6th of June in 1944 was the D-Day. Its aim was Berlin. Some decades later almost same allies dropped bombs on Belgrade.

Sixth June is a Berlin based („Here, you’d think about where to go out,”) Serbian („in Serbia you have to think about making a place to go out to first. Art is one of the last things there, still. Nobody thinks it’s important.”) duo of Laszlo Antal and Lidija Andonov. 80s style cold minimal synth pop

Pleasure EP by Mannequin Records

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La Secte du Futur is a French garage rock band with the members of Catholic Spray, JC Satán, Black Bug and more.

Greetings From Youth LP by XVIII Recdords

„There are some happy songs, some love songs, some creepy shit. There’s everything. We got funky.”

The Growlers – Not. Psych! EP by Fat Cat

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Two idiotic versions of the song „Lambada” by the genial burlesque band Sieur et Dame

and Gregaldur, a guy who improvises on keyboard, guitar and looper and drinks beer simultaneously: La Lambaldur – feat. Charles Trenet. Trenet (1913-2001) was a French singer and songwriter. He had the greatest success between the late 30s and the mid 50s. Self-released split 7″

Free Download Gregaldur tracks

Desperately optimist French raw psych pop with the taste of 60s

Juniore – debut 7″ by Les Disques Entreprise

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P.K. 14 (Public Kingdom for Teens) is the most influential Chinese post-punk band. The singer, Yang Haisong is one of China’s  better-known young poets. Their music is influenced by Joy Division, Talking Heads, Television, Pere Ubu, Fugazi, Bauhaus, Wilco and more. The album „1984” was recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini!

It’s released in August on CD and digitally by Maybe Mars Records, but now it’s on vinyl too by  Tenzemen.

Yang Haisong has two sideprojects. Dear Eloise – electro noise pop with his wife, and After Argument – shows his interests in Washington D.C. punk bands.

An interview about the Chinese rock scene

The Satanic Rockers are coming from NZ/AUS. They play “heavy blues and light metal”, i.e. early Butthole Surferesque music with Axemen’s philosophy. A beauty and wonderful song, The Legendary Pignose >>

Vex Ruffin is musician, who don’t wanna be part of any community or any scene. He makes strange minimalist music with punk, new wave and hip-hop elements.

self- or untitled debut LP by Stones Throws Records 

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No Joy is a good noisy My Bloody Valentine like psychedelic shoegaze trio from Montreal.

Pastel And Pass Out EP by Mexican Summer

Blind Shake > hard rumbling noise rock with a little taste of psychedelia. Le Pasion

from „Key To A False Door” album. It’s released by Castle Face

But “what does The Blind Shake see when it finally opens its eyes?
Mike Blaha: A Civil War battlefield.
Jim Blaha: Debt.”

Free download

Vialka is a duo of Eric Boros (guitar & voice) and Marylise Frecheville (percussion & voice). They are on world tour permanently since their formation in 2002 with their very strange experimental folk rock music. Naturally they have some special international projects also. Their new album will come out in February.

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NOBUNNY has started his career as an animal Elvis impersonator. I Was On The Bozo Show

from First Blood LP (Goner Records, 2010)

The Fabulous Go-Go Boy From Alabama is a one man band from Brazil. He is/was member in many groups, for example Hugo Race & The Moses Complex

Hugo Race – vocals, guitars, Mr. Alabama – bass and Marco Butcher – drums. Hugo Race is an Australian musician, he was member in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and played guitar on From Here To Eternity (1984) and Kicking Against the Pricks (1986) albums. Then he formed The True Spirit, the Fatalists and the Dirtmusic.

Budapest Nov 23 >
Fabulous Go-Go Boy from Alabama
Bloody Mary una chica band
Human Trash

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Fabulous Go-Go Boy’s Bands From Brazil #4

Bored in the mid-70s. Hate that stuff like Foreigner and Boston, so we start a band The Skabbs. It was cut short in 1979 when our songwriter and frontman dies at just 26 years old from a life-long heart condition. The Skabbs were too weird for the art crowd and just terrified the hippies. And now here is the debut album, a collection of never before issued recordings from 1977-78. „Ab-so-lute-ly amazing” Californian pseudo punk

Idle Threat LP and CD by Jackpot, cassette by Burger Records

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Greg Ashley, singer/songwriter, guitarist in the psychedelic rock Gris-Gris and the psych glam rock Sir Lord von Raven, next solo album, remake of Death Of A Ladies’ Man album by Leonard Cohen and Phil Spector in 1977

Death Of A Ladies’ Man LP by Guitars and Bongos

Josephine Foster is a modern American folk singer-songwriter and musician. She has started her musical career as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer. She has made music in various genres like psychedelic rock, early American folk and blues, Tin Pan Alley style music (American popular music of late 19 and early 20 century. Tin Pan Alley was the nickname of a specific place in Manhattan where the music publishing firms and stores were settled.). Furthermore she has two Spanish folk albums, and made strange interpretations of 19th Century German songs of Wolf, Brahms, Schubert and Goethe. Three songs from her brand new album.

I’m a Dreamer LP by Fire Records

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Blanche Blanche Blanche. Experimental pop like Zappa or Deerhoof or something similar

Breaking Mirrors LP by Wharf Cat