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Early Iron Maiden Today
What was the Iron Maiden in the early ’80s today it is the Zig Zags
from 7″ vinyl on Famous Class Records (US)
EURO TOUR MARCH – APR Ger, Bel, NL, UK, Ire, Fr, Sp, It, Au, Swi, DK, Nor
Funny, like the Butthole Surfers
PC WORSHIP is a band, solo project & collective of musicians, trimming steadily on the outskirts of punk, while enlisting methods of new music and free improvisation.
A journey through alternative rock, experimental tape manipulation, downer punk riffs and long form improv-based psychedelic instrumentals.
This time musicians from Liturgy, Guerilla Toss, and there is the complete no wave trio The Dreebs.
So funny, almost like the Butthole Surfers
New album Buried Wish on NORTHERN SPY RECORDS (US)
Old School Slackers with Old School Rapper
NY punk band PARQUET COURTS with Texan rapper BUN B (ex-UGK), who one time planned a book „Hip Hop Survival Guide” with journalist and illustrator Shea Serrano, but finally they rather made a rap coloring book. So maybe Bun B has been drawn by his mate:
Captive Of The Sun ft. BUN B out now on limited edition 12” via Rough Trade.
The original track is on PARQUET COURTS’ latest album Human Performance.
In the lyrics there is a phrase: misophonia. It means literally „hatred of sound.” It is a condition in which negative emotions, thoughts, and physical reactions are triggered by specific sounds. One study found that around 80% of the sounds were related to the mouth as eating, chewving, yawning and etc.
Lizard Music
Classic heavy metal hard rock á la Judas Priest Iron Maiden Motörhead Metallica’s Kill’em All with total punk feeling by ZIG ZAGS from LA on 7″ vinyl on FAMOUS CLASS RECORDS (US)
EURO TOUR March-Apr Ger, Bel, NL, UK, Ire, Fr, Sp, It, Au, Swi, DK, Nor
Big Black Metal
Ben Greenberg (ex-The Men) and Michael Berdan (ex-Drunkdriver)
are in UNIFORM.
It’s an industrial metal machine, like the Ministry was.
But most telling about the world of UNIFORM the artists they like:
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hermann Nitsch, Monte Cazazza, Helios Creed
Second album WAKE IN FRIGHT OUT NOW on SACRED BONES (US)
Berdan says about lyrics: Thematically these songs have more in common with the works of Hubert Selby, Jr (Last Exit to Brooklyn) than Lucio Fulci (City of the Living Dead). These are stories about people at the end of their proverbial ropes. Their old medicines are no longer effective and their old ways of living cause them nothing but confusion and despair. They are paralyzed by fear, regret, and self-doubt.
Greenberg says about music: This music is our response to and our reflection of the overwhelming violence, chaos, hate, and destruction that confronts us and everyone else in the world every day of our lives. When we play, I don’t feel powerless anymore. I hope this record can help others transcend their anger and frustration.
Anyway
The Velvet Underground without heroin
„Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?” enquired the Assistant Predestinator. „I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvelous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects…”
In Huxley’s Brave New World THE FEELIES are entertainment devices,
in the reality are an American „alternative rock band”,
but today this term means nothing, even it would be startling.
They had one of the biggest influences on R.E.M., but I dislike them,
but I’m sure also on the Parquet Courts.
It was said they were the best underground band in New York,
and are among the nation’s most beloved alternative rock bands,
but their first records were released in the UK by Stiff and Rough Trade Records in 1979/80.
„The sound we were after was a reaction against the punk scene (…) we felt it had all been done before. We wanted the guitars to be cleaner, and we started experimenting with a lot of percussion.” But punk is just an attitude.
After their first album CRAZY RHYTHMS there were five years hiatus, because two members left the band. One of them, the drummer, Anton Fier went to The Lounge Lizard, worked with Pere Ubu (the 1978 Pere Ubu EP Datapanik in the Year Zero was dedicated to him), was in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos.
After four albums The Feelies disbanded in 1992, reunited in 2008 by request of Thurston Moore, new record in 2011, brand new one in 2017 on BAR/NONE RECORDS (US)
Anyway they are like The Velvet Underground without heroin. And otherwise the Assistant Predestinator is an Alpha male that is employed at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. His job is to make all the decisions on the new humans being created. Predestinators decide whether that individual will become an Alpha, a Beta, a Delta, a Gamma or an Epsilons. Each caste level is raised with different hynopaedia lessons and has different roles in the World State.
Huxley set the story in London in 2540. There the non-conformity is a crime, so the punks are dead. Or in jail or metnal hospital. But nevermind, here are the AI and the Smart People Party! Get the app!
BAEDEKER TO THE BRAVE NEW WORLD
Masters of Puppet
Singer Andy Savage said
As I see it, humanity is something that’s partly performed and party instinctual. Like puppets, we sometimes are controlled by parts of ourselves that we never really become acquainted with, but are always there. This song is me confronting that shadow
BRAND NEW VIDEO by PARQUET COURTS. Directed by Phil Collins
ALBUM HUMAN PERFORMANCE OUT ON ROUGH TRADE
LISTEN TO 2nd ALBUM ON BANDCAMP
TOUR AUG IN US / OCT IN EUROPE
Superior Viaduct Punk Singles
5 limited edition singles on 16 April by Superior Viaduct (US)
New York synth punk duo Suicide first 2 singles Cheree (1978) and Dream Baby Dream (1979)
Manchester punk band The Fall debut 7″ EP Bingo-Master’s Break-Out and the single The New Thing both from 1978
New York no wave trio DNA first and only single You & You from 1978
Cheree + The New Thing + You & You
New York City to Fulfill Your Destiny
New York – BedStuy – Franklin Avenue – 8 pm – pouring rain – no umbrella – soaked and wondering why I am walking in such a weather on a Friday night – lost in loud streets – surrounded by the sound of sirens that, for a moment, made me forget about my own thoughts…
Though I know where I’m heading to and no stormy apocalyptic weather could stop me! YES, Workman Song is playing tonight, and I’m sure that as soon as I’d get to Friends and Lovers, with a glass of whisky in my hand, all would make sense…and indeed it did! Even got an interview with the 27 years old musician (who won’t fall into the curse).
Get closer dear reader, it’s storytelling time…
Once upon a time in Massachusetts, a little Irish curly haired boy named Sean (not Sue thankfully) was dreaming of becoming a priest. But destiny had a slightly different plan for him. On one of these childhood boring days, little 10 years old Sean decided to sneak into his older brother’s room and steal his guitar. Days, weeks, months and years passed, little Sean MacMahon got to know his new best friend, and became the mad scientist known by the name of Ion Zelig. After playing in a trash jazz band, enjoying improv on stage, he decided to start his own career as a peace messenger. But Ion Zelig was wondering where he could spread his gift of faith. Adventure was calling our poet, just in time, a very good friend of his told him
Join me in New York City to fulfill your destiny
He grabbed his guitar, his bohemian suitcase, kissed pa’ ma’ bra’ goodbye and left on a journey to the center of the world, where you’ll find him singing hope in churches, bars, hotels and apartments, for the greatness of us all.
Then what’s left for the end of our tale? A new album? A big family? A house? A prophetic music label? The road has just begun, and our hero must seek for inner focus in order to make a living with his art. But one thing is for sure, Ion Zelig does not believe in shame, only trust, trusting that people will comprehend his message. Well, he’s lucky, I’m one of those…how about you? To find out, follow the link
From New Records
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
Adventures of the Annoying Lil French Girl in New York
Not enough people know Anni Rossi, the singer/ songwriter/ violonist. She plays with her instrument like you’d play the guitar, indeed, she isn’t scared to strum the string, making it a perfect tool for RNR.
Meet with Anni
a place (I won’t name for some personal reason) in Williamsburg
On Friday night, following an evening of drinking cheap beer with colleagues, I joined my new roommate, Andy, a New-Yorker and member of an anarchist organization called The Base. I knew that he knew the place where I needed to be. It was his friend’s birthday, and their musician friends were playing for her. Those kinds of friends are very precious, between tours, they will certainly animate your greatest parties.
That said, the gigs were very pleasant. First line, a guitarist and a drummer nostalgic of Kurt , second, a band from the past future, I mean like the people during the eighties pretending to be from the future. ( I’m not sure if you know what I mean, I’m stoned.) Anyway, those guys freaked me out, they were really good, but I just couldn’t take it, it took me back to … a night in Budapest, it was November, We were waiting for the bus in Nyugati station, I was wearing somebody else’s hat and he loved it… I was mentally preparing for the long tricky way back home (since I live in the extremities of Bushwick, just on the border with Bedstuy…) when I heard the name of Anni Rossi, which surprised me for the reason I mentioned before. So I asked around: what about Annie? She’s here? Really??? Where? (Turned out she was there all the time.) Is she going to perform? She’s great, isn’t she? I was, let’s say, suddenly a little overwhelmed and turned straight back to shake her hand: Are you Anni Rossi? Yes, and what’s your name? Line. Line who? Line ** ******. Curious and nice, she seemed unfamiliar with this kind of devotion, yes because I confessed my passion for one of her song, it was playing in my headphones in Thailand, Scotland, and on various trips here and there.
I asked her insistingly to play it, she said she’d try as she didn’t bring her violon (maybe she was upset with it), that night she preferred an electric banjo, accompaigned by the classic bass and drum combo. The concert was like a Rob, Ryan and Anni family reunion. Her belly button proudly displayed, she performed with a nonchalant attitude and voice like a cool Cold War Kid. Sipping her whiskey in between songs, she took it slow, inspiring air, expiring it, creating beautifully contained bluesy waves.
And finally the way back home wasn’t that bad at all, walking with magical bubbles in my head. Anni Rossi is just Loveli, check it out!
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Bushwick
is located in the center of Brooklyn, where I live. It is full of brownish little 2 storey houses with flat rooftops and old factories transformed into lofts. It wasn’t such a nice neighbourhood (criiiiime) a couple of years ago, but as the rental price is cheaper than in other shiny and trendy places such as Williamsburg (headquarter of the hipster community), a lot of young and poor artists/ professionals like me are living in there. In my street seems to live many repented, retired gangsters, so it’s kind of quiet, apart from loud conversations and tooting at 2 am.
The mentioned neighbouring Bed-Stuy (Bedford-Stuyvesant) is the land of heavyweight rappers and boxers. For example Mike Tyson, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, but the chess world champion, Bobby Fischer also lived here.
Content Nausea
Rock? Yes. Indie? Absolutely. Punk? Of course. Parquet Courts is a punk band, but an Exploited fan spits on it. The music of Content Nausea album is a mix of Velvet Underground and Fall under pseudonym of Parkay Quarts. It’s a Parquet Courts’ side project.
on What’s Your Rupture Records? (US). In Europe it’s available on Rough Trade (UK)
Parkay Quarts Euro Tour in Nov