NEXT RNR666 PARTY
24 JUNE 9PM  BUDAPEST  TRAFIK KLUB

BADABOUM – French Neue Deutsche Welle infected with Malaria

+ full concert video playlist +

BONNE HUMEUR PROVISOIRE – Residents of Tristan Tzara’s hat from Negativeland, or Neue Dada Welle

Berlin > To Rococo Rot is a no wave pop trio with jazz and classical elements and a little Velvet Underground feeling in their music. The upcoming album featuring Arto Lindsay (DNA, Lounge Lizard, Ambitious Lovers)

‘instrument’ – LP, CD on City Slang (UK)

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New York > Sex Scheme (ex-Mountain Cult) plays noisy blues with harp. Strange, but it comes Big Black to my mind.

7″+ digital + cassette + if you order either of them, then you can pick a CD-r

The BILDERS are groups of various musicians and friends from New Zealand, Australia, United States, Germany, Austria and France. It had/have various line-ups. The New Zealander writer and musician, Bill Direen stands in the centre of the groups. Their alternative melodic minimal pop is like the Blurt.

TOO MUCH MUCH

A 7″ vinyl with 3 songs will be released late summer/early fall on Smart Guy Records (US). One of his drummers is Stu Kawovski (Stuart Page), who also in the best alternative pop band of New Zealand, The Axemen

Carcassonne is a beautiful town in the Languedoc region in France whose main attraction is a high wall that prevents Bonne Humeur Provisoire from going into the town. This duo has turned electronic musical DIY into a highly irritating tool among its neighbours, who are more interested in tasting good cheese and paté of the region than finding out how it is possible, even in the country of the grandeur, to spin in only one wash the extravagance of Tic et Tac’s way, llulabies for hiperactive children and a taste for Dadaism that makes Tristan Tzara sane in comparison. Bonne Humeur Provisoire sounds as if a poltergeist phenomenom had taken control of a Martian killer of the 80’s, and sings and swears as Robbie the Robot

When performing, the group likes to externalize their absolute lack of complexes and their still unexplained passion for blue, and they make up for their shortsightedness by pressing all the keys on their synthesizers and modified toys at the same time. The resulting cacophony is excellent and has the vigorous beauty of an automaton that goes too far if it is wind up just a little. And however, in Carcassonne, people don’t even know what’s going on. Mon dieu!

In Budapest with a French Neue Deutsche Welle band, Badaboum on next Tuesday (24 June, 9 pm) at Trafik Klub by RNR666. Ticket: 1000. Facebook

Simple, beautiful and funny living room pop by English twins, Amelia and Pat. They’re like a little Breeders from Brighton, or an alternative Simon & Garfunkel, or Osmonds on cheap whizz with a taste of tropicalia. They formed in the summer of 2011 after sharing a dream in which David Bowie told them they were destined to make music together

Bentcousin – Dizzy 7″ on Team Love Records (US)

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OvO is an Italian industrial noise metal duo by Stefania & Bruno with guitar, drums, effects and electronics from the deepest corner of Hell. Averno/Oblio (ie. Arrow/Point) 1 sided 12″ EP with 2 songs, other side black and gold handscreened artwork by Luca Font. 300 copies. Nice work

„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them,
‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it.”

Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective. or Deerhoof. Full album stream

KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat Rec

A nice video from French garage rock band SAPIN about Mama

from the album „Wrong Way” on Azbin and Beast Records

„I wasn’t always a model citizen, but I always played music.” – Dan McGee

Spider Bags is a rock’n’roll band. It’s got a bit of a country and two bit of blues influence. The main figure, the songwriter Dan McGee started playing guitar when he was really little because of Blind Lemon Jefferson (blues musician, 1893-1929). His favourite songwriters are three delta blues musician: Skip James (1902-69), Robert Johnson (1911-38), Tommy Johnson (1896-1956)  and Lou Red. He don’t have any kind of training, and  didn’t really even start playing shows for a long time, until he was in his late twenties, then his band has become a favorite of the garage rock scene. The forth album will be released soon, and I’m very curious because he „wanted to make a record that sounded like a classic rock record, that was mixed like the old AC/DC records, or like Dark Side Of The Moon.”

Frozen Letter LP/CD/digital on Merge Records (US)

Among the many favorite songs of RNR666 there is a Spider Bags’ forever green, Hey Delinquents!

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Australian suburban country that’s made while sitting around the kitchen table by/in Lower Plenty. The band (with UV Race and Total Control members) named after a Melbourne suburb. The life is there so

Life/Thrills LP on Bedroom Suck Records (Aus)

for the links & teaser click the pic!

first round on 19 June in Budapest at GMK with Dope Calypso

„Give up your dreams. Commit suicide.”

LIFE STINKS – Portraits 7″ on Total Punk Records (US)

San Francisco’s kings of misanthropy are back with two drummers.
When the band formed all members selected instruments they had never played before.
In the manner of Flipper, Stooges, Germs and Velvet Undergound.
But what were the first steps on this way?
– Chad (singer, also in Outdoorsmen): I heard “Beat On The Brat” on the radio
when was fourteen or so and went, “Whoa!”
– Vinnie (drums): I was hanging in my friend’s garage one evening smoking pot
and drinking 40s, and my friend at the time, Jon Scott, brought in this tape
he had dubbed off his brother and we listened to it about thirty times in a row.
It was Minor Threat’s discography.
Later that night when we were done hanging out
I broke into the garage and stole the tape.

LUMPY & THE DUMPERS – Bat 7″ also on Total Punk

St.Louis Blues Trash in D-Beat, 1-2-fuck-u

Jonathan Kingsley Seilman is a French musician, arranger and producer from Nantes. For me he is unknown for his previous projects, This Melodramatic Sauna, and its collaborations with The Patriotic Sunday, but is known through Birds Are Alive and Sieur & Dame. He now back to himself with a new project, LE FEU, in collaboration with My Name Is Nobody, Binidu and Fordamage members. The most simple phrase is: indie pop, but it came Mick Harvey to my mind. Well, it’s not a simple case.

WE ALL RUN

from debut album „Playgrounds & Battlefields” on My Little Cab and Havalina Records (both labels are French)

Never mind the bollocks, here is the Landlady. A very amusing alternative rock band from Brooklyn. Or alternative jazz, possibly indie gospel. All the same. Dog bless them.

„Upright Behavior” album on LP/CD/digital on Hometapes (US)

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Members of Greys grew up on 90s noise rock like Helmet and similar bands, nevertheless their music is melodic like Therapy. At the same time this is hardcore punk.

„If Anything” album on LP/CD/digital on Buzz (Canada) and Carpark Records (US)