Great Greek psych garage rock by Acid Baby Jesus in a little oriental or maybe in giallo mood

7″ single on Slovenly Records (US & Europe)

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The Cleveland based Prostitutes are „Primitive Technology Specialists” and have experimental psych/prog rock background. And they are James Donadio himself. His roots have gone back to the 90s when he played on bass in Speaker/Cranker together with members of Pere Ubu, Guided by Voice and other less known local bands. What they did came mostly from bands like Can, Amon Duul and Neu. The Flat Can Co was his next and similar style band. Now he makes noisy minimal analog techno with same attitude. His label‘s slogan is „Primitive Technology Specialists”

„Nouveauree” LPon Night School Records (UK)

You can find more music here

It was written between the catastrophes
by charming Swedish songtress
Molly Nillson in Buenos Aires

From the EP Sólo Paraíso on Dark Skies Association (Sweden) (Sweden)
and Night School Records (UK)

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The Russians have a predilection for airliner shooting

1940. A Junkers Ju 52 en route from Tallinn (Estonia) to Helsinki (Finland) was shot down by two Soviet bombers over the Gulf of Finland during peacetime; all 9 aboard died.

1962. A domestic flight of Russian airlines company Aeroflot was accidentally shot down by a surface-to-air missile which had gone astray during an air defence exercise. 84 people died.

1978. A Boeing 707 of Korean Air Lines was shot down by Soviet fighter planes; the plane did crash-lands near the Soviet Union’s border with Finland; two of the 109 people on board were killed, the rest were subsequently released.

1983. Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 was shot down by Soviet fighter planes near Sakhalin and Moneron Island after straying into Soviet airspace; all 269 people on board were killed.

STRANGE HANDS of Bordeaux. 60s-like dynamic psych garage rock trio without bass, but with 12 strings guitars and organ.

„Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things” LP on Azbin (France) and Ayo Silver (Spain), cassette on Burger Records (US)

Western Euro tour in July. One of the craziest parties of RNR666 was of theirs. Look!

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„Solo Paradise” MOLLY NILSSON‘s musical reports from Buenos Aires. Bittersweet heart beats, sunny economic breaks, romantic cats and plane crash. The Latin mood didn’t touch very much her Scandinavian attitude. She’s one of the most interesting performers in the synth pop underground.

Sólo Paraíso (The Summer Songs) on Night School Records (UK)

+ „These Things Take Time”, her debut CDr from 2008 is on double LP with unreleased recordings from the same period  by Dark Skies Association (Swe)

In the future too:  “Our knives are never dull / our moon is always full”

At the time, back in the early seventies the Vietnam war was still raging, Susan Dietrich and her husband Joel and their tiny daughter were political exiles living like refugees in the States, terrified that Joel would be imprisoned for having resisted the draft. For nine years they had subsisted on spare change and meager sales of their artwork on the streets. Finding a dilapidated, old accordion in a junk store was the major cause in turning her life around.  And „the Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, she invested in a then-new Casio keyboard…” and plays minimal prog lo-fi space pop. Two songs of her early street sets:

 7″ by Night School. The Best of Space Lady LP is coming soon.

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Hunters. A great punk band. Sometimes such as the Ministry with Lydia Lunch, sometimes just like the Fugazi or Sonic Youth.

S/T LP by Mom+Pop

New dark wave pop & hard italo-disco from the Canadian artist Sally Dige Jorgensen

7″ by Night-School

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They write about their music: agressive noise punk. Punk. Ok, if you say. Noise. Yes, there are some moments. Agressive. If this is reckoned agressive, then New-Zealand is a very peaceful place in the Universe. Fine post early Therapy? music by Hollywoodfun Downstairs

from their debut LP: The Mancunian Swing by Muzai. Release: Aug 23

John Wesley Coleman. Is there anybody who don’t know the name otherwise? OK! For the sake of newborns. He comes from Texas, his band is The Golden Boys, instrument: guitar, genres: punk, rock, blues, country.

Trans Am Summer Blues LP by Tic Tac Totally

„Our knives are never dull/ our moon is always full” is the motto of  the Swede minimal synth pop singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson. His 5th album based loosely on Marco Polo’s travelogue.

The Power Ballad from The Travels LP by NightSchool

The Canadian Nikki Nevver has been making music under Terror Bird moniker for about nine years ago. In the beginning she was alone, but after three years a live band formed around her. In the first line up were a band mate from the synthpunk Modern Creatures (where she played bass) and the drummer of the punk Nu Sensae (Point of interest: he is the drummer and one song co-writer on the Hairdresser Blues album by Hunx And His Punx in 2012.) All the same Terror Bird is a new wave synth pop project, because Nikki Nevver has influenced by minimal wave, dark wave, and 80’s goth, for example: New Order, Depeche Mode, Alphaville, OMD, Human League, Ultravox, Gary Numan etc. The actual line up: NN – electronic drums and vocal, Liane – cello, Jen – synth.

The 3rd TB LP is out now by Nightschool Records.

Terror Bird is on Euro Tour. You can find the dates here.