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

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

The Fabulous Go-Go Boy from Alabama with Bloody Mary Una Chica Band and Human Trash make a Euro Tour in November. They’re coming from Brazil and playing primitive-garage-trash-rock’n’roll. The show will arrive in Budapest on Nov 23.

The Fabulous Go-Go Boy’s sub-genre is „Ooga Booga Rock’n’Roll„, that is primitive side of rock, influenced by rural blues, rockabilly and garage rock. His brand new single is released within days on Monster Mash Records. You can grab it on tour also.

He played in Budapest at RNR666 Party last year:

He is/was in many bands. In the following days we will show those.

Ooga Booga = a native or primitive man

Mongrel Zine is a Canadian print fanzine since 2008. They founded his record label in 2013. Their second item: Bloodshot Bill / Richard Catwrangleur split sinlge

Bloodshot Bill have been playing as one man band since 2008, but was in some bands also. He has two famous collaborations, Tandoori Knight with King Khan, and The Ding-Dongs with Mark Sultan. In the 90s Khan and Sultan were fellow musicians in the notorious Canadian garage punk band, The Spaceshits, later they played together as King Khan & BBQ.

Bloodshot Bill’s new LP is recently released by Norton Records, and the next Dings-Dongs album is coming in November also on Norton.

Richard Catwrangleur writes and plays simple and great experimental-psychedelic-folk-pop-rock-punk songs.

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Very funny synth punk with lots of food. The Gabba Ghouls‘ debut album

limited edition cassette by Truly Crude Records

The Italian Big Mountain County play wild and dirty rock and roll. The bassist is from the legendary Ultra Twist and Trio Banana. 1st single:

The BMC will play in Budapest on Nov 15 at RNR666 Party. Facebook event
Italian and East-Euro Tour Dates

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The Canadian Iron Dogs play loud, fast, & raw „Total Stratocaster Metal” as if nothing happened in heavy metal since 1983.

from Free and Wild LP by Iron Bonehead Records

Bloodshot Records is an independent record label based in Chicago. They’ve „always been drawn to the good stuff nestled in the dark, nebulous cracks where punk, country, soul, pop, bluegrass, blues and rock mix and mingle and mutate.”  You can find a bunch of free tracks from various Bloodshot artists – Moonshine Willy, Waco Brothers, Lonesome Bob, Scroat Belly, The Handsome Family, Riptones,  The Meat Purveyors, Alejandro Escovedo, etc – here. The styles are mainly alternative country and country rock. A song from the frees: Robbie Fulks – Cigarette State

A song from our beloved Finnish friends’ upcoming minialbum

Dirtier The Better

by Black Magic Six

HALFWAY TO HELL will be released on 22.11.2013.
Limited edition of 333 vinyl/ 333 cassette copies. Preorder

Blues-Trash-Rock’n’Roll in Budapest

TONIGHT: NATURAL CHILD (USA)

BUDAPEST AT DÜRER KERT >> FACEBOOK EVENT

KING AUTOMATIC

music box finds inspiration in Jamaican Rocksteady, Rhythm ‘n’Blues, Bebop and the tribal drumming of West Africa to mention only a few of the ingredients of a truly exotic musical cocktail

Budapest  Oct 15  at Super 8 (VIII. Kőfaragó u. 8)

 Facebook Event

King Automatic interview by Bang Bang Radioshow. On the air today at 3 pm

The Best Local Band: NATURAL CHILD

 in Budapest on Oct 14 at Dürer Kert >> Facebook event