This new Die Antwoord song refers to Emir Kusturica’s film
and No Smoking Orchetra’s song from its soundtrack

Pitbull Terrier

from the album Donker Mag on Zef Records on CD and digital on 3 June

Die Antwoord (in Afrikaans = The Answer) is a South-African rave/hip-hop crew. They’re part of the Zef counter-culture movement.  The word „zef” is a shortening of the name of the Ford Zephyr that was popular worldwide from the 1950s to the 1970s. In South Africa, these cars were often owned by working-class people. Yo-Landi from Die Antwoord said about it: „Zef is, you’re poor but you’re fancy. You’re poor but you’re sexy, you’ve got style.”

Funny, playfool, jazzy. Roz & The Rice Cakes bring the Deerhoof to my mind. On other sites this is called Art Rock

Need To Feed album on Team Love Records (US)

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A song from the next Godflesh EP. The first public track for 13 years. Like a classic

Decline And Fall EP on Avalanche Records (UK) in June.

Godflesh is one of the most influential industrial/drone metal bands. It was founded by Justin K. Broadrick (who was the guitarist of Napalm Death in 1985-86. His other projects: Techno Animal, Jesu, Final, Pale Sketcher) and G.C. Green in 1988. The band dissolved in 2002, and reformed in 2009.

Two young Slovenian keyboard enthusiasts produce great electro-industrial-noise-core-metal with only two keyboards and some samples. I have invited them to play at RNR666 Party and made this very short IT’S EVERYONE ELSE interview.

RNR666 – I think it’s not your first band. What were there before?
Luci – Pika (the female part of IEE) was a singer in a few bands during her high school years but she never found the right people to complete her musical visions. I myself had a little noise project going on, but for the both of us the first „serious” band was (and still is) IT’S EVERYONE ELSE. We played our first gig under the name „Hold Your Horses” but as soon as we found our sound, we changed the name to IT’S EVERYONE ELSE, because we thought it was more appropriate.

How IT’S EVERYONE ELSE started?
– It started after we exchanged some demos and realized that our ideas are pretty compatible. We started rehearsing and we just clicked. A few months later we player our first concert and after that we just kept going and going.

What are your inspirations?
– Our biggest inspiration is life itself. Don’t get me wrong, we enjoy a lot of music, movies, books, paintings etc. and we get a lot of ideas out of that, but there is nothing as inspiring as people, emotions and social interactions. We are the soundtrack to the rainbow of human emotions.

Sirens + Nirvana – Stay Away cover

Can you play other instruments beside keyboards?
– We have no formal music education and we can barely play keyboards:) We don’t really care about notes, scales or chords, we just play what sounds good to our ears. I think we developed our own way of playing synths, which is much more similar to playing riffs on a guitar rather than playing piano in the traditional sense.

Their second album is released on vinyl by Noise Appeal Records (Austria).

Buy digital copy here.

or rather No Wave Punk Jazz

KURWS in Budapest

with POLE (PL, folk jazz) + TUMO (alt hard rock)
+ JACKIE TRISTE (free noise impro)

22nd May at Müszi. Ticket: 1000

YU-WAVE ATTACK will be same day at a near place.
It will be finished at 10pm.

The Amber Lights are an excellent prog rock band in Germany. Fine endless song and solos sure. Unfortunately I don’t like this style, the virtuosity makes me tired, but it doesn’t matter now, because here is a Kitty Ina Moonlight with Xanthe Waithe. She is an Australian writer, actress and singer, known from Mick Harvey’s solo recordings. And this

is such as if would come from those. Or from a Nick Cave album. But it’s from the last album of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project. And Mick Harvey and Nick Cave also took part in these sessions.

Axels & Sockets out now on Glitterhouse Records (Germany)

Free Alt-Country from the Big Prairie of London

„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”, but the time of the description Louisa wasn’t in the Cat Meat yet.

Free digital split single with their friend and collaborator Hephaestus P. Stormcloud. You can find more free stuff on their Bandcamp

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Gas Rag. Classic Scandinavian style hardcore from Midwest.

„Beats Off” mini LP on Beach Impediment (US) and Even Worse Records (Holland)

„Even if now there above us
Storm shatters everything
Stone breaks, tree shatters
Earth quakes

We stand steadily
As river gorges”

YU-WAVE ATTACK IN BUDAPEST & SZEGED

Croatian punk/noise/indie-pop band VLASTA POPIC (free download)

& Hungarian punks with Serbian lyrics and attitude: UMRETI FIT

ON 22nd MAY AT BEAT ON THE BRAT (VII. District, Nyár u. 20.)

ON 24th MAY IN SZEGED AT GRAND CAFE

The Butthole Surfers show at Danceteria in early 1986 has become the stuff of legend, but as is often the case, “legends” can be imperfect and are often reported on by someone not even born when the event in question transpired or by someone who didn’t bother to even check a single source other than Wikipedia.

Here’s Gibby’s version, as told to Option Magazine in 1993:

At the legendary Danceteria in New York during the early days of the Butthole Surfers, Gibby got caught drinking and tripping with his pants down. “Ten minutes into the show, I’d put on ten dresses – you see, I used to put dresses on and then tear ‘em all off,” he explains. “But I’d gotten so trippin’ and so drunk. I forgot to put on my underwear. So I got down to my last dress” – he pauses for a well timed hiccup – “and, goddamn it, I was naked. “I looked over at [band members] Cabbage and Kathleen: Cabbage had come out from behind the drums and she had this Fred Flintstone plastic baseball bat filled with urine and was sprinkling it on the crowd. Kathleen was totally naked and bald. And all of a sudden it became like this sexual thing, and there I was with a semi-erect penis onstage, in between this girl’s legs, and about to do this thing. Then it kinda suddenly dawned on me what was going on and I was like, Whoa!”

After the show, the mentally and physically impaired Gibby caused some more trouble. “They tried to pay me and I tore up the check and threw it at the guy,” he says. “And I almost got in a fight with this gigantic doorman who would’ve just thumped me.” He pauses for a well-timed sheesh. “There’s just so many of those kinda things. “But really,” he adds, like a surgeon general, “before anybody goes out and takes a bunch of psychedelic drugs, they should first go and visit Roky Erickson down in Texas. He’s a casualty. That can happen, too, you know.”

Read full article on Dangerous Minds

„Just like the Birthday Party”

The Fat White Family from the English left side

Touch The Leather 7″ by Hate Hate Hate Records

Aussie New Wave Punk. A mix of Joy Division, Devo, Gary Newman spiced with a little Pet Shop Boys by Mikey Young’s umpteenth band Total Control. It has started as a synth-punk duo with the drummer of UV Race, but „bands with drum machines and three synths are just not as much fun to watch as bands with drummers and guitars. We realized it couldn’t be good live, so we tried to adapt the songs to work in a rock-and-roll band.”

„Typical System” album on Iron Lung Records (US) in June. Distros: La Vida Es Un Mus (UK), Inertia (AUS)

Other Mikey Young’s bands: Eddie Current Suppression Ring (garage rock), Ooga Boogas (new wave), Lace Curtain (electro disco)

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„I started in September 2009. I had been in London during the Summer, and I was so miserable about being back home. I was just sitting in my room and thinking that I needed a hobby for the long Estonian winter. So I made a track called Lovecool.” Estonian art historian and synth pop artist Maria Minerva has sketched a soulful self-portrait of her own inner ecosystem of loves and labors lost to her new album. She has cited Brian Eno, Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire as her influences.

„Histrionic” album on Not Not Fun

PEACH KELLI POP (CAN/USA) is a candy punk/sweet garage rock and roll band of the Canadian Allie Hanlon.

In BUDAPEST with two Canadian power pop punk band SONIC AVENUES and NEEDLES/PINS on 20th MAY, TRAFIK KLUB