KeN

Video for "Happy Suicide" off the new album Silky Smooth Destruction
directed by Paul Hazlett


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KeN Silky Smooth Destruction

KeN

Silky Smoth Destruction

Funtime Records


Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Pete Rydberg at 1935


1. Shooie
2. Tuck It In
3. Punk Rock Block
4. Happy Suicide
5. Evil Snake
6. Friday The 13th: The Ascension
7. Real Comet
8. Snowflake


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KeN Parade of Sinners

KeN

Parade of Sinners

Funtime Records


Recorded July 2003 with Brian McTear at Miner Street


Mixed and Mastered in February 2004 by Pete Rydberg at 1935


1. Vanishing Woman
2. 38" 24" 28" Hike
3. Son of a Pistol
4. James Bond Brown
5. Vaseline
6. Angry Old Ladies
7. Perc In My Pocket
8. Boys Who Rock
9. Hustler
10. Double Breasted
11. Maurena Cop
12. Sweaty Psalms


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"Best Punk Album of the Year 2006" - Just Plain Folks music awards Los Angeles, CA


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Here is what Sara Sherr had to say in her column in the Philadelphia Daily News:

The boys might get all the ink and the glory in the local rock scene, but its soul belongs to the women over 30 who have lived it and are still living (members of Thee Minks, Beretta76, Undergirl, the Jane Anchor).


The ladies (and gent) of KeN have a decade of rocking under their belts, sharing stages with everyone from the Psychedelic Furs to Ben Folds. They've been having so much fun, they finally put their Breeders-meets-Black Sabbath riffage to record on Parade of Sinners.


Beyond the wisecracking puns of "Sweaty Psalms" is a wise, bittersweet break-up album. When frontwoman Jen-Pie Snyder sings with equal parts contempt and compassion on "Boys Who Rock" - "I love a boy that rocks, I wanna self-destruct just like you" - is she laughing at them or with them?


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Here's what City Paper's Patrick Rapa had to say about KeN's Parade of Sinners
Hell Is A Place; The Sinners are Much More Fun


And here is what Doug Wallen from the Philadelphia Weekly had to say about KeN's Parade of Sinners


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Carbon 14 review of Parade of Sinners:
After nearly a decade of playing live and a handful of lineup changes, longtime Philly favorites KeN have finally released their first full-length CD. I can hear everything from a '60s garage-fuzz stomp to '70s punk to '80s noise over the albums 12 tracks (sometimes all in one song) and a lot of other stuff in between. So right there you know you're getting a full palette of rock; a little something for everybody, if you will. I like how some of the guitar breaks go in unexpected directions, finding a new way to further suck you into the songs, until you're caught up in a vortex of sound that doesn't let you go until it's over. If this band were barbeque, the rhythm section of Jiggles D'Jello (bass) and L. Gato Diablo (drums) would be a 40-gallon drum of white-hot coals; the dueling guitars of Bad Cop Hamilton and KRS-10 would be a big 'ol meaty slab of ribs; and Jen-Pie Snyder's dark and sweet vocals would be the sauce that ties it all together. Tasty. - Larry Kay