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James Kochalka Superstar Shares New Version of 1985 Track "The Mummy's On The Loose" with ROUGH FRANCIS & Ex-Dead Kennedys Frontman Jello Biafra (Bandcamp Friday Treat)


Just in time for this glorious Bandcamp Friday, James Kochalka Superstar has shared a brand new recording of a song he first wrote in 1985 with Eric Bradford on a couch at The University of Vermont for their college band, Jazzin' Hell. This newly-updated 2022 version of "The Mummy's On The Loose" was recorded with Kochalka's friends, ROUGH FRANCIS, with guest vocals supplied by his teenage hero, Jello Biafra (Ex-Dead Kennedys, The NO WTO Combo) and mixed by GRAMMY Award-winning producer and Jazzin' Hell keyboardist, Peter Katis. All of this was collectively wrangled, coordinated, and produced by Neil Cleary. "Whenever I get that first rumored taste of Fall, my soul starts to yearn deeply for Vermont & Burlington. So, watching a new Neil Cleary-directed video of ROUGH FRANCIS backing James Kochalka on a 40-year-old song of his about a mummy is the kind of sentence that means everything to Burlingtonians and very little to most other folks and it's making my stomach do some flips this morning," I Sh*t Music wrote on Facebook.


"That line betwixt passion and absurdity has been getting blurred for decades in B-town and this is a deeply, perfect example of it. Good job holding down the fort, fellas. It's time to frighten the leaf-peepers," the self-described "Entertainment website" continued. I Sh*t Music is further described as, "highly-subjective music criticism and boisterous adoration for human-crafted sound." Cumulatively, the sum of the parts of all involved is really something else here: we have James Kochalka Superstar known for penning both early 2000's mega-hit, "Britney's Silver Can" AND THE ZAMBONIS' "Hockey Monkey," ROUGH FRANCIS, the sons and nephews of Bobby, David & Dannis Hackney from 1970's Proto-punk pioneers Death, and former Dead Kennedys frontman and Alternative Tentacles co-founder, Jello Biafra. It's definitely something to experience and it comes complete with a companion music video (again!) directed and edited by Neil Cleary starring James Kochalka Superstar & ROUGH FRANCIS' Bobby Hackney, along with a few ghoulishly wrapped and mummified friends. Go support James Kochalka Superstar, ROUGH FRANCIS & Jello Biafra's "The Mummy's On The Loose" this Bandcamp Friday and add it to your Halloween/Spooky Season playlist. "The Mummy's On The Loose" is now availbale on your preferred streaming service of choice.


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