OBNOX. Aka Bim Thomas. Drummer of Bassholes. Maybe the best blues punk band. And from Puffy Areolas and This Moment in Black History.

Special mix of electronic beats, blues, rock, soul, funk, hip-hop with lots of weed. Molecule and How To Rob

from the album „Louder Space” on 12XU Records

OBNOX on RNR666

Japanese experimental metal wonder Boris states about their new album: „the band masterfully intermingles sludge-rock, blistering crust punk, shimmering shoegaze, epic thunderous doom, psychedelic melodies and just about everything else they’ve ever done.”

„Noise” album on Sargent House in June. Pre-order

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French punky country surf garage rock’n’roll by Sapin from Rennes

„Wrong Way” album on Azbin Records. The label’s team members are from such great garage bands as Le Pecheur, Regal, Animal Trophies and The Skeptics.

MAY 1

FLASH – BUDAPEST, A38  > Továbbra sem!

JC SATÁN (F) – VIENNA, DAS BACH > 2 Italian girls and 3 French guys play sensational psych garage rock.  Euro tour Apr-May

JC SATÁN / PIRESIAN BEACH split 7″ vinyl on RNR666 RECORDS

MENYHÁRT TAMÁS vernissage and happening with music: MKB, Band In The Pit, MikiKever – BUDAPEST, MIXART

MAY 2

„Trends change each others quarterly in the party district of Budapest, but RNR666 snaps one’s fingers at these, just organizes his parties  with garage rock, punk, blues and wtf bands from all over the world almost for 10 years. French garage rock band? I have no idea of it, but let’s go there, will be high spirits and beer sprinkling, it’s cert. Psychedelic band from Italy? I never heard their name before, but it will be sick sure enough. Go! Israeli garage punk? By all means.”  (Urbanplayer)

RNR666 PARTY > BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY (I) + DOPE CALYPSO  BUDAPEST, TRAFIK, 22:30

After break-up of two cultic Italian garage rock bands The Boilers and Ultra Twist some members of those founded Big Mountain County. They play psychedelic garage rock’n’roll, sometimes it’s like the early Butthole Surfers, then they play a blues from Robert Johnson.
Dope Calypso plays blues punk’n’roll with members of Kollaps and Haunebu. Their music reminds me of Night Terrors, Superhelicopter and Black Magic Six.

DEAD ELVIS – VIENNA, FLUC
The King has returned and playing wild rock’n’roll alone.  Euro Tour Apr-May

POZVAKOWSKI + INDUSTROIKA (B) – DEBRECEN, DHARMA
The best Hungarian noise rock band with their Belgian bros.

MAY 3

MYKKI BLANCO (US) – BUDAPEST, A38
Aggressive, hard hitting hip-hop with sassy, fun and confrontational lyrics. She is the most important figures of industrialized noise hop scene beside Death Grips and Clipping.

POZVAKOWSKI + INDUSTROIKA (B) – BUDAPEST, SUPER 8

„…I’m from the South, I’m not from New York, New York is just where I got famous so if I’m going to work on my debut album I want to be where I’m really from to feel the closer essence of who I am…”
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noisey.vice.com

„…Art college [pursue photography and performance studies, dropped out in 2006 ] is for kids who don’t know what kind of art they want to do, a place to explore and find yourself…”
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chicagotribune.com

„…There was period a couple months ago, I will be flat out honest, because it’s real, there was a period a couple months ago where I thought, should I distance myself from this whole ‘gay rap’ thing? But if my success is linked temporarily to being the gay rapper, that’s fine. I never really did distance myself. Le1f, Ian Isiah, Cakes Da Killa, these are all people who are really close friends who are black and gay and involved in this entertainment culture. I thought no, I never want to distance myself from those people… those are my people, that’s my community, it’s important…”
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ssense.com

„…At first it was like a Pandora’s Box but in the positive way, it was so much beauty and struggle and a whole new lifestyle. I was a full time cross dresser after never doing that before in my life or even doing drag before. 2010, when nobody knew me or anything, I was living this new transgendered life. I wouldn’t call my exploring of gender a phase but an opening up of my life to something radically new and creatively inspiring it was an awakening. Now I feel inspired by something perhaps a little more spiritual a little grander to be honest. I feel that now exploring a new direction will and has already begun to shape my creativity in a new direction. It’s not masculine and feminine I’m playing with anymore but this alien other and I don’t literally mean sci fi but just something more original than gender play, something that feels like the future and is just free, freedom, there’s no freedom in gender but being beyond gender, that’s freedom…”
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brightestyoungthings.com

„…I’m a huge fan of Grace Jones! I look up to her, Iggy Pop, GG Allin, Tina Turner, and Beyoncé the most out of any entertainers because they are strong performers. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a big production or not—just them alone can tear down a stage. I feel the same way about myself—or, at least, I’m trying hard to!”
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www.elle.com

Mykki Blanco in Budapest at A38 on May 3!

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Stagnant Pools is a drums’n’guitar duo from Bloomington, Indiana. They mix Sonic Youth with Joy Division in their noisy post punk indie rock music. Initially it’s interesting, but then it becomes very boring.

from the album Geist by Polyvinyl Records. Release: 10 June.

Here is their debut album in full.

Among the best new punk bands:

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animals

taken from the album on the same name on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July

Parquet Courts Soundcloud

A cult band in garage punk underground: LiveFastDie. Forward on GG Allin’s way

from Hit Stains LP which is a compilation from their singles on Almost Ready Records. First 100 on shit colored wax.

The band is named after a tattoo of GG Allin, and one of them is same town as GG — Littleton, New Hampshire. „I heard his music for the first time when I was 11, before I heard any other punk music. Living in Littleton, there’s always some older kid who’s proud of being from the same town as GG. I actually picked up his step-dad while he was hitch-hiking once. He tried to convince me to get an eight ball with him.” Eight ball: a quantity of cocaine or crystal that weighs an eighth of an ounce, which is equivalent to 3.5 grams.

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There was a very British-style twee pop band in America, the Aberdeen. The band It formed in 1993 and signed to the seminal English label Sarah Records, where they were the only not British act. The label closed in 1995, the band broke-up in same year. In the recent times some members have started a new project, The Luxembourg Signals. First single before the album on Shelflife Records

After death of Jeff Hanneman (alcohol-related cirrhosis) and quit of Dave Lombardo (financial debate) here is the first public song from the next Slayer album, which will be released later this year or in early 2015:  Implode with Paul Bostaph on drums (was member from 1992-2001, was in: Forbidden, Exodus, Testament) and Gary Holt on guitar (Exodus). Free download for subscribe. Click the pic!

Girls’n’guys’n’gays! A hyper-realtime artist, Mykki Blanco

in Budapest at A38 on May 3

„I am a contemporary artist, using music as a performance medium.”

Aggressive, hard hitting hip-hop with sassy, fun and confrontational lyrics
by a black Jewish gay. She is the most important figures of industrialized noise
hop scene beside Death Grips and Clipping. Anyway Mykki Blanco is a fragmented girl.