A good enough live version of Bossanova
by famous Slovenian industrial disco cover band Laibach

from their latest album Spectre. But it’s boring enough.

LAIBACH CENTRAL EURO TOUR NOV-DEC

Shit!, I said, all chips on the table! . Before Swans took the stage, on board the ship at anchor, watching the purplish clouds, we talked or held our breath in reverence, and to get the best night out of sweet smoke, because if there’s a time to tune in – this must it. And let me make this a disclaimer: maybe I was tuned in too much; my shoes smell like a pair of rats; I often badly miss contact at shows where everyone is facing the stage, like an altar; and most relevantly, I hadn’t got into their reunion albums deep enough.

Swans really hurt, ears and heart, by their sheer volume. The ship A38 is famed for its excellent sound, but, strangely, Gira’s sonorities got trapped in the mix – coming loud and clear, but without the depth to his voice. Count crashes to 22 – a lighthook poises! or some such intermission. Huge blocks – a bit short of details -. cold shiny storm of steel, bluesy downcast drudge, and in the center: immediacy. They bared themselves – were hypnotic, to be kind – or focused beyond bias. Earplugs came with entry, but using them would have felt like betrayal.

Levels of experience (and how they lapsed):
shimmering transfusion swept legs, twitched back and back, off with poses at the joints, I was shaking + the sense of being in the moment (but noone really broke loose)-> communal
release and abandon -> surfing, fun in the sun ( more fun fun fun!) -> magic (a few waves) -> [magical] fairy tale (alas,only a few moments of that…you know, mythic reenactment – but maybe I went to the wrong show)

It was great, it was real, it promised rapture, maybe companionship, but I didn’t totally get it.

Back in the streets, I stopped by an old man playing a woodbox guitar and singing just beautifully to it. Bucolic songs,ballads – almost myths. Thank you, Swans! Thank you, Mr Péter Lóczi!

68 years ago Eric Lee Purkisher was born in Akron, Ohio. 38 years ago in New York he formed The Cramps with his wife Poison Ivy, and adopted the name Lux Interior. Since then we can talk about psychobilly. For 5 years he is dead, but Lux is forever.

THIS SATURDAY IN THE DARKEST CORNER OF BUDAPEST AT VITTULA LUX INTERIOR BIRTHDAY PARTY by RNR666 and their friends

HOWLIN AT THE HONEYMOON: Dj duo by Zsófi (Piresian Beach, Summer Schatzies) & Dávid (Broken Cups, Terrible Ted)

LANG ÁDÁM (Summer Schatzies)

PYRAMIDS DON’T EXIST trashrockandroll Dj team & RNR666 Djs

You can listen to an extract from
Lux’s Funeral Party set by RNR666

Some days before
the eccentric Dutch genius
HARRY MERRY was in Budapest at RNR666 Party

photos and moving images by Márk Martinkó >>

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TIT is a cooperation between synth punk Digital Leather‘s Shawn and Bobby Hussy from garage rock duo Hussy.

12″ EP on FDH and Volar Records (US)

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Teenanger doesn’t calm dawn

E.P.L.P. by Telephone Explosion Records (Can).

By the way, they’re a punk band in Toronto.

On the basis of Lower Plenty’s songs I can think that Australia is somewhere in Scotland. Sweet songs for rainy, foggy, boring days. Perfect for the place that is called Lower Plenty (suburb of Melbourne).

from the album Life/Thrills on Bedroom Suck Records (Aus)

Suburban people! See John Waters’ films!

Ty Segall – „Manipulator”
or „The Ballad of Sue Thumb” or „The Faker Wants Your Place”
album review

Paths without directions
Eclipse of the haunting icons
Construction without an aim
Rule the thoughtfully arranged game

Revolution without blood
Carrying the cross of the patience as a lug
Ease, experimentation and fury
Standing tall in the gown of liberty

A crawler without a grin
Before the verities had been scratched into the skin
Tried to keep calm
But the wires were shrieking under his fingers burning in napalm

Characters without faces
Ravel out the endless piles
In a race against the clock
Vagabond caravan swirling in burgundy rose petals

Skinny lover without a coyote fur
Creased beer bottles on a velvet seat cover
The princess kept the view
A calm nirvana in the desert of the last Sioux

Prosector without a lancet
Lying on Sunday afternoon’s blanket
Catch the aspects how your face reflects
In the wreath a dozen of singing cats

Paths by now have been woven by The Golden State’s son
Denoting ideas of this aeon
And the configuration slowly became
The seventh rose of the tamed

released by Drag City (US)

Ty Segall Euro Tour Oct-Nov with JC Satán

…akkor is szexelhetsz, drogozhatsz, vagy táncolhatsz rakkendrollt…

…de előtte még az AIDS-et is elkaphatod, teknót is hallhatsz, ha pedig sikerült cracket szerezned Budapesten, akkor szólj nekünk is!

Csak vicceltünk. Bátran nyomd meg a TOVÁBB gombot!

THE BEST PARTIES THIS WEEKEND IN BUDAPEST >>

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The English Burning Alms duo plays noise rock. I think Fugazi, Helmet, Sonic Youth and black metal; others mentioned e.g. Glenn Branca and Swans as influence.

debut album „In Sequence” on Smalltown America Records (Northern-Ireland, UK)

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Elzo Durt is Belgian graphic artist who made many cover arts for such bands as Thee Oh Sees, Magnetix, Jack of Heart, PyPy and many more. On the occasion of his Parisian exhibition, Born Bad Records have released a single with really various artists: Cheveu, Pierre & Bastien and Violence Conjugale

Elzo is co-founder of Teenage Menopause Records

The American musician, Saul Conrad plays „hard to categorize”, perhaps „experimental chamber pop”  or „other” music on piano and guitar with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies, and folk elements.

His third album (read about!) – which is more popular than previous two (listen to!) – was influenced by Kirkegaard and William Blake, Townes van Zandt and Blaze Foley, Harry Nilsson and Syd Barret, and more. Sycamore, from his 1st album

10/19 London, UK – The Windmill, Elliot Smith tribute night
10/20 Ford, Argyll, UK – Ford House   10/22 Avellino, Italy – Godot Art Bistro
10/23 Budapest, Hungary – Hátsó Kapu   10/24 Budapest, Hungary – Müszi
10/25 Vienna, Austria – Mo.e   10/26 Lyon, France – Kraspek Myzik
10/29 Hamburg, DE – Hasenschauke   10/30 Berlin, DE – Madame Claude
10/31 Leipzig, DE – HanDstand und Moral