„me and my friends never got into silly doctrines” The Future Dead write recreational anti pop songs in Belgium

Cassette by Gnar Tapes

Reveille A  duo from France. Not a simple bore this-that gazing indie rock. I feel the influence of The EX on them

Broken Machines LP by Clapping Music

psych hard rock crushing by the

Destruction Unit – Sonic Pearl

from Two Strong Hits 7″ by Suicide Squeeze Records Release Date: July 16, 2013

John Wesley Coleman. Is there anybody who don’t know the name otherwise? OK! For the sake of newborns. He comes from Texas, his band is The Golden Boys, instrument: guitar, genres: punk, rock, blues, country.

Trans Am Summer Blues LP by Tic Tac Totally

„Our knives are never dull/ our moon is always full” is the motto of  the Swede minimal synth pop singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson. His 5th album based loosely on Marco Polo’s travelogue.

The Power Ballad from The Travels LP by NightSchool

Natasha Khan is an English singer-songwriter. She was born into a Muslim family in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. Her carreer: school truant because of her mates’ racism – card-packing factory worker & songwriter and home music maker – University of Brighton: music and visual arts – make three successful and critically well acclaimed albums between 2006-12 under the name: Bat For Lahes. Those bore me. Her music and voice come in my mind Björk and Madonna. But now here is an exciting track from her, a cover version of an Amir Rassaei song, Aroos Khanom. Accompanied by TOY

The Bride, 7″ in 250 copies by Speedy Wunderground

Amir Rassaei was(?) an Iranian singer before the Islamic Revolution. After the revolution the western-style music would be banned there, but it’s alive. A very good film about the recent Persian music.

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I put video to this post very rarely. In this case the song must be marvellous. I never write such records from which I can’t embed or upload a track. But now: Manatees (from Memphis) – Destruktor 7” by Tic Tac Totally  << You can listen both songs.

Stunning shattered indie rock. The Plant Parenthood is better 100 000 times than for example the Dinosaur Jr. But they are standing high above the “indie” and other categories, because dare to be geniuses. So their measure is the etalon, the Axemen. Bow.

100 cassettes by Staring At The Ceiling

 
Reputedly this is a long awaited single of Tyler Jon Tyler. Reputedly it is one of the best garage pop bands in Chicago. They say: we play minimal rock/pop, punk. They: bass – Nathan from Pony; drums – Tom from Daily Void and an actress, Rebecca Flores – guitar, vocal, text. Such as the Raincoats, but the early Breeders is coming in my mind.

Loyal Caskets, 7″ by Slow Fizz Records. Available through Manglor

After David Byrne (Talking Heads) and St. Vincent (Annie Clarck)’s collaborative LP (2012) now here is their free EP

The Lifted Brow, a bimonthly Australian magazine publishing fiction, art, comics and commentary.  Their May 2013 issue was dubbed ‘The Music Issue’, and along with a significant range of essays and articles connected to the theme, there was also a four-label download bundle, featuring compilations from Bedroom Suck Records, Fallopian Tunes, Special Award Records and Wood & Wire.

Bedroom Suck Records  tags: alternative indie garage lo-fi punk brisbane

Fallopian Tunes  tags: experimental ambient electronic independent melbourne

The set is free to download.

Wood & Wire  tags: electronic experimental abstract beats ambient beats drone electro pop electroacoustic

The set is free to download.

Special Award Records  tags: inide pop rock melbourne. This set is free.

„The Underwear Heads were long-rumored to have been a made-up band. Evidence of their existence over the past 30 plus years had been reliant upon a picture sleeve for a single that never came with a record. The legend of the U-Heads extended far-and-wide as „the sleeve without a record.” Truth of the matter is that vinyl was pressed for the release, but due to a manufacturing error all copies were defective and were unceremoniously sent to the garbage dump while some sleeves managed to slip out into the wild.” (…) John instantly claimed he’d not heard someone utter the band’s name since 1983. (…) an early-generation master was located in Australia and the world is finally privileged to hear the Tangmania EP.” Six self-recorded songs from 1980 on 7” by Third Man Records

Tangin

The RockFire Funk Express was formed by three afro-Americans brothers in Detroit. In 1973 they recorded two songs for a single. The release day is today. Because of the band changed name and style by influence of an Alice Cooper show. The new style is called proto-punk today (yes, they were the pre-Bad Brains) and the new name would be Death. The Columbia Records president Clive Davis implored the band to change its name, but they refused. So their first album (recorded in 1974) released in 2009. Their only one single was self-released before the next style and name change which was in 1977. The Death transformed into a gospel-rock band: 4th Movement. (The Bad Brains was founded in same year.) Then they transformed into a reggae band. The Death has become famous in 2009. The doc film is very coming soon

and the second album is on the way. But there is a new guitarist because one of them died in 2002. And then RockFire Funk Express before Death:

People Save the World, 7″ by Third Man

By the way, their story has begun 9.2.1964. On that day the Hackney brothers were sat down by their father to witness The Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The following day David found a discarded guitar in an alley…

p.s.: Bobby Hackney’s three sons play garage rock in the Rough Francis

The original released in 1995 by Skin Graft limited to 1000 copies

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U.S.MAPPLE

The band will be performing their forthcoming new album ‘…Like Clockwork’ in full in Los Angeles at 8 pm on 23 May (PT). The concert will be streaming here at 5 am on 24 May (CET). Like Clockwork promo video:

Vanishing Winter is the Dear Eloise‘s fourth 7” on Genjing Records (and seventh release overall), is a departure from the playful shoegaze-influenced pop purity of their earlier work, tacking down a darker path:

Li Daiguo, the acclaimed boundary-pushing musical polymath known as much for his complex compositions performed on a wide spectrum of traditional instruments as his often-bewildering live performances that have seen the American-born Chinese cavort with gypsies, tramps and other self-described lunatics alongside some of the country’s most respected avant-garde and experimental musicians. His latest effort, the seven-inch vinyl release Music for Advertisements, sees Li presenting a series of sonic advertisements for seven locations that the 32-year-old appreciated during his six years in Chengdu. „I practice a lot of different styles of music, including shona music, classical Indian, Chinese and Western classical music plus different types of Chinese opera and the like. (…) The Music For Advertisement 7″ is about emotions that I observed and had that were associated in my mind with things going on in Chengdu when I lived there—not necessarily big things or events, but just little things that you might notice and have a feeling about. (…) And how long you sit there and watch, listen and what the day is like will obviously affect the mood—like hoards of rickshaws and cars and bicycles like massive schools of fish through the smog or the dark dampness of a TB hospital where people are full of a variety of emotions while waiting in line outside under the perpetually-grey skies of  Chengdu to test their blood or do X-rays and not cough blood everywhere.”

The Dyne „We got together in Beijing in Spring 2012. It’s me on guitar and bass and another guy, Bai Tianke, on drums and percussion. I was in the original lineup of Beijing indie folk outfit Fragmentary Portrait from 2003-05 and a member of Rubber Phonographic Needle until 2010. Bai Tianke was the original drummer for Careless.” Minimal surf rock:

All are by Genjing Records, Beijing

Riitaoja is a Finnish band. His first album is a very quiet record. Good to listen. So much that I didn’t want write about it, but during the listening their music took me in the mood to write. Lack of something better I call this style slow country – doom folk. Sometimes they remind me of the Bohren und der Club of Gore. I understand sole word from the entire album: pizzeria. The album was recorded in the communal living room of a municipal summer house during one of the snowiest winters in recent memory.The drummer was in the one of best Finnish band, Sielun Veljet.

Mantereelle LP by Svart Records