ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOWED

Strange. None the less he has been started his career in the early 80s I have been never heard about BEN VAUGHN before. His 16th album is the first I have listened. And I am impressed.

The album Piece de resistance has been released recently on French label KIZMIAZ RECORDS. It’s full of good old frenchy western swings and moods. Easy and elegant as this verse from the title song is

„sabotage, bon vivant, nouveau riche, je ne sais quoi, s’il vous plaît, c’est la vie, femme fatale, repertoire”

He made an album Cubist Blues together with Alan Vega and Alex Chilton in 1996. Chilton started his career as a teen star in Memphis in the 60s, then formed the band Big Star, moved to New York and played often at CBGB in the 70s, then in early 80s went to New Orleans at Louis XVI Restaurant to dish wash. Sabotage, bon vivant.

as BRAT FARRAR running a one-man-punk band
and plays surprisingly various lo-fi punk music.

He said the sound is reminiscent of early Wipers, Chrome, The Spits, Suicide, a bit like My Bloody Valentine (well just the guitars) on a few tracks and sometimes like power pop bands recorded incorrectly.

And even more like his fellow Australian TV Colours. Same feeling.

Here is a fine shoegaze one, bit like My Bloody Valentine

3rd album out now. Listen to it here

CD: Off The Hip Records (AUS). Vinyl: Kizmiaz Records (France)

Back to the roots, to the 80s, when the massive darkness comes to the sunlight by Slayer, Metallica, Possessed, Exodus, Exciter, Venom, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and legions of other bands. Now here is the Midnight. Black heavy metal, thrash rock and roll

No Mercy For Mayhem – LP, 2XCD, digital on Hell’s Headbangers Records (US)

You can find, buy and listen to their previous albums here

Midnight plays Venom’s Too Loud For The Crowd here

There is a song on the new album „Aggressive Crucifixion.” It comes to light that 3 kind of crucifixion are/were existing at least: tender, ordinary and aggressive. And in all probability there are/were some sub-categories too.

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Next chapter of the French garage rock Who Is Who, or Who With Who. White Ass includes members from Teenage Moonlight Borderliners, Crash Normal, Pierre & Bastien, Descente D’Organes, Viscous Brothers, TITS and more. Big white ass, so big, that the debut album has released on 4 labels simultaneously. The output is fresh, hot French-style garage rock and roll

LP and digital on  Frantic City, Inch Allah, Pouet Schallplatten and Kizmiaz Records (all France)

After fall of the Acid House

here are the pioneers of Acid Basement. With a special taste of Anarcho-Jazz. And a little Melt-Banana feeling. Sometimes like a Japanese noise „rock” brigade from the 80s. Miraculous muddle by Guerilla Toss

„367 Equalizer” cassette EP on Infinity Cat Recordings (US)

During the listening read the list of fake jazz song titles!

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„Sur le toit” i.e. On The Rooftops. It’s a very special album by two French musicians King Automatic and Mr. Verdun. King Automatic is a rock and roll one-man band, Mr. Verdun is from the folk punk duo Thee Verduns. They have written music for a real film noir, a documentary about French prison mutinies in the early 70s. Plain, cold and dark ballades, sometimes in Western style, some of them are like instrumental Tom Waits’ songs. Down by French law

10′ vinyl on Kizmiaz Records (France)

After a bloody hostage-taking in the end of 1971 at Clairvaux Prison* all prisoners got general punishment in France. It led to a mutiny in Nancy in January. The prisoners protested against the cruel treatment, the harsh conditions, and sudden removal of the Christmas packages. They weren’t real criminals, rather poor and desperate young men without future, who were incarcerated owing to petit crimes. They occupied the building –  which is the centre of the city – and went up to the rooftops, from where they held the connection with the outside world. Outside the gate an organization for the penalty reform led by philosopher Michel Foucault and other intellectuals tried to intervene on behalf of them. The revolt was put down, but it evoked over thirty riots at other prisons.

*Clairvaux Prison lays on the site of the former Cistercian Abbey. It was turned into prison by the Revolution which demolished the Bastille.

Killer synth punk tunes from the magician of cheap electronic instruments Giorgio Murderer. Feat Buck Biloxi on guitar

7″ EP on Goner Records (US)

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The most simple phrase for music of French duo Thee Verduns is folk-punk. With blues, bluegrass, cajun, country elements, ragtime rhythms and Trio cover

„Le catechisme de la joie, la vie entiere” LP and digital on Kizmiaz Records (France)

And sure, every nation has his own Verdun.

You’re in the 50s-60s (but before the beat madness). Switch on the radio. Rhythm’n blues’n rock’n’roll on New Orleans wave. Now by The Royal Premiers from France.

Friday Night Curse album by Kizmiaz Records on LP/DL

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„Meg, Richie, and I spent a lot of time drinking beer. At the time we asked her to be in the band, her lack of experience on drums was no greater than our lack of experience on guitars, so it wasn’t all that unusual. I think she’s really come into her own bashing away and is the absolute best drummer for Watery Love” to play heavy listening raw noisy garage punk.

Decorative Feeding LP and a 7″ by a competent authority: In The Red Records (US).

But Meg leaved the band so as to concentrate her absolutely different solo career. She was replaced by Ben from Philadelphian highly praised psych-blues-rock-jam band Birds Of Maya. (Another bird is in the Purling Hiss too.)

but I’m not so sure about that…You seem to be alright with me” (Lux Interior in the Californian State Mental Hospital in Napa, 1978. See the first video below or see the full show.)

CRAMPED!

An illustrated anthology of the many bootleg recordings of The Cramps

The book is on one hand proposing an exhaustive list of pirate recordings of the band (including albums, singles, flexes, picture discs, box sets and even postcards), but also involving the participation of illustrators and comic book authors who have been inspired by the bands output over the years. The book itself comes in the form of a 45 vinyl and is accompanied by an album comprising covers of some Cramps classics by four bands equally inspired by this legendary group: Birds Are Alive, Brat Farrar, King Automatic and Magnetix >>

by Kizmiaz Records

When I have observed the new Kizmiaz releases then I pushed the play immediately, but I didn’t pay attention to the band’s name. Hey, what is it? Magnetix!? But this is not like them! But good:

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Bang Bang Band Girl from Chile under the influences of western, blues, wild rockabilly, punk, no wave and noise:.

You can listen to a fine selection of Kizmiaz Records here