The New Zealander writer and musician  Bill Direen‘s situationist exposé of current world political events:

The Utopians R Just Out Of Boozin’

The utopians are just out boozing
Mercy killing their sense of losing
Another century of Europa facing
Another gangland of mephistos embracing
Hardened enemies are friends this year
Designing bombs & announcing clear
Resolutions, shaking hands,
Aiming drones over African lands.

All interventions have a second motive
The food is free, but the aid is loaded.
War medallions, better blow the dust off
Tools of torture, better scrape the rust off.
Every country has its Kremlin
Every religion has its Vatican
Be your boss, but bring your boffin
Visit the moon in your cryo-coffin.

A little bribery is always convenient
Wherever justice might be lenient.
A new breed is making gold from dirt
The writer vomits down his last tee shirt.
The new geneticists o! they cut and suture
The free market guarantees their future
As antique lands are blown to splinters
A spring uprising keep us warm next winter.

The madhouses have rainy eyes.
The sane willingly tranquilised.
Psychiatrists are sporting their i-phones
Individualists are carving up their headstones,
All the goddesses are in Hades,
All the gentlemen are in the Ladies,
Beadles gleam as years in jail
Are meted out to kids who fail.

The poem will be released on his bands’ brand new record. Thank Bill for the words.

The author plays on his guitar and sings his another song on the seaside here.

He has begun his career in the mid-70s as folk singer and stepped in the New Zealander punk, indie-rock scene with electronic music. His most known groups are the Bilders.

About his music works          About his literary works

Back to the roots, to the 80s, when the massive darkness comes to the sunlight by Slayer, Metallica, Possessed, Exodus, Exciter, Venom, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and legions of other bands. Now here is the Midnight. Black heavy metal, thrash rock and roll

No Mercy For Mayhem – LP, 2XCD, digital on Hell’s Headbangers Records (US)

You can find, buy and listen to their previous albums here

Midnight plays Venom’s Too Loud For The Crowd here

There is a song on the new album „Aggressive Crucifixion.” It comes to light that 3 kind of crucifixion are/were existing at least: tender, ordinary and aggressive. And in all probability there are/were some sub-categories too.

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Next chapter of the French garage rock Who Is Who, or Who With Who. White Ass includes members from Teenage Moonlight Borderliners, Crash Normal, Pierre & Bastien, Descente D’Organes, Viscous Brothers, TITS and more. Big white ass, so big, that the debut album has released on 4 labels simultaneously. The output is fresh, hot French-style garage rock and roll

LP and digital on  Frantic City, Inch Allah, Pouet Schallplatten and Kizmiaz Records (all France)

French singer and songwriter NOIR BOY GEORGE
plays simple music on his keyboard.
One of the best video makers ever
tab_ularasa has made an amazing clip for his song

ENFONCE TOI DANS LA VILLE

from 7″ vinyl on POUet Schallplatten (France)

There’re no enough words to describe the magnificence of art of tab_ularasa

NBG is a member of French dada doom grind supergroup 1400 Points De Suture together with Cheb Samir (Bobsleigh Baby, Capputtini I Lignu, The Normals, Trans Upper Egypt, Vernon Sélavy and more), Emmanuel Satti (A.H.Kraken, Anals, The Dreams, Funk Police, Scorpion Violente and more), Seb Normal (Crash Normal, Feeling Of Love, Le Chomage, Cheb Samir & The Black Souls Of Leviathan and many more) and others.

Free download Noir Boy George & 1400 Points De Suture

12th item of the series

Tim Presley (= White Fence) sings a very Velvet Underground-like song about Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (37-68) who was the emperor of Roman Empire as Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (54-68) and committed suicide with the aid of his secretary. The imperator’s bust is on the cover. In accordance with order of the series the A-side artist suggests a band to the B-side. Presley picked the tour guitarist of White Fence, Jack Name (aka Muzz, Fictional Boys and John Webster Johns).

100% of the digital proceeds going to VH1 Save the Music program.

It will be released on 2 Sept > pre-order   /  the recently released White Fence album

„San Francisco’s first and only rock ‘n’ roll band” was the slogan of CRIME. It was formed in 1976 and after 3 singles broke up in 1980. They were among the very first west coast punk bands, and played raw and loud rock’n’roll. In 1977 they began wearing police uniforms.  In 1979 the Crime performed a show in San Quentin State Penitentiary. There they didn’t wear police uniforms of course, instead of it they wore prison guard uniforms. This LP release collects the three singles along with nine previously unreleased studio recordings from 1976 to 1980.

Post-Crime: In 1987 Sonic Youth covered „Hot Wire My Heart” on their LP Sister.  –  Johnny Strike (vocals, guitar) has become a writer. In 2001 he formed a new band, The Johnsons. They changed their name later to The Venus Hunters and eventually shortened it to TVH.  –  Crime was re-formed in 2005. In 2008 they recorded a new album of rare, older materials.  –  The drummer Hank Rank has become a film producer under his real name, Henry Rosenthal. His best known work is The Devil and Daniel Johnston.  –  The original drummer Ricky Tractor was the original singer of Flipper, because he was a very original person…  – A photo book about Crime.

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MENACE BEACH is a „two pieces indie rock supergroup.”in Leeds. It’s led by Ryan Needham (ex-Komakino) and Liza Violet (Department M) with members from Sky Larkin, Pulled Apart By Horse, Hookworms and Mansun, and it’s the best among the listed bands. Hard fuzz noise pop sometimes with strong Nirvana feeling

7″ + digital single on Memphis Industries (UK)

“we know that’s the main aim of the sound:
to get a sound that makes you feel sick in the stomach,
because it sounds so good.”

dark, 70s & 80s horror film influenced cold wave
synth punk from Australia by NUN

a song about the master of spoons, Uri Geller

Debut album on Aarght (Aus, LP, CD) & Avant! Records (Italy, LP)

Deutsch Punks Also Not Dead Just Changed

Chuckamack – Im Knast – EP on Staatsakt Records (Germany)

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Shovels and Rope is a Charleston, SC band consisting of Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. Formed in 2010, they sing harmony driven folk, rock and country songs using two old guitars, a kick drum, a snare, a few tambourines, harmonicas, and and maybe a little keyboard sometimes.

Swimmin’ Time – LP, CD on Dualtone Records (US)

Some days before here was the news about a project of Chris Constantinou (The Wolfmen, Adam Ant) and Paul Frazer (Prodigy, Black Futures). They gathered a bunch of legendary British and American punk/ska/new wave artists and made together an album under the name of The Mutants. They went to Japan and did the same thing with members of Guitar Wolf (atomic garage „lock and lol” trio from Nagasaki. They provoked Eric Friedl from The Oblivians to start the Goner Records in 1993. After the first sight he wanted to publish their album. ) +  The 5.6.7.8’s (all-female rockabilly rock and roll trio. They’re famous from their appearance in Tarantino’s Kill Bill vol 1.) + Mika Bomb (London based 3/4 Japanese all girl pop punk band) + Jackie & The Cedirics (surf rock trio) + The Neatbeats (beat) + The Let’s Go’s (all-girl candy rock and roll trio) and more. Here is a song

Dead Beat Generation

The album is coming soon

One of the favourite bands of RNR666’s official pin-up girl, the Magic Cats Rockabilly Trio chose a familiar sounding name for its song. We’d be more surprised if the song got titled Satisfaction but this choice raises some questions, too.

RNR666: You know the Rolling Stones song of the same title?
Magic Cats: Yes, I know, it’s dope! I used to listen to as well!
RNR666: Were you influenced by this song?
Magic Cats: With this song, no. But the music of the Rolling Stones inspires us, the style we play, rockabilly and garage-rockabilly, borrows a lot from their hard riffs and their pulsating rhythm.