The first European edition of Natural Child:

The playlist starts with the last song. Set it to the first!

The band’s latest album will be released on October 3 by Bachelor Record, Austria.

October 14   Budapest   Dürer Kert

Euro Tour Oct-Nov

Selected Natural Child’s songs on RNR666 Radio

Eat it!

The first Godflesh recording since 2001. The industrial metal band was formed in 1988 by Justin Broadrick (Napalm Death, Jesu) & G.C.Green (he played on bass on the Swiss jazz-core band, the 16-17’s sole album). GF disbanded in 2002, reformed in 2010. The song on flexi disc here.

The track is a cover. It was written by the Canadian thrash metal band, Slaughter. You can listen to the original after GF’s version.

A garage rock specialist, Reverend Beat-Man about the Spanish Way y Los Arrrghs!!!:  „totaly out of control, Way y los Arrrghs Plays the 60’s Garage Punk as Autentic as it’s get but it’s still new wild overdrived Fuzzed Out. I Send them to CIRCOPEROTTI studios in Gijon (…) the Egeneer was Caling me up and sed.. what the fuck they just came and using a hell a lot of Drogs and they don’t have any lyrict.. they are totally Punks… a view days later he called me up again and sed: BEAT-MAN THIS IS THE BEST SPANISH GARAGE PUNK BAND OF ALL TIME !! the lyrics are ultra funny and fucked up !!!!”

Todo Roto LP by Slovenly

You can listen to the previous album here     Free download: Live at WFMU in 2009

S/W Euro Tour from Spain to Belgium and back in October

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The vinyl and analog maniac Jack White has built a „live records direct-to-acetate” system. There are no overdubs, no post-editing, there is only an engineer, who mix it in real time. Watch! & listen to a track from Melvins – Live At Third Man Records LP

Hey, there are two drummers in the band!

The Italian Goodbye Boozy Records one of the best little labels in Europe. Here are the next three 7″

The winner of most impossible band name contest: Bikes. Berlin based Canadian/German garage rock band with Hellshovel, Demon’s Claws & Die Ersten Menschen members:

A runner-up of the above mentioned contest: Drags from Oakland. Very nice variegated music. Psychedelic country gaze garage noise pop punk or what you will. The songs were recorded by Matthew Melton (Bare Wires, Warm Soda):

Sick Thougths. Lo-fi raw garage punk. As if the LiveFastDie and the Outdoorsmen would play at the same time. Sometimes like a lo-fi garage Motörhead:

You can find some free Goodbye Boozy releases from the previous years here. For example: Mikal Cronin, Outdoorsmen, Ty Segall, Useless Eaters, BBQ (Mark Sultan), River City Tainlines, King Khan, etc. If you can’t see the download link, seek it with your cursor below the „download:”

„Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.” – Horace Greeley, second half of the XIXth c.

Some thoughts with reference to new album of Robbie Fulks. The Gone Away Backward released by Bloodshot Records.

Robbie Fulks is a country music “outsider”. He has his own views about the country industry. It’s brief and to the point: Fuck this town. The sentence refers to the capital of country, Nashville, where several branch of industry have been built on the genre. There is the system of institute of country music. The marketing machinery lets lot of country-called terrible products loose on the unsuspecting world from this town. Then there is the Grand Ole Opry. It has started as a radio show in 1925, during the years has become the congregation of country elite. And finally there is the necropolis, the Country Music Hall of Fame. (You can read the Sex Pistols’ opinion about a similar institute, the Rock and Roll H.O.F. here.)

The country lives outside of every institution in the rural areas. Fulks takes a sightseeing tour in the countryside, and sings about the end of his beloved small town America from Chicago. But the “now” has come somewhere, and the “end” was there yesterday too.
The American people are restless and very mobile. 1927: The 67% of families have car. 1956: The average American family changes residence every 4 years. While broadcast desires rules over the average heads. C’est la américain vie. It’s gone, but not with the wind.

Robbie Fulks’ new album, the Gone Away Backward is an excellent „back to the roots” country album. Not sad, rather melancholic. Rather Bob Dylan, than Merle Haggard.
The violinist is Jenny Scheinmann. (She formed the Giant Trio in the 90s. It was a five pieces band, he-he.) Beside her solo recordings she worked together for example Carla Bozulich, Ani Difranco, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Mark Ribot, John Zorn. She made the string arrangements on Lou Reed and Metallica’s common album.

The recordings made by analog devices. Producer: Steve Albini (of Big Black and Shellac. He was producer of: Gore, Pixies, Pussy Galore, Breeders, Jesus Lizard, Pigface, Zeni Geva, Silverfish, PJ Harvey, Nirvana, Red Krayola, Melt-Banana, Cheap Trick, Killdozer, Fleshtones, The Ex, Neurosis, Zu and many more albums.).

And one more note: his hometown, York, is a little city in Pennsylvania. The population has increased in the last decade for the fist time since 1950.

Recommended reading:
John Lukacs – A New Republic: A History Of The United States In The Twentieth Century
Magyarul: Az Egyesült Államok XX. századi története

Split tape between Halfrican (Scotland) and White Pages (US). Some words about the bands by Jeff from No Sir I Won’t: „Halfrican sounds like „Holiday Road” if it was on Crass Records. White Pages sound like if The Pissed Officers and The Showcase Showdown were the same band.” Thus everything is clear, click!

released by Number4Door Records (UK) and Can’t Stand Ya! Records (US)

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The Man Man is a very funny experimental rock band. I think maybe this long and boring track is the most listener friendly on On Oni Pond LP. I hope.

Here is a good one

Sometimes Morphine-like monotone repetitive psychedelic trance with oriental and North-African rhythms from London

Vision Fortune – Night Jukes, re-issue of their cassette only EP on 12″ vinyl
by Cardinal Fuzz

You can listen to their new album here & here is a 7″ from 2011 by Mannequin Records

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A fantastic Aussie garage synth-punk band: Ausmuteants

100 Ausmuteants fans can’t be wrong… 100,000,000 Bon Jovi fans can
7″ by Anti Fade Records

You can listen their home recorded album here

The Black Tambourines come from England. They enumerate the following bands like influence: Velvet Underground, Devo, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Ramones. Their music is fine fuzzy indie garage punk.

LP by Art Is Hard

Don’t confuse with Black Tambourine, a recently reformed American shoegaze indie pop band!

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Tropical Trash Noise rock in the manner of 90s with hardcore and metal elements. For example the Big Black occurs to me. But sometimes they wander on the way of experimental music too.

7″ by Sophomore Lounge

Todd Tamanend Clark started out listening to his mother’s Yma Sumac records as a child in the 1950s. Some of his favorites were Bo Diddley and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Then he heavily influenced by the 60’s psychedelic rock bands like Jimi Hendrix Experience, Doors, Electric Prunes and particularly the United States of America, in consequence of their synthesizers. He has fallen in love with these instruments. Then there were some bands from the end of the 60s sure, but rather he worked with occasionally collaborators. For example Cheetah Chrome (Rocket from The Tombs – David Thomas’ pre-Pere Ubu band, Dead Boys) or W. S. Burroughs. The Aardvark Thru Zymurgy LP was recorded and released in 1977 under the name of New Gods:

Reissue by Burka For Everybody

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Silly surfy cartoon rock by King Lollipop aka Cody Blanchard, the guitarist of Shannon & The Clams:

7″ by Surfin’ Ki Records

first class professional lo-fi minimal chamber punk: 10/10

Exile from Clowntown 7″ by ever/never     yes,  sure, from Australia

easy heavy pop music in flying nun mode

Sharpie Crows – 12 Omeros LP by Flying Nun

Industrial surf gaze experimental cold wave disco „punk or whatever i feel.” Another fantastic Canadian band:

Odonis Odonis – Better EP by Buzz Records  OK, this record was released some months ago, but maybe still there are some copies. And here is a new Better remix

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Saul Conrad – The Fancy. And yes, there is it. The classically-trained pianist has made a very strange album with unexpected and odd rhythm shifts where the melodies so overlap one another like the dialogues in Cassavetes and Altman films. „Voices overlap mirroring actual conversation: sometimes responding to each other, other times clashing and talking over one another.” Chamber pop:

LP by Mountain of Leopards

Aussie lo-fi garage punk clatter

Shaky Handz – digital single or mini disc

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„we are not fucking twee” but nice Welsh indie noise pop punk

Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister LP by Slumberland (US) and Fortuna Pop (UK)