It’s already at that point in ‘Splode Week 2010 where you start to lose track of what you saw and where you went. I actually had to take a look at my hand and use all the residual stamps and stuff to figure out what happened first next last etc. It’s like a road map […]
Mark Sultan
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Pop Explosion Night One
Last night was the best “first” night of Halifax Pop Explosion in my personal memory. Others who have been around here longer might disagree. But the one-two punch of a mind-blowing Paragon performance by Kylesa plus a glass-smashing, moshy, screamy, drunky Mark Sultan set at Gus’ Pub will have me smiling and giggling through my […]
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HPX preview: Mark Sultan goes solo
It has been a tumultuous few months for Mark Sultan. After spending the better part of the last decade as the “BBQ” half of the King Khan & BBQ Show, Sultan left the band amid swirling blogger accounts of cancelled shows, wild drunkenness, trashed apartments and screaming arguments between the two musicians across a Pacific […]
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Mark Sultan
The first two instrumental minutes of Mark Sultan’s gritty four-minute opener “Icicles” release like a noisy prelude to a loud, ballsy off-off-Broadway musical. Garage rock royalty and the BBQ half of King Khan and BBQ Show, this one-man band can swing from coarse tincan guitar to crooning like a lovelorn, long-lost Animals member, as in […]