The Wytches are from Brigthon. Garage doom grunge trash or inversely

Two tracks from two singles. The first one is by Fat Possum (US), the second one is by HHH Records (UK)

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PJ Harvey, Breeders and Throwing Muses influenced bitter sweet garage pop by two Scottish girls

Honeyblood‘s debut single by Fat Cat

Oozing Wound – Retrash

It’s unnecessary to write about this album too many words. It’s fuckin’ good THRASH METAL. I’m very pleased; it’s enormously amusing and impossible to get bored with these perfect 32 minutes. Just Slayer, Exodus, Voivod, Nuclear Assault and Pantera came to my mind during the listening, and sometimes the Ministry. Moreover there aren’t guitar solos. It’s extra delight for me, because I like Uncle King’s solos alone.

“We’re so cool that we don’t care that we’re not cool.”

The cement mixer operators have very colourful antecedents. It’s surprising that two of them played bass in avant-garde performance art rock band, Lovely Little Girls.  And there are acoustic folk, hard-edge-pop and garage rock bands also. The immediate antecedents:
a noise rock band of Kyle (drums): Bad Drugs,
an old copied cassette thrash band of Zach (guitar, vocal): Zath,
and a thrashy noise punk band of both: Cacaw.

„Evil is ageless. You can be a 90-year-old wizard and still play metal.”

And there is another surprise. Their debut album was released by Thrill Jockey Records.
They’re interesting in avant-garde – experimental – psychedelic music mainly. Some artists from the roster: Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars), Black Pus, Boredoms, David Byrne, Chicago Underground, White Hills, Tortoise, Wooden Shjips. So this isn’t a conventional metal album.

Zach: When I was 13 I wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
Kevin (bass): I wanted to be Les Claypool.
Zach: And Kyle wanted to be Dale Crover. (Drummer of the Melvins)

Quotes and interview fragment from Chicago Music

At first there was the legendary Gibson Bros. in Ohio in the mid-80s. They played a unique mix of American roots music: blues, gospel, hill- and rockabilly with punk attitude. After split of the Gibsons the Bassholes were founded in 1992 by a “Gibson”, Don Howland (guitar) and Bim Thomas (drums). They’re the best blues punk band: crude, rude and harsh

After 4 years here is a new album with three covers: The Groundhogs – Express Man (1969), Wayne County & The Electric Chairs – Paranoia Paradise (1977) and Noh Mercy – Caucasian Guilt (1978). Boogieman Stew LP by Columbus Discount Records

Beside the Bassholes Bim Thomas plays in Puffy Areolas and This Moment in Black History. His solo project is the Obnox: weird garage blues soul punk with Tricky-like remixes.

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Strange Attractor: fuzzy garage punk from a small town in Northern Ontario, Canada

„Total Shit” trilogy on the b-side. „Feel Like Total Shit” / „This is Total Shit” / „I’m Total Shit” – three songs that give you a 360 degree views from the dregs of modern life : making bad choices, feeling powerless against the will of people who make bad choices, and just generally having everything stacked against you and turning those bad vibes inwards. In the Strange Attractor land, when we point fingers we have to remember that we are simultaneously pointing at ourselves.”

Back To The Cruel World LP by Resurrection / FDH / Mammoth Cave Records

Two girls with their friends play easy minimal punk in Brooklyn

Household – Elaines EP by Dull Knife

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Sapphire Slows is a Japanese girl. She makes experimental house-techno-disco with dream-pop and shoegaze influences mainly with 80s Casio keys and ableton in her bedroom, where she records her songs with a laptop. Debut full-length

Allegoria LP by Not Not Fun Records

The Wooden Shjips are a San Franciscan psychedelic rock’n’roll band. First song

of the new album, Back To Land. Out now by Thrill Jockey      Full stream

European tour in Dec 2013 and Feb-March 2014. Budapest Feb 22 A38

60s style Aussie garage beat

The Frowning Clouds – Whereabouts LP by Anti Fade

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Melvins “Tres Cabrones” album with original drummer, Mike Dillard.

Dillard left the band and was replaced by Dale Crover in 1985, but they and Buzz Osborne (guitar, vocals) then played together in Kurt Cobain’s first band, Fecal Matter, moreover Crover played drums in the early Nirvana. An other founding member of Melvins is Matt Lukin, who founded the Mudhoney. He is retired from music and working as a carpenter since 2001.

The Bitch Prefect list Pavement and the Rolling Stones as two of their influences. In their boredom and apathy they deliver an encyclopedic exploration of time, space and rare Australian birds. Lil’ musical ornithology for everybody:

Birds Nests LP by Bedroom Suck

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New Coke‘s R & B depression is influenced by Richard Pryor, broken soul ballads, Mike Watt optimism, The Gun Club, Early Cramps, Suicide, carpentry, Swans, Pere Ubu:

7″EP by Black Gladiator

The Magnetix is a French garage rock’n’roll duo. On the occasion of their 15th anniversary they have released 3 EPs on 3 different labels this year. 3 simple questions about records to Looch Vibrato:

What was the first own record in your life? 

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Back Country Blues. I was 14 years old, I was with a friend and found it in his father’s disco a blast… 1 year after my uncle gave me an harmonica and I started to play blues music with guys more older than me, it sounded like shit white blues. 2 years after I’ve discovered the „real white blues” with Animals. At this time it was a new kind of music for me with Standells, Seeds, Yardbirds, Remains,  Music Machine etc…, in the same time I listened to Syd Barrett .

Note: Sonny Terry (1911-1986) was a blind blues harmonica player, Brownie McGhee (1915-1996) was a singer and guitarist. They were a pair since 1942 and played Piedmont blues. It’s differentiated from other styles by its ragtime-based rhythms.

Which record made the biggest influence on you?

In a first time, like i said a lot of 60’s bands, and a record like „V.U.” Velvet Underground, „Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” Pink Floyd or „Closer” Joy Division change a lot of things in my vision of music, but 1 concert change really my life to play, The Mummies in Bordeaux in 1994, wild, raw, kick my ass, i thought ” I want to do mess like that”

What was the last record that you heard?
The last best one for me is Cyclops Reap by White Fence.

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Photos: The Magnetix in Budapest in 2008 at RNR666 Party by Martinkó Márk

Texan no wave punk, sometimes Fall-like

Spray Paint – Rodeo Songs LP by S-S records

Free download: Live at WFMU 2013

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Buzzard Lope is an alt-jazz-pop trio from Bedford, Birmingham and Brazil with keyboard, drum kit and double bass. Sometimes Tom Waits, sometimes 70’s style American soap opera film score music, but not bad. Debut album

Pyrrhic Victories by Lost Toy Records

„Close your eyes. You may think Satan is singing.”

„Two people, half gear, enough to bring Hell.”

Tokoloshi by OVO from Abisso LP >> Full stream!

Euro Tour with Mombu in Jan/Feb 2014 >
Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Czech, Poland?, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland. Exact dates are coming soon.

in Budapest on Jan 24 at RNR666 Party 

Since 1994 the wonderful Danielson famile (or family, and for some time simple Danielson) plays maximal independent music out every style like Captain Beefheart for example. Their first album was released in 1995. Reissue

A Prayer for Every Hour – double LP by Fire Records

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King Louie Bankston is a hyperactive rock and roll musician from Louisiana. He has constantly toured in the States since the early 1990s and released 40 records with various bands, for example: The Royal Pendletons, The Persuaders, Kajun SS, Bad Times (with Jay Retard, Eric Oblivian) or King Louie and the Loose Diamonds (with Harlan T. Bobo, Jack Oblivian). His brand new band are the Missing Monuments, play gritty rock n’ roll with a distinctly Southern flavor-blending in hints of pop, garage, soul, oldies, and even hard rock with Benny Divine on bass. Benny plays organ and drums in Wizzard Sleeve, drums in Gary Wrong Group, and organ in Natural Child.

7″ EP by Slovenly

The 1st Missing Monuments album 

Ty Segall – The Man Man 

taken from his acoustic psychedelic folk album, Sleeper. „When I was making, I couldn’t have written a loud, heavy song if somebody had paid me to.”

Live dates
November 29 – Utrecht, Netherlands @ Le Guess Who? Festival
December 1 – Camber Sands, U.K. @ ATP Festival (End of an Era Part 2)
December 2 – London, U.K. @ Scala + White Fence
December 3 – Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie + White Fence
December 4 – Brussels, Belgium @ VK + White Fence

Free download: Live at WFMU 2009 & 2011