After more than 10 albums QUINTRON‘s first book EUROPA MY MIRROR is recently released by GONER RECORDS. Illustrated by the amazing Miss Pussycat!

Ostensibly it is a chronicle of Quintron’s last European tour, but the book is just as much about the myriad illusions of American identity. The tales are funny and thrilling and mostly true and someone almost dies on every page.

“If Dr. Frankenstein were working with raw material from Madame Curie, Delia Derbyshire, James Brown, and Wilhelm Reich, the result might be something like QUINTRON. Underground inventor, composer, record maker, impresario, and performer par excellence. There is nothing and no one like him and this is his first book and it’s a gas!” – said Ian Svenonious – musician: Nation Of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Chain & The Gang, Escape-ism, and writer.

Quintron is a nightclub organist (and member of Gary Wrong Group) who runs an electronics repair shop/recording studio called Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans. He invented a mechanically-rotating, light-activated drum machine called Drum Budy. His current project is centered around a weather-controlled synthesizer he made called WEATHER WARLOCK designed to produce mellow, healing tones, randomly modulated by sun, rain, wind, and temperature.

WEATHER WARLOCK also is a band. Their first album Sunset Waits For No Man was recorded with Weather Warlock on the Gulf Coast with Quintron, Aaron Hill (EYEHATEGOD, Missing Monuments), Gary Wrong (Wizzard Sleeve, Vatican Dagger) together with two New Orleans free jazz sax players to glue this mass of southern scum rock:

Weather Warlock’s second album Headless Falcon was made by the core group with with a handful of local musicians in Abu Dhabi.

„BÊNNÍ is special, especially for a young dude. He NEVER overplays; he always listens; he’s funky as a church lady; and his memory for parts and complicated song structure is unmatched in anyone I have ever worked with….plus he’s chill as fuck.”

BENNI, organist of Nashville blues band NATURAL CHILD
and New Orleans punk groups WIZZARD SLEEVE and GARY WRONG GROUP    

SOLO ALBUM on Memphis label GONER RECORDS

mixed by QUINTRON and BUCK BILOXI from THE FUCKS

BÊNNÍ’s music can go from Vangelis, to John Carpenter, to 80s dungeon electro band Warning and into vintage arcade game circuitry with the blink of an eye.  With his first LP release, BÊNNÍ will be embarking on a Euro/Scandinavian tour in August with New Orleans drug rock band HEAVY LIDS

28.08 HELSINGÖR – ELVÄRKET
29.08 COPENHAGEN – STENGADE
30.08 STOCKHOLM – tba
31.08 TAMPERE – VASTAVIRTA
01.09 TURKU – TVO ILARI NEVANTAUS
02.09 HELSINKI – BAR LEPAKKOMIES
05.09 MALMÖ – tba
06.09 KIEL- tba
07.09 GRONINGEN – VERA
08.09 help!
09.09 help!
10.09 KORTRIK – PITS
11.09 BRÜSSEL – LE CHAFF
12.09 MANNHEIM – KURZBAR
16.09 BERLIN – tba

BENNI also a member in New Orleans 9TH WARD MARCHING BAND

SPRAY PAINTS

Texan no wave punk

MIDDLE RELIEF

from the album Punters On A Barge on Homeless Records (AUS)

You can buy it on a reduced price this month.

some songs from the album

New SPRAY PAINT album in June on Goner Records (US)

The Civil Rights struggle has gotten this treatment in particular. Its now been ossified as a series of marches and sit-ins which led to the overturning of the most glaring US racial inequalities, and which culminated in the the martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr. With the riots following MLKs assassination, and the malaise following his death, „the movement” lost its hope, drive, and focus.

But Civil Rights was never just the monolith of angry Malcolm vs. peaceful Martin, and the history channel wants the population to forget that the „movement” was radicalized beyond what is generally understood.

In the 60’s therefore, the nation stood on the precipice of some kind of revolution. In many ways, the country experienced a civil war.

The INVADERS of Memphis were like an intellectual street gang with incredible style, who devoted themselves to justice and confronting white supremacy. A group or „gang” of organizers, they were on the front lines of the struggle in the South, and experienced extraordinary harassment, violence, and imprisonment. They conducted the last meeting with King at the Lorraine Motel before he was murdered, and yet their story is almost unknown.

THE INVADERS, a fast-moving re-telling with a funky soundtrack produced by King Khan and Jack Oblivian

Two soundtrack 7″ singles from King Khan and his band

on limited military marijuana green vinyl:

mixed and mastered by Nene Barratto (Movie Star Junkies)

You, Whom I Have Always Hated is the second collaborative album of two really heavy metal bands, the body and Thou. Nine Inch Nails cover: Terrible Lie

LP or CD with both collaborative albums on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

The original pop metal song.

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The first Ty Segall records in the new year. Psych retro garage rock for hippies

Mr Face 2 x 7″ EP on Famous Class Records (US)

His final record of last year: Ty Segall Band – Motörhead / Paranoid 7″ single on Drag City Records. Hard retro garage rock for rockers

Ladywolf, nice prog bubblegum punk

digital EP and cassette on Resurrection Records (US)

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Jack Oblivian from the legendary reunited garage rock band Oblivians at home with friends. 35 minutes of pure Rock’n’Roll. Jack O and The Sheiks – Live in Memphis 12″

Secret Identity (Germany) and Red Lounge Records (Deutschland)

4 girls from Ex-Cult, Manatees, Toxie, Coasting are Nots, synth-punk, Memphis, Goner Records, Decadence

from the album We Are Nots

High quality raw lo-fi garage punk shit from Memphis, Tennessee by Manatees, debut album, recommended for everybody

 „sit n spin” LP on Pelican Pow Wow Wow Records (US)

The pic has been clipped out from Verbicide Mag. It was shot by Josh Miller

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“Clppng: make party music for the club you wish you hadn’t gone to, the car you don’t remember getting in, and the streets you don’t feel safe on.”

After the end of Death Grips, maybe the Clipping from LA is the number one noise hop band. They’ve recorded 2 songs together with special unknown guest stars, e.g. Signor Benedick The Moor. This digital single is free