Viva Radio is one of the premier internet radio stations and to develop additional support, they’re giving us a pretty extensive and comprehensive compilation dubbed Best Of Me + You and featuring a total of 57 tracks. Granted, some of the tracks are station IDs and band interviews from the various groups on the comp, but that still leaves a solid quantity of songs from a who’s who collection
King Khan and The Shrines are a garage-rock band from Germany and they are introducing themselves to American audiences today with the release of What Is?! via Vice Records. The full album is streaming here and there’s a free download yonder.King Khan and The Shrines - Land of the FreakKing Khan And The Shrines Tour [...]
We are finally treated to a proper North American release of What Is?! the latest album from citizen-of-the-World King Khan and his Shrines.The album is a blistering 12-tracks are rock n' roll action. Mixing '60s Garage Rock with '70s R&B, Khan makes a delicious musical concoction.Songs like "I See Lights" show off Khan's boundless energy. Charging headlong into the song with raucous guitar a
We continue our wrap-up of June with a couple familiar destinations. I have to say, there's something incredibly appealing about a series of events. NYC is fragmented when it comes to everything and keeping up with it all is sometimes overwhelming. So knowing that, on a particular day of the week, something is happening at a certain time and place is pretty great. I headed into the last wee...
We continue our wrap-up of June with a couple familiar destinations. I have to say, there's something incredibly appealing about a series of events. NYC is fragmented when it comes to everything and keeping up with it all is sometimes overwhelming. So knowing that, on a particular day of the week, something is happening at a certain time and place is pretty great. I headed into the last wee...
Kevin Shields was to ATP what King Khan was to Pitchfork Festival, minus the costume changes: In all seriousness, though, we spotted the My Bloody Valentine front man everywhere during our weekend at Kutsher's, whether posing for photos with adoring fans, checking bands, or just wandering the grounds. We got so used to seeing street-clothes Kevin that it seemed a bit odd when he walked out on t...
I'm not quite up on the musical efforts of ex-Death From Above 1979 drummer Sebastian Grainger except that he has his own solo project with his band The Mountains, but he just got signed to Saddle Creek Records in the US. Saddle Creek just released his digital EP "American Names", which you can stream here. Or check out his MySpace.Adding more twang to the proceedings, Chicago's Freakwater will...
We are finally treated to a proper North American release of What Is?! the latest album from citizen-of-the-World King Khan and his Shrines.The album is a blistering 12-tracks are rock n' roll action. Mixing '60s Garage Rock with '70s R&B, Khan makes a delicious musical concoction.Songs like "I See Lights" show off Khan's boundless energy. Charging headlong into the song with raucous guitar a