BLACK PUS / OOZING WOUND split 12″ featuring brand new tracks from each.
Out on 17th June by Thrill Jockey Records on limited edition LP/DL

BLACK PUS is „raucous and otherworldly” solo drum project of Brian Chippendale, the drummer of hard noise rock duo Lightning Bolt. He has been chosen by Björk and The Flaming Lips as a collaborator and played on Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Repentance album (2008). OOZING WOUND is a classic, but a little unorthodox thrash metal band, because there aren’t guitar solos. In May 2013 they opened up for Black Pus in their hometown Chicago… These songs aren’t from the split! Just as samples

Black Pus Euro tour June-July. Vienna June 30

„Self Employment is the key to an early grave, I see this in lots of musician friends of mine as well. You are your own travel agent, your own booking agent, your own photographer, your own graphic designer, your own manager, your own producer… on top of that you are a musician. With my show I am the drummer, singer, guitarist and sometimes harmonica player, you could say it is not a way of life, it IS life”.

A wanderer bluesman on Robert Johnson’s path
from Christchurch, New Zealand

DELANEY DAVIDSON – Big Ugly Fish

from the album Swim Down Low on Outside Inside Records (Italy). His previous two albums were released by Voodoo Rhythm Records (Switzerland).

Euro tour: May, July-Aug. Vienna: May 10

3 black brothers underwent from funk to punk in Detroit, 1974. The trio was called Death. They self-released only one single before they transformed into a gospel rock band in 1977, but later they turned into reggae. The Death stayed fully unknown until 2009. After two archival albums this is the final one, featuring studio recordings from 1975, 1978, 1980 and 1992.

Death III by Drag City. Death is reunited.

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Mai Mai Mai is a solo project of Toni from frantic noise rock band Hiroshima Rocks Around and wacky pop duo Trouble vs. Glue. Mai Mai Mai is a travel in time and space: a mix of drone and ambient, techno beats, field recordings and soundscapes on the border between East and West. Delta is second part of his journey across the Mediterranean Sea. His fellows on this trip: a movie star junkie Gianni Giublena Rosacroce on clarinet, Donato Epiro on organs from occult psychedelic duo Cannibal Movie and Piovs on Moog.

Extremely limited one-time pressing LP on Yerevan Tapes. Toni’s first journey.

The Cyclops are a duo formed by Jonnycat (the Chemicals) on vocals and guitars & Tina Lucchesi (Bobbyteens, Trashwomen) on vocals and drums. They describe their music as RAW MEAT, LOUDNESS, FUZZ, BABIES SCREAMING, VOLCANOS ERUPTING, SMELLY FARTS, RAWWWWWW RAWKKK N ROLL

Escape From Cyclops Island LP + 7″ on Surfin’Ki Records (Italy)

Euro tour:  MAY 3 PARIS – LA MECANIQUE + MAY9 ITALY, SARDINIA – TBA + MAY 11 LUCCA + MAY 17 BUCINE W/ KID CONGO + MAY 18 SALSOMAGGIO: BAMFEST + MAY 22 GERMANY, MUNICH – SÜDSTADT + MAY 23 LEIPZIG – ZORRO + MAY 24 BERLIN – AUSTER CLUB + MAY 25 FRANKFURT – TBA

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Exocomet is a drum’n’guitar duo in Brooklyn. Strange psychedelic post punk with massive guitar whirls.  As if it would be the hybrid of Action Beat and Moon Duo.

 Full album stream here  Order CD and info: exocometmusic AT gmail.com

„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them, ‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it’”

Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective.

KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat

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„We’re at that point where we just don’t give a fuck about anything. We want to get a bad review. A lot of bands start off with their punk record first and then just get weaker. We want to only get better and louder.” And to play rough noise rock, like some Amphetamine Reptile artists in the 90s, for example Killdozer, Chrome Cranks or Halo of Flies.

Unholy Two – ‘Talk About Hardcore’ LP on 12XU Records

OBNOX. Aka Bim Thomas. Drummer of Bassholes. Maybe the best blues punk band. And from Puffy Areolas and This Moment in Black History.

Special mix of electronic beats, blues, rock, soul, funk, hip-hop with lots of weed. Molecule and How To Rob

from the album „Louder Space” on 12XU Records

OBNOX on RNR666

Japanese experimental metal wonder Boris states about their new album: „the band masterfully intermingles sludge-rock, blistering crust punk, shimmering shoegaze, epic thunderous doom, psychedelic melodies and just about everything else they’ve ever done.”

„Noise” album on Sargent House in June. Pre-order

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French punky country surf garage rock’n’roll by Sapin from Rennes

„Wrong Way” album on Azbin Records. The label’s team members are from such great garage bands as Le Pecheur, Regal, Animal Trophies and The Skeptics.

Among the best new punk bands:

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animals

taken from the album on the same name on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July

Parquet Courts Soundcloud

A cult band in garage punk underground: LiveFastDie. Forward on GG Allin’s way

from Hit Stains LP which is a compilation from their singles on Almost Ready Records. First 100 on shit colored wax.

The band is named after a tattoo of GG Allin, and one of them is same town as GG — Littleton, New Hampshire. „I heard his music for the first time when I was 11, before I heard any other punk music. Living in Littleton, there’s always some older kid who’s proud of being from the same town as GG. I actually picked up his step-dad while he was hitch-hiking once. He tried to convince me to get an eight ball with him.” Eight ball: a quantity of cocaine or crystal that weighs an eighth of an ounce, which is equivalent to 3.5 grams.

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There was a very British-style twee pop band in America, the Aberdeen. The band It formed in 1993 and signed to the seminal English label Sarah Records, where they were the only not British act. The label closed in 1995, the band broke-up in same year. In the recent times some members have started a new project, The Luxembourg Signals. First single before the album on Shelflife Records

Black Moth Super Rainbow mix anything with everything.
Their hotchpotch is called as experimental music.
The frontman’s side project is TOBACCO
plays nerve-racking electro-noise hard pop
on analogue electronic instruments and tape machines.
Streaker

from the album Ultima II Massage on Ghostly International. Direted by Eric Wareheim

Black Ice Cream Experience

Peculiar experimental tropical music from electro-noise tunes to danceable pop melodies by Helado Negro. Son of Ecuadorian immigrants, who has grown in the Latin-American bustle of South-Florida. His interest was arouse by the sounds of tropical nature and environment: subwoofers in the cars, howling music of portable stereos, uproars of night parties and more. Since then he looks on every device as musical instruments. I’m glad to hear about him again, because

Third part of his EP series Island Universe Story on Asthmatic Kitty. Cassette or digital

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Back To Back. Nice Texan hardcore punk – raw, brutal and fatal

7″ by 540 Records

„I was eleven. I took a few lessons, but not many really. I used to hide from my guitar teacher. Maybe I didn’t feel he was teaching me the right stuff or something.”

In the mid-80s under the influence of 50’s rock and roll Dex Romweber founded his legendary „hardcore Americana” band Flat Duo Jets – as if it came from the grave

Then they went US tour with The Cramps. Their records were released by roots and authentic rock and roll specialist Norton Records and others. 1998 brings the major label contract to them but the album Lucky Eye (with unusual horn and strings arrangement) was the swan song. After the break-up Dex made some solo records and founded the Dex Romweber Duo with his drummer Crash LeResh. In 2007 he was replaced with Dex’s sister, Sarah, who was member in indie pop band Let’s Active in the 80s. She says: „there are few things that me and Dexter absolutely agree on 100% – like Chopin, reincarnation, UFO’s, ghosts…”  „and psychology” – Drex completes the list.

„There is a real film noir quality to what we do. Really man, you see the darkest alleys. You see the most haunted streets. You see the wildest prostitutes. You come across drugs. You come across incredibly long drives. You come across band arguments. You come across mysterious people. You come across great people. You come across tremendous assholes, you see this real weird part of America that most people don’t really see on that level. When each record comes, I’m trying to figure out what’s going to fit at this time and what’s a picture of the last two years I’ve lived. The songs that come to me are very much a mirror of what my life has been like since the last record.”

The next chapter is Images 13 with repainted versions of Who (So Sad About Us), Rachmaninoff (Prelude in G Minor), Henry Mancini (Blackout!), Harry Lubin (composer, 60s sci-fi series, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond) and there is a deadly love ballad We’ll Be Together Again, which was written by Eddie Cohran’s girlfriend Sharon Sheeley after the fatal car accident. She also was in the taxi. The song was never released formally but recorded by Jackie DeShannon in the early ‘60s.

Images 13 – new Drex Romweber Duo album on Bloodshot Records. Two intelligible, post-edited sentences from my notes about it: Dynamic roots rock’n’roll with surfy garage rock feeling. There’re some reminiscence of Elvis, Bowie, Iggy Pop.

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