“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.

a nice song from joanna gruesome

7″ coming soon on fortna pop! new album under way. and there are two new girls in the band

A new Aussie quartet with members of such great garage bands as UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver, Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant Living, Eastlink, Russell Street Bombings, Lower Plenty, The Backstabbers – maybe you know some – and Xanthe Waite sings one of Mick Harvey’s Gainbsbourg album.

TERRY has been formed after a Total Control US tour in Mexico City in 2015 when two couples have decided to start a simple and charming pop band that could tour and vacation together. But more telling about that „simple and charming pop” that The Rebel (ex-Country Teasers) is chosen to play with them on their first show in London. And good like Parquet Courts is.

Debut album on Upset The Rhythm (UK)

TERRY + THE REBEL + SARCASM
LONDON, The Victoria in Dalston
MON 12TH SEP, 2016 8:00pm

Galaxie 500 was an influential American indie rock band between 1987 and 91, and released three albums. Somebody said their music is such as if Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers) would be backed by The Velvet Underground.

The Blog That Celebrate Itself Records in Sao Bernardo, Brazil just has released a „name your price” tribute album. You can find there indie, dreamy, psychedelic rock, for example also by a big favourite, the Mexican psychedelic rock duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. While I was listening to the album just lay on my bed, sometimes dropped off a little, sometimes sipped my beer, and said: so good. Because it is long enough, it is perfect for longer snoozes too.

At the beginning Peter Kernel was a quartet. Because of a broken heart and a new girlfriend during the time it has become an international team of friends around the world and two core members, Canadian Barbara Lehnhoff, and Swiss-Italian Aris Basetti.

On the drums now the number 7 member, Ema. „The first time we met Ema was in 2010 and we thought: “Naaa, he’s a 2 meter tall rasta playing drums in a metal band, he can’t be right for us”. From the latest album Thrill Addict on On The Camper Records

More about the twenty some members

And there is Camilla Sparksss, electro noise wave alter-ego of Barbara. Short interview on rnr666.

Keel Her / Claire Cottrill split cassette

Keel Her aka Rose Jayne Keeler-Schäffeler is a London based alien-obsessed hyperactive girl from Brighton. Makes high standard lo-fi sometimes noisy bedroom pop. And managed by Satan. In 2012 the godfather of lo-fi, and World Champion of DIY home recordings, R. Steevie Moore invited her to play together at his studio in Memphis. And she is in The Bin Bags where playing violin, keys and vocals. Just released their first EP on Permanent Slump Records. (The third song in this playlist is from them.) She said in an interview: Being a female musician: it’s really fun, but sometimes lonely. I’m an outsider, but I always have been, regardless.

Claire Cottrill is a very young girl from Boston (Massachusetts, US). With her guitar she makes music under the influence of sixties soul and r’n’b and Korn.

Split cassette on Third Floor Tapes (Ardmore – formerly Athensville -, Pennsylvania, US)

NP221 Daisy Chains „Above Board” C26 (full album stream here)

Daisy Chains is a very responsive Minneapolis trio. Minimalist fuck you pay me post punk leanings intersect slow country drawl and rock and roll swagger in interesting ways to create something unique that also nods to greats such as Dead Moon, Beat Happening, and Opal.

NP223 Stefan Christensen „Isreal (Its More of the Same)” C32 (full  album here)

Stefan Christensen was the lead man in long running New Haven Connecticut arty DIY punk outfit the Estrogen Highs (e.g. Trouble in Mind, Telephone Explosion, Dead Beat or Southpaw Records), and hc-punk band Iron Hand.

He has walked away to a more abstracted discordant and subtle area of the post punk. Kiwi influences such as This Kind of Punishment, the Dead C, Alastair Galbraith and the Xpressway label sound stick out along with the Mike Rep Ohio scene of weirdo rock and the general goodness of early UK DIY as prime vantage points.

He is running C/Site Recordings. Now they have launched a store with releases available from Estrogen Highs, Stefan Christensen, Pieces of Fruit, Worn Leather, Mountain Movers, Medication, Phemale, and Jon Eriksen. First batch of cassette releases coming in the spring, which will include releases from Stefan Christensen, Medication, and more.

The Liminanas is a French 60’s style guitar pop duo. Their every song is excellent, like this new one with Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order) on bass and vocal

but if you listen to one of their albums the second song: so good, third one: so-so, forth: boring. I could not listen to a Liminanas album to end yet. And I like this style. I hope I will do it in the case of the new album. Malamore will be released on Because Music in April.

Tomorrows Tulips has been formed as a duo because Alex’s girlfriend „Christina said something about hating to go to Paul Mitchell hair school and I asked her what she always wanted to do. She said she wanted to learn drums but thought that was ridiculous.” At that time Alex was in the garage rock band Japanese Motors.

He was sixteen or seventeen the first time he heard the Velvet Underground box-set. „I remember listening to Velvet Underground and the out-of-tune guitars and there was such a sense of freedom to it. I think I heard them and thought, I wanna do that.” And he does that.

Today the band is a trio, but the drummer is Jennifer. They are difficult egomaniacs, coming from Costa Mesa, Orange County, California, and play esoteric doo wop grunge, and you will hear really cool bass if you click now

from iNdy rock royalty comb 12″EP on Burger Records (US)

European Tour May June Belgium France Spain Portugal Italy Switzerland UK

Frantic City is hyperactive French label from the rebellious La Rochelle. It has released Froth‘s debut album months before that it will be released in America by Burger and Lolipop Records.

Just because I’ve got this album from France when I listened to it first times I thought Froth is an anglomaniac French band.But not. They’re from California. Their music is British style psychedelic indie rock from Jesus & Mary Chain to Oasis and forth. I’m sick of this style, but if you not, I’m sure this album will be nice for you

Buy it here

Garden of Elks is a Scottish trio, members are from Bronto Skylift, PAWS and Lady North. They say this is „thrash pop”, that’s danceable noisy indie rock, with a little feeling of Sonic Youth and Big Black!, with tight rhythms, hard bass, fuzzy distorted guitar, waterfall of sounds. A Distorted Sigh is a perfect debut album: 10 really good frisky songs within 28 minutes on Song, By Toad Records (UK)

Joanna Gruesome is among the best indie rock band. The Welsh group combines garage punk with indie pop in a very unique style. Their brand new album „Peanut Butter” is coming soon. 4 tracks from it