Trouble Books are an Akron (Ohio) based experimental pop duo. Lejsovka & Freund are their side project. They play „DIY shitty classical” music with a little Michael Nyman feeling on piano, cello, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, computer, synthesizer, and voice. „These pieces are made by and for the view from huge sunroom windows overlooking a wooded ravine. Hopefully that honesty comes through.”

Mold On Canvas LP on Bark and Hiss (US) & MIE Records (UK)

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The debut album of The Wtyhces  „Annabel Dream Reader” is among the most anticipated albums. Proto-metal grunge surf psychedelic noise rock from the English countryside

Annabel Dream Reader LP/CD/digital on Heavenly (UK), Partisan (US) & Dine Alone Records (Can). In July they are on US Tour.

The garage rock superstar Black Lips‘ southern rocker album is coming soon in March. The boys asked Phil Spector to produce the album, but the incarcerated 74 years old producer didn’t answer. In 2009 he was sentemnced to 19 to life for murder of an actress. So it is produced by Patrick Carney from Black Keys. And stars everywhere. It is mixed by a Grammy winner, who has worked with Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, Björk. The album photos shot by legendary British rock’n’roll photographer Mick Rock

Underneath The Rainbow LP by Vice Records

Euro tour in May-June: Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Brussles, London, Athens

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Solids. Canadian psych garage grunge in the manner of 90s

Blame Confusion – debut LP by Fat Possum (US) and Dine Alone Records (Can)