KING RADIO DEBUT ALBUM OUT, RELEASE SHOWS AT ROCKWOOD THIS WEEKEND

KING RADIO DEBUT ALBUM OUT, RELEASE SHOWS AT ROCKWOOD THIS WEEKEND

King Radio, which blends elements of Americana, soul, country and rock, on Oct. 16 released its debut album and will perform two album-release shows this weekend at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3 in New York (185 Orchard St.). After the initially announced Friday show sold out, the band added a second performance for Saturday. Tickets for the Saturday show are available via Ticketfly.

The band – Justin King (songwriter, vocals, guitar, piano), A.J. Jump (drumms) and Mark Kiesinger (bass) – reorded the 12-song album with Grammy-winning producer Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers) at his PLYRZ Studios near Los Angeles in Valencia, Calif.  A successful Kickstarter campaign raised enough funds for the band to co-produce the record with Scott. The recording also features 18 guest musicians.

According to a press release: “Prior to the formation of King Radio, Justin King traveled the world as a solo guitarist and later as a war photographer. He was twice embedded with the U.S. Military in Iraq, and went on to cover a combative election, subsequent rioting and a cholera epidemic in Haiti. ‘Those experiences altered my perspective in ways that I hadn’t anticipated,’ he says. ‘They allowed me to see some of the best and the worst of humanity, and to really get a better appreciation for the breadth of the human experience. It probably hardened me to some degree but I think it also made me more empathetic to the struggles we all go through.'”

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