Daniel Riddle is Portland, OR-based is a singer/songwriter and musician, who has written and recorded music under the moniker King Black Acid since the late 1980s, while spending time as a member of industrial outfit Hitting Birth. Since the early 90s, Riddle has led a number of different collectives and projects that have toured and shared stages with Elliott Smith, Nirvana, Low, Moby, Sonic Youth, The Dandy Warhols, Faith No More, Dead Moon, Menomena, The Fugees, Arctic Monkeys, Spacemen 3, Danzig, Nine Inch Nails and more.
Throughout his career, Riddle’s music has been featured on CSI: Miami, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, The Mothman Prophecies, Witchblade, Dream With Fishes, Do Me a Favor and CNN Sports, as well as ad campaigns for Nike, Reebok, Tiger Woods Golf, CNN, Coca-Cola, Abercrombie and Fitch, Gap and The Olympics.
Riddle’s latest King Black Acid effort, Telling Secrets in a Crowded Room is slated for an August 21, 2026 release through Cavity Search Records/Mazinga Records. The album reportedly features 10 cinematic and anthemic songs that “embrace total and subversive emotional anarchy.”
Telling Secrets in a Crowded Room‘s latest single “Dialing 911” is a sleek and mind-bending synthesis of Madchester-era sound, Evil Heat-era Primal Scream and Echoes-era The Rapture dance punk that showcases the collaborators uncanny ability to craft a remarkably catchy hook.
“Fierce stoner pop that explores the fragile human psyche in the modern digital thought prison,” the band says of the new single.
KThe accompanying music video by Kat Perkins and Daniel Riddle features a mix of collage-driven animation reminiscent of The Beatles‘ Yellow Submarine and the intro to Monty Python with strobe lit, monochrome footage of Riddle and dancing and instrument playing humanoid rabbits. Trippy, indeed.