Garage rocker King Tuff has announced The Other, his fifth full-length solo album, and if the two songs released so far are anything to go by, the new record represents a more esoteric and reflective ...

Kyle Thomas will release Smalltown Stardust, his first King Tuff album in five years, on January 27 via Sub Pop. The album was co-produced and co-written with frequent collaborator/roommate SASAMI and ...

King Tuff is the latest project of Kyle Thomas, who has been seen in the psych-folk band Feathers, the garage-punk outfit Happy Birthday, and the doom band Witch, with J. Mascis. With King Tuff, ...

King Tuff returns today with his new album, The Other. The follow-up to 2014’s Black Moon Spell took so long to come about because the burden of the crown was weighing heavily on Kyle Thomas. “It was ...

Most probably still think of King Tuff (aka Kyle Thomas) as the nasally garage rocker rocker of his 2012 Sub Pop debut, but even if you know his most recent album, 2018’s glammy, shiny The Other, his ...

Vermont’s King Tuff might have synesthesia, (the neurological phenomenon which activates multiple senses at once i.e. ‘smelling’ words or ‘hearing’ colors), and not even know it. Speaking to SPIN, the ...

King Tuff drives a white van. The van’s contents—camping gear, deodorant sticks, socks, empty bottles and strewn wrappers—save me a seat in the middle row next to the left side’s sliding door. It’s ...

With every release since King Tuff’s debut back in 2006, the poppy garage rocker has become a bigger contributor to the neo-psych scene. It’s all about evolution for the musician, whose real name is ...

King Tuff’s Kyle Thomas does not have all the answers. Shit, why should he? The Vermont native has already explored enough facets of the guitar-wielding arts to make any casual player seem innocuous.

Los Angeles-based rocker Kyle Thomas self-released his debut solo LP in 2008, back when he was living in his parents' house in Brattleboro, Vermont and playing in bands like Feathers and Witch.