If you are confused, and nothing comes to your mind, but don’t want to list similar bands, just write dumbfounding and cockeyed, or food maniac no wave collage, but never: avant-garde. I think it’s sounding cool.

NEW FRIES is a quartet from Toronto, Canada

„MORE” 10″ EP on TELEPHONE EXPLOSION RECORDS (CAN). Listen to it!

A funny band form Bristol

THE EVIL USSES

play rock but jazz but punk or vice inversa, say like the Deerhoof

New album Amateur Pro-Wrestling out soon on STOLEN BODY RECORDS (UK).

Produced by John Dieterich of Deerhoof.

French synth-punk band CHEVEU and GROUP DOUEH from Western Sahara spent two weeks together in the city of Dakhla in 2016, and they wrote and recorded an album together.

Western-Sahara is the home of Sahrawi people. They are speaking a variant of Maghrebi Arabic, and have Berber, Bedouin and Black African ethnic backgrounds.

Their basic instruments are percussions and traditional stringed instruments which ones often replaced by electric guitar nowadays. The region was under Spanish rule until 1975, then Morocco and Mauritania divided up, but there is a movement of independence, called Polisario, which established his state in the inner Western Sahara.

On the one hand – The leader of Group Doueh was born in Dakhla in 1966, at that time it was a village. Of course he made his first guitar himself with metal can and fishing wire – as the legend says. His heroes are Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Mark Knopfler, and also influenced by Moroccan chaabi and psychedelic music, e.g. Nass El Ghiwane, which was established as an avant-garde political theatre in 1971.

„When I take the instrument, I leave elsewhere. I am absent. Music is my life. I inherited from my father who played percussion from house to house. I can approach any kind of styles, but I track down traditional music, the source.”

On the other hand – French trio Cheveu is not really punk in fact, rather outsider, in out of control zone, somewhere between the crazy psychedelic rock of the 60s and the no wave, industrial and electronic music of the late 70s.

At first files were exchanged, then Cheveu went to Dakhla to play, write and record songs together for two weeks. It was hard to bring together these distant universes.

The music of Doueh is often very ornamented improvisation. „The trigger thing was to fix one of their themes in punk rock mode. It freed us. They made a lot of improvisations, variations, and whenever you thought you had picked up, they left elsewhere…” „At this stage we played a few selected pieces of our repertoire to show what we are going to see (…) in response they suddenly started „Acid Waltz”, a theme brought by us, but they little by little made twists on it.

And finally there was a common live show at a venue. „At first Group Doueh goes to the stage, later Cheveu joins them. And everyone begins to find his place in a repertoire that they have refined for ten days. David takes the microphone. Some women dance. There is even a Parisian who made the trip after he saw the announcement of the event on Facebook. All of a sudden, Hicham turns to me: „Alan Vega in the sand! ”

OUT NOW ON BORN BAD RECORDS (FR)

Pop like The Pixies, and punk like the Parquet Courts, with such great songs like the aforementioned have.    

TERRY is an Aussie quartet with members of such great bands as UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver, Constant Mongrel or Lower Plenty – and Xanthe Waite sings one of Mick Harvey’s Gainsbourg album.

It has been formed after a Total Control US tour in Mexico City in 2015 when two couples have decided to start a simple and charming pop band that could tour and vacation together. But more telling about that “simple and charming pop” that The Rebel (ex-Country Teasers) was chosen to play with them on their first show in London.

8 GIRLS on 7″ VINYL by TERRY

RECENTLY RELEASED on UPSET THE RHYTHM (UK)

The three songs explores themes of patriarchy in politics, mass consumption versus lifestyle choices and the dating scene. On the cover you can find seven Australian politician women, and one Angela Merkel. They said about  

The national identity in Australia is primarily male. Women in the public sphere are expected to take on the characteristics of national identity more so than men. They are also required to prove themselves as Australian women.

Not only are female Australian politicians expected to represent characteristics of national identity they usually also show a greater level of Australian masculinity. It’s a fast track to be taken seriously. But many of the females in power seem to give up common sense.

Some women I have found

Health Minister poor Sussan Ley has resigned after using a taxpayer-funded trip to purchase an A$795,000 (£473,300; $585,200) apartment on Queensland’s Gold Coast in 2015. And also went to New Year parties in 2013 and 2014 on taxpayers’ money.

Lower house speaker Ms Bronwyn Bishop charged taxpayers A$5,000 (£2,300, $3800) to fly by helicopter to a Liberal Party fundraiser in 2015. It was a journey of 65 km (40 miles). At longest one hour with car. And of course she had not just a car, but a driver too, paid by taxpayers, of course. She also claimed expenses for attending weddings, opera and art events. Resigned as speaker, and was defeated on the next election.

Right-wing populist senator Ms Pauline Hanson and her male mate were sentenced to three years imprisonment in 2003 because of false statements about their party members in order to register their organisation in Queensland as a political party, and apply for electoral funding.

In her book, titled The Truth, Ms Hanson predicted that in 2050 Australia would have a lesbian president of Chinese-Indian background called Poona Li Hung who would be a cyborg. No wonder that one of her party candidate, Ms Stephanie Banister, said in an interview that Islam is a country, and the Jews worship Jesus. And she is a graduated woman.

„Money, you got plenty of it
You leave it around your place
Who knows?
You might end up in the bin”

Terry – Bin

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Ha-ha-ha, those amounts of money are ridiculously tinies. A tip category in the post-communist Hungary. But the rate of stupidity of senator Ms Hanson and Ms Banister is ordinary in the Hungarian policy and public life.

But what is absurd. The almighty Liliputin dictator, Viktor Orbán – aka über führer – , his government and the feudal lords of Hungary have recently made war on the civil society, in order to prevent the organized objection and extirpate the pluralism.

Just like in the pre-Stalinist Hungary in 1947-48, when communist minister of the interior, László Rajk, banned the civil organizations. He ended up on a gallows as the star of a show trial in 1949.

So dear Australian friends you must – how comrade Lenin said – learn, learn, and learn.

from their debut album TERRY HQ on UPSET THE RHYTHM (UK)

Just in time for the Trump presidency,

one of our favourite electro-hardcore-punks
TIT WRENCH releases their first album in years
titled Why Question Authority?

with all your favorite TIT WRENCH members:
Bob Barley, Pea Hix, Matt Anderson (Heroin/Gravity Records), Gunnar, Harpo;
are joined by J Lesser (Lesser) and Rob Crow
for a punk noise electro pop masterpiece.
Many guests stop by including Justin Pearson (Locust/Retox),
The Harpettes and too many others to list.

Buy it here

Poor’s Man Ministry – RNR666 podcast full with classic Tit Wrench hits.

Interview with Bob about TIT WRENCH on RNR666.

Inauguration song by traditional blues-punk duo BASSHOLES

All Bandcamp donations will go to the American Civil Liberties Union or to legal defense for protesters arrested on Jan. 20.

but We The State

„We must not forget anything. We must know our history, know it as it really is, draw lessons from it and always remember those who created the Russian state, championed its dignity and made it a great, powerful and mighty state.

We shall preserve that memory, and we shall preserve that tradition through the ages. We shall hand down to our descendants all that is best in our history – all that is best.

Esteemed citizens of Russia, we believe in our strength, in our ability to really transform and transfigure the country. We have common goals.

We want our Russia to be a free, prosperous, rich, strong and civilized country, a country of which its citizens are proud and which is respected in the world.  (…)

We believe you. We are counting on you. Don’t deceive us. I can assure you that in my work I will be guided only by the interests of the state but there may well be mistakes. But I can promise you, and indeed I do promise, you that I will work openly and honestly.

I consider it my sacred duty to unite the people of Russia and to gather citizens around the clearly-defined tasks and aims and to remember, every minute of every day, that we are one nation and we are one people. We have one common destiny.”

Putin’s inauguration speech as president, 2000

30 Years Anniversary Tribute Album for the Monsters

A tavaly 30 éves Monsters zenekar születésnapja alkalmából egy három lemezes sorozattal kedveskedett nekünk. A harmadik egy Monsters dalokat tartalmazó feldolgozás album. Tizenöt dal – azaz a bakeliten csak tizennégy, mert a Roy & The Devil’s Motorcycle tizenkét perces Pony Tail & Black Cadillac átirata csak a CD-re fért fel – de nem kell megijedni, mert a Voodoo Rhythm Records-nál évek óta a vinyl lemezhez automatikusan jár a CD is. Vannak a lemezen az istállóhoz tartozó bandák, és vannak baráti csapatok innen-onnan, kábé fele-fele arányban.

Jó az egész lemez, meg érdekes is, hogy ki, hogyan alakítja át saját képére a dalokat. Nekem egyértelműen a lemez második felén található hármas tetszik a legjobban, a 9-10-11. szám, amit akár ipari blokknak is nevezhetnénk, de legalábbis no wave-nek. Mindegy.

Sudden Infant kezd, ami Joke Lanz alteregója, aki a 90-es évek eleje óta készít noise / experimental felvételeket – de tonna számra! – és mint extrém body art művész is ismert. Az ő száma itt a More You Talk. Ezután Helios & Hess jön, akik a svájci ipari csapat, a Herpes Ö Deluxe tagjai. Velük készítette Beat-Man tíz éve a csodálatos Reverend Beat-Man & The Church of Herpes nagylemezt. Itt szerintem Monsters lemezekről vett hangmintákból vágtak össze egy dalt némi gitár gerjesztés és fémcsörömpölés kíséretében. A blokkot a Bigeneric, azaz Marco Repetto zárja, aki a legutolsó ‘M’ című albumról dolgozta fel a Let Me Spend A Night With Your Wife című dalt, és kreált az amúgy egyszálgitáros kesergőből egy minimál pszichedelik valamit. Ha a 90-es években egy DJ ezt rákeveri valami big beat lemezre, biztos hogy beőrültem volna! Nem mellékesen Marco Repetto 1977 és 80 között Bern – innen való a Voodoo Rhythm Records, és itt található a Voodoo Rhythm lemezbolt – első punk zenekarában a Gluemas-ban zenélt, ami később Grauzone lett, és volt is egy német nyelvterületen slágerlistás daluk, az Eisbar, amit éppen ő írt.

Nagyon fasza album, végül is az egész lemez nagyon jó, vannak beindult trash’n’roll-ok (The Sex Organs, The Devils), punk cuccok (The Failed Theachers, The Seniles), érzelmesebb dolgok (Dylan Walshe) vagy exotica (Ronaldo Bruno és Nicole Garcia, akit meg is tudsz hallgatni!). Borító űber, mint általában, nem Facebook barát, belül rengeteg sosem látott fotó a zenekarról.

Az ünnepi sorozat első lemezéről ITT a másodikról ITT írtunk.

Happy birthday Monsters, jó egészséget, meg minden!

Rare that I want to post a song just because it caught me. Usually those are related to record releases, so this is a rare moment.

READY ORPHANS is a new band from Detroit that consists of members of hardcore punk band The Armed, hardcore metal band Tharsis They, and indie pop band Zoos of Berlin. Lead singer Cara Drolshagen shrieks over blissed out noise. As happy as hardcore can get. Their first public track is an industrial-like noise rock song, it comes the Canadian band Odonis Odonis to my mind

More coming in 2017 on NO REST UNTIL RUIN RECORDS (US)

Mind Your Bollocks
Here’re The Sex Organs
from Outer Space with fine trash’n’roll music

Debut album Intergalactic Sex Tourists out now on VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS

The female organ is Jackie from Swiss garage punk band The Jackets (Voodoo Rhythm Records); the male one is Bone from Dutch punk rock and roll band The Anomalys (Slovenly Records).

Strange but they have come a Hungarian poet to my mind.

Peter Kuczka (1923-99) was a true-hearted communist. He wrote about Stalin that „There is nothing in this world without him”, and when the Bulgarian communist hero died, he wrote that „comrade Dimitrov is dead, but don’t cry”, „the life is beautiful” because

Look how steaming the newly baked bread,
but more warm the Party is.
So warm the friendly palm,
but more warm the Party is

and who has been lived alone so far
is clamped by the Party.
Scientists and artists,
the Party knows more than them.

Carpenters and masons,
the Part builds better than them.
And it is stronger and more whirl than the big waters,
because we are the Party.

In 1953 he took part in a countryside tour of writers. Then he saw the horror of reality, and so deeply disappointed in the ideology’s practice and practitioners that became a forbidden writer for many years. Finally he fled to the space and became the founder of the Hungarian Sci-fi literature.

One of his late poems is „We are just sex organs”

EUREKA CALIFORNIA from Athens, Georgia

good as the early Mudhoney, the godfather of grunge is

7″ vinyl on HHBTM RECORDS (US)

but maybe you don’t know that Greek word Eureka is the motto of California, and also there is a city in this US state on same name which means „I have found it!”

It has come from the mid-1800s when men rush for the gold there. They were the modern Argonauts. The classic ones looked for the Golden Fleece in the mythic age of Hellas. And the ancient Greek scientist in Sicily Archimedes was who during his bath found the key of a physical problem, so he ran out naked from his house to the streets of Syracuse and screamed: Eureka, Eureka!

5 brand new 7″ EPs by great little Italian label

GOODBYE BOOZY RECORDS

rock n roll for dumb kids from Australia: GEE TEE

60s garage rock for dumb adults: THE SPOOKIES: members from Italian garage folk rock Mojomatics and psych rock group Squadra Omega together with Pantichrist Butler from American 80/90s garage rock band The Miracle Workers. He has relocated to Switzerland where worked together with Lightning and Reverend Beat-Man, nowadays he is in The Shit. On bass D. P. Jørgensen from Danish garage beat bands David Peter And The Wilde Sect and The Youth.

loud, snotty, boozy, punk rock’n’roll for smart humans by BETA BOYS from US

Canadian PHONE JERKS originally formed as a punk cover band for party dogs, but anyway they are currently available for children’s birthday parties too.

US garage punk rock and roll for mutants by ANDY HUMAN & THE REPTOIDS

GOODBYE BOOZY INTERVIEW by RNR666

„give up your dreams. commit suicide.”

is the motto of punk band LIFE STINKS, but before

new records coming soon by TOTAL PUNK RECORDS (US)

TIMMY’S ORGANISM (with Timmy Vulgar from Clone Defects, Human Eye from Detroit,  7″) + NAG (7″, Atlanta) + FNU CLOWN INC (LP, San Francisco) + LIFE STINKS (7″, SF)