„Self Employment is the key to an early grave, I see this in lots of musician friends of mine as well. You are your own travel agent, your own booking agent, your own photographer, your own graphic designer, your own manager, your own producer… on top of that you are a musician. With my show I am the drummer, singer, guitarist and sometimes harmonica player, you could say it is not a way of life, it IS life”.

A wanderer bluesman on Robert Johnson’s path
from Christchurch, New Zealand

DELANEY DAVIDSON – Big Ugly Fish

from the album Swim Down Low on Outside Inside Records (Italy). His previous two albums were released by Voodoo Rhythm Records (Switzerland).

Euro tour: May, July-Aug. Vienna: May 10

Manchester’s Laurie Hulme writes intimate songs about his grandfather’s life from caravan holidays to communistic views.

Weekday stories about the life or musical family photo album in bedroom folk pop / lo-fi indie rock style.

Songs For Walter – Meet Me At The Empire EP. Extremly limited re-issue with two bonus tracks on CD by Red Deer Club. Digital download is available sure.

Among the best and most interesting British music projects.

„Life is funny when there’s no rules.”

Another great band from memphis on Goner Records. Ex-Cult. Post punk psych garage with „buzz-saw guitars, kraut rock rhythm section and sneering vocals.”

„Midnight Passenger” album on Goner Records

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American indie folk with lot of acoustic instruments

Saintseneca – „Dark Arc” album on Anti- Records. Saintseneca bandcamp

“I guess there’s quite a dark side to me. It always comes out when I’m writing songs. I love Sylvia Plath, and I love listening to songs that have that haunting darkness that really pulls you in, so it’s probably something that I want to create in my songs.” She plays every instrument on her recordings, from bass to piano, from guitar to sitar. Strange bitter-sweet haunted folky pop songs by Marika Hackman

Deaf Heat EP by Dirty Hit Records

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Cobra is a French thrash rock band. Outrage & destruction since 1984.

7″ on Born Bad Records

pref: Tuaregs are nomadic people in the Sahara. They’re living as refugees in some countries of Africa.

„TINARIWEN IS A BAND BORN INTO CHAOS.”

The founder, Ag Alhabib has seen a cowboy to play on guitar in a western film in his childhood. After the happy end he fabricated his first guitar from a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wire. He has formed his band in a Libyan Tuareg refugee camp, where they were under military training in 1979. When the revolution broke out in their homeland, they left Libya behind, put down their instruments and took up guns to fight for the Tuareg independence in Mali. When the conflict died down, the band returned to music. And they became successful refugees around the world with their traditional Tuareg music, which is influenced by blues and Hendrix.

Islegh Taghram Tifhamam from the album „Emmaar”

For a Tuareg the Sahara is not one desert but many,
they call it Tinariwen, id est: The Deserts

„WE LOVE ALL THE DESERT, THESE ARE PLACES
WHERE WE FEEL GOOD TO LIVE AND TO CREATE.”

„I’m no slave of whistle, clock or bell
Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street”

She Used To Love Me A Lot

A David Allen Coe cover from Johnny Cash’s lost & found album. It was recorded during two sessions in 1980 and 84. Out on March 25 by Columbia/Legacy Records. You can pick it up here: iTunes  or here: Amazon

The prefatory is taken from Cowboy Prayer by Badger Clark

Speaking Pig

Neue Slovenische Völkisch Techno. Duo Moralna Mačka – Jaz sem govoreči pujs (= I am speaking pig)

It comes from Črna na Koroškem.

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by Pussywarmers & Réka: Something You Call Love

from the album ‘I Saw Them Leaving’ on Wild Honey Records. If you know The Pussywarmers then you will be surprised. There is no trace of the punk swing. Chansons, folk ballads, psychedelic beats, rocks and seagulls on a tropical coast. Full stream

Video is directed and produced by Réka Csiszér & Nene Baratto (Movie Star Junkies). Edited by Réka Csiszér

Hysterics are an American female hardcore-punk band. Classic sound

‘Can’t I Live?’ 7″ by M’lady’s

Euro tour: May-June. Budapest May 21

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Melancholic chamber music. Folk’n’Doom. Canada. Picastro

‘You’ LP by Function Records

Literature Thieves are a Manchester based female folk trio, their name refers to destiny of the lent books. Free digital single on Red Deer Club.

 You can download these from here.

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Last item of the 4 x 7″ singles series of Ketamines. The Canadian band’s music is a very special mix of garage beat, bedroom blues, kitchen rock, living room country, bathroom surf, basement pop and homeless glam. I broke into a smile when I pressed the button.

You can buy it here > Mint Recs

The 1st, 2nd & 3rd singles

The founder of Tinariwen Ibrahim Ag Alhabib has seen a cowboy to play on guitar in a western film in his childhood. After happy end he fabricated his first instrument from a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wires. He has formed his band with musical Tuaregs in a Lybian refugee camp, where they were in military training in 1979. North-African desert blues from the album Emmaar

Euro tour in Feb-March

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Some years ago some girls walked in a pawnshop in Atlanta, and bought the most cheapest instruments.

Coathangers – Suck My Shirt LP by Suicide Squeeze

If you know The Pussywarmers then you will be surprised. There is no trace of the punk swing. Chansons, folk ballads, psychedelic beats, rocks and seagulls on a tropical coast. I like this better than the previous albums, but one thing is missing for me, the polyglotry.

The Pussywarmers and Réka – I Saw Them Leaving by Wild Honey

And look this: a 7″ by Réka Csiszér a „Hungarian Austrian Jazz Singer Film Maker Enfant Terrible” Femme Fatale + Lala Morte a „Thai Vietnamese Parisian Burlesque Performer” + Simone (Pussywarmers) + Nene (Movie Star Junkies). They recorded Dawn Penn’s reggae hit from 1967, You Don’t Love Me in a Billy Holiday and a Jane Birkin style French versions. It’s released by Voodoo Rhythm

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D.Charles Speer is a guitarist. Grew up in Deep South of America. Moving to New York in the early 90s. Member of No-Neck Blues Band, a folk, drone, psychedelia, free jazz, noise and everything big band, who like to use the wharves, parks, rooftops and other unusual places for performances, so their shows have been shot down frequently by police. He likes and plays Greek and Arabic music. And rock’n’roll, blues, country and rockabilly

D Charles Speer & The Helix – Double Exposure LP by Thrill Jockey