{"id":57,"date":"2009-01-09T00:45:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T05:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2009-07-25T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T05:21:07","slug":"the-night-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"The Night Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brainwashed<\/em> 7″ EP
\nDope Records \/ Bad Vibe Zine, 1993<\/p>\n

\"\"A recent repost on the excellent Detailed Twang<\/a> reminded me of Rob Vasquez’s pre-Night Kings band, The Nights & Days<\/strong>, who I’d somehow missed after many years of being a Night Kings fan. I’d heard some of his other bands, like The Chintz Devils<\/strong>, The Gorls<\/strong>, and Right On<\/strong>, but the Nights & Days escaped my pursuit of all things Vasquez. Gotta do your homework, I guess. My introduction to this garage punk maestro came from a copy of the Chicago-based Bad Vibe<\/em> zine in the form of this smokin’ 4-song Night Kings EP giveaway. The tracks pump Vasquez’ classic garage stomp riffs, delivered with a relaxed, defiant swagger, along with his soulful punk wail \u2014 a pairing that distinguishes his bands from the rest of the garage punk crop. Two of the tracks (“Death” and “Increasing Our High”) wound up on their sole Super-Electro LP, Increasing Our High<\/em>, which can still be found HERE<\/a> and in used bins across the country. I see it around more than I should, since it’s a bona fide classic in my book and should be snagged by any self-respecting garage punk connoisseur.<\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Night Kings – “Brainwashed”<\/a>
\nNight Kings – “Death”<\/a>
\nNight Kings – “Earthquake”<\/a>
\nNight Kings – “Increasing Our High”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brainwashed 7″ EP Dope Records \/ Bad Vibe Zine, 1993 A recent repost on the excellent Detailed Twang reminded me of Rob Vasquez’s pre-Night Kings band, The Nights & Days, who I’d somehow missed after many years of being a Night Kings fan. I’d heard some of his other bands, like The Chintz Devils, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[71,72,75,73,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}