Tropical garage punk from Puerto Rico in Latino manner by Los Vigilantes

„Al Fin” album on ChaCho Records

In Budapest at RNR666 party on May 27 with Paint Fumes. Euro tour April-May

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Texan raw retro garage rock a la 60s like the Stooges or Sonic Rendezvous Band, influenced by Misfits and Danzig style punk, rock. OBN III’s

Third Time To Harm album on Tic Tac Totally

John Wesley Coleman. Is there anybody who don’t know the name otherwise? OK! For the sake of newborns. He comes from Texas, his band is The Golden Boys, instrument: guitar, genres: punk, rock, blues, country.

Trans Am Summer Blues LP by Tic Tac Totally

„Our knives are never dull/ our moon is always full” is the motto of  the Swede minimal synth pop singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson. His 5th album based loosely on Marco Polo’s travelogue.

The Power Ballad from The Travels LP by NightSchool

Natasha Khan is an English singer-songwriter. She was born into a Muslim family in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. Her carreer: school truant because of her mates’ racism – card-packing factory worker & songwriter and home music maker – University of Brighton: music and visual arts – make three successful and critically well acclaimed albums between 2006-12 under the name: Bat For Lahes. Those bore me. Her music and voice come in my mind Björk and Madonna. But now here is an exciting track from her, a cover version of an Amir Rassaei song, Aroos Khanom. Accompanied by TOY

The Bride, 7″ in 250 copies by Speedy Wunderground

Amir Rassaei was(?) an Iranian singer before the Islamic Revolution. After the revolution the western-style music would be banned there, but it’s alive. A very good film about the recent Persian music.

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I put video to this post very rarely. In this case the song must be marvellous. I never write such records from which I can’t embed or upload a track. But now: Manatees (from Memphis) – Destruktor 7” by Tic Tac Totally  << You can listen both songs.