From Sunday's Pilates & Arts acoustic gig in Echo Park. The Takamine, the chimes, and the desk bell got dusted off and worked in tandem with the three cowbells and subdued piccolo snare. Photo by Suzanne Adelman.

Happy New Year!

Sunday, October 14, 2012: Recent reviews of KWE album Motorik from L.A. Record and Razorcake. L.A. Record: There's a punk intensity, some interesting use of whistling, and plenty of minimal chord structure, but also space-fantasy vocals, guttural parts that at times even go cookie monster. Razorcake: This is the kind of music they freak out about: weird music by weird people. However, don’t get me wrong, it's not the kind of weirdness that you only play every now and then. No, this is infectious, charismatic, addictive, whackjob, utopian rock 'n' roll you'll come back to again and again.

July 31, 2012: Eric Wong’s video, “One man, Not the Minutemen,” from Perform Chinatown on July 21, featuring the climax to “Back To The Pyramids.”

July 21, 2012: A fabulous en plein air canvas of the KWE in action at Perform Chinatown by Los Angeles artist Alex Schaefer. Photo courtesy of the artist.

A found video with commentary from the July 12 gig at 2nd Street of the KWE song "Supersonic" featuring the Parkman hybrid guitar.

May 19, 2012: KWE fog machine neon scintillation @ The Crest Bar, La Crescenta, CA. Photo by Suzanne Adelman.

April 29, 2012: You might notice that the sun and desert imagery (or analogies) keep popping up in my songs. “Hate The Sun” (1999) bleeds into “Gift Of The Sun” (2011). How difficult would it be to avoid these if you lived in Los Angeles and make rhythmic trips to the High Desert? LA for me spawns uneasy poetics, a matrix of concrete sweat pockets and air-conditioned human cultures, spirits encamped upon fortified microclimates in their fragile neon tents. You can’t help but take it with you experience of the vast desert. You don’t belong there. While NY with its VU still holds the ground for me, the Easy Rider now meets the Blue Bus shifting gears, impulses, and speeds, making for an inevitable Motorik phenomenon. It’s about the lift-off without any giant buildings in the way. The cacti wave hello and the sands weep ecstatically, energy abounds.

April 9, 2012: Tom Underhill has posted on Flicker eighteen photographs of the KWE from the recent Redwood Bar x Grill gig! http://www.flickr.com/photos/glowdog/sets/72157629789150779/

April 6, 2012: A glimpse through the 'Better Friday' full moon tower of power below the fair fishnet mermaid at the rustic Redwood Bar X Grill in downtown Los Angeles. KWE blasts the rock wide open for Trotsky Icepick and Human Hands (the 'moon rock' on the far left quietly awaits its moment on the ivory sun during the Optimist's Parking Lot's psychedelic jam out). Photograph by Suzanne Adelman.

February 26, 2012: The KWE rocks out the Meat Puppet's Lake of Fire at The 2nd Street Jazz Bar + Grill in this photo by Dan Morales.

January 8, 2012: KW experiences the joy and rock 'n' roll Motorik spirit of Artist's Drive at Death Valley California! See you soon in LA!

December 21, 2011: * Wishing you Peace on Earth (and all the noisy agitation that is necessary to achieve this aim) and have a stellar New Year! See you at the clubs and on the airwaves in 2012! *

December 12, 2011: "I Haunt Myself..." and that's good! The KWE gigs gold mine has been unlocked! There's tons of gems in the Shows page, including gig photos and for you fanatics, the respective set lists! In the upcoming weeks, I will be adding early KWE gigs to the shows page. For the meanwhile, here's an advertisement for the gonzo Crooked Bar gig from the LA Weekly in 2000! Enjoy!

December 2, 2011: On December 1, "Optimist's Parking Lot" from the "Motorik" album was included in l.a. Eyeworks' selection of songs played to mark its 22nd annual observance of Day Without Art and World Aids Day. The song was submitted by Catasonic recording engineer Mark Wheaton. Other songs on the playlist were submitted by Los Angeles notables such as Matt Groening, Jim Iserman, Kori Newkirk, Weba Garretson, and Catherine Lord.

October 31, 2011: The hand drawn and silkscreened "Motorik" T-shirts are here! Made by yours truly! Each silkscreen color scheme is unique, on violet, black, or cadmium yellow deep high quality cotton shirts. $15.USD.

Videotaped by Eugene Ahn during a November 19, 2002 KWE performance at the Westwood Star Charter Elementary School inn Los Angeles.

This is a long, ambient video, where the energies are slowly building up to a fantastic climax -- I won't give away the ending! -- during the instrumental "4 A.M. I Am."

Hello from Outer Space... the KWE has been busy in the bat cave composing for the next big album... a nebula is expanding, circling and forming due to gravitational forces... an extended upbeat motorik trek into denser territories bombarded by metallic grit, synth virtualities, evolved synchronicities, polytonal minorities, multicolored stardust, and last but not least the hot Saturnian chicks meet the True Anarchists. Adjust your antennae if you still own one...