One year in penitentiary and bad conduct discharge was the sentence of Navy’s Court Martial in the fraudulent enlistment case of 15 years old Andre Williams, who was born in 1936, Alabama. „Kiss-my-ass-mother-fuckers!” was his response. Right after his discharge he went to Detroit with 25 dollars in his pocket. The day of the coming he entered for a talent show, afternoon wrote a song and won. His first hit was Bacon Fat in 1956 on Fortune Records

Then he worked with Motown Records as a producer too. Wrote and recorded songs together with Stevie Wonder, The Contours, Ike & Tina Turner and more, and also wrote some songs for Parliament and Funkadelic. In the 80s he became a homeless because his hard r’n’b lifestyle. He came back with a rap album in 1990. Since he has made amazing albums in various style: garage rock, blues, country, funk and soul. These were released such labels as In The Red, Bloodshot or Norton Records.

One of his early songs, Jailhouse Blues from 1958 has been covered by Obnox (aka Bim Thomes, drummer of blues punk band Bassholes)

The new Obnox album Boogalou Red is coming this month on 12xU Records (US). Gospel trash

Obnox on RNR666

Aged young rebels. Class war, resistance and other romantic things.
„Skinheads Home For Christmas” / Yesterday’s Hero (Bay City Rollers’ cover)
single in the classic pop tradition by Californian hard mod/punk band Hard Left, oi!

Future Perfect Records (US)

The covered Yesterday’s Hero cover by Scottish pop band Bay City Rollers (1976). The original from 1975 by Scottish born Aussie John Paul Young.

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Those were certainly very comic acts when the two founders looked for mates, because the condition was: can play any kind of instrument is absolutely needless. – Do you feel like joining us? – But I can’t play any instruments. – Oh it’s great! We need such an incompetent man exactly like you to make good noisy punk rock music:

Pop.1280 Euro tour single by Sacred Bones Records (US)

Euro tour Jan-Feb

Aussie drums’n’guitar punk duo Gooch Palms‘ self-describe: equal parts GG Allin, Iggy Pop, Roy Orbison and Olivia Newton John (circa Let’s Get Physical era). First single from the double A-side 7”

to be released on Urinal Cake Records (US) before the year is out.

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Silver Apples Trans Upper Egypt

album on Monofonus (US)

“Hell is a good place to write songs, get smashed, take drugs and destroy your sanity, well-being, future and relationships” – on the voice of Lee Hazelwood said the clown Warren Thomas, the head of country band The Abigails.

Butthole Surfers or Negativland style freaky video for the song 29

from the album Tundra on Burger Records

Split cassette with eccentric singer/songwriter Kim House’s band, Kim & The Created: demented garage rock’n’roll goth punk; and Prettiest Eyes, just drums, bass and keys: mechanical, monotone, flustered, nervous krautrock. Guest star: AJ Davila.

Burger and Lollipop Records (US)

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After some hyperactive years there wasn’t any news about great little eclectic label Dracula Horse (US) for a long time, but now here is The New Romantics. Fascinating new wave disco

digital single

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.”

Monotone, monochrome, monomaniac alternative rock band Disappears with a little taste of Sonic Youth. The SY drummer Steve Shelly played with them in 2011/12.

„irreal” album on Kranky Records (US)

Euro Tour Jan-Feb

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Six men play noise rock. 10″ split of madeincanda from France and Ex Wives from Scotland. For the fans of Big Black, Fugazi and Rollins Band.

co-release on Cheap Satanism (Belgium), Gabu (France), Whosbrain (France/ Luxembourg) and Fuzz-Wire Records (France)

Another book from the old American life by Dust-to-Digital. Now the theme is the pre-war rural and small-town South with many photos and 2 CDs with extremely rare country,  blues and African American gospel songs singing from 1924-1939.

Kid Williams and Bill Morgan – When He Died He Got A Home In Hell, recorded in 1930

A book about the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman Farm

Mr. Gaymer from Dartford, UK, teachs English at an university in Beijing, but after school he plays Misfits influenced blues trash as GUIGUISUISUI together  with his some co-characters. He is 138, of course.

All the backing beats are composed on a Nintendo Gameboy or from found 8-bit games. Mixed and co-produced by luminary Beijing producer/sonic journeyman extraordinaire, Yan Haisong (P.K.14, Dear Eloise). Debut 7″ on Genjing Recods (PROC)

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Liam Hayes aka Plush has made various pop albums with minimal and maximal orchestration from the mid-90s. His progressive bubblegum rock and roll album is coming soon on Fat Possum (US)

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.

Bim Thomas, the drummer from blues punk duo Bassholes (were a main influence for The Black Keys), some years ago he makes excellent harsh blues music under the name of OBNOX. His brand new song, Infinite Trash

His latest album was released this year on 12XU Records (US)

Dope Body. Noise rock.  It’s exactly like the picture

„Lifer” album on Drag City (US)

Euro Tour: Jan-Feb.  Vienna: 5 Feb

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Acid Baby Jesus: noisy, jingling  psychedelic garage pop with strong rock sensibility, influenced by complex folk history of Greece

„Selected Recordings” album on Slovenly Recordings (US)