11 years ago in Atlanta, 4 girls have decided to start a band, walked in a pawnshop, bought the cheapest instruments and begun to learn play. So THE COATHANGERS‘ early recordings are not too defined works, but I like these nice no wave-like primitive garage rock songs. Naturally, they have developed their musical skill, but the music stayed simple, not too sophisticated but great garage rock and roll. There were more albums and some split 7″ singles (Audacity, Nü Sensae, Davila 666) but I think their best album LIVE is going to release on 1st of June on SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS. Listen!

Oh, almost I forgot that one of the original 4 quit.

EUREKA CALIFORNIA from Athens, Georgia

good as the early Mudhoney, the godfather of grunge is

7″ vinyl on HHBTM RECORDS (US)

but maybe you don’t know that Greek word Eureka is the motto of California, and also there is a city in this US state on same name which means „I have found it!”

It has come from the mid-1800s when men rush for the gold there. They were the modern Argonauts. The classic ones looked for the Golden Fleece in the mythic age of Hellas. And the ancient Greek scientist in Sicily Archimedes was who during his bath found the key of a physical problem, so he ran out naked from his house to the streets of Syracuse and screamed: Eureka, Eureka!

„give up your dreams. commit suicide.”

is the motto of punk band LIFE STINKS, but before

new records coming soon by TOTAL PUNK RECORDS (US)

TIMMY’S ORGANISM (with Timmy Vulgar from Clone Defects, Human Eye from Detroit,  7″) + NAG (7″, Atlanta) + FNU CLOWN INC (LP, San Francisco) + LIFE STINKS (7″, SF)

„election got us feeling a certain type of way, so we moded out a chaos UK style anarchy punk romp” from Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia: Trump: 51.3%; Clinton: 45.6%; Johnson: 3.1%

I do not know about the Atlanta’s results, but in Fulton County whose seat is Atlanta the state capital: Clinton: 69.2%; Trump: 27.1%; Johnson: 3.7%

The song is illustrated with the burning Reichstag. „It’s about a changing of the guards for the worse, nothing else don’t get panties in a bunch.”

Great Depression. About 5 million Germans without job (25-30%).

NSDAP was on top in June 1932 (37.27%), on the next voting same year November it fell (33.09%), but there was a deadlock after the election.

After long tug of war Hitler was asked to be next chancellor by President Hindenburg in January 1933.

On 27 February, six days before the next election, fire broke out in the Reichstag chambers.

Next day Hitler asked for and received from President Hindenburg the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State.

§ 1 „Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property are permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.”

On the spot a lunatic Dutch communist was arrested.

Later 1 German and 3 Bulgarian communists also were arrested, but against every effort finally they were acquitted during the trial but later

Georgi Dimitrov became Stalinist boss of Bulgaria. After his death in 1949 he was embalmed and got a mausoleum;

Ernst Torgler became a Gestapo agent and worked for the Propaganda Ministry;

Vasily Tanev was killed during a secret party mission in Bulgaria in 1941;

Blagoy Popov spent 17 years on GULAG from 1937;

Lunatic Dutch communist Van der Lubbe was beheaded.

So funny:=)

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Anyway my favorite parties from Germany 1932:

For Hindenberg and Pope: 27,752 votes (0.08%)
Radical Middle Class: 8,637 (0.02%)
German Reich Against Interest Rate Movement: 97
German Social Monarchist Party: 66
German Reform Party: 59

Synth wave, elektro pop, acid tracks on Dutch label

ENFANT TERRIBLE RECORDS

TWINS (US, Atlanta, Georgia) is Matt Weiner who is also known for his Featureless Ghost project and of course as the head of the DKA Records label… it’s a classic minimal elektro record but at the same time a rather modern piece of electronic music…RATHER NOT 12″ MINI LP

Zarkoff together with Ikonal from Croatia… these three tracks are from one of the infamous synth jams Zarkoff is organizing in an empty factory near Sisak in Croatia… the acid tracks featured on this EP have a throbbing beat with a clear hint to EBM… and the acid lines are both psychedelic and dark… TOXICOLOGY 12″EP

Antlers Mulm from Leipzig, Germany… recommended to fans of New Order but also of Solitude FX… melancholy, dreamy and catchy… GIVE AND TAKE 7″

Soul Power, debut album of Curtis Harding (ex-Cee-lo Green), member of Night Sun, Black Lips’ garage soul side project. Black Lips members took part in making this album too. Soul, 60’s RnB, easy 70s disco feeling, garage rock. I know two who flew to Seattle from New York to see him

Burger (US) and Anti-Records (EU, AUS)

Euro Tour Nov Dec

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The Miseries, dutch singer’n’songwriter Tim Knoll‘s punky garage rock band, debut single

Excelsior Recordings (NL)