The Cyclops are a duo formed by Jonnycat (the Chemicals) on vocals and guitars & Tina Lucchesi (Bobbyteens, Trashwomen) on vocals and drums. They describe their music as RAW MEAT, LOUDNESS, FUZZ, BABIES SCREAMING, VOLCANOS ERUPTING, SMELLY FARTS, RAWWWWWW RAWKKK N ROLL

Escape From Cyclops Island LP + 7″ on Surfin’Ki Records (Italy)

Euro tour:  MAY 3 PARIS – LA MECANIQUE + MAY9 ITALY, SARDINIA – TBA + MAY 11 LUCCA + MAY 17 BUCINE W/ KID CONGO + MAY 18 SALSOMAGGIO: BAMFEST + MAY 22 GERMANY, MUNICH – SÜDSTADT + MAY 23 LEIPZIG – ZORRO + MAY 24 BERLIN – AUSTER CLUB + MAY 25 FRANKFURT – TBA

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Exocomet is a drum’n’guitar duo in Brooklyn. Strange psychedelic post punk with massive guitar whirls.  As if it would be the hybrid of Action Beat and Moon Duo.

 Full album stream here  Order CD and info: exocometmusic AT gmail.com

Because it is in their blood.

The Mexican Lorelle Meets The Obsolete plays amazing haunted psych garage rock songs about the uncertain. Sealed Scene

from the album Chambers on Captcha Records

Euro tour is under way. There are French, German and English dates yet.

There are two Portuguese bands. Black Bombaim plays heavy psychedelic rock with folk elements, La La La Ressonance plays experimental music. They went into the woods together and made a record.

PAD Records

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German proto-metal garage hard rock by Ragged Barracudas

s/t 7″ by Who Can You Trust?

Death Thrash Grind by King Diamond and Misfits fans

Coffin Dust – ‘This Cemetery, My Kingdom’ debut LP by Unholy Anarchy Records

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Marvellous psych-ritual. Written and played by Morgan Delt, a 36 years old musician

S/T LP by Trouble in Mind. It was mastered by Mikey Young (Eddie Current Suppression Ring and more.)

Texan psychedelic garage surfin’ on the Holy Wave

Relax LP by Reverberation (vinyl + CD + digital) and Burger (cassette)

Holy Wave on Euro tour in Feb-March. Vienna March 1

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British lo-fi shit pop by an expanded Seeds of Doubt

on cassette by Italian Beach Babes

Career of the Magik Markers was started by help of Sonic Youth. Some markers to their music: psychedelic-minimal-no wave-magic-noise-rock. Mirrorless

from the album ‘Surrender To The Fantasy’ by Drag City. It was recorded at an old music room, a practice place, two basements  and J. Masics’s (Dinosaur Jr.) attic  in different cities.

Pontiak plays a strange mix of psychedelic rock and proto-metal. Lack Lustre Rush

from the album, Innocence by Thrill Jockey

Euro tour in April-May

The „vintage rocker” Michael Yonkers is one of the greatest hidden underground musicians like Seasick Steve, who won the Award for Best Breakthrough Act at his age of 66, or the 81 years old bluesman, Leo Welch with his debut album. Yonkers was born in Minneapolis in 1947. He has been making music since the early 60s, self-releasing some albums in the 70s, and stayed fully unknown until 2003. Then his unreleased album, the Microminiature Love, which was recorded in 1968 was released by de Stijl and Sub Pop. And boom. Fresh, fascinating psychedelic garage rock with a very unique sound, thanks to own made effects and a reshaped Fender Telecaster. It’s „like a fusion of stripped down Black Sabbath, The Troggs, Pere Ubu, and The Cramps.” It also comes the Stooges, the Godz and Joy Division to my mind. His previous albums would be reissued one after the other beside his new and unreleased materials.  Among his new stuff there are two collabs with the garage punk band, Blind Shake.

A marvellous acoustic chamber folk album The Borders Of My Mind with Jim Woehrle from 1974 is the brand new reissue by Drag City. Look!

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Texan harsh punk on drums, guitar and electronics. Burnt Skull

Sewer Birth LP by 12Xu

Bedroom hip-hop with taste of noise punk by the multi-instrumentalist experimental rapper, Signor Benedick The Moor, who arrived from the metal/hc scene. „The name comes from two places, both Shakespearean, Benedick is the main character in Much Ado About Nothing, and I identify with him on a personal level as someone who will in the future be jaded because of his past experiences with love. He is also very witty and I like to think the same of myself. The second, the Moor, comes from the characters Aaron the Moor and Othello, both outsiders because of their skin color. I’ve felt like an outsider since I began to form my self-awareness, because of my half-white, half-black heritage, and because I always seemed to think so much differently than everyone else.”

by the experimental noise label, Deathbomb Arc

His former old-school-like hip-hop-punk project with less noise and more music: brayne (free downloads)

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The Blank Realm is a very open minded and amazing psychedelic rock band from the fantastic Aussie underground scene. „if Lady Gaga wanted to collab with us, we would almost definitely say yes, although the result would probably make for rugged listening.”

Grass Inn LP by Bedroom Suck (Aus) and Fire Records (UK)

In the beginning there were the obsession for bedroom recordings and such favorites as Guided by Voices, R. Stevie Moore and Flying Nun releases. Then they have founded The Stevens. Very simple, but fine Aussie lo-fi guitar pop.

A History Of Hygiene LP by Chapter Music. You can listen to their first 7″

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Another high educated band. The drummer studied at King’s College London, the guitarist studied at Oxford University, but the three brothers are Americans, and play a strange mix of psychedelic rock and proto-metal under the name of Pontiak

Innocence LP by Thrill Jockey. You can see a short performance

KK Null (Kazuyuki Kishino) is one of the most important persons of Japanese experimental scene. He is composer, guitarist, singer and mastermind of progressive hardcore band, Zeni Geva. He started his career as a studied Butoh dancer (by Tanaka Min), and performed guitar improvisations in clubs of Tokyo, then played with Merzbow for two years, and was in various groups together with Yamatsuka Eye (aka Yamantaka Eye, Boredoms) and Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, Ruins). His label released the first Melt-Banana album. As solo artist he is „creating intense clashing wave of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material which could be described “cosmic noise  maximal/minimalism”. He made two tracks with a Birmingham-based tuba doom duo, Ore. It’s released on limited edition 7″ and digitally on 18th November by Endtyme Records. Samples taken from the double A side 7″

An interesting Ore track: In Hungary They Used To Burn Bagpipers

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Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel. Debut album: Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious

out now on Burger Records. 60s style, sometimes Doors-like psychedelic rock.

The Holydrug Couple (Sacred Bones Records)

plays in Budapest at Kuplung on Oct 22

 „dream-pop like post-psych mid tempo songs” 

+ Mt. Kailash     Ticket: 1000     Facebook Event

by Holalo Entertainment