Very excited to kick off this weekend with a song premiere in American Songwriter Magazine. The song – ‘the fire inside’ – is a bit less all-out rowdy than the other tunes we’ve shared lately, rather it’s “sonically heady, Elvis Costello-esque.” And still, we couldn’t resist a total guitar freakout in the middle. We hope you…

These were scenes from our last video. Now, we’re not asking for bears, rather, um, children. Specifically, 5-7 year olds. Yes, that sounds creepy. The explanation: we’re shooting a video on Sunday, Feb. 3 in the southwest suburbs of Boston, and we’re looking for about 6 kids to round out our already 8-strong team. If…

Very excited to announce that MTV is premiering our new song “Pick Your Battles” on their Buzzworthy blog, and very excited for you to hear this one. Between “blazing,” “dust-covered” and “gift wrapped in barb wire,” there are some zingers in this write-up. The winner though: “One battle we bet the band didn’t fight: that opening guitar…

This here website has a bit of a new look to it today. We’re calling it the new Jan Brady of websites, if you will. To celebrate, CONTEST: below is the flier for our Feb. 9 release show at Brighton Music Hall.  Behind the text are lyrics to a song, not by us. Third (because, why…

The album release party at the Black Cat was a hell of a party.  Packed club, dancing crowd, and great performances from our friends Ryan Wittke (who played slide guitar on new tune ‘Sigh A While’), Sam McCormally (who sang some vocals on new tune ‘Sun Gonna Lemme Shine’ ahead of his own set with…

Friends, this is the big thing we were hinting at: ROLLING STONE. New song, new photo, and a great way to round out 2012. You can download the new single, “Down” for free from the good folks at RS. What do we think? About the song, not the fact that Jenée is totally beating Naseem…

NEWS! PledgeMusic campaign supporters will receive a digital download of our new album, Battles, today at 3pm EST. If you need a last minute gift or don’t want to wait until the official release date of Feb. 5 to hear the new album, you have until 3pm to pledge at our page – www.pledgemusic.com/projects/kingsleyflood –…

“All bears are criminals, been saying it for years.” Naseem offers this and other truisms on the great new Boston music show, The Bubbler on myTV38 Sunday at 11pm. Tune in to hear Ryan’s Smashing Life‘s interview at Q Division Studios (as well as an interview with the great Q producer Ed Valauskas) and to hear about the robber bears in our…

And things keep getting exciting ahead of these CD release shows… On Jan. 12, we get to play with Ugly Purple Sweater, one of our favorite bands out there, at the Black Cat in Washington DC (tickets here). But today we get to watch the fantastic new video for their tune “DC USA.” If you know DC…

Big day for us here. First, we’re very happy to unveil the cover to our new album Battles (due out Feb. 5), with a painting by our friend Andrew Fish (check out more of his work here).  Exciting. Two, we’re very happy to unveil the first review by Joel Brown on Boston.com, who, in addition…