“I guess there’s quite a dark side to me. It always comes out when I’m writing songs. I love Sylvia Plath, and I love listening to songs that have that haunting darkness that really pulls you in, so it’s probably something that I want to create in my songs.” She plays every instrument on her recordings, from bass to piano, from guitar to sitar. Strange bitter-sweet haunted folky pop songs or “grungy abstract folk with a playful darkness” by Marika Hackman

We Slept At Last album on Universal Music

*

Seductive brooding jazz with an electronic twist. Baritone sax, double bass, drums, samplers and a whole lot of stomp boxes and effects.  Cozy melancholic cocoon in the midst of a looming, cold, unwelcoming metropolis of Moscow. Eight stories told by different people in different places. For a rainy evening and a bottle of vodka.

Fogh Depot debut album on Denovali Records (Germany)

Peter Kernel

great little big band of Aris Basetti and the Canadian Barbara Lehnhof
in Switzerland. Their music brings Sonic Youth, Breeders and Pixies to my mind.

High Fever

from the album Thrill Addict on On The Camper Records (Switzerland).

Full album stream until 18 January.

RNR666 interview with Barbara about her electronic project Camilla Sparksss

Trans Upper Egypt

Italian psychedelic rock band
among the members there is one of the best video makers I know
the Z-move specialist tab_ularasa
who made videos for Bazooka, Ultra Twist (as member), Hell Shovel, Feeling Of Love, Country Teaser, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Yussuf Jerusalem, Le Peucher
and many others

Fantasia

from the album Trans Upper Egypt on Monofonus Press (US)

Jan 29. SKIP JENSEN GROUP > French Canadian garage rock and roll blues punk + THE HANDS > ex-Jack of Heart members’ psych fuzz garage rock band from France + ODDS > Hungarian raw power > Facebook

Feb 5. RONIN > “soundtrack for the defeated hero” cinematic music by Bruno Dorella, drummer of Italian experimental extreme metal duo OvO + DER TANZ > Lydia Lunch’s Hungarian warm-up band in free punk style (but where the punk isn’t free?) > Facebook

March 11. THE EXPERIMENTAL TROPIC BLUES BAND from Belgium. They already shared the stage with The Cramps, Bob Log III, Heavy Trash, John Spencer Blues Explosion, André Williams, Jay Reatard, The Black Lips. Frantic rock’n’roll

Facebook

March 26. BLACK MAGIC SIX from Finland > Brutal Blues & Hard Rock’n’Roll > Facebook

Apr 18. ?ALOS > Stefania from Italian experimental extreme metal duo OvO plays „Queer-Pagan-Doom-Avanat-Metal” + RATZINGER > tormenting duo of INRI Stephanus (Digép, Büdösök) > Facebook

Jun 20. VAGINA TOWN > rock and roll from France a la Cramps

All in Budapest

Ladywolf, nice prog bubblegum punk

digital EP and cassette on Resurrection Records (US)

*

Jack Oblivian from the legendary reunited garage rock band Oblivians at home with friends. 35 minutes of pure Rock’n’Roll. Jack O and The Sheiks – Live in Memphis 12″

Secret Identity (Germany) and Red Lounge Records (Deutschland)

I don’t like the hardcore because it has became very boring for me, but two great Italian hardcore-punk bands

unconsciousness primitive sonic assault by the trio
PaperogA – My Super Sweet Fisting, debut EP

jazzy hc duo
Ludmilla Spleen – Eeeh?!? 12″ vinyl

on Bloody Sound Fucktory Records (Italy)

Maybe I like the hardcore still a bit.

Old Mate, another shitty Aussie band with a bunch of musicians, Canned Heat, Syd Barret, Devo and Ween covers, originally was a solo project of Pat Telfer from Bitch Prefect (Bedroom Suck Records), suburban blues, spleen and kangaroo boxing in false flat

Truth Boy

from the album It Is What It Is on SDZ Records (France)

One year in penitentiary and bad conduct discharge was the sentence of Navy’s Court Martial in the fraudulent enlistment case of 15 years old Andre Williams, who was born in 1936, Alabama. „Kiss-my-ass-mother-fuckers!” was his response. Right after his discharge he went to Detroit with 25 dollars in his pocket. The day of the coming he entered for a talent show, afternoon wrote a song and won. His first hit was Bacon Fat in 1956 on Fortune Records

Then he worked with Motown Records as a producer too. Wrote and recorded songs together with Stevie Wonder, The Contours, Ike & Tina Turner and more, and also wrote some songs for Parliament and Funkadelic. In the 80s he became a homeless because his hard r’n’b lifestyle. He came back with a rap album in 1990. Since he has made amazing albums in various style: garage rock, blues, country, funk and soul. These were released such labels as In The Red, Bloodshot or Norton Records.

One of his early songs, Jailhouse Blues from 1958 has been covered by Obnox (aka Bim Thomes, drummer of blues punk band Bassholes)

The new Obnox album Boogalou Red is coming this month on 12xU Records (US). Gospel trash

Obnox on RNR666

AUSMUTEANTS

is an Aussie synth punk band, such big international labels want them as: Goner, Goodbye Boozy and Total Punk

We’re Cops

from the album Order of Operation on Goner (US) and Aarght Records (Aus)

Dan Melchior (ex-Broke Revue) is a highly talented British musician. He comes from garage punk, worked together with Billy Childish, Holly Golightly (it’s her real name!) and Walker Russel (Pheromoans), and usually makes experimental other music

„All At Sea” album on No=Fi Recordings (Italy)

Dan Melchior on RNR666

*

Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London by Dan Carey under moniker Astronauts. He is from alt-folk band Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). His solo project was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.

single on Lo Recordings (UK)

French Canadian garage rock and roll blues punk musician Skip Jensen arrives in Budapest at RNR666 Party on 29 January.

Founder of garage rock blues punk band Scat Rag Boosters (which was like the Oblivians and the Gories) and played drums with the Demon’s Claw, but he had a bunch of songs the he’d written that just didn’t seem to fit in anywhere, so he created a solo project. In the beginning it was a one man band, then duo with Seb Normal (Feeling of Love) and finally a trio.

+ ex-Jack of Heart members’ psych fuzz garage rock band The Hands from Perpignan, France.

Skip Jensen + The Hand Euro Tour Jan-Feb

1986, Pushkin (a town near Saint-Peterburg, Russia): engineer undergraduates have formed a band in order to show the dramatic situations of the everyday life in idiotic manner, and the idiotic situations in too dramatic mode, and it has been named NOM. Now here is a video by the legendary and fabulous group

I Can Control Myself

from their new album Семеро Смертных

Trivia: the man with beard Alexander Liver is a singer of the Grand Théâtre de Genève.