The Canadian Thee Nodes’s latest demo was almost unlistenable for me, but now here is

their debut 7” single with 6 tracks. First release of Swollen City Records. Price 5$ + postage. Order: m.smith08 (@) live.ca

If you like it, then download Thee Nodes live on WFMU Radio

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KissKiss Karate Passion Very nice easy South-French bar country rock. Debut LP by Les Disques Steak. Mixed by Arhtur Satan.

The Misery is the last song. Set the first track! Europeans order here, overseas buyers here

I adore the Finnish country and hardcore music. And now the 2 in 1. Black Aura 7″

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„Medieval Power Folk” – What?

The singer of the Songs (nothing special Aussie indie pop) decided to record a solo album and enlisted two friends to back her up in 2011. One of them is Nisa Venerosa from the minimal psych something duo, Fabulous Diamonds! During the sessions they decided to form an entirely new band, the Bushwalking. These tracks taken from the second album, No Enter by Chapter Music

on the RAZORCAKE by Rick Ecker: „JC SATAN start off with two garage-rock-mixed-with-pop songs that are fuzzed-out jams. They have a nice groove to them and get your head bobbing. PIRESIAN BEACH’s two songs are more experimental and trippy, but really flow well on this single with the other songs. Both bands really did a great job. If you’re into the more out-there and non-traditional punk bands, you’ll like it too.”

Rick’s personal mixed style musical blog, the ALTERED FREQUENCIES.

You can order JC Satán / Piresian Beach split 7″ HERE.
„Investment of the year!”  (The Big Issue) 

“We’re too punk for the psychedelic bands and too psychedelic for the punk bands.” The sound of Cosmonauts like Spacemen 3, early Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground spiced with surf tones and oriental psychedelic tunes. “It could be one chord the whole song and to us it can still have more movement than a wild improv jazz record.”

from Persona Non Grata LP by Burger

They are in Euro Tour! “We usually don’t use any pedals and just have our amps loud.”

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Absolutely loud, hard, angry synth punk. Absolutely Not

Mister Something LP by Chain Smoking

Hoax Hardcore-punk from L.A. 1st LP

Free download

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Easy English style punk from Texan Swell Maps and Country Teasers fans. Yes sir, it’s almost perfect. There are some really good songs, but the album is too long, it becomes bore to the end.

 Simple Circuit – name your price digital album

Surprise! Dirtbombs. And the style is 70s bubblegum music! Yes, the entire LP. An old dream has come true, because the Detroit garage rockers intended to make a bubblegum album at first in 2003. Then the music changed to „car-commercial” pop rock. The second attempt was in 2007. At the time the album’s themes turned into too dark. And finally the success has arrived. Fanfares!

from Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey! LP by In The Red

There were some Dirtbomb surprises in the past. My favorite one is the Ultraglide in Black (2001), a collection of soul, R&B and Motown covers with an own track. And there is their previous album, the Party Store (2011) featuring covers of early Detroit techno and house. By the way, two drummers are in the band.

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Never mind the bollocks, here are the Yuppies! Corn feeders from Nebraska

from debut LP by Dull Tools

By the way too:  2 years ago

from non-Finnish men. Perfect music, perfect dialect from

VAARALLINEN – Tuhoa valta

taken from Upcoming split 7″ with LAST CHAOS
out soon by: Hardcore Victim (AUS)/ Nuclear Blood (AUS)/ Havoc (US)

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There is the network of Finnish Cultural Institutes at promoting the Finnish language and culture in the world. Just a call or a mail: Excuse me Ms/Mr Korhonen, do you know the finenesses of unique Finnish hardcore-punk?

The Speedy Wunderground is a very interesting label and studio in London. In accordance with the founder’s order:

All records of the label will be recorded at their own studio. The musicians, the producer and engineer are together in one room, with no control room. The recordings of the label’s all releases will be done in one day and finishing before midnight. The core of each song will be a live take recorded in the dark with smoke and lazers and somewhere on each record the Swarmatron will make an appearance. Mixing will be done the next day, also in one day only. Furthermore there will be no lunch break during the recording and mixing. The recordings will appear in limited runs of 250 7”s as soon as humanly possible. The founder, Dan Carey will produce all releases.

He has previously produced Franz Ferdinand, Bat For Lashes, TOY, Willy Mason, Django Django, Emiliana Torrini, The Kills, Chairlift and Steve Mason (aka: King Biscuit Time and Black Affair). Now here is the founder’s own project under the name of Scotti Brains. Taking their name from a shared love of San Franciscan psych band Bunny Brains and his cat. Psychedelic noisy indie guitar music:

7″ by Speedy Wunderground

Son of Ecuadorian immigrants in the Latin-American bustle of South-Florida. The sounds of tropical nature and environment arouse his interest, for example: the sound of subwoofers in the cars, the howling music of portable stereos, the uproars of night parties. He looks on every device as musical instrument. He feels strange attraction to the owls. He calls himself Black Ice Cream.

„We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain.” (Huxley). With the Island Universe Story series, Helado Negro has set out to chart new constellations and family lineage for the lonely souls and stars of the deep universe of existence. In latin experimental style:

from Island Universe Story 2 digital album or cassette by Asthmatic Kitty

You can listen to the 1st part here

The Pink Noise is “Montreal’s most nihilistic band.” Their style is No Wave sure:

from Greedy Heart LP by Skrotup

by the way, do you know what is the pink noise?

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M.O.T.O. Professional Homemade Rock’n’Roll & Proto-Lo-Fi Caveman Pop since 1981.

from Pack Your Troubles In Dreams LP by Blast of Silence

At first there was an unlucky name: Pangea. It has changed to a stupid one: together Pangea. Bay area garage hard rock’n’roll.

7” by Harvest Records

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The Bilders are groups of various musicians and friends. The New Zealander writer and musician, Bill Direen stands in the centre of the groups. The new album has released under the name of Bill Direen & the Hat. The performers are: Hamish Kilgoure (The Clean, NZ), David Watson (musician & experimental music scene organizer, NZ), Miggy Littleton (Blood On The Wall, US). The tracks range from garage pop to acoustic-electric assault. You can find among those 1-1 poems by W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound.

from The Flavour Of The Meat LP by Grapefruit