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RNR666 Rádió
on the road to Hellsinki
hard rhythm and raw soul
by the infernal duo of Finland
BLACK MAGIC SIX
on their 5th station on the road to Hellsinki
new album Choose Death out on 7 April by SVART RECORDS
Anyway around 1:54 in the second composition Dance with Me Satan you can hear the Hungarian equivalent of its title with perfect pronunciation by Jukka! You can find a fine article about the relation of Finnish and Hungarian languages here.
BLACK MAGIC SIX AT RNR666 PARTY IN BUDAPEST ON 28 APRIL!
Tour dates
31.03. Finland, Turku
01.04. Finland, Jyväskylä
07.04. Finland, Helsinki
08.04. Finland, Kuopio
13.04. Germany, Kamenz
14.04. Germany, Ludwigsfelde
15.04. Germany, Quedlinburg
16.04. Germany, Berlin
28.04. Hungary, Budapest
29.04. Hungary, Pécs or Szolnok
30.04. Hungary, Pécs or Szolnok
11.-12.05. TBA (Switzerland/Germany)
13.05. Germany, Karlsruhe
03.06. FInland, TBA
More dates coming up soon. If you wanna book them send private FB message,
or mail to: janne. joutsenniemi (ät) livenation. fi
Wharf Cats
Brand new releases of great little record label
WHARF CAT RECORDS (US, NY, Brooklyn)
PALBERTA is Ani, Nina, and Lily. I strongly agree with they say about their music: „You wanna wabbada? Wap wap wap dabbada? You see that mabada? ding ding dack dabbada?” New album Bye Bye Berta.
HOLY MOTORS from Estonia. When I listened to them first I thought this song could be in a David Lynch film. But Jim Jarmusch was who lent their music for his film Mystery Train. 7″ single.
CARSON COX, SAM YORK & AUSTIN BROWN: Cox from new wave pop band Merchandise, York from raw rock band WALL and Brown from indie punk band Parquet Courts make disco music. 7″ single.
TROPICAL SKIN BYRDS, no wave punk trio with ZZ Ramirez (Ukiah Drag, Destruction Unit), Sean Halpin (CRAOW) and artist Nina Hartmann. EP.
SNAKEHOLE, noise rock hc-punk duo under the influences of w33d & $A+aN. Debut album Interludes of Insanity.
UROCHROMES, a duo with drum machine. Influences: Chrome, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Flipper, Flesh Eaters, Stick Men With Ray Guns. EP with a fine new wave disco remix.
„Hard rock, punk, power pop? Hardcore? I don’t know, just rock’n’roll, buddie”
His real name is Craig Allan Rothwell. Obsessed with the idea of genetic mutation, he submitted to a botched operation in an effort to land a media deal with a big media company. And he became Booji Boy – a bizarre adult infant freak with pre-adolescent sexuality and Yoda-like wisdom. He wrote a book entitled My Struggle. It has a red cover. Booji Boy primarily performs live with DEVO, but his voice was used on several early DEVO recordings because the character was created by them in the early 70s.
But look what happen when some BOOJI BOYS in Nova Scotia make music together, and sing songs about fun in the sun, class war and shameful fantasies.
Debut album on Drunken Sailor Records (UK)
Funny, like the Butthole Surfers
PC WORSHIP is a band, solo project & collective of musicians, trimming steadily on the outskirts of punk, while enlisting methods of new music and free improvisation.
A journey through alternative rock, experimental tape manipulation, downer punk riffs and long form improv-based psychedelic instrumentals.
This time musicians from Liturgy, Guerilla Toss, and there is the complete no wave trio The Dreebs.
So funny, almost like the Butthole Surfers
New album Buried Wish on NORTHERN SPY RECORDS (US)
Gibby Haynes’ soul in a Swedish girl!
Look’n’ listen! Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes’ soul in a Swedish girl, Åsa Söderquist, aka as ShitKid!
Second EP is coming on 3rd of March by PNKSLM Recordings (Swe)! Order here
Singing in a local band but struggling with shyness and blackouts whenever she tried to perform in front of an audience, so she treated the problem with beers. When she was in a feminist punk band started to record on her own at home on a half broken computer, and a shy kid turned into shit.
In this film as Ball-Jugler she is going home with her schoolmate Stargazer from the Superhero Academy
Old School Slackers with Old School Rapper
NY punk band PARQUET COURTS with Texan rapper BUN B (ex-UGK), who one time planned a book „Hip Hop Survival Guide” with journalist and illustrator Shea Serrano, but finally they rather made a rap coloring book. So maybe Bun B has been drawn by his mate:
Captive Of The Sun ft. BUN B out now on limited edition 12” via Rough Trade.
The original track is on PARQUET COURTS’ latest album Human Performance.
In the lyrics there is a phrase: misophonia. It means literally „hatred of sound.” It is a condition in which negative emotions, thoughts, and physical reactions are triggered by specific sounds. One study found that around 80% of the sounds were related to the mouth as eating, chewving, yawning and etc.
PUNKISTAN
interview with Pakistani hardcore band
DEAD BHUTTOS
Punk among the last things come to my mind from Pakistan. Rather a short, but hard story of a young country: bloody secession from India (1947), and of Eastern Pakistan (Bangladesh, 1971), Kashmir, violent power games, and millions left it behind for a better life. How total the chaos there nowadays?
Hassan: The usual. Life trudges on despite the numerous national tragedies we’ve faced over the years. I’ve become desensitized to the usual power games and propaganda, because otherwise it is very easy for someone to lose their sanity if they focus only on Pakistani news. I would rather use my free time to detach myself from the chaos, and study the complex power structures at play.
Are you the Dead Kennedys of Pakistan?
Hassan: Nope. We had no intention of being that. Musically we are different, and we would never like to be considered “this or that” band of Pakistan. We’re just making music we can relate to, regardless of who we’re influenced by or where we come from.
Your hardcore is like the Finnish. What are your music influences?
Hassan: I don’t know how accurate that comparison is, but yes – Finnish hardcore is one of my favorite styles. Tampere SS, Terveet Kadet, Riistyet, Mellaka, Rattus, Kohu-63 are some bands I enjoy a lot from the scene. To an extent, I guess hearing punk music in Finnish (as well as in Japanese, Swedish, Spanish, etc) actually inspired me to do vocals in Urdu.
Basim: Yeah the cold crusty stuff is great. I end up playing so much rock stuff and listening to it when we are recording, in my spare time I try to mix it up.
Punk and underground music scene there?
Hassan: It is small, close-knit but with a potential to grow. However, people lack general enthusiasm for music, so the entire situation can be quite hopeless sometimes. I have been putting on shows, been in different bands, run zines etc for the last 7 years and it’s always an uphill struggle trying to maintain the DIY ethics.
The Pakistani society is conservative – at least I think so. What is the reaction of the society for punk?
Hassan: Conservative societies make for great motivation, in a perverse sort of way. If I didn’t get ostracized for my speaking the truth, I would not have this rage inside me nor the desire to shout on a microphone.
Basim: Sadly nowhere has been immune to these right wing morons. They hold power in Hungary, could very soon do so in France, can’t really make head to tails of what’s happening in Poland, USA is going down the toilet, and the UK is so far up its own ass (and by referendum!) Fuck Victor Orban & everything he stands for.
I have read your lyrics.
„Hammer and sickle, a slogan of the people / But what was achieved? / The people got fucked / Since then we’ve been crying, while all the bastards keep looting” (Democracy is the Best Revenge)
„Bread, clothing, medicine / A small house to live in / Give me free education / For I am a Muslim too” (What is the meaning of Pakistan?)
You are seem disillusioned. Democracy is the best revenge for what?
Hassan: Who knows? You’ll have to ask the Bhutto family for that answer, it’s their quote.
RNR666: Reputedly it was said by twice prime minister Benazir Bhutto, but we can not ask her, because she was assassinated in 2007 two weeks before the next election. She was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state.
Are you students or/and workers or/and aliens?
Hassan: I concluded my education last year, and am currently working. Sheraz is finishing his education, and Basim lives and works most of the time in the USA.
What is your opinion about Pakistan Antarctic Programme?
Hassan: I don’t know too many details about it. I know there is a Jinnah Antarctic Station by Pakistan, but the public hasn’t been disclosed much information.
Basim: That is where the mothership is located!
RNR666: I have asked this because so strange that a young country with so many social and political tensions is running an Antarctic programme – anyway that station is named after the founding father of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. I am sure it is just because India is also running one.
But now here come The Real Bhuttos!
Benazir father’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the family business Pakistan Peoples Party with the slogan „Islam is our faith, democracy is our policy, socialism is our economy. All power to the people” in 1967. He was president between 1971-73, and prime minister between 1973-77. Military coup 1977. He was accused of murder and after a show trial he was hanged in 1979.
After the execution Benazir was imprisoned until 1984. Her brothers Shahnawaz and Murtaza fled the country and founded a terrorist organization in Afghanistan. Tried to assassinate Pakistani military dictator general Zia-ul-Haq more times. Shahnawaz died suddenly in his 26th year in France in 1985. It is said by poison.
Murtaza went home after seventeen years, but because did not get desirable position formed a maverick fraction inside the party. He was sought by the police on the charge of inciting attacks on two CIA centres. He was killed along with six other party activists in a shooting affair when the police tried to arrest him during Benazir’s second government in 1996.
After the killing Benazir was removed from office on corruption charges. She was given jail sentence together with her future president husband, but she went into exile. After eight years she went home to run on the elections in 2007. She was very careful, two days before her homecoming wrote her last will.
They all lie in the home of dead Bhuttos. It was built by BB. It ‘s beatifully harmonizes with the slogan of Pakistan Peoples Party: Roti, Kapra or Makaan, id est „Bread, Cloth and Shelter” for everyone.
SELF-SABOTAGE
BORZOI from Texas
RAW NOISE PUNK 7″ vinyls on 12XU RECORDS (US)
GARY WRONG GROUP from different southern places. Founded by Wizzard Sleeve‘s Captain Beyonce (also in King Louie And The Loose Diamonds, Kajus SS) with Wizzard Sleeve mate and Natural Child organist Benny Divine, Quintron and more.
Crack An Egg In Honor of The Human Race!
POW!
Californian synth-punk duo, discovered by John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees, Castle Face Records), for a while Seth Sutton (Useless Eaters) was their drummer, and vice versa, Byron Blum (POW!) was a member of garage rock band Useless Eaters.
New album Crack An Egg on Castle Face Records (US) for the fools of Digital Leather, Cheveu, Gary Numan and POW!
If I am overthinking, talk about anything, any damned thing
DELACAVE
– is a duo of Lily Pourie and Sebnormal, whom has many formations, the most known is psych garage rock band The Feeling of Love,
– plays degressive rock like Neue Deutsche Welle group Malaria! in the early 80s,
– and they have another duo together Le Chemin De La Honte,
– on the recordings Cheb Samir was playing on drums from Italian psychedelic no wave band Trans Upper Egypt
New album ‘IF I AM OVERTHINKING, TALK ABOUT ANYTHING, ANY DAMNED THING’ on TEENAGE MENOPAUSE RECORDS (France). Listen to it!
Fuck You
Clerical reaction is continuing!
Yesterday the PRIESTS, today the BISHOPS with their holy grunge punk music
from the album Dream Easy
„Come on palm trees come on soft seas”
An unorthodox punk band from Washington, D.C.
PRIESTS
fusing no wave pop hc punk indie rock anarcho funk.
Some names from my notes: Lydia Lunch + Fugazi + Dead Kennedys + Joy Division/New Order + Dog Faced Hermans.
Debut album Nothing Feels Natural OUT NOW on Sister Polygon Records (US).
Euro tour May-June UK, NL, Bel, Fr, Sp, Lux, Ger, DK.
They say: So here is something funny about the signing of the US constitution: There were 55 people who signed it, they were all rich white men. 15 of them owned other people who were forced to do work for them in order to survive, called “slaves”. All 55 of these white men owned land. If you were not a wealthy white man who owned people or land you were definitely not invited to decide what this new country was going to be about. (…) This place was born on a selfish lie. There is nothing to salvage, no great ideals that just got a little skewed. (…) When people defend the USA I think of Stockholm Syndrome. (… So) the first step is knowing, understanding, that this country was not made for you, and it is built on lies and murder.
But in the reality just 39 delegates signed it from the 55, and not 15 rather 25 were slave-owners. At that time the states predominantly limited the voting right to property-owning or tax-paying white males. So they were the people.
But I do not believe that the low-qualified poor would be so honest, unselfish, brave and so on. They just would do the same thing, or worse. Trump and Brexit have come by them.