Name: Kowloon Walled City
From: San Francisco
Shares DNA With: Neurosis, Fu Manchu, Black Cobra, Mastodon
Feels Like: Hanging from a rope that is hanging from a helicopter
Key to Success: Fast guitar hooks
Needs to Work on: Educating people on what their name means, to save it from sounding too long and random.
Locals can catch them at the Hemlock on March 21. I’ll be there.
It was actually a pretty easy process to pick my top 10 albums for 2009. All I had to do…
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I love these guys. Caught them with Orchid a couple of months ago. Total wall of sound. Didn't they play with Goblin Cock?
They did…but I missed it.