The White Hills has started in the early 2000s. Dave W. was dissatisfied for previous bands and decided to start his own one. He played every instrument on the early recordings, but has found a fix mate, the bassist Ego Sensation soon. Dave W. was discontented with the audience in the US too. “Fuck the States! I’m not gonna bust my ass to drive hundreds and hundreds of miles to play to nobody.” He has got his main musical influences from England and Germany: Hawkwind, Pink Faires, PIL and NEU!, Amon Duul II, so they went to Europe to search audience for their heavy psychedelic rock. And there they have meet with success. After a self-released CDr (2003) the first White Hills album on label released in 2005 by Julian Cope’s Fuck Off & Di Records in England. Since then they have been releasing their works continuously by various labels. And they are a really active band. The brand-new dose: So You’re… So You’ll Be. I don’t want to write about it too many. The point: heavy psychedelic space rock. Sometimes emerge a little Twin Peaks feeling there, but perhaps only for me. Maybe it is the first case that there isn’t 10+ minutes track on their record, so it is a receptible album for those who better like the hard rock and roll than the heavy psychedelia. Listen!

These are not from the new album

but this is the first song from it and free

just click to the track title & download!

Euro Tour Sept 12 – Oct 22

Fuckin’ US summer tour with The Cult…

„Cannanes, Cannanes, Crawled out of drains
Sweet and precocious, Far from atrocious
We live at two o two, We haven’t got a clue
We’re far too middle class, Somewhat dirty arse, Cannanes, Cannanes…”

is an Australian literally DIY indie rock band, formed in 1984. They have never had a manager or agent and never signed a recording deal. The NME wrote about their first 7” EP in 1987: „I’m in love with the girl singer’s bittersweet intonations, I’m in love with the boy’s clattering percussion, I’m in love with the off-pitch trumpet and recorder, I’m in love with the singing bass, I’m in love with the goddam WHOLE!” Here is their new album by Chapter Music

“LA’s Soft Metals formed in 2009 after Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall met at a DJ night and connected over their obsession with analog synthesizers and the shadowy, sultry, untamed expressions of underground electronic music.” They get inspiration from experimental electronics industrial minimal synth pop psych krautrock house techno music.

Tell Me + In The Air from Lenses, LP by Captured Tracks. You can listen to the full album and their previous album.

For the sake of rock’n’roll family tree researchers: the Fuzz are Charlie Moonheart (guitar), Roland Cosio (bass, Charlie & the Moonhearts with Mikal Cronin; Epsilons with C. Moonheart, M. Cronin, Ty Segall; Party Fowl with Cronin, Segall) and Ty Segall (drums, vocals). Retro hard garage rock

This Time I Got A Reason

Debut album on Oct. 10 by In The Red

in classic style

The new Hunx & His Punx album entirely

by Hardly Art

ps: There is a cover of an early Beastie Boys

„I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.” Songs about blue collar’s weekdays by Scott & Charlene’s Wedding:

Lesbian Wife + Fakin’ NYC + Gammy Leg from Any Port In A Storm LP by Fire Records

The SACW is the solo project of the Australian musician, Craig Dermody. I have been following with attention to his works since his Para Vista Social Club LP (2011).  Not long ago he moved to New York.

Beside the fantastic LP here is a Lantern 7″ too

You get it; put it and some moments hence you get the bang! Such is a perfect start for a rock and roll record. And the Rock’n’Roll Rorschach starts exactly in this way. But in this case there are the recognition and the surprise too in the bang of first track. Hey! Where did I hear this rhythm? Where? Where? Got it! The Evil Eye rhymes with Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life and not only with its title. And Iggy and The Stooges stay with us throughout. Moreover they whip out a saxophone too. But the Lantern has got mood to the sax from the Rolling Stones’ Exile in Main Street album. They listened to it around the recording time luckily for us. Their music is hard rhythm’n’blues & raw rock’n’roll, sometimes such like a little slow-motion Cramps. Yes, the Philly trio has made such a great album that their every ideal could proud of it.

By the way
„Any dream bands you’d love to tour with in the future?
Zach: ZZ Top!
Emily: Tom Petty.”

I have heard of him already, but didn’t know about him too many things until this album that he has made with Takako Minekawa. I have caught sight of her name and pounce on the record immediately so I had to know him:

Dustin Wong is a Hawaiian born half Chinese/half American guitarist. He grew up in Japan and went to college to the US. There he founded an experimental guitar duo with Matthew Papich (nowadays: Co La), the Ecstatic Sunshine (2004-07) and the Deerhoofesque art rock band, Ponytail (2005-11). After the break-up he has begun solo career and made experimental guitar albums. He lives in Japan again.

Takako Minekawa is a Japanese musician. She was active in the 90’s as the most interesting shibuya-kei artist. The term comes from Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. The district is the centre of the Japanese fashion and pop culture. Shibuya-kei (literally: Shibuya system) is described as a mix of jazz, pop and synthpop. Takako Minekawa’s music is experimental shibuya-kei. She loves cats, clouds, Kraftwerk, French pop and vintage instruments.

They have met in Tokyo in 2011 after a Dustin Wong gig and become working together. The outcome of their labour is the recently born Toropical Circle album. It’s Takako Minekawa’s first work for 13 years. Her weird synth sounds and dreamy singing voice meets his strange guitar sounds

The record is rather experimental with ambient, gamelan and oriental moods than pop, but there are some shibuya-kei moments too. It’s a really nice, pleasant album.

Released by Plancha Records, Vinyl from Thrill Jockey

Some useful links

Free Music Archive Dustin Wong   Ponytail

Live at Shea Stadium Dustin Wong   Ecstatic Sunshine

The Kids

are a Belgian punk band. Founded 1976, disbanded 1985, reunited 1996.
They released a single in Italy under the name „The Bastards” in 1977.

Soda Fraise was a French punk band.
It existed only for 1 year and made only 1 single in 1980.

THE BASTARDS – ‘Funky Bastard’ b/w ‘Job In Town’ 7″ &
SODA FRAISE – ‘Ca Baigne Dans L’Huile’ b/w ‘Rock N’ Roll’s’ 7″ by Sing Sing Records

Jacuzzi Boys – eazy lil psych grge rck frm Flrda

Double Vision 7″ by Hardly Art

nxt LP on spt 10.  prev LP fll strm

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Early Butthole Surferesque „lysergic drenched anthems for all your daily evil activities” by Satanic Rockers from Melbourne with kickass

Micro Manager from Fu Kung LP by Little Big Chief

Mr Elevator & The Brain Hotel. Bass, organ, drums. Fantastic band, brilliant sound. Funny 60s psych oriental prog retro rock.

7″ by Resurrection

 
Warm Soda. Matthew Melton’s new band after the break-up of Bare Wires. The style is same: glam rock’n’roll:

7″ by Goodbye Boozy

Warm Soda on Euro tour. Vienna: July 30.

The latest release of the Less Artist More Condos split 7″ series. Lower Dens is one of the many projects of singer/songwriter Jana Hunter and play experimental folk rock. On the other side from same place:  „Horse Lord is a band from Baltimore.” Repetitive psychic experiment.

by Famous Class.  The LAMC series

Typical French garage surf rock

Sapin – one two t ree four EP by Azbin

Influences are wide ranging. From a song writing perspective, Phil’s primary influences are the alt-country of Wilco, the surrealist melancholia of Sparklehorse and experimental rock of Califone, though more than a hint of Captain Beefheart’s magisterial influence can be detected in the lyrics and song titles. Ian brings bluegrass chops and punk sensibilities in equal measure, whilst Barney’s slide and fingerstyle guitar reveal a love of the pre-war splendor of Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell.

CAT MEAT – Scarlet Bell EP