The latest release of the Less Artist More Condos split 7″ series. Lower Dens is one of the many projects of singer/songwriter Jana Hunter and play experimental folk rock. On the other side from same place:  „Horse Lord is a band from Baltimore.” Repetitive psychic experiment.

by Famous Class.  The LAMC series

Typical French garage surf rock

Sapin – one two t ree four EP by Azbin

You might not be familiar with too many things coming from Serbia (and let’s focus on the good things, right?) but there’s one man who seems to be everywhere, or at least where the good things are happening in Serbia. So, meet Filip Cetkovic who has an endless list of bands, runs a trve club called MKC Kombinat and is an expert in trash films, obscure music and graphic arts. Trve, right?

Bag of dicks exploded at the end of last year with their over-distorted minimalist interpretation of garage punk. The duo is at least three times louder than any two-piece on this planet and you can easily check this statement if you come to their autumn show brought to you by RNR666. Filip’s yelling vocals, bass progressions from the desert, trash movie cruelty, a kick-ass EP – and I must say once again, it’s done really really loud.

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┼ chresus jist ┼ is Filip’s most recent band with slightly more sophisticated sounds but it’s still pure punk (two girls run the rhythm section, by the way but  honestly I could not really tell this while listening) and it’s still pretty noisy. Apart from the sick name – of which I remember laughing my ass off when I first heard, anyway – it’s not a primitive endeavor with its indie rock and surf reminiscences and hell, this EP sounds totally right – it’s unfortunately something we are not quite used to from Eastern European bands.

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Go for your free downloads at the bandcamp sites and seek your opportunities to catch these bands at a show!

Winston Smith 

Dead Kennedys is a well-known American punk band but who is the logo and covers creator Winston Smith? James Patrick Shannon Morey (b. 1952) moved from Oklahoma to Italy in 1969. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and studying classical Renaissance, later won a scholarship to study Cinema at the International University of Art (Florence and Rome). He went back to the States only in 1976. After the arrival he has changed his name to Winston Smith. WS is the main character in Orwell’s 1984. He moved to San Francisco and worked as a roadie for many bands while wrote, edited and self-published a magazine with a fellow-artist. They also made and distributed posters for non-existent bands and clubs with the addresses listed on the placards and flyers often located in the Pacific Ocean.

„That’s dangerous! I wanna use that.”

WINSTON SMITH     THE DEAD KENNEDYS STORY

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Influences are wide ranging. From a song writing perspective, Phil’s primary influences are the alt-country of Wilco, the surrealist melancholia of Sparklehorse and experimental rock of Califone, though more than a hint of Captain Beefheart’s magisterial influence can be detected in the lyrics and song titles. Ian brings bluegrass chops and punk sensibilities in equal measure, whilst Barney’s slide and fingerstyle guitar reveal a love of the pre-war splendor of Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell.

CAT MEAT – Scarlet Bell EP

Grant Hart was drummer and co-songwriter in the Hüsker Dü. After the break-up he continued as a guitarist and vocalist in the Nova Mob. After the break-up he has been doing solo career. His double album based on John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. The poem was written from 1658 to 1664 in the time of restoration of the English Monarchy. The blind, impoverished and republican author began to write it right after the fall of the Commonwealth.

Letting Me Out from The Argument double LP by Domino

The record was also inspired by William S. Burroughs. While Hart visiting former friend and secretary of William S. Burroughs, the secretary showed him an unpublished manuscript for Lost Paradise, Burroughs’ science fiction story which portrays the fallen angels as men from distant planets and God as none other than Harry S. Truman.

Wow! „Wonderfully raw” noise rock. „If the Blood Brothers morphed with Sonic Youth.” And a little Butthole Surfers, Cramps,

Big Black Cloud – Cities Of The Red Night from Black Friday LP by Stankhouse

After I moved away from Boise, Idaho, I came back in the summer of ’61. Around that time, Jerry Lee Lewis was supposed to play at this big club in the Sagebrush Desert — I think it was called the Miramar. Back then, these big events would catch people’s imaginations. They would take their motorcycles or hot rods to these remote places to see some star. So we all drove out to this place, but Jerry never showed up and people were really pissed off. ‘Star Dream Girl’ has that same kind of charisma. People can’t wait to see her and come from miles around…The lyrics came to me all at once, but there was no music yet. Then one night, Dean (Hurley) was playing guitar in the studio and I was egging him on when he caught a wave like the surfers out in Hawaii. He was in the tunnel man…and the lyrics married with that ride.

from David Lynch’s second album. The Big Dream comes out in middle of July by Sunday Best (Europe) and Sacred Bones (USA). The songs stand on the basis of blues, among them is a Bob Dylan cover from 1963: Ballad of Hollis Brown, but it is „not really a cover of Bob Dylan as much as it is a cover of a Nina Simone cover of Bob Dylan” – said Lynch.

Do you want to listen to his first album?

I’m having this pretty weird vision in my head while I’m trying to grab the essence of Shannon and the Clams– I’m seeing a heartbroken John Waters trying to be a good girl, I’m seeing the sweetest pop music turning into a psycho-killer lollipop from too much overdrive and most of all I’m seeing lots of eccentric fucked-upness. Just look at these crazy Californian guys and you would probably know more of this band than any shitty record reviews could ever tell – the harshest of good old pin-up style, some weird uniforms, lots of gayness and colors everywhere, so obviously all of these (alongside with the catchy melodies) are about FUN and the result is fully pleasing.

Still, Shannon and the Clams are by no means a scam band with only one cheaply over-hyped debut album – Dreams in the Rat House is already their third full-length release while Shannon is also involved in Hunx and his Punks (another brilliantly gay band) and Cody is simply King Lollipop –  I honestly think they’re just getting better and better in their songwriting skills. If I was a bitch, I would even be envious of them, haha.

All in all, this LP is a perfect pick for the summer for any record junkies who enjoy surf pop with an almost sickening overdose of a hundred different bubblegum flavors, or who appreciate some troubled, nastier allusions meanwhile, or who are still fond of the garage ideal (i. e. exploding band dynamics plus infectious energies) or who are really fed up with bands trying to make an intellectual / arty impression. 

Dreams in the Rat House is out now on Hardly Art Records – sorry for demonstrating the album here so poorly but I’m afraid the label is a lot eager to make you listen to the vinyl and they are probably right!

Or you can catch Shannon and the Clams on tour in France and Belgium this July!

Reverend Beat-Man is founder of the legendary swiss garage-punk band Monsters & founder and owner of the cult roots rock’n’roll blues trash country label Voodoo Rhythm Records. At first he performs his special Blue Suede Shoes cover

Yeah! And then here is an interview with him in Hungarian

 by Bang Bang Radio Show

TORTOISE – The Taut And Tame + TUNNELS – Without Light

THRILL JOCKEY RECORDS

„The Steve Adamyk Band are a punk band.” They „play trash-pop inspired by seventies punk, the skinny tie bands of the eighties and nineties garage rock.” But their songs is too power pop for me often, but not this:

7″ by Hosehead

Another great Aussie garage rock band: The Living Eyes:

7″ by Goodbye Boozy

You can listen to their first album here.