Infantile clip for primitive garage rock in good style
DRAGSTER – Lou L’enfer Chasseur de Dragons

from Ganja War cassette EP on Six Tonnes de Chair

Japanese psychedelic rock band Kikagaku Moyo have started their own label called Guruguru Brain to contribute to Asian music scene. The  1st release is a compile of Japanese musicians who played Tokyo Psych Fest, for example: Fancy Numnum, Bombori, Korakora, or Old Man Bondage Machine, who has written their song about Steven Segall. It’s free to download

Danish sextet is unknown, but the other two bands are familiar to me.
Hexenbrutal already played at RNR666 Party.
It’s Evereyone Else interview on RNR666.                    FB Event

Frankly, I’m fed up with garage rock. And Straight Arrows are also a garage rock band, but luckily in Australia. I can tell lots of fashionable phrase about their music: fuzzy, psychedelic, garage rock, punk attitude etc. But all the same, it’s wonderful.

„Rising” LP, CD, digital album on Rice Is Nice (AUS), Agitated (UK) and Hozac Records (USA) on next week

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Koiran Nakoinen Nainen (= Dog Looking Woman). Nice melodic Finnish lo-fi punk from Manchester of the North, aka Tampere.

Kesämuistoja (= Summer Memories) 7″ EP on Blast of Silence with fabulous cover art

„All I can remember is rolling in the dirt”

Acid, ee’s, weed, speed, fuck off, but gimme a cigarette

from the upcoming second album
‘Not Art Until Someone Hates It’ (Gravity, Planet of the Apes)
of Budapest based international minimal hip-hop band
HOMELESS MILLIONAIRES

 early 80s german style minimal synth/electro industrial

on 5 June at 9pm in Budapest at Kontra Klub with

Pure Ground Music          FB Event           Ticket: 1000

Surprising that HSY started as a one woman band in Canada. Post-punk with sludge metal

7″ on Buzz (Can) and Too Pure Records (UK)

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There was a special local taste of punk in Germany, but Küken could be in any garage of the world. Because of the harbour, maybe.

debut 7″ coming soon on Bachelor Records (Austria)

American musician Bobby Bare, Jr. got a hard smack, and wrote his best album about it.   

Bobby is son of Grammy awarded country musician Bobby Bare, Sr. He was raised in strongly musical environment in Memphis. So much so that he was nominated for a Grammy at his age of 6 for a duet with his father “Daddy What If”. It was written by the family’s friend, Shel Silverstein. He made a huge impression on Bobby, Jr.’s song writing technique. Wrote with and had all his songs critiqued by him, till Silverstein passed on in 1999. “To take an idea and push it as far as you can and then push it a whole lot further” – was his ars poetica. Shel Silverstein was a poet, writer, singer/songwriter and cartoonist. For example he has written “25 Minutes to Go”, “A Boy Named Sue” and “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan”. The first two have become popular by Johnny Cash, the third was written for Dr. Hook, but also was recorded by Lee Hazelwood and Marianne Faithful. (Anyway he wrote the lyrics and music for most of the Dr. Hook songs.)

Thanks for these circumstances, his talent and the fate, “Undefeated” is the best album of Bobby Bare jr. so far. Thanks for The Fate above all. But “thanks” is maybe not the best phrase in this case. The fulfilled love, joy and happiness are never so stimulating to create master pieces* like desire, sadness, broken heart and trials. In his own words, this is a “pretty confessional”, “getting dumped” album about end of his relationship with the mother of his youngest child, or “My Baby Took My Baby Away”

And his ex-baby didn’t want to hear anything about his emotions. So it seemed the only way to tell her his feelings if he writes those to songs. Diverse moods and situations have inspired these various explicit songs. Almost all have a different kind of style. There’re danceable, almost new wave and old Americana tunes, a bit of ragtime, alternative country and rock. One of those is just like a Butthole Surfers song on this true adult oriented really alternative rock album. Unfortunately I can’t put it completely here.

Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League – “Undefeated” LP, CD, digital on Bloodshot Records (USA). Young Criminals’ Starvation League is his ever-changing group of musicians, including members of Lambchop, My Morning Jacket and many more.

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* But the exception proves the rule. One of the best albums of all time, Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) by Serge Gainsbourg is fruit of a fulfilled love.

The Shakespearian rapper
Signor Benedick The Moore – I H8 Everybody

from El Negro CD by experimental/electronic/noise label
Deathbomb Arc Records (USA)

The new Godflesh EP – hard stuff for brain cleaning

Limited edition LP, CD + digital on Avalanches Records (UK)

Godflesh is one of the most influential industrial/drone metal bands. It was founded by Justin K. Broadrick (who was the guitarist of Napalm Death in 1985-86. His other electronic/ experimental/ post noise projects: Techno Animal, Jesu, Final, Pale Sketcher) and G.C. Green in 1988. The band dissolved in 2002, and reformed in 2009.