Here It Is: Sun Kil Moon’s Song "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock"
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Sun Kil Moon: "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock"
Last week, Sun Kil Moon‘s Mark Kozelek made a promise: That on October 6, at 9pm PST, he would release a song entitled “War on Drugs: Suck My Cock”. Friends, that time has come. The seven-minute song has arrived, presumably at the precise moment when the War on Drugs hit the stage at the Fillmore in San Francisco. In addition to targeting the Philadelphia band, he talks about the Hopscotch performance where he called the crowd “fuckin’ hillbillies”.
The third verse is dedicated to the initial coverage of the Hopscotch concert by Indy Week. Kozelek refers to the writer Allison Hussey, calling her “some spoiled bitch rich kid blogger brat”.
He calls the War on Drugs “nice,” but also “the whitest band I’ve ever heard” and said they love John Mellencamp. “To make three albums took ‘em nine fuckin’ years,” he sings.
There’s no word yet on the War on Drugs’ hypothetical response song “Sun Kil Moon: Go Fuck Yourself”.
In other Kozelek news, late last year—the pre-Benji days of December 2013—it was announced that Kozelek would release an album of Christmas standards called Sings Christmas Carols. The release date has been moved up from November 10 to November 4. The tracklist has now changed slightly.
Sings Christmas Carols:
01 Christmas Time Is Here
02 Do You Hear What I Hear
03 2,000 Miles
04 O Come, All Ye Faithful
05 Oh Christmas Tree
06 Away in a Manger
07 O Little Town of Bethlehem
08 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
09 Silent Night
10 The First Noel
11 I Believe in Father Christmas
12 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
13 What Child Is?
14 The Christmas Song
Sun Kil Moon:
10-09 Hollywood, CA – The Fonda Theatre
11-07 Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest
11-09 Chicago, IL – Park West
11-11 Winnipeg, Manitoba – West End Cultural Centre *
11-28 Reykjavik, Iceland – Frikirkjan Church
11-30 Stockholm, Sweden – Sodra Teateren
12-01 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
12-03 London, England – St. John at Hackney Church
12-04 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
12-06 Tel Aviv, Israel – Barby Club
12-08 Leuven, Belgium – Het Depo
12-09 Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
12-10 Glasgow, Scotland – SWG3
01-31 Orlando, FL – Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater *
* Mark Kozelek solo
Read our interview with Kozelek from earlier this year and read our recent feature on War on Drugs here. Watch Sun Kil Moon perform “Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes” at Pitchfork Music Festival:
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