Kennedy 'Kennedy For President' album

Who needs a cord when KENNEDY is all the livewire you need? On August 21, Cordless Recordings/Warner Brothers Records will unleash KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT, the debut album from Los Angeles’ top musical candidate. The album features the international smash hit “Your Mama” and three tracks (“Let It Out”, “Oh Yeah” and the pop culture smashing “Going Insane”) co-produced by the UK Garage veteran and DirtyPop impresario DJ Sticky.

The balance of the record-- like Kennedy favorites “Karate,” “Mama Made Me a Pimp” and “Let’s Get Def”--is produced by up-and-coming UK super-producers Count De Money. Kennedy himself produces “Sleep Talking” and “Carry Me Back To You.” On the creative process, Kennedy states: “making this record was like making a baby. It started out slow, then it got fast, then it got messy and I snuck out early in the morning.”

Upon its release over the Mother’s Day holiday this past May, the video for “Your Mama,” an homage to all of the beautiful and alluring mothers everywhere (a MILF anthem, according to his MySpace friends), drew over 1,000,000 plays on YouTube in only a few days. The digital-only two-track single "Your Mama" is available now and features the title track and the b-side "Let's Get Def" from the cult film American Pie: The Naked Mile, one of Kennedy's most beloved and requested tracks by his fans.

Tour plans are in the making for later this summer but until then fans can experience the masterful showmanship of Kennedy at the Vans Warped Tour® pre-party Thursday, June 28 at the Glasshouse in Pomona, CA with Gallows, Big D and The Kids Table. As always, Kennedy promises to pull something special out of his bag of tricks and make it a night to remember.

Born Jack Kennedy to a father named John Wayne, Kennedy is a true American. Clawing his way out of the pop culture abyss, Kennedy is songwriter, M.C., rock star, gigolo and future Commander in Briefs. Equal parts raconteur and provocateur, Kennedy is the consummate showman: a bit of PT Barnum, a dash of Woody Allen, a spoonful of Mark Mothersbaugh and a heaping helping of Dirk Diggler.

Long before Kennedy was a Presidential candidate, he spent his formative years in Hollywood working as a tape op at the legendary Cherokee studios. Here he learned the art of recording by working with acts like Mack 10, Taj Mahal, Nik Venet, Brandy, The Lemonheads and various Death Row Recording artists.

After being kicked out of L.A.'s Silversun Pickups for setting the singer's sweater on fire (they later reconciled and Kennedy appears as the bartender in their current video “Lazy Eye”), Kennedy was selected to open for Jon Brion at Café Largo in Los Angeles. The name-dropping doesn't end there. Kennedy has also become a favorite among LA's hipster illuminati, sharing the stage with Fiona Apple, David Cross, Elliot Smith, Sarah Silverman, Diamond Nights, Aimee Mann, Tenacious D, The Black Keys, and many other somewhat talented artists. Kennedy looks forward to kissing your mamas and corrupting your children, virally, with his new record. Remember the motto: Kennedy for President, Let’s Do It Again!

biography
Hometown: Los Angeles.

The lineup: Jack Kennedy (vocals, gadgets, brass balls).

The background: Kennedy is the new nerd-narcissus of faux funk and ironic disco, although god help us if he's playing it straight, in which case, he is to clubbing what the Darkness are to metal. He looks like John Denver's sleazoid twin brother and wears a white flared jumpsuit, the sort Evel Knievel had clinging to his body when he negotiated the Grand Canyon on a rocket-bike. "My music will touch you... inappropriately," he warns. Karate, the opening track on his debut album Kennedy For President, borrows from Oliver Cheatham's Get Down Saturday Night, while Let It Out samples the same 70s classic as did Stardust's Music Sounds Better With You. There is eau de Weird Al Yankovic on this man's muse. He's even got a track, Oh Yeah, that is pure Glitterband stomp, and you can bet your bottom dollar he'd pay good money to be in the witness box saying nice things about The Artist Currently Doing Thai Porridge As Paul Gadd.

His forthcoming single, Your Mama, is not to be confused with another track from his debut album, Mama Made Me A Pimp, itself a supremely authentic, synthetic glitterball pastiche from an alternate universe where Moroder or Cerrone - one of those moustachioed boffin-genius disco types at the macho/gay interface - ranks above Dylan. Your Mama, about seducing MILFs (don't ask), is an internet sensation, apparently having been viewed over one million times on YouTube. Now, this may or may not be true, but the fact is the song could do a Groove Is In The Heart, Deee-Lite's 1990 camp club in-joke that became a bona fide worldwide smash. It's already been featured on YouTube's homepage - on Mother's Day! - was named one of iFilm's viral videos of the year and beat Timberlake, Fergie and OutKast in Fuse's Oven Fresh competition, so put that in your crackpipe and smoke it.

Born Jack Kennedy to a dad named John Wayne, this flared-pant funk geek is a raconteur and provocateur, although probably not a secateur, and equal parts Woody Allen, Mark Mothersbaugh and Dirk Diggler. After being booted out of US indie rockers Silversun Pickups for setting the singer's sweater on fire, he was invited to record with engineer Tom Biller (Kanye West, Sean Lennon) before being spotted by Gordon Raphael (the Strokes, Regina Spektor) while supporting Bloc Party in London. Two tracks were recorded in a day and the rest is, frankly, a mystery. Gregg Alexander (New Radicals. Sophie Ellis Bextor) discovered him in a café in Santa Monica and immediately flew him to London to record three tracks at Mayfair Studios with George Shilling (Blur, Primal Scream - names in brackets, we got 'em). Recently, he's become a favourite among LA's hipster cognoscenti, sharing the stage with Fiona Apple, Tenacious D and more. In 2007 he signed to WEA offshoot Cordless. His album Kennedy For President is to slow-ballin' what Ghandi was to the burger.

The buzz: "I once saw Kennedy play at Spaceland during his Maharishi, fire-eating, Diet-Red-Bull-and-Ketamine phase. He snorted PCP on stage off of some hipster's mesh trucker hat and then shot up cars in the parking lot!" - The Wall Street Journal.

The truth: All of the above is true, apart from the bit about Diet Red Bull - no way would he not go for the full sugar variety.

Most likely to: Have a better sex life now that he's a cyber hero.

Least likely to: Date an actual MILF, especially since becoming a supermodel magnet.

File next to: Chromeo, Bob Sinclar, Har Mar Superstar, Gonzales.

What to buy: Your Mama is released by Atlantic on September 17, with the album Kennedy For President following a week later.

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