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Play Hooky with Jacques Le Coque
„Hooky has seemingly been the only constant in my life” – Pete Mazza v/g
Absolute home made garage rock and roll by Jacques Le Coque. Essence of their second album Hooky:
Home Heart Blues
Ruler Of My Heart Just Last Night Stay With Me
Don’t Wanna Fight, I’m Gold, Dead & Gone
Here’s My Own Wizard Stuff, Can’t Keep Away
Pass It Around, Get it here:
or buy a cassette from King Pizza Records (US), and „skip school, ditch work, and come play hooky with us!”
Black Ice-Cream Experience
Peculiar experimental tropical music from electro-noise tunes to danceable pop
melodies by Helado Negro. Son of Ecuadorian immigrants,
who has grown in the Latin-American bustle of South-Florida.
His interest was arouse by the sounds of tropical nature and environment:
subwoofers in the cars, howling music of portable stereos,
uproars of night parties and more.
He looks on every device as musical instruments.
Ojos Que No Ven
from their new album Double Youth on Asthmatic Kitty Records (US)
in the mood of moon
Silver Apples of Rome
Trans Upper Egypt
mystic psychedelic rock
Moon Doom
from the new album on Monofonus Press (US)
Bad News Boys
Two frantic Canadian garage rockers from the legendary Spaceshits
King Khan and Mark Sultan are together again
Here is The King Khan & BBQ Show’s new album in full
Coming soon on In The Red Records (US)
For You, Whom I Have Always Hated
heavy weight industrial black metal with a little grey
„Beyond the Realms of Dream, That Fleeting Shade Under the Corpus of Vanity”
from the second collaborative album of two really heavy metal bands, the body and Thou, „You, Whom I Have Always Hated” on Thrill Jockey Records
New York City to Fulfill Your Destiny
New York – BedStuy – Franklin Avenue – 8 pm – pouring rain – no umbrella – soaked and wondering why I am walking in such a weather on a Friday night – lost in loud streets – surrounded by the sound of sirens that, for a moment, made me forget about my own thoughts…
Though I know where I’m heading to and no stormy apocalyptic weather could stop me! YES, Workman Song is playing tonight, and I’m sure that as soon as I’d get to Friends and Lovers, with a glass of whisky in my hand, all would make sense…and indeed it did! Even got an interview with the 27 years old musician (who won’t fall into the curse).
Get closer dear reader, it’s storytelling time…
Once upon a time in Massachusetts, a little Irish curly haired boy named Sean (not Sue thankfully) was dreaming of becoming a priest. But destiny had a slightly different plan for him. On one of these childhood boring days, little 10 years old Sean decided to sneak into his older brother’s room and steal his guitar. Days, weeks, months and years passed, little Sean MacMahon got to know his new best friend, and became the mad scientist known by the name of Ion Zelig. After playing in a trash jazz band, enjoying improv on stage, he decided to start his own career as a peace messenger. But Ion Zelig was wondering where he could spread his gift of faith. Adventure was calling our poet, just in time, a very good friend of his told him
Join me in New York City to fulfill your destiny
He grabbed his guitar, his bohemian suitcase, kissed pa’ ma’ bra’ goodbye and left on a journey to the center of the world, where you’ll find him singing hope in churches, bars, hotels and apartments, for the greatness of us all.
Then what’s left for the end of our tale? A new album? A big family? A house? A prophetic music label? The road has just begun, and our hero must seek for inner focus in order to make a living with his art. But one thing is for sure, Ion Zelig does not believe in shame, only trust, trusting that people will comprehend his message. Well, he’s lucky, I’m one of those…how about you? To find out, follow the link
Total Punk
brand new TOTAL PUNK singles > CAL & THE CALORIES: an alter-ego of one-man-punk-band Lumpy and the Dumpers
Midnite Snaxxx are three 2 lovely ladies and Sammy who know a thing or two about punk rocking
From New Records
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
From New Records
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)
A Jazz Band in Hell
Trans Upper Egypt
Italian psychedelic rock band
among the members there is one of the best video makers I know
the Z-move specialist tab_ularasa
who made videos for Bazooka, Ultra Twist (as member), Hell Shovel, Feeling Of Love, Country Teaser, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Yussuf Jerusalem, Le Peucher
and many others
Fantasia
from the album Trans Upper Egypt on Monofonus Press (US)
Adventures of the Annoying Lil French Girl in New York
Not enough people know Anni Rossi, the singer/ songwriter/ violonist. She plays with her instrument like you’d play the guitar, indeed, she isn’t scared to strum the string, making it a perfect tool for RNR.
Meet with Anni
a place (I won’t name for some personal reason) in Williamsburg
On Friday night, following an evening of drinking cheap beer with colleagues, I joined my new roommate, Andy, a New-Yorker and member of an anarchist organization called The Base. I knew that he knew the place where I needed to be. It was his friend’s birthday, and their musician friends were playing for her. Those kinds of friends are very precious, between tours, they will certainly animate your greatest parties.
That said, the gigs were very pleasant. First line, a guitarist and a drummer nostalgic of Kurt , second, a band from the past future, I mean like the people during the eighties pretending to be from the future. ( I’m not sure if you know what I mean, I’m stoned.) Anyway, those guys freaked me out, they were really good, but I just couldn’t take it, it took me back to … a night in Budapest, it was November, We were waiting for the bus in Nyugati station, I was wearing somebody else’s hat and he loved it… I was mentally preparing for the long tricky way back home (since I live in the extremities of Bushwick, just on the border with Bedstuy…) when I heard the name of Anni Rossi, which surprised me for the reason I mentioned before. So I asked around: what about Annie? She’s here? Really??? Where? (Turned out she was there all the time.) Is she going to perform? She’s great, isn’t she? I was, let’s say, suddenly a little overwhelmed and turned straight back to shake her hand: Are you Anni Rossi? Yes, and what’s your name? Line. Line who? Line ** ******. Curious and nice, she seemed unfamiliar with this kind of devotion, yes because I confessed my passion for one of her song, it was playing in my headphones in Thailand, Scotland, and on various trips here and there.
I asked her insistingly to play it, she said she’d try as she didn’t bring her violon (maybe she was upset with it), that night she preferred an electric banjo, accompaigned by the classic bass and drum combo. The concert was like a Rob, Ryan and Anni family reunion. Her belly button proudly displayed, she performed with a nonchalant attitude and voice like a cool Cold War Kid. Sipping her whiskey in between songs, she took it slow, inspiring air, expiring it, creating beautifully contained bluesy waves.
And finally the way back home wasn’t that bad at all, walking with magical bubbles in my head. Anni Rossi is just Loveli, check it out!
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Bushwick
is located in the center of Brooklyn, where I live. It is full of brownish little 2 storey houses with flat rooftops and old factories transformed into lofts. It wasn’t such a nice neighbourhood (criiiiime) a couple of years ago, but as the rental price is cheaper than in other shiny and trendy places such as Williamsburg (headquarter of the hipster community), a lot of young and poor artists/ professionals like me are living in there. In my street seems to live many repented, retired gangsters, so it’s kind of quiet, apart from loud conversations and tooting at 2 am.
The mentioned neighbouring Bed-Stuy (Bedford-Stuyvesant) is the land of heavyweight rappers and boxers. For example Mike Tyson, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, but the chess world champion, Bobby Fischer also lived here.
From New Records
Ladywolf, nice prog bubblegum punk
digital EP and cassette on Resurrection Records (US)
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Jack Oblivian from the legendary reunited garage rock band Oblivians at home with friends. 35 minutes of pure Rock’n’Roll. Jack O and The Sheiks – Live in Memphis 12″
Secret Identity (Germany) and Red Lounge Records (Deutschland)