The Inspector Cluzo
guitar and drums soul-funk’n’roll duo from Mont-de-Marsan
they are pride themselves on maintaining
a badass style of funk without a bass player

„Straange..Very straange”

10.09: VIENNA     12.09: BUDAPEST

They have named the band after Jacques Clouseau,
who was played by the unforgettable Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther series.

Clouseau (on the telephone): And who am I speaking to?
Drefyus: This is the person that wants you killed more than anything in the world!
Clouseau: Are you the head waiter at the leetle Beestro on the Roudy Bouzzare?

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)

Hungarian garage rock band DOPE CALYPSO was founded after collapse of the frequent RNR666 Party performer Kollaps.  So it was absolutley natural that their first show was at RNR666 Party this year. Until this time they have released a digital single, and this video was made

with very poor fantasy – but can be said in their favour – not by the band.

Debut album this month.

Next show: Sept 13 with Bored Nothing (Aus) in Budapest, A38.

„Crude and Minimal records”

is the slogan of Goodbye Boozy Records.
It’s one of the best European garage rock/punk labels.
The label is focusing limited edition 7″ vinyls. Some names of his roster:
Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, King Khan, BBQ, Lantern, LiveFastDie, Red Mass, Straight Arrows, Movie Star Junkies.

Interview with the boss, don Gabriele

Is it a one man label or are there a bunch of fanatics?

I am Gabriel and Goodbye Boozy Recs. is a one-man label, with a lot of fanatic friends who help me buying my release by spreading them all over the world and I’m very  grateful to  all of them!!! I am very happy to know that the few copies I put out are going to all these „fools”!!

How does it started and when? What was the cause?

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Susan from LA. Indie guitar pop with garage rock taste. Quite like a band from the better ones on Slumberland Records. Sometimes so good like the Breeders. Drummer from Texan garage rock band Cowabunga Babes, and its garage punk side project The Vomettes.

Debut 7″ on Volar Records (US)

+ cassette with 2 more songs on Burger Records (US)

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The Canadian quartet New Swears play Black Lips-like garage rock’n’roll while they name the infamous, hyper dirty ultra sexual rap gang, 2 Live Crew as influence. I think no need to say more:

„Junkfood Forever, Bedtime Whatever” LP on Bachelor Records (Austria)

They’re on Euro Tour Now!

Two London based bands
an all female post punk noise rock band with French singer and Turkish bassist:
Savages (Matador Records) &
an all Japanese psychedelic rock band, similar to another Japanese band, Boris:
Bo Ningen
are in a special collaboration

London 2012. Savages are recording the debut album. In the middle of an intense three weeks, they set out one evening to see the band Bo Ningen. A few days later producer Johnny Hostile begins to muse over the possibility of two bands playing in the same space at the same time.  Concurrently Gemma Thopson of Savages is reading about the performances at the Cabaret Voltaire.

“Zurich in 1916 and Hugo Ball is instrumental in creating the Cabaret Voltaire – a club which will become central to the performances of the Dada movement, during which the artists would experiment with forms of sound poetry and simultaneous poetry. A movement created through the horror of World War One, it attempts to understand how society has reached such an illogical decision. Through simultaneous poetry begins the attempt to delve into chaos and maelstrom, to find the voice of the individual struggling to be heard. We decide to approach Bo Ningen with the idea of collaborating on a Sonic Simultaneous Poem.”

The idea begins to take shape in early 2013, they prepare for both bands to rehearse together in a studio with a loose composition based around five chapters. As the musicians of both bands consider how to apply themselves with their instruments to each chapter – revolving, colliding and intertwining with words sang in Japanese, French and English. They also envisage the physical space in which to perform.

„We imagine a stage in a large u-shape to contain as much of the audience as possible in the centre. The two drummers next to each other at the ‘bottom’ of the u, then leading around symmetrically (facing each other): guitarists, bassists and singers at the tips of the u-shape. Bo Ningen have a guitar extra, so we hang one from the ceiling to hit as you would a gong. Eventually we fix a date and a space for what we believe is a one-off performance that we name „Words To The Blind.” It was performed at The Red Gallery, London on May 29th 2013. The 37-minutes long track will be released on November 17th by Stolen Recordings (UK) and Pop Noire Records (France).

Snippets from the performance

They will do it again together this on 19 November at the Oval Space, London.
Tickets have been sold out.

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)