Ether Fever

The Savage Blush

MARK SULTAN + THE SAVAGE BLUSH + GLUE MAN + DJ AUBSCENE (Doors 7pm)

MARK SULTAN / BBQ s a cult figure, sorcerer, nutcase, and underrated gem.

His legacy of LPs and 45s on labels like In The Red, Goner, Crypt, Wick/Daptone, Sub Pop, Dirtnap, Vice, Fat Possum, Bomp!, Norton, Dirtnap, etc... and his impressive list of rock n roll projects (The King Khan & BBQ Show, Ding-Dongs, Almighty Defenders, Les Sexareenos, Spaceshits, etc...) are an influential secret handshake. And that's just the way he likes it. “I’m a music fan. When I was a kid, finding some crazy, magical 45 nobody knew felt very empowering.” His unmistakable vocals and instantly transportive melodies are an offering to the sexual and primitive spirits of the genre. “Some of my favorite music acts like a portal to me. It’s time travel. It’s a way to shift into parallel worlds. It's like magic.”

“ ...a haunted jukebox, complete with all of the static and anticipation, you can almost smell the filthy ghosts he needs to exorcise upon the stage.” Metro

“(Sultan) doesn’t simply revive old sounds and old excitements, he ingests them and digests them, and regurgitates them as something new and personal.”Pitchfork

“If there’s a Patient Zero in garage rock’s shift from emulating the troglodytic stomp ofteenage Stones wannabes in 1965, to embracing the Golden Oldies pop and doo-wop of the years just before Beatlemania, it’s probably Mark ‘BBQ’ Sultan, who releases albums of catchy, clever garage-pop more frequently than most people buy shoes.” Chicago Reader

He's toured the world over, from the Americas to Australia, Europe to Micronesia to Russia, and everywhere in between. He’s played hallowed venues like the Sydney Opera House and Carnegie Hall, as well as all of the unmentionable Festivals. His fans include many paradoxical artists across the spectrum. Generations unknowingly adopt his timeless style, heard as a xeroxthroughout the ‘underground’, credited to the wrong sources, while simultaneously grossly over-exposed to the max, online. Though his biggest song, The King Khan & BBQ Show's 'Love You So' has been played literally trillions of times across ‘social media’, he remains an unlikely, invisible and subversive tourchbearer of real rock'n'roll.

The Savage Blush

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