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Leslie Schultze: Bass guitar | Brian Riley: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Keyboards | Birdy Bardot: Vocals | Jon Bonser: Drums

Genre: Rock

Sound description: Loud and mod Brit rock that makes cowards run.

RIYL: New Mexico, Hotel St. George, the Mashtis, the Modlins, the Howls, Apes of Wrath, Scruffles, Tape Deck Mountain, the Small Faces, the Black Keys, Rosetta Tharpe, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Greenhornes, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Animals, Vampire Weekend, My Pet Saddle, New Mexico, the Movers and The Shakers, the Dig, the National, Elvis Costello, Eddie Cochran, Blur, the Dandy Warhols, Dum Dum Girls, the Jam, Style Council, the Turtles, Little Richard, Muddy Waters

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Song Downloads

• Poor Little Lonely Warlord

Discography

Related Links:

• http://www.myspace.com/newkinetics

• Jam Session: "Best and Worst Gigs Ever: New Kinetics" · Aug. 17, 2011

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Synoposis

Inception: San Diego, 2010

Influences: The Kinks, Delta Spirit, The Clash, Anita O'Day, the Small Faces, Wreckless Eric, The Knack, Devo, the Cars, Talking Heads, the GoGo's, Tune-Yards, the Soft Pack, the Electric Haze

Background:

Based in North Park, the New Kinetics was founded by singer Birdy Bardot and guitarist/keyboardist Brian Riley (Hotel St. George). Their first drummer auditions were held at Hindsight.

"The first drummer, second drummer and third all came and went," says Reilly. "While winding cables and packing up, the first drummer stuck his head back in the studio door. 'I wanna go again,' he said quietly."

When Jon Bonser (Death on Mars). sat himself behind the dilapidated set this time, something was different, and the room exploded with the cover originally recorded by The Small Faces. Their next recruit was bassist Leslie Schultze.

After signing to San Diego label Aural Gravy Records, the band released their EP Rock and Roll Has Got To Go in late 2010, followed by a full-length in September 2011, Contact and a video for their first single “Riffle Raff.”