„The Rock and Roll Nigger Experience” was the original title of AFROPUNK documentary. The film follows the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyles. They find themselves in conflicting situations, living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community.

„The lifestyle is pretty much trying to make reality of your angst against society.”

„My mother wouldn’t go like shopping with me.”

featuring members of Bad Brains, B-52’s, Cro-Mags, Dead Kennedys, Dirtbombs, Fishbone and many more young punk and hardcore bands

But Afropunk is not only a documentary, it’s a community.

If you know The Pussywarmers then you will be surprised. There is no trace of the punk swing. Chansons, folk ballads, psychedelic beats, rocks and seagulls on a tropical coast. I like this better than the previous albums, but one thing is missing for me, the polyglotry.

The Pussywarmers and Réka – I Saw Them Leaving by Wild Honey

And look this: a 7″ by Réka Csiszér a „Hungarian Austrian Jazz Singer Film Maker Enfant Terrible” Femme Fatale + Lala Morte a „Thai Vietnamese Parisian Burlesque Performer” + Simone (Pussywarmers) + Nene (Movie Star Junkies). They recorded Dawn Penn’s reggae hit from 1967, You Don’t Love Me in a Billy Holiday and a Jane Birkin style French versions. It’s released by Voodoo Rhythm

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D.Charles Speer is a guitarist. Grew up in Deep South of America. Moving to New York in the early 90s. Member of No-Neck Blues Band, a folk, drone, psychedelia, free jazz, noise and everything big band, who like to use the wharves, parks, rooftops and other unusual places for performances, so their shows have been shot down frequently by police. He likes and plays Greek and Arabic music. And rock’n’roll, blues, country and rockabilly

D Charles Speer & The Helix – Double Exposure LP by Thrill Jockey

Traditional Latin punk

by Puerto Rican Las Ardillas. A little bit hymnic  “?Dónde Están?” i.e. Where are they?

There are 2 from the disbanded Davila 666. Here are other 2 Davila 666-ers.

Las Ardillas free download

New video from D.G.

We Love D.G.

The garage rock superstar Black Lips‘ southern rocker album is coming soon in March. The boys asked Phil Spector to produce the album, but the incarcerated 74 years old producer didn’t answer. In 2009 he was sentemnced to 19 to life for murder of an actress. So it is produced by Patrick Carney from Black Keys. And stars everywhere. It is mixed by a Grammy winner, who has worked with Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, Björk. The album photos shot by legendary British rock’n’roll photographer Mick Rock

Underneath The Rainbow LP by Vice Records

Euro tour in May-June: Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Brussles, London, Athens

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Solids. Canadian psych garage grunge in the manner of 90s

Blame Confusion – debut LP by Fat Possum (US) and Dine Alone Records (Can)

“Think of other peoples futures; but never think of your own.”
George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (1912)

miniMATTHEW has written this above his 51st song, Let’s Loose

It’s part of The Ballad Of miniMATTHEW, that is a continuous story. He has been releasing a new song on every second Sunday since February 2009. All tracks are available to download for free. He adds a quotation to every song. The first for „Opening Night”

“Only vanity makes people take risks.”
Yukio Mishima – Confessions Of A Mask (1948)

He comes from a part of England where the newspapers still don’t carry the previous nights football results. Terrible!

A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
One of their latest releases

FAI BABA – SHE’S MY GURU

At first I overlooked that this album is a great one because I was wonder-struck by doomenfels so much.  But when I edited the (very coming soon) radio show from these albums on the first round I wrote to a paper the number of selected songs during the listening. On the occasion of Fai Baba I selected almost the full album.

Fai Baba was founded by Fabian Sigmund in Zürich, 2008, after he came back his spititual journey from India as „Psychedelic, Garage and Soul man.” He writes and plays very strange and highly enetertaining music. Krautrock-like psych pop, drenched with noisy space rock, spiced with a little 70s disco pumping sometimes. In short: very indie rock. Beside the drums and guitars you can find a heep of old keys intstruments as Farfisa, Ace Tone and Hammmond organs, Rhodes and Crumar electric pianos, Omnichord and Moog on this album.

Fai Baba is influenced by John Lee Hooker, who rarely played on a standard beat.

More trees in a field

Death on the North Street > 3 black brothers underwent from funk to punk in Detroit, 1974. The trio was called Death. They self-released only one single before they transformed into a gospel rock band in 1977, but later they turned into reggae. The Death stayed fully unknown until 2009. Now here are two unreleased Death song from the post-Death era on a 7″ single by Drag City. North Street from 1980

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Lucifer Big Band is denaturally an Italian one man electronic noise project by Leonard Kandur Layola for example. He is living in a fly.

‘Atto II’ CDr by Lemming Records

Отстой is from Saint Petersburg, Russia and as far as it seems it’s only one guy doing druggy psych music in a garage, or a bedroom…or on the bathroom floor, it’s quite hard to tell. He definitely gains inspiration from the average noisy US-influenced garage revival bands but he adds his own under-the-influence Eastern vision and as a result you get the kind of music Kevin Failure would lick all his fingernails from tip to toe (thanks to DrugPunk blog for introducing Отстой to me, by the way).

I had the strange feeling while listening to Отстой’s EP that the first track even has some influences from hispanic RNR, then we go on with a bit of neo-psychedelia but the spirit of Russian punk god (and the father of  shitty-fuzzy guitar sound) Yegor Letov is constantly with us – crazy, isn’t it!? The Russian punk scene seems to have a fucking great time with bands like Sonic death, Wavepool Abortion who take Western music and just spit it against the wall – if you lack the originality in American music, Russian punks are your way too!

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LAKE

is an American sweet indie pop band. Perfect Fit

from the album the world is real by KRECS

1942. Napalm was developed in a secret laboratory at Harvard University in Massachusetts.  The name is a combination of the names of two of the constituents of the gelling agent: naphthenic acid and palmitic acid. The napalm fires can create an atmosphere of greater than 20% carbon monoxide and firestorms with self-perpetuating winds of up to 110 km/h (70 m/h).

1944. The first recorded strategic use of napalm incendiary bombs occurred in an attack by the USAAF on Berlin on 6 March.

1980. United Nations declared to use napalm against civilians is a war crime, but the international law does not prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets.

1981. Napalm Death was founded at a little village in heart of England by Nicholas Bullen (vocals, bass) and Miles Ratlidge (drums). They were around 14 then and listen to too many punk music.

1981-87. Constant line-up changes. There were 15 members during this period. The first album was recorded in two parts in 1986 and 1987 by two different line-ups, only the drummer Mick Harris is same on both side of the „officially” first grindcore album ever. Both founders left the group, Ratlidge in ’85, Bullen in ’86 together with Justin Broadrick, because they were discontented with the direction of the band. After the B-side recordings Shane Embury who was drummer in death metal bands joined as bass player.

1989. Lee Dorian (vocal) and Bill Steer (guitar) left the band due to musical differences. Dorian rather to found one of the first doom metal bands Cathedral; Steer rather to want concentrate to his own band Carcass. They were changed by Mark Greenway (vocal) from the death metal Benediction, and a Mexican born American guitarist, Jesus Ernesto Pintado Andrade from Terrorizer. Jesus stayed until 2004.

1991. Another American guitarist in the band. Mitch Harris arrived from Righteous Pigs. About this time he had a common project with Mick Harris: Defecation. After the third album Mick Harris left Napalm Death, because it became too death metal for him. He was replaced by an American drummer Danny Herrera.

1994. Napalm Death remixed a song of a British hardcore-rap crew, Gunshot.

After and beside Napalm Death

Miles Ratledge (1981-85: drums) living in Aarhus, Denmark where he runs an Ashtanga Yoga school.

Nicholas Bullen (1981-86: vocal, bass) studied English Literature and Philosophy. In 1991 he joined Mick Harris brand new project, Scorn, left it in 1995, and gained another university degree in Computer Science. He is occupied with avant-garde electronic, ambient, experimental music, sound art and 8mm film making.

Mick Harris (1985-91: drums) while was in Napalm Death also played for Doom and Extreme Noise Terror. 1991 he has formed an electronic metal-industrial dub band Scorn with Bullen, and Broadrick also appeared in the early recordings, but today he is the sole member. In the same time of founding of Scorn he joined John Zorn and Bill Laswell’s jazzcore band Painkiller. He had also dark ambient and drum and bass projects.

Justin Broadrick (1985-86: guitar) grew up in a hippie commune. He was about 8 when he heard Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music at first. After Napalm Death he was influenced by 80s hip-hop sound and acid house. His bands: Final (power electronics, dark ambient, founded in 1982),  Godflesh (industrial metal, 1988), Techno Animal (industrial hip-hop with Kevin Martin from GOD, 1991), Jesu (post-metal, 2003), Pale Sketcher (“shoegazy dream-pop that’s almost techno”, 2010) and more

Some Shane Embury’s side-projects:
– Meethook Seed (industrial metal, 1992) with Mick Harris and Obituary members.
– Brujeria (as Hongo with ND guitarist Jesus Pintado as Cristo de Pisto) with Jello Biafra, Fear Factory and Faith No More members and more.
– Venomous Concept (grind-punk, 2004) with Danny Herrera, and Buzz Osborne (Melvins). Buzz was replaced by Dan Lilker (Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, S.O.D., Brutal Truth)

Napalm Death on euro tour with Hatebreed
Budapest  Feb 25  at Barba Negra

Cole Alexander (guitar, vocal) and Joe Bradly (drums) from the garage rock star Black Lips teamed up with Curtis Harding (Cee Lo Green‘s former back-up singer/writer) and Danny Lee Blackwell (guitar, vocal in the psych garage rock Night Beats) in order to mix southern soul and garage rock.

Night Sun debut 7″ by Burger

Black Lips Euro Tour in May-June: Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, London, Athens

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Two experimental drone metal legends the Norwegian Ulver and the American SUNNO))) have made some tracks together between 2008 and 12 in Oslo.

Terrestrials LP by Southern Lord