‘Aahhh, pandemonium at last. Perfect time for a new online album. (…) It’s so filthy though, you might catch a disease or four just by listening…’

After a hiatus of 8 years, Matthias von Stumberger created something infectious and dirty again in his living room. Self-written (well, except for the Kraftwerk cover, obviously), self-immolated, self-recorded, self-produced and self-released, easily the best way to approach garage punk.

As if no time had passed since 2012, the new songs are still carefully packed with anger, dark surf guitar riffs from all over the gypsy scale and the complete freedom to do whatever you want with your own music, no matter how dirty your hands get throughout the process.

Support Matthias von Stumberger, SHARE / BUY the album at his bandcamp page!

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5 brand new 7″ EPs by great little Italian label

GOODBYE BOOZY RECORDS

rock n roll for dumb kids from Australia: GEE TEE

60s garage rock for dumb adults: THE SPOOKIES: members from Italian garage folk rock Mojomatics and psych rock group Squadra Omega together with Pantichrist Butler from American 80/90s garage rock band The Miracle Workers. He has relocated to Switzerland where worked together with Lightning and Reverend Beat-Man, nowadays he is in The Shit. On bass D. P. Jørgensen from Danish garage beat bands David Peter And The Wilde Sect and The Youth.

loud, snotty, boozy, punk rock’n’roll for smart humans by BETA BOYS from US

Canadian PHONE JERKS originally formed as a punk cover band for party dogs, but anyway they are currently available for children’s birthday parties too.

US garage punk rock and roll for mutants by ANDY HUMAN & THE REPTOIDS

GOODBYE BOOZY INTERVIEW by RNR666

Wild Garage Punk Entertainment by THE JACKETS from Switzerland!

60s garage + mod + 77s punk + lil psychedelia!!

Keep Yourself Alive

from their third album Shadows of Sound by Voodoo Rhythm Records!!!

Members are Jack Torera – formerly the guitarist for the girl garage rock group The Mad Cowgirl Disease; Chris Rosales: formerly the drummer of Lightning Beat-Man and the Never Heard of ‘Ems, Reverend Beat-Man and the Unbelievers and The Get Lost; Samuel Schmidiger: singer and guitar player for The Budget Boozers!!!!

Cheena is an allstar band, no question. It involves people from Crazy Spirit, Hank Wood and the Hammerheads and Dawn of humans. Ooooohh..

So, you can guess that Cheena is making very fine noisy primitve garage punk music. And it’s hardly possible to say anything else about them…

Go check it out for  yourselves and order a tape from Lo-Fi Lo-Life Records, Leipzig.

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The Achtungs are back and … yes, they are still full of hate. As reticent frontman Joni Ekman said in a recent interview  ‘I’d rather make a song called „Dogshit” than a song called „Song About My Feelings” – sounds promising, right?

The album has been released by Going Underground Records 02 June, 2015 and there are still some copies available. I think we should invite these bastards to destroy a Budapest stage very soon!

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On 11 Sept Californian garage punk band AUDACITY and Hungarian garage rock band DEMJÉN HIRST gave an unforgettable concerts at RNR666 party in Budapest. You can find some fine shots from the night by Gyerage here

 + New Audacity 7″ on Suicide Squeeze Records

NEXT DEMJÉN HIRST SHOW >> DEC 12, BUDAPEST, VITTULA

What if some crazy guys from the Finnish countryside (under the not so extraordinary name ‘The Achtungs‘) decide to play raw, shitty but even more intense garage punk than the good old Reatards? Well, if The Achtungs were only half as great as they are, they would still make their entry to my top punk records list of 2014 with their Full of hate LP (from Going Underground Records). Personally, I have always been fond of The Reatards but I think Jay Reatard’s songwriting skills were much more prominent on his later solo albums. So, what struck me about The Achtungs is that they preserve the overdriven garage punk sound but at the same time they manage to write really catchy songs – and by this I mean great and painful ones. In a quite thorough interview with singer Joni at It’s Psychedelic Baby he talks about the beginnings as simple as possible: ‘In the summer of 2010, I was really bored with the band I was in, Pill Poppers, and I wanted a band that sounded like The Reatards.  So, I formed one’.

It probably makes no sense to tell any more about them….in case the concept ‘great songs with a ferocious sound’ does not impress you, then why are you reading this anyway? Haha. But seriously, give them a listen. I think both of their releases have already been sold out, so we can only hope for a reissue or something… but as long as we have such great bands around, there’s no need to worry about punk at all.

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„Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me, and I in them.” (John 6:56)

Al Fin by Puerto Rican latino garage punk band LOS VIGILANTES

from the album Al Fin on ChaCho Records (Puerto Rico)

They gave a fantastic show in Budapest at RNR666 Party in May. Look!

Hand of Dust is a trio from Copenhagen, and plays folk rooted dark rock. Their music is like a mix of Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave and 16 Horsepower.

7″ on Avant! Records (Italy)

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“We are a well educated band.” Yet UV Race is the silliest garage punk band in Australia.

7″ EP on XVIII Records (France) for the fans of UV Race only.

They will come to Europe between mid July and early August. For dates check their FB page

but in others’ view it’s just garage punk, but we don’t care

SICK THOUGHTS – Piss Poor
starring Jimi Hendrix, Iggy Pop and other animals

from My Mess My Life 12″EP on Dead Beat Records (US)

Audacity is rather a power pop band than a garage punk. But in their early times they were a real great garage punk band. Their lost and found first recordings from 2007 are out now.

„Juva Jive” 10″ EP and digital on Cut-Rate, cassette on Burger Records (USA). The best Audacity album forever.

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Italian psychedelic rock band La Piramide di Sangue loves you in oriental mood

„Sette” LP and digital  on Boring Machines (Italy)

It’s a seven musician ensemble from Torino. The sound is built on two guitars, two basses, one clarinet, one synth, several effects, drums and percussions. It has started as a solo project of Gianni Giublena Rosacroce (clarinet, percussions) who is an alter-ego of Stefano Isaia, the singer of blues rock and roll band Movie Star Junkies.

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)