Both the CD and LP of the mauled by tigers comp are now available at mauledbytigers.com in the online store. Don’t tell anyone. (tell everyone!)

The CD is 5 dollars post paid and the LP is 9 dollars post paid.

Comp features:
-matt and kim
-japanther
-canadian rifle
-punkin pie
-rager
-king tuff
-the bananas
-lone wolf and cub
-parts and labor
-pterodactyl
-underground railroad to candyland
-dynamite arrows
-maps and atlases
-ultra dolphins
-shopping
-the deathset
-kit
-latterman
-tulsa
-the ka-nives
-bossy
-the hunchback

we left NY on a friday. our van actually started, last 3 times we tried to go to the airport our van, President VANburen, as i call it, has said “no way” i think it’s jealous when we don’t take it to our shows.

lollapalooza on the next day. we opened the fest at 11:45 AM!

it was the earliest we’ve ever played a show, we pictured there would only be some people setting up some tents and a couple of hung over dudes stumbling in with cups of coffee, but there was actually people there

and then around 5 hours later we heard the bum out news that CSS got stuck at JFK airport (been there) and we were asked if we wanted to play again closing the citi stage, uhhh obviously even though kim feared it’d be a ton of people looking to see CSS straight hatin on us, but it ended it super positive and fun there was even a circle pitalooza. we saw daft punk play, stage production as crazy as everyone’s sayin, we kept seeing perry ferrell in the backstage area and kim said he changed his outfit 3 times that day! and we also saw eddie vedder was guest appearing with another band and kids started RUNNING toward the stage, lollapalooza still loves pearl jam.

monday kim, scott (our friend who’s on the trip with us, he also took these photos) fly to oslo norway, oya fest. it was the first time i ever egged a crowd on to throw shit at us as we played yea yeah, probably the last time as well! even though the show was super fun that stage was completely trashed after thousands of people were throwing tons of stuff at us, here you can see a roll of toilet paper in flight. kim shot daggers out of her eyes at me when i said that.

with Flosstradamus

and then in the spirt of playing twice at a fest. we were able to play again on this floating dock, room, stage thing that we tried to make like a little house party. but then halfway through the set i’m an idiot and jumped into the lake, got out, and water was running off me like i was pouring a beer in my keyboard, and it broke. daggers again.

the next day when driving to the airport to head to london, maybe it was because i was so stressed about breaking my keyboard the first day we were in europe, maybe it was car sickness, or maybe because they say that lake i jumped into is the most polluted water in norway, but the van had to pull over so i could throw up on the side of the highway.

kim stanks

then on friday in london we were suppose to play the underage festival, which was a festival or only kids under 18 that would have been a first but the stage we were suppose to play on was canceled. we ended up getting added on to a show that night with crystal castles and the teenagers.

the next day we took a 6 hour bus ride out to cornwall, england, on a bus with no bathroom, basically my worst nightmare, i have a bladder like a peanut. we stopped for a bathroom break at rest stop, when getting back into the bus the driver realizes he’s LOST HIS KEY TO THE BUS, ha! after the bus driver stressed out for a little while scott found the key and we continued onto newquay. it was a fest on the ocean with like crazy dirt biking and shit going on we played in what looked like a circus tent.

and there was these giant bongs

cliffside

newquay baggy jean punks

took the same bus back and realized only when pulling back into london the there WAS actually bathrooms on the buses but in the middle of the bus, so weird.

the next day we played at a place called the cuban bar in camden london. and man did that show go downhill quick… somehow we were able to break almost all our stuff within our 20 min set, and when your playing and things start going wrong it only leads to more things going wrong, you start forgetting how to play songs you played a million times and forget lyrics you know, well at least we all made it out alive.

from london then to amsterdam. this point our camera decided to stop working. awesome city, so many bikes! and no, drugs aren’t really our thing, and we ended up walking past the sex street, but only in the day.

amsterdam to rotterdam on a train, i got out at one of the stops along the way to find out where we transfer and the train started leaving with kim and scott and all of our stuff on it, i had to jump back on a random car, kim spent the rest of the trip thinking i got left behind.

rotterdam to our last show in belgium, at the pukklepop fest. which i guess that name has something to do with pimples. awesome fest. saw henry rollins speak. it’s bizarre though, all around the fest were troughs just out in the open that dudes could piss in, so many wieners.

next day we flew back to NYC, except i booked the flights so that we had to fly hours in the wrong direction to helsinki finland, and then transfer to fly back to new york. i’m no travel agent

then we’ve hung at home for a week or so and were getting ready for tomorrow, it’s back on the road for the US with against me! and david dondero and i’m super excited! that’s the story of our life right there. i definitely hope to see you out and about, we’ve got a couple new tricks up our sleeve were waiting to bust out!
-matt

we got back from a little trip to texas and back we had a super rad time, and our friend tod seelie was on the road with us taking some pictures. we have a photo “tour diary” incase you couldn’t make it down… here’s the link http://everydayilive.com/bands/mattandkimsxsw/

you gotta go check out our good friend JESSE JANE’s online photo show, it plays as a slide show with our song YEA YEAH and it’s amazing (click the picture below to see it)

it actually all started tuesday, i woke up feeling dead sick but thought “no big deal” i’m headed to chicago today and i love chicago, but chicago was getting some bad-ass snow and flight = canceled, then thought “no big deal” our show isn’t till tomorrow it might actually be good i can go home, sleep off this killer cold, play a tighter show, we got our flight rescheduled for wednesday 1:15pm. woke up got ready to go, checked with the airline, again flight = canceled, “no big deal” we got them to give us seats on the the 4:15, go to the van to drive to the airport, of course it doesn’t start, opened the hood and for some reason huge pile of snow just on the battery, “no big deal”, we called a car service. we made it to the flight just on time after a slow snowy drive and some running through the airport, (knocking over young children and the elderly of-course) and then we sit and wait. about 4 hours, as our gate sign changes from tampa to chicago to burbank (when the chicago crowd started yelling “boooooooo bank!”) (ya’ll a rowdy bunch.) then changes back to chicago. but it’s “no big deal” cause we board around 8. people are super psyched, and if we left at 8 we’d make it to chicago around 10:00, plenty of time. we’re sitting on the plain and of course they keep teasing us saying we’re leaving, we even backed up for a second then drove forward again. after about an hour and a half of sitting there our phone runs out of battery but i found a plug in the bathroom so i’m sitting in there while people are banging on the door for like 15 minutes talking to scott our booking dude who is in chicago about what in the world we should do, he says even if you can make it by 1:30 am do it! but another hour and a half passes and they tell us there is no way the flight can leave for even another 2 hours, so we know we’ve missed this show.

this story even continues… but it’s too long already, but all in all
we’re super sorry and we love chicago and we’ll be back soon.

-matt

super sweet video flier for our show on wednesday in chicago!

FlosstraPROMus flyer by thunder horse

and this is worth checkin out:

Matt & Lil’ Kim feat. Shanice Р“Verbs Before Nouns, Mothafucka”

kim and i have been doing quite a few of these interviews lately, but this one from our buds at chiefmag.com was way extensive, so if you want our life story… here it goes. and you can go to chiefmag.com to see it with pictures and stuff like that.

(the *** is chief)

***These two are quite possibly the happiest people alive. Keys and drums, grins and chuckles, Matt and Kim… Whether you go for their squathouse-pop turned nation-wide rock, or simply Matt’s stage banter, you may find yourself all smiles while you and those closest rock out, pushed against Kim’s drumset.

***Chief Magazine: Tell me and everyone else, where are you two from?

Kim: I am from East Providence, Rhode Island.

Matt: Jacksonville, Vermont.

***What kind of stuff were you into as kids?

Kim: I was a jock. When I started 7th grade I started doing all round sports. In high school I focused on track. My plans back then were to run throughout college and then compete in the Olympics. Yeah… didn’t work out as planned. I made it through one year at Penn State and realized I had other things in mind. I do miss running though.

Matt: 7th grade was way into wearing at least two flannel shirts at all times. Then I got really into skateboarding and then political punk and had a sweet Filth butt flap.

***What do you two do when you’re not making music that makes the kids shake? What other things do you amuse yourself with?

Kim: Yes, when we are home for longer than a week I am making art. I recently had my first solo show in Brooklyn at Cinders Gallery. [Read Kim's interview about her solo show.]

Matt: I worked on TV shows and music videos and stuff. For this one show that had a naked marinette puppet of Matthew McConaughey and I had to blur out his huge wooden penis like in cops. But these days when I‚Äôm not making music I‚Äôm hopefully just chillin’, hard.

***What kind of music were you into? What was the first music that you heard, that you were just like “This, this is what I love. I love THIS music.”

Kim: I grew up listening to a lot of techno. Throughout high school I went to a lot of raves, Oh and I was a straight edge raver. My brother is a pretty big rave dj (DJ VENOM) and he introduced me into that scene. When I did a year at penn state I met a lot of local punks and started listening to pop punk.

Matt: The first tape I ever owned was Fine Young Cannibals and that was right on, then the first CD I ever owned was Cypress Hill and that was right on, I got it from my parents in 5th grade. But I guess I started getting into music with Nirvana and Metallica, but then when I started getting into punk stuff like the first time I heard The Casualties that was what it was about and when I decided I had to start playing music and living it and all that, soon came the butt flap.

***How did you two meet originally? Walk us down memory lane.

Kim: Actually you are going to find this funny. Do you remember when you threw a show at your uncle’s loft? Matt‚Äôs old band, Amanda Noa, played. Well before that Matt and I had been talking but that is the night the magic happened. I feel like the Amanda Noa really brought it to a new extreme with almost everyone in the band walked out during the set except for J and some dudes who decided to step in. Matt and I took off to get some food and do a bit of smooching. That was the beginning of Kim and Matt‚Ķ not Matt and Kim

Matt: ’nuff said.

***How did you turn whatever you two were, into a band? How did Kim and Matt become Matt and Kim?

Kim: We were working on films and art projects together. We work really well together. Matt was writing some solo stuff at that time. It was awesome but he wasn’t doing anything with it. My friend Ian gave me his old drum set so we set them up in our bed room and that is when it started. We didn’t think it was going to go any farther then us messing around in our apartment. A few months later Ian forced us to play our first show. I guess if it wasn’t for him the band would of never made it out like we did.

***How do you two keep so damn happy? I know some people, when they get down, they throw on your CD and it just gets them all charged up, happy as sin. Do either of you have any rituals to raise your spirits?

Kim: Wow that is awesome. Umm… I don’t get bummed out that often. I don’t know why but it just doesn’t happen. I do watch America’s Funniest Home Videos to make me laugh. I mean nothing is funnier than a dude getting hit in the junk. That shit cracks me up!

Matt: We try to be who we are when we play live, honest you know? And for the most part we are totally siked and it shows, but if we were totally bummed that would show too. There too many bands that put on the poker face and the music has to filter through hopefully just acting like they don’t care, unless that actually do, in fact, not care, I think it’s really important to be honest when you perform. And we just like to write and hear and live to some songs you can party and have fun with.

***I think it’s important to acknowledge that the way you two appear on stage (with white-toothed smiles, stretched wider than your heads) is no act. You don’t pretend to be “in love” with life, you two just are. You feel like telling people why? Got any advice for sullen teenagers?

Kim: You have it wrong… I think I have more of an off-white smile. I blame it on all the tea I drink We are happy people in general but it is so much fun to play music and that is why we are grinning so much on stage. Also matt makes an ass of himself which makes me laugh a lot.

Matt: Totally beat you to that question.

***How did the Videos come about? Did you two collaborate at all with the directors? Was there a concrete vision for either of the songs, that you wanted maintained? Or did you just trust in who you brought on to direct?

Matt: Our video for “5k”, our man Colin Moore came at us with that idea. Pitched to us‚Ķ ‚Äúso like Matt‚Äôs arms start growning really long right, and kim takes out this huge knife and chops them off and then sews them back on. Them the same thing happens vice versa, and then the crowd gets really into it and starts cutting each other up, and then everyone dies.‚Äù Kim and I sit with just some blinks‚Ķ ‚ÄúColin, we‚Äôre not Tool,‚Äù but the more we talked about it the more it became clear‚Ķ that is perfect. We get cornered into the cute category and we‚Äôd still be ourselves, just with gallons of fake blood involved just trying to balance. And as far as “Yea Yeah” goes, we were playing a show in Houston and our drunken friends started thowing pizza at us and then ice and drinks and other stuff and it was super fun, and figured wooop there it is. Then talking to Nick Chatfield-Taylor about having a twist at the end, he said ‚Äúbanana costume comes in and wrecks everything.‚Äù Genius.

***How has the response been?

Matt: Response to both videos has been great, and I’m happy to say that no one, that I know of, has either cut them or someone else at one of our shows, or, thrown food at us.

***I heard that the “Yea Yeah” video is going to hit one of the MTV channels? How did that come about?

Matt: We were contacted a little while back by MTV2 about getting a video from us, but at that point we just had the “5k” video which is too explicit for American TV, but I heard it was being played on MTV2 in the UK which I feel there is something particularly crazy about that ’cause we recorded that song in our bedroom, and the video cost less then 500 bucks. Then after we did “Yea Yeah”, we were contacted again and it‚Äôs slated to run on MTV2 and MTV-U early 2007 which is still wild, made for less then a thousand bucks, but same as the “5k” video was done, help from awesome friends who were willing to lend time and resources or possibly just get drunk and bloody.

***How do you like Myspace as a whole? Do you like the ability to communicate with the fans?

Kim: The whole myspace thing has been good to us. I mean on our first tour we were in San Diego, which is about the farthest you can get from New York and still be in mainland U.S., and we had people singing along and dancing to our songs way before we even had an album out. That was pretty sweet. Which can only come from MySpace, spreading around online and CD burning or stuff like that. As uncool as it to talk about, technology is really helping independent bands spread the word around the whole world, when it might have been impossible to get distribution to say Africa or somewhere unless you were huge, now… you know, it’s easier. for talking to people it gets tough especially when we are on the road. We don’t get a lot of internet time and I feel like people get pissed when they write us and we don’t respond. I start to feel guilty especially because MySpace has that thing when you can tell if someone has read your message. I hope people understand that it is really tough to respond to all the messages but we love getting them.

***As far as what you would want for the band, does MySpace do it right?

Kim: MySpace is OK. I think the best thing to do is tour. MySpace is good for letting people know you are coming.

Matt: Yeah a big part of knowing what we sound like is to see us and be part of it.

***What are you guys listening to these days?

Kim: Beyonce. T.I., Ludacris, Toys that Kill, Japanther, Best Fwends, Death Set, Flosstradamus, GirlTalk, oh and we listen to a lot of audio books.

Matt: That list works for me. Anything Timbaland or Dre produces, Ramones, anything that makes you wanna have fun, or think, I don’t know.

***Who is out there, just killing it, that you think people should be checking out? Who isn’t getting the exposure they deserve?

Kim: Best Fwends and Dan Deacon.

***From years and years of playing Bed-Stuy house parties and now suddenly you’re CMJ’s local band of the year. Does this recognition feel like it happened suddenly?

Kim: I guess I don’t really notice the recognition… I don’t feel like we have changed at all. We’re still doing what we’ve always done, last tour played in peoples basements and houses as well as now some bigger spots and when we are home we are always down to play lofts in Brooklyn.

Matt: Yeah we‚Äôre totally just doing what we‚Äôve always done but sometimes at a little larger scale. I mean it is different when we‚Äôre in like Arizona and recognized in a grocery store (don’t get me wrong, doesn’t happen to us too often), but I remember being in a band in high school and thinking it would be crazy to have one person I didn‚Äôt know singing along to lyrics I‚Äôd written.

***This is what, your fourth massive tour? What’s the secret?

Kim: I think this is our fourth tour. The secret… hmm, I guess that because Matt and I can be around each other all the time without getting sick of each other makes it very easy to keep touring. I also love being on the road. I think it is because I never went anywhere as a kid. I mean in Rhode Island if you drive more than a half hour you pack a lunch.

Matt: Yea and Kim smells good.

***Are there any stories from on the road that were just a fantastic series of events? Was there one big, seriously lucky day? Any adventure story that you wouldn’t believe if you weren’t there? A best/worst day perhaps?

Kim: Well a few tours ago we out ran a tornado‚Ķ but for this tour… OK, probably the worst day of tour… We were leaving Flagstaff, Arizona after having a sweet show that luckily enough the cops showed up right after we were done playing. As we were leaving Flagstaff we realized our brakes were shot. We found a Midas and slept in the parking lot. It was below freezing that night so it was an uncomfortable sleep. We woke up at 7:30 so that we could get the van right in. We waited in the Midas waiting room from 7:30 am till 4pm. It sucked. They had to keep getting parts from other stores. At 2pm we started calling San Diego where we were suppose load in at 6pm. We were giving them the heads up that we probably weren‚Äôt going to make it. Then we started to feel bad. We always have an awesome time in San Diego and we really hate to cancel shows. We decided that if we were going to make it there in time for the show we had to leave flagstaff by 4:00. At 3:45 the van was still not done. We told them to take it off the lift and we were just going to hope that we made it. After the guy tried to convince us not to drive it he took it down. We drove non-stop to San Diego‚Ķ when we were in the middle of nowhere, right above the Mexico boarder, I realized we were about to run out of gas. Now, if you are familiar with this area there is nothing there. Absolutely nothing there. We were searching on the map for towns‚Ķ nothing for the next 20 miles with the gas gauge on the red‚Ķ Well after yelling at each other for a bit we made it to a gas station. We made it to San Diego with a half hour to spare. It was an awesome show and I am happy we made it. We then left san diego at 1 in the morning to make our way to LA. We showed up at 3:30 am and slept in the van so we could again wake up at 7:30 and bring the van to another midas. It cost us a shit ton of money but we didn‚Äôt have to cancel a show. Yea, I guess that was the worst time on tour!

***What’s next? What’s on the horizon for you two? Any plans on resting back in Brooklyn for little bit?

Kim: We just got a booking agent. I know I know we are taking away the D.I.Y. effect of it but I have to say that the amount of touring we have been doing makes it really tough to keep booking tours. I realized that when I was booking a tour while on tour. Also it takes a lot of time to book the tours and I realized that I haven’t made any art over the past few months which is pretty lame. So our booking agent now has us booked up till June. We will be doing a lot of one-week tours throughout the months. We requested to be in Brooklyn for a bit because we need to start working on our next album.

Matt: Yeah I’m super siked to be working on new songs, super siked to be hanging in brooklyn for a minute, but I’ll be super siked to be on the road again. So things are going pretty good and I’ll try to hold that down. A 40-year-old dude who looked 20 that my friend met in lock down when asked, “How do you do it?” once said “One: never get an alarm clock,” bam I try to sleep 12 hours a day, “Two: eat healthy,” i ate and apple and chocolate wafers for lunch so I’m half way there, “Three: don’t work a job you don’t like,” and I can’t think of one thing I would want to do more than play music and feel so lucky that that is what I get to do.

we had a killer time on tour, but it sure feels good to be back to ol’ grand and marcy waking up on my own couch this morning. why i didn’t sleep in my bed… that’s a short story you can guess. but we can’t wait till this saturday when we’re playing at STUDIO B in brooklyn. with some of our good friends awesome bands.

Saturday January 6th @ STUDIO B
ALL AGES
6 BUCKS

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