Screamin' Gay Lord Khan & Denim Christ

I do love the ever changing roster of alter-egos from perennial garage rocker King Khan, like one of his latest releases, a short and raucous EP from Screamin' Gay Lord Khan & Denim Christ.  Check out the rowdy "Lucille," featuring Emmerich Khan, below and download "Here's...Screamin' Gay Lord Khan" here.

Daily Jam - Cone of Light

What do you get when you combine the Black Lips and the King Khan & BBQ Show?  You get The Almighty Defenders and some pretty goddamned great garage rock.  Check out "Cone of Light" from the group's 2009 self-titled album below, our Daily Jam.

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King Khan is back with "Ragas for the Revolution" as well as for the soul.  The new EP plays like a sonic balm for heart and mind, transcendent and hypnotic.  Listen to "BlackSnake Rising" below and pay what you want for the EP here.

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In 2015, director Prichard Smith made a documentary about a group of young, black militants in Memphis in the '60s called "The Invaders," and tapped none other than King Khan to provide the score.  That soundtrack is now being released by Ernest Jenning Record Co.  Check out "Never Hold On (Instrumental)" below and pre-order the LP here.

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I love that among the prolific work of King Khan, aside from the psych rock, soul, garage rock, folk, and punk, he also experiments with weird, exotica-tinged, psychedelic jazz and lounge music.  Get new album "The Nature of Things" here from Ernest Jenning Record Co. and listen to the title track below.

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The unstoppable King Khan is back next month with a new album, "The Infinite Ones," that going by the first couple of tracks, finds the artist blasting off into the sounds of cosmic jazz and interstellar freakouts.  Listen to "Wait Till the Stars Burn" below and pre-order the record here from Ernest Jenning Record Co.

Daily Jam - Alone Again

I listen to some iteration of King Khan every single week, and today it's from King Khan and BBQ Show.  Here's the stripped down, lo-fi, garage doo-wop of "Alone Again," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Until the End

Saba Lou is the daughter of garage-punk-psych-soul maestro King Khan.  She recorded "Until the End" with her father when she was 9.  Check it out below, our Daily Jam.

The King Khan Experience

Coincidence or no, my friend Shawn just the other day posted about revisiting the amazing garage soul of King Khan and The Shrines, a train i've been riding since '07 or '08, and now we've got some new music from King Khan coming our way in May.  Dubbed The King Khan Experience, new album "Turkey Ride" seems full of all the clanky, soulful sounds we all love and adore.  Listen to the title track below, and pre-order the record here from Ernest Jenning Record Co.

The Khan Family

Garage rock maniac King Khan just released a couple new tracks as a kind of Christmas (Krishmas) gift for our ears, featuring some guest vocals from his daughters Saba Lou and Amabelle.  Listen to "Now I'm So Free" and "Back to Nothing" below and download them here from the artist.

Some Record Store Day Recommendations

So, this Saturday is the day.  And while i don't get nearly as stupid as i used to, i still take the day off of work so i can go wait in line outside of a record store at the ass crack of dawn.  So i guess i'm still kind of stupid.  That being said, here are 5 releases slated for this year's Record Store Day that are on my "must procure" list, that should be on yours too.

1. Lulu - "Heaven and Earth and the Star" LP
This cool reissue of the Scottish singer's 1976 album features her "Man with the Golden Gun" Bond theme and a couple of David Bowie covers, of which Bowie himself produced and appeared on as instrumentalist and backing vocalist.

2 Demon Fuzz - "I Put a Spell on You" 7"
British afro-rock band Demon Fuzz only released a couple of albums and a single in the '70s, all of which are amazing and expensive, so i'm pretty stoked to be able to finally afford one, and it's a Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover to boot.

3. Ennio Morricone - "Autopsy" OST LP
So, the fantastic Arrow Films also releases records, and this one is for a weirdo horror movie scored by the legendary Ennio Morricone.  Sold.

4. King Black Acid - "Sunlit" 2LP
Originally released in 1996, Portland artist King Black Acid's second album features 3 epic tracks of sprawling, psychedelic '90s space rock, and this is its vinyl debut.  Hooray!

5. The Black Lips and The Khan Family - "Play Safe" 12"
Some collaborative garage rock from The Black Lips and The Khan Family, so you know King Khan will be there, and his daughter Saba Lou too.  This record should be killer.



So there you go.  Be sure to check out releases from The Flaming Lips, Brian Eno and Kevin Shields, Tom Waits, S U R V I V E, and more, more, more...

Louder Than Death

King Khan is a pretty prolific songwriter, releasing all manner of garage and psych rock for the eager masses to devour.  And every once in a while, he goes straight up punk rock, an always welcome endeavor from a highly entertaining artist.  Pairing up with Sean Spits and more for a snotty and abrasive project called Louder Than Death, the jams are sure to get you ready to throw a rock through a window.  Anyway, listen to "ABCs in Old Berlin" below and get the self-titled record from In The Red in March.

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October brings us some new garage shenanigans from King Khan...always a wonderful and good thing.  Listen to "It's a Lie" below and get the upcoming "Murderburgers" here.

Saba Lou

Doesn't it just make you sick when someone decades younger than you is infinitely better at something than you are?  Berlin artist Saba Lou has been recording music since she was 6 years old, and her debut full length, the upcoming "Planet Enigma," which she recorded at 15, is due next month on Ernest Jenning Record Co.  The record features folks like King Khan (who happens to be her father) and Ryan Sambol among others, which just makes it more awesome.  Anyway, listen to the wistful little piece of psych folk, "Lost and Found," below, and marvel at how far beyond her years the artist sounds.

William S. Burroughs - Let Me Hang You

This is definitely one of the stranger recordings i've heard in a long time, but it took years and years to finally make it to our earholes, and it's wonderful.  The story goes as so: a couple of decades ago, writer and icon William S. Burroughs was asked to record audio readings of his favorite sections of "Naked Lunch."  Those recordings were then handed off to Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz of Naked City fame to add musical accompaniment.  Classical and experimental composer Eyvind Kang also contributed.  For some reason, the project was eventually abandoned and sat on a shelf for years...until Hal Willner, one of the original producers on the project, unearthed it and got the garage-psych-soul-punk rock wunderkind King Khan involved to add his own sounds and love to the recordings.  And now we have "Let Me Hang You," a collaborative experimental, psychedelic, spoken word record to melt your fucking minds.  Listen to the title track below and get the record here.

King Khan & BBQ Show

Garage rock freaks King Khan and BBQ Show are back for their first new album in years since their kinda/sorta breakup back in 2010.  "Bad News Boys" finds the duo parading through their usual take on raucous punk rock, a lovely and jiving mix of garage rock fidelity, doo-wop flourishes, and throwback melodies.  They never missed a beat.  Listen to "Alone Again" below and get the album from In The Red soon.

New King Khan and The Shrines

Oh happy day!  New music from King Khan is always a good thing, and it's been a long while since we last heard from The Shrines, so it doesn't matter what kind of mood you're in today, rest easy, make a cocktail, and jam to the soulful horns on the band's latest garage rock classic, "Born to Die."  Look for new album "Idle No More" in September from Merge.