In all probability the notorious, legendary and cultic psycho rock and roll band The Cramps made huge impact on Vagina Town. Just their music is spiced with 60’s psychedelic beats (a la Question Mark & The Mysterians) and noise rock. The French band has taken its name from a porn movie. And the titles of their releases are also meaningful: „LSD”, „Hospital”, and the brand new one: „Ecstasy”

shameless hedonism, sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll, food’n’beer’n’tobacco

7″ single on Kythibong Records

ps: Dear Vagina Town, Budapest is waiting for you with spread legs, erected cocks and ecstasy. „Ou…ha …Ouu…fff..”

ÚJ LÁTÁSMÓD FÚZIÓ
Bittersweet Sunday 

GUTTING REVUE
swing punk circus  

CSERMANEK LAKÓTELEP
Groucho Marx and  Engels with a broken Casio and bass guitar

but before this the notorious noise fanatics have to go at BOTB at HAVIZAJ Party

ADAM BOMB & HIS BURNING GUITARS

In Budapest at RNR666 Party, 2010. Pic by Mark Martinko

THE GLAM ROCK GUITAR HERO IN HUNGARY AGAIN!

WITH PG MAROT ON BASS!
(Hooligans, Belga, Carbonfools, Dublőrz, Homeless Millionaires!)

SEPT 4, BUDAPEST, TRAFIK KLUB, 10 PM, FREE.
SEPT 5, BUDAPEST, EL RAPIDO, 10 PM (UNPLUGGED SHOW)
SEPT 6, SZOLNOK, VÁRÓTEREM, 9 PM, FREE
SEPT 7, VÁC, SUTI BROS PUB, 10 PM

During his career Adam Bomb has played together such artists as Geoff Tate (Queensryche), Jimmy Crespo (Aerosmith), Cliff  Williams (AC/DC), Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls),  Michael Monroe (Hanoi Rocks), Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones), Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Chuck Berry, and more.

Pali, RNR666 founder says: „Perhaps Adam Bomb is the only man from whom I can not just tolerate, but enjoy the virtous guitar solos, the stadium-like show, and rock and roll star poses, because he is an extremly good performer, writes fuckin’ good songs, and really fuckin’ true.”

ABOUT ADAM          PICS ADAM IN BUDAPEST IN 2010

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„I was always thinking about the Swiss Music Awards,
and I’m highly against it.”

If you’re a frequent visitor on our site, I’m sure that you know Reverend Beat-Man and his record label, Voodoo Rhythm Records. He has been nominated for the Swiss Music Prize, which will be awarded for the first time on 19 September. Among the nominates also are the folk-punk band Mama Rosin, and the avant-garde music group Ensemble Phoenix Basel, in which you can find Alex Buess, who is also member of the experimental space rock trio MIR.

„My biggest idol has always been Batman, so everyone just called me Beat-Man.
Now my name is just Beat-Man, even in my passport.”

Born Beat Zeller in 1967 near Berne, Reverend Beat-Man has become a firm fixture on the music scene. He first tried his hand as a singer and musician at the age of 13 before forming his band The Monsters in 1986 and setting up his own record label Voodoo Rhythm Records in 1992. With The Monsters, Zeller created an entirely new genre that fuses psychobilly with garage punk and went on to showcase it with more than a thousand concerts in South America, Japan, Australia, the US and the rest of the world. He attained cult status thanks in no small part to this work with Voodoo Rhythm Records, which has gained him a reputation as a resolute champion of innovative and experimental artists. In Switzerland, his achievements were honoured with the Canton of Berne Special Recognition Award in 2007.

A short film has been made about Beat-Man on the occasion of his nomination

„We are all mountain people with weird, hard, heavy and strange ideas.”

„to be on stage with Howlin’ Wolf once
that would have been the greatest for me.”

„The Rolling Stones today (…) just shit, Mick Jagger and such, boring as hell.”

Susan from LA. Indie guitar pop with garage rock taste. Quite like a band from the better ones on Slumberland Records. Sometimes so good like the Breeders. Drummer from Texan garage rock band Cowabunga Babes, and its garage punk side project The Vomettes.

Debut 7″ on Volar Records (US)

+ cassette with 2 more songs on Burger Records (US)

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The Canadian quartet New Swears play Black Lips-like garage rock’n’roll while they name the infamous, hyper dirty ultra sexual rap gang, 2 Live Crew as influence. I think no need to say more:

„Junkfood Forever, Bedtime Whatever” LP on Bachelor Records (Austria)

They’re on Euro Tour Now!

Abridged version of John Schooley’s legend

„Details of the early life of John Schooley are sketchy. Various sources place his birth either in Columbus, Ohio or Vancouver, British Columbia. We do know that his family moved to the rural enclave of Niangua, Missouri when he was still quite young. His parents were sharecroppers, barely scratching out a living from the rocky soil of the Ozark Mountains. The youngest of eight or possibly nine siblings, John Schooley did not take to farming, or, apparently, work of any kind. He could be found, often as not, shirking his chores to hunch over his guitar. He would stomp his foot on a board or on the front porch, frequently scaring the cows.  The family Victrola was stocked with any 78″s that could be found, mostly by Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Doctor Ross, and Don Van Vliet. Most evenings the family tuned to radio station KWTO out of Springfield, to hear the “Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle with Chet Atkins and his Famous Guitar” perform as part of the syndicated “RadiOzark” network.

School was never to his liking and Schooley quit after graduating the fifth grade. Chafing at the dreary small town life of Niangua, Schooley left never to return. He rambled north to Columbia, Missouri. First trying to put together a hot-jazz combo along the lines of the then-popular Django Reinhart, but he was unable to find suitable musicians. Then, billing himself as “John Schooley and His One Man Band”, he rigged up a kick drum and hi-hat and began performing at “house frolics” and on the sidewalk in front of local record store Whizz Records. He met with minimal success. He was frequently chased away by the proprietor with a broom shortly after setting up. Being unwilling (or perhaps unable) to learn pop hits of the day, Schooley tried to force his listeners to dance to his own frequently atonal blend of blues and country, again with minimal success.

The musical scene in Columbia was so stagnant that when it was announced that bluegrass stars The Oblivians were coming to town, Schooley was able to secure the opening slot even though he had no band together at the time.” He founded the guitar, drum, and vocal trio The Revelators. Surprising success. „When the record, titled “We Told You Not To Cross Us” was released it caused a sensation in at least three Missouri counties and parts of Arkansas and Illinois. The Revelators were immediately rushed off to a whirlwind tour of Europe, which included performances for the as-yet not-dead Princess Diana and Archduke Ferdinand.”

After the break-up he went to Texas „and took whatever work he could find, from oil roughneck to hotel elevator operator. He eventually started another musical combo, the Hard Feelings” while he continued performing as one man band. He added harmonica, snare drum, and washboard to his kick and hi-hat apparatus and recorded some songs.  „Voodoo Rhythm recently uncovered the tapes of these songs, long presumed lost, in an oil drum outside of Lockhart, Texas.” Album preview

„The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World” LP, CD
on Voodoo Rhythm Records (CH)

Euro tour with Urban Junior in Sept-Oct.

A missing moment of his legend: toured as an additional guitar player for the blues legend R.L. Burnside.

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The Family Fodder is among the funniest British bands ever. Since the mid-70s they have been playing really indie pop music, but literally! It’s independent from everything. So the best. Now here is a vinyl-only collection of 11 love songs, that have never before been released on vinyl. Alig Fodder says about it: „We collected all the love songs together without all the annoying instrumentals, dubs and solos.”

„Just Love Songs” LP on Staubgold Records (France)

You can find some music videos in reference to this album on their site.

Second common work of Hawaiian born half Chinese/half American experimental guitarist Dustin Wong (was in Ponytail) and Japanese pop star Takako Minekawa. It’s more playful than the previous one, because there are more J-pop moments.  Takako sings about quantum physics, human consciousness, and flying above a desert all within the framework of Japanese puns in the song “She He See Feel”

„Savage Imagination” LP, CD on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

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Obnox is Bim Thomas Lamont, the drummer of raw blues band Bassholes. He has plenty of drive because he is working on two albums at the same time now. But before everything else he has thrown out an EP which is stuffed his basement jams. Harsh distorted rock and roll sometimes is like a strange Ministry.

„The Juke That Sat By The Door” EP on Chunklet Records (US)

„San Francisco’s first and only rock ‘n’ roll band” was the slogan of CRIME. It was formed in 1976 and after 3 singles broke up in 1980. They were among the very first west coast punk bands, and played raw and loud rock’n’roll. In 1977 they began wearing police uniforms.  In 1979 the Crime performed a show in San Quentin State Penitentiary. There they didn’t wear police uniforms of course, instead of it they wore prison guard uniforms. This LP release collects the three singles along with nine previously unreleased studio recordings from 1976 to 1980.

Post-Crime: In 1987 Sonic Youth covered „Hot Wire My Heart” on their LP Sister.  –  Johnny Strike (vocals, guitar) has become a writer. In 2001 he formed a new band, The Johnsons. They changed their name later to The Venus Hunters and eventually shortened it to TVH.  –  Crime was re-formed in 2005. In 2008 they recorded a new album of rare, older materials.  –  The drummer Hank Rank has become a film producer under his real name, Henry Rosenthal. His best known work is The Devil and Daniel Johnston.  –  The original drummer Ricky Tractor was the original singer of Flipper, because he was a very original person…  – A photo book about Crime.

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MENACE BEACH is a „two pieces indie rock supergroup.”in Leeds. It’s led by Ryan Needham (ex-Komakino) and Liza Violet (Department M) with members from Sky Larkin, Pulled Apart By Horse, Hookworms and Mansun, and it’s the best among the listed bands. Hard fuzz noise pop sometimes with strong Nirvana feeling

7″ + digital single on Memphis Industries (UK)

Some days before here was the news about a project of Chris Constantinou (The Wolfmen, Adam Ant) and Paul Frazer (Prodigy, Black Futures). They gathered a bunch of legendary British and American punk/ska/new wave artists and made together an album under the name of The Mutants. They went to Japan and did the same thing with members of Guitar Wolf (atomic garage „lock and lol” trio from Nagasaki. They provoked Eric Friedl from The Oblivians to start the Goner Records in 1993. After the first sight he wanted to publish their album. ) +  The 5.6.7.8’s (all-female rockabilly rock and roll trio. They’re famous from their appearance in Tarantino’s Kill Bill vol 1.) + Mika Bomb (London based 3/4 Japanese all girl pop punk band) + Jackie & The Cedirics (surf rock trio) + The Neatbeats (beat) + The Let’s Go’s (all-girl candy rock and roll trio) and more. Here is a song

Dead Beat Generation

The album is coming soon

Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London for the rainy days. Astronauts are solo project of Dan Carney from Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). It was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.

‘Hollow Ponds’ album on Lo Recordings (UK)

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Female fronted „8-legged riff machine” in the manner of Stooges, Spacemen 3 and AC/DC form Australia.

The Daicos – Monkey’s Blood LP on Homeless Records (Aus)

and then my head’s in the bowl for the rest of the night…

Firewater Liquor by Natural Child

from the album Dancin’ With Wolves on Burger Records (US)

In Keith Richards’ view
Natural Child is just the second best rock and roll band of the world.
You can read from this and find more stories about the band
on the famous RNR666’s interview.