The music of Pheromoans is called experimental rock. They write songs about absurdity of the everyday life.  These come County Teasers to my mind, but it’s called art punk. As far as I concerned it could be called tulip also.

A song about two failed army cadets struggling to adjust to civilian life.
The Boys Are British

from the album Hearts Of Gold on Upset The Rhythm Records (UK)

HOZAC is a punk, garage, noise rock record label in Chicago. It was founded by Horizontal Action Magazine founders after they demise the magazine in 2006.  

CRETIN STOMPERS (memphis/NYC ex-Magic Kids, Jay Reatard Band, Barbaras, Wavves) – Looking Forward To Being Attacked, debut LP

Infectious oozing pop slime. You will be rewarded with a dynamic explosion of space punk filtered through a clogged toilet of remarkable pop hooks and impeccable melodic surges that hit such wavering heights, you just might need some orange slices to keep your eyes on the road. And as if Cretin Stompers couldn’t give you any more ear candy to clean out your cavities with, they have culled two covers from The Styrenes and Dave Brock (of Hawkwind). Recommended if you like: Magic Kids, Barbaras, King Tuff, R. Stevie Moore, Ween, Jay Reatard. Full Album Stream

NONES – Midwestern Family Values, debut LP

„Jesus christ, this is awful.”

This LP from mutant noise trio NONES is no joy ride, and it’s nothing you want to relax with after a hectic day, but more of an instant agitator, a tool for stirring up your inner turmoil and a safe place to keep your paranoid thoughts where they can drift around in a contained space. It’s the best kind of death trip we’ve found in a long while, and while nothing sounds quite like them, it’s kind of like the soft lullaby accompanying a celebratory castration on a summer day, or maybe even a high-end hysterectomy on a fancy yacht. No smiley faces, hearts or flowers, just crying babies, broken dreams, fever sweat, double-vision and boiled-over belligerence, cooked down into a thick mess of vengeance and insanity. Recommended if you like: Jesus Lizard, Flipper, Grong Grong, Aluminum Knot Eye, Toupee, Negative Trend, Puffy Areolas, Von Lmo, MX-80 Sound, migraine
headaches.

SOUTHERN COMFORT – Suzanne, 7″

There’s just no way around it, this Southern Comfort 7” is possibly the most visceral bummer punk classic two-sider of 2014, and your head won’t be the same after you hear it blasting with the windows open on a warm sunny day. If you aren’t already familiar, be sure to check into all the other great bands Angie is currently involved with Ruined Fortune and Straight Arrows. Recommended if you like: Circle Pit, Angie, Dum Dum Girls, Wax Idols, Redd Kross, Miss Destiny

MARY MONDAY & THE BITCHES – I Gave My Punk Jacket To Rickie, 7″, archival series

One of the greatest west coast punk singles of the first wave is back in print. Former stripper Mary Monday had a life shrouded in mystery, and conflicting reports in the historic documentation as to the band and Mary’s origins are still baffling punkologists to this day, including her mysterious death a few years after this single’s release. As legend goes, she arrived in San Francisco from Vancouver in 1976 with green hair and put together a band while still in high school that played around the Filipino cabaret scene. In August of ’76 when The Ramones made their first West Coast appearances, the opening band for their big San Francisco debut show was Mary Monday & the Bitches. Later on, her band was alternately known as the Street Punks. “I Gave My Punk Jacket To Rickie,” it’s as raw and stupid as punk ever was. Recommended if you like: Bags, Avis Davis & Joy Rider, Avengers, Nuns, Alley Cats, Dishrags, Eyes, Beex.

THE MAN – Carousel of Sound, debut 7″ EP

Panicky/riveting/down-sizing guitar crunch, merging with the heavy dose of anxiety-riddled bass throb, over-worked, stress-wrenched drumming, and all slathered in “workplace harassment”-style vocals. Recommended for fans of Baseball Furies, Wire, Reatards, Persuaders, Guilty Pleasures.

HOZAC STORE

Cousins are a fine garage rock duo in Canada. At first it was Leigh Dotey’s solo project, briefly a four piece, then two, and occasionally three. Their excellent debut album was largely inspired by Aaron’s late Grandmother. Some of the songs are interpretations of Betty’s descriptions of her changing world due to dementia. Hard garage rock’n’roll sometimes with a very little Pixies and Breeders flavor.

„Halls of Wickwire” on Ba Da Bing (US) and  Hand Drawn Dracula Records (Can)

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The Italian Goodbye Boozy is one of bests the garage rock/punk record label in Europe. It usually releases 7″ vinyl. The Inutili is an Italian psych garage band. The WAND is one of Mikal Cronin new favourite bands. Their song was recorded and mixed by Ty Segall. Split 7″ co-release with Aagoo Records (US).

You can download some previous GBB releases from here.
Sometimes the download links are invisible!

TUNE-YARDS were started by puppeteer and ukulele player Merrill Garbus in 2006. She has recorded her first album with a handheld voice recorder only. It was self-released on recycled cassettes and there were limited pressing vinyls by Marriage Records in June 2009. In July Tune-Yards had signed to 4AD Records.

Tropical art pop madness in Water Fountain

from the album Nikki Nack on 4AD.     Some shows in Europe in May

Some days ago there was an astound news about Black Pus/Oozing Wound split LP by Thrill Jockey Records. Here is the next one

Why Do The Heathen Rage?

is a collection of electronic covers of black metal classics by Soft Pink Truth. It’s solo project of Drew Daniel from experimental electronic duo Matmos. His partners in crime: Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, Jenn Wasner from indie-folkrock duo Wye Oak, Terrance Hannum from drone-metal band Locrian, his Matmos partner M.C. Schmidt and more. So

„Open the door, enter hells core
Black is the code for tonight
Atomic force, feel no remorse
Crank up the amps now it’s night
BLACK METAL
lay down your soul to the gods rock `n’ roll”

The original

Tracklist: 1. Invocation for Strength  2. Black Metal (Venom)  3. Sadomatic Rites (Beherit)  4. Ready to Fuck (Sarcófago)  5. Satanic Black Devotion (Sargeist)  6. Beholding the Throne of Might (Darkthrone)  7. Let There Be Ebola Frost (AN)  8. Buried by Time and Dust (Mayhem)  9. Maniac (Hellhammer)  10. Grim and Frostbitten Gay Bar (Impaled Northern Moonforest)

„One of our main distributors has refused to carry the record due to this content… that’s no joke.” was written by the publisher Thrill Jockey Records (US). It’s out on LP/CD on June 16th.

Drew Daniel has released a similar album in 2004: Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?) which consisted house covers of classic hardcore and punk songs. For example: Minor Threat – Out Of Step

A Soft Pink Truth show in Europe: June 5th Copenhagen, Denmark – Distortion Festival
Matmos Euro tour May-June

The Pine Hill Haints are a traditional bluegrass/folk/honky tonk/country band from Alabama. They describe their southern roots music as Alabama Ghost Music. It’s mixed with gospel, rockabilly, rock and roll and blues.  Instruments: guitar, washboard, mandolin, washtub bass, banjo, snare drum, harmonica, fiddle.

I’m Rambler, I’m Gambler

for their brand new 7″ vinyl on their own label Arkam Records. It’s distributed by KRECS

Brilliant name, music & video(s)
THE ADMIRAL – Bother Me

from their split 7″ with Cool Runnings by 1:12 Records, New Zealand.

Cool Runnings’ track

You’re in the 50s-60s (but before the beat madness). Switch on the radio. Rhythm’n blues’n rock’n’roll on New Orleans wave. Now by The Royal Premiers from France.

Friday Night Curse album by Kizmiaz Records on LP/DL

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„Meg, Richie, and I spent a lot of time drinking beer. At the time we asked her to be in the band, her lack of experience on drums was no greater than our lack of experience on guitars, so it wasn’t all that unusual. I think she’s really come into her own bashing away and is the absolute best drummer for Watery Love” to play heavy listening raw noisy garage punk.

Decorative Feeding LP and a 7″ by a competent authority: In The Red Records (US).

But Meg leaved the band so as to concentrate her absolutely different solo career. She was replaced by Ben from Philadelphian highly praised psych-blues-rock-jam band Birds Of Maya. (Another bird is in the Purling Hiss too.)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce was an influential songwriter and musician. He formed The Gun Club with Kid Congo Powers in 1979. Anyway Pierce was the head of the Blondie fan club, while Kid was the president of Ramones Fan Club in Los Angeles, and both of Mexican descent. The band was a pioneer of roots based punk rock. Kid Congo left the band before the recording of the first album to join The Cramps, but later came back more times. Later both joined Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. Gun Club had lots of line-up change because of Pierce drug abuse and alcoholism. Nick Cave said: „He looked increasingly ill, I mean, we all did, but Jeffrey looked particularly so.” He died from brain hemorrhage at the age of 37 in 1996. He was HIV positive, and also suffering from cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis.

Cypress Grove was one of his collaborators of his delta blues influenced album which was released in 1992. After Pierce’s death Grove found a cassette containing unfinished song skeletons that he and Jeffrey had recorded. These were given out to some artists – friends, former band members and fans – to make own versions. On the first album We Are Only Riders (2010) and second one The Journey Is Long (2012, LISTEN!): Ravenoettes, Mark Lanegan, Debbie Harry, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Mick Harvey, Kid Congo Powers, David Eugene Edwards (16 Horsepower), Sadies, Isobel Campbell, Barry Adamson, Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three), Tex Perkins, Tav Falco, Hugo Race and many others.

Now here is the ultimate album Axels & Sockets on Glitterhouse Records

Tracklist:  1. Nobody’s City – Iggy Pop with Nick Cave (feat. Thurston Moore)  2. Kisses For My President – The Amber Lights with Debbie Harry  3. Mexican Love – Black Moth 4. Weird Kid Blues – Julie Christensen  5. Ain’t My Problem Baby – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club  6. Constant Limbo (Constant Rain) – Crippled Black Phoenix and Cypress Grove (feat. Mark Lanegan & Bertrand Cantat)  7. Into The Fire – Nick Cave and Debbie Harry  8.Thunderhead – Kris Needs Presents…Honey  9. Desire By Blue River – Mark Lanegan and Bertrand Cantat  10. Kitty In The Moonlight – The Amber Lights with Xanthe Waite  11. Secret Fires – Ruby Throat  12. Kisses For My President – Andrea Schroeder  13. Body And Soul – James Johnston  14. Goodbye Johnny (Andrew Weatherall’s Mix) – Primal Scream  15. Break ‘Em Down – Hugo Race  16. My Cadillac – Cypress Grove  17. The Journey Is Long – Lydia Lunch and Jeffrey Lee Pierce  18. Shame And Pain – Mark Stewart And Jeffrey Lee Pierce (feat. Thurston Moore)

Iggy Pop & Nick Cave feat. Thurston Moore + Black Moth

The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project

„Slumberland began operations in 1989 as a collective effort consisting of members of DC area bands Velocity Girl, Big Jesus Trash Can/Whorl, Black Tambourine and Powderburns. We were inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Postcard, K, Bus Stop, lower East Side noise, and also the renegade art aesthetics of people like Cage, Burroughs and Duchamp. The explosion of punk had left behind a thriving network of ‘zines, labels and distributors and we felt that there was room for our noise-loving, pop-obsessed aesthetic. While there were loads of US indie labels releasing a steady stream of 7″s, there wasn’t much pop going on.”

Gold-Bears second album is on the way: Atlanta’s noise-pop greats are back with their second album. Dalliance is more focused and abrasive than that 2011 debut, combining their noise-pop influences from forebears like Boyracer and The Wedding Present with shades of the post-hardcore and post-punk. Order

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are back! Brooklyn Indie Pop stalwarts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart just announced their third LP entitled Days of Abandon. The first single from the record, „Simple And Sure.” Listen ti it here. Order

Devon Williams‘ third solo album is a tour de force of shimmering, melodic pop, seamless blend of power-pop, orchestrated soft-rock and layered, complex jangle-pop that recalls such forebears as The Church, Felt and Aztec Camera. Listen to Flowers. Order

All out on 3rd June. Plus vinyl re-presses: first album from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Frankie Rose‘s „Interstellar,” The Mantles‘ „Long Enough To Leave” and Joanna Gruesome‘s „Weird Sister.”

Rip van Winkle is a short story about a Dutch settler who escapes to the mountains from his naggin wife. He meets a group silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins. Rip does not ask who they are, instead, he begins to drink some of their moonshine* and soon falls asleep for 20 years, so sleeping through the American War of Independence (1775-83). This is told by Shannon & The Clams in 50s style dirty sweet rock and roll

from the album Dreams In The Rat House on Hardly Art. Video is made by the many sided guitarist Cody Blanchard.

Euro tour May-June

*Term for illicitly distilled spirits in the US.

Two young Slovenian keyboard enthusiasts have produced this great electro-industrial-noise-core-metal with only two keyboards and some samples. References: Coptic Rain, Godflesh, Atari Teenage Riot and similars.

It’s Everyone Else – New Religion album on Noise Appeal Records (Austria) on vinyl. Or digital

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„The Trashmen covering Jimmy Reed” is said by Flesh Wounds about their trashy punk rock’n’roll music. This style is unusual from Merge Records (US). Good direction. Keep it up!

7″ vinyl with 3 tracks