June 18, 2008

The 'Gum Drop XLII: Hear New King Khan, Win MOSCOT Sunglasses

Canadian-born, Germany-based ex-Spaceshits member King Khan has been kicking around the garage long before the current revival, but is making a splash these days due to last year's excellent What Is?!, associations with Black Lips, Deerhunter, etc., and the fact there is a garage revival. More importantly, though, is that he's a charismatic weirdo who writes immediately addictive songs. Yesterday Khan and his brassy nine-piece band the Shrines released a best-of compilation The Supreme Genius Of King Khan And The Shrines on Vice. The album's second track "Took My Lady to Dinner" was first released on a 10" in 2001 before showing up in this week's Drop. King Khan gave us the skinny, including:

This song was inspired by my high school graduation. My date was sitting and finishing the plates of different people at our table while everyone else was dancing. This didn't upset me, it fascinated me and i found it incredible how she just didn't give a fuck. She was happy munching on about three or four different chicken legs, but unfortunately forgot to eat the corsage I gave her...

Read the rest of his thoughts and take a listen here.

This week, you can also win a pair of MOSCOT sunglasses and a copy of Superabundance by UK geek-rockers Young Knives.

You get a pair of vintage-inspired MOSCOT Lemtosh sunglasses. Cee-Lo wore a pair of MOSCOT's when Gnarls Barkley performed on SNL a few weeks back. This is what they look like sans Cee-Lo:

Find out more about MOSCOT at their official site. The company's been around since 1915.

British trio Young Knives are younger than that, but there's a copy of their new second album Superabundance in it for the winner. The collection's out now on Transgressive in the UK and Rykodisc in the US. Notice that the Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire-born, Oxford-based "geek rock" band, consisting of the colorfully named Henry Dartnall, the House Of Lords and Oliver Askew, wear MOSCOT-esque glasses. Or two thirds of them do.

One winner gets the sunglasses and the geek rock. Find out more about Young Knives at their MySpace. You can sign up to win here. Last week's Radiohead bundle is still available, too. Sign up now.

CONTEST ENDS 07/02/08 AT 12PM EST.

[King Khan photo by Natasha Papadopoulou]

Posted at 12:14 PM by stereogum in Giveaway, MP3
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