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From New Records
„The mechanisms of protection are all around us, but do you feel safer?”
’77 is eternal & indestructible, because punks not dead (just all the Ramones)
Hard Left – 7″ lathe cut and digital on Future Perfect Records (US)
Hard Left is a hard mod band from members of #1 Smash Hits, Boyracer and Manatee in Oakland. Class war, Marxism and all that jazz, but I swear that listen to it so good, but I can’t do it without laughing.
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It’s not easy pop music, rather pretty brutal, miraculous haunted gospel folk trip-hop soul by 26 years old Canadian singer songwriter Al Spx, who is working with her 6-piece band under the name of Cold Specks. Many of her songs are based on junk- shopped old photos and postcards. „It’s insane how many people throw away their old photos. Some of them are absolutely stunning and I just wonder what made these people throw them out – What is their story? Why is this woman doing that? Why is there a creepy man standing in the background?”
Neuroplasticity – LP/CD/digital – order here. Michael Gira (Swans) appears on a track. The collaboration started with Spx singing on Swans’ last album.
She dropped out of school, but hadn’t told her parents and secretly began worked at a call center. Around that time, she handed a collection of songs to a friend of hers, who passed it on to his brother, who happened to be a record producer in London.
„Call centers… I always say it’s the worst job in the world. It’s just hell.”
Rakéta Fest 3rd Day
RAKÉTA FESTIVAL has started Monday in Budapest
The most exciting young Hungarian musicians
No limits, free entry & no excuses!
3rd stage: Beat On The Brat
BLACK COFFEE (groovy garage punk from Warsaw) – DOPE CALYPSO (raw rock’n’roll)
MACIEK PIASECZKI & THE PUSS’N’BOOTS DJ SET
(Poland’s coolest punk guy with enormous Mohawk and mesmerizing Hungarian girls)
ODDDS (new punk rock)
Guns’n’Desert Roses
pref: Tuaregs are nomadic people in the Sahara. When African countries achieved widespread independence in the 1960s, the traditional Tuareg territory was divided among a number of countries. The situation naturally led to some (unsuccessful) uprisings. They’re living as refugees in some countries of Africa.
“TINARIWEN IS A BAND BORN INTO CHAOS.”
The founder, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib saw a cowboy to play on guitar in a western film in his childhood. After the happy end he fabricated his first guitar from a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wire. He has formed his band in a Libyan Tuareg refugee camp, where they were under military training in 1979. When the revolution broke out in their homeland in 1990, they left Libya behind, put down their instruments and took up guns to fight for the Tuareg independence in Mali. When the conflict died down, the band returned to music. And they have become successful refugees around the world with their traditional Tuareg music, which is influenced by blues and Hendrix.
Chaghaybou from the album Emmaar. It’s about the trials of their people.
It’s their first album which was written and recorded far from their homeland in the deserts of Californian Joshua Tree National Park. „We watched Western movies, during the recording and ate burritos, and the engineer who worked with us is from Nashville.” Previous Grammy winner album was recorded in the Algerian Desert, because „We love all the desert, these are places where we feel good to live and to create.”
For Tuaregs the Sahara is not one desert but many,
they call it Tinariwen, id est: The Deserts.
From New Records
„Hell is a good place to write songs, get smashed, take drugs and destroy your sanity, well-being, future and relationships.” – Warren Thomas
More excerpts from interviews:
Aquarium Drunkard: Even in 2010, when I first saw you (The Growlers – boys from the acid beach) live, you had a percussion player who wore a swimsuit and played the bongos in a beach chair for the entire show.
Brooke Nielson: Warren (Thomas)! He’s the man. He’s doing his own shit again—he’s got a new band called The Abigails. Warren was a great party vibe. Everything was a party. Just getting a slice of pizza was a pizza party.
LA Record: Where are you from?
Warren: Like most people, my dad fucked my mom and nine months later I came out of her pussy.
Outlaw country with voice of Lee Hazelwood. Warren has got it by the aid of diabolical practices.
The Abigails – Tundra LP on Burger Records (US) The album was released on cassette in last year. Digital copy
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Classic thrifty minimal techno from Scotland. Another mysterious electronic project on Clandestine Records (UK)
Twins – Cold Gemini 12″ EP
Rakéta Fest 2nd Stage
RAKÉTA FESTIVAL has started yesterday in Budapest
7 days x 7 places
The most exciting young Hungarian musicians
No limits, free entry & no excuses!
2nd stage today > MÜSZI
TEA ROAD (psychedelic indie rock) – KIKOSHO (ambient rock)
LE HJÄRTA (indie guitar pop) – makrohang (jazz for metalheads)
MORZSA RECORDS (mish-mash folk, members from Texas, Ukraine, Réunion and Hu)
“Haunted songs about the uncertain”
The amazing Mexican fuzzy psychedelic rock duo
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete‘s recent vinyl LP,
which was snapped up within some nano seconds in March,
out now again on Captcha Records (US)!!!
(Sure you can also buy CD or digital copy.)
You can also buy albums on vinyl and digital formats directly from the band
CDs only from the label
On the road as a Mexican band
– Alberto: There might be excitement about the fact that we are from Mexico but it’s not like we get more beer at the shows or that nobody steals records from our merch table while we’re not looking. In the end we’re just treated like any other band. Which is cool.
– Lorena: Sometimes people practice their spanish with us, so it’s fun.
Read the full interview here.
From New Records
Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London for the rainy days. Astronauts are solo project of Dan Carney from Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). It was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.
‘Hollow Ponds’ album on Lo Recordings (UK)
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Female fronted „8-legged riff machine” in the manner of Stooges, Spacemen 3 and AC/DC form Australia.
The Daicos – Monkey’s Blood LP on Homeless Records (Aus)
I went for a drink…
and then my head’s in the bowl for the rest of the night…
Firewater Liquor by Natural Child
from the album Dancin’ With Wolves on Burger Records (US)
In Keith Richards’ view
Natural Child is just the second best rock and roll band of the world.
You can read from this and find more stories about the band
on the famous RNR666’s interview.
3-2-1-Zero
RAKÉTA FESTIVAL is starting today in Budapest
7 days x 7 places
The most exciting young Hungarian musicians
No limits, free entry & no excuses!
1st act at Vitulla with
Duke Bluebird (folk-pop) – Demjén Hirst (garage punk) – The Somersault Boy (healthy sick pop) – Ї3§3Ł $ΔuNĐ §y$†€M (meth house) – Szagos Hörigekkók (primary school wave)
every info mixtape
„but we usually just laugh at the Ramones covers”
To play a Ramones’ song is very easy, but nearly impossible.
Altogether 6 342 328 covers were born until 30.06.2014.
(Blitzkrieg Bop has 123 385 versions alone.)
99% is waste, but so much that if you play one on comb and tissue paper
you are in the 1%.
Metal covers: horror; punk/rock covers: concentrated boredom.
Such over skilled bands as Metallica and Nomeansno also failed unexpectedly.
We must realize, the necessary surplus isn’t in the songs, it was in the band.
1-2-3-4 & more
Ramones covers on RNR666 Radio Show
„but we usually just laugh at the Ramones covers”
came the response when I asked Zsófi to send some tracks, and also thanks to Ironcopy.
During the editing Tommy Ramone has died, so we dedicate this to his remembrance.
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