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The King Khan & BBQ Show: Invisible Girl

More skuzzy garage rock from increasingly visible pair Before he donned his gold lamé hot pants and played wild shows like the unholy offspring of Little Richard and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, King Khan made a pair of loose, lewd, lo-fi albums with fellow Montreal ex-pat and former bandmate BBQ—a.k.a. Mark Sultan. Three years after their lip-smacking What’s for Dinner?, the duo re-teams for another set of R&B-inflected, ’60s-influenced garage rock with its juvenile-delinquent charms and dirty minds intact....  read more

Walking in a Garage-Rock Wonderland: 10 Examples of 2009's Excellence in Terms of Scrappy, Catchy Song

“In the garage I feel safe No one cares about my ways In the garage Where I belong No one hears me sing this song In the garage” -Weezer: “In the Garage” For as long as dudes have been banging on six-strings, the garage has served as a safe haven of sorts, a place where, as Rivers Cuomo so melodically put it in the song above, said dudes could write “stupid words” and “stupid songs,” loving every one. And seemingly every few years since “garage rock” as a genre was coined way back in the middle ’60s, someone announces, breathlessly,...  read more

Seven Great Websites for Out-Of-Context Concerts

There's nothing quite like the classic live music experience of standing elbow-to-ribcage with dozens or hundreds or thousands of strangers, basking in the glow of some sweaty collective of musicians working their magic onstage at a dark, smoky venue. But there's also nothing quite like that sweaty collective of musicians working their magic in the backseat of a car, or in a crowded elevator, or tucked between bookshelves in someone's office. It seems that the same easily-accessible digital cameras that've flooded YouTube with screechy, grainy concert footage have also made way for a whole slew of carefully-filmed live music performances...  read more

King Khan and the Shrines' What Is?! gets U.S. release, tour

He's a man whom Vice Records describes as “garage soul inferno - equal parts Lenny Kaye-era Nuggets, James Brown soul revue and Sun Ra freak session.” Consummate frontman King Khan (or is it Blacksnake?) will see his latest studio album get a U.S. release this April....  read more

King Khan and BBQ bring coloring book on tour

At the end of this month, King Khan and Mark "BBQ" Sultan kick off a North American tour in support of their new 7". The record is a limited edition affair, featuring the songs "Animal Party" and "God of Raisins," as well as a 15-page coloring book made from the artwork of Montreal-based Mathieu Trudel. The single is expected in the first week of November....  read more

Pitchfork Fest '08 Day Three: Lights & Music

(Tim Harrington plays music, really. Courtesy of Jeremy Farmer)The buzz and short attention spans I spoke of in Day One, and the newfound diversity heralded in Day Two, these things imploded upon each other the final hours of Sunday, with one holy rockness middle ground rising up from the rubble.  The moment can be pinpointed actually, if you were to witness Les Savy Fav’s punk-maestro, Tim Harrington, careen his bald dome into a city garbage can, demanding the crowd hoist him, and his new stage, into the air so he could finish his song.Post-set comment from a fan:Dude wanted up,...  read more