„We work like dogs drinking sparkling water”

CHEVEU is more and more absurd and entertaining eclectic electronic punk rock band, like Devo, but in France

Johnny Hurry Up!

from the album BUM on Born Bad Records (France)

mysterious noisy lo-fi garage pop punk project in New Zealand
inspired by teen romance, suburban boredom and Buddy Holly

PERFECT HAIR FOREVER – SAD & BLUE

from Zero EP by Crystal Magic Records.

Critical Hits! Free download V/A album
is full of various high standard lo-fi synth punk by Crystal Magic.

A G E N D E R is a strange synth punk band in Australia. It has started as Romy Hoffman’s one woman lo-fi punk project. She’s also known as a hip-hop artist under the name of Macromantics. His project has morphed into a trio. On drums: experimental electronic musician Melissa Agate, aka Sanso-Xtro. After these it’s surprising that the bass player Yolanda DeRose is just from a simple garage rock band, Mass Culture Suicide. The second album „is a spillage of sexual secrets and the purging of perversions.” The first track is a little deceiving…

„Fixations” LP on Desire Records (France)

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The singer and drummer met volatile French guitarist in London after he left an ad in their studio listing Television, Ennio Morricone and “everything at DFA Records” as influences. (DFA is an electronic dance music label, co-founded by James Murphy of LCD Sound System.) The most interesting person is the bass player, Jade Spranklen, who is also playing for the British pop singer Whinnie Williams (aka Sunday Girl), and she is an excellent illustrator, but cannot draws free style rap. But Felt Tip is an indie rock band like XTC or Gang of Four.

Simple Things digital EP on Fierce Panda (UK) on 9 June

Aussie New Wave Punk. A mix of Joy Division, Devo, Gary Newman spiced with a little Pet Shop Boys by Mikey Young’s umpteenth band Total Control. It has started as a synth-punk duo with the drummer of UV Race, but „bands with drum machines and three synths are just not as much fun to watch as bands with drummers and guitars. We realized it couldn’t be good live, so we tried to adapt the songs to work in a rock-and-roll band.”

„Typical System” album on Iron Lung Records (US) in June. Distros: La Vida Es Un Mus (UK), Inertia (AUS)

Other Mikey Young’s bands: Eddie Current Suppression Ring (garage rock), Ooga Boogas (new wave), Lace Curtain (electro disco)

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„I started in September 2009. I had been in London during the Summer, and I was so miserable about being back home. I was just sitting in my room and thinking that I needed a hobby for the long Estonian winter. So I made a track called Lovecool.” Estonian art historian and synth pop artist Maria Minerva has sketched a soulful self-portrait of her own inner ecosystem of loves and labors lost to her new album. She has cited Brian Eno, Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire as her influences.

„Histrionic” album on Not Not Fun

A synth-punk-pop song by White Reaper of Kentucky

from debut EP on Polyvinyl

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OvO  Italian industrial noise metal duo by Stefania & Bruno with guitar, drums, effects and electronics in the deepest corner of Hell. Averno/Oblio (ie. Arrow/Point)

12″ EP on Corpoc Records. Nice work

Western and South Euro tour from April to June

APRIL 19 >  cold wave at Küss Mich Ex-Yu Party

POPSIMONOVA (technoid female decadance, Zagreb)
KONVOJ BONTON BAJKERA (riot grrrl of synth-punk, Beograd)
I/II (hymnic minimalism, Zagreb)
YUS YUS (over-excited erotic cold wave, Subotica)
ÚJ LÁTÁSMÓD FÚZIÓ (melancholic smoky coffee-bar pop,  Baranya)

or hardcore/rap

BOBAFETT   AMD   LEUKÉMIA APOKALYPSIS and more at Dürer Kert

APRIL 22 > glam/garage/hard rock

GLITTER WIZARD (USA)  GUSTAVE TIGER and HEADBENGS at Trafik Klub

or noise at Havizaj Party

CRUOR INCENDIA (USA)  DROGDED  ParaNoiZ vs dzsémszGOND

Sonic Youth and The Ex made big impression on Skull Defekts from Sweden. Their music is full of the vitality of punk, the ritualism of folk dances and Voivodesque psychedelia.

„Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown” album on Thrill Jockey

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Armure. Strange French synth psych punk cold new wave pop. Sometimes as if it would be in the 80s.

Cassette and digital album by SDZ. It’s solo project of Tibo Padlock form Space Padlocks which plays noisy power pop, psych garage rock, punk, French British pop or what you want.

„We play fast, noisy music. Call it whatever you want. The component parts include: primitive 1970s punk, 1980s hardcore, skronky post-punk records of the danceable and non-danceable varieties, 1960s garage music, traditional American music, science fiction, literary satire, scatology, unapologetic theft, bald-faced lying, and the design aesthetic of school notebook covers and public toilets. Listen and figure it out for yourself. The songs are short. It won’t take long. Break up eventually.” Started as a Joke, as a cover band by three middle aged guy who has learnt all of the 1978 debut album of Belgian punk rock band The Kids. They’re the Advlts

7″ by Southpaw Records

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OTO. Kraut influenced French electro punk or Neue Französische Welle from the 80s. Exact. Cool. Perfect. Evergrey. „Anyway” repress 12″EP.

It was recorded in 1984. + Repress LP from 86 by Desire & Mitzvah Records. Listen to their unpublished materials! Amazing lo-fi sound!

„the group of us there were listening to the Iron Curtain reissues, and we were kinda obsessed with the Christian Death Theatre of Pain album. I’m a bit older than Tom, so I was showing him Coil and Throbbing Gristle as well.”

„we know that’s the main aim of the sound: to get a sound that makes you feel sick in the stomach, because it sounds so good.” Dark, 70-80s horror film influenced cold wave synth punk from Australia by NUN. Debut album on Aarght (Aus) & Avant! Records (Italy)

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Hard rock but otherwise than Saxon. Post punk but harder than Gang of Four. The Protomartyr from Detroit

„Under Color of Official Right” album on Hardly Art

She grew up amongst Indian reserves with a small brown bear on the Great Lakes of Northwestern Ontario, Canada.  She moved by boat or floatplane. She built piece by piece an Austin Healey. She moved to Switzerland. She studied economy and graphic design, ending up filmmaker. She is bassist of Swiss art punk/indie rock band Peter Kernel. Her solo project is Camilla Sparksss, plays hard synth pop or electro punk. This is Barbara Lehnhoff.

For You The Wild CD and more

Live dates

Apr 17 | Bern – CH | Reitschule (Rössli)  –  Apr 25 | S.Gallen – CH | Grabenhalle  –  May 03 | Lugano – CH | Living Room  –  May 05 | Brussels – BE | Dna  –  May 06 | Strasbourg – FR | Musée d’Art Moderne / Supersound Festival  –  May 07 | Belfort – FR | La Poudrière / Festival Libre Regards  –  May 16 | Geneva – CH | La Gravière  –  May 24 | Orleans – FR | Astrolabe / Festival Hard Headed Women  –  Jul 07 | Lugano – CH | Elettrolake / Piazza Manzoni

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Frantix was a punk band in the early 80s in Colorado. They were opening act before The Who in Denver, 1983. There were two 7″ singles in 1982-83, then they evolved into the grunge band The Fluid. All studio tracks, along with rare, unreleased live and demo songs will be released in one by Alternative Tentacles in April. Good rattling garage punk like Killdozer, Flipper, Cirlce Jerks and many others

First man on Earth
by the supernova of Czech disco punk
I Love 69 Popgeju – Adam

from the album Let’s Gold Corridor

Shivers

The Nun feeds on BBC sci-fi dramas, Readers Digest’s Strange Stories, Carpenter, Cronenberg and other 70s-80s horror movies, Coil, Iron Curtain, Throbbing Gristle, Christian Death and sames. The Nun plays synth punk. Evoke The Sleep

from debut album. It will be released in April by Aarght (Aus) and Avant Records (Italy). The Nun lives in Australia (of course).