„Life is funny when there’s no rules.”

Another great band from memphis on Goner Records. Ex-Cult. Post punk psych garage with „buzz-saw guitars, kraut rock rhythm section and sneering vocals.”

„Midnight Passenger” album on Goner Records

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American indie folk with lot of acoustic instruments

Saintseneca – „Dark Arc” album on Anti- Records. Saintseneca bandcamp

PARQUET COURTS

“’90s slacker heroes”
“punk vigor and slacker looseness”
“these boys are old-school slackers”
“typical laid-back NY-slacker manner”

Sunbathing Animal

from the new album „Sunbathing Animal” on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July     Parquet Courts Soundcloud

Wreckless Eric is one of the most influential artists to emerge from the Stiff Records stable. He went on to have one of punk’s biggest hits with “Whole Wide World” in 1977 and inspired a legion of artists from Yo La Tengo to The Vaccines and from Marianne Faithful to Lilly Allen. In his thirty-seven He has made seventeen albums and worked with, or had his songs covered by artists as Proclaimers, Blockheads, Lightning Seeds, Holly Golightly, Cliff  Richard, Monkees, Toten Hosen and Two Lone Swordsmen, to name a few.

The British painter Peter Blake named Wreckless Eric as one of the most important pop icons of the past forty years, and included him on the remake of The Beatles Sergeant Pepper’s cover. (Blake has made the original one.) Another important pop icon Lou Reed played his Take The Cash on on his last ever radio show, recorded a week before he died. Fire Records will reissue his 1989 album Le Beat Group Electrique on Record Store Day. It will be on 19 April this year.

Mr. Wreckless also is a painter

Participant stores of Record Store Day on your location.

Industrial blues where performance and body art meet improvisation and noise on the album „Wölfli’s Nightmare” by Sudden Infant on Voodoo Rhythm.

He is a Swiss composer, body and performance artist. Composed music for contemporary dance, theater, films, radio plays, and installations. Among his numerous collaborations there are Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and The New Blockaders.

Wölfli (1864-1930) was a Swiss art brut artist, unconscious father of the surrealism and a mental patient. He used the Campbell’s soup cans as artistic motif at first. An article about Art Brut and Wölfli in Hungarian.

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When I have heard the Sunday Morning at first yesterday I was delighted at it because I thought that it’s a „real time” song but it was written in 1958 by Margo Guryan.

She is singer, songwriter, lyricist and musician, her sole album was released in 1968. Her songs was recorded by Carmen McRae, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Nilsson, Saint-Etienne and many others. She refused to tour so she became disinteresting for the music industry as a performer, but worked on as writer and produced records for others. Then she worked as a piano teacher and produced music books for students. In 2007, she released a new single, entitled „16 Words”. The track refers to one phrase from a speech of G.W. Bush in 2003. Look!

27 Demos on CD by Oglio and cassette by Burger Records

Tacocat about the order of street behavior

„Hey Girl” from the „post post punk pop pop” band’s new album „NVM” on Hardly Art

This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store – the staff, the customers, and the artists – to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day, hundreds of artists make special appearances and performances since 2007. Record Store Day will be on April 19 this year.

Thee Oh Sees announced their hiatus in December, but there happened something because the new album „Drop” will be released on Record Store Day by Castle Face Records. 70s psychedelic rock from Beatles to Black Sabbath via glam station.

The band formed as a side project in 1997 by John Dwyer. Then he was in the Coachwhips (wild garage punk, disbanded, re-united this year), The Hospitals (noise rock, quit) and Pink and Brown (noise punk, disbanded). Maybe John Dwyer is an hyperactive person, because there was a solo album under the name of Damaged Bugs in February.

„the group of us there were listening to the Iron Curtain reissues, and we were kinda obsessed with the Christian Death Theatre of Pain album. I’m a bit older than Tom, so I was showing him Coil and Throbbing Gristle as well.”

„we know that’s the main aim of the sound: to get a sound that makes you feel sick in the stomach, because it sounds so good.” Dark, 70-80s horror film influenced cold wave synth punk from Australia by NUN. Debut album on Aarght (Aus) & Avant! Records (Italy)

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Hard rock but otherwise than Saxon. Post punk but harder than Gang of Four. The Protomartyr from Detroit

„Under Color of Official Right” album on Hardly Art

crampsy surfy fuzzy garage rock duo from France
Los Dos Hermanos play Alienor

from their 7″ single on Six Tonnes De Chair Records. They fill unexpected historical references into their exotic music due to their shared passion for History. For example

Excerpt from N1 Ear

“If I get raped it must be my fault and if get bashed I must’ve provoked it / And if I raise my voice I’m a nagging bitch and if I like fucking I’m a whore / And if I don’t want to I never want to (‘you never want to, you never want to’) / And if I love a woman it’s because I can’t get a real man or it’s for his enjoyment / And if I ask my doctor too many questions I’m neurotic and need pills / Because I still can’t get a safe birth control while some fucker’s roaming the moon”

After Velvet Underground, Lou Reed and Nico, before Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, Leslie Winer has made the first trip hop album. Witch was released in early 1990 in London. It was simply credited to ©. It will be re-released on vinyl by Superior Viaduct on 29 April.

Leslie Winer is an American born poet, writer and musician. In the beginning she played with jazz bands as a pianist, then befriended with Burroughs and Jean-Mihel Basquiat as a university student in New York, worked as a super model in the 80s, went to London, worked together with Adam & The Ants bassist Kevin Mooney and Karl Bonnie of Renegade Soundwave, took part with her spoken words in the last song of Sinead O’Connor’s debut album in 1987, then made her first album Witch, which was released in early 1990. Her main instruments were the sampler and the desktop. (Witch was re-released in 1993. It also passed unnoticed.)  She contributed to Bomb The Bass, Mekons and Holger Hiller songs and went back to America in late 1990, wrote some tracks for Grace Jones and Jon Hassel, signed to Geffen Records, but her second album 3 Bags Full which was recorded in 1993-94 stayed unreleased. Her third album Spider was recorded between 1994 and 97. It was released around 1999 in very limited series by Austrian minimalist and deconstructivist fashion designer Helmut Lang to promote one of his shows in New York.

These are raw jazzy experimental trip-hop albums with spoken words and sampled, dubbed music. Her albums remind me „Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales”, the collaboration album of Burroughs and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. On the other hand her songs bring Velvet Underground, Lou Read and Nico to my mind.

Since then there were collaborations with French composer Christophe Van Huffel, Swedish composer and conceptual artist Carl Michael von Haushoff, British singer-songwriter and BMX champion Alice Temple, and put JJ Cale with touch with Samuel Beckett for nothing under the Cajun moon.

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She is living in France, playacting as co-editor for the Herbert Huncke estate. He was a beat poet and writer. Ms Winer reads a short story from Huncke.

“I guess there’s quite a dark side to me. It always comes out when I’m writing songs. I love Sylvia Plath, and I love listening to songs that have that haunting darkness that really pulls you in, so it’s probably something that I want to create in my songs.” She plays every instrument on her recordings, from bass to piano, from guitar to sitar. Strange bitter-sweet haunted folky pop songs by Marika Hackman

Deaf Heat EP by Dirty Hit Records

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Cobra is a French thrash rock band. Outrage & destruction since 1984.

7″ on Born Bad Records

Chris Imler a Berliner drummer.  He is one of the drivers in avantgarde pop duo Driver & Driver. The other is the electronic musician Patric Catani.

Dark Spot Of Joy by Chris Imler

from his debut album Nervös on Staatsakt Records. „Imagine Alan Vega, DAF, Silver Apples, Hasil Adkins and Joe Meek being played and performed by one person!” – say the press kit. By the way, Joe Meek was an occultist paranoid innovative producer and songwriter.

Sonic Chicken 4 was a French garage punk band „before garage punk bands had booking agencies, five-page hospitality riders and tuners…” Their posthumous album was recorded in 2009 by King Khan and was continously re-set and re-postponed until this year, but meanwhile the band stopped his activity.

Bachelor (EU) and Dusty Medical Records (USA)

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Mixed Band Philantrophist was a project of English industrial noise group The New Blockaders. From their anti-manifesto: „It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-music, anti-art, anti-books, anti-films, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless…” The Mixed Band of Philantrophist is an international noise conspiracy (or anti-conspiracy). The Impossible Humane album is a sound collage, made from assembled tape recordings of Merzbow, Controlled Bleeding, Nurse With Wound, Etant Donnes and same industrial and noise artists.

It was released in 1987. Reissue with two bonus tracks by Staubgold. 12″ vinyl, only 400 copies. Listen to it entirely. So big, so fun!