Music you should listen to: The King Khan & BBQ Show

As promised, we are also going to share some thoughts on music here, just because it is so damn important. REAL music and not the stuff that is coming out of the mouth of so-called pop stars. So we would like to keep it real and introduce to you some good artists (if you don't already know 'em). And we are going to start it off with one of my all-time favourite bands: The King Khan & The BBQ Show!

Canadian punk roots

Both, King Khan and BBQ have been around for some time now, playing in various bands to date, but having their roots in the Canadian punk bands Les Sexareenos and Spaceshits. They grew up, playing wild, fast and crazy punk songs, doing acid and touring around. In the mid 2000's, they both started to take different paths different paths, King Khan with his Shrines doing more soulish garage rock and BBQ aka Mark Sultan starting to play as a one-man band. Though they are both crazy good alone, they are even better when playing together.

Rock'n'Roll saviours

It is hard to give their music a name or to put it in a genre, maybe it is a mix of a little bit doo-wop, mixed up with punk and psych, topped with some soul and garage rock. The lyrics vary from genius to complete nonsense and back. I can just tell one thing, their tunes make you wanna go wild. Or jump around. Or shout and sing. Or vomit. Or fuck. It is just a trip from beginning until the end. And that's, what rock'n'roll is originally all about: it should evoke strong and wild feelings, it should make you wanna to go crazy. Call their music whatever you want, but for me these two guys incorporate the spirit of rock'n'roll more than any band out there at the moment. Maybe, rock'n'roll is dead. But if King Khan and BBQ try hard to bring it back to life.

Live and uncensored

If you get the chance to see them live, you should definitely not miss out to witness one of their infamous live performances. Usually, they are going fucking nuts on stage, especially King Khan is ripping the stage, check this. And they wear funny costumes too! I only had the chance to see Mark Sultan solo live, I did not really understand how a person can go so crazy with a guitar and a drum kit, was fun for sure. If you want to see how lunatic they really are, here are some lines from an interview:

Interviewer: Do you guys think that you're a psych band?

KK: We are psych in our hearts and our sould. We don't need the music to tell us...

MS: We grew up doing so much LSD.

KK: I eat rice, it's psychedelic, you know what I mean? It doesn't fucking matter to me.

MS: No, but we are psychedelic adventurers, since we were teenagers. Every punk band that we played in was all based around LSD, mushrooms, and, uh, and the Mohawk Indians, and....

KK: We were sponsored by microdots before...

MS: Microdots, before anybody gave a shit about microdots they sponsored us.

I strongly recommend to read the whole thing, it is hilarious.

And to finish it off, we got some of their tracks to show you what's up:

 The homie Toby shredding to the tune Truth or Dare of the infamous duo from their last LP Invisible Girl: