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

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Haunted Head

from Haunted Head album, released by In The Red

The guitarist Kid Congo’s career

1976: At age of 16 he started The Ramones Unofficial Fan Club in Los Angeles.
1979: Started The Gun Club with Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
1980: Moved to New York, joined The Cramps and played on two albums.
1984: Rejoined The Gun Club, moved to London, founded The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, then The Fur Bible.                                                                                         1986: Moved to Berlin, joined Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and played with Die Haut, Lydia Lunch and Anita Lane.
from 1990: Back to LA and founded the Congo Norvell > Moved to NY in the second half of 90s and founded the Knoxville Girls with Bob Bert – drums (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Action Swingers, Bewitched, Chrome Cranks) and Jerry Teel – vocals, guitar (Honeymoon Killers, Chrome Cranks, Boss Hog) > He has founded Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds and started a project with the electronic musician Khan featuring Julee Cruise in 2001.

More info about him.

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds make a Euro tour between Nov 20 – Dec 14 > Belgium, Holland, UK, France, Poland, Czech, Germany, Croatia (Zagreb Dec 13) , Serbia (Belgrade Dec 14)

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 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

„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 

The Blind Shake. Hard rumbling noise rock with a little taste of psychedelia.

Key to a False Door LP by Castle Face Records

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

Free download: Live at WFMU 2012 & 2013

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Joy As A Toy is a trio from Bruxelles. They mention Talking Heads, Stereolab, Mr. Bungle and Deerhoof like same style music. Playful eclectic progressive pop. Set back the player to the first song!

Google A Gun – digital EP by Cheap Satanism Records

Streets Kill Strange Animals. Chinese noise rock influenced by Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Yo La Tango and the rapid pace of change and modernization in China. „There was less pollution and fewer people in the 80s of my childhood, though you could enjoy less entertainment and there wasn’t such chaos in the cities. So it seems that I’m a passenger on the bus these days.”

7″ by Genjing Records

An interview about the Chinese alternative rock scene on RNR666.

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Pizza Time. Easy Spanish pop punk from Denver. Perfect for the rainy days.

Quiero Mas – cassette by Burger. Free download!

A little different style music is on their demo:
no pop, but raw noisy lo-fi garage beats. Free!

Some moments of a Pizzaboy’s life: „I’m gonna wear the same clothes everyday in California just change my undies and socks. That was my plan but apparently I drank too much last night! Pissed the bed and lost a „Z” from my jacket… walking through the airport with a massive pee stain on my pants was pretty tight.”

I thought that I know somehow or other about the early French punk scene, because I have some old V/A tapes, but these bands are totally unknown for me.

„The first French incarnations of “Le Punk” (pronounced “paink” in numerous locales) were not carbon copies of their foreign exemplars.(…) There was nothing and no one to forge a connection between the handful of small, isolated groups, fundamentally motivated by a passion for what they deemed true rock ‘n’ roll (the desire to terrorize the neighborhood arrived soon afterward), each in their own little world, trying to provoke their backwater village or their lame metropolis. (…) It was not a movement of any kind, contrary to what was said later. (…) In the photos, we do not see Johnny Rotten’s cousins, but rather an unlikely, haphazard and disorganized bunch.”

Paink. French punk anthems 1977-1982

by Born Bad Records

Edited for the exhibition ” EUROPUNK” at Cité de la Musique
Paris from October 15 2013 to January 19 2014.

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The Novella is a Breeders-like British girl group somewhere between the one-note fantasias of The Velvet Underground and the perpetual rhythms of Neu!

Murmurs – cassette EP by Italian Beach Babes

„If you don’t have a tape player, it’s just a fancy box for a download code.”

„The Ketamines is music from James Leroy and Paul Lawton. Ambition with no expectation. Love with no motive. Music that will help you through troubled times. Ketamines motto is: love yourself, honour yourself, respect yourself.” Their music is a very special mix of garage beat, bedroom blues, kitchen rock, living room country, bathroom surf, basement pop and homeless glam. The Ketamines releasing 4×7” singles on 4 labels, the covers combine to make one giant collage. The 3rd single

by Hosehead

The 1st. The 2nd is coming soon by Leaning Trees Records

You can buy the first and third together here

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If I’m writing that this is purely Nirvana, is it good or bad?

Feelings – Ends Meat, debut LP by Urinal Cake. Listen to the full album. More songs