POW!

Californian synth-punk duo, discovered by John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees, Castle Face Records), for a while Seth Sutton (Useless Eaters) was their drummer, and vice versa, Byron Blum (POW!) was a member of garage rock band Useless Eaters.

New album Crack An Egg on Castle Face Records (US) for the fools of Digital Leather, Cheveu, Gary Numan and POW!

Canadian chaos brigade Odonis Odonis has come back with his psychedelic electro industrial post punk music

New album Post Plague by Felte Records (US/EU), Telephone Explosion (Can), Geertruida (NL)

IN EUROPE Jul 16 Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands – Jul 17 Centrum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands – Jul 19 Kinky Star, Ghent, Belgium – Jul 20 The Waiting Room, London, United Kingdom – Jul 22 Super Sonic, Paris, France

All sorts of stupid phrases have been said for their music, e.g.: experimental, avantgarde, noise, art rock, but Deerhoof is just one of the best pop bands in the world. Brand new song with a kind of j-pop feeling a la Cibo Matto

Deerhoof formed as a drum’n’bass duo in San Francisco in 1994. In 1995 Satomi Matsuzaki joined them as a singer within a week of arriving in the United States from Japan without any band experience, and went on tour only a week later… Later she would be the bass player too.  And a guitar player is there too, not of course. If you want more music click

BRONZE. Crazy and twisted Neue Kraut Welle from San Fransisco. Sometimes like a lo-fi Jean-Michel Jarre. They were released by synt-pop label Not Not Fun, electro underground Enfant Terrible, and avantgarde RVNG Intl. A live album will be released this month by John Dwyer’s garage rock/punk label Castle Face Records (US)

Dwyers (Thee Oh Sees) said about them: Always drunk with mad skills. With dashes of John Carpenter, Silver Apples, Liquid Liquid, Birthday Party, Harold Grosskopf, Klaus Schultze, Cluster, and Brian Ferry with a field recorder taped to his tux jacket. Ultra bottom heavy dance beats a la Brian Hock. Super hand-wringing oscillations home brewed by Miles Friction and the ever-great Robert Spector delivering homilies from beyond the dimensional wall.

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You, Whom I Have Always Hated is the second collaborative album of two really heavy metal bands, the body and Thou. Nine Inch Nails cover: Terrible Lie

LP or CD with both collaborative albums on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

The original pop metal song.

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The first Ty Segall records in the new year. Psych retro garage rock for hippies

Mr Face 2 x 7″ EP on Famous Class Records (US)

His final record of last year: Ty Segall Band – Motörhead / Paranoid 7″ single on Drag City Records. Hard retro garage rock for rockers

Sonny Smith is a various artist: short story and play writer and musicians. His most special project was the 100 Records Project. He asked artists to make album covers for his 100 fictitious bands, he wrote 2 tracks (A & B side) for each bands, and recorded the songs with various musicians.You can find some songs from the 200 on his Bandcamp site. But now here is his next album with The Sunsets. Easy, funny, folky, lo-fi pop tunes

Sonny & The Sunsets – Talent Night At The Ashram album on Polyvinyl Records (US)

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Dark Acid Vol. IV. Various artists from Scotland, England, Sweden. This is Kid Who, a Frenchman from London

12″ LP on Clandestine Records (Scotland)

from the upcoming second disc of  the meanwhile disbanded American noise hop trio Death Grips‘ double album „The Powers That B”

Second part is titled „Jenny Death.” The  first disc „Niggas on the Moon” was released this June as free digital release. There Björk was a contributor.

Death Grips „was and always has been a conceptual art exhibition anchored by sound and vision.”

SUDAKISTAN, Stockholm based latino punks

7″ on PNKSLM (UK/SWE)

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PINK SECTION was a short-lived synth-punk band with Dadaist aesthetic by 4 students of San Francisco Art Institute in 1979/80. This first-time retrospective LP collects the band’s rare 1979 single, the self-titled EP, unreleased demos, and live materials

Carol and Judy went on to form the Inflatable Boy Clams after Pink Section split. The bass and sax player Matt makes mechanical music and sound installations nowadays.

„All sorts of stupid phrases have been said for their music, e.g.: experimental, avantgarde, noise, art rock, but Deerhoof is just one of the best pop bands in the world.”  – RNR666

Deerhoof is a base, a point of comparison. I have gathered some „Deerhoof-like”, „Deerhoofesque” or „Deerhoof positive” artists from RNR666

Gentle Friendly – „It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it.” Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective. Or Deerhoof.

Roze & The Rice Cakes – Funny, playful, jazzy. It brings the Deerhoof to my mind. On other sites this is called art rock.

Blanche Blanche Blanche – Experimental pop like Zappa or Deerhoof or something similar.

Joy As A Toy – They mention Talking Heads, Stereolab, Mr. Bungle and Deerhoof like same style music. Playful eclectic progressive pop.

Binidu – They’re high above the indie rock category. His music comes to my mind the Deerhoof and the French band is comparable to them. Fresh and playful music.

Papeye – Indie hard rock from France. The sound is similar to Deerhoof (I love) and Don Caballero (I don’t like).

Orval Carlos Sibelius – French multi-instrumentalist, who make music in really various styles from abstract electroinc dance to psych folk pop. His music often comes the world of Deerhoof in my mind.

Their 13th album La Isla Bonita will be released on 4 November by Polyvinyl Records (US). It was recorded live, DIY style, during „a weeklong sleepover arguing over whether to try and sound like Joan Jett or Janet Jackson

Deerhoof formed as a drum’n’bass duo in San Francisco in 1994. In 1995 Satomi Matsuzaki joined them as a singer within a week of arriving in the United States from Japan without any band experience, and went on tour only a week later… Later she would be the bass player too.  And a guitar player is there too, not of course. If you want more music click