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The Devils from the South-Italian Hell
Primitiva Primordiale Essentiale
THE DEVILS formed in 2015 in Naples. In the beginning they did countless shows in Italy DIY and France where they meet up with Jim Diamond from the DIRTBOMBS who recorded their first full Lenght album, the same day Reverend Beat-Man from VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS was in the same town and got their recordings and signed them up on the label.
Sin,You Sinners is an album with a huge wall of GUITAR FUZZ BLUES ROCKABILLY NOISE TRASH ROCK’N’ROLL TORNADO, vocals as Stupid and Minimalistic as it gets, this is NO BOB DYLAN POETRY, thats pure EVIL and Lots of Fun
30 years of The Monsters
This year The Monsters – the band of Reverend Beat Man, Voodoo Rhythm Record boss and his male club – turn 30 years old. To celebrate this nice round anniversary, they re-released their – by now totally unavailable – 1995 10”, originally released by the German Jungle Noise Records on CD and LP, supplemented by 7 more songs.
This was the first Monsters album where they used electronic bass instead of the double bass, and since their guitarist left the band, Beat Man remained alone at that position. So he distorted the hell out of his guitar. In addition the band decided that they will not deal with studios anymore, and record the whole album at home on an AKAI 1224 recorder, and that should be it!
This way, they nicely departed from the psychobilly sound of their first two albums, in a GOOD way, the RIGHT way, that is none other than the TRASH FILTH BRAIN-FUCKING PRIMITIVE ROCK N ROLL!!!
And on the occasion of this anniversary release, let me tell you a personal story.
Exactly 10 years ago in 2006 I found out that The Monsters will play in Graz. I told my – then girlfriend, now beloved wife:
– We are going!
– OK, but we hardly have any money.
– Let’s hitchhike! Budapest-Graz is not that far.
– OK.
To tell you the truth, none of us thought that we would ever hitchhike abroad for a concert; we were no teenagers, not even twenty-somethings, and we were over thirty. We had some pretty good rides though, the last one being an Italian owner of a sweets shop in a suit who was heading exactly to Graz to attend his new shop before its opening. He insisted that we visit his store too. We didn’t really feel like doing so, but said SURE. It was getting dark already by the time we got to the pastry shop, he opened the store, all three of us went in, he was explaining all kinds of things to us while everything was foiled up (there was some renovation going on), and this Italian guy in suit with a mustache. The whole thing was as we were in a gore movie, so I told my girlfriend, let’s get the hell out of here! We left our guy there and stepped outside to the street, and who was walking across the street? The Monsters! Of course we told them right away that we are their fans from Budapest and we are heading to the concert! A magnificent moment, I will never forget: Marta all smiley, hugging Beat Man and padding his shoulder. And him, being a gentleman, offered to take us in to the concert. Danke Schön! This way we could also buy some records.
The concert was extra super, both of us had quite some vodka, and the whole audience was really getting into it, dancing and so on. Everything was just wonderful except for the one manager who discovered us sleeping in behind one of the speakers after the concert, and kicked both of us out. Afterwards things became a bit torturous; going through the trash early morning at the railway station (I found a handful of unopened chocolates – though melted) as while dancing during the show I managed to lose all our sandwiches that were in our pockets. Then we came across an old (Hungarian!) gypsy who advised us to go back through Wien. Then we were on the train from Graz to Budapest in the morning, no tickets of course, trying to hide from the conductor till we are in Hungary, then my good ole trick with the conductors there, and we are already at home. True, it was tiring, but it was worth it! And I am not only saying this after 10 years, but also when we got home back then, and opened up our first beer in the kitchen.
Here are two little videos from this concert:
And now a few words about the album. How would a record be like that starts out with ‘Psych-out with me’? Awesome! Brutal party R n R! Then the song ‘Searching’, hard as Venom; then pot hymn ‘Pot’, then one of my favorite, ‘It’s not my way’, perfect fast pogo punk song!!! And damned be whoever’s legs don’t start moving after listening to ‘The Rock around the tombstone’ – he or she is hopeless! Then a fucking great Rolling Stones cover, ‘Play with fire’, and so on. Oh yeah, and all bonus tracks are also great! It’s worth keeping in mind that this brutal rock n roll record was recorded and put out during 94-95!
Note: Today it is worth to follow Voodoo Rhythm’s own Instagram page, where you can continually discover such treasures like this photo down here:
So a lot of things were trendy during the 90s, but a record sounding like this surely wasn’t! On one side all the Seattle rip-offs were going on, techno and all kinds of electronic dance music was coming in, and everyone was trying to figure out how to force together genres that were completely different from each other. On the other hand only people who really knew and liked the Ramones and Moorhead were wearing their t-shirts, even if they could not pronounce their names correctly (Motorhead or Matorhid were in quite widespread usage, and I for one did not know a single soul that pronounced the Ramones Ramonz vs Ramonez). Of course back then I did not even hear about The Monsters.
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Because of a Broken Heart
At the beginning Peter Kernel was a quartet. Because of a broken heart and a new girlfriend during the time it has become an international team of friends around the world and two core members, Canadian Barbara Lehnhoff, and Swiss-Italian Aris Basetti.
On the drums now the number 7 member, Ema. „The first time we met Ema was in 2010 and we thought: “Naaa, he’s a 2 meter tall rasta playing drums in a metal band, he can’t be right for us”. From the latest album Thrill Addict on On The Camper Records
More about the twenty some members
And there is Camilla Sparksss, electro noise wave alter-ego of Barbara. Short interview on rnr666.
KLAUS JOHANN GROBE
tropical swiss kraut disco
from the new album on trouble in mind records (us):
Tour in April in US, in May In Germany
DO YOU KNOW HOW THE YOUNG MEN LIVING?
For example there was the Trinidad calypso musician Lord Executor (1884-1952), he could not imagine it. This song is a late answer to him by Swiss mish-mash folk pop band Pussywarmers
from their latest album I Saw Them Leaving (Wild Honey Records). You can find chansons, folk ballads, psychedelic beats, rocks and seagulls on it. Listen to it in full! Buy here
Zombie Resource Attack
Wild Garage Punk Entertainment by THE JACKETS from Switzerland!
60s garage + mod + 77s punk + lil psychedelia!!
Keep Yourself Alive
from their third album Shadows of Sound by Voodoo Rhythm Records!!!
Members are Jack Torera – formerly the guitarist for the girl garage rock group The Mad Cowgirl Disease; Chris Rosales: formerly the drummer of Lightning Beat-Man and the Never Heard of ‘Ems, Reverend Beat-Man and the Unbelievers and The Get Lost; Samuel Schmidiger: singer and guitar player for The Budget Boozers!!!!
Thrill Addict
Peter Kernel
great little big band of Aris Basetti and the Canadian Barbara Lehnhof
in Switzerland. Their music brings Sonic Youth, Breeders and Pixies to my mind.
High Fever
from the album Thrill Addict on On The Camper Records (Switzerland).
Full album stream until 18 January.
RNR666 interview with Barbara about her electronic project Camilla Sparksss
From New Records
There’s an American experimental-rock duo Ahleuchastistas, which named himself from a Charlie Parker song, and a Swiss musician Antoine Lang, who works with human voice and electronic devices. They together are the Blind Thorns. Heavy listening
self-titled album on Cheap Satanism (Belgium), Tandori (France), Offset (Italy) and New Atlantis Records (US)
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Pastilla, Mexican guitar pop from Los Angeles
„Sentidos Saturados” cassette EP on Burger (US)
a good girl’s guide to bad music – Roy & the Devil’s Motorcycle ‘I’ll Sing You a Song’ 7 inch
Swiss independent label A Tree in a Field Records is hitting you this time with a triple reverb attack from Roy & the Devil’s Motorcycle. The four piece around the three Stähli brothers unveils a most unpolished garage/basement sound on their new 7 inch single I’ll Sing You a Song. The title track and Sweet Reputation both lead us back to good old Velvet Underground but with an unmistakable 21. century appeal and a juvenile charm.
After switching to another side (and to a speed of 33 rpm) things get a bit peculiar with Rock’n’Roll Soldier – it’s a bright psychedelic tune infused with traditional reggae sound. It made me ponder a bit about this strange combination, although I’m aware that this is far from unprecedented… Actually, the term Jamaican fusion sounds like a horrible idea in theory (with numerous mainstream examples supporting this notion) but if you consider Bad Brains, Serge Gainsbourg or Polish post punk pioneers, Brygada Kryzys for example, the outcome can be the coolest thing ever. Roy & the DMC’s effort is by all means within the cool league!
Order the vinyl from A Tree in a Field Records and check it out for yourself!
Primitive vs Sensitive
Electro-punk Swiss one-man band Urban Junior is moving somewhere between Quintron and Digital Leather (he said: D.A.F. meets The Sonics).
„Stehaufmannchen” and „Jetz” from his new concept album „Dr.S & Mr.P”
Story: Mr. P(rimitive), hyperactive, apathetic, addicted to sex, vice and full attention is being hunted to death by Dr. S(ensitive), his inner voice. Of course Mrs. L(ove) is involved on Mr. P’s Hellride to insanity.
Mr U. started his music career as a member of pop group HNO in the early 2000s. He has turned himself inside out in 2005 with his first album Music For The Asses.
Johnny Rotten is Dead
Fuck You Jesus Fuck You Oh Lord
gospel trash by Reverend Beat-Man & The Un-Believers
Frame from the surreal short movie Le Bunker de la Derniere Rafale
by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1981). Jeunet is the director of Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien Resurrection and Amélie.
The song has been taken from the album Get On Your Knees on Voodoo Rhythm Records (2001)
About the Swiss Music Prize nominate Reverend Beat-Man
Blackgrass
On the Dark Side of Bluegrass with The Dead Brothers
The Swiss funeral folk band unites various style in his music. There are blues, country, hillbilly, French chanson, Balkan melodies, gospel, gipsy music, jazz and more. They have written music for such theatre productions as Orpheus In The Underworld, Elektra and Tales from the Vienna Wood of Ödön von Horvath, and reproduced Kurt Weill ‘s arrangements of Brechts’operas. Beside these, they’ve a gothic-country version of Franz Schubert’s lied cycle, Winterreise.
The Dead Brothers have many forms:
a puppet dancing show,
a folk guitar symphony orchestra,
a primitive banjo and accordion duo,
a summer piano cabaret band with slide guitar and fiddle,
three old acoustic Armenians sitting on chairs,
and the only real heavy metal band, a mega combo with three tubas, 9 other horns.
The new album „Black Mouse” is a romantic record about the Spiritus Rector (directing spirit) of the world with oriental tunes and medieval rhythm.
La mauvaise réputation (Bad Reputation)
DEAD BROTHERS DATES OCT-DEC GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, HOLLAND, AUSTRIA