Career of the Magik Markers was started by help of Sonic Youth. Some markers to their music: psychedelic-minimal-no wave-magic-noise-rock. Mirrorless

from the album ‘Surrender To The Fantasy’ by Drag City. It was recorded at an old music room, a practice place, two basements  and J. Masics’s (Dinosaur Jr.) attic  in different cities.

CLASSIC 80s US HARDCORE PUNK
A FAST LOUD ABRASIVE WHEEL

self-released 7″ vinyl EP by THE INSTIGATION

It formed in Shanghai in 2010, but the current line-up is living 4 different cities.
The Japanese guitarist and bassist: Kobe and Tokyo
(the distance is about 480 km or 300 miles).
The British singer: London. The Canadian drummer: Shanghai.
It’s also really hardcore.

If you want vinyl please write: theinstigation AT gmail.com

The Ruins was founded as a trio in 1985, but the guitarist never arrived, so started as a prog-rock drum and bass duo. During the years there were 4 bassists, the last one quit in 2004, since then the drummer, Tatsuya Yoshida is working as Ruins Alone. By the way he is also playing in the noise metal Zeni Geva, in the free jazz grind PainKiller with John Zorn and Bill Laswell, and in the prog-psych-space rock Acid Mothers Temple beside his many collaborations. One of these is the Sax Ruins with the saxophone player, flautist (and sculptor) Ryoko Ono, who participates in jazz, rock, funk, rhythm & blues and hiphop bands beside her own progressive-impro-rock band, ryorchestra.

Blimmguass LP by Skin Graft Records

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Nice indie pop music by Hospitality

Trouble LP on Merge (USA) and Fire Records (UK). I wonder whether will be there such a hit as the Friends of Friends?

A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
In the following days you can read about their latest 4 releases.

MIR – plays alien folk, aka UFOLK music 

In the human sphere it is like a time and space noise wave
played on un/conventional rock instruments
and lots of additional electronic and analogue equipment.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project hadn’t so many widgets than they have,
so the sound wasn’t the real McCoy there.

The MIR was launched in 2005 under influence of the German Kosmiche Musik. The astronauts are very colourful individuals. The drummer, Daniel Buess was in the pioneer jazzcore band 16-17, is founding member of the Ensemble of Phoenix, which is specialized to contemporary music, and there are various bands and collaborations.
Papiro, the masters of strings, originally is a classical trained violinist, who plays every instrument that he can get, and had/has many projects in different styles. For example there was a mystical experience in 2003 which led him to perform music based on playing only one chord at high volume for an extended period.
MZ operates on organ, synthesizers and other electronics. He originally played guitars with different underground bands until he discovered that he was more interested in soundeffects rather than virtuosity, and developed new techniques for guitar, and started to play around with synthesizers and their modifications. When I first saw the MIR, I stared his little room size keyboard structure, and named it ‘Oh my God, what is it?’
On their Shock Your Moneymaker album two percussionists joined them. “The duo’s tabla-like playing adds a furious, repetitive element to the band’s music, an effect that becomes even more striking when Papiro brings the Indian Shehnai flute into the mix.” It’s like a Martian jungle.

The album’s producer is Alex Buess from 16-17, GOD, Phantom City, Cortex (duo with Daniel Buess) etc.

The „vintage rocker” Michael Yonkers is one of the greatest hidden underground musicians like Seasick Steve, who won the Award for Best Breakthrough Act at his age of 66, or the 81 years old bluesman, Leo Welch with his debut album. Yonkers was born in Minneapolis in 1947. He has been making music since the early 60s, self-releasing some albums in the 70s, and stayed fully unknown until 2003. Then his unreleased album, the Microminiature Love, which was recorded in 1968 was released by de Stijl and Sub Pop. And boom. Fresh, fascinating psychedelic garage rock with a very unique sound, thanks to own made effects and a reshaped Fender Telecaster. It’s „like a fusion of stripped down Black Sabbath, The Troggs, Pere Ubu, and The Cramps.” It also comes the Stooges, the Godz and Joy Division to my mind. His previous albums would be reissued one after the other beside his new and unreleased materials.  Among his new stuff there are two collabs with the garage punk band, Blind Shake.

A marvellous acoustic chamber folk album The Borders Of My Mind with Jim Woehrle from 1974 is the brand new reissue by Drag City. Look!

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Texan harsh punk on drums, guitar and electronics. Burnt Skull

Sewer Birth LP by 12Xu

Special Swiss lo-fi doom folk by the one man act Doomenfels. Jahreszithen

from Epilog EP by A Tree In A Field Records

Bedroom hip-hop with taste of noise punk by the multi-instrumentalist experimental rapper, Signor Benedick The Moor, who arrived from the metal/hc scene. „The name comes from two places, both Shakespearean, Benedick is the main character in Much Ado About Nothing, and I identify with him on a personal level as someone who will in the future be jaded because of his past experiences with love. He is also very witty and I like to think the same of myself. The second, the Moor, comes from the characters Aaron the Moor and Othello, both outsiders because of their skin color. I’ve felt like an outsider since I began to form my self-awareness, because of my half-white, half-black heritage, and because I always seemed to think so much differently than everyone else.”

by the experimental noise label, Deathbomb Arc

His former old-school-like hip-hop-punk project with less noise and more music: brayne (free downloads)

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The Blank Realm is a very open minded and amazing psychedelic rock band from the fantastic Aussie underground scene. „if Lady Gaga wanted to collab with us, we would almost definitely say yes, although the result would probably make for rugged listening.”

Grass Inn LP by Bedroom Suck (Aus) and Fire Records (UK)

Hey-hey! A new Sieur et Dame video! ColléSerré (= Let’s stick together) 

from their split 7″ with Gregaldur.

Sieur et Dame are from France. They have made one of the best albums in 2013.
Their music is very special, difficult to define it. In one word: burlesque.
In more: S&D on RNR666

The Attic is above a disco club on the main street of the southern town of Dunedin, New Zealand. Established in 2011 as a workspace for a group of artists who no longer wanted to work from their bedrooms. The place has evolved into a makeshift recording studio, practice space, gallery, workshop and a sometimes venue. Striving towards creative sustainability, The Attic is now a homespun cassette label.

On the first Tuesday of every month The Attic releases a new exclusive single by one of their favourite local artists. The A-side comprises an original recording of the band, the B-side is a cover nominated by The Attic residents. Both tracks are recorded in The Attic and delivered to your ears for free.  At the end of the year the collection will be compiled into one physical release. The second single (the first in this year) is made by a surprisingly good punk band, Ostrander Aardvark

Free download Ostrander Aardwark live at the Attic

Mystical oriental minimal garage beats by the 4 pieces Brooklyn based all girl band, Habibi

debut LP by Burger Records

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Psychedelic guitar noise by the New Zealander experimental musicians, Antony Milton

This digital album is one long track split in two. It was recorded at the same time as his brand new album‘s session.

The Autumn Splendour was a great New Zealander punk band. Jeff

from their last EP in 2013. The band split because the bassist moved to Melbourne just after they had finished recording of the EP. The clip is made by the graphic designer and photographer Natasha Cantwell, who was the frontwoman.

“I believe in the Lord, but the blues speaks to life, too. Blues has a feeling just like gospel; they just don’t have a book” –  said Leo ‘Bud’ Welch. Born in 1932, Sabougla, Mississipi. Big family: 5 brothers and 7 sisters. Learning to play on guitar, harmonica and fiddle by himself. Working as a logger. Singing gospel in churches and playing blues whenever he gets chance up to this day. A blues, Praise His Name

from his debut album, Sabougla Voice by Big Legal Mess, and it’s so good. Ahhh

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Damaged Bug is the solo project of John Dwyer from Thee Oh Sees in a little different style than the usual

Hubba Bubba LP by Castle Face Records in February