Kaki King in Brazil

Show Livre caught Kaki King playing guitar in Brazil a few days ago.

Watch “Bone Chaos in the Castle” and “Goby” below:

Kaki King @ Hotel Cafe

On Tuesday November 2nd, Kaki King played an hour-long instrumental guitar solo set at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles.

Here are four videos from Tuesday’s show, courtesy of Music Nerdery.

“Bone Chaos in the Castle”:

“Neanderthal”:

“Doing the Wrong Thing”:

“Night After Sidewalk”:

Celebrate Brooklyn Concert Review

On Thursday August 5th, three bands played a free show in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival.

Holly Miranda, Joan as Policewoman, and Metric took the stage — Holly Miranda and Metric were definitely the best bands of the evening.

Highlights were Holly Miranda playing “Waves” and “I’d Rather Go Blind,” with Kaki King joining in on guitar, and Metric playing an acoustic version of “Combat Baby” as the last song of the encore.

Tuesday Round-Up: SoloBob, Kaki King, Jenny & Johnny

+ Here is a new SoloBob song called “Fantastic 15″ — SoloBob is Robert Schwartzman’s solo side project:

+ Click here to read a detailed interview with Kaki King about guitars, amps, tunings, and the recording process in Premier Guitar Magazine.

+ Click here to read an interview with Jenny & Johnny from Spin Magazine, and click here to watch a video interview with them at Daily Candy.

Jenny & Johnny

Gulf Coast Benefit Concert Recap

Rachael Cantu, Carina Round, Ben Lee, the Silver Lake Chorus, and Kaki King played at the Mint in LA on Thursday for the Gulf Coast Benefit Concert. Kaki King organized and emceed the concert.

Highlights:

-Ben Lee playing his song “Pop Queen” with Kaki King playing the guitar solo.

-Ben Lee playing “We’re All In This Together” with the Silver Lake Chorus singing back-up vocals.

-Kaki King covering “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” by The Smiths.

Also in attendance were Clea Duvall, Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara, Zooey Deschanel of She & Him, Lara May of El May, Ione Skye, Liz Feldman, and Kate Moennig.

Gulf Coast Benefit: Ben Lee, Kaki King, Rachael Cantu, Silverlake Chorus

On Thursday July 1st at The Mint in LA, a Gulf Coast Benefit concert will feature the following line-up:

8:00 – Rachael Cantu

8:45 – Carina Round

9:30 – Ben Lee

10:15 – Silverlake Chorus

11:00 – Kaki King

To get tickets, click here.

Kaki King/An Horse Concert Review

What: Kaki King/An Horse Concert Review

When: Saturday May 22, 2010

Where: El Rey Theatre in LA

An Horse, a two-piece band from Australia, opened up the show. The guitarist and lead singer of An Horse, Kate Cooper, played almost every song with a capo, which was interesting. The drummer, Damon Cox, also sang in addition to being a particularly good drummer. An Horse brought out Kaki King onstage to play guitar for their third song. But, An Horse had a very powerful, full sound for just two members. An Horse’s set was about 45 minutes (they played from 9:00 to 9:45).

Kaki King played for almost 2 hours (a longer set than usual) because the whole show was being filmed. She played with two other people – a drummer and a bassist/synthesizer/trumpet player.

Kaki King played old favorites such as “Pull Me Out Alive” and “Life Being What It Is” as well as new songs from Junior like “Death Head,” “Betrayer,” and “Communist Friends.” Sadly, she didn’t play her new song “Sunnyside.” Around 65% of Kaki King’s set was instrumental music, and the middle of the show (when her band was off the stage) was a little slow since there was no singing.

Two highlights of the show were the song “Jessica” with more drums and cymbals than the CD version, plus the last song in which Kaki King played and recorded multiple guitar parts, the drummer and trumpet player joined in, and then she jumped into the audience and danced with everyone in the front of the crowd.

After The Show’s video footage of the opening song of the show, “Falling Day” on electric ukulele:

Kaki King @ El Rey

Tomorrow (Saturday May 22), Kaki King is playing at LA’s El Rey Theatre. Australian band An Horse will open.

Coming soon: look out for an After The Show review of this concert.

Kaki King/An Horse

Watch Kaki King doing great electric (full band) and acoustic covers of “Camp Out” by An Horse:

Kaki King and An Horse are currently on tour together. Here are the remaining dates:

May 9 2010 8:00P	The Waiting Room	Omaha, Nebraska, US
May 11 2010 8:00P	The Fox Theater	Boulder, Colorado, US
May 12 2010 8:00P	Cervante’s Masterpiece Ballroom	Denver, Colorado, US
May 14 2010 8:00P	Neumos	Seattle, Washington, US
May 15 2010 8:00P	Wonder Ballroom	Portland, Oregon, US
May 16 2010 8:00P	WOW Hall	Eugene, Oregon, US
May 19 2010 8:00P	Knitting Factory	Reno, Nevada, US
May 20 2010 8:00P	Mystic Theater	Petaluma, California, US
May 21 2010 8:00P	The Fillmore	San Francisco, California, US
May 22 2010 8:00P	The El Rey Theater	Los Angeles, California, US
May 24 2010 8:00P	The Belly Up	San Diego, California, US
May 25 2010 8:00P	The Glass House	Pomona, California, US

New Artist Alert: Kaki King

Kaki King’s hands played all of the guitar strumming/tapping/plucking parts in the movie August Rush.

King was also the first female ever to be included in Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of Guitar Gods.

Here is “Pull Me Out Alive” by Kaki King: