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06.02.2010
Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) & King Khan + Shrines, Almighty Defenders: Tons of News
categories: Album, Mp3, News, Tour Dates
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The King Khan & BBQ Show:

09.Feb.10 Prinzenbar, Hamburg (Germany)
10.Feb.10 Gleis 22, Munster (Germany)
11.Feb.10 Trix, Antwerp (Belgium)
12.Feb.10 DBs, Utrecht (Netherlands)
13.Feb.10 Paradiso, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
14.Feb.10 Le Tipi, Liege (Belgium)
15.Feb.10 Le Grillen, Colmar (France)
16.Feb.10 Point Ephemere, Paris (France)
17.Feb.10 La Vapeur, Dijon (France)
18.Feb.10 Le Rex, Toulouse (France)
19.Feb.10 Le Transformateur, Fribourg (Switzerland)
20.Feb.10 St.Gervais Р̩tage, Bienne/Biel (Switzerland)
22.Feb.10 B72, Vienna (Austria)
23.Feb.10 Forum Stadtpark, Graz (Austria)
24.Feb.10 59:1, Munich (Germany)
25.Feb.10 Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin (Germany)
24.March.10 Biltmore Cabaret. Vancouver (BC)

Sled Island Festival, Primavera Festival and various mystery dates TBA SOON!

BBQ (Mark Sultan):

4.March.10 Pop Corn, Marghera (Italy)
5.March.10 Spazio 211, Torino (Italy) w/ Mojomatics
6.March.10 Officina 49. Cesena (Italy)
10.March.10 TBA, Stockholm (Sweden)
11.March.10 Truckstop Alaska, Goteborg (Sweden)
12.March.10 Pub Babar, Tranas (Sweden)
13.March.10 TBA
15.March.10 TBA, Helsinki (Finland)
16.March.10 TBA, Finland
17.March.10 House Of Rock. Moss (Norway)
18.March.10 Bastard. Tromso (Norway)
19.March.10 Hinsides. Bergen (Norway)
20.March.10 TBA, Oslo (Norway)
24.March.10 Broken City. Calgary (AB)
26.March.10 Double Double Land. Toronto (ON)
16.April.10 The Echo. Los Angeles (CA) (THE DAY BEFORE COACHELLA WHERE ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS ARE PLAYING….. YOU THINKIN’ WHAT I’M THINKIN’?)
19.April.10 Bottom Of The Hill. San Francisco (CA)

Brazil April/May dates TBA SOON!
Spain, Italy, Turkey & Israel May/June dates TBA SOON!

Below is the album art and tracklisting for Mark Sultan’s new album…

CD Tracklisting:

01. Icicles
02. Donʼt Look Back
03. Ten of Hearts
04. Status
05. I Get Nothin From My Girl
06. Go Beserk
07. I Am the End
08. Miseryʼs Upon Us
09. Iʼll Be Lovinʼ You
10. Waiting For Me
11. Just to Hold You
12. Catastrophe
13. Nobody But You

The CD’s ‘bonus track’ is the original ‘I’ll Be Lovin You’, which was later I later revamped to fit KKBBQ’s sound.

The Almighty Defenders:
SOOO many tourdates to announce, but I will wait until everything is 100%. What I CAN say is to expect a European tour in May, a show at Primavera, a show at Sled Island and a smattering of surprise gigs. More on that later…

DOWNLOAD -> The Almighty Defenders – She Came Before Me

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14.11.2009
King Khan & Mark Sultan Arrested in Hopkinsville, KY
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The King Khan & BBQ Show were nowhere to be found when it came time for them to take the stage at Off Broadway in St. Louis last night. The garage-rock act “missed its early evening soundcheck and were MIA and incommunicado throughout the night,” according to a Riverfront Times blog post, which offers a full chronicle of the concert.

According to King Khan & BBQ Show’s publicist, the duo “have had some kind of hold up in [Tennessee] and are missing tonight’s and possibly all shows this weekend.” Pretty vague.

The Riverfront Times reports that show promoter Joey O’Farrell and Off Broadway owner Steve Pohlman claimed Arish “King” Khan and Mark “BBQ Show” Sultan were allegedly arrested on drug possession charges, though that has not been confirmed yet.

UPDATE: The Kansas City Pitch reports that King Khan & BBQ Show’s booking agent has confirmed that the band was indeed arrested in Hopkinsville, Kentucky yesterday. However, there is no information about what charges were brought against them. The band is currently out on bail, but their tour manager is still behind bars. Tonight’s show in Lawrence, Kansas has been cancelled.

UPDATE: According to the Pitch, openers Those Darlins and Spook Lights are still scheduled to play tonight in Kansas City.

According to the Riverfront Times, tour manager Kristin Klein was charged with driving with a suspended license and possession of a controlled substance.

I wonder what this means for the Visas…. They are both Canadian and now Khan resides in Berlin…. Hope this doesn’t threaten anything

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10.08.2009
The Almighty Defenders – New song, ‘Cone of Light’
categories: Mp3, News
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almightdef452Is anyone in the world more interesting than the Almighty Defenders right now?

Uh, no.

Download -> CONE OF LIGHT by the ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS

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06.08.2009
Jay Reatard/King Khan & BBQ stuffs
categories: News, Tour Dates, Video
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Shamelessly stolen from BV:

King Khan & The BBQ News: including video, NYC dates, other tour dates

The Almighty Defenders CD, out September 22nd on Vice, brings together the Black Lips, King Khan and Mark Sultan. The latter two make up King Khan & the BBQ Show, which is the band that’ll be playing Brooklyn’s Bell House this Halloween (its an early show – 7:30pm doors / over by 10:30pm) (there’s a TBA late show at the same venue). Prizes for best costume. As you can see above, King Khan already has some ideas in mind. Tickets are on sale now.

Can’t make it Halloween? King Khan and BBQ are also playing Bowery Ballroom one night earlier (10/30). Ticket info TBA. Full tour dates are still forthcoming, but there are a few more below (including November 1st in Philly). They’ll be touring in support of the new King Khan & the BBQ Show album, Invisible Girl, out November 3rd on In the Red.

King Khan & the BBQ Show – 2009 Tour Dates
10/30 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
10/31 Brooklyn, NY – The Bell House
11/01 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
11/08-09 Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/21 Seattle, WA – Chop Suey

Jay Reatard news including Watch Me Fall, Tour Dates, Jayumentary trailer
Jay Reatard’s new disc, Watch Me Fall, is out August 18th on Matador. NYC will get a free listening party for the album at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Monday, August 17th, while the West Coast gets a slightly better deal. Jay Reatard will be playing a series of free record shop in-stores from LA to Vancouver through the end of August. Those dates are below.

This September, Jay Reatard reunites with his first band, the Reatards, for a set at Goner Fest in Memphis.

On Thursday, October 1st (a few weeks before CMJ) he’ll headline a Shattered Records showcase (his imprint) at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Also on that NYC bill are Box Elders (who have other NYC dates coming up too), Useless Eaters, Hunx and Nobunny (both featured HERE). Doors are at 11:00pm. Tickets are on sale.

The video for that song, with the trailer for “Waiting For Something,” a short documentary about Jay Reatard, and all tour dates are below…
TRAILER: "Waiting For Something", a Jay Reatard documentary

Jay Reatard – 2009 Tour Dates
Aug 14 Oya Festival Oslo
Aug 15 Way Out West Festival Gothenburg
Aug 18 Amoeba RecordsLos Angeles, California
Aug 19 Fingerprints Music Long Beach, California
Aug 20 M-Theory San Diego, California
Aug 21 Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, California
Aug 22 Amoeba RecordsSan Francisco, California
Aug 23 Amoeba Records Berkeley, California
Aug 25 Jackpot Records Portland, Oregon
Aug 26 Easy Street Records Seattle, Washington
Aug 27 Sonic Boom Records Seattle, Washington
Aug 28 Zulu Records Vancouver, British Columbia
Sep 24-26 Goner Fest Memphis, TN
Oct 01 (Le) Poisson Rouge New York, NY *
Oct 28 Maroquinerie Paris
Oct 29 Luxor Cologne
Oct 30 59 to 1 Munich
Oct 31 Lido Berlin
Nov 01 Loppen Copenhagen
Nov 02 Parkteatret Oslo
Nov 03 Mejeriet Malmo
Nov 04 Logo Hamburg
Nov 05 Matrix Prague
Nov 06 B72 Vienna
Nov 07 Covo Bologna
Nov 08 Coop de Mai Clermont Ferrand
Nov 09 Botanique Rotonde Brussels
Nov 10 Bar Academy Birmingham
Nov 11 King Tuts Glasgow
Nov 12 Roadhouse Manchester
Nov 13 Underworld London
Nov 14 Croft Bristol
Nov 15 Masque Liverpool
Nov 16 Whelans Dublin
* Shattered Records Showcase w/ Box Elders, Hunx, Nobunny and Useless Eaters

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31.07.2009
King Khan & The BBQ Show!!! New Album!!!
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The King Khan & BBQ Show, wacky motherfuckers that they are, don’t announce new albums via press release, the way sane people do. Instead, the dynamic garage rock duo jump on their MySpace page and post an alternately informative and annoying “KKBBQ Infomercial” featuring tons of song clips and goofy voices. (Whoever does the Snaggletooth impression should really consider never doing a Snaggletooth impression again.)

So here’s the pertinent information: The new album will be called Invisible Girl. It’s out on November 3. The infomercial promises “12 songs loaded with kicks”, and someone describes it as “a love story of hate.”

The duo’s publicist has also filled in some blanks. Garage powerhouse In the Red will release the album, which Khan and BBQ recorded last year in Brooklyn and Berlin.
The almost-seven-minute minute infomercial includes a whole lot of song snippets, which are doing a pretty good job getting us excited about the album. Judging by those, there will be plenty of straight-up garage stompers on the LP, as well as at least one discordant psych-rock guitar freakout thing. But other songs show intriguing traces of doo-wop influence, and the best of these snippets (including what sounds like the title track) have an appealingly starry-eyed Ricky Nelson thing going on.

In a MySpace bulletin, the duo claim that they’ll embark on a tour, kicking off October 31 in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, as previously reported, both King Khan and Mark Sultan (aka BBQ), along with all four Black Lips, are members of the new sloppy-traditionalist supergroup the Almighty Defenders. Their self-titled debut is due September 22 via Vice.

Invisible Girl:

01 Anala
02 Invisible Girl
03 I’ll Be Loving You
04 Animal Party
05 Spin the Bottle
06 Third Ave
07 Tastebuds
08 Truth or Dare
09 Crystal Ball
10 Lonely Boy
11 Tryin’
12 Do the Chop

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30.07.2009
King Khan & The BBQ on We Have Signal
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We Have Signal: The King Khan & BBQ Show from We Have Signal on Vimeo.

Here’s a list of things that I, Brianna, will never say when made to listen to King Khan & BBQ or asked to go to their live show:
“No”.

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21.06.2009
Here’s a gift from me to you
categories: Funny, News, Pictures
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I don’t know if you know, or if you keep up with Black Lips rigorous tour schedule… well, I do, and it’s like a third job (I already have two others). But anyway, they were playing in Toronto as part of NXNE which is totally a fucking RIP and needs to be disbanded immediately. There can only be one festival with awesome abreviations and that is SXSW (and ATP but that’s only because of the Lou Reed connotations). I am calling for all other sad, lowly festivals to disband because they suck in comparison. Anyway, this NXNE was good for one thing, and it is bringing you the following photos:

3644259824_115b03b077_oYep. Awesome, isn’t it. I’ll bet your thanking your lucky stars that you stumbled onto this blog.

But more importantly, and trust me, this is worth it…. I stumbled across this little gem on flickr. I took a screen cap so you, too, can enjoy.

Picture 1

Thanks, goodnight.

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11.06.2009
THE ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS
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If you forgot the post where I introduced the ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS, log off this website right now. Just kidding. But seriously, this is going to be one of the most incredible collaborations probably of all humanity. It’s BLACK LIPS and KING KHAN & THE BBQ. Yes, you heard me right. Black Lips AND King Khan. Together. This is the album that the guys made after Black Lips were forced to flee from India, so they ended up in Berlin recording with Khan. Wow.

They’ve got one song off the album up on myspace and have got their first ‘official’ (as it was put) show in TORONTO. (Had it been even marginally closer… I might have gone….)

However, deets are as follows:
Presented by VICE & ZUNE

Start Time:
17 June 2009 at 21:00
End Time:
18 June 2009 at 01:00
Location:
Amsterdam Brewery
Street:
21 Bathurst in Toronto

The Almighty Defenders (Featuring members of the Black Lips & King Khan and BBQ)
With: Bloodshot Bill & DJ Saint PE (Black Lips / VICE)
NOTE: A Facebook RSVP doesn’t cut it at the door. RSVP: to@viceland.com

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