Audacity is rather a power pop band than a garage punk. But in their early times they were a real great garage punk band. Their lost and found first recordings from 2007 are out now.

„Juva Jive” 10″ EP and digital on Cut-Rate, cassette on Burger Records (USA). The best Audacity album forever.

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Italian psychedelic rock band La Piramide di Sangue loves you in oriental mood

„Sette” LP and digital  on Boring Machines (Italy)

It’s a seven musician ensemble from Torino. The sound is built on two guitars, two basses, one clarinet, one synth, several effects, drums and percussions. It has started as a solo project of Gianni Giublena Rosacroce (clarinet, percussions) who is an alter-ego of Stefano Isaia, the singer of blues rock and roll band Movie Star Junkies.

CRETIN STOMPERS are from Memphis, members of Jay Retard Band, Barbaras, Wavves, Big Muff Radio. Their debut album „Looking Forward To Being Attacked” is out now on Hozac Records (US).

Garage – sure, rock – naturally, punk – of course. Not raw or hard, but simple and sweetly rough, sometimes psychedelic, with drum machine and nice Japanese pop style vocal and tunes, with covers from The Styrenes and Dave Brock (Hawkwind). Sometimes turns into chaos. Vivid. Cretin. A-ha, oh yeah.

Notorious experimental noise-hop band
Death Grips has made his new double album
„niggas on the moon”
featuring Björk on all 8 tracks.
You can download its first part titled „the powers that b” free.

If you desire a hot Italian summer, you can get it from great French/Italian garage rock band JC SATÁN

7″ on Trouble In Mind Records (US)

And if you want more, here is a JC Satán/Piresian Beach 7″ EP
on RNR666 Records (Hungary)

Special Swiss alpine sunrise rite
by bizarre eclectic psych folk band
Pussywarmers and Réka

from the album I Saw Them Leaving on Wild Honey Records (Italy)

Strange 80s style synth-pop, or a goth mix of Depeche Mode and New Order, or like the Hungarian synth-pop wonder, Új Látásmód Fúzió. Previous records were released by such little cult labels as Night-People, Dark Entries and Crash Symbols

Some Ember – s/t album on Dream Recordnings

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Boyracer and Wedding Present are written than their forebears. I don’t know, but it’s a good jangly noisy fuzzy indie pop song

Gold-Bears – „Dalliance” album on Slumberland Records (US)

Electronic band Borghesia was formed by members of an alternative theater group in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (today Slovenia) in 1982. In the early times their music was influenced by new wave, electro-pop, disco and EBM. Then they took a more EBM direction. Their records were released by influential, then industrial and EBM specialist Play It Again Sam Records. Borghesia stop its activities around 1995 and came back in 2009. As a theatrical multi-media project, and also musically they show some similarities with Laibach. And vice versa.

marketing, media, hr, politology, any ism
We Don’t Believe You

from the album „And Man Created God „on Metropolis Records

Barbara Lehnhoff didn’t want to become a musician – like so many other individuals, but her debut album under moniker of Camilla Sparksss is better than the new Laibach. You can find danceable technoid rhythms and electro-industrial punk tunes on it.

Barbara grew up in Canada amongst Indian reserves with a little brown bear. She is master of tracking and trapping, and knows the smoke signals.  Then she went among alpine natives of Swiss-Italian borderland to learn economic, graphic design and film making.

„I started playing bass in 2004 when I was studying video in Lugano, Switzerland. I needed a soundtrack for a short film I was working on and so I met up with Aris and we started recording.” And art punk band Peter Kernel was born from this co-operation. They were invited by Spencer Krug from the Canadian band Wolf Parade to open for their European tour in 2010.

How does Camilla Sparksss started?

Camilla Sparksss started while I was unloading my 8×10 Ampeg bass cabinet for the 15th time while we were touring Peter Kernel. I looked at Aris and said “we need to start a lighter project”. (…and of course we’ve always wanted to start something electronic).

(An 8×10 Ampeg bass cabinet’s dimensions: 120 x 66 x 40, around 65-75 kg. – editor’s note)

CS is absolutely another musical world than P. Kernel. What are the main musical influences of CS?

I think CS is a different style from PK, but if you listen carefully both projects are very similar. They’re both minimal, instinctive and raw. The main difference lies in the production and instruments used. At the begging we wanted to transform PK into electro, but as we started writing the songs we became nostalgic of the “acoustic” punch of a live band. So we decided to give Peter Kernel a little sister called Camilla Sparksss. But both projects are influenced by what we’re experiencing in our everyday lives and how we feel in the moment. Musically we listen to very different kinds of music, at the moment my favourite band is Moonface. It’s the solo project of  Spencer Krug.

Are there any non-musical projects?

I love making clothing, especially hand made T-shirts. You can check them on my Bandcamp page. And of course videos. Oh, and I love cooking, but I’m not very good at it.

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On her shows there are two dancers. Anahì Traversi, a Swiss-Argentinian theater actress, and Miriam Vile, a Swiss-Italian „Gangsta” jewellery designer.  Next shows: 07 Jun > Luzern, Südpol (Switzerland), 19 Jun > Lyon, Sonic, (France), 21 Jun > Vesoul (France), 07 Jul > Lugano, Elettrolake Fest, Piazza Manzoni (Switzerland).

Hungarian weird metal band Korog has come back with a new album. The music is drenched in grunge (esp. Soundgarden). And there is a new vocalist, who arrived from Turbo. And like this name, just like the singer… errr… is too avant-garde for me…

You can buy the album on iTunes

concert >  7 June  Budapest  A38        FB event

+ Void Ov Voices, drone project of Attila Csihar (ex-Korog, Mayhem)

Armand Margejka was born an Albanian small town Tropoia, located on the highland near the border of Kosovo. Tropoia district has had a long reputation as one of the wildest and most conservative regions in Albania, virtually out of control of every government in Tirana. The family arsenal often takes up a whole room and typically includes anti-tank mines, hand grenades, and rocket launchers besides rifles, revolvers, machine guns, stilettos, swords, baseball bats and all sorts of old guns which goes from father to son. Instead of insurance brokers insurgence agents go about the countryside. Albania was the most isolated and most poorest among the Eastern-European communist states. The Stalinism was the most persistent here. Moreover there are the tribal differences and the beautiful tradition of vendetta.

Margejka’s musical influences were Western cinema, MTV Europe, and fortuitous cassette tape of American pop/rock legends Little Richard, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley taught Margjeka the fundamentals of rock and roll, and subsequently the English language. The country is however friendly and secure, he has changed Albania for Alabama. He plays indie folk rock with sure hands.

„Hummingbird” LP, CD on Communicating Vessels (USA)

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Ghetto Ghouls are (a handyman, a geography assistant, a sound guy, and a student) like their predecessor Texan punks,  Bobby Soxx, Dicks, Stick Man With Rayguns or Scratch Acid. This 7” couples a pair of songs from the S/T LP sessions