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TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos - The Deep End (Original Version) Label: Compost Black Label ‎– #11, Compost Records ‎– Compost 231-1 Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM Country: Germany Released: Nov 2006 Genre: Electronic Style: House, Techno soundcloud.com/nunodossantos

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T R U N K S H O W // August 21, 2014

presented by Haight Ashbury Collective + Raen

Catch Grubby Little Hands and TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb live at the Surf Lodge in Montauk, NY for an extra special show.

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TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb are a band of so and so's who sound like Bob Seger high on cocaine in the bathtub watching Werner Herzog movies.

They're a throwback, if such a thing is still possible, to the swinging, drunken dancing memories of jump blues and roadhouse rock. Since the release of their first full length album in the Spring of 2010, TJ Kong and Co. have spent most of their time touring the country and becoming more or less a machine of soulful joy. In that time they have released two LP's, Idiots and Manufacturing Joy, and in March of 2014 released an EP called Kong with famed Philadelphia producer Bill Moriarty.

TJ Kong have played at POP Montreal, South By Southwest, CMJ Music Marathon, Denver GABF, Truck America and O Positive festivals and have opened for bands like Mercury Rev, Yarn, J Roddy Walston and the Business, Phantogram, These United States, White Rabbits and Here We Go Magic.

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Press

"Playing Americana 'slash blues', the duo sing, wail, lament, and brood over being drunk, hungover, alone, depressed, sweaty, and lost. A simple recount of a whiskey-inspired tradition on guitar and harmonica." - Pop Montreal

"A contemporary-ancient brand of Americana similar to The Band or, at its crankiest extreme, Captain Beefheart... with a dirty Mersey Beat that'd shame the Animals." - Philadelphia Citypaper

"It lands somewhere between The Basement Tapes and Anodyne, with a ragged, lo-fi aesthetic and lyrics drenched in heartbreak and whiskey.” - Pop Matters

“A post-apocalyptic fall-out shelter house band.” - Philadelphia Weekly

"Entertainingly unhinged." - CBS Philadelphia

"Sounding like a cross between the Mountain Goats, Tom Waits and the ghost of Captain Beefheart serenading the crowd at a drunken rodeo, these guys cherry pick from the American songbook for both whiskey-soaked missives and woozy balladry." - The Deli Magazine

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Psyched for Philebrity-curated Art Star Craft Bazaar, happening May 11 & 12 at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. The excellent music lineup includes Good Behavior artists Grubby Little Hands and TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb.

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TJ Kong at the Atomic Bomb for CP

Feature on TJ Kong at the Atomic Bomb for CP's music issue.

Stream their new album, Manufacturing Joy.

Photo: Neal Santos