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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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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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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