"In the Highways (carter family/traditional)" by Koala?! and the Exploding Meth Lab

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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)
(if you want facebook or bandcamp, follow the appropriate links)

(There's new videos up on youtube, and I have opened a page for my new Americana/roots based project Koala?! and the Exploding Meth Lab. It can be found at www.soundcloud.com/theexplodingmethlab)
Is your brain damaged enough to like this bullshit? Good...Then go to my main page www.soundcloud.com/koala-and-the-kholes For more FULKed up goodness from Southern California's only antifolk fuckwad.

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 were just one artist to listen to while engaging in questionably legal sex with animals, koala?! and the k-holes would totally be it! They're like Dave Matthews Band for severely retarded bonobo apes!" - Spin magazine


Koala?! and the Exploding Meth Lab are a side project of Koala?! (of Koala?! and the K-Holes). Whereas the latter is antifolk/folk punk, the former will be focused on a more traditional sound, making use of outlaw country, americana, roots, alternative country, bluegrass etc.


IMPORTANT NOTICE: Alright everyone, I have filled up my third full soundcloud page with my crap music and need to once again circumvent having to pay anything by beginning to upload from a different account. So nobody is too confused this is how it works-
*my first account was /koala-and-the-kholes
*after i filled that up i began uploading to /koalaandthekholes and then reposting to the first account.
*after i filled up /koalaandthekholes I started uploading to /toomanykoalas and reposting them to both prior accounts.
*I will now be taking a page I used to use as a "best of" and begin uploading to there, however all tracks will be reposted to all three prior accounts.

So, in conclusion - This is no longer my newest account. The best way to keep in touch is either through the new address www.soundcloud.com/theworstofkoalaandthekholes or through the first account www.soundcloud.com/koala-and-the-kholes (which is technically my "official" soundcloud page). Got that? Good. If not, send me a message and i'll clear it up.

Influences: moldy peaches, mountain goats, jeffrey lewis, daniel johnston, violent femmes, they might be giants, the fugs, the holy modal rounders, david peel and the lower east side, attilla the stockbroker, half handed cloud, danielson family, elliot smith, chumbawamba, billy bragg, hank williams sr, woody guthrie, charlie poole, bill monroe, screeching weasel, will oldham, kepi ghouli, the queers, andrew jackson jihad, against me!, mr t experience, defiance ohio, wu tang clan.

Marsupial Power Repost only resposts what the head marsupial enjoys himself. No requests, no swaps etc. You are welcome to send music in, but the head marsupial is much less structured than you would assume a head marsupial would be. No genre restrictions....eccentric music for eccentric tastes...punk noise drum and bass death metal hip hop turntablism classical jazz avante garde glitch grime IHH IDM and so on.

"In the Highways (carter family/traditional)" by Koala?! and the Exploding Meth Lab

Koala?! [And the Exploding Meth Lab]