TJ KONG & THE ATOMIC BOMB present: DANCING OUT THE DOOR

TJ KONG & THE ATOMIC BOMB present:
DANCING OUT THE DOOR
Out TODAY via Good Behavior Records

TJ KONG HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL
ROCK N ROLL MURDERSHOW
October 28th at Underground Arts, Philadelphia

LISTEN TO DANCING OUT THE DOOR HERE:
https://tjkongandtheatomicbomb.bandcamp.com/album/dancing-out-the-door

As the world begins this Friday The 13th in October, Philadelphia’s Post-Apocalyptic Americana band, TJ KONG & THE ATOMIC BOMB, is releasing its new LP DANCING OUT THE DOOR (via Good Behavior Records). The 13-track record dives into a cosmic, piano-driven, whiskey-soaked, pragmatism that makes its tunes as intricate and thought-provoking as they are dance-able.

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The band is also gearing up for its 8th annual “TJ Kong Halloween Costume Ball Rock N Roll Murdershow”. A Philly Halloween tradition with six bands on two stages taking over Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St, Philadelphia, PA) on Saturday October 28th. The show has been dubbed “A Halloween event to blow your barely-costumed house parties out of the water” by JUMP Magazine and, “creepy, kooky and all around raucous Halloween fun… the best rock and roll party this All Hallows’ Eve” by WXPN’s The Key. This year promises to be as spine-tingling as ever, including performances from Philly favorites Levee Drivers, Tutlie, OOLALA, Shy Boyz, and Red 40 & The Last Groovement.

The band sees Dancing out the Door as the third installment in a trilogy that began with their debut record, Idiots, followed up by Manufacturing Joy. According to frontman Bruskewicz, “Idiots explores folk music, Manufacturing Joy explores garage, delta blues and country, and Dancing out the Door adds horns as well as organ and keys to explore our strange version of New Orleans, the holiest of the holies.”

The album begins with the intimate and cinematic intro of “Black Bats” which pushes through into the lunatic party of its chorus. They display a laid-back twang on “Mulholland Drive” before an out-of-this-world quote from Muhammed Ali leads into the animated “California Basement Blues”. “Dancing out the Door”displays its strength as the album’s namesake through its powerful drunken sing-along sensation. The tracks “Heat Heat Heat” and “Long Black Dress” show off TJ Kong’s jazz and garage chops respectively, gearing the album up for it’s Herculean New Orleans finish on “Soul Asylum”.

The band’s notoriety in the much-buzzed-about Philly music scene comes on two strengths: Frontman Dan Bruskewicz‘s darkly poetic, catchy narratives and a raucous, high energy live show – the likes of which the band was determined to capture in the studio for their third record. Dancing out the Door was recorded to tape over two days at Kawari Sound Studios, enlisting the talents of producer Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man, Ron Gallo) and mastering engineer Joe Lambert. “We recorded the majority of everything you hear live, including vocals,” says Bruskewicz. “It’s a very freeing way to work, knowing that perfection is out of the question. ‘Perfect is dead.’ James Taylor told me that once on a very strange evening in Philadelphia.”

In an effort to capture the explosion of angels and demons that Dancing out the Door cultivates, Bruskewicz offers this: “We’re excited about what we found… a joyful madness. These songs all have a different story to tell, not the lame story of the band or our records, but real stories of strange humans doing beautiful things and being imperfect. Kaboom!”

UPCOMING SHOWS

10/26 – Atwood’s – Cambridge, MA
10/27 – Live Paste Magazine Session

TJ KONG HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL ROCK N ROLL MURDER SHOW
10/28 – Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA

11/2 – Barley’s Taproom – Knoxville, TN
11/3 – Baja – Staunton, VA
11/4 – Pianos – New York, NY
11/10 – The Mill – Charleston, SC
11/11 – Jack of the Wood – Asheville, NC

TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb is Dan Bruskewicz (Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica), Dan Cask (Drums), Joshua “J.A.M” Machiz (Upright Bass), and Josh Olmstead (Guitar). Dancing out the Door will be released Friday the 13th of October, 2017 via Good Behavior Records.

DANCING OUT THE DOOR
By TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb1. Black Bats
2. John Wilkes Booth
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Mars
5. California Basement Blues
6. Dancing out the Door
7. She Don’t Keep Time
8. Magazine Woman
9. Party on Rainbow Road
10. Heat Heat Heat
11. To Love & Serve the Lord
12. Long Black Dress
13. Soul Asylum