Wednesday, April 11, 2007 01:08:17 PM
CONTESTS
No More Kings Contest
We're giving away a copy of No More Kings latest album featuring
Sweep the Leg
to the best answer we receive for the following task:
Use all of these words in the same sentence: The Karate Kid, pizza, No More Kings
About No More Kings
"No More Kings is for anyone who's ever wanted a talking car."
- Pete Mitchell
After dancing the night away to his fun, high-energy pop/funk/rock, you'll find snippets of his catchy songs about zombies, Smurfs, and The Karate Kid stuck in your head. And you won't be at all surprised to learn that this singer/songwriter's story is as unique as the characters in his songs. Pete Mitchell is just as comfortable on the West Coast as on the East, in a garage band as in a recording studio, animating cartoons as painting fine art, and his music echoes this ability to swing between the silly and the serious.
No More Kings, the self-titled first major release, is a positive, upbeat, party-in-a-box, full of pop culture references and quirky lyrics.
"This album is very character-driven, very story-based," Pete says. A trait he learned as an animator that has carried over into his songwriting is communicating a character's core to an audience. In "Sweep the Leg," for example, Pete digs into the head of Johnny, Daniel-san's nemesis in The Karate Kid, and presents a new way of looking at the story.
Pete Mitchell calls No More Kings' first album a "thank-you letter to the 80s," a perfect theme for someone who says that he (and his music) were "born in the 70s, raised in the 80s, and perfected in the 90s."
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