NY punk band PARQUET COURTS with Texan rapper BUN B (ex-UGK), who one time planned a book „Hip Hop Survival Guide” with journalist and illustrator Shea Serrano, but finally they rather made a rap coloring book. So maybe Bun B has been drawn by his mate:

Captive Of The Sun ft. BUN B out now on limited edition 12” via Rough Trade.

The original track is on PARQUET COURTS’ latest album Human Performance.

In the lyrics there is a phrase: misophonia. It means literally „hatred of sound.” It is a condition in which negative emotions, thoughts, and physical reactions are triggered by specific sounds. One study found that around 80% of the sounds were related to the mouth as eating, chewving, yawning and etc.

„We are still mythical;
we are still
permanently trapped
somewhere between the heroic and the pitiful”

Kate Tempest, writer, musician

„Metrical rigour and adroit rhyming are not yet among her accomplishments. She has a pretty, cherubic face, framed by unbrushed red blonde hair and she speaks in a Caribbean lite patois that translates ‘those things’ into ‘dem fings’. This linguistic pattern has many fans among the elite. It’s seen as an emblem of barbarous innocence, of instinctive passions bred in the ghetto, of an unschooled and therefore superior creativity. And it particularly excites Arts Council grandees who believe their mission is to reach down to the uncivilised and protean human type. Which Tempest perfectly represents.”

About Kate Tempest’s poetry by Lloyd Evans playwright and sketch writer in good old British conservative magazine The Spectaor. He also says „She is also pessimistic to the point of superstition. She sees malevolence everywhere.”

from the album Let Them Eat Chaos on Fiction Records (UK). Her former records were released by Big Dada/ Ninja Tunes.

„Illusion, my darling, everything is just illusion. Believe me! Causeless bustle, but many of us think it is the order itself. Childish illusion. But the method, it is deserving.”

Alexander the Lame

BORZOI from Texas

RAW NOISE PUNK 7″ vinyls on 12XU RECORDS (US)

GARY WRONG GROUP from different southern places. Founded by Wizzard Sleeve‘s Captain Beyonce (also in King Louie And The Loose Diamonds, Kajus SS) with Wizzard Sleeve mate and Natural Child organist Benny Divine, Quintron and more.

Challenging childhood on a council estate outside Swindon (UK), saw him immerse himself in music, books and poetry as a means of escape.

OLIVER WILDE

„As a kid, I thought no one in the world felt like me. Then I discovered Nick Drake, Daniel Johnston, Conor Oberst and Kurt Cobain. Hearing Sparklehorse was a revelation. Their music expressed exactly how I felt. It was a hugely liberating experience because suddenly I wasn’t alone.”

„I was this loser emo kid, sitting in my room, trying to come to terms with all the negativity in my life. As self-therapy, I made these little songs about how I felt. Writing them was a cathartic release. Rather than carry this heavy subject matter around in my head, which made me depressed, I turned it in to music. I took the cliche´s of pop – the structure, the form, the earworm hooks, the emphasis on rhythm – and made them ugly in order to address wider demons. The idea that anyone would hear it was appalling. Those really were my diary entries. They were so personal and humiliating. I felt incredibly exposed.” But by accident, one of Oliver’s early songs was discovered by Adrian Dutt, his co-worker at a Bristol record store and co-owner of Howling Owl Records.

“You’re So Kool-Aid, for example, has a catchy tune, a beat and a bass synth. It’s funky, but it’s about suicide.”

From the album Post-Frenz Container Buzz

LP on Howling Owl Records (UK). Digital

POW!

Californian synth-punk duo, discovered by John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees, Castle Face Records), for a while Seth Sutton (Useless Eaters) was their drummer, and vice versa, Byron Blum (POW!) was a member of garage rock band Useless Eaters.

New album Crack An Egg on Castle Face Records (US) for the fools of Digital Leather, Cheveu, Gary Numan and POW!

DELACAVE

– is a duo of Lily Pourie and Sebnormal, whom has many formations, the most known is psych garage rock band The Feeling of Love,

– plays degressive rock like Neue Deutsche Welle group Malaria! in the early 80s,

– and they have another duo together Le Chemin De La Honte,

– on the recordings Cheb Samir was playing on drums from Italian psychedelic no wave band Trans Upper Egypt

New album ‘IF I AM OVERTHINKING, TALK ABOUT ANYTHING, ANY DAMNED THING’ on TEENAGE MENOPAUSE RECORDS (France). Listen to it!

Classic heavy metal hard rock á la Judas Priest Iron Maiden Motörhead Metallica’s Kill’em All with total punk feeling by ZIG ZAGS from LA on 7″ vinyl on FAMOUS CLASS RECORDS (US)

EURO TOUR March-Apr Ger, Bel, NL, UK, Ire, Fr, Sp, It, Au, Swi, DK, Nor

„We are pulling out all the stops to create a live experience that is unlike anything Ronnie’s fans have seen before” – said the boss of the company. So Ronnie James Dio hologram tour is coming soon. And an improved version – Dio 2.0 – is under way. It will be able to shake hand and give signatures.

There are many young talented musicians, but they put big money into a dead one. Sad. Stupid. But certainly profitable.

My favourite Black Sabbath show with Dio was in Milwaukee in 1980, when the band walked off the stage after two songs because of flying objects. Then a riot broke out and the arena was destroyed. Sound recording for the fans of harsh noise.

Anyway punks not dead, but Dio for 7 years.

INTERESTING PROJECT RISES BY DEEP ITALIAN TRADITIONAL RULES OF LOVE

CREAPOPOLVSQVE

„Our mission is make LOVE for make PEOPLE.”

and make hot ambient industrial & horny drone noise

Mentula Aurum cassette on NO=FI Recordings (Italy)
(Mentula Aurum means Golden Dick in Latin)

CREAPOPOLVSQVE = Katzy and Matzy, aka Stefano and Valentina.

I know Stefano from noise rock band Hiroshima Rocks Around, and noise wave duo Maximillian I°.

Valentina as Mushy plays Cocteau Twins-like haunted minimal synth (Three Legged Cat and Clandestine Recs), and as Phantom Love fabricates kraut cosmic trance (Mannequin Recs).

Clerical reaction is continuing!

Yesterday the PRIESTS, today the BISHOPS with their holy grunge punk music

from the album Dream Easy

An unorthodox punk band from Washington, D.C.

PRIESTS

fusing no wave pop hc punk indie rock anarcho funk.

Some names from my notes: Lydia Lunch + Fugazi + Dead Kennedys + Joy Division/New Order + Dog Faced Hermans.

Debut album Nothing Feels Natural OUT NOW on Sister Polygon Records (US).

Euro tour May-June UK, NL, Bel, Fr, Sp, Lux, Ger, DK.

They say: So here is something funny about the signing of the US constitution: There were 55 people who signed it, they were all rich white men. 15 of them owned other people who were forced to do work for them in order to survive, called “slaves”. All 55 of these white men owned land. If you were not a wealthy white man who owned people or land you were definitely not invited to decide what this new country was going to be about. (…) This place was born on a selfish lie. There is nothing to salvage, no great ideals that just got a little skewed. (…) When people defend the USA I think of Stockholm Syndrome. (… So) the first step is knowing, understanding, that this country was not made for you, and it is built on lies and murder.

But in the reality just 39 delegates signed it from the 55, and not 15 rather 25 were slave-owners. At that time the states predominantly limited the voting right to property-owning or tax-paying white males. So they were the people.

But I do not believe that the low-qualified poor would be so honest, unselfish, brave and so on. They just would do the same thing, or worse. Trump and Brexit have come by them.

NEW RELEASES BY DUTCH ELECTRONIC LABEL

ENFANT TERRIBLE

ADOLF FILTER or Schwedisch Deutsche Freundschaft. 7″ on sublabel Petit Enfant.

UNRUHE (ie Restless), a compilation all about acid: spacey and trippy by ZARKOFF (Croatia); distorted and freaked out by ROBERTO AUSER (Holland); industrial by FOQL (Poland); and uncompromising analog terror by THE UNTITLED (Netherlands). 12″ EP on sublabel Gooiland Elektro.

BRANNTEN SCHNÜRE, German psychedelic dark folk duo, inspired by Nico, Novy Svet and David Jackman. LP on sublabel Vrystaete.

Adolf Filter + FOQL + Zarkoff + Adolf Filter + Brannten Schnüre + The Untitled >