KONGOS » News http://www.kongos.com New Single: It’s a Good Life – OUT NOW Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ‘Come With Me Now’ Write-up: Single of the Dayhttp://www.kongos.com/2010/07/30/%e2%80%98come-with-me-now%e2%80%99-write-up-single-of-the-day/ http://www.kongos.com/2010/07/30/%e2%80%98come-with-me-now%e2%80%99-write-up-single-of-the-day/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:20:28 +0000 admin http://www.kongos.com/?p=838 From Single of the Day:

“I heard their song Come With Me Now and I was like, yeah there’s something emanating from the speakers. The crazy accordion to the gang vocals. There’s a nice groove going on that makes this song propel along at a pace that feels like a whole bunch of people gathering for a rally of some sort.” Read full article.

Single of the Day

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The song has received early airplay on Q98 (one of the most requested songs last week!) and Eye97.

Please call your local stations and request it.

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Preview | Lyrics
You can buy it from the following places (Rhapsody and Napster soon):

Promo Video:

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“… The Lost Leaf is one of my favorite places to catch live bands because they have an eclectic mix of bands of different music styles. In the past I have caught The Kongos, an experimental progressive rock group whose members are brothers, and a free form jazz jam fronted by one of the front men of the Drunken Immortals. The variety of musical acts and of course the amazing selection of microbrews is what has put this bar on my short list of favorites. They have their Third Anniversary celebration coming up May 25th. It sounds like it will have a good mix of music (including the Kongos). I suggest you put that date on your calendar or stop in for a First Friday.” ~Paul Curtice.

Check out this video of our Come Together Mashup with Mo.

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Our new single It’s a Good Life is currently the 11th most played record on KXT 91.7 FM (Public Music Radio for Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton).

Tune in if you’re in the area or listen online at http://kxt.org/listen/

Other airplay for this song so far includes Z102, Radio Paradise, AOL Radio, Eye 97, Creamy Radio, Electrical Language and Radio 2XS, .

Call/email/text your local radio stations and ask them to play “It’s a Good Life“!!!

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“My immediate feeling is the sense of fun you hear in the music. It’s like one big party going on. The lyrics have a sense of humor to them. Which I appreciate…”Read article.

Single of the Day

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Kongos – (self-titled)
2007 (no label)
Murphy’s pick: “The Way”

Kongos doesn’t look like rockers, and their music doesn’t quite sound like normal rock. Makes sense then! If you’re looking for something different than the standard, including the accordion in rock music (and not Paul Simon-type of global pop, but ROCK!) then this band is for you. Without question, the most interesting part of this band in my ears is the drive of each song. I could believe this song is comprised of drummers who happen to play noted instruments. Each song has so much attention to the groove that it sounds like another level of music has been reached that other people haven’t quite made it to. GREAT record!

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Thank you to those who’ve been requesting, let’s keep it in the chart!

(012) 362 1072 (studio line)

34996 (sms)

Request online

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“K” for Cool, “O” for Awesome, “N” for Knowledge, “G” for Jenius, “O” for Artistic, “S” for speling

There’s no “The” in KONGOS.

There is however a “the” in “THEre.”

It’s not Kongo’s, it’s not congos, congas, kongus, kongas, or Jeff.

No relation to Cheick Kongo, the conga drum, the Kongo people of Africa, Kongos Norman, Kongos pizza, Kongos Club in Oklahoma, twitter.com/kongos, Kat Kongos, Lasse Kongos, the japanese class of battleship or Kevin Bacon.

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“Kongos,” Kongos. The long-awaited full-length disc from this band of Paradise Valley brothers (Jesse, Dylan, John J. and Daniel) didn’t disappoint, mixing artful prog-rock instrumentation with pop song structures. A single from the disc, “In the Music,” is rising up the charts in Kongos’ native South Africa.

- Chris Hansen Orf, Get Out

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