Eclectic and genre defying, King Falcon are an NYC based duo including vocalist/guitarist Michael Rubin and drummer James Terranova, that are becoming a rock and roll force on the rise. The band is constantly pushing themselves to explore innovative sounds by blending musical styles, and with the release of their danceable new single “Shake, Shake, Shake”, the band plan to make their presence known.
King Falcon sat down with All Punked Up to talk about their new single, being stuck in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and much more. Read the interview below!
Q. How did King Falcon form?
A.King Falcon formed on November 30th, 2019. That’s when we picked the name and decided to do it. We recorded ‘Shake, Shake, Shake,’ in the end of December.
Q. Take us through that recording, what made you both decide to release that song?
A.The way we did Shake Shake Shake is different from the rest of our music. For the first song our manager set us up with a bunch of producers out in Los Angeles. We flew out there with no idea what we were going to make. So we flew out there for three days to kind of wing it and see what happens.
We spent our first day getting a feel for the city and on the other two days we were in the studio recording the song. At the end of the third day came out with Shake shake shake. It was a really last minute go-with-the-flow, wing-it type process.
Q. It seemed like it was pretty easy to record. did you have any other experience in music before King Falcon?
A. James and I are in another band called the Inoculated Canaries, I know a little bit of a mouthful. We’ve done that for more than ten years. We have a bunch of music and it’s a totally different concept.
Q. How is King Falcon different from your other band?
A. If you listen to any music from our other band, we always struggled to make music that sounds like other bands. Every time people listen to it, they can’t pinpoint a certain sound. With King Falcon, we wanted to take that same original stuff you’ve never heard before, but we wanted to channel that in alterative rock. King Falcon is focused on being Alt rock. We want to sound like Tame Impala and a Black Keys type of vibe.
Q. Switching gears here real quick, obviously we’re in the middle of a pandemic. How has COVID-19 affected your band?
A. First of all, we were supposed to have our first release party show for Shake shake shake on April 1stat a club in downtown manhatten and pretty much it got cancelled because we can’t have 200 people in a basement during a pandemic. It’s a recipe for disaster. So, our first show for King Falcon got cancelled. We had five or six shows after that which are cancelled too.
Q. Has it altered your approach to releasing music?
A. I think we had a different schedule planned for releasing music. James and I had a whole E.P recorded and we’re going to start working on videos to release every month or so. I think we sort of hand to hit a reset button, but we’re focused now on the things that we can control because we can’t control how long this [the pandemic] will go, we can’t control the fact we can’t play live shows, but we can control digital content.
Q. What do you plan to do with digital content?
A. It’s just a touch and go thing. If this goes on for too long we might have to release music with no videos. We’re trying to do as much stuff as we can to interact with people.
Q. Is there any date we can expect new content or music from you?
A. If it was up to me, we would release music tomorrow. Our manager and PR guy are in charge of that. But we hope to release new music during the summer. It all depends on what happens during the Corona Virus.
Q. Coming to a close on the interview, what do you want to come out of this band? Short-term or long-term?
A. My mom has been someone who’s always helped me. My mom walways told me that if I ever made it I’d have to buy her a Porsche. I want to be able to make enough money with music one day to get my mom a Porsche.
Make sure you go stream their debut single, ‘Shake, Shake, Shake’, and check out their social media handles as well!
Official website: https://kingfalconband.com/
TikTok: @kingfalconband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kingfalconband/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KingFalconBand/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kingfalconband
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPIZOp-BXpo
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