**This one includes my mediocre mandolin skills! Yay! (and no it's not a banjo or a ukelele).**
One i wrote sunday (yesterday morning). A fictional narrative about a tweeker girl (based loosely upon a number of actual people, but not one in particular).
I must note beforehand, that I have this horrible nagging feeling that I've unconsiously ripped off another song.....I can't think of what the hell it is. I don't mind if I realize it sounds similar as I'm writing it, but not knowing is driving me nuts. Oh well....there's only 7 chords and some variations of said 7 chords, I'm not going to worry about it too much lol

Lyrics to "bring a blowtorch jeanette isabella":

"Bring a blowtorch jeanette isabella/you'll set this town ablaze tonight/Your beauty still lays underneath all the waste/through the white cloud it's still glowing brightly/get out your blowtorch jeanette isabella/you deserve this all more than you know/light up your pipe/have the time of your life/you don't know that your heart will explode//where did you, go away to?/tell me how the beast caught up/all the loved ones that you made hate you/tonight is for your and so they can all go and get *****/Let go jeanette isabella you don't have to fight anymore/its too late now for apologies/everybody has stopped keeping score anyways/its ok jeanette isabella, you tried and I won't get in your way/I don't understand, but it's irrelevant/now that you have run out of days/Jeanette Isabella"

Bring a Blowtorch Jeanette Isabella (now with lyrics in description) 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
(if you want videos, go to the youtube link)
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Bring a Blowtorch Jeanette Isabella (now with lyrics in description) by K0ALA?! (and the K-Holes)

KOALA?! (and the K-Holes)

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