Belgian post industrial country and western mixed with flamenco. „For anyone familiar with the works of the Flemish bard Willem Vermandere, Embers has been described as „Willem Vermandere from hell”

Lichtzwart from the album „Kout” on Enfant Terrible (NL)

more Embers’ music

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Same thing in other manner. No wavy noise rock by Exhaustion from Australia

Biker LP on Aarght Records (AUS)

On the basis of Lower Plenty’s songs I can think that Australia is somewhere in Scotland. Sweet songs for rainy, foggy, boring days. Perfect for the place that is called Lower Plenty (suburb of Melbourne).

from the album Life/Thrills on Bedroom Suck Records (Aus)

Suburban people! See John Waters’ films!

New stuff from the world-wide little Italian label
GOODBYE BOOZY RECORDS

THE TOWELHEADS – 7″ – AUS, surfin’ on sandwaves (distributed by Anti Fade in AUS)
WET BLANKETS – 7″ – AUS, punk (Anti Fade in AUS)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR – single sided 7″ – Canada, garage rock
MARTIN SAVAGE GANG – 7″ – Swedish garage punk rock

GOODBYE BOOZY INTERVIEW ON RNR666

The founder of notorious British alternative punk band Country Teasers (which was somewhere between The Fall and Fat White Family), Ben Waller says about the beginning of his musical carrier: “I envied the guys in the school band. They didn’t invite me to join, so I formed my own band. I wanted to play the Cure’s guitar melodies, so that’s how I learnt, playing along. I learnt by ear. I had learnt piano to Grade 3, which I failed; I learnt sax for a year or two at school too. Fucking hated it. But I could play the solo at the end of Pink Floyd’s ‘Two Suns in the Sunset’, the tragic climax of The Final Cut.” * His next cut under his pseudonym The Rebel

„KROT” LP on Monofonus Press (US). It is just like the Country Teasers with minimal orchestration and experimental country songs. It was recorded in Texas. On the label’s site you can listen to the whole album for a limited time!

Free download: Country Teasers          The Rebel

* The cited interview

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The promised „more grown up, well polished” new album by the acid beach boys Growlers. “There are some happy songs, some love songs, some creepy shit. There’s everything. We got funky.”

„Chinese Fountain” LP, CD, digital on Everloving (US), Fat Cat (EU) and Smack Face Records (Aus)

AUSMUTEANTS have been started as a synth’n’drums punk duo, but within a short time it evolved with a bassists and a hardcore „non guitarrist” into a full band, and they do it so good, that such big international labels want them as: Goner, Goodbye Boozy and Total Punk.

6  tracks from 4 fresh releases

1-3 tracks: „Order Of Operation” upcoming LP by Goner (US) and Aarght Records (Aus). The 3rd song also on a 7″ single by Goodbye Boozy Records (Italy). 4-5: „It’s Alive”, cassette on Welcome In The Shit Records (Italy). The 4th song also on the LP. 6th: upcoming 7″ single by Total Punk Records (US)

And there everyone is called on this beautiful German name: Kurt. Very strange that it’s a female name – according to the Wikipedia. (Was, meanwhile it would be revised.)

Originally Secret Valley was an Australian children’s television adventure series. There was a holiday camp which had been transformed from a run down ghost town into a resort. The children often found themselves in battle against a gang of „bad” kids. These battles usually featured flour bombs and other food related missiles and everyone inevitably ended up in a big mess. The children have grown up and make this messy ghost pop music

Angry Loners Unite

from „The Glisten” 12″ EP by the Aussie lo-fi underground specialist Albert’s Basement

Secret Valley’s debut tape

„We are not rock star, we’re all just ordinary people!”

„This is the beer soaked sound of the Henan suburbs”

THE FALLACY
from Xinxiang
punk, noise rock, like the Fugazi

7″ vinyl and digital single on Tenzenmen (Aus) and Genjing Records (China)

more THE FALLACY music

lo-fi, minimal, but real bed- & bathroom pop with 3 eggs
by Tomorrows Tulips

„Baby” & „Glued to You” from the album „When”

Strange Yonder (AUS, Sept 22) – Ayo Silver (EU, Sept 27) – Burger Recs (US, Oct 7)

They have written that their new album shows the band’s evolution through a blend of pop sensibilities with post punk and noise rock. OK, but every music after punk is post punk. And compared to this, every rock is noise.

Euro tour in Oct

Satanic Rockers for the fans of Flipper, Killdozer and Butthole Surfers. A final posthumous release from beyond the grave. It will be released before the end of this year.

7″ vinyl on Eternal Soundcheck (Australia)

The Satanic Rockers interview.

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Dark and minimal industrial techno from Rome. Collaboration of a 10-piece techno big band Lunar Lodge and Mai Mai Mai. The latter is an experimental project by Toni Cutrone from noise rock band Hiroshima Rocks Around and wacky pop duo Trouble vs Glue. Amazing

„LL/MMM” LP and digital album on Love Blast Records (Italy)

The Dale Cooper Quartet is a trio, of course. But they never play as a three piece band naturally, because there’re The Dictaphones. The band originally formed as a quartet for an improvisation night in Brest (France) in 2002 in order to play a strange mix of Angelo Badalamenti and the German slow-core-jazz band, Bohren & Der Club of Gore style music. Mysterious, dark, smoky, jazz, exactly like a film by David Lynch. While they’re also under influence of Bretagne’s weather, landscape and people, of course.

from their first album „Paroles de Navarre” (2006).
It’s re-released by Denovali Records (Germany)

Denovali Swingfest, Oct 2-5, Essen with Frederico Albanaese (I), The Haxan Cloak (UK), Ensemble Economique (US), Pan & Me (F), Bohren und der Club of Gore (Ger), Never Sol (Cz), Thees Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (Can), Ben Frost (Aus), The Samuel Jackson 5 (Nor) and more.

The program of Denovali Records varies from sometimes improvised darker experimental sounds, ambient, drone, indie and electronica to darkjazz, jazz or piano and string driven modern compositions.

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There’s a book by Judy Blume: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. It’s „about a girl in sixth grade who grew up without a religious affiliation. Margaret’s mother is Christian and her father is Jewish, and the novel explores her quest for a single religion. Margaret also confronts many other pre-teen female issues, such as buying her first bra, having her first period, coping with belted sanitary napkins (changed to adhesive sanitary pads for recent editions of the book), jealousy towards another girl who has developed a womanly figure earlier than other girls, liking boys, and whether to voice her opinion if it differs from those of her friends.”

About these problems with really various style music from pop to punk by all-star girl group of Canberra, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. And surprisingly they’re so good than there we’re sold out shows only. Yes, were. The final show was on 15 Aug.

digital EP on Cinnamon Records (Aus)

“we know that’s the main aim of the sound:
to get a sound that makes you feel sick in the stomach,
because it sounds so good.”

dark, 70s & 80s horror film influenced cold wave
synth punk from Australia by NUN

a song about the master of spoons, Uri Geller

Debut album on Aarght (Aus, LP, CD) & Avant! Records (Italy, LP)

Since his previous EP the music of Orlando Furious moves forward from junk pop toward electro rubbish. It’s relished with a little hip-hop. And he is still better than Xiu Xiu.

High And Mighty EP – cassette and digital on Cinnamon Records (Aus)

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One from British surf punk band Sex Beet has moved to Stockholm. Lucern Raze is his personal project. French mode easy garage rock

Debut 7″ before the album by PNKSLM Records (UK & Swe)