Sweet & dynamic punk rock and roll in the manner of 60s’ girl groups and Ramones by The Shanghais with members of No Bunny’s backing band, Primitive Hearts and Pookie & The Poodlez. Their music comes Hunx & His Punx to my mind

Sick of You 7″ EP on Surfin’Ki Records (Italy). Digital copy

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Amazing heavy psychedelic space rock by White Hills. It has started in New York in the early 2000s, because Dave W. (guitar) was dissatisfied for previous bands and decided to start his own one. In the early recordings he played on every instrument alone, but then has found a fix mate, the bassist Ego Sensation. Dave W. was also discontented with the audience in the US, so they went to tour in Europe, where are roots of their Hawkwind, Pink Faires, PIL, NEU! and Amon Düül II influenced music. The first White Hills album on label released in 2005 by Julian Cope’s Fuck Off & Di Records in England. Since then they have been releasing their works continuously by various labels. And they are a really active band. Their second album (which was  self-released on limited edition CD in 2007) will be re-released in August

Glitter Glamour Atrocity LP/CD on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

Euro tour in September!

Extended, almost 26 minutes long live version of The Speed Of Fear by English alternative rock band Gallon Drunk from their recent album The Soul Of The Hour is free to download. A 7 minutes long version:

Have you any idea of it?
Please let me introduce Kirik Cizgi to you.
It’s a keyboard-bass-drums trio with post punk inspired irrational melodic structures.
In Koppány’s view: „They are a bit like cooler No Wave bands like Bush Tetras or Talking Heads. But when I hear them I always have Czech bands in my mind,
like Psí Vojaci, Uz Jsme Doma, or sometimes the Russian N.O.M. (the early).
But Csikar had right when he said, ‘the Turkish Dragibus’, which is true for a few songs.”

Kirik Cizgi in Budapest at the 41st RNR666 Party, 27, June 2010

Kirik Cizgi = Broken Line

„Take me far from everyone.” A social extrovert wax witch with keyboards and guitar plays party punk. But I would go away from that party after 10 min, because his songs are cruelly long on this album.  Above 3 min! But he hasn’t enough talent to do such things. He should stay under 3 min.

Wax Witches – „Centre Of Your Universe” album on Stop Start Music in July (Aus) and Burger Records in Sept (US)

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Futeisha, a brand new project on the flourishing Italian psychedelic scene. It’s a solo effort of psychedelic rock band La Piramide di Sangue guitarist Juan Francisco Scassa. He is not alone sure. His mates are from such great rock band as Movie Star Junkies and Vernon Sélavy. Instead of rock they play mystical mish-mash folk, or „Occultism and Kebab.”

„Dannato” cassette on Brigadisco (Italy) and Old Bicycle Records (Switzerland). Cover art by Paula H. Satán (of JC Satán). It based on an engraving of Pieter Bruegel the elder.

Futeisha. In Japanese: Outlaws. It was an anarchist group in the early 1920s. Its two leaders was sentenced to death for high treason, but it was changed to life imprisonment. The woman tore the pardon letter up and refused to say thank the emperor. She committed suicide in the cell at her age of 23.  The man released after 22 years in 1945, later became a North-Korean politician.

There were lots of fanzine in Hungary in the late 80s and 90s. In our new series we cut album reviews out from these.

Szűkbőrű (Tight-skinned) was a short-lived fanzine in the early 90s in Miskolc.

Szűkbőrű # 1, 1991

Kim Deal has fed up (with banana – how the Hungarians say), quit the Pixies for a while and teamed up with 3 crazy women. The outcome is a wonderful album. The influence of Pixies is perceptible here and there but it doesn’t typical. The record is lots ruder and harder than any Pixies album. I get excited from that how the guitarist caress the strings. And Kim proves: she is not only a good bassist but her voice is splendid and is also good at lyrics.

Note: The fourth crazy woman was a man. Breeders have started as a project of Kim Deal and Tanya Donelli (Throwing Muses) in 1990. Later Jospehine Wiggs (Perfect Disaster) joined them on bass. Immediately before the recordings the sound engineer Steve Albini recommended Britt Walford (Slint) as drummer, who was playing on the album under the pseudonym Shannon Doughton.

1. Glorious  2. Doe  3. Happiness Is a Warm Gun  4. Oh!  5. Hellbound  6. When I Was a Painter  7. Fortunately Gone  8. Iris  9. Opened  10. Only In 3’s  11. Limehouse  12. Metal Man

nick nicely again

Born in Greenland on a stopover during a transatlantic flight in 1959. Grew up in London on his parents classical music collection and radio pop of the 60s. When almost every- body started to play in punk groups he mixed 60s psychedelia with 80s electronics. Self-released his first single in 1980. It was re-released in same year by German Hansa Records, and became a small hit in France and Holland. This success was the cause of remove of the song at the last minute from Some Bizzare Album in 1981. It was the new wave synth-pop scene first manifestation with such groups as Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. Nick was signed by EMI, but after a single in 1982 he retired from the spotlight. In the late 80s and early 90s under various monikers he was involved in Acid House and Rave scene. The first nick nicely album with his two singles and unreleased tracks recorded between 1978 and 2004 was published in 2004, and was re-released repeatedly. His first ever live show was in 2008. Since then he shared the stage with Hawkwind, John Maus, Maria Minerva, Ariel Pink and more. The first real time nick nicely album titled Lysergia was released in 2011 on cassette on Burger Records. And the second is coming in September, but I think it will be almost same thing than Lysergia was.

Space of a Second album on Lo Recordings (UK)

He has got his name in 1973 when one mate said – Give us a fag you sod!
And another said – Why don’t you ask Nick nicely?

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Richard In Your Mind is a funny psychedelic pop band from Sydney. Confusing the audience since 2006.  But just in your mind.

Ponderosa album on Rice Is Nice Records (Aus) I want to hear more tracks from it.

rock’n’roll power poppy punk whatever but
„All your beers are belong to us.”

Problem Child by NIGHTMARE BOYZZZ

from the album Bad Patterns on Slovenly Records

The boyzzz broke up in this spring, but the nightmare goes on

There were lots of fanzine in Hungary in the late 80s and 90s. In our new series we cut album reviews out from these.

Második Látás (Second Vison) was one of the first Hungarian fanzines. It started as Mély Vágás (Deep Cut) in Debrecen in 1987 before two years the fall of communism. It produced a police investigation because to publish any printed matter without permission of Ministry of Interior was illegal at the time. So the title was changed to Második Látás in order to deceit the police. Then the editor Mihály Rácz moved to Budapest. Második Látás became the No 1. musical fanzine with tons of review.

CICCIONE YOUTH – The Whitey Album, LP, 1988 (Blast First Records)

The Sonic Youth’s album which was released under the name of Ciccone Youth wouldn’t be a lucky case as the first meeting with the band.  The wily musical jokes of the album become understandable in the light of their previous albums. It is unbelievable impudence as they surrounded their Madonna cover with masterful fake disco songs, always make mess of it with overdrive and slides, and as the cold drum riffs and string tears whip the soul of Chichonne youth which is locked in electronics. The album alloys the old tradition of Sonic Youth with sound of the new era.
„If somebody does the same thing for 5 years, then he can be called hippe for 5 years… the time has come to begin a business career, that is humpie pumpie bumpy.”

(Második Látás#2, 1989)

1. Needle-Gun 00:00  2. (Silence) 02:26  3. G-Force 03:33  4. Platoon II 07:11  5. MacBeth 11:30  6. Me & Jill/Hendrix Cosby 17:00  7. Burnin’ Up 22:30  8. Hi! Everybody! 26:21  9. Children of Satan/Third Fig 27:20  10. Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu 30:26  11. Addicted to Love 33:20  12. Moby-Dik 37:09  13. March of the Ciccone Robots 38:11  14. Making the Nature Scene 40:06  15. Tuff Titty Rap 43:21  16. Into the Groovey 44:02  17. MacBeth (Instumental) 48:36

The Legendary Tigerman is Paulo Furtado from Portugal. He is following the tradition of Mississippi Delta Blues where the blues-men performed playing and singing alone. He mix the blues with rockabilly and rock and roll rhythms.

True album on Metropolitana Records and Sony Music France

His best album is Femina (2009) where every song is a duet with a woman. For example Maria de Medeiros, Peaches, Becky Lee, Asia Argento, Rita Redshoes

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Jeans are Jasmyn, the singer of Canadian alternative pop band Weaves, and Tim from her previous indie garage rock band Rat Tail. Their music is distorted, dubbed old stlye pop music, like a sunny Dirty Beaches.

Digital album. Just name your price

For the fans of psychedelic rock.

Two San Franciscan hippies (one is guitarist of Wooden Shijps) thought that touring is easier thing for 2 persons than a full band, but realized just all the burdens are divided into two parts. But since last European tour the burdens are divided into three. It was the first case that the band was touring with live drummer, who joined the band just in time for a tour, but finally has become a member.

In Ravenna (Italy) their show was recorded. It will be released in August on Sacred Bones Records (US). It is an extremely limited edition of 2000 most of which will be available from the band on their upcoming European and US tours.

Moon Duo in trio in Liege

Killer synth punk tunes from the magician of cheap electronic instruments Giorgio Murderer. Feat Buck Biloxi on guitar

7″ EP on Goner Records (US)

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The most simple phrase for music of French duo Thee Verduns is folk-punk. With blues, bluegrass, cajun, country elements, ragtime rhythms and Trio cover

„Le catechisme de la joie, la vie entiere” LP and digital on Kizmiaz Records (France)

And sure, every nation has his own Verdun.

SKULL DEFEKTS from Sweden love one thing
and that is the repetition
„we sound like an AC/DC loop”
in the manner of The Fall, The Ex & Fugazi with singer of Lungfish

The Known Unknown

from the album „In The Dreams…” on Thrill Jockey