Jeffrey Lee Pierce was an influential songwriter and musician. He formed The Gun Club with Kid Congo Powers in 1979. Anyway Pierce was the head of the Blondie fan club, while Kid was the president of Ramones Fan Club in Los Angeles, and both of Mexican descent. The band was a pioneer of roots based punk rock. Kid Congo left the band before the recording of the first album to join The Cramps, but later came back more times. Later both joined Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. Gun Club had lots of line-up change because of Pierce drug abuse and alcoholism. Nick Cave said: „He looked increasingly ill, I mean, we all did, but Jeffrey looked particularly so.” He died from brain hemorrhage at the age of 37 in 1996. He was HIV positive, and also suffering from cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis.

Cypress Grove was one of his collaborators of his delta blues influenced album which was released in 1992. After Pierce’s death Grove found a cassette containing unfinished song skeletons that he and Jeffrey had recorded. These were given out to some artists – friends, former band members and fans – to make own versions. On the first album We Are Only Riders (2010) and second one The Journey Is Long (2012, LISTEN!): Ravenoettes, Mark Lanegan, Debbie Harry, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Mick Harvey, Kid Congo Powers, David Eugene Edwards (16 Horsepower), Sadies, Isobel Campbell, Barry Adamson, Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three), Tex Perkins, Tav Falco, Hugo Race and many others.

Now here is the ultimate album Axels & Sockets on Glitterhouse Records

Tracklist:  1. Nobody’s City – Iggy Pop with Nick Cave (feat. Thurston Moore)  2. Kisses For My President – The Amber Lights with Debbie Harry  3. Mexican Love – Black Moth 4. Weird Kid Blues – Julie Christensen  5. Ain’t My Problem Baby – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club  6. Constant Limbo (Constant Rain) – Crippled Black Phoenix and Cypress Grove (feat. Mark Lanegan & Bertrand Cantat)  7. Into The Fire – Nick Cave and Debbie Harry  8.Thunderhead – Kris Needs Presents…Honey  9. Desire By Blue River – Mark Lanegan and Bertrand Cantat  10. Kitty In The Moonlight – The Amber Lights with Xanthe Waite  11. Secret Fires – Ruby Throat  12. Kisses For My President – Andrea Schroeder  13. Body And Soul – James Johnston  14. Goodbye Johnny (Andrew Weatherall’s Mix) – Primal Scream  15. Break ‘Em Down – Hugo Race  16. My Cadillac – Cypress Grove  17. The Journey Is Long – Lydia Lunch and Jeffrey Lee Pierce  18. Shame And Pain – Mark Stewart And Jeffrey Lee Pierce (feat. Thurston Moore)

Iggy Pop & Nick Cave feat. Thurston Moore + Black Moth

The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project

„Slumberland began operations in 1989 as a collective effort consisting of members of DC area bands Velocity Girl, Big Jesus Trash Can/Whorl, Black Tambourine and Powderburns. We were inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Postcard, K, Bus Stop, lower East Side noise, and also the renegade art aesthetics of people like Cage, Burroughs and Duchamp. The explosion of punk had left behind a thriving network of ‘zines, labels and distributors and we felt that there was room for our noise-loving, pop-obsessed aesthetic. While there were loads of US indie labels releasing a steady stream of 7″s, there wasn’t much pop going on.”

Gold-Bears second album is on the way: Atlanta’s noise-pop greats are back with their second album. Dalliance is more focused and abrasive than that 2011 debut, combining their noise-pop influences from forebears like Boyracer and The Wedding Present with shades of the post-hardcore and post-punk. Order

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are back! Brooklyn Indie Pop stalwarts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart just announced their third LP entitled Days of Abandon. The first single from the record, „Simple And Sure.” Listen ti it here. Order

Devon Williams‘ third solo album is a tour de force of shimmering, melodic pop, seamless blend of power-pop, orchestrated soft-rock and layered, complex jangle-pop that recalls such forebears as The Church, Felt and Aztec Camera. Listen to Flowers. Order

All out on 3rd June. Plus vinyl re-presses: first album from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Frankie Rose‘s „Interstellar,” The Mantles‘ „Long Enough To Leave” and Joanna Gruesome‘s „Weird Sister.”

BLACK PUS / OOZING WOUND split 12″ featuring brand new tracks from each.
Out on 17th June by Thrill Jockey Records on limited edition LP/DL

BLACK PUS is „raucous and otherworldly” solo drum project of Brian Chippendale, the drummer of hard noise rock duo Lightning Bolt. He has been chosen by Björk and The Flaming Lips as a collaborator and played on Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Repentance album (2008). OOZING WOUND is a classic, but a little unorthodox thrash metal band, because there aren’t guitar solos. In May 2013 they opened up for Black Pus in their hometown Chicago… These songs aren’t from the split! Just as samples

Black Pus Euro tour June-July. Vienna June 30

Big Mountain County from Italy in Budapest at RNR666 Party on 2 May

See Gyerage‘s pictures here

Hands of Doom stoner blog and Sportalsó presents

MAY 23, FRIDAY > 16:00 – 16:30 Boddah  16:45 – 17:15 Life is Marrow  17:30 – 18:00 Slide Away  18:15 – 19:00 Head for the Sun  19:15 – 19:55 Badass  20:10 – 20:50 Dusty Chopper  21:10 – 21:50 Stoneblade  22:10 – 22:50 Let the Cigar Die  23:10 – 00:00 Conan’s First Date  00:15 – 01:00 Just Four

MAY 24, SATURDAY > 13:00 – 13:30 Lastdayflayers  13:45 – 14:15 Vicious Panda  14:30 – 15:00 Spacedust  15:15 – 15:45 Giant Horizon  16:00 – 16:45 Toscrew  17:00 – 17:45 Eclipse of the Sun  18:00 – 18:45 Buso Von Kobra  19:00 – 19:45 C.Y.D.  20:00 – 20:45 Drow  21:00 – 22:00 Bearfood  22:15 – 23:00 Lumberjack Commando  23:15 – 00:00 Vendetta Inc.  00:15 – 01:00 Visioned Frailty

INSTEAD OF IT: KINGDOM OF THE THUNDER SNAKE STONER DOOM CIRCUS with POWERTRIP, LUMBERJACK COMMANDO, BADASS, DUSTY CHOPPER & VISIONED FRAILTY in Budapest at Showbarlang on 10 May. Facebook

Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through
a common love of 1970s and 80s synthesizer music.
Inspiration came to them by way of experimental electronic sounds,
film soundtracks, early industrial music, minimal synth, house,
techno, synth pop, krautrock, psychedelic rock and shoegaze.

May 6 > SOFT METALS (US)> Budapest, Toldi

Start:10 pm     Ticket:1000     Facebook     Küss Mich + Holalo Party

Punk Broadcast on RNR666 Radio Show

LISTEN!

„Trends change each others quarterly in the party district of Budapest, but RNR666 snaps one’s fingers at these, just organizes his parties with garage rock, punk, blues and wtf bands from all over the world almost for 10 years. French garage rock band? I have no idea of it, but let’s go there, will be high spirits and beer sprinkling, it’s cert. Psychedelic band from Italy? I never heard their name before, but it will be sick sure enough. Go! Israeli garage punk? By all means.” (Urbanplayer)

MAY 2 > RNR666 PARTY > BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY (I) + DOPE CALYPSO – BUDAPEST, TRAFIK, 22:30. Ticket: 1000

After break-up of two cultic Italian garage rock bands The Boilers and The Ultra Twist some members of those founded Big Mountain County. They play psychedelic garage rock’n’roll, sometimes it’s like the early Butthole Surfers, then they play a blues from Robert Johnson.
Dope Calypso play blues punk’n’roll with members of Kollaps and Haunebu. Their music reminds me of Night Terrors, Superhelicopter and Black Magic Six. Debut show.

MAY 1

FLASH – BUDAPEST, A38  > Továbbra sem!

JC SATÁN (F) – VIENNA, DAS BACH > 2 Italian girls and 3 French guys play sensational psych garage rock.  Euro tour Apr-May

JC SATÁN / PIRESIAN BEACH split 7″ vinyl on RNR666 RECORDS

MENYHÁRT TAMÁS vernissage and happening with music: MKB, Band In The Pit, MikiKever – BUDAPEST, MIXART

MAY 2

„Trends change each others quarterly in the party district of Budapest, but RNR666 snaps one’s fingers at these, just organizes his parties  with garage rock, punk, blues and wtf bands from all over the world almost for 10 years. French garage rock band? I have no idea of it, but let’s go there, will be high spirits and beer sprinkling, it’s cert. Psychedelic band from Italy? I never heard their name before, but it will be sick sure enough. Go! Israeli garage punk? By all means.”  (Urbanplayer)

RNR666 PARTY > BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY (I) + DOPE CALYPSO  BUDAPEST, TRAFIK, 22:30

After break-up of two cultic Italian garage rock bands The Boilers and Ultra Twist some members of those founded Big Mountain County. They play psychedelic garage rock’n’roll, sometimes it’s like the early Butthole Surfers, then they play a blues from Robert Johnson.
Dope Calypso plays blues punk’n’roll with members of Kollaps and Haunebu. Their music reminds me of Night Terrors, Superhelicopter and Black Magic Six.

DEAD ELVIS – VIENNA, FLUC
The King has returned and playing wild rock’n’roll alone.  Euro Tour Apr-May

POZVAKOWSKI + INDUSTROIKA (B) – DEBRECEN, DHARMA
The best Hungarian noise rock band with their Belgian bros.

MAY 3

MYKKI BLANCO (US) – BUDAPEST, A38
Aggressive, hard hitting hip-hop with sassy, fun and confrontational lyrics. She is the most important figures of industrialized noise hop scene beside Death Grips and Clipping.

POZVAKOWSKI + INDUSTROIKA (B) – BUDAPEST, SUPER 8

RNRXPRESS is our brand new series. Express opinion on the basis of only one listening. The materials get into this post by absolutistic decision, impulse or request.

Stagnant Pools is a drums’n’guitar duo from Bloomington, Indiana. They mix Sonic Youth with Joy Division in their noisy post punk indie rock music. Initially it’s interesting, but then it becomes very boring.

from the album Geist by Polyvinyl Records. Release: 10 June.

Here is their debut album in full.

After death of Jeff Hanneman (alcohol-related cirrhosis) and quit of Dave Lombardo (financial debate) here is the first public song from the next Slayer album, which will be released later this year or in early 2015:  Implode with Paul Bostaph on drums (was member from 1992-2001, was in: Forbidden, Exodus, Testament) and Gary Holt on guitar (Exodus). Free download for subscribe. Click the pic!