Yeah, Don't give your power away. We were reality, we are reality and we will be reality after this semantic shit. Eternal truth :)

When I was drafted before I could vote I swore I'd never vote-so I can honestly state I'm not responsible for any of this mess !

i can't find a group for 'political songs' ? could be fun

first time i voted (for obama) was the last time i voted for a presidential candidate. i still sometimes partake in local elections. i just hate this assumption that these are "choices". we have a choice in the foods we eat, the gods we worship, the friends we choose etc. but choosing which asshole will disappoint you just seems like complacency. i reject all of them.

I wrote/recorded this one yesterday afternoon. It came about after a long debate with a hippy friend of mine who is very into bernie sanders winning these elections. My point has always remained the same, that there is no choice and that every one of these people is equally shitty. I don't hate/love trump more or less than sanders. I don't care. They're both wicked demons who have no interest in my welfare or anyone elses. Remember kids, DONT VOTE! Democracy is a sham.

{lyrics: 
VE1: and to all those at the polls you're wasting momentum, there's never been a choice no not at all. Write and sing for them a beautiful anthem, they dont deserve it, do not answer their call. They promise the things your ego is hung up on. But they cant give us anything we need. You give them all you have, wind up with nothing. They hand you a hot pile of shit, you hand them the keys. CH: Every four years they pull the wool over our eyes, every four years we feel screwed, every four years, we're scraping bumper stickers off, feeling let down whether they win or they lose. VE2: I wouldnt waste going, waste my time voting for someone - Someone who couldnt care less what happens to me. Even if trump and sanders seem like the fun ones to everyone else, they still seem like cunts to me. Best case scenario they count our votes and it's mob rule, worst case they decide not to count them at all. With the electoral college, delegates and lobbyists, this choice is like your choices at the mall. Repeat CHORUS.
Outro part: Did you think that Bernie Sanders was your friend? and that he'd give you free college and medicine? Or that he'd finally start up that revolution that all the hippies thought was coming? Did you put all your hope into donald trump? And think that he'd give everyone who voted a new gun? And hope he'd kick out all the blacks and mexicans, like every day would be bright and sunny? Do you still think there is a difference, it's like "fox news sucks, but CNN gets it!", but the dozen companies that cut all their paychecks are the ones who fund these motherfuckers. It's not just two party its now just two candidate and we're so jaded, we just sit and handle it, and work around the fact that its scandalous, and waste time voting for guns and gays and cannabis.]

NOTE: I don't mean to say guns gays and pot aren't awesome! They are. I love all three. I'm just saying that voting for things is a vapid way to get them done.

"Four More Years (unrock the vote)" by k0aLa?! (and the K-Holes)

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(***New videos up on youtube. The page for my americana/roots side project Koala?! and the Exploding Meth Lab can now be found at www.soundcloud.com/theexplodingmethlab
KOALA has been making d.i.y. bedroom outsider lo-fi anti folk punk since 2003, but due to mental illness and drug addiction he lost his focus and nothing ever came of it. After sobering up and regaining a degree of sanity, he began writing and recording again in the fall of 2015. 
K0ALA was raised in Los Angeles and grew up in the punk rock and hardcore scene, moving into indie and noise rock in his young adulthood. Influences are taken from punk and hardcore, from indie folk and indie rock, from noise rock, from outsider, from folk punk, from early americana-roots, from folk and country, from alt. country and antifolk, even from the lyricism of hip hop (i.e. wu tang clan, del the funky homosapien, asher roth, el-p).

KOALA has long aimed to cultivate the chaos and urgency in his own life and capture it in his songs (whether he has failed at this or not is up to you). Noise, fuzz, overdrive, feedback, off key vocals, detuned guitars, cheap recording equipment, and of course chain smoking cheap cigarettes all add up to make the fucking mess that is KOALA?! AND THE K-HOLES

Some label better come suck this shit up before Def Jam or Atlantic come a knockin! :/

influences: the Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats, attilla the stockbroker, billy bragg, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Violent Femmes, They might be giants, langhorne slim, will oldham, neutral milk hotel, this bike is a pipebomb, woody guthrie, hank williams sr, the holy modal rounders, the fugs, david peel, velvet underground, screeching weasel, mr t experience, the pogues, the pixies, steve albini, new lost city ramblers, kentucky bootleggers, khaki king, john vanderslice, beulah, the microphones/mt eerie, postal service, old crow medicine show, get the hell out of the way of the volcano, ghost mice, defiance ohio, cat stevens, donovan, heathers, bob dylan (early), leonard cohen, nick drake, smog/bill callahan, david allen coe, the carter family, atom and his package, paul baribeau, the beat happening, the vaselines, Cake, CUB, go sailor, mike park etc.

Here are a few reviews from music blogs:
http://madmackerel.org/2016/01/12/100-songs-in-100-hours-40-koala-and-the-k-holes/

http://www.themodernfolk.net/2015/12/koala-and-kholes-sheolburbia.html

http://emergingindiebands.com/k0ala-and-the-k-holes/
Press Quotes:

"I literally almost shit my pants while listening to Koala?! and the K-Holes...But in a good way. My ears were bleeding and my underwear were stained with feces, but it was worth every horrible moment!" -Pitchfork Magazine

"When I first heard Koala?! and the K-Holes I thought to myself 'who do they sound like?' and when it finally came to me I realized they were the spitting image of the Arcade Fire, if the Arcade fire were, like, 78% less shitty of a band" - NME 

"Koala and the K-holes made me campaign to get the name of the zine changed to MAXIMUM FULK!, but they wouldn't agree because they said only posers like marsupials" - Maximum Rock n Roll

"If there's on artist to listen to while having questionably legal sex with animals, koala?! and the k-holes would totally be it! They're like Dave Matthews Band for severely psychologically impaired bonobo apes!" - Spin magazine
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"Four More Years (unrock the vote)" by k0aLa?! (and the K-Holes)

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