RAKÉTA FESTIVAL has started Monday in Budapest
The most exciting young Hungarian musicians
No limits, free entry & no excuses!

4th stage > FOGASKERT

BELLE BELLE (synth pop) – BERRILOOM (autumn in the cemetery)
DECENTRALIZÁLT PÁLMAFÁK (mix for the masses) – KLOGGS (garage pop)
†APE (ambient house) – THE BOY AND THE TELE (guitar experiment)

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RAKÉTA FESTIVAL has started yesterday in Budapest
7 days x 7 places
The most exciting young Hungarian musicians
No limits, free entry & no excuses!

2nd stage today > MÜSZI

TEA ROAD (psychedelic indie rock) – KIKOSHO (ambient rock)
LE HJÄRTA (indie guitar pop) – makrohang (jazz for metalheads)
MORZSA RECORDS (mish-mash folk, members from Texas, Ukraine, Réunion and Hu)

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Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London for the rainy days. Astronauts are solo project of Dan Carney from Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). It was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.

‘Hollow Ponds’ album on Lo Recordings (UK)

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Female fronted „8-legged riff machine” in the manner of Stooges, Spacemen 3 and AC/DC form Australia.

The Daicos – Monkey’s Blood LP on Homeless Records (Aus)

RAKÉTA FESTIVAL is starting today in Budapest
7 days x 7 places
The most exciting young Hungarian musicians
No limits, free entry & no excuses!

1st act at Vitulla with

Duke Bluebird (folk-pop) – Demjén Hirst (garage punk) – The Somersault Boy (healthy sick pop) – Ї3§3Ł $ΔuNĐ §y$†€M (meth house) – Szagos Hörigekkók (primary school wave)

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Tim Presley’s formula is very simple
Velvet Underground + Rolling Stones + Talent

Chairs In The Dark

by White Fence from the album Cyclops Reap on Castle Face in 2013

new album in this month on Drag City Records (US)

Escape before the mental hospital with the aid of Rolling Stones’ ex-manager

Maximo Claps arrived in London in 2008 on a one-way ticket from Buenos Aires, aided by former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who had produced a record by Claps’  Argentinian band, but the group had fallen apart in a mess of drugs and acrimony. In those days Claps’ family were attempting to intervene by sending him to a mental hospital. The only option seemed to be to flee the country. As Claps recalls, „The day before flying to the UK I got run over by a car and had to escape hospital in order to make it so I arrived with bandages and my head all stitched up.”
A few weeks later Max walked into the vintage clothes shop where James Hoare (guitarist of the great Scottish indie pop band Veronica Falls) sat behind the counter reading a book on The Velvet Underground, and attempted to make a diversion while his kleptomaniac girlfriend stole a pair of boots. The distraction was such successful as that since then they have been writing and playing psychedelic pop music together, taking inspiration from Berlin-era Lou Reed, Jesus and Mary Chains, Television Personalities and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.

The Proper Ornaments – Wooden Head on Slumberland (US) and Fortuna Pop Records (UK)

Anyway: “She didn’t steal them in the end, they weren’t her size” – says Max.

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Kraut-like psychedelic space pop by Bear In Heaven from New York

Time Is Over One Day Old LP/CD/digital on Dead Oceans (US, buy here) and Home Tapes (US)

The Swiss mish-mash folk pop band Pussywarmers
& Hungarian Austrian jazz singer (and film maker) Réka Csiszér

Fading Out from the upcoming David Lynch film titled
3 Sparrows & 6 Eyes
which is based on Master Zacharius, a tale by Shakespeare.
It’s about a Swiss clockmaker whose clockworks
suddenly begin to stop one by one.

From the album I Saw Them Leaving on Wild Honey Records  (Italy)
Listen to it in full

„Take me far from everyone.” A social extrovert wax witch with keyboards and guitar plays party punk. But I would go away from that party after 10 min, because his songs are cruelly long on this album.  Above 3 min! But he hasn’t enough talent to do such things. He should stay under 3 min.

Wax Witches – „Centre Of Your Universe” album on Stop Start Music in July (Aus) and Burger Records in Sept (US)

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Futeisha, a brand new project on the flourishing Italian psychedelic scene. It’s a solo effort of psychedelic rock band La Piramide di Sangue guitarist Juan Francisco Scassa. He is not alone sure. His mates are from such great rock band as Movie Star Junkies and Vernon Sélavy. Instead of rock they play mystical mish-mash folk, or „Occultism and Kebab.”

„Dannato” cassette on Brigadisco (Italy) and Old Bicycle Records (Switzerland). Cover art by Paula H. Satán (of JC Satán). It based on an engraving of Pieter Bruegel the elder.

Futeisha. In Japanese: Outlaws. It was an anarchist group in the early 1920s. Its two leaders was sentenced to death for high treason, but it was changed to life imprisonment. The woman tore the pardon letter up and refused to say thank the emperor. She committed suicide in the cell at her age of 23.  The man released after 22 years in 1945, later became a North-Korean politician.

There were lots of fanzine in Hungary in the late 80s and 90s. In our new series we cut album reviews out from these.

Szűkbőrű (Tight-skinned) was a short-lived fanzine in the early 90s in Miskolc.

Szűkbőrű # 1, 1991

Kim Deal has fed up (with banana – how the Hungarians say), quit the Pixies for a while and teamed up with 3 crazy women. The outcome is a wonderful album. The influence of Pixies is perceptible here and there but it doesn’t typical. The record is lots ruder and harder than any Pixies album. I get excited from that how the guitarist caress the strings. And Kim proves: she is not only a good bassist but her voice is splendid and is also good at lyrics.

Note: The fourth crazy woman was a man. Breeders have started as a project of Kim Deal and Tanya Donelli (Throwing Muses) in 1990. Later Jospehine Wiggs (Perfect Disaster) joined them on bass. Immediately before the recordings the sound engineer Steve Albini recommended Britt Walford (Slint) as drummer, who was playing on the album under the pseudonym Shannon Doughton.

1. Glorious  2. Doe  3. Happiness Is a Warm Gun  4. Oh!  5. Hellbound  6. When I Was a Painter  7. Fortunately Gone  8. Iris  9. Opened  10. Only In 3’s  11. Limehouse  12. Metal Man

nick nicely again

Born in Greenland on a stopover during a transatlantic flight in 1959. Grew up in London on his parents classical music collection and radio pop of the 60s. When almost every- body started to play in punk groups he mixed 60s psychedelia with 80s electronics. Self-released his first single in 1980. It was re-released in same year by German Hansa Records, and became a small hit in France and Holland. This success was the cause of remove of the song at the last minute from Some Bizzare Album in 1981. It was the new wave synth-pop scene first manifestation with such groups as Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. Nick was signed by EMI, but after a single in 1982 he retired from the spotlight. In the late 80s and early 90s under various monikers he was involved in Acid House and Rave scene. The first nick nicely album with his two singles and unreleased tracks recorded between 1978 and 2004 was published in 2004, and was re-released repeatedly. His first ever live show was in 2008. Since then he shared the stage with Hawkwind, John Maus, Maria Minerva, Ariel Pink and more. The first real time nick nicely album titled Lysergia was released in 2011 on cassette on Burger Records. And the second is coming in September, but I think it will be almost same thing than Lysergia was.

Space of a Second album on Lo Recordings (UK)

He has got his name in 1973 when one mate said – Give us a fag you sod!
And another said – Why don’t you ask Nick nicely?

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Richard In Your Mind is a funny psychedelic pop band from Sydney. Confusing the audience since 2006.  But just in your mind.

Ponderosa album on Rice Is Nice Records (Aus) I want to hear more tracks from it.

rock’n’roll power poppy punk whatever but
„All your beers are belong to us.”

Problem Child by NIGHTMARE BOYZZZ

from the album Bad Patterns on Slovenly Records

The boyzzz broke up in this spring, but the nightmare goes on

The Legendary Tigerman is Paulo Furtado from Portugal. He is following the tradition of Mississippi Delta Blues where the blues-men performed playing and singing alone. He mix the blues with rockabilly and rock and roll rhythms.

True album on Metropolitana Records and Sony Music France

His best album is Femina (2009) where every song is a duet with a woman. For example Maria de Medeiros, Peaches, Becky Lee, Asia Argento, Rita Redshoes

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Jeans are Jasmyn, the singer of Canadian alternative pop band Weaves, and Tim from her previous indie garage rock band Rat Tail. Their music is distorted, dubbed old stlye pop music, like a sunny Dirty Beaches.

Digital album. Just name your price