The NEW KINGS

--activist rock band formed in 2002 by protest singer Michael Louis Johnson, who

led 90s Swing-Punk revolution as side-man and executive producer of Big Rude Jake



--opened for Rancid at Koolhaus in Toronto. Said Tim Armstrong, “It’s punk rock, but

you’ve got the smarts to back up your ranting.”



--released five-song EP – STREET FIGHTER in 2004

--released full-length – TAKE BACK THE STREETS in 2005, www.cdbaby.com

--live recording 16.05.06 sold off the stage



Noted in Canadian national press for "taking back the streets" by hosting

all-candidates debates; playing guerilla gigs in vacant lots and road-construction

areas; staging parking-meter parties and jams at car-free Kensington street

festivals where "everyone is in the band”



--musical style fuses rage and wit of Henry Rollins and Paul Weller with schooling

of Count Basie and Duke Ellington and fun of ze Klownenfuhrer



--fan comments: "It's like watching Johnson walk uphill in a lightning storm with a

golf club over his shoulder. Someday it'll end with two husky guys in uniforms

carting him away.”



"Brilliant songwriting . The best analysis of urban absurdity in the world today."

CJ in ASIA, war correspondent



Soul Shaker by the New Kings, opening for RANCID at the Kool Haus Dec.10, 2006



Let's Make a Deal by the New Kings with the ReEvolution Day Arkestra

at PS Kensington, July 2005

video by Michael Proudfoot