Crib Notes

Much hullabaloo has been made after Arish “King” Khan and the King Khan & BBQ Show’s road manager Kristin Klein were arrested in Christian County, Kentucky last week.  The two were picked up on alleged charges of possession of a controlled substance (mushrooms) and driving on a suspended license.

The full details of the arrest can be read on the Kentucky New Era’s website.

Klein appeared in court yesterday (Mon., Nov. 16), after which the band issued a statement breaking down the situation as it stands now.

“On November 16, 2009 Kristin Klein entered a guilty plea to 2nd degree possession of a controlled substance in Christian County, Kentucky. Ms Klein was driving a rental vehicle that was randomly stopped at a safety checkpoint. Officers located a controlled substance in the cab of the vehicle. Ms Klein was unaware of the contraband and the validity of her license was indeterminable at time of arrest. Under KY law a driver of a vehicle is responsible for its contents. Therefore, Ms Klein entered a guilty plea and is scheduled to appear on April 2, 2010 to provide proof of her valid license.

“King Khan & BBQ Show are driving through the night to make their Los Angeles show at Troubadour tomorrow. Tonight’s show in Phoenix is cancelled, but all further west coast dates and will to be honored. Kristin Klein is safe with the band and continuing her tenure as tour manager.”

Klein explained over the telephone today that despite their best efforts they won’t be able to play the show in Los Angeles scheduled for tonight and are now en route to San Francisco to make it in time to play at the Independent on Wed., Nov. 18.

Klein spoke off the record about the incident, but explained that despite their Canadian citizenship, an international incident was avoided. In other words, no one is being deported and the King Khan and BBQ show can and will go on.

(Photo courtesy Kristin Klein’s facebook)

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The second song from the forthcoming All Mighty Defenders album (featuring Black Lips, King Khan & BBQ), due out Sept. 22 via Vice Records, hit the internet this week. The song is titled “Cone of Light” and it falls on the heels of “Bow Down and Die.” Click below to hear them both.

“Cone of Light”

“Bow Down and Die”

(Photo by David Waldman)

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From Vice:

This morning, Stereogum premiered the first slab of lo-fi gutter gospel from super group The Almighty Defenders, a meeting of might between Atlanta garage goblins the Black Lips, Berlin-based soul punker King Khan, and Mr. BBQ himself, Mark Sultan. Conceived during the Lips’ Berlin exile (after their VBS-documented ejection from India), the band’s self-titled debut is a madcap, liquor-drenched revival, a blissfully fucked up realization of one of garage rock’s most fitting collaborations. “Bow Down And Die,” the “booming, chivalrous third song,” is an off kilter, beer-swilling chant-along that borrows just as much from choral church music as it does from skuzzball rock n roll.

The Almighty Defenders “Bow Down and Die” mp3

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It’s official: When the “Supreme Genius” King Khan joined GZA on stage in Toronto to tear it up on some Liquid Swords cuts, he became the first Indian to join the Wu-Tang Clan.

If you watch closely he unslings his guitar and wanders away in the middle of “4th Chamber,” but he returns for the second video. I guess those guitar parts aren’t really essential. But I guess this makes it official, King Khan ain’t nothin’ to fuck with!

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Ever since that whole debacle went down with the Black Lips having to flee India to avoid going to jail, I’ve been getting daily phone calls from the Mighty Hannibal asking me if I know anything about the Black Lips and King Khan teaming up to cover one of his songs for a new record they recorded while exiled in Berlin. The answer has been a categorical no until yesterday when Vice announced that it will be releasing the self-titled debut LP by the Almighty Defenders, a new collaboration between the Black Lips, Khan and his longtime cohort BBQ, or as his friends call him Mark Sultan. It’s important to note that no track list has been revealed yet, but Hannibal assures me that they’ve covered what he calls a “bad ass damn version” of his song “I’m Coming Home.”

“They really did it up right and it teaches me something about my own song,” Hannibal says.

The album, according to Vice, is “brimming with soul, earnest shouts, cries and hand-claps over post-modern gospel-rock anthems.” The whole thing was recorded at Khan’s Moon Studios and will be released on LP and digitally via Vice Records on Tues., Sept. 22.

Almighty Defenders @ Amsterdam Brewery from NOW Magazine on Vimeo.

(Photo by David Waldman)

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CL’s Chanté LaGon and Chad Radford chat about the King Kahn show tonight at the Masquerade. Golden Triangle, Balkans and Thomas Function open.

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Word on the street has it that the king Khan & BBQ show are playing a free in-store performance at Vacation Gallery and Boutique today around 7 p.m.

There will be an actual BBQ with shrimp, hot dogs, hamburgers and beer before hand, so come hungry and leave happy.

Vacation is located at 74A N. Highland Ave. next door to San Francisco Coffee. If you have any other questions, give them a call at (404) 875-4413.

(Photo by Chad Radford)

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Last week Rolling Stone’s “Rock and Roll Daily” blog posted an interview with Mastodon’s guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds. In the interview Hinds explains how the head injuries he incurred as the result of being attacked at the VMA’s in Las Vegas last year pushed Mastodon to pursue a more melodic direction with their forthcoming album.

According to the story:

“I was dizzy for eight months… During those months, I just sat with my acoustic and a little marijuana, and wrote all the music. I wanted a more melodic, easy-listening situation, and that definitely came from having head trauma.”

From there the group sought out producer Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, AC/DC) to help flesh out the reportedly melodic but heavy as hell sound of Mastodon’s next record.

Read the full story here.

Hinds’ recent run-in with King Khan at the Highland Inn Ballroom in Atlanta (and ensuing witch hunt) hasn’t churned out any musical epiphanies or led to any fortuitous pairings with producers just yet, but give it time…

(Photo by Jimmy Hubbard)

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I recently flew to New York City to catch the Black Lips, Deerhunter, and King Khan & the Shrines play a free show August 3, at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn.

It was worth the trip. The bands played to an insanely packed crowd of thousands of kids, young and old. It was so surreal standing onstage looking out at the wave of people covering the pool so thick you could barely see the cement floor.

The show was sweaty, loud, unpredictable, and a little bit chaotic — sounds like an Atlanta show to me.

I spent ten days in the city. This is what I saw:

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If you’re not stuck in gridlock or already far far away from Atlanta for the 4th of July weekend there are plenty of things going on around town to keep you entertained. In addition to the various back yard BBQ’s, block parties and shows taking place all over the city on the 4^th CL’s gives a hearty, American thumbs to the following weekend happenings.

First and foremost, there is the King Khan and the Shrines show happening over at Lenny’s. On Sat., July 5th.

Criminal Records in L5P is hosting an in-store performance with the Dutches & the Duke at 5 p.m. The show is free and there will most likely be will be beer provided.

Later that night the D&D head over to The Drunken Unicorn to play a show with Seattle’s Fleet Foxes. The show is $10 and it starts at 10 p.m.

The Star Bar in L5P is has the whole weekend covered with a spate of free and fantastic shows from local bands.

Friday, July 4th
Pink Police
the Booze
the Hiss
El Capitan & the Scallywags
the N.E.C.
Club Awesome

Saturday July 5th
Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause
Gringo Star
Ocha La Rocha
Brass Castle
All the Saints

Music at The Star Bar begins at 8 p.m. on both nights and, once again, it’s free all weekend.

And if these things aren’t your bag, than you can head over to Turner Field on Friday to catch Arrested Development’s lead female vocalist, Tasha LaRae perform the national anthem before the game starts.

Then on Saturday night Arrested Development will play a show in Fan Plaza beginning at 5:30 p.m. There will be a second show in Fan Plaza after the game as well.

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