke up a bottle of champagne, play drums on my ass, & read I LOVE DICK on the toilet. her only query was whether i did the cinematography (no, my mom did)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

@caroenildavis joni mitchell laughing at the end of big yellow taxi after she jokingly sings down the octave

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

this basic meme brought back to you by my excessive joanna newsom birthday listening today & the fact that recently every bulb of the family allium whose skin i perfunctorily cut brings me to veritable sobs, the emotional analog of which these days i don’t necessarily appreciate!

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

my fetid take is that neil young is the forerunner to mac demarco as verse victorious to chorus competent in many of their most beautiful songs

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

just saying i could have written the script for fantastic breasts and where to find them

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

giving hieronymus bosch somehow

Threatening Music Notation

@ThreatNotation

3 years

from a fabric website 🤨

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

8 months

Andy learned to slap bass for our Steely Dan Halloween cover shows and wrote about it for GQ— a beautiful light-hearted morning read!

Andy Cush

@cushac

8 months

for GQ, I wrote a short essay on a subject dear to my heart: slapping the bass

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

twas a holy communion of saints

joannasternberg

@joannasternberg

2 years

so sorry for the messy poster I made but tonight's show is gonna rock! thank you so much to the amazing @irrevery for inviting me to play this show with @katythekyng Wendy Eisenberg and Cross Legged!

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

@isaburke666 obsessed that everyone is saying the same thing: hejira, amelia (coyote)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

a good thing about wearing a mask on the subway is you can mouth “winter months we sang in tune, played inside the months of moon” while cramming the lyrics to a heart song you unwisely agreed to sing for a covers gig and no one will look at you like you’re some kind of Magic Man

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

unfollowing dude musicians as a christmas gift to myself

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

i cried when i saw robocop, and when i watched jaws on a plane, but you don’t really care for movies, do you?

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

i can finally say it, i lived my dream: i fucked my way to the top (a guy i used to bone in college got higher billing on a music festival poster than a past member of led zeppelin)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 months

making my radio interview debut in 10 minutes on @ClayPigeonWFMU show at 7:48 am EST, tune in sleepyheads 😴😎

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

gmail cruelly asking if i’d like to follow up after the head of my dream record label hasn’t responded to my email in three days

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

6 months

james joyce & i agree, one of the funniest books of all time … and the scariest!

Lincoln Michel

@TheLincoln

6 months

Happy St. Patrick's Day to MY Irish saint

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

you want me to read pitchfork. the thing that almost killed shrek.

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

there were two wolves inside me. i’ve fucked two members of vulfpeck. (not proud)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

sending every record label my five songs and my riddles three

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

buying swaths of bach cello sheet music arr. for electric guitar by european boomers in 2009 from underground online retailers today to prove to my mailman in the wake of recent cascades of shein “ditzy floral” impulse rompers and plastic platform heels that i am a serious person

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

joanna newsom writing “sawdust & diamonds”

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

tonight someone called my guitar playing “psychedelic” & i literally don’t know if they mean i sound like jimi hendrix, the best guitarist of all time, or that it sounds like i’m on so many drugs i can’t play my instrument

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

A rare beautiful review which understands the ahead-of-its-time singular punk ethos of the Roches as “a sort of gauntlet, an upfront announcement that [they] will not be bending to accommodate received notions of artistic seriousness: male notions of such seriousness.”

Andy Cush

@cushac

2 years

for this week’s Pitchfork Sunday Review, I wrote about the Roches’ 1979 debut, a miracle of harmony and humor

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@katythekyng

5 months

showing up to my album release press photo shoot like

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

5 months

they don’t know i’m walking down the street listening to the steely dan “do it again” electric sitar only stem

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

it is important i inform the uber driver as i toss my pat metheny ibanez fender stratocaster wah wah pedal and big muff into his trunk that i am not a singer as he presumes who incidentally enjoys hauling the guitarist’s gear in high heels but the actual guitarist (in high heels)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

2 years

think it would be nice to peg someone to “peg” by steely dan— 117 bpm, nice n easy

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

happy (listening to the entirety of have one on me by joanna) new(som in the middle of the night because ryan francesconi’s fresh & beautiful small ensemble arrangements soothe m)y ears (and reli)eve (anxiety)

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

excited for the concurrence of neil’s revolt & the cd revival so that i, now possessing only an impressively scratched disc i inherited from the trunk of an ex bf’s road trip vehicle a decade ago, have an excuse to again listen exclusively to the first half of live at massey hall

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

1 year

within minutes of seeing my father for the first time in months at a roadside clam shack today we had traced the lineage from mary wollstonecraft’s “a vindication of the rights of woman” to lana del rey’s “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have”

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

maybe it’s my resolution to never date another man under twenty-eight but ringo and george martin are suddenly definitely the hot beatles?

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

guitar virtuoso girlfriend & conventionally attractive adequately submissive single-handedly molded into personal kit-slaughtering drum machine/manic shriek vocalist for reputedly pioneering ultimately universally acclaimed free-improv noise outfit before quitting music boyfriend

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

8 months

rolling stone was founded in 1967; @pitchfork was founded 28 years later in 1995. it is ~ 28 years later at the beginning of 2024. we are past due to start a new worker-owned music publication. i believe in the talented writers/editors who just got laid off— let’s all “pitch” in!

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@katythekyng

2 years

mixing neil young & steely dan is kind of like four loko

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@katythekyng

3 years

unfollowing anyone who tweets about big thief on my birthday

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10 months

on cocaine watching bbc pride and prejudice

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

a comedian’s job is to buy joanna newsom charlie chaplin’s mansion

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katy the kyng

@katythekyng

3 years

in honor of yoko ono’s birthday gonna show up dripping casual panache at an all-dude rock band rehearsal, accidentally shred way harder than any of them, and retreat to my room to spend ten hours making a graphic b&w film about cumstains & the moon that i take 100x more seriously

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