Since his previous EP the music of Orlando Furious moves forward from junk pop toward electro rubbish. It’s relished with a little hip-hop. And he is still better than Xiu Xiu.

High And Mighty EP – cassette and digital on Cinnamon Records (Aus)

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One from British surf punk band Sex Beet has moved to Stockholm. Lucern Raze is his personal project. French mode easy garage rock

Debut 7″ before the album by PNKSLM Records (UK & Swe)

Barbara Lehnhoff didn’t want to become a musician – like so many other individuals, but her debut album of this year under moniker of Camilla Sparksss is better than the new Laibach. You can find danceable technoid rhythms and electro-industrial punk tunes on it.

Vinyl     CD     Cassette     Fashion     RNR666 interview

These songs are like the cross of (Dutch folk punk) The Ex and The Breeders. Free download.

Every time I glad when Orval Carlos Sibelius comes forward with new records. He is a French multi-instrumentalist, who make music in really various styles from abstract electroinc dance to psych folk pop. His music often comes the world of Deerhhof in my mind. But now something almost completely different: psychedelic noise rock with a special taste of kraut-rock with Domotic, King Q4, My Jazzy Child and Aurelien Potier under the name of Centenaire. And it’s also excellent.

Centenaire – Ste Croix EP on Clapping Music (France). Previous Centenaire album

Albums of OCS: Recovery Tapes (2011), Super Forma (2013)

There’re some mistakes: Orval Carlos Sibelius is no more in the band. He left after the previous album (The Enemy, 2009). And King Q4 is not in the band either, he just a guest sometimes… but not on the new EP. So Centenaire now is just Damien Poncet (My Jazzy Child), Stéphane Laporte (Domotic, Egyptology) and Aurélien Potier…

Thank Julien for correction

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It’s written that „69 meets Pan Sonic. Ruffunk…” Pan Sonic is OK, but the rest is unknown for me, but the name of Pan Sonic is a guarantee for

NPLGNN (from Napoli) – „Meccano” EP – cassette, CD, digital on Trensmat (Ireland)

It was written between the catastrophes
by charming Swedish songtress
Molly Nillson in Buenos Aires

From the EP Sólo Paraíso on Dark Skies Association (Sweden) (Sweden)
and Night School Records (UK)

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The Russians have a predilection for airliner shooting

1940. A Junkers Ju 52 en route from Tallinn (Estonia) to Helsinki (Finland) was shot down by two Soviet bombers over the Gulf of Finland during peacetime; all 9 aboard died.

1962. A domestic flight of Russian airlines company Aeroflot was accidentally shot down by a surface-to-air missile which had gone astray during an air defence exercise. 84 people died.

1978. A Boeing 707 of Korean Air Lines was shot down by Soviet fighter planes; the plane did crash-lands near the Soviet Union’s border with Finland; two of the 109 people on board were killed, the rest were subsequently released.

1983. Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 was shot down by Soviet fighter planes near Sakhalin and Moneron Island after straying into Soviet airspace; all 269 people on board were killed.

„We grimly demand the complete extermination of mankind.”

James Brown III – antiguitar     Pete Majors – antivoice     Sandor GF – antidrums

Harassor – Into Unknown Depths LP on Dais Records (US)

debut album free download

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Scrabbled is a music collective in Brisbane (Aus) with members from Clag, Per Purpose and many more. They are play real pop music. You can find just hits with catchy refrains on their album. But these tracks are too human, so aren’t good for radio stations. On the other hand it’s real punk music. Free, noisy and foul-mouthed, but too free for punks. „Urban folk” is also a good phrase for their music, it as if would be played by a common project of Velvet Underground and Mad Nanna. The latter is also a cult band.

Welcome To Pig City cassette and digital on Virtual Cool Records (Aus)

Just follow Shiva Trash
on the way of Helter Swelter

surfy garage rock from Chula Vista (Deep South California)
debut 7″ on Chulo Punks Records (US)

The clip based on a real life incident

„The mechanisms of protection are all around us, but do you feel safer?”

’77 is eternal & indestructible, because punks not dead (just all the Ramones)

Hard Left – 7″ lathe cut and digital on Future Perfect Records (US)

Hard Left is a hard mod band from members of #1 Smash Hits, Boyracer and Manatee in Oakland. Class war, Marxism and all that jazz, but I swear that listen to it so good, but I can’t do it without laughing.

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It’s not easy pop music, rather pretty brutal, miraculous haunted gospel folk trip-hop soul by 26 years old Canadian singer songwriter Al Spx, who is working with her 6-piece band under the name of Cold Specks. Many of her songs are based on junk- shopped old photos and postcards. „It’s insane how many people throw away their old photos. Some of them are absolutely stunning and I just wonder what made these people throw them out – What is their story? Why is this woman doing that? Why is there a creepy man standing in the background?”

Neuroplasticity – LP/CD/digital – order here. Michael Gira (Swans) appears on a track. The collaboration started with Spx singing on Swans’ last album.

She dropped out of school, but hadn’t told her parents and secretly began worked at a call center. Around that time, she handed a collection of songs to a friend of hers, who passed it on to his brother, who happened to be a record producer in London.

„Call centers… I always say it’s the worst job in the world. It’s just hell.”

pref: Tuaregs are nomadic people in the Sahara. When African countries achieved widespread independence in the 1960s, the traditional Tuareg territory was divided among a number of countries. The situation naturally led to some (unsuccessful) uprisings. They’re living as refugees in some countries of Africa.

“TINARIWEN IS A BAND BORN INTO CHAOS.”

The founder, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib saw a cowboy to play on guitar in a western film in his childhood. After the happy end he fabricated his first guitar from a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wire. He has formed his band in a Libyan Tuareg refugee camp, where they were under military training in 1979. When the revolution broke out in their homeland in 1990, they left Libya behind, put down their instruments and took up guns to fight for the Tuareg independence in Mali. When the conflict died down, the band returned to music. And they have become successful refugees around the world with their traditional Tuareg music, which is influenced by blues and Hendrix.

Chaghaybou from the album Emmaar. It’s about the trials of their people.

It’s their first album which was written and recorded far from their homeland in the deserts of  Californian Joshua Tree National Park. „We watched Western movies, during the recording and ate burritos, and the engineer who worked with us is from Nashville.” Previous Grammy winner album was recorded in the Algerian Desert, because „We love all the desert, these are places where we feel good to live and to create.”

For Tuaregs the Sahara is not one desert but many,
they call it Tinariwen, id est: The Deserts.

„Hell is a good place to write songs, get smashed, take drugs and destroy your sanity, well-being, future and relationships.” – Warren Thomas

More excerpts from interviews:

Aquarium Drunkard: Even in 2010, when I first saw you (The Growlers – boys from the acid beach) live, you had a percussion player who wore a swimsuit and played the bongos in a beach chair for the entire show.
Brooke Nielson: Warren (Thomas)! He’s the man. He’s doing his own shit again—he’s got a new band called The Abigails. Warren was a great party vibe. Everything was a party. Just getting a slice of pizza was a pizza party.

LA Record: Where are you from?
Warren: Like most people, my dad fucked my mom and nine months later I came out of her pussy.

Outlaw country with voice of Lee Hazelwood. Warren has got it by the aid of diabolical practices.

The Abigails – Tundra LP on Burger Records (US) The album was released on cassette in last year. Digital copy

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Classic thrifty minimal techno from Scotland. Another mysterious electronic project on Clandestine Records (UK)

Twins – Cold Gemini 12″ EP

The amazing Mexican fuzzy psychedelic rock duo
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete‘s recent vinyl LP,
which was snapped up within some nano seconds in March,
out now again on Captcha Records (US)!!!
(Sure you can also buy CD or digital copy.)

You can also buy albums on vinyl and digital formats directly from the band
CDs only from the label

On the road as a Mexican band
– Alberto: There might be excitement about the fact that we are from Mexico but it’s not like we get more beer at the shows or that nobody steals records from our merch table while we’re not looking. In the end we’re just treated like any other band. Which is cool.
– Lorena: Sometimes people practice their spanish with us, so it’s fun.

Read the full interview here.

Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London for the rainy days. Astronauts are solo project of Dan Carney from Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). It was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.

‘Hollow Ponds’ album on Lo Recordings (UK)

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Female fronted „8-legged riff machine” in the manner of Stooges, Spacemen 3 and AC/DC form Australia.

The Daicos – Monkey’s Blood LP on Homeless Records (Aus)

and then my head’s in the bowl for the rest of the night…

Firewater Liquor by Natural Child

from the album Dancin’ With Wolves on Burger Records (US)

In Keith Richards’ view
Natural Child is just the second best rock and roll band of the world.
You can read from this and find more stories about the band
on the famous RNR666’s interview.