The Bitch Prefect list Pavement and the Rolling Stones as two of their influences. In their boredom and apathy they deliver an encyclopedic exploration of time, space and rare Australian birds. Lil’ musical ornithology for everybody:

Birds Nests LP by Bedroom Suck

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New Coke‘s R & B depression is influenced by Richard Pryor, broken soul ballads, Mike Watt optimism, The Gun Club, Early Cramps, Suicide, carpentry, Swans, Pere Ubu:

7″EP by Black Gladiator

„the Primitive Calculators were always outsiders in Melbourne’s punk scene”

The Primitive Calculators are really great synth-punk band from Australia. They have started in 1978, in same place and same time than the Birthday Party. After a single they relocated to London, in same time than the Birthday Party, and promptly broke up in 1980. But there was a post-split-up single under the name of  Zye Ye Ye in England in 1981. The sole album was released in 1980. It’s a live recording of a gig supporting the Boys Next Door in 1979. The Boys Next Door was renamed to Birthday Party.
They would be discovered in the early 2000s. Their records were reissued together with unreleased live and other recordings. Then they have reformed in 2009. A new single was released in last year. And now here is the first studio album!

from The World Is Fucked LP by Chapter Music

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My opinion is that Audacity is not so good as popular. Others say that Audacity is not so popular as good. The meaning of two sentences is same: they stand before shiny future. Garage punk from Fullerton, CA.

Butter Knife LP by Suicide Squeeze Records

TV COLOURS (Australia) + SUMMER SCHATZIES

Oct 19, Budapest at Trafik Klub >> ALL INFO

TV COLOURS EURO TOUR

Canberra’s TV Colours started out as Bobby Kill’s solo home recording band influenced by noisy suburban desperation (read more about the debut album here). We cannot really tell how this unique scene around the self-managing label, Dream Damage Records exploded in Australia but these bands (TV Colours, Fighting league, Assassins 88 etc.) are definitely worth checking!

To be honest, we wouldn’t really have dreamt that these DIY Australian bands would come over to Europe before they are getting disgustingly popular..

But now, TV Colours is going on an Euro Tour with the help of Eighteen Records (Paris) –  so you are very very lucky to be invited right now to see Bobby Kill and his live band with members from Assassins 88 on 19th October in Budapest, Trafik klub!

Sometimes Morphine-like monotone repetitive psychedelic trance with oriental and North-African rhythms from London

Vision Fortune – Night Jukes, re-issue of their cassette only EP on 12″ vinyl
by Cardinal Fuzz

You can listen to their new album here & here is a 7″ from 2011 by Mannequin Records

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A fantastic Aussie garage synth-punk band: Ausmuteants

100 Ausmuteants fans can’t be wrong… 100,000,000 Bon Jovi fans can
7″ by Anti Fade Records

You can listen their home recorded album here

The Australian Goons Of Doom is an authentic surf punk band. There is a professional surfer among the members, but luckily – at least for me – there is not surf rhythm in the music. Instead of it you can find Clash- or Ramones-like classic punk rhythms. Otherwise sometimes they seem a forced stupid punk band, but this free download collection of demos and outtakes is surprisingly naturally jolly, mainly acoustic and better than their official albums.

first class professional lo-fi minimal chamber punk: 10/10

Exile from Clowntown 7″ by ever/never     yes,  sure, from Australia

easy heavy pop music in flying nun mode

Sharpie Crows – 12 Omeros LP by Flying Nun

Aussie lo-fi garage punk clatter

Shaky Handz – digital single or mini disc

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„we are not fucking twee” but nice Welsh indie noise pop punk

Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister LP by Slumberland (US) and Fortuna Pop (UK)

After a serious freak out and two years psychiatric treatment* King Khan has returned with his big band. Psychedelic rhythm’n’soul

3 tracks from King Khan & The Shrines – Idle No More LP by Merge

*The picture was taken long before the treatment.

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“Here’s 3 ugly lookin blokes, tourin’ the world, playin at all these wonderful cities, dining at all these wonderful restaurants, meeting all these famous people. In the back of ya head I’m thinking to myself ‘Im a fuckin’ farmer!” – one of the members of Cosmic Psychos said.* The old Aussie punk rock band formed in 1982, and over some line-up change and an untimely death by heart attack they still rock on. Their music is garage punk hard rock’n’roll like Motörhead, Stooges or Ramones. Strange though it may appear they had a significant influence on the Seattle Sound in the 90s through their some fans: Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Buzz Osbourne (The Melvins) or Donita Sparks (L7). Now the Goner and the Aussie Aargth Records re-release their first three albums.1st track from 1987, 2nd & 3rd from 1989.

*I Love My Tractor – is the title of their latest and live album (2013)

Lady Banana Garage trash. Göteborg outskirts.

7″ by Beaver Milk Records You can find Lady Banana’s previous split here

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Bitch Perfect  Professional homemade minimal melancholic lo-fi beats. From a Melbourne suburb about their past hometown:

7″ by Bedroom Suck The B side