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ROCK OF ASIAN: The King Khan & BBQ Show’s Invisible Girl
The King Khan & BBQ Show are two crazy cats from Montreal who make really catchy music that pays serious homage to 50’s and 60’s garage rock.
And that’s about as much as you can say to pin down Canadiasian King Khan (nee Arish Khan) and BBQ (aka Mark Sultan), who this month released Invisible Girl, their fifth album together.
You can hear the influence of early Washington-state punk bands like The Wailers and The Sonics, as well as Khan’s idol Chuck Berry, in Invisible Girl (which will be streaming for free until November 16 at Exclaim.ca), but King Khan and BBQ don’t like to get too literal about what they do. In this hilariously dada interview, they claim “sodomy, pizza, Roger Moore, sporks, dentistry, Don Knotts, tribal tattoos, tramp stamps not included, and hobo sexuality” as just a few of the driving forces behind their music.
Their live act, too, is legendary for being unlike any other, and lucky for you, The King Khan and BBQ Show will be touring North America through December. Click here for tour dates.
Look next for a collaboration between GZA and Khan, who’s rumored to be writing songs for the Wu-Tang artist’s upcoming album.
[The King Khan & BBQ Show MySpace]
Filed under: Canadiasians, Doo Wop, garage rock, GZA, Indian-Canadians, Invisible Girl, King Khan, Mark Sultan, Montreal Bands, Punk Rock, The King Khan & BBQ Show, The Sonics, Throwbacks, Washington State Punk Rock, Wu-Tang Clan
BABEWATCH: Zahf Paroo
Name: Zahf Paroo
Hails from: Canada
Occupation: Actor
Why He’s a Babe: Zahf Paroo is an astronaut. Well, he plays one on TV at least, in the new ABC drama, Defying Gravity, a terrible-yet-weirdly-compelling one-hour about astronauts on a six-year space mission who all see and hear things and go crazy for some mysterious reason. Zahf plays Ajay Sharma, who loses it during the pilot episode, ventures out on an unauthorized space walk, and has been grounded since. But did we mention that we think astronauts are “haut,” even the fake ones? Must be something about that jumpsuit.
Defying Gravity airs Sundays 10/9c on ABC.
Filed under: ABC, Astronauts, Canadiasians, Defying Gravity, Indian-Canadians, NASA, Space, Space Missions, Zahf Paroo
