King Tuff

Name: King Tuff
Start: 2026-05-02T21:00:00-07:00
Location: 777 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94110

Schedule

Sat, 02 May, 2026 at 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

777 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94110 | San Francisco, CA

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Following the release of 2023’s Smalltown Stardust, King Tuff, the moniker of Burlington, Vermont artist Kyle Thomas, found himself a bit lost. He had felt lost since 2016. Both Smalltown Stardust and 2018’s The Other had been departures from his sound, and while they were both new sonic places that he needed to explore, neither album felt all that fun to perform live. Every show he would just be looking forward to playing his older, wilder material. So when he decided to make a new record, it only seemed right to go back to what has always brought him the most joy, Rock & Roll music.
MOO, King Tuff’s sixth full-length album, due March 27 via his new label MUP Records via Thirty Tigers, is a return to form for Thomas in many ways. He moved back to Vermont, used the same tape machine, a Tascam 388, that he used to record his debut album, King Tuff Was Dead, and played his old, blue, Gibson SG. He even made a physical newspaper that comes with every copy of the album, The Daily Moo.
“I stopped caring if there were mistakes. There’s not enough mistakes. I wish it sounded even worse. Rock & Roll is the music of rodents and bugs. It should sound like it crept from a decrepit trashcan or a crypt or a toilet. It is not chill or vibey, autotuned or on the grid. It is not perfect, which is why it’s perfect. And I don’t care if it’s dead or alive, cool or uncool: when I hear it, and when I play it, as a chubby and balding 43 year old punk weirdo, I FEEL ENERGIZED.”
A few months before starting MOO, Thomas fell in love. So, MOO is mostly love songs, with the exception of a song about the aforementioned rodents and a song about getting an oil change. But those are actually love songs too.
All in all, MOO is a full circle moment. A return to form. A return to rock. A return to Vermont. A return to himself. Reconnecting the dots. Restarting the engine. Plugging in the stack. Finally letting King Tuff be King. Fucking. Tuff.
Gabriel Bernini is a Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter crafting sharp, melodic rock ’n’ roll. His latest album, Ride Romeo, recorded at Wilco’s Loft studio with members of NRBQ and The Presidents of the United States of America, delivers retro power pop hooks, swinging grooves, and warm, organic production. Raised in Western Massachusetts, Bernini cut his teeth playing keyboards in bands like Deer Tick and LuxDeluxe before relocating to Los Angeles in 2019. Since 2017, he has released five records under his own name, steadily carving out a body of work, equal parts heart, humor, and grit.