– Why is the Latin American psychedelic scene so strong?
– Because it is in their blood.

The Mexican duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete plays amazing haunted psych garage rock songs about the uncertain. Their debut On Welfare and sophomore album  Corruptible Faces out now on colored wax by Captcha Records.

And Time Will Act Upon Them from the album „Corruptible Faces”

International musical community, magazine, concert series, booking and micro record label RNR666 was born from some coincidences as two weekly radio show in Budapest in May 2005. 9th Birthday Party is coming on 27th May with two great bands: Los Vigilantes (Puerto Rico) and Paint Fumes (USA). The one plays tuneful, dynamic Latino garage punk with rockabilly and doo wop elements, the second is a dissonance, psychedelic mix of Velvet Underground and Stooges. Both of them are released by one of the most important underground garage rock/punk labels, Slovenly Records.

Various songs / More info in English and Hungarian / Facebook

Two young Slovenian keyboard enthusiasts produce great electro-industrial-noise-core-metal with only two keyboards and some samples. I have invited them to play at RNR666 Party and made this very short IT’S EVERYONE ELSE interview.

RNR666 – I think it’s not your first band. What were there before?
Luci – Pika (the female part of IEE) was a singer in a few bands during her high school years but she never found the right people to complete her musical visions. I myself had a little noise project going on, but for the both of us the first „serious” band was (and still is) IT’S EVERYONE ELSE. We played our first gig under the name „Hold Your Horses” but as soon as we found our sound, we changed the name to IT’S EVERYONE ELSE, because we thought it was more appropriate.

How IT’S EVERYONE ELSE started?
– It started after we exchanged some demos and realized that our ideas are pretty compatible. We started rehearsing and we just clicked. A few months later we player our first concert and after that we just kept going and going.

What are your inspirations?
– Our biggest inspiration is life itself. Don’t get me wrong, we enjoy a lot of music, movies, books, paintings etc. and we get a lot of ideas out of that, but there is nothing as inspiring as people, emotions and social interactions. We are the soundtrack to the rainbow of human emotions.

Sirens + Nirvana – Stay Away cover

Can you play other instruments beside keyboards?
– We have no formal music education and we can barely play keyboards:) We don’t really care about notes, scales or chords, we just play what sounds good to our ears. I think we developed our own way of playing synths, which is much more similar to playing riffs on a guitar rather than playing piano in the traditional sense.

Their second album is released on vinyl by Noise Appeal Records (Austria).

Buy digital copy here.

or rather No Wave Punk Jazz

KURWS in Budapest

with POLE (PL, folk jazz) + TUMO (alt hard rock)
+ JACKIE TRISTE (free noise impro)

22nd May at Müszi. Ticket: 1000

YU-WAVE ATTACK will be same day at a near place.
It will be finished at 10pm.

„Even if now there above us
Storm shatters everything
Stone breaks, tree shatters
Earth quakes

We stand steadily
As river gorges”

YU-WAVE ATTACK IN BUDAPEST & SZEGED

Croatian punk/noise/indie-pop band VLASTA POPIC (free download)

& Hungarian punks with Serbian lyrics and attitude: UMRETI FIT

ON 22nd MAY AT BEAT ON THE BRAT (VII. District, Nyár u. 20.)

ON 24th MAY IN SZEGED AT GRAND CAFE

PEACH KELLI POP (CAN/USA) is a candy punk/sweet garage rock and roll band of the Canadian Allie Hanlon.

In BUDAPEST with two Canadian power pop punk band SONIC AVENUES and NEEDLES/PINS on 20th MAY, TRAFIK KLUB

LOS VIGILANTES are from Puerto Rico and play Latino garage punk with rockabilly and doo wop elements. PAINT FUMES‘ music is like a dissonance, psychedelic mix of Velvet Underground and Stooges. Both are in the Slovenly Records‘ roster.

About the bands / Various songs

Fire Records is a British independent record label. In his roster: Blank Realm, Guided By Voices, Half Japanese, Las Kellies, Mission of Burma, Pere Ubu, Bardo Pond, Jad Fair. And some name from the past: Pulp, Chuck Prophet, Television Personalities, Lemonheads, Spaceman 3, Gun Club, Urge Overkill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Teenage Fanclub, Adverts. Fire throws a birthday party with his best new artists this evening. It will be streamed live. The gig starts at 8pm GMT (UK), 9pm CEST (Europe), 4am JST (Japan), 5am AEST (Australia), 3pm EDT (US East Coast), 12 noon PDT (US West Coast). Timing in GMT:

8:10PM – SCRAPS (AUS) > Weird minimal synth pop under influence of style of the 80s.
8:50PM – FAWN SPOTS (UK) > Punk rock trio. Devotees of early Joy Divison/Warsaw, Hüsker Dü and Rites of Spring. Razor edged, lightning fast short blasts of hyperactive noise with bittersweet melodies.
9:30PM – KEEL HER (UK) > High standard lo-fi experimental bedroom pop.
10:10PM – SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING (AUS) > “I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.”

STREAM HERE

Munster Records is an independent Spanish label created in the 1980s. In the last decade its main focus has been reissues of punk, garage, rock and other akin genres and subgenres. They also frequently release records by contemporary bands.

CHRIS STROFFOLINO – I’M NOT GOING ASTRAY, 7″

Chris Stroffolino is a former Silver Jew who moved to Los Angeles and found himself without a permanent home, living out of a 1983 Ford Econoline van in which he’d fitted an upright piano (the now famous “Piano Van”). He is a musician, a scholar with a Ph.D in Shakespearian studies and a published poet – but he was playing the piano for tips in order to survive, which is how Jeff Feuerzeig (the filmmaker responsible for The Devil And Daniel Johnston and other musician theme films.) discovered him. These three tracks were all recorded in the van in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. There is a cover of Alice Cooper’s “I Never Cry”

‘O’ LEVEL – PSEUDO PUNK, LP (co-release with Discos Alehop!)

The first vinyl reissue of the two official singles of British punk band ‘O’ Level: ‘East Sheen’ (recorded in November 1977) and ‘The Malcolm EP’ (recorded in December 1978). This compilation also includes three tracks from February 1979 never released on vinyl before, plus a rawer alternative version of ‘East Sheen’ dating from March 1978. ‘O’ Level was created in 1976 by London guitarist Ed Ball along with two friends from school. Almost same line-up recorded the first Television Personalities single in 1977.

TEENAGE FILMSTARS – (THERE’S A ) CLOUD OVER LIVERPOOL, LP (co-release with Discos Alehop!)

After ‘O’Level Ed Ball’s next, ska and mod influenced band was Teenage Filmstars in 1979-80. Their three official singles reissued on vinyl for the first time.

 You can find your Munster distributor here

VARIOUS SONGS / ABOUT THE BANDS (IN HUNGARIAN TOO)

MÁJUS 16. BUDAPEST, MÜSZI > FLASH

+ SZEMÉRMETLEN AJKAK + ZSETONPITYU & THE CASH