Kaki King has been labeled a number of things -- pint-sized, virtuosic, Guitar God (thank you, Rolling Stone) -- and many of them all at once. (See: a pint-sized virtuosic Guitar God.) We digress.

There is, however, one thing King confesses she is not: a gold-starred elementary art scholar.

"In my 5th grade art class, we'd have to carve things into clay," King told Spinner when she stopped by the Interface. "Those little pots that everyone made perfectly ... I couldn't do anything. I was useless. I remember my proudest project was when I did a clay carving of the front of my house. I thought it looked amazing ... for me. I brought it home and I wanted my parents to frame it or put it in a prominent place. They kind of hid it somewhere. It looked awful. Visual arts are not in the cards for me."

Botched childhood art projects aside, King's currently touring behind her new album, 'Dreaming of Revenge,' with the Foo Fighters in Australia and New Zealand, after having guested on 'Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners' -- a track on the Foo's most recent album, 'Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.'

"[Dave Grohl] had been sending me these really outrageous texts and emails for months, saying, like, 'We're gonna be in a band!' and 'We're gonna call ourselves the Star Spangled Ass Shredders!'" King recalls. "I was like, 'Who is this guy?' But I went to the mixing session for [the album] and he said, 'I have a song I want to play for you.' I said, 'OK. Do you have a CD player?' He said, 'No, actually, I have to play it for you.' So he brought out a guitar and started playing it. It was a little bluegrass-y song that he had written for these miners in Australia that were trapped in a mine. I picked up a guitar and started playing along with him, and he goes, 'You know, we should really record this.' It took about an hour and I had no idea it would be on the record."

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Full Set

· 'Life Being What It Is'

· 'Saving Days in a Frozen Head'

· 'Bone Chaos in the Castle'

· 'Sad American'

· Interview