The Blind King® - obscurer than thou

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Members of The Blind King (Josh, Andy, Dave, Kevin, maybe Beth) will be performing this Sunday, September 7th, in Union Square, Somerville, ...

Members of The Blind King (Josh Beth & Dave) will be playing a set today in the Courtyard at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, 7...

The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan Words and Music by Shel Silverstein The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of Lucy Jordan In her ...

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REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE...RECRAFT! An eco-friendly craft fair brought you by Magpie and the Somerville Arts Council. Saturday August 18 2007,...

The Blind King is the first local (Boston area) music act to have their music added to the Boston Public Library's music database. How ...

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We have an evening of music for you coming up Saturday, April 21st at the Toad in Cambridge, MA. This is a fun place to hang out and a fun...

Check out our new Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/theblindking Yeah, yeah, I know, everyone else has had one of these for years...

The Blind King'll be playing at the Lizard Lounge, one of our favorite venues, next Saturday night October 28th, along with The Dirty Tr...

Hey, check us out on IndieFeed ! They just added our song, "Til You're Gone". IndieFeed is a collection of 1-song Podcasts t...

We'll be opening up for Georgia Overdrive at Toad in Cambridge this Friday, August 4. We go on at 10:15, play a 45 minute set, then G...

Our bass player, Dave Sakowski, was interviewed in a mini-documentary about Somerville, and also our music is playing in the background for ...

For some reason I like songs that have "Spain" in the title. For instance: Never Been to Spain - Hoyt Axton King of Spain - Galaxi...

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La Scena Musicale - Vol. 6, No. 4 December 2000 Quilico’s Nine Laws Interview by: Christina Petrowska http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm6-4/quilico...

We'll be playing this Saturday, February 4th, at Toad in Porter Square Cambridge. We'll be opening the night at around 10pm. The hea...

We're playing for the first time at Great Scott in Allston this coming Monday, January 30th. We'll be sandwiched between The Plastic...

The show at the Lizard was a blast. Hilken played with a full band which was kind of loud in the small space, but she sounded great. Then we...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHO: The Blind King WHAT: The Blind King CD Release show for "'Til You're Gone" with Hilken Mancini ...

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We're having a CD release party on January 14, 2006, at The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA. We'll be playing with Tiger Saw and Hik...

Here's a sampler of MP3s - please feel free to download, distribute, and enjoy: The Blind King MP3 Platter

Listen to an assortment of old songs and new material here: The Blind King Sampler http://www.last.fm/label/Careful/playlists

by The Flaming Lips And though they were sad They rescued everyone They lifted up the sun A spoonful weighs a ton Giving more than they had ...

I was interviewed in September on www.smallworldpodcast.com - check it out here: http://smallworldpodcast.com/index.php?paged=2 Here's a...

The farmer's market show was really fun, and we got some complimentary squash and onions from admiring fans. We also sold a bunch of ad...

This Saturday August 13 there's a Farmer's Market in Union Square Somerville. Bands will be playing from 9:30 am or so until 1 pm. ...

Well, Jeff @ Peerless is gonna kill me but after letting the album sit on the shelf for 3 weeks I came to the conclusion that I should leav...

Deep sigh, big stretch (muscles cracking), okay... I've just spent many hours setting up a label account for the Blind King on Last.fm a...

...last night was fun. The "White Trash Trailer" show was a benefit for the Brattle Theater. There was BBQ and beer for attendee...

Sunday July 10 - Emily Operator plays violin with Hilken Mancini (Count Me Outs, Fuzzy, Punk Rock Aerobics) at the WASHINGTON STREET ARTS C...

You too can be a hipster!

The new album is nearly through the mastering process; yay! Jeff from Peerless Mastering gave me a reference disk which I'm listening to...

...the Independent Film Fest party last night was fun. It took place in a cool space in Boston near the Fort Point channel. Basically a gi...

We're playing the after-party for the Boston Independent Film Festival tonight. So if you're going to the Festival try to sidle up ...

The Blind King's "Indie Pop Song" mocks the awkward position indie rock finds itself in, repeating that this is "JUST an ...

Our song "Her Grey City", from the forthcoming album "'Til You're Gone", won an Honor Award in the Great Americ...

"Slumberville" is my latest project - it's me recording myself in my basement. In addition to some new material, I'd like...

From The Noise , re: our Dec 30th show w/ The Vinyl Skyway : The ranks of The Blind King have swelled to eight: Josh Boughey's acous...

The show at Zuzu went well. Still our favorite place to play. The Kent 100s had to cancel due to illness, but Mark Kraus of Jr. Courdoroy ...

We're playing at one of our fave venues this Thursday night: Zuzu - in Central Square Cambridge. We'll be playing 2 sets, and The ...

The Vinyl Skyway played a really nice tight set tonight. They have the coolest songs, and they played some new stuff with these cool-ass vo...

A Benefit for the Shattuck Shelter 9 pm at The Lizard Lounge (617) 547-0759 1667 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 Free admiss...

When: Sunday December 12th Venue: The Middle East Upstairs Location: 472 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (Central Square T Stop...

I just moved all these files to a new directory so there may be a broken link or two for awhile.

by Eliot Daniel & Johnny Lange (This song was sung by Roy Rogers' in his first band, Sons of the Pioneers. I first heard it in t...

We played at an art opening at the Nave Gallery - here is a little video clip of us playing and some panoramic pics: http://www.kelvybird.co...

From a review of "This Is Indie Rock" at: http://www.mammothpress.com/ "...The Blind King are generally slower and more p...

The Flower of Olivia

by Leon Russell from the album Carney Em Em Am Sitting on the highway in a broken van Bsus B7...

We're playing on this cool bill down in R.I., it's a benefit for MoveOn PAC . We're the opening band, and the sets are 1/2 hr l...

I made some t-shirts with the blind king logo silkscreened on them. This was all done old-skool, e.g. w/ hand-cut film, toxic adhering ...

Our song "Indie Pop Song" will be included on this upcoming compilation from Deep Elm Records THIS IS INDIE ROCK: Volume O...

The Blind King, in stripped-down format (e.g. missing 2 members, not naked), will be performing tonight at 8:30 PM at The Paradise Lounge, a...

JERSEY GIRL (by Tom Waits) ---------------------------- Chords used in this song: D A7sus4 G G/D xx==== x===== ...

Last night we played the last in our 4-show series at Zuzu. This was probably the best of the four, in terms of attendance and also in term...

Here Comes The Rain Again Lennox & Stewart [Am]Here comes the rain again, [F]falling on my head like a memory [G]Falling on my he...

Lilli has offered us a residency at Zuzu, so we'll be playing there every Thursday in May (6th, 13th, 20th and 27th). We'll have s...

The show tonight at Zuzu went exceptionally well. Ned, the new drummer, really pulled things together, and the extra rehearsals paid off wi...

We're playing another show at Zuzu! This time it's on April 14th.

Unfortunately Vinyl Skyway had to cancel, but we hope to play with them soon...! This wasn't one of our better gigs - I was off, an...

The gig at the Midway was fun. It was weird playing with a drummer, but everyone said it helped our sound, so we're going to keep looki...

Well, I'm down with the flu so the show tonight got cancelled. I've never cancelled a gig before, but I'm really sick. Dave an...

We have a show coming up at The Sky Bar in Somerville: thursday, january 8 INTERNATIONAL PEN PAL, CARS CAN BE BLUE (Portsmouth, NH),...

Johnny Anguish just sent me some pics he snapped during our Davis Square show this last summer: The Blind King - Davis Squ...

We're back!! In case you didn't notice we were gone, for 2 months you couldn't get here via http://www.carefulrecords.com , but...

Added a link to Andy Santospago's groovy new website. Check it out

Not much progress on the record, lately - waiting for some studio time to come up to do more vocal overdubs. Wrote some new songs, though...

I finally added the page for Roger Fritz 's musik. Just a few things so far, I need to convert some more tracks from the other CDs he...

The show at Zuzu last night was fun, and we had a good-sized, attentive crowd. The usual monitor situation made it hard to tell if we were ...

Here's a pic of me playing "Song for Mikey" @ the Mikey Dee Memorial Service @ the Paradise back in July. My friend Paul ...

Some pics from last night in the studio:

zuzu gig confirmed for 9/22

UPDATE: the Zuzu gig has been postponed to either the 22nd or 29th of September. Once it's firmed-up I'll make some nice posters.

We have an upcoming gig at Zuzu , in Central Sq. Cambridge, on Monday, September 8th. It's a part of their "Unhappy Hour" Mon...

A good time was had by all last night at AS220 - the staff was super-friendly, the Red Hook on tap was $1.25 (for band members) and only...

The BLind King is playing another show tonight, Sunday, 7/20/03 at AS220 in Providence, RI. We are booked as " ADINEKO ", due t...

The Blind King played yesterday during the day to "a festival crowd" I hope someone took pictures, cause it sure was fun. Nice ...

Apologies for the quality - these are digital pics I snapped of prints, so there are some weird artifacts that aren't actually there. ...