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mr sterile & co, nz
New Zealand, I like it. Home of some great artists like Axemen, Heart Attack Alley, Delaney Davidson, Stomping Nick, and
mr sterile and his company, a bunch of various musicians who working together under the name of mr sterile Assembly from 2004. They have made their latest album as drum and bass duo, so the music is pretty minimal punk
which bring the very early NoMeansNo to my mind when it consisted of the two Wright brothers only. And also bring the Minutemen and English anarcho-punk group CRASS, not just because
„the title track to the album It’s All Over, an anthem to and for the protesters at the front-line of the climate crisis; for Black Lives Matter, for Refugees are Welcome, for No one is Illegal; for resistance, for persistence; for workers struggling to obtain a living wage, decent conditions, a dignified workplace; Occupy, Anonymous, BDS, frontline communities; the opposers of the corporate wars, the oil wars, the water wars, the cyber wars; those fighting for transparency, equity, liberation; old folk connecting with young folk in affinity; for those fighting for potential and hope in health, education, housing; for fighting for freedom of expression from medieval thinking; for the radicals, for the first-timers; for us, for It All, for Everywhere, for freedom, for life!” – said mr sterile.
On their previous album in 2011 there was a bigger assembly with a pretty eclectic music
There come the English avantgarde experimentalist Fred Frith, Dutch anarcho-punk-folk-jazz The Ex, Hungarian psych rock band Másfél and art punk Ápolók to my head. But I could say Captain Beefheart or the Bez Ladu a Skladu from Slovakia too. Or there is the Belgian Morzelpronk, but anyway „they have a distinctive, South Pacific sound based on unusual and urgent time signatures, repetitive heavy rhythms, and angular lyrics.” And it is highly entertaining.
You can find more music on their bandcamp page.
No Sport
SPRAY PAINTS
Texan no wave punk
MIDDLE RELIEF
from the album Punters On A Barge on Homeless Records (AUS)
You can buy it on a reduced price this month.
New SPRAY PAINT album in June on Goner Records (US)
inspired by heartbreak, mortality, and financial struggle
Monster Treasure is a punk noise rock band sometimes with a very little black metal feeling in Stockton, California. In its very early years in the middle of the 19th Century the city was called Mudville.
Their songs are inspired by heartbreak, mortality, and financial struggle
Debut album by Leisure & District Records (UK)
Some shows in UK in May
Thurs 19th – LONDON at The Old Blue Last with Living Hour (CAN)
Fri 20th – NORWICH at The Owl Sanctuary
Sat 21st – LONDON at The Lock Tavern, FREE ENTRY
Mon 23rd – LONDON at The Lexington with NOTS (US, Memphis, Goner Records)
A free download song from the debut album
30 years of The Monsters
This year The Monsters – the band of Reverend Beat Man, Voodoo Rhythm Record boss and his male club – turn 30 years old. To celebrate this nice round anniversary, they re-released their – by now totally unavailable – 1995 10”, originally released by the German Jungle Noise Records on CD and LP, supplemented by 7 more songs.
This was the first Monsters album where they used electronic bass instead of the double bass, and since their guitarist left the band, Beat Man remained alone at that position. So he distorted the hell out of his guitar. In addition the band decided that they will not deal with studios anymore, and record the whole album at home on an AKAI 1224 recorder, and that should be it!
This way, they nicely departed from the psychobilly sound of their first two albums, in a GOOD way, the RIGHT way, that is none other than the TRASH FILTH BRAIN-FUCKING PRIMITIVE ROCK N ROLL!!!
And on the occasion of this anniversary release, let me tell you a personal story.
Exactly 10 years ago in 2006 I found out that The Monsters will play in Graz. I told my – then girlfriend, now beloved wife:
– We are going!
– OK, but we hardly have any money.
– Let’s hitchhike! Budapest-Graz is not that far.
– OK.
To tell you the truth, none of us thought that we would ever hitchhike abroad for a concert; we were no teenagers, not even twenty-somethings, and we were over thirty. We had some pretty good rides though, the last one being an Italian owner of a sweets shop in a suit who was heading exactly to Graz to attend his new shop before its opening. He insisted that we visit his store too. We didn’t really feel like doing so, but said SURE. It was getting dark already by the time we got to the pastry shop, he opened the store, all three of us went in, he was explaining all kinds of things to us while everything was foiled up (there was some renovation going on), and this Italian guy in suit with a mustache. The whole thing was as we were in a gore movie, so I told my girlfriend, let’s get the hell out of here! We left our guy there and stepped outside to the street, and who was walking across the street? The Monsters! Of course we told them right away that we are their fans from Budapest and we are heading to the concert! A magnificent moment, I will never forget: Marta all smiley, hugging Beat Man and padding his shoulder. And him, being a gentleman, offered to take us in to the concert. Danke Schön! This way we could also buy some records.
The concert was extra super, both of us had quite some vodka, and the whole audience was really getting into it, dancing and so on. Everything was just wonderful except for the one manager who discovered us sleeping in behind one of the speakers after the concert, and kicked both of us out. Afterwards things became a bit torturous; going through the trash early morning at the railway station (I found a handful of unopened chocolates – though melted) as while dancing during the show I managed to lose all our sandwiches that were in our pockets. Then we came across an old (Hungarian!) gypsy who advised us to go back through Wien. Then we were on the train from Graz to Budapest in the morning, no tickets of course, trying to hide from the conductor till we are in Hungary, then my good ole trick with the conductors there, and we are already at home. True, it was tiring, but it was worth it! And I am not only saying this after 10 years, but also when we got home back then, and opened up our first beer in the kitchen.
Here are two little videos from this concert:
And now a few words about the album. How would a record be like that starts out with ‘Psych-out with me’? Awesome! Brutal party R n R! Then the song ‘Searching’, hard as Venom; then pot hymn ‘Pot’, then one of my favorite, ‘It’s not my way’, perfect fast pogo punk song!!! And damned be whoever’s legs don’t start moving after listening to ‘The Rock around the tombstone’ – he or she is hopeless! Then a fucking great Rolling Stones cover, ‘Play with fire’, and so on. Oh yeah, and all bonus tracks are also great! It’s worth keeping in mind that this brutal rock n roll record was recorded and put out during 94-95!
Note: Today it is worth to follow Voodoo Rhythm’s own Instagram page, where you can continually discover such treasures like this photo down here:
So a lot of things were trendy during the 90s, but a record sounding like this surely wasn’t! On one side all the Seattle rip-offs were going on, techno and all kinds of electronic dance music was coming in, and everyone was trying to figure out how to force together genres that were completely different from each other. On the other hand only people who really knew and liked the Ramones and Moorhead were wearing their t-shirts, even if they could not pronounce their names correctly (Motorhead or Matorhid were in quite widespread usage, and I for one did not know a single soul that pronounced the Ramones Ramonz vs Ramonez). Of course back then I did not even hear about The Monsters.
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Cheap Vinyls from HOMELESS
HOMELESS RECORDS 4th BIRTHDAY SALE
FOR THE MONTH OF MAY
Aussie label, great shitty post and punk and noise and rock bands
playlist > Cuntz (AUS), Spray Paint (Texas), Deaf Wish (AUS), Yes I’m Leaving (AUS), Subtle Turnhips (France), Bits of Shit (AUS), Dan Melchior (UK/US), The Stabs (AUS) and Gentlemen (AUS)
Here is the Homeless catalogue. Hey, the prices are in AU$!
One man industrial punk techno
by Nicolas Belvalette of Headwar under alias Usé
who can even beat two guitars at same time
album on Born Bad Records (France)
He is the head of Parti Sans Cible (Party Without Target)
YOU ARE THE MAYOR, YOU ARE THE FIST!
The party got 2,17 % on Amiens’ local election in 2014.
Western Decadence
social criticism by Anal Blasphemy one-man-metal-band from Finnland
black death with a flavour of Finnish HC
from the album Western Decadence on Iron Bonehead Productions
OK MFs, Tit Wrench Is Here Again!
TIT WRENCH Chula Vista Hardcore Technoise Punk Band.
Their music evolved from hc/punk to noise during the 90s.
After a long hiatus they have reformed recently, and new album is on the way.
Another new song, now from their noise side
Life Is Beautiful
but Life Sucks Do Me
TIT WRENCH Interview with special playlist on RNR666
Total Jazz Punk
There is a sax too, so primitive jazz punk, unusual from Total Punk. Violence Creep from Oakland, Cal
from 12″ LP out this summer. Maybe it is not clean-cut, there is a female sings.
punk bitter depressive outsider Ashville
I put this
on bandcamp as a single b/w Pope Innocent if anybody wants to download it. I hope everyone is happier than me.
Don Howland, The Bassholes
Thanx Don.
ps: At first there were the legendary Gibson Bros. in Ohio in the mid-80s. They played a unique mix of American roots music: blues, gospel, hill- and rockabilly with punk attitude. After split of the Gibsons the Bassholes were founded in 1992 by a “Gibson”, Don Howland (guitar) and Bim Thomas (aka Obnox, drums). But now on drums: James Owen (Burning Bus, Doom Ribbons, Wooden Tit) & keyboard: Kim Roney (The Family Swaggards, Rip & Run).
Primitive Calculators were always outsiders in Melbourne’s punk scene
Synth punk Primitive Calculators have started in 1978 in same place and same time than the Birthday Party. After a single they relocated to London, in same time than the Birthday Party, and promptly broke up in 1980. But there was a post-split-up single under the name of Zye Ye Ye in England in 1981. The first album was released in 1980. And there was a film Dogs in Space in 1986, in it they play Pumping Ugly Muscle. Also a single was released. Then they have reformed in 2009 at the request of Nick Cave for the first All Tommorrow’s Pary in Australia. Second album The World Is Fucked was released in 2013. And now here is a new single by Emotional Response (US, Flagstaff, Arizona).
like Tit Wrench or a punk Ministry or Screamers
The band intends to record a psychedelic-space-folk album about taking hallucinogenic drugs.
Also from Emotinal Respone LA punk Shark Toys / Florida indie punk UV-TV split 7″
Emotional Response was formed from 555 and Red Square Records after two owners married.
Fucker, Friends & Family
Fucker is a Japanese musician, the founder of Less Than TV, an outsider record label, which tends to be even more outsider than usual. He plays weird folk punk alone, and as a member of Folk Shock Fuckers with his wife Blue Yukari from all-girls ni-hao! („just like Melt-Banana with Cibo Matto with Boredoms with Takako Minekawa with OOIOO with Omoide Hatoba”) on bass, and Takeda Kazunaga, who plays on Cajon, a Peruvian box shaped percussion instrument.
First song from Fucker debut album, will released on 20 April, second one (In My Riffle) from Folk Shock Fuckers debut from 2014, it has been re-released now by Aussie label Tenzenmen. Listen to the full album