RNR666: Mexican Slang was started as a one woman lo-fi harsh pop band in Toronto by Annabella Lee.
Ms Lee: Lo-fi is useful. Alternative rock. Some songs are punk, some a bit more noisy.

„Inside The Velvet Castle” digital EP on Buzz Records

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Tim Presley writes songs and makes recordings under the name of White Fence. He has arrived from HC-punk to rock and roll of the 60s.  His music is like a mix of Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground. And now here is the glam rock too. At least in this track. „It’s basically about that moment you leave the nest, go through college, live on your own and all of that—basically me until the present, and all of my friends, and a lot of my generation, I guess. It’s very literal, but that was kind of the point. It’s kind of tongue in cheek, too. It’s half-silly, half-serious. If you have friends who have parents who are kind of rich and you see that and you think, „Well, I’m shit poor. What would I do with that money if I was in their position? How would I live if I made a really good salary and I could afford nice cars and a nice house?” I don’t know anyone of my friends that could afford to buy a house, at least in L.A. It’s kind of like, „Am I going to live in an apartment my whole life?” There’s a little bit of envy in it, but also not really. It’s fun to dream. It’s kind of like, „What would I do if I won the lottery?” But it’s also fucking sad because, like I said, am I ever going to own a house? I doubt it. It would be cool though. I feel like everyone could relate to that song. Except for the one percent.”*

„For the Recently Found Innocent” LP/CD/Cassette on Drag City

*Read the full interview here. But what need are those awful, affected photos?

Never mind the bollocks, here is the Landlady. A very amusing alternative rock band from Brooklyn. Or alternative jazz, possibly indie gospel. All the same. Dog bless them.

„Upright Behavior” album on LP/CD/digital on Hometapes (US)

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Members of Greys grew up on 90s noise rock like Helmet and similar bands, nevertheless their music is melodic like Therapy. At the same time this is hardcore punk.

„If Anything” album on LP/CD/digital on Buzz (Canada) and Carpark Records (US)

„Beta Frontiers is the soundtrack to a near-future physical video game where your shoes are hovercrafts and you actually make it to all the parties in one night. When you get there, everyone is like, “Hey Mike!!”, as beamy smiles melt into your now-hologrammed dancing body.” (Anamai, ambient folk artist, label mate)

Canadian artist Michael Butler makes 80s-like electronic pop under name of BETA FRONTIERS

So Cold

digital single on Buzz Records (Can)

Surprising that HSY started as a one woman band in Canada. Post-punk with sludge metal

7″ on Buzz (Can) and Too Pure Records (UK)

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There was a special local taste of punk in Germany, but Küken could be in any garage of the world. Because of the harbour, maybe.

debut 7″ coming soon on Bachelor Records (Austria)

Industrial surf gaze experimental cold wave disco
“punk or whatever i feel.”
Another fantastic Canadian band
ODONIS ODONIS
Order In The Court

from the album Hard Boiled Soft Boiled on Buzz Records

“I enjoy being called weird, because why not? Morgan doesn’t think we’re weird because our songs are pretty poppy and you’re able to dance to them and you can recognize hooks and choruses. We kind of purposefully made them as non-band-sounding as possible, but at the same time, we’re a band!” – said Jasmyn, singer of the Canadian band Weaves. Debut EP in full:

Out on April 1 by Buzz Records

„Allegedly the styles return 20 years after. So – if you didn’t recognize it – the 90s are came back.  By the way, we continuously repeat ourselves from the creation. Just our instruments are altered. ” Some years ago I wrote this in connection with previous Odonis Odonis records. It was a mix of 90s style music. The chaos keeps growing. Er industrial grunge experimental cold gaze “punk or whatever i feel.” Another fantastic Canadian band

„Hard Boiled Soft Boiled” album on Buzz Records in mid-April

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All is vice versa. Freethinkers of nightclubs pour melancholy slogans on the dance floor. Swiss psych kraut pop by Klaus Johann Grobe. By the way, this is a duo

7″ + debut album on Trouble In Mind Records

The singer of Canadian band Weaves, Jasmyn said: „I enjoy being called weird, because why not? Morgan doesn’t think we’re weird because our songs are pretty poppy and you’re able to dance to them and you can recognize hooks and choruses. We kind of purposefully made them as non-band-sounding as possible, but at the same time, we’re a band!” Light schizophrenic situation, but really hard to categorize their weird pop music. Buttercup

from self titled debut EP on Buzz Records in April

They’re making this grungy noise punk in Toronto

The Beverleys -digital EP by Buzz Records

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Simple American small town rock by The Districts. There’re three remastered old songs from Telephone LP and two new ones.

EP by Fat Possum

Industrial surf gaze experimental cold wave disco „punk or whatever i feel.” Another fantastic Canadian band:

Odonis Odonis – Better EP by Buzz Records  OK, this record was released some months ago, but maybe still there are some copies. And here is a new Better remix

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Saul Conrad – The Fancy. And yes, there is it. The classically-trained pianist has made a very strange album with unexpected and odd rhythm shifts where the melodies so overlap one another like the dialogues in Cassavetes and Altman films. „Voices overlap mirroring actual conversation: sometimes responding to each other, other times clashing and talking over one another.” Chamber pop:

LP by Mountain of Leopards

Sex & Death

Hussy – from the coming soon EP by Buzz

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I think these subgenres are unprecedented: noise country, industrial folk. These phrases have come to my mind while I listened to Fat History Month

split 7″ with My Dad. They are a noise math rock band with 3 drummers. The Fat History’s new album is still fresh.