TCB
By Christopher Gray, Fri., March 5, 2004
Return of the K
Those Kissinger kids, they're up to something. Again. "I just had my first day off in five weeks," relays singer Chopper from a Dick Cheney-like undisclosed location. The popular Austin fourpiece will record their long-awaited second album this summer with Robert Shimp, late of the Donnas, Plus Ones, and Hi-Fives. With several new songs already written and more on the way, Chopper promises the new album will be much more rock than the acerbic pop of 2000 debut, Charm. Almost by accident, the redlining "Certain Girls" is already getting spins at 101X. "That was really just a demo," muses Chopper, "but I gave one to Melody [101X program director Lee] and she started playing it." The impossibly tall frontman has been spending even more time on the road than usual, going undercover as a solo artist while scouting locations for future Kissinger raids. "It's a good chance to get out to places we can't afford to drive to," he says. "I write all my songs on acoustic guitar anyway."
