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.

NEW RELEASES BY DUTCH ELECTRONIC LABEL

ENFANT TERRIBLE

ADOLF FILTER or Schwedisch Deutsche Freundschaft. 7″ on sublabel Petit Enfant.

UNRUHE (ie Restless), a compilation all about acid: spacey and trippy by ZARKOFF (Croatia); distorted and freaked out by ROBERTO AUSER (Holland); industrial by FOQL (Poland); and uncompromising analog terror by THE UNTITLED (Netherlands). 12″ EP on sublabel Gooiland Elektro.

BRANNTEN SCHNÜRE, German psychedelic dark folk duo, inspired by Nico, Novy Svet and David Jackman. LP on sublabel Vrystaete.

Adolf Filter + FOQL + Zarkoff + Adolf Filter + Brannten Schnüre + The Untitled >

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!

Ben Greenberg (ex-The Men) and Michael Berdan (ex-Drunkdriver)

are in UNIFORM.

It’s an industrial metal machine, like the Ministry was.

But most telling about the world of UNIFORM the artists they like:

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hermann Nitsch, Monte Cazazza, Helios Creed

Second album WAKE IN FRIGHT OUT NOW on SACRED BONES (US)

Berdan says about lyrics: Thematically these songs have more in common with the works of Hubert Selby, Jr (Last Exit to Brooklyn) than Lucio Fulci (City of the Living Dead). These are stories about people at the end of their proverbial ropes. Their old medicines are no longer effective and their old ways of living cause them nothing but confusion and despair. They are paralyzed by fear, regret, and self-doubt.

Greenberg says about music: This music is our response to and our reflection of the overwhelming violence, chaos, hate, and destruction that confronts us and everyone else in the world every day of our lives. When we play, I don’t feel powerless anymore. I hope this record can help others transcend their anger and frustration.

Anyway

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.

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.

„As some of the injuries done us have become intolerable we have still been clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we were not ready to demand for all mankind – fair dealing, justice, the freedom to live and to be at ease against organized wrong.”

Woodrow Wilson, president of US, inaugural address, 1917

DOOMSDAY STUDENT

is a perverse noise rock band like Lightning Bolt or Happy Flowers

new album A Self-Help Tragedy on Skin Graft and 3-1-G Records (US)

You can listen to in it its entirety

After five years, Doomsday Student will be touring Europe again. We’ll be there May 27 though June 8 of 2017! More details, including cities and venues are forthcoming.

DS has been formed by ex-members of perverse noise rock band Arab on Radar. It was so perverse, that when it was opening for Marilyn Manson in their hometown, Providence, Rhose Island, the band was expelled out from the club by the audience.

„Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?” enquired the Assistant Predestinator. „I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvelous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects…”

In Huxley’s Brave New World THE FEELIES are entertainment devices,
in the reality are an American „alternative rock band”,
but today this term means nothing, even it would be startling.
They had one of the biggest influences on R.E.M., but I dislike them,
but I’m sure also on the Parquet Courts.
It was said they were the best underground band in New York,
and are among the nation’s most beloved alternative rock bands,
but their first records were released in the UK by Stiff and Rough Trade Records in 1979/80.

„The sound we were after was a reaction against the punk scene (…) we felt it had all been done before. We wanted the guitars to be cleaner, and we started experimenting with a lot of percussion.” But punk is just an attitude.

After their first album CRAZY RHYTHMS there were five years hiatus, because two members left the band. One of them, the drummer, Anton Fier went to The Lounge Lizard, worked with Pere Ubu (the 1978 Pere Ubu EP Datapanik in the Year Zero was dedicated to him), was in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos.

After four albums The Feelies disbanded in 1992, reunited in 2008 by request of Thurston Moore, new record in 2011, brand new one in 2017 on BAR/NONE RECORDS (US)

Anyway they are like The Velvet Underground without heroin. And otherwise the Assistant Predestinator is an Alpha male that is employed at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. His job is to make all the decisions on the new humans being created. Predestinators decide whether that individual will become an Alpha, a Beta, a Delta, a Gamma or an Epsilons. Each caste level is raised with different hynopaedia lessons and has different roles in the World State.

Huxley set the story in London in 2540. There the non-conformity is a crime, so the punks are dead. Or in jail or metnal hospital. But nevermind, here are the AI and the Smart People Party! Get the app!

BAEDEKER TO THE BRAVE NEW WORLD

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!

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