Sonny Smith is a various artist: short story and play writer and musicians. His most special project was the 100 Records Project. He asked artists to make album covers for his 100 fictitious bands, he wrote 2 tracks (A & B side) for each bands, and recorded the songs with various musicians.You can find some songs from the 200 on his Bandcamp site. But now here is his next album with The Sunsets. Easy, funny, folky, lo-fi pop tunes

Sonny & The Sunsets – Talent Night At The Ashram album on Polyvinyl Records (US)

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Dark Acid Vol. IV. Various artists from Scotland, England, Sweden. This is Kid Who, a Frenchman from London

12″ LP on Clandestine Records (Scotland)

„All sorts of stupid phrases have been said for their music, e.g.: experimental, avantgarde, noise, art rock, but Deerhoof is just one of the best pop bands in the world.”  – RNR666

Deerhoof is a base, a point of comparison. I have gathered some „Deerhoof-like”, „Deerhoofesque” or „Deerhoof positive” artists from RNR666

Gentle Friendly – „It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it.” Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective. Or Deerhoof.

Roze & The Rice Cakes – Funny, playful, jazzy. It brings the Deerhoof to my mind. On other sites this is called art rock.

Blanche Blanche Blanche – Experimental pop like Zappa or Deerhoof or something similar.

Joy As A Toy – They mention Talking Heads, Stereolab, Mr. Bungle and Deerhoof like same style music. Playful eclectic progressive pop.

Binidu – They’re high above the indie rock category. His music comes to my mind the Deerhoof and the French band is comparable to them. Fresh and playful music.

Papeye – Indie hard rock from France. The sound is similar to Deerhoof (I love) and Don Caballero (I don’t like).

Orval Carlos Sibelius – 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 Deerhoof in my mind.

Their 13th album La Isla Bonita will be released on 4 November by Polyvinyl Records (US). It was recorded live, DIY style, during „a weeklong sleepover arguing over whether to try and sound like Joan Jett or Janet Jackson

Deerhoof formed as a drum’n’bass duo in San Francisco in 1994. In 1995 Satomi Matsuzaki joined them as a singer within a week of arriving in the United States from Japan without any band experience, and went on tour only a week later… Later she would be the bass player too.  And a guitar player is there too, not of course. If you want more music click

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Stagnant Pools is a drums’n’guitar duo from Bloomington, Indiana. They mix Sonic Youth with Joy Division in their noisy post punk indie rock music. Initially it’s interesting, but then it becomes very boring.

from the album Geist by Polyvinyl Records. Release: 10 June.

Here is their debut album in full.

A synth-punk-pop song by White Reaper of Kentucky

from debut EP on Polyvinyl

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OvO  Italian industrial noise metal duo by Stefania & Bruno with guitar, drums, effects and electronics in the deepest corner of Hell. Averno/Oblio (ie. Arrow/Point)

12″ EP on Corpoc Records. Nice work

Western and South Euro tour from April to June

Aussie big city folk in electro-acoustic junk pop style, spiced with ambient garbage. Maybe the instruments and the tunes are from a dump or the Moon, where is „A place wherein is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.”* The sound is like as if it would come straight from a trashcan. Perfect.

Orlando Furious – ‘Popular’ cassette or digital EP by Cinnamon Records

*fragment from Orlando Furioso: Canto 34/LXXIII by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

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Xiu Xiu is a famous experimental band. Many times on many site I red that it’s very good and very artistic, so I tried to make friends with their music, but it didn’t work. „Interesting” – thought about the previous Nina Simone cover album, but I will never listen to it again. Thanks, but there’re the originals. I have listened to their new album many times. Electronic noise, melancholic melodies, goth style lamentation, screams and cries. That’s all and not more. Too good and too artistic for me.

Angel Guts: Red Classroom LP by Polyvinyl (US) and Bella Union (UK)

My fav Mexiacan band beside the disbanded XYX is Lorelle Meets The Obsolete  Heavy psychedelic garage rock. „Haunted songs about the uncertain” – said Mr. Obsolate

Chamber LP by Captcha

Suggest: listen to their live album!

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It’s not a good, but also not a too bad album inside its own style: mainstream-like indie pop (or in reverse) with a little psych taste sometimes. There’re some good tracks, but all in all this album is not too exciting and too long. There is stuff for a good EP only. Moreover I don’t understand the first track. It’s such terrible that you stop the music immediately.

Painted Palms – Forever, debut album by Polyvinyl

Klaus Koti is Brazilian multi-instrumentalist musician, graphic artist, also known as The Legendary Chucrobillyman. Under the name of Koti & Os Grimpas he play dark, haunted country:

from O Chamado dos Espíritos album by Fon-Fon Records

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Various artists from the Californian garage rock scene. For example: Cool Ghouls, Jessica Pratt, Burnt Ones, etc:

I Need You Bad LP by Polyvinyl Records. Artwork by Shannon Shaw (Shannon and the Clams, Hunx & His Punx)

An EP our Israeli friends, TV Buddhas: old school raw garage rock with glam and punk flavours. Like Stooges, Fugazi, Ramones for example:

Recorded traditionally in one hour. You can get it from Toast   

Psychic Twin. Surreal electro pop. 7″