The Anomalys. Pirmitive Dutch hard rock’n roll trio

7″ on Slovenly Recordings (USA/Europe)

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Are you unwell? Don’t worry!  Doctor Nod raises a smile on your face with his easy slop pop cure

Cassette and digital single on Resurrection Records (USA)

mysterious noisy lo-fi garage pop punk project in New Zealand
inspired by teen romance, suburban boredom and Buddy Holly

PERFECT HAIR FOREVER – SAD & BLUE

from Zero EP by Crystal Magic Records.

Critical Hits! Free download V/A album
is full of various high standard lo-fi synth punk by Crystal Magic.

Dick Diver‘s members are from such great Aussie bands as Boomgates, Total Control, UV Race or Lower Plenty. Easy melodic indie rock or jangle pop

7″ on Fruits and Flowers

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A celebration of the dawn of the Italian commercial television, through the use of its synthetic sounds/effects and its involuntary hypnotic potential by CADEO. It hides two main figures of the Roman scene: members of other projects such as System Hardware Abnormal, Hiroshima Rocks Around, Maximillian I, Micropupazzo, Polysick and TheAwayTeam. 80s style minimal electronic music

Old fashioned green fluo cassette inserted into a 12 pages ‘zine.
Limited to 100 copies by NO=FI Recordings

„Just like the Birthday Party”

The Fat White Family from the English left side

Touch The Leather 7″ by Hate Hate Hate Records

Aussie New Wave Punk. A mix of Joy Division, Devo, Gary Newman spiced with a little Pet Shop Boys by Mikey Young’s umpteenth band Total Control. It has started as a synth-punk duo with the drummer of UV Race, but „bands with drum machines and three synths are just not as much fun to watch as bands with drummers and guitars. We realized it couldn’t be good live, so we tried to adapt the songs to work in a rock-and-roll band.”

„Typical System” album on Iron Lung Records (US) in June. Distros: La Vida Es Un Mus (UK), Inertia (AUS)

Other Mikey Young’s bands: Eddie Current Suppression Ring (garage rock), Ooga Boogas (new wave), Lace Curtain (electro disco)

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„I started in September 2009. I had been in London during the Summer, and I was so miserable about being back home. I was just sitting in my room and thinking that I needed a hobby for the long Estonian winter. So I made a track called Lovecool.” Estonian art historian and synth pop artist Maria Minerva has sketched a soulful self-portrait of her own inner ecosystem of loves and labors lost to her new album. She has cited Brian Eno, Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire as her influences.

„Histrionic” album on Not Not Fun

Fire Records is a British independent record label. In his roster: Blank Realm, Guided By Voices, Half Japanese, Las Kellies, Mission of Burma, Pere Ubu, Bardo Pond, Jad Fair. And some name from the past: Pulp, Chuck Prophet, Television Personalities, Lemonheads, Spaceman 3, Gun Club, Urge Overkill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Teenage Fanclub, Adverts. Fire throws a birthday party with his best new artists this evening. It will be streamed live. The gig starts at 8pm GMT (UK), 9pm CEST (Europe), 4am JST (Japan), 5am AEST (Australia), 3pm EDT (US East Coast), 12 noon PDT (US West Coast). Timing in GMT:

8:10PM – SCRAPS (AUS) > Weird minimal synth pop under influence of style of the 80s.
8:50PM – FAWN SPOTS (UK) > Punk rock trio. Devotees of early Joy Divison/Warsaw, Hüsker Dü and Rites of Spring. Razor edged, lightning fast short blasts of hyperactive noise with bittersweet melodies.
9:30PM – KEEL HER (UK) > High standard lo-fi experimental bedroom pop.
10:10PM – SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING (AUS) > “I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.”

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„We write pop tunes that are meant to be played hard and intensely”

AUTOMATIC

by Canadian Sonic Avenues from their album Mistakes on Dirtnap Records (US)

They are on Euro Tour with Needles//Pins & Peach Kelli Pop.

Budapest 20th May, Trafik Klub

TUNE-YARDS were started by puppeteer and ukulele player Merrill Garbus in 2006. She has recorded her first album with a handheld voice recorder only. It was self-released on recycled cassettes and there were limited pressing vinyls by Marriage Records in June 2009. In July Tune-Yards had signed to 4AD Records.

Tropical art pop madness in Water Fountain

from the album Nikki Nack on 4AD.     Some shows in Europe in May

„Slumberland began operations in 1989 as a collective effort consisting of members of DC area bands Velocity Girl, Big Jesus Trash Can/Whorl, Black Tambourine and Powderburns. We were inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Postcard, K, Bus Stop, lower East Side noise, and also the renegade art aesthetics of people like Cage, Burroughs and Duchamp. The explosion of punk had left behind a thriving network of ‘zines, labels and distributors and we felt that there was room for our noise-loving, pop-obsessed aesthetic. While there were loads of US indie labels releasing a steady stream of 7″s, there wasn’t much pop going on.”

Gold-Bears second album is on the way: Atlanta’s noise-pop greats are back with their second album. Dalliance is more focused and abrasive than that 2011 debut, combining their noise-pop influences from forebears like Boyracer and The Wedding Present with shades of the post-hardcore and post-punk. Order

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are back! Brooklyn Indie Pop stalwarts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart just announced their third LP entitled Days of Abandon. The first single from the record, „Simple And Sure.” Listen ti it here. Order

Devon Williams‘ third solo album is a tour de force of shimmering, melodic pop, seamless blend of power-pop, orchestrated soft-rock and layered, complex jangle-pop that recalls such forebears as The Church, Felt and Aztec Camera. Listen to Flowers. Order

All out on 3rd June. Plus vinyl re-presses: first album from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Frankie Rose‘s „Interstellar,” The Mantles‘ „Long Enough To Leave” and Joanna Gruesome‘s „Weird Sister.”

„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

A cult band in garage punk underground: LiveFastDie. Forward on GG Allin’s way

from Hit Stains LP which is a compilation from their singles on Almost Ready Records. First 100 on shit colored wax.

The band is named after a tattoo of GG Allin, and one of them is same town as GG — Littleton, New Hampshire. „I heard his music for the first time when I was 11, before I heard any other punk music. Living in Littleton, there’s always some older kid who’s proud of being from the same town as GG. I actually picked up his step-dad while he was hitch-hiking once. He tried to convince me to get an eight ball with him.” Eight ball: a quantity of cocaine or crystal that weighs an eighth of an ounce, which is equivalent to 3.5 grams.

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There was a very British-style twee pop band in America, the Aberdeen. The band It formed in 1993 and signed to the seminal English label Sarah Records, where they were the only not British act. The label closed in 1995, the band broke-up in same year. In the recent times some members have started a new project, The Luxembourg Signals. First single before the album on Shelflife Records

Girls’n’guys’n’gays! A hyper-realtime artist, Mykki Blanco

in Budapest at A38 on May 3

„I am a contemporary artist, using music as a performance medium.”

Aggressive, hard hitting hip-hop with sassy, fun and confrontational lyrics
by a black Jewish gay. She is the most important figures of industrialized noise
hop scene beside Death Grips and Clipping. Anyway Mykki Blanco is a fragmented girl.