Baddat för Trubbel. Swedish party punk. No more, no less.

‘Inte Varit Sü Tuff ‘ 7″ by Total Punk

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„Like Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’, Bart Davenport has seen many an era. He’s been a mod, a bluesman and now a softrock troubadour.” Sometimes his garage rock and blues roots emerge, but easy, like a Sunday afternoon.

‘Physical World’ LP by Lovemonk (Spain) and Burger Records

塞翁失馬  > pron: Sāi Wēng Shī Mǎ

During the Han Dynasty, in the third century B.C., one day an old Chinese man named Sai Weng, lost his horse. His neighbors all said what terrible luck that was, and sympathized with the old man. But Mister Weng said: “I don’t know, maybe losing my horse is not a bad thing after all.”
The next day the old man’s horse returned, together with a beautiful female horse alongside him. All the neighbors exclaimed: “What great luck!” But the old man responded: “Maybe this is not such good luck after all.”
Old man Sai Weng also had a strong, young son. The boy fell in love with the new horse and rode her every day. One day the new horse got spooked by a wild animal in the forest and threw the boy from her back. He broke his leg very badly and was permanently crippled.
All Mister Weng’s neighbors said: “What a tragedy, your strong son will never walk without pain again.” But the old man again said: “Maybe this is not such a bad thing after all.”
And so it went that when the New Year came, the Emperor’s army passed through the region and recruited all able young men to fight in the frontier war. Because the old man’s son was crippled he could not fight and was left in the village to farm with his father. Sai Weng said to his neighbors: “You see, it all turned out OK in the end. Being thrown from the new horse and breaking his leg saved my son from fighting in the war and almost certain death. So it was in the end a lucky thing after all.”

Whenever bad thing happens in China, someone will say “Sai Weng Shi Ma” ( “The Old Man Who Lost His Horse”) to remind themselves and others that apparently bad things sometimes have a silver lining.

Happy Chinese New Year for Everybody in Year of The Horse

新年快樂 > xīn nián kuài lè

The story is taken from Just Another Day in China

DETROIT   The SROS Lords don’t spare their instruments. They are hard on them. In this raw romance they unite in pleasure of the garage synth punk. During the listening I have written these: Screamers, Madness, Mummies, Rancid Hell Spawn, Terrible Twos, Human Eye. If you know about these bands, that’s just enough.

„people come to the show get crazy, jump around, fucking throw my drums around, I don’t give a fuck. I was just want to get fucking wild.  Eat food, drink beer, smoke weed, get fucking crazy. That’s all I want people to know.”

This post based on Gas & Vinyl EP. You can download it from here

And what are dominated by SROS Lords?

SNEERS. Berlin based Italian duo. Style: No Wave. Like: Lydia Lunch.

For Our Soul Uplifting Lights To Shine As Fires LP by Brigadisco

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Three girls + Eric form The Trashies is the Tacocat from Seattle. They love „candy, Hondas, the Mariners, Ramones, tacos, cats, weed, the Go-Go’s, cheerwine, feminist sci-fi, touring the land in a rock n’roll band, each other, you.”

NVM LP by Hardly Art

The Trashies play scum wave gunk rock
free albums: LSTF     WMAMGT     Singles and assorted bullshit     Space Jam

„Eat cactus, don’t go away”

Psych garage noise wave from our Italian friends, Trio Banana. Cactus

from the EP ‘Arthur Dent‘ by Bubca Records

It’s a band of Luca from Trans Upper Egypt (somewhere between Silver Apples, Suicide and Dead Moon), The Ultra Twist (garage rock, free download), E.X.P. (psychedelic rock, free download), The Nackers (60s fuzzy garage rock, free download) and many more. All is recommended.

Aussie big city folk in electro-acoustic junk pop style, spiced with ambient garbage. Maybe the instruments and the tunes are from a dump or the Moon, where is „A place wherein is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.”* The sound is like as if it would come straight from a trashcan. Perfect.

Orlando Furious – ‘Popular’ cassette or digital EP by Cinnamon Records

*fragment from Orlando Furioso: Canto 34/LXXIII by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

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Xiu Xiu is a famous experimental band. Many times on many site I red that it’s very good and very artistic, so I tried to make friends with their music, but it didn’t work. „Interesting” – thought about the previous Nina Simone cover album, but I will never listen to it again. Thanks, but there’re the originals. I have listened to their new album many times. Electronic noise, melancholic melodies, goth style lamentation, screams and cries. That’s all and not more. Too good and too artistic for me.

Angel Guts: Red Classroom LP by Polyvinyl (US) and Bella Union (UK)

EXPERIMENTAL NOISE ROCK DANCE

JAN 30 BUDAPEST GÖDÖR

SZÁZASAÉGŐ          POZVAKOWSKI

LYUHÁSZ LYÁCINT BT feat ZADAM CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY

FACEBOOK EVENT

Brontez Purnell is a singer-songwriter. His musical stations: gospel choir in homeland, Alabama > punk in California > with Hunx in the electro clash Gravy Train!!! as Junx > The Younger Lovers: lo-fi garage punk and pop, spiced with 60s girl group’s style and interspersed with Pixies-like indie music. It stands close the world of Hunx & His Punx and Shannon & The Clams. But this is a little bit different: My Tears Are Wasted

from the album ‘Sugar In My Pocket‘ by Soutpaw Records

My fav Mexiacan band beside the disbanded XYX is Lorelle Meets The Obsolete  Heavy psychedelic garage rock. „Haunted songs about the uncertain” – said Mr. Obsolate

Chamber LP by Captcha

Suggest: listen to their live album!

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It’s not a good, but also not a too bad album inside its own style: mainstream-like indie pop (or in reverse) with a little psych taste sometimes. There’re some good tracks, but all in all this album is not too exciting and too long. There is stuff for a good EP only. Moreover I don’t understand the first track. It’s such terrible that you stop the music immediately.

Painted Palms – Forever, debut album by Polyvinyl

Italian garage rock > GO!ZILLA WESTERN EURO TOUR JAN-FEB: Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium.  There is one more guitarist in the band!

It can’t be denied that ST VINCENT is a new alternative middle ground superstar (like Björk), but I really don’t understand why? Her music isn’t such good and original as some people think. There will be few shows in Europe in February: Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, London, Manchester, Dublin. Her new album is out on 24/25 Feb. A track

Acoustic set from the frontman of Neurosis > SCOTT KELLY & THE ROAD HOME EURO TOUR FEB-MARCH: Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czech, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Lithuania. Budapest – A38, Feb 23

„Everytime I come back to Europe I am first reminded of how much easier it is to exist as a fringe artist in this part of the world. Not only do the people in general have a deeper education and appreciation of art but the support that comes from the elders of the society here is something that is nothing if not completely honorable.” – Scott Kelly

MIKE WATT & THE MISSINGMEN + GUESS WHAT EURO TOUR FEB-APRIL: France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria. Mike Watt, the bassist of Minutemen, fIREHOUSE, Ciccone Youth, Dos, Stooges and more.
Ljubljana – March 21, Zagreb – March 22, Beograd – March 23, Timosara (Temesvár, Ro) – March 28, Vienna – March 30, and ther’re lots of free space…

GALLON DRUNK EURO TOUR MARCH-APRIL: Czech, Hungary, Germany, Belgium, France, UK. Budapest – A 38, March 30:  Gallon Drunk + Shadowbirds.
New Gallon Drank album in March via Clouds Hill. A song from it.
Some side projects of the members: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise, Faust.

KING KHAN & THE SHRINES EURO TOUR MARCH-MAY: Greece, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, UK, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Netherlands.

Budapest – Kuplung, Apr 27

Mr. Bungle and Faith No More guitarist Trey Spruance’s band,  SECRET CHIEF 3 + GREGALDUR EURO TOUR APRIL-JUNE: France, Switzerland, UK, Germany, Danmark, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Slovenia.
Velenje (Slovenia) May 27 – Festival „Dnevi Mladih In Kulture”
Secret Chiefs 3 new 7″ singles

More bands & dates on the right side

A Belgian beer + a terrorist + a Finnish composer in a French man: Orval Carlos Sibelius. Once he played abstract electronic dance music, but now making very good psychedelic folk pop with 70’s British psych folk feeling and a little bit of surf influence. Asteroids

from the album „Super Forma” by Clapping Music. It was recorded 3 years ago.

Orval Carlos Sibelius: vox, electric, acoustic and bass guitars, drums, percussions, organ, electric piano, synthetizers, oud, guzheng, ukelin, autoharp, glockenspiel, tamboa, charango. All songs are written by him.