PEACH KELLI POP (CAN/USA) is a candy punk/sweet garage rock and roll band of the Canadian Allie Hanlon.

In BUDAPEST with two Canadian power pop punk band SONIC AVENUES and NEEDLES/PINS on 20th MAY, TRAFIK KLUB

HOZAC is a punk, garage, noise rock record label in Chicago. It was founded by Horizontal Action Magazine founders after they demise the magazine in 2006.  

CRETIN STOMPERS (memphis/NYC ex-Magic Kids, Jay Reatard Band, Barbaras, Wavves) – Looking Forward To Being Attacked, debut LP

Infectious oozing pop slime. You will be rewarded with a dynamic explosion of space punk filtered through a clogged toilet of remarkable pop hooks and impeccable melodic surges that hit such wavering heights, you just might need some orange slices to keep your eyes on the road. And as if Cretin Stompers couldn’t give you any more ear candy to clean out your cavities with, they have culled two covers from The Styrenes and Dave Brock (of Hawkwind). Recommended if you like: Magic Kids, Barbaras, King Tuff, R. Stevie Moore, Ween, Jay Reatard. Full Album Stream

NONES – Midwestern Family Values, debut LP

„Jesus christ, this is awful.”

This LP from mutant noise trio NONES is no joy ride, and it’s nothing you want to relax with after a hectic day, but more of an instant agitator, a tool for stirring up your inner turmoil and a safe place to keep your paranoid thoughts where they can drift around in a contained space. It’s the best kind of death trip we’ve found in a long while, and while nothing sounds quite like them, it’s kind of like the soft lullaby accompanying a celebratory castration on a summer day, or maybe even a high-end hysterectomy on a fancy yacht. No smiley faces, hearts or flowers, just crying babies, broken dreams, fever sweat, double-vision and boiled-over belligerence, cooked down into a thick mess of vengeance and insanity. Recommended if you like: Jesus Lizard, Flipper, Grong Grong, Aluminum Knot Eye, Toupee, Negative Trend, Puffy Areolas, Von Lmo, MX-80 Sound, migraine
headaches.

SOUTHERN COMFORT – Suzanne, 7″

There’s just no way around it, this Southern Comfort 7” is possibly the most visceral bummer punk classic two-sider of 2014, and your head won’t be the same after you hear it blasting with the windows open on a warm sunny day. If you aren’t already familiar, be sure to check into all the other great bands Angie is currently involved with Ruined Fortune and Straight Arrows. Recommended if you like: Circle Pit, Angie, Dum Dum Girls, Wax Idols, Redd Kross, Miss Destiny

MARY MONDAY & THE BITCHES – I Gave My Punk Jacket To Rickie, 7″, archival series

One of the greatest west coast punk singles of the first wave is back in print. Former stripper Mary Monday had a life shrouded in mystery, and conflicting reports in the historic documentation as to the band and Mary’s origins are still baffling punkologists to this day, including her mysterious death a few years after this single’s release. As legend goes, she arrived in San Francisco from Vancouver in 1976 with green hair and put together a band while still in high school that played around the Filipino cabaret scene. In August of ’76 when The Ramones made their first West Coast appearances, the opening band for their big San Francisco debut show was Mary Monday & the Bitches. Later on, her band was alternately known as the Street Punks. “I Gave My Punk Jacket To Rickie,” it’s as raw and stupid as punk ever was. Recommended if you like: Bags, Avis Davis & Joy Rider, Avengers, Nuns, Alley Cats, Dishrags, Eyes, Beex.

THE MAN – Carousel of Sound, debut 7″ EP

Panicky/riveting/down-sizing guitar crunch, merging with the heavy dose of anxiety-riddled bass throb, over-worked, stress-wrenched drumming, and all slathered in “workplace harassment”-style vocals. Recommended for fans of Baseball Furies, Wire, Reatards, Persuaders, Guilty Pleasures.

HOZAC STORE

You’re in the 50s-60s (but before the beat madness). Switch on the radio. Rhythm’n blues’n rock’n’roll on New Orleans wave. Now by The Royal Premiers from France.

Friday Night Curse album by Kizmiaz Records on LP/DL

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„Meg, Richie, and I spent a lot of time drinking beer. At the time we asked her to be in the band, her lack of experience on drums was no greater than our lack of experience on guitars, so it wasn’t all that unusual. I think she’s really come into her own bashing away and is the absolute best drummer for Watery Love” to play heavy listening raw noisy garage punk.

Decorative Feeding LP and a 7″ by a competent authority: In The Red Records (US).

But Meg leaved the band so as to concentrate her absolutely different solo career. She was replaced by Ben from Philadelphian highly praised psych-blues-rock-jam band Birds Of Maya. (Another bird is in the Purling Hiss too.)

Rip van Winkle is a short story about a Dutch settler who escapes to the mountains from his naggin wife. He meets a group silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins. Rip does not ask who they are, instead, he begins to drink some of their moonshine* and soon falls asleep for 20 years, so sleeping through the American War of Independence (1775-83). This is told by Shannon & The Clams in 50s style dirty sweet rock and roll

from the album Dreams In The Rat House on Hardly Art. Video is made by the many sided guitarist Cody Blanchard.

Euro tour May-June

*Term for illicitly distilled spirits in the US.

Two young Slovenian keyboard enthusiasts have produced this great electro-industrial-noise-core-metal with only two keyboards and some samples. References: Coptic Rain, Godflesh, Atari Teenage Riot and similars.

It’s Everyone Else – New Religion album on Noise Appeal Records (Austria) on vinyl. Or digital

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„The Trashmen covering Jimmy Reed” is said by Flesh Wounds about their trashy punk rock’n’roll music. This style is unusual from Merge Records (US). Good direction. Keep it up!

7″ vinyl with 3 tracks

Ted ain’t no ordinary bear for sure – he used to be the king of wrestling against human beings and now at the 40th anniversary of his retirement he is back in the shape of a newborn Hungarian band!

Terrible Ted is formed by members of Broken cups, Haunebu, Tumo, Hangmás and they play raw heavy-masculine RNR music. After watching this teaser make sure to go to their first show together with Dope Calypso in June!

Like them HERE!

TRAUMAHELIKOPTER from Holland recently landed at RNR666 Party
where they injected a heavy dose of garage punk’n’roll to the addicts.

LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I KILLED MYSELF

from the album I Don’t Understand Them At All on Excelsior Recordings (NL). iTunes

The Cyclops are a duo formed by Jonnycat (the Chemicals) on vocals and guitars & Tina Lucchesi (Bobbyteens, Trashwomen) on vocals and drums. They describe their music as RAW MEAT, LOUDNESS, FUZZ, BABIES SCREAMING, VOLCANOS ERUPTING, SMELLY FARTS, RAWWWWWW RAWKKK N ROLL

Escape From Cyclops Island LP + 7″ on Surfin’Ki Records (Italy)

Euro tour:  MAY 3 PARIS – LA MECANIQUE + MAY9 ITALY, SARDINIA – TBA + MAY 11 LUCCA + MAY 17 BUCINE W/ KID CONGO + MAY 18 SALSOMAGGIO: BAMFEST + MAY 22 GERMANY, MUNICH – SÜDSTADT + MAY 23 LEIPZIG – ZORRO + MAY 24 BERLIN – AUSTER CLUB + MAY 25 FRANKFURT – TBA

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Exocomet is a drum’n’guitar duo in Brooklyn. Strange psychedelic post punk with massive guitar whirls.  As if it would be the hybrid of Action Beat and Moon Duo.

 Full album stream here  Order CD and info: exocometmusic AT gmail.com

Japanese experimental metal wonder Boris states about their new album: „the band masterfully intermingles sludge-rock, blistering crust punk, shimmering shoegaze, epic thunderous doom, psychedelic melodies and just about everything else they’ve ever done.”

„Noise” album on Sargent House in June. Pre-order

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French punky country surf garage rock’n’roll by Sapin from Rennes

„Wrong Way” album on Azbin Records. The label’s team members are from such great garage bands as Le Pecheur, Regal, Animal Trophies and The Skeptics.

A dirty view of the blues mixed up with rock and roll
by Brazilian onemanband XTREME BLUES DOG
playing on harmonica, kazoo, guitar and drums

in Budapest at Kuplung on 27 April at 8pm
(before King Khan & The Shrines).
Before the show he will playing on Bang Bang Radio Show
at Tilos Radio from 3 pm.

Sunday evening schedule
20:00 – 20:40 Xtreme Blues Dog
20:50 – 21:30 Wattican Punk Ballet
21:40 – ??? King Khan & The Shrines

Ticket: 2900     Facebook

Berlin based Indo-Canadian notorious garage rocker Arish Ahmad Khan aka King Khan and his big band The Shrines

in BUDAPEST at KUPLUNG on APRIL 27 with a Brazilian one-man-blues-trash-rock’n’roll band XTREME BLUES DOG and WATTICAN PUNK BALLET.

Before the show XTREME BLUES DOG will playing on the air at Bang Bang Radio Show on Tilos Radio from 3pm.

About Herr KHAN     Facebook event

There are some dates for France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland.

„I was eleven. I took a few lessons, but not many really. I used to hide from my guitar teacher. Maybe I didn’t feel he was teaching me the right stuff or something.”

In the mid-80s under the influence of 50’s rock and roll Dex Romweber founded his legendary „hardcore Americana” band Flat Duo Jets – as if it came from the grave

Then they went US tour with The Cramps. Their records were released by roots and authentic rock and roll specialist Norton Records and others. 1998 brings the major label contract to them but the album Lucky Eye (with unusual horn and strings arrangement) was the swan song. After the break-up Dex made some solo records and founded the Dex Romweber Duo with his drummer Crash LeResh. In 2007 he was replaced with Dex’s sister, Sarah, who was member in indie pop band Let’s Active in the 80s. She says: „there are few things that me and Dexter absolutely agree on 100% – like Chopin, reincarnation, UFO’s, ghosts…”  „and psychology” – Drex completes the list.

„There is a real film noir quality to what we do. Really man, you see the darkest alleys. You see the most haunted streets. You see the wildest prostitutes. You come across drugs. You come across incredibly long drives. You come across band arguments. You come across mysterious people. You come across great people. You come across tremendous assholes, you see this real weird part of America that most people don’t really see on that level. When each record comes, I’m trying to figure out what’s going to fit at this time and what’s a picture of the last two years I’ve lived. The songs that come to me are very much a mirror of what my life has been like since the last record.”

The next chapter is Images 13 with repainted versions of Who (So Sad About Us), Rachmaninoff (Prelude in G Minor), Henry Mancini (Blackout!), Harry Lubin (composer, 60s sci-fi series, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond) and there is a deadly love ballad We’ll Be Together Again, which was written by Eddie Cohran’s girlfriend Sharon Sheeley after the fatal car accident. She also was in the taxi. The song was never released formally but recorded by Jackie DeShannon in the early ‘60s.

Images 13 – new Drex Romweber Duo album on Bloodshot Records. Two intelligible, post-edited sentences from my notes about it: Dynamic roots rock’n’roll with surfy garage rock feeling. There’re some reminiscence of Elvis, Bowie, Iggy Pop.

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