“I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.”

He is Craig Dermody, well, he writes down-and-out pop songs exactly like Parquet Courts. Bored, melanholic, sometimes angry, simple, beautiful. This song is taken from his 3rd album Mid Thirties Single Scene. It has been released in September by Fire Records (UK).

Euro tour is going to start this month: UK, Holland, Germany, Spain, France.

Craig’s band is Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, named about a golden act of an Australian soap oper Neighbours, when Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan got married in 1987.

And here is the old bandcamp page with the old albums, and you can find there his best song Footscray Station.

És kedves magyar olvasó, ennek a „Neighbours”-nak lett hazai változata a Szomszédok néven ismert szocio-horror.

“I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.”

He is Craig Dermody, well, he writes down-and-out pop songs exactly like Parquet Courts. Bored, melanholic, sometimes angry, simple, beautiful

Craig’s band is Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, named about a golden act of an Australian soap oper Neighbours, when Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan got married in 1987. Anyway 3rd album Mid Thirties Single Scene will be released in September by Fire Records (UK).

Here is a Beastie Boys cover from a brand new EP, and the Footscray Station (Wikipedia) from the first album.

Here is the new album of Rocket From The Tombs

– Is it a punk band? – No. It pre-dated punk rock.
– Is it alternative? – No. It aspired to the mainstream.
– Is it legendary? – No. It’s mythical.

It was formed in 1974 by e.g. David Thomas and Cheetah Chrome in Cleveland, where – they say – everything was doomed. The band did not reach its first birthday, and never went into a studio. But it left behind such songs as Sonic Reducer or 30 Seconds Over Tokyo for its descendants. The first would be a Dead Boys anthem, the second one a Pere Ubu hit.

The originals were released in 2002. Almost the original line-up reunited in 2003. Their first studio album was released in 2011, and now here is the second. The Black Record has been made in co-production with the members of This Moment In Black History. Where the drummer is Bim Thomas, aka Obnox, who is the drummer of Bassholes, one of the best blues punk band.

A bloody actual song from the album

The band is on tour now in US, UK, NL, Belgium and France.

And `you want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven’t ended yet.` This is the end of Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut.

“Pere Ubu is mainstream rock. Justin Timberlake is weird experimental music. Robbie Williams is avant-garde. Britney Spears is constantly coming up with something new and innovative. Pere Ubu does the same old thing. ‘New’ is a trap and a scam to dupe student-types and other naive people.”*

Pere Ubu is a band. It was formed in Cleveland in the mid-70s after the break-up of garage rock band Rockets From The Tombs. The most famous RFTT song is the Sonic Reducer. It would be a punk anthem by The Dead Boys, which was formed by the one half of RFTT.

Pere Ubu plays experimental rock. The only constant member is David Thomas. On his albums he has talked nonsene about art of walking and sleep walk, barking dogs and horses, guitars and girls, clouds and weather, honey moon and Monday morning, Steve and Michele, Heaven and Hell, ice cream truck and stolen Cadillac, the flames over Nebraska and winter in the Firelands, and so on until 414 seconds.

The moon and the monkeys are the two main motifs of the new Pere Ubu album Carnival of Souls. But you can also find there e.g. Greyhounds, maps, stars, love and duck. But if all these wouldn’t be tempting enough for you, a number of the songs were developed from an underscore composed for the classic B-category horror movie Carnival of Souls.

Road to Utah + Irene + Golden Surf II

LP, CD and digital with or without a 100 page book „Cogs” by Fire Records. The CD and LP have a little different contents, but the buyers can download the differences.

Pere Ubu on tour in Nov-Dec in UK and Spain

“Art is forever, the audience comes and goes.”

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Fire Records is a British independent record label. In his roster: Blank Realm, Guided By Voices, Half Japanese, Las Kellies, Mission of Burma, Pere Ubu, Bardo Pond, Jad Fair. And some name from the past: Pulp, Chuck Prophet, Television Personalities, Lemonheads, Spaceman 3, Gun Club, Urge Overkill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Teenage Fanclub, Adverts. Fire throws a birthday party with his best new artists this evening. It will be streamed live. The gig starts at 8pm GMT (UK), 9pm CEST (Europe), 4am JST (Japan), 5am AEST (Australia), 3pm EDT (US East Coast), 12 noon PDT (US West Coast). Timing in GMT:

8:10PM – SCRAPS (AUS) > Weird minimal synth pop under influence of style of the 80s.
8:50PM – FAWN SPOTS (UK) > Punk rock trio. Devotees of early Joy Divison/Warsaw, Hüsker Dü and Rites of Spring. Razor edged, lightning fast short blasts of hyperactive noise with bittersweet melodies.
9:30PM – KEEL HER (UK) > High standard lo-fi experimental bedroom pop.
10:10PM – SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING (AUS) > “I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.”

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Wreckless Eric is one of the most influential artists to emerge from the Stiff Records stable. He went on to have one of punk’s biggest hits with “Whole Wide World” in 1977 and inspired a legion of artists from Yo La Tengo to The Vaccines and from Marianne Faithful to Lilly Allen. In his thirty-seven He has made seventeen albums and worked with, or had his songs covered by artists as Proclaimers, Blockheads, Lightning Seeds, Holly Golightly, Cliff  Richard, Monkees, Toten Hosen and Two Lone Swordsmen, to name a few.

The British painter Peter Blake named Wreckless Eric as one of the most important pop icons of the past forty years, and included him on the remake of The Beatles Sergeant Pepper’s cover. (Blake has made the original one.) Another important pop icon Lou Reed played his Take The Cash on on his last ever radio show, recorded a week before he died. Fire Records will reissue his 1989 album Le Beat Group Electrique on Record Store Day. It will be on 19 April this year.

Mr. Wreckless also is a painter

Participant stores of Record Store Day on your location.

”if Lady Gaga wanted to collab with us,

we would almost definitely say yes, although the result would probably make for rugged listening.” Blank Realm – Reach You On The Phone

from the album Grass Inn by Bedroom Suck (Aus) and Fire Records (US)

Laura Hill, alias Scraps play weird minimal synth pop under influence of style of the 80s.
I didn’t want to believe that she is also an Aussie. Blessed land. Electric Ocean

from her debut LP by Fire Records in March

The Ruins was founded as a trio in 1985, but the guitarist never arrived, so started as a prog-rock drum and bass duo. During the years there were 4 bassists, the last one quit in 2004, since then the drummer, Tatsuya Yoshida is working as Ruins Alone. By the way he is also playing in the noise metal Zeni Geva, in the free jazz grind PainKiller with John Zorn and Bill Laswell, and in the prog-psych-space rock Acid Mothers Temple beside his many collaborations. One of these is the Sax Ruins with the saxophone player, flautist (and sculptor) Ryoko Ono, who participates in jazz, rock, funk, rhythm & blues and hiphop bands beside her own progressive-impro-rock band, ryorchestra.

Blimmguass LP by Skin Graft Records

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Nice indie pop music by Hospitality

Trouble LP on Merge (USA) and Fire Records (UK). I wonder whether will be there such a hit as the Friends of Friends?

Bedroom hip-hop with taste of noise punk by the multi-instrumentalist experimental rapper, Signor Benedick The Moor, who arrived from the metal/hc scene. „The name comes from two places, both Shakespearean, Benedick is the main character in Much Ado About Nothing, and I identify with him on a personal level as someone who will in the future be jaded because of his past experiences with love. He is also very witty and I like to think the same of myself. The second, the Moor, comes from the characters Aaron the Moor and Othello, both outsiders because of their skin color. I’ve felt like an outsider since I began to form my self-awareness, because of my half-white, half-black heritage, and because I always seemed to think so much differently than everyone else.”

by the experimental noise label, Deathbomb Arc

His former old-school-like hip-hop-punk project with less noise and more music: brayne (free downloads)

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The Blank Realm is a very open minded and amazing psychedelic rock band from the fantastic Aussie underground scene. „if Lady Gaga wanted to collab with us, we would almost definitely say yes, although the result would probably make for rugged listening.”

Grass Inn LP by Bedroom Suck (Aus) and Fire Records (UK)

Josephine Foster is a modern American folk singer-songwriter and musician. She has started her musical career as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer. She has made music in various genres like psychedelic rock, early American folk and blues, Tin Pan Alley style music (American popular music of late 19 and early 20 century. Tin Pan Alley was the nickname of a specific place in Manhattan where the music publishing firms and stores were settled.). Furthermore she has two Spanish folk albums, and made strange interpretations of 19th Century German songs of Wolf, Brahms, Schubert and Goethe. Three songs from her brand new album.

I’m a Dreamer LP by Fire Records

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Blanche Blanche Blanche. Experimental pop like Zappa or Deerhoof or something similar

Breaking Mirrors LP by Wharf Cat

Since 1994 the wonderful Danielson famile (or family, and for some time simple Danielson) plays maximal independent music out every style like Captain Beefheart for example. Their first album was released in 1995. Reissue

A Prayer for Every Hour – double LP by Fire Records

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King Louie Bankston is a hyperactive rock and roll musician from Louisiana. He has constantly toured in the States since the early 1990s and released 40 records with various bands, for example: The Royal Pendletons, The Persuaders, Kajun SS, Bad Times (with Jay Retard, Eric Oblivian) or King Louie and the Loose Diamonds (with Harlan T. Bobo, Jack Oblivian). His brand new band are the Missing Monuments, play gritty rock n’ roll with a distinctly Southern flavor-blending in hints of pop, garage, soul, oldies, and even hard rock with Benny Divine on bass. Benny plays organ and drums in Wizzard Sleeve, drums in Gary Wrong Group, and organ in Natural Child.

7″ EP by Slovenly

The 1st Missing Monuments album