Split cassette with eccentric singer/songwriter Kim House’s band, Kim & The Created: demented garage rock’n’roll goth punk; and Prettiest Eyes, just drums, bass and keys: mechanical, monotone, flustered, nervous krautrock. Guest star: AJ Davila.

Burger and Lollipop Records (US)

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After some hyperactive years there wasn’t any news about great little eclectic label Dracula Horse (US) for a long time, but now here is The New Romantics. Fascinating new wave disco

digital single

On 11 Sept Californian garage punk band AUDACITY and Hungarian garage rock band DEMJÉN HIRST gave an unforgettable concerts at RNR666 party in Budapest. You can find some fine shots from the night by Gyerage here

 + New Audacity 7″ on Suicide Squeeze Records

NEXT DEMJÉN HIRST SHOW >> DEC 12, BUDAPEST, VITTULA

from the upcoming second disc of  the meanwhile disbanded American noise hop trio Death Grips‘ double album „The Powers That B”

Second part is titled „Jenny Death.” The  first disc „Niggas on the Moon” was released this June as free digital release. There Björk was a contributor.

Death Grips „was and always has been a conceptual art exhibition anchored by sound and vision.”

Monotone, monochrome, monomaniac alternative rock band Disappears with a little taste of Sonic Youth. The SY drummer Steve Shelly played with them in 2011/12.

„irreal” album on Kranky Records (US)

Euro Tour Jan-Feb

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Six men play noise rock. 10″ split of madeincanda from France and Ex Wives from Scotland. For the fans of Big Black, Fugazi and Rollins Band.

co-release on Cheap Satanism (Belgium), Gabu (France), Whosbrain (France/ Luxembourg) and Fuzz-Wire Records (France)

Movie Star Junkies are the Italian Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Punctum.

The new album „Evil Moods” lyrically was inspired by hard-boiled noir fictions, e.g. works of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Jim Thompson, of whom a song there is. Released by Voodoo Rhythm Records (Switzerland)

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The next metal LP by American avant-garde experimental label Thrill Jockey Record is a split of The Body and Sandworm.  The Body, „masters of expansive expressions of pure sadness”, really heavy and industrial metal. Sandworm is just a simple black metal punk band

Another book from the old American life by Dust-to-Digital. Now the theme is the pre-war rural and small-town South with many photos and 2 CDs with extremely rare country,  blues and African American gospel songs singing from 1924-1939.

Kid Williams and Bill Morgan – When He Died He Got A Home In Hell, recorded in 1930

A book about the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman Farm

Mr. Gaymer from Dartford, UK, teachs English at an university in Beijing, but after school he plays Misfits influenced blues trash as GUIGUISUISUI together  with his some co-characters. He is 138, of course.

All the backing beats are composed on a Nintendo Gameboy or from found 8-bit games. Mixed and co-produced by luminary Beijing producer/sonic journeyman extraordinaire, Yan Haisong (P.K.14, Dear Eloise). Debut 7″ on Genjing Recods (PROC)

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Liam Hayes aka Plush has made various pop albums with minimal and maximal orchestration from the mid-90s. His progressive bubblegum rock and roll album is coming soon on Fat Possum (US)

SUDAKISTAN, Stockholm based latino punks

7″ on PNKSLM (UK/SWE)

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PINK SECTION was a short-lived synth-punk band with Dadaist aesthetic by 4 students of San Francisco Art Institute in 1979/80. This first-time retrospective LP collects the band’s rare 1979 single, the self-titled EP, unreleased demos, and live materials

Carol and Judy went on to form the Inflatable Boy Clams after Pink Section split. The bass and sax player Matt makes mechanical music and sound installations nowadays.

Bim Thomas, the drummer from blues punk duo Bassholes (were a main influence for The Black Keys), some years ago he makes excellent harsh blues music under the name of OBNOX. His brand new song, Infinite Trash

His latest album was released this year on 12XU Records (US)

silly experimental pop by Takako Minekawa (J-pop diva) + Dustin Wong (Hawaiian born half-Chinese / half-American guitarist)

She He See Feel

from their second album Savage Imagination
on Thrill Jockey (US) and Plancha Records (Japan)

More info about them + album review +
short Takako Minekawa interview here

Soul Power, debut album of Curtis Harding (ex-Cee-lo Green), member of Night Sun, Black Lips’ garage soul side project. Black Lips members took part in making this album too. Soul, 60’s RnB, easy 70s disco feeling, garage rock. I know two who flew to Seattle from New York to see him

Burger (US) and Anti-Records (EU, AUS)

Euro Tour Nov Dec

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The Miseries, dutch singer’n’songwriter Tim Knoll‘s punky garage rock band, debut single

Excelsior Recordings (NL)

4 girls from Ex-Cult, Manatees, Toxie, Coasting are Nots, synth-punk, Memphis, Goner Records, Decadence

from the album We Are Nots