The King Khan & BBQ Show

FUN FUN FUN FEST

• Preview

  The blurbing of Fun Fun Fun Fest

• Saturday

• Sunday

• Interviews

• Death

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Altercation Comedy

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Fucked Up

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• The Jesus Lizard

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Pharcyde

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Pack of Wolves

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Mission of Burma

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• GZA

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Danzig

  BY MARC SAVLOV

Fun Fun Fun Fest Phases

• The Jesus Lizard

  Head/Pure

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Mission of Burma

  The Sound the Speed the Light

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Times New Viking

  Born Again Revisited

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Why?

  Eskimo Snow

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Broadcast & the Focus Group

  Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• The King Khan & BBQ Show

  Invisible Girl

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Lucero

  1372 Overton Park

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Russian Circles

  Geneva

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

The King Khan & BBQ Show

What's for Dinner? (2006) combined a love of 1950s/1960s R&B with an appetite for humor. It was an almost-perfect party album, where the slow songs balanced the dancers. On its latest, duo BBQ (Mark Sultan) and King Khan start in with the jokes straight away: "Anala," a love song to a girl with an unfortunate name. The goofs continue on "Animal Party," a Saturday night tale of barnyard debauchery that should be made into an animated video. Despite the cover of the album, the majority of Invisible Girl stays as serious as it can for men who wear wigs and miniskirts. The doo-wop of "Third Ave.," soul stomp of "I'll Be Lovin' You," and chiming neo-punk of "Lonely Boy" temper the more juvenile impulses of songs like "Spin the Bottle." KK & BBQ have their yin and yang – Sultan's the timekeeper, Khan the flair – and it works in small doses. (Sunday, 6:15pm, Yellow Stage.)