Tres Mts. – Stubbs – Austin, Tex. – SXSW, Mar. 19, 2011

dUg Pinnick (King's X) and Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) have been trying to get their (joint) musical act together for the better part of 15 years now. As musicians in two very hard working bands, however, little more than small snatches of time could ever be cobbled together. Both men very much wanted to do it, …

dUg – ‘Songs From The Closet (Doug Pinnick Demos Vol. 1)’ – the review

Like a lot of bands, King's X members have generally written songs on their own before presenting them to the band. Unlike almost all of them, however, King's X has also chosen to start releasing multi-track demos of many of their songs for the fans to get a good listen. 'Songs From The Closet' is bassist/vocalist …

Geeks Gone Wild!: King’s X + Accept, Houston

Every once in a while even a Geek ends up with too many out-on-the-town options. Oct. 13, 2010, was one such night.  Choice #1: The final night of the Accept/King's X tour at House of Blues in the latter's hometown. Choice #2: A one-off screening of homegrown horror phenomenon 'Sweatshop' (featuring Jeremy Sumrall as The Beast), …

Friday LinkFrogging – 5/28/10

Testing…testing…*thump thump.* Is this thing on?? Ahh…there we go. Welcome back my friends, to the links that never end! Bruce went down to the coast this weekend to try to verify some chupacabra sightings out on Bolivar, but before departing left me with the wonderful task of making sure this gets to the world. What …

dUg Pinnick update: Razr 13 + A.N.M.

Those of you familiar with dUg (Doug) Pinnick likely know him best as the frontman/songwriter/bassist of Texas rock legends King's X. He's still being there and doing that, but in the meantime he's been one busy man with a number of side projects. Most fully formed among these are Razr 13 and A.N.M. Razr 13 …

Kings X – Rock the Bayou after party

This was originally going to be a review. Then proscrastination got in the way. Then Hurricane Ike. Anyway, I know how devoted Kings X fans are (being one) so I thought I'd go ahead and post these pics anyway. I went to this show with my friend Kolby. It was a good old-home time for …