Biography
A Canadian garage rock duo with loose ties to Montreal, Quebec, the King Khan & BBQ Show folds doo wop, punk, and soul into an unruly style fueled by unfiltered intensity. At its core stand Mark Sultan, performing as BBQ, and Blacksnake, known as King Khan, who had previously shared stages in the Montreal group Spaceshits until its dissolution in 1999. Sultan launched Les Sexareenos and then, beginning in 2002, performed solo under the BBQ moniker as a one-man band, while Blacksnake assembled King Khan & His Shrines. The two ex-bandmates reconvened at Blacksnake’s residence in Germany to compose material and staged sporadic concerts in Germany and Spain under the King Khan billing. Their self-titled debut appeared in 2004 on Goner Records in the United States and Hazelwood Records in Europe, prompting an international tour. In the Red Records issued the follow-up, What’s for Dinner?, in 2006, with the third album, Invisible Girl, arriving on the same label in 2009. Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed chose the band for their Vivid Live program at the Sydney Opera House in Australia in 2010; afterward the duo declared a split yet resumed writing together by 2011. Limited additional releases and intermittent touring preceded the fourth album, Bad News Boys, which surfaced in early 2015.
Albums
Singles
