Aged young rebels. Class war, resistance and other romantic things.
„Skinheads Home For Christmas” / Yesterday’s Hero (Bay City Rollers’ cover)
single in the classic pop tradition by Californian hard mod/punk band Hard Left, oi!

Future Perfect Records (US)

The covered Yesterday’s Hero cover by Scottish pop band Bay City Rollers (1976). The original from 1975 by Scottish born Aussie John Paul Young.

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Those were certainly very comic acts when the two founders looked for mates, because the condition was: can play any kind of instrument is absolutely needless. – Do you feel like joining us? – But I can’t play any instruments. – Oh it’s great! We need such an incompetent man exactly like you to make good noisy punk rock music:

Pop.1280 Euro tour single by Sacred Bones Records (US)

Euro tour Jan-Feb

English artists’ Xmas thinks

The Drones by Fat White Family for that special night

FWF short Euro tour in Feb

Greeting of visual artist and writer David Shrigley

Aussie drums’n’guitar punk duo Gooch Palms‘ self-describe: equal parts GG Allin, Iggy Pop, Roy Orbison and Olivia Newton John (circa Let’s Get Physical era). First single from the double A-side 7”

to be released on Urinal Cake Records (US) before the year is out.

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Silver Apples Trans Upper Egypt

album on Monofonus (US)

The Queen of No Wave in Budapest again with her fellows from Gallon Drunk under moniker Big Sexy Noise

on Dec 17 in Budapest at A38 with der TANZ (Hu)

Listen to our special playlist: Lydia Lunch &

Entrópia Architektúra 15 Years Birthday Party
Dec 13, Budapest, R33

19.15: BASS-O-MATIC – onemanbassband
19.45: PADKAROŠDA – post punk
20.50: CSERMANEK LAKÓTELEP – dada punk cabaret
21.50: ÚJ LÁTÁSMÓD FÚZIÓ – cold wave synth pop
23.00: LYUHÁSZ LYÁCINT Bt. – ritual industrial
23.50: ENTRÓPIA ARCHITEKTÚRA – spiritual industrial

00.50: tHE sNOBS – anarcho punk
01.40: IPARI SZAKADÁROK – disco                                             

FB Event     Ticket: 1500

Split cassette with eccentric singer/songwriter Kim House’s band, Kim & The Created: demented garage rock’n’roll goth punk; and Prettiest Eyes, just drums, bass and keys: mechanical, monotone, flustered, nervous krautrock. Guest star: AJ Davila.

Burger and Lollipop Records (US)

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After some hyperactive years there wasn’t any news about great little eclectic label Dracula Horse (US) for a long time, but now here is The New Romantics. Fascinating new wave disco

digital single

On 11 Sept Californian garage punk band AUDACITY and Hungarian garage rock band DEMJÉN HIRST gave an unforgettable concerts at RNR666 party in Budapest. You can find some fine shots from the night by Gyerage here

 + New Audacity 7″ on Suicide Squeeze Records

NEXT DEMJÉN HIRST SHOW >> DEC 12, BUDAPEST, VITTULA

The Queen of No Wave in Budapest again with her fellows from Gallon Drunk under moniker Big Sexy Noise

on Dec 17 in Budapest at A38 with der TANZ (Hu)

What is No Wave? Listen to our playlist with only Lydia Lunch hits

Mind your bollocks,
here is the NUDISCO!
The brand new trend of electronic dance music,
performing by the Czech founding fathers

I Love 69 Popgeju – We Are Bizarre

from the album Let’s Gold Corridor

Movie Star Junkies are the Italian Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Punctum.

The new album „Evil Moods” lyrically was inspired by hard-boiled noir fictions, e.g. works of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Jim Thompson, of whom a song there is. Released by Voodoo Rhythm Records (Switzerland)

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The next metal LP by American avant-garde experimental label Thrill Jockey Record is a split of The Body and Sandworm.  The Body, „masters of expansive expressions of pure sadness”, really heavy and industrial metal. Sandworm is just a simple black metal punk band

Mr. Gaymer from Dartford, UK, teachs English at an university in Beijing, but after school he plays Misfits influenced blues trash as GUIGUISUISUI together  with his some co-characters. He is 138, of course.

All the backing beats are composed on a Nintendo Gameboy or from found 8-bit games. Mixed and co-produced by luminary Beijing producer/sonic journeyman extraordinaire, Yan Haisong (P.K.14, Dear Eloise). Debut 7″ on Genjing Recods (PROC)

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Liam Hayes aka Plush has made various pop albums with minimal and maximal orchestration from the mid-90s. His progressive bubblegum rock and roll album is coming soon on Fat Possum (US)

SUDAKISTAN, Stockholm based latino punks

7″ on PNKSLM (UK/SWE)

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PINK SECTION was a short-lived synth-punk band with Dadaist aesthetic by 4 students of San Francisco Art Institute in 1979/80. This first-time retrospective LP collects the band’s rare 1979 single, the self-titled EP, unreleased demos, and live materials

Carol and Judy went on to form the Inflatable Boy Clams after Pink Section split. The bass and sax player Matt makes mechanical music and sound installations nowadays.