The English Burning Alms duo plays noise rock. I think Fugazi, Helmet, Sonic Youth and black metal; others mentioned e.g. Glenn Branca and Swans as influence.

debut album „In Sequence” on Smalltown America Records (Northern-Ireland, UK)

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Elzo Durt is Belgian graphic artist who made many cover arts for such bands as Thee Oh Sees, Magnetix, Jack of Heart, PyPy and many more. On the occasion of his Parisian exhibition, Born Bad Records have released a single with really various artists: Cheveu, Pierre & Bastien and Violence Conjugale

Elzo is co-founder of Teenage Menopause Records

Hey!Amphetamine Reptile mode Deutsch noise punk by UV Glaze

7″ single on Bachelor Records (Austria). You can find some free tracks here

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Smell swamp psych garage blues rock by The Ukiah Drag

„In The Reapers Quarters” LP and digital on Wharf Cat Records (US)

„We are not rock star, we’re all just ordinary people!”

„This is the beer soaked sound of the Henan suburbs”

THE FALLACY
from Xinxiang
punk, noise rock, like the Fugazi

7″ vinyl and digital single on Tenzenmen (Aus) and Genjing Records (China)

more THE FALLACY music

Satanic Rockers for the fans of Flipper, Killdozer and Butthole Surfers. A final posthumous release from beyond the grave. It will be released before the end of this year.

7″ vinyl on Eternal Soundcheck (Australia)

The Satanic Rockers interview.

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Dark and minimal industrial techno from Rome. Collaboration of a 10-piece techno big band Lunar Lodge and Mai Mai Mai. The latter is an experimental project by Toni Cutrone from noise rock band Hiroshima Rocks Around and wacky pop duo Trouble vs Glue. Amazing

„LL/MMM” LP and digital album on Love Blast Records (Italy)

Two London based bands
an all female post punk noise rock band with French singer and Turkish bassist:
Savages (Matador Records) &
an all Japanese psychedelic rock band, similar to another Japanese band, Boris:
Bo Ningen
are in a special collaboration

London 2012. Savages are recording the debut album. In the middle of an intense three weeks, they set out one evening to see the band Bo Ningen. A few days later producer Johnny Hostile begins to muse over the possibility of two bands playing in the same space at the same time.  Concurrently Gemma Thopson of Savages is reading about the performances at the Cabaret Voltaire.

“Zurich in 1916 and Hugo Ball is instrumental in creating the Cabaret Voltaire – a club which will become central to the performances of the Dada movement, during which the artists would experiment with forms of sound poetry and simultaneous poetry. A movement created through the horror of World War One, it attempts to understand how society has reached such an illogical decision. Through simultaneous poetry begins the attempt to delve into chaos and maelstrom, to find the voice of the individual struggling to be heard. We decide to approach Bo Ningen with the idea of collaborating on a Sonic Simultaneous Poem.”

The idea begins to take shape in early 2013, they prepare for both bands to rehearse together in a studio with a loose composition based around five chapters. As the musicians of both bands consider how to apply themselves with their instruments to each chapter – revolving, colliding and intertwining with words sang in Japanese, French and English. They also envisage the physical space in which to perform.

„We imagine a stage in a large u-shape to contain as much of the audience as possible in the centre. The two drummers next to each other at the ‘bottom’ of the u, then leading around symmetrically (facing each other): guitarists, bassists and singers at the tips of the u-shape. Bo Ningen have a guitar extra, so we hang one from the ceiling to hit as you would a gong. Eventually we fix a date and a space for what we believe is a one-off performance that we name „Words To The Blind.” It was performed at The Red Gallery, London on May 29th 2013. The 37-minutes long track will be released on November 17th by Stolen Recordings (UK) and Pop Noire Records (France).

Snippets from the performance

They will do it again together this on 19 November at the Oval Space, London.
Tickets have been sold out.

Gospel and rockabilly influenced haunted honky-tonk bluegrass country from Alabama by The Pine Hill Haints

„The Magik Sounds Of The Pine Hill Haints” LP, CD, Cs on KRECS (US)

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A.N.O. is an Italian post hardcore math noise rock duo. It was formed by one from Jesus Franco & The Drogas and another one  from Butcher Mind Collapse and Lazzaro. These digital single was recorded with contrabassist Manuele Marani. There is a King Crimson cover: 21st Century Schizoid Man

Every time I glad when Orval Carlos Sibelius comes forward with new records. He is a French multi-instrumentalist, who make music in really various styles from abstract electroinc dance to psych folk pop. His music often comes the world of Deerhhof in my mind. But now something almost completely different: psychedelic noise rock with a special taste of kraut-rock with Domotic, King Q4, My Jazzy Child and Aurelien Potier under the name of Centenaire. And it’s also excellent.

Centenaire – Ste Croix EP on Clapping Music (France). Previous Centenaire album

Albums of OCS: Recovery Tapes (2011), Super Forma (2013)

There’re some mistakes: Orval Carlos Sibelius is no more in the band. He left after the previous album (The Enemy, 2009). And King Q4 is not in the band either, he just a guest sometimes… but not on the new EP. So Centenaire now is just Damien Poncet (My Jazzy Child), Stéphane Laporte (Domotic, Egyptology) and Aurélien Potier…

Thank Julien for correction

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It’s written that „69 meets Pan Sonic. Ruffunk…” Pan Sonic is OK, but the rest is unknown for me, but the name of Pan Sonic is a guarantee for

NPLGNN (from Napoli) – „Meccano” EP – cassette, CD, digital on Trensmat (Ireland)

In last year on the tour of noise rock bands DON VITO (D) and DAIKIRI (F) was a French graphic artist C R A O M A N, who has made a comic strip about the adventure from Brno (CZ) through the Balkans as far as Ankara (Turkey) and back to Ceske Budejovice (Budweis). Recently it has released together with another drawn tour on similar route with WARSAW WAS RAW, GRAND PREDATOR and JOHN MAKAY. „First tour is in french, the second one in english (level litterature of course!).”

EARS CRISIS – 21 x 15 cm/ 56 pages bichrome offset/ 666 copies
co-edition Taste y cool/ 15 euros. Buy here, just find the way

more pictures

There was a show in Budapest at RNR666 Party of course

RNR666: Mexican Slang was started as a one woman lo-fi harsh pop band in Toronto by Annabella Lee.
Ms Lee: Lo-fi is useful. Alternative rock. Some songs are punk, some a bit more noisy.

„Inside The Velvet Castle” digital EP on Buzz Records

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Tim Presley writes songs and makes recordings under the name of White Fence. He has arrived from HC-punk to rock and roll of the 60s.  His music is like a mix of Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground. And now here is the glam rock too. At least in this track. „It’s basically about that moment you leave the nest, go through college, live on your own and all of that—basically me until the present, and all of my friends, and a lot of my generation, I guess. It’s very literal, but that was kind of the point. It’s kind of tongue in cheek, too. It’s half-silly, half-serious. If you have friends who have parents who are kind of rich and you see that and you think, „Well, I’m shit poor. What would I do with that money if I was in their position? How would I live if I made a really good salary and I could afford nice cars and a nice house?” I don’t know anyone of my friends that could afford to buy a house, at least in L.A. It’s kind of like, „Am I going to live in an apartment my whole life?” There’s a little bit of envy in it, but also not really. It’s fun to dream. It’s kind of like, „What would I do if I won the lottery?” But it’s also fucking sad because, like I said, am I ever going to own a house? I doubt it. It would be cool though. I feel like everyone could relate to that song. Except for the one percent.”*

„For the Recently Found Innocent” LP/CD/Cassette on Drag City

*Read the full interview here. But what need are those awful, affected photos?

Never mind the bollocks, here is the Landlady. A very amusing alternative rock band from Brooklyn. Or alternative jazz, possibly indie gospel. All the same. Dog bless them.

„Upright Behavior” album on LP/CD/digital on Hometapes (US)

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Members of Greys grew up on 90s noise rock like Helmet and similar bands, nevertheless their music is melodic like Therapy. At the same time this is hardcore punk.

„If Anything” album on LP/CD/digital on Buzz (Canada) and Carpark Records (US)

The Cyclops are a duo formed by Jonnycat (the Chemicals) on vocals and guitars & Tina Lucchesi (Bobbyteens, Trashwomen) on vocals and drums. They describe their music as RAW MEAT, LOUDNESS, FUZZ, BABIES SCREAMING, VOLCANOS ERUPTING, SMELLY FARTS, RAWWWWWW RAWKKK N ROLL

Escape From Cyclops Island LP + 7″ on Surfin’Ki Records (Italy)

Euro tour:  MAY 3 PARIS – LA MECANIQUE + MAY9 ITALY, SARDINIA – TBA + MAY 11 LUCCA + MAY 17 BUCINE W/ KID CONGO + MAY 18 SALSOMAGGIO: BAMFEST + MAY 22 GERMANY, MUNICH – SÜDSTADT + MAY 23 LEIPZIG – ZORRO + MAY 24 BERLIN – AUSTER CLUB + MAY 25 FRANKFURT – TBA

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Exocomet is a drum’n’guitar duo in Brooklyn. Strange psychedelic post punk with massive guitar whirls.  As if it would be the hybrid of Action Beat and Moon Duo.

 Full album stream here  Order CD and info: exocometmusic AT gmail.com

„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them, ‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it’”

Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective.

KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat

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„We’re at that point where we just don’t give a fuck about anything. We want to get a bad review. A lot of bands start off with their punk record first and then just get weaker. We want to only get better and louder.” And to play rough noise rock, like some Amphetamine Reptile artists in the 90s, for example Killdozer, Chrome Cranks or Halo of Flies.

Unholy Two – ‘Talk About Hardcore’ LP on 12XU Records