The American musician, Saul Conrad plays „hard to categorize”, perhaps „experimental chamber pop”  or „other” music on piano and guitar with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies, and folk elements.

His third album (read about!) – which is more popular than previous two (listen to!) – was influenced by Kirkegaard and William Blake, Townes van Zandt and Blaze Foley, Harry Nilsson and Syd Barret, and more. Sycamore, from his 1st album

10/19 London, UK – The Windmill, Elliot Smith tribute night
10/20 Ford, Argyll, UK – Ford House   10/22 Avellino, Italy – Godot Art Bistro
10/23 Budapest, Hungary – Hátsó Kapu   10/24 Budapest, Hungary – Müszi
10/25 Vienna, Austria – Mo.e   10/26 Lyon, France – Kraspek Myzik
10/29 Hamburg, DE – Hasenschauke   10/30 Berlin, DE – Madame Claude
10/31 Leipzig, DE – HanDstand und Moral

The new songs of Purling Hiss come to Dinosaur Jr to my mind, but this Philadelphian trio is better. I can’t endure J. Masics’ mewing.

„Weirdon” album on Drag City (US)

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Thank God, less experiment and more music by Dan Melchior and Walker Russel (Pheromoans).  „Kraut-influenced space rock.” Maybe, I don’t know.

7″ by Kill Shaman Records (US)

Dan Melchior on RNR666

New stuff from the world-wide little Italian label
GOODBYE BOOZY RECORDS

THE TOWELHEADS – 7″ – AUS, surfin’ on sandwaves (distributed by Anti Fade in AUS)
WET BLANKETS – 7″ – AUS, punk (Anti Fade in AUS)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR – single sided 7″ – Canada, garage rock
MARTIN SAVAGE GANG – 7″ – Swedish garage punk rock

GOODBYE BOOZY INTERVIEW ON RNR666

THE SKULL is a new band featuring original members Eric Wagner (vocals) and Jeff Olson (drums) of TROUBLE alongside longtime TROUBLE bassist Ron Holzner, guitarist Lothar Keller (SACRED DAWN) and former PENTAGRAM guitarist Matt Goldsborough. THE SKULL formed in 2011 to bring back the unique sound of pioneer doom metal band TROUBLE. They named themselves after its second album.

The Last Judgment, Sometime Yesterday Mourning,  Till the Sun Turns Black

from debut album „For Those Which Are Asleep” on November 4 via Tee Pee Records

By the way, TROUBLE is continuous.

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

After Kraftwerk’s Autobahn here is the „Interstate” by The Pen Test

LP on Moniker Records (US)

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Heavy trip-hop-like music by Canadian band, Dralms

debut 7″ on Fulltime Hobby (UK) and Fat Possum Records (US) and digital single

The PYPY in New York

They’re from Canada, and members in Red Mass and Duchess Says.
The track is taken from their debut album (Slovenly Records, US)

FUTUROSCOPE is a theme park, a stupid high-tech multimedia Disneyland in France, in Vienne Departement. If you go thereabout rather choose the goat cheese and the wine! But also is a French band with perfect references. Unfortunately there’re just a little, but luckily increasing bunch of people who knows about the great little label in Texas, Monofonus Press, and the magnifique petit label in France, Cockatail Pueblo. Led Er Est, Shit and Shine, John Wesley Coleman, The Golden Boys, The Pheromoans, The Rebel, Trans Upper Egypt, XYX (is my absolute favorite there), perhaps these are the most well-known band on Monofonus. Well, I think after these, it is absolutely needless to mention the bands of Cocktail Pueblo (look those!). The Futuroscope’ records were released by them. The French trio (from Tours, with a member of Pneu) plays psychedelic ritual kraut space rock, often it twists into ecstasy

cassette by Monofonus or digital from Bandcamp

Little oriental and surf influenced Finnish psychedelic rock with some members from the death/thrash band Deathchain. Jess & The Ancient Ones have been personally selected by King Diamond himself to be the openers on his tour.

„Castaneda” 10″ EP on Svart Records (Finland)

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Collected works of the greatest French fuzzy neo yé-yé wave band, The Liminanas: „I’ve Got Trouble in Mind: 7″s + rare stuff from 2009-14. ” Some tracks are total Gainsbourg copies nearly word for word and beat for beat.

LP and maybe CD and digital by  Trouble in Mind Records (US) on 30 Sept

Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat) and photographer Glen E. Friedman on the images in ‘My Rules’

Photographer Glen E. Friedman has a new book out in September, ‘My Rules,’ which represents some 30 years and 7 pounds of gorgeous hardcore, hiphop, and skateboarding history. He got together with his old friend Ian MacKaye at Dischord House just outside of Washington D.C. to discuss some of the photographs in Glen’s forthcoming book. (via boingboing)