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Hey Butt! What The Fuck?
A new series on RNR666 about serious questions. Next chapter
TALES OF DESIRE
PALBERTA is a band, three girls from Upstate New York. Best describe their music what I’ve found on their FB page
„You wanna wabbada? Wap wap wap dabbada?
You see that mabada? ding ding dack dabbada?”
Their new album has been released recently on Wharf Cat Records. I was listening to it when I suddenly burst out – Hú bazmeg!
It was the 5th song, titled Nose. Hú bazmeg! is a Hungarian phrase, we use it on the occasion of sudden revelation, surprise, shock or in similar cases. For example when you drink a shot of spirit, and it is unexpectedly strong. It means literally Oh fuck!
This was the moment when I have thought I ask them what they are reading. I don’t know why.
Lily: I most recently finished reading Tales of Desire by Tennessee Williams just began Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. I read Tales of Desire because my dad gave it to me for my birthday and I trust his taste. It was really freaky and awesome and I highly recommend it. I’ll get back to you about Narcissus and Goldmund when I’m done. It’s the story of a young man, Goldmund, who wanders aimlessly throughout Medieval Germany after leaving a Catholic monastery school in search of what could be described as „the meaning of life,” or rather, the meaning of his life.
Ani: I just finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. For some reason, I slacked on reading this book and it is amazing. A super emotional book and reading it in our current political climate is so heavy and also necessary.
– Excuse me, that I am cutting into, but I need to explain what is so heavy.
At the age of eight Maya Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother’s boyfriend. She told her brother, who told the rest of their family. The man was found guilty but was jailed for only one day. Four days after his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou’s uncles. Angelou became mute for almost five years. Later she held many jobs, among others worked as a prostitute, table dancer, and madame.
Learned modern dances and became a professional dancer, joined the civil rights movement in 1960, and maybe of course, she was also a pro-Castro activist, but like so many other fans she also did not know anything about the real nature of the Castro regime, she just wanted to believe her dreams.
In the first half of the 60s she lived in Africa, first in Egypt – with a South-African lawyer and civil rights activist -, later in the newly independent Ghana. She worked as an editor and journalist for various media as The Arab Observer, African Review, Ghanaian Times and Radio Ghana, but also worked and performed for Ghana’s National Theatre.
In Ghana, she met with Malcolm X. Then she went back into the States and helped him to build the pan-black Organization of Afro-American Unity, which was described as a threat to the national security by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Mr. X. was assassinated by members of the concurrent black power organization Nation of Islam in 1965. Not long after Angelou’s first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published. It is up to 1944 when she was 17.
Ani – So I just finished it. Now I’m in a totally different direction, or maybe not but I have yet to find out. I am starting the book Dune. I’m trying to explore the other worlds out there and I haven’t spent much time in the science fiction realm so here it goes!
– Do you know about the never realized film adaptation by Chilean director Jodorowsky? Starring Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize, Mick Jagger, and Salvador Dali as the mad emperor of the galaxy. With the music of Stockhausen, Henry Cow, and Magma. It was planned in 1975 and was so grandiose that a documentary has been made about the unmade film.
Nina – I am reading a book called The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, and am loving it so much because it’s an incredibly bold, courageous, smart, funny, insightful memoir. I feel like I am learning new, nuanced ways of thinking about gender – specifically lesbian and trans identity -, motherhood, and identity in general.
– On the picture lying the body of Jane Mixer, aunt of Maggie Nelson. She wrote two books about the murder of her aunt. Jane was a 23 years old law student in 1969. She posted a note on a college ride-share bulletin board, seeking a lift to her hometown. She was strangled with a nylon stocking and shot twice in the head with a .22. The killer pulled up her jumper to reveal her underwear, then carefully covered the body with her yellow raincoat and positioned it atop a grave, and set Mixer’s shoes and her copy of „Catch-22” near the body.
He was unveiled in 2002 on the basis of three drops of sweat and one drop of blood which were found on the victim’s panties.
Brad Pitt’s Battle With Marijuana
„Daddy I’m a health freak
I eat my greens
I eat my liberals
I ate the local labor MP”
Dipped in Batter – one of my fav BRAD POT quotes.
It’s an Aussie punk band, sounds like a cross between Dead Kennedys and The Dickies. This song Air Strike from their debut LP out now on Slovenly Recordings (US)
finally from my fav BP song
„Sweden, Oh Sweden
Make me a citizen
I won’t make no trouble
I only want one small thing
Arrest me, arrest me
And throw me in jail”
Acid, Not Music
new releases by CLAN DESTINE RECORDS Scotland, UK
DJ LOSER from Greece, he has two projects as minimal techno maximum noise Body Snatchers with Raw Ambassador, and industrial ambient Magdalena’s Apathy with Penelope’s Fiance. Cassette and digital album.
MARC ASH – aka Plovdiv – is a Berlin base Italian, drawing his inspirations from electro pioneers, early new wave and „dirty industrial” (esp. mining industrial). He is the founder of Blacksilk Records. Ostracism cassette and digital album.
„existing is useless. life is pointless. throw it away. be free” is the motto of the existentialist American DJ/producer COLLIN STRANGE, founder of the early American power electronics act Intrinsic Action which started in 1984. How I Creep cassette and digital album out now.
Wharf Cats
Brand new releases of great little record label
WHARF CAT RECORDS (US, NY, Brooklyn)
PALBERTA is Ani, Nina, and Lily. I strongly agree with they say about their music: „You wanna wabbada? Wap wap wap dabbada? You see that mabada? ding ding dack dabbada?” New album Bye Bye Berta.
HOLY MOTORS from Estonia. When I listened to them first I thought this song could be in a David Lynch film. But Jim Jarmusch was who lent their music for his film Mystery Train. 7″ single.
CARSON COX, SAM YORK & AUSTIN BROWN: Cox from new wave pop band Merchandise, York from raw rock band WALL and Brown from indie punk band Parquet Courts make disco music. 7″ single.
TROPICAL SKIN BYRDS, no wave punk trio with ZZ Ramirez (Ukiah Drag, Destruction Unit), Sean Halpin (CRAOW) and artist Nina Hartmann. EP.
SNAKEHOLE, noise rock hc-punk duo under the influences of w33d & $A+aN. Debut album Interludes of Insanity.
UROCHROMES, a duo with drum machine. Influences: Chrome, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Flipper, Flesh Eaters, Stick Men With Ray Guns. EP with a fine new wave disco remix.
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
„Hard rock, punk, power pop? Hardcore? I don’t know, just rock’n’roll, buddie”
His real name is Craig Allan Rothwell. Obsessed with the idea of genetic mutation, he submitted to a botched operation in an effort to land a media deal with a big media company. And he became Booji Boy – a bizarre adult infant freak with pre-adolescent sexuality and Yoda-like wisdom. He wrote a book entitled My Struggle. It has a red cover. Booji Boy primarily performs live with DEVO, but his voice was used on several early DEVO recordings because the character was created by them in the early 70s.
But look what happen when some BOOJI BOYS in Nova Scotia make music together, and sing songs about fun in the sun, class war and shameful fantasies.
Debut album on Drunken Sailor Records (UK)
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.
SELF-SABOTAGE
BORZOI from Texas
RAW NOISE PUNK 7″ vinyls on 12XU RECORDS (US)
GARY WRONG GROUP from different southern places. Founded by Wizzard Sleeve‘s Captain Beyonce (also in King Louie And The Loose Diamonds, Kajus SS) with Wizzard Sleeve mate and Natural Child organist Benny Divine, Quintron and more.
Crack An Egg In Honor of The Human Race!
POW!
Californian synth-punk duo, discovered by John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees, Castle Face Records), for a while Seth Sutton (Useless Eaters) was their drummer, and vice versa, Byron Blum (POW!) was a member of garage rock band Useless Eaters.
New album Crack An Egg on Castle Face Records (US) for the fools of Digital Leather, Cheveu, Gary Numan and POW!
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
Holo-Zombie Attack
„We are pulling out all the stops to create a live experience that is unlike anything Ronnie’s fans have seen before” – said the boss of the company. So Ronnie James Dio hologram tour is coming soon. And an improved version – Dio 2.0 – is under way. It will be able to shake hand and give signatures.
There are many young talented musicians, but they put big money into a dead one. Sad. Stupid. But certainly profitable.
My favourite Black Sabbath show with Dio was in Milwaukee in 1980, when the band walked off the stage after two songs because of flying objects. Then a riot broke out and the arena was destroyed. Sound recording for the fans of harsh noise.
Anyway punks not dead, but Dio for 7 years.