The Cramps were one of the greatest rock’n’roll bands ever. They played B-Movies inspired psychedelic rockabilly mixed with blues, punk and surf. It was founded by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy in New York in 1976.

Lux: First time I saw her she was walking down the street, hitchhiking, and she was wearing a halter-top and short shorts with a big hole in the ass with red panties showing through. I was with this other guy, a friend of mine, and we both just went, “Who-o-o-oh!” We pulled over and I think I had a hard-on about three seconds after I saw her. It was 1972, and we were at Sacramento State College.

Ivy: I’d just started college, and one day I was hitchhiking back from the campus to my apartment, when Lux and a friend of his gave me a ride. I’d seen him around the campus, and I thought he was extremely exotic. He would have these pants and each leg of the pants was a different colour. (…) Lux seemed like a creature from another world, with one foot already out of this dimension. (…) We were both studying art at Sacramento State College in the early Seventies. It was a very strange art department in Sacramento at that time, too, because the whole student population was made up of hippies, and they were into witchcraft and metaphysics and everything else. We met up in a class called Art and Shamanism. The textbook for that class was called ‘The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross’, and the subject of that book is how the real topic of the Bible is the Amanita muscaria mushroom and that Christ is a metaphor for this magic mushroom.

Lux: Rock ’n’ roll has absolutely nothing to do with music. It’s much more than music. Rock ’n’ roll is who you are. You can’t call the Cramps music. It’s noise, rockin’ noise.

Live in Oslo 2006

RNR666 and their friends dedicate this Friday night
to memory of Lux Interior (1946-2009)

Howling at the Honeymoon – Zsófi (Piresian Beach) & Dávid (Broken Cups)
Thalium & Lupus – the breakcore-techno artist and his punk bro.
Zefyr – perverse latex dream
Küss Mich – Martini Dry with eyeball
& RNR666 DJs

Budapest  Vittula  Feb 7  21:00

More and more absurd and entertaining eclectic punk rock like the Devo

Cheveu – Bum LP by Born Bad Records

Ahhhhhhhhhhhitsfuckingooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! –  I did this statement during the 4th song. Maybe the best album this year till now.

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More and more mainstream rock like The Clash

The Men – Tomorrow Hits LP by Sacred Bones

Euro tour in March Vienna March 22 Flex

The 3 British Tense Men come from Cold Pumas, Sauna Youth and Omi Palone. Gang of Four like punk minimalism in the whirl of madness. RNRFON

from debut album ‘Where Dull Care Is Forgotten’ by Faux Discx

They are living in extreme surfer situation on the Peterborough’s plain in East of England near the North-Sea. This is the Paradise of doom surfers. The Wytches are the official cursed band of the annual doom surfers meetings. Their music is er garage doom grunge surf or such a thing.

Since yesterday they belong to Heavenly Recordings. It was a damned well decision.

Euro tour in April. They will connect to Blood Red Shoes tour in Prague on 6 April.

Death Thrash Grind by King Diamond and Misfits fans

Coffin Dust – ‘This Cemetery, My Kingdom’ debut LP by Unholy Anarchy Records

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Marvellous psych-ritual. Written and played by Morgan Delt, a 36 years old musician

S/T LP by Trouble in Mind. It was mastered by Mikey Young (Eddie Current Suppression Ring and more.)

One for the money.

The Spanish Dead Capo quartet mix jazz, rock and surf in their cinematic music. Sunny Garcia

from the album Sale by Lovemonk Records

RNR666 co-founder’s one man rockabilly blues project, the Szentcsalád Oral Orchestra ( = Holy Family Oral Orchestra) teamed up with the one woman psych garage Piresian Beach and made a dirty garage blues. Guitar solo is played by a special guest, Zoli  from  nohopekids

We hope there will be continuity.

Piresian Beach/JC Satán split 7″ by RNR666 Records

In 2010, San Marcos in Texas was listed in Business Week’s survey of the „Best Places to Raise your Kids.” Scott H. Biram, the Dirty Old One Man Band comes from here. „My music is the bastard child of Punk, Blues, Country, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Chain Gang, Metal, and Classic Rock,” or in brief it’s „Depression Era Metal.” About love and jelaousy, alcohol and drugs, sin and forgiveness and similar stupid, but very important human affairs.

Nothin’ But Blood LP by Bloodshot Records

You can listen to the full album here

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Dirt Dress is a punk band in LA. I think their music is influenced by The Fall and Wire, and sometimes it reminds me the garage rock of Jack of Heart and JC Satán.

from split 7″ with Corners by Mono Records. You can listen to the Corners‘ song here. They’re a garage rock band with surfy guitar sound, piano and harmonica.

A song from the British rock band Gallon Drunk‘s upcoming album: Before The Fire

The Soul of The Hour will be released by Clouds-Hill Records. Among the members’ „side projects” there’re Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Big Sexy Noise (with Lydia Lunch) or the krautrock Faust. The multi-instrumentalist Terry Edwards played with a wide range of bands and performers from Barry Adamson to Yeah Jazz.

Euro tour in March-April. Budapest March 30

OXYGEN DOGS LIVE ON THE AIR

TODAY 3 PM ON TILOS RADIO BANG BANG RADIOSHOW

Baddat för Trubbel. Swedish party punk. No more, no less.

‘Inte Varit Sü Tuff ‘ 7″ by Total Punk

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„Like Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’, Bart Davenport has seen many an era. He’s been a mod, a bluesman and now a softrock troubadour.” Sometimes his garage rock and blues roots emerge, but easy, like a Sunday afternoon.

‘Physical World’ LP by Lovemonk (Spain) and Burger Records

塞翁失馬  > pron: Sāi Wēng Shī Mǎ

During the Han Dynasty, in the third century B.C., one day an old Chinese man named Sai Weng, lost his horse. His neighbors all said what terrible luck that was, and sympathized with the old man. But Mister Weng said: “I don’t know, maybe losing my horse is not a bad thing after all.”
The next day the old man’s horse returned, together with a beautiful female horse alongside him. All the neighbors exclaimed: “What great luck!” But the old man responded: “Maybe this is not such good luck after all.”
Old man Sai Weng also had a strong, young son. The boy fell in love with the new horse and rode her every day. One day the new horse got spooked by a wild animal in the forest and threw the boy from her back. He broke his leg very badly and was permanently crippled.
All Mister Weng’s neighbors said: “What a tragedy, your strong son will never walk without pain again.” But the old man again said: “Maybe this is not such a bad thing after all.”
And so it went that when the New Year came, the Emperor’s army passed through the region and recruited all able young men to fight in the frontier war. Because the old man’s son was crippled he could not fight and was left in the village to farm with his father. Sai Weng said to his neighbors: “You see, it all turned out OK in the end. Being thrown from the new horse and breaking his leg saved my son from fighting in the war and almost certain death. So it was in the end a lucky thing after all.”

Whenever bad thing happens in China, someone will say “Sai Weng Shi Ma” ( “The Old Man Who Lost His Horse”) to remind themselves and others that apparently bad things sometimes have a silver lining.

Happy Chinese New Year for Everybody in Year of The Horse

新年快樂 > xīn nián kuài lè

The story is taken from Just Another Day in China