Earlier this month, Norwegian black metal vets Taake announced a North American tour with goth-country artist King Dude. About a week after the announcement, the show at NYC venue Le Poisson Rouge was ...

King Dude will bring his brand of sultry darkness to San Antonio on Friday, October 11, for a show at Paper Tiger. If you’re unfamiliar with King Dude’s acoustic folk with a dose of Southern Gothic ...

Noir country singer King Dude will release his new album, Songs of Flesh & Blood – In The Key of Light, next week (6/30), and he’ll tour the US in support of it this fall. Here’s how he tells it: ...

King Dude (the nom de plume of TJ Cowgill) confronted the making and breaking of love with the gothic glamorama of 2016's Sex, and now he's ready to tackle another one of life's inevitabilities-war.

What once seemed like a tour only on the radar of select metal fans has suddenly become a national flashpoint for anti-fascist protesters. Norwegian black metal band Taake, which has long been dogged ...

Taake’s upcoming North American tour has suffered another blow. After the band had at least one show cancelled due to protests from Antifa (accusations of Nazism and Islamophobia have long followed ...

With his man-in-black schtick down pat, T.J. Cowgill’s dark muses surface in King Dude as echoey outlaw country lamentations penned to remind us to take it down a notch—because we’re all going to die ...