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Brewing up a heady mixture of high-spirited rhythm & blues, real-gone psychedelia and middle-finger-flipping garage rock, King Khan has earned an international reputation as one of the wildest showmen in underground rock. Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal to a family of Indian TmigrTs, Erick Khan first made a splash on the Canadian music scene in 1996 when he joined the frantic garage punk outfit the Spaceshits, where he played bass under the name Blacksnake. The Spaceshits released three albums and a handful of 7"s, but after nearly four years...[more]

 

 

Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of The Supreme Genius Of... and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Psychedelic soul, garage rock rave-ups, supremely smooth love songs; sixteen smashes available in the US for the first time. The band has been spreading their love in Germany since 1999, releasing full-lengths, EPs, singles, and hard-to-find vinyl. Now Khan brings the greatest of his g   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. King Khan and The Shrines seminal What Is?! album will finally be made available domestically! Already legendary for their insane live show, What Is?! shows the band harnessing their live power into 14 blasts of pure punk-soul. Originally released on Germany's Hazlewood imprint in July, 2007, What Is?! shows The Shrines at their best. Their unique Sun Ra cum Stooges take on psychedelic big band soul is full on here, a literal aural middle finger to the calculated garage r   [ read more ]

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King Khan and The Shrines seminal What Is?! album will finally be made available domestically! Already legendary for their insane live show, What Is?! shows the band harnessing their live power into 14 blasts of pure punk-soul. Originally released on Germany's Hazlewood imprint in July, 2007, What Is?! shows The Shrines at their best. Their unique Sun Ra cum Stooges take on psychedelic big band soul is full on here, a literal aural middle finger to the calculated garage rock taking ove   [ read more ]

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"Vice Records, the musical offshoot of the hilariously snarky Vice Magazine, compiles the best tracks from King Khan and The Shrines' career, piling together sixteen of the boys' greasiest platters for The Supreme Genius of King Khan and The Shrines. Vice could be considered the perfect holding cell for the smirking Khan (often pictured in less than pants) whose image relies on tongue-in-cheek sexiness and whose lyrics revel in perverse humor. But beneath all the boisterous tomfoolery lies a surprisi   [ read more ]

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Vice Records, the musical offshoot of the hilariously snarky Vice Magazine, compiles the best tracks from King Khan & the Shrines' career, piling together 16 of the boys' greasiest platters for The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines. Vice could be considered the perfect holding cell for the smirking Khan (often pictured in less than pants), whose image relies on tongue-in-cheek sexiness and whose lyrics revel in perverse humor. But beneath all the boisterous tomfoolery lies a surpri   [ read more ]

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An R&B show band fronted by a Canadian of South Asian heritage who's currently living in Germany sounds like it ought to be some kind of practical joke, particularly since said bandleader used to be a member of the Spaceshits. But even though King Khan clearly has a sense of humor -- with bandmates named Sam Francisco and Mr. Speedfinger, he'd better -- he and his group the Shrines deliver a high-impact variation on classic soul that's as real, as frantic, and as heartfelt as the day is   [ read more ]

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