New Zealander punkers Cool Runnings are touring in the US, it has been a good occasion for a new video, produced and directed by Spike Jonze…

Blister

from digital album I Hate It Here

There’s an American experimental-rock duo Ahleuchastistas, which named himself from a Charlie Parker song, and a Swiss musician Antoine Lang, who works with human voice and electronic devices. They together are the Blind Thorns. Heavy listening

self-titled album on Cheap Satanism (Belgium), Tandori (France), Offset (Italy) and New Atlantis Records (US)

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Pastilla, Mexican guitar pop from Los Angeles

„Sentidos Saturados” cassette EP on Burger (US)

Swiss independent label A Tree in a Field Records is hitting you this time with a triple reverb attack from Roy & the Devil’s Motorcycle. The four piece around the three Stähli brothers unveils a most unpolished garage/basement sound on their new 7 inch single I’ll Sing You a Song. The title track and Sweet Reputation both lead us back to good old Velvet Underground but with an unmistakable 21. century appeal and a juvenile charm.

After switching to another side (and to a speed of 33 rpm) things get a bit peculiar  with Rock’n’Roll Soldier – it’s a bright psychedelic tune infused with traditional reggae sound. It made me ponder a bit about this strange combination, although I’m aware that this is far from unprecedented… Actually, the term Jamaican fusion sounds like a horrible idea in theory (with numerous mainstream examples supporting this notion) but if you consider Bad Brains, Serge Gainsbourg or Polish post punk pioneers, Brygada Kryzys for example, the outcome can be the coolest thing ever. Roy & the DMC’s  effort is by all means within the cool league!

Order the vinyl from A Tree in a Field Records and check it out for yourself!

Rock? Yes. Indie? Absolutely. Punk? Of course. Parquet Courts is a punk band, but an Exploited fan spits on it. The music of Content Nausea album is a mix of Velvet Underground and Fall under pseudonym of Parkay Quarts. It’s a Parquet Courts’ side project.

on What’s Your Rupture Records? (US). In Europe it’s available on Rough Trade (UK)

Parkay Quarts Euro Tour in Nov

DTH GRPS R GONE BT CLPPNG S HR

“Clppng: make party music for the club you wish you hadn’t gone to,
the car you don’t remember getting in, and the streets you don’t feel safe on.”

from REMXNG album soon on Sub Pop (US)

CLPPNG N UROP NW!

There is in the press kit that musically S’s is highly influenced by Pixies, Cabaret Voltaire, The Normal, Kraftwerk, and takes inspiration from bleak sci-fi films such as Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977), THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971), Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985), Blade Runner (Ridely Scott, 1982). But forget the Pixies! It’s mistake, this is pretty hard electro-noise, maybe he has intended to write Pigface. Xiu Xiu is also comparable to him. The most relevant parallel act is Foetus (most important alter-ego of J. G. Thirlwell, aka Clint Ruin).

Exploded View of Love is a concept album, about indifference of selfie, corporate and online social lifeforms, a dystopia about the world of Homo Leviculus.

The brand new clip of best Hungarian rapper Bobafett.
It has been made by an RNR666 founder.
Bobafett is working as a beggar in London.

111th RNR666 Party
Nov 10 9pm  Budapest  Trafik Klub

RATZINGER (H) – torturing duo of István Fényfehér (Ápolók, Büdösök, Digép) and onemanblackmetalband Unaussprechlichen Kulten. Debut.

POINT INVISIBLE (F) – classic industrial with scrap metal and broken synths, like SPK, Einstürzende Neubauten, F.A.R., Phycus, Whitehouse

KLAUS LEGAL (F) – no wave industrial with small synthesizers, a small drum machine, one mic and some effects, influenced by Suicide, DAF, Crash Course in Science, Throbbing Gristle, Nurse with Wound

Ticket:  1000

Danceable noisy electronic beats by Martial Canterel, aka Sean McBride, who is one half of synth-pop duo Xeno & Oaklander. His new album bears very strange title: „Gyors, Lassú”. For the majority of the Universe: it’s in Hungarian; pronunc: diorsh, lushew; means: quick, slow. Sean is a New Yorker, he also loves our hometown, and now living in a small town in Campania, Teano. The album is about these cities, and the wanderings between these. Funny that sometimes he writes in Hungarian on his fb page.

On the cover there is a figure from the so-called Hungarian deck of card: Stüszi vadász (Stüssi hunter), otherwise Tökfilkó, which means Blockhead in the vernacular. Strange fact that on the cards the depicted characters and scenes are taken from Friedrich Schiller’s William Tell. The Swiss figures substitute for Hungarian historical heroes and scenes, because at the time of birth of card (around 1835), Hungary was one province of the Hapsburg Empire, and there was hard censorship.

One of the seven fundamental principles in the ancient Hindu scince of health is the RAKTA i.e. Blood. This has been choosen by 4 Brazilian girls for their progressive deathrock band

debut 7″ by La Vide Es Un Mus (UK), Dama da Noite / Nada Nada Discos (Brazil), 540 Records (US)

I can’t find their Euro tour dates nowhere on the net, so here are:

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Chris Imler was one driver of German satiric electronic duo Driver & Driver. He mix traditional one-man band guitar’n’drums sound with electronic music and some special instruments. „I Used To Too” comes D.A.F., Urban Junior and Quintron to my mind. His moustache is a broad hint at Boris Blank (Yello)

Nervös album on Staatsakt Records (Germany)