King Falcon hit the ground running with their new single and video Ready Set Go — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The latest taste of the New York trio’s upcoming debut album, Ready Set Go is a supercharged indie rocker with a Black Keys sense of blues-punk dirt. Produced by Marshall Altman (Citizen Cope, Wayne Shepherd, Mark Broussard) and mixed by Grammy-nominated mixing engineer and producer Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Fleetwood Mac), the song captures the frenetic urban sprawl of the band’s New York City home.
“The three of us are from New York, born and raised, so we wanted to write a song that captured the speed and the electric energy that we felt while walking around the city,” says King Falcon’s Michael Rubin. “The drums represent that excitement and anticipation as you emerge from the subway station, then the bass and guitars come in for that big reveal as you make your way outside. Are you ready for it? Well, get set and go.”
The video captures Rubin in the streets of Manhattan, rushing to get to a show on time. “This video was actually one of the more physically demanding ones we have filmed,” Rubin adds. “We basically spent an entire day sprinting around New York at full speed while carrying gear! My personal favorite part of the video is where Tom’s car won’t start. While we were shooting that scene, James accidentally broke off one of the door handles on Tom’s car so he basically had to open it with his fingernails for the rest of that scene.”
Rubin is the creative driving force behind King Falcon, but drummer and sometimes recording engineer James Terranova is essential to the band’s spirit. His fastidious, plan-ahead persona is the perfect counterpoint to Michael’s freewheeling personality, and the pair have an old-married-couple kind of connection. “I would take a bullet for him, but I may also be that person to shoot him,” Michael jokes. Up until now, King Falcon have been a guitar-and-drums duo, but the twosome recently welcomed drummer Tom Diognardi, with moving James to bass.
In 2020, the duo released the funky and infectiously catchy single Shake! Shake! Shake! However, the pandemic cleared King Falcon’s calendar before their debut show. The guys made the most of the situation by sending their single When The Party Is Over, out to labels. “That song represented me trying to convince my parents, and myself, that I could get somewhere playing guitar,” Michael says. The song turned out to be aces for the band, landing them a contract with Ron Burman’s Mascot Record Label.
King Falcon have now resumed their pre-pandemic plans of playing their first live shows and touring, and will be hitting the road for a string of northeast dates this summer. “It took two and a half years to get here,” Michael says, pausing thoughtfully. “If you asked me when I first got my guitar if we would get a label and be where we are today, I would have said, ‘oh yeah, no problem,’ but I’ve learned the reality of it all isn’t that simple. It is amazing to be where we are today, but it was definitely a challenging journey.”
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