Tegnap volt utoljára 66 éves a gyerek. / The buddy was 66 yesterday last time.

Popdavec cimborád is csókoltat! / Best wishes, Popdavec

Even though I’m not too much familiar with the 2014 Polish music scene, I still bet (or hope) that the first full length album of Wild books will make it to most end-of-the-year lists there and without any over-argumentation this is simply because their self-titled LP is insanely good!

Ever experienced listening to an album and saying to yourself ‘oh these guys clearly have their own musical influences, let’s see which bands …’ ? And suddenly finding yourself in a dead end as soon as you realize that you are listening to something great and there’s no need to compare it to anything else. And hey, music freaks, I bet you also recognize when you are listening to music made by another music freak… I think you all see my point by now: Wild books knows how to write good songs and they also have their own prescription for sound. I hate to be snobbish but I appreciate this approach most of all – even though the band consists of only two guys, the music is not lacking anything and they do not sound minimalistic at all (if you want to read more about the recording process and their previous bands, read this bilingual interview here).

If you are not scared away by genre labels like garage, surf and noise pop (I might even say grunge, sorry) then give it a listen and feel the inexplicable waves of nostalgia rushing all over your body, get a nice ear massage from the crispy fuzz, press replay at the end of the album and consider a name-your-price donation for Wild books.

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SHARP

from the upcoming album „A HopEless Noise: The Story of The Diamond Girl”
feat. King Khan, Mac De Marco, Mike Watt and more

A synth-punk-pop song by White Reaper of Kentucky

from debut EP on Polyvinyl

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OvO  Italian industrial noise metal duo by Stefania & Bruno with guitar, drums, effects and electronics in the deepest corner of Hell. Averno/Oblio (ie. Arrow/Point)

12″ EP on Corpoc Records. Nice work

Western and South Euro tour from April to June

APRIL 19 >  cold wave at Küss Mich Ex-Yu Party

POPSIMONOVA (technoid female decadance, Zagreb)
KONVOJ BONTON BAJKERA (riot grrrl of synth-punk, Beograd)
I/II (hymnic minimalism, Zagreb)
YUS YUS (over-excited erotic cold wave, Subotica)
ÚJ LÁTÁSMÓD FÚZIÓ (melancholic smoky coffee-bar pop,  Baranya)

or hardcore/rap

BOBAFETT   AMD   LEUKÉMIA APOKALYPSIS and more at Dürer Kert

APRIL 22 > glam/garage/hard rock

GLITTER WIZARD (USA)  GUSTAVE TIGER and HEADBENGS at Trafik Klub

or noise at Havizaj Party

CRUOR INCENDIA (USA)  DROGDED  ParaNoiZ vs dzsémszGOND

Thanks to our Finnish brothers Elakelaiset, special Hungarian guest Létrák, everybody who helped us, visited the event and Müszi for the unforgettable Monday night. It was a crazy party.

Some shots by Viki Gajdos and one by Dolores Zsírjózsef

Poro = rénszarvas, reindeer

…Kelet-Európából.
Ha zenére vágysz: ne kattints a képre.

Themed entertainment from east-europe of course.
There’s no music: sorry.

Hungarian jailbird punk by
SZARHONYA – Túlélem

(the band’s name is an untranslatable pun, maybe: CRAPFEL – I Survive)

A song about the absurd case that officers can punish the homeless people with a fine or imprisonment in Hungary (Europe), because they intentionally damage the street view.

Starring Zoltán Balogh, Calvinist pastor and Minister of Human Resources.

The song is taken from their first album

English based Japanese psychedelic noise rock attack, or Zeni Geva light:

from the album III by Stolen Recordings

Their short story: 2006. Two Japaneses meet in London and form the Bo Ningen. Give only one show where the audience to force them to cease music. 2007. One of them meets another Japanese. Big happiness. They play music for 10 hours per day. Finally the drummer is coming towards them.

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Tender is a brand new Hollander vinyl only record label,  their musical spectrum ranges from soul to garage punk. The 5th release is the debut single of Chasing Rainbows. It’s a Santa Barbara (California)/Amsterdam based music collective with 5 core members. One of them is Henk Jonkers, a multi-instrumentalist, who is active in the Dutch scene in various alt/blues/punk/rock bands from the mid-80s, for example: Fatal Flowers, Molly Rotten, 13, Do The Undo, Hallo Venray, etc, as well as produced albums for Claw Boys Claw, zZz and more. Chasing Rainbows play 60s style psychedelic, „roots” influenced garage rock.

ELAKELAISET in Budapest at RNR666 party – some great shots from Gyerage