„Cannanes, Cannanes, Crawled out of drains
Sweet and precocious, Far from atrocious
We live at two o two, We haven’t got a clue
We’re far too middle class, Somewhat dirty arse, Cannanes, Cannanes…”

is an Australian literally DIY indie rock band, formed in 1984. They have never had a manager or agent and never signed a recording deal. The NME wrote about their first 7” EP in 1987: „I’m in love with the girl singer’s bittersweet intonations, I’m in love with the boy’s clattering percussion, I’m in love with the off-pitch trumpet and recorder, I’m in love with the singing bass, I’m in love with the goddam WHOLE!” Here is their new album by Chapter Music

“LA’s Soft Metals formed in 2009 after Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall met at a DJ night and connected over their obsession with analog synthesizers and the shadowy, sultry, untamed expressions of underground electronic music.” They get inspiration from experimental electronics industrial minimal synth pop psych krautrock house techno music.

Tell Me + In The Air from Lenses, LP by Captured Tracks. You can listen to the full album and their previous album.

 „Két svéd kurvával, mint ByeAlex”

szarrá lassított Celine Dion hangminta, és acid, acid, acid

by Márk Nitró, bye

plus Putin & homophobia: Like a Red Prison:

They had better direct so much energy to their music as to their actions. The boredom kills the ideals.

Just drum and bass are good enough – we know this since the NoMeansNo. Now here is a same thing, The Garden

The Life And Times Of A Paperclip LP by Burger. „It’s a punk record. It’s brooding and humorous, abstract and dense.” And dance!

Another great Aussie garage punk: Constant Mongrel: „post-punk art damage”

Heavy Breathing LP by R.I.P. Society (Aus) & Silt Breeze (US)

You can listen to their first LP

Born between 1921-25 in Mississippi. Had been working in various blue collar jobs. Was in jail many times. Once he was sentenced to 10 years on chain gang for murder. But released after 2 years. He had 5 wives and has 26 children. A self-taught, juke joint, itinerant musician. Was discovered in the early 90s. Then he was about 70

T-Model Ford died yesterday. He was about 90.

Ah! I almost forgot about his favourite saying: „It’s Jack Daniels’ time!”

For the sake of rock’n’roll family tree researchers: the Fuzz are Charlie Moonheart (guitar), Roland Cosio (bass, Charlie & the Moonhearts with Mikal Cronin; Epsilons with C. Moonheart, M. Cronin, Ty Segall; Party Fowl with Cronin, Segall) and Ty Segall (drums, vocals). Retro hard garage rock

This Time I Got A Reason

Debut album on Oct. 10 by In The Red

in classic style

The new Hunx & His Punx album entirely

by Hardly Art

ps: There is a cover of an early Beastie Boys

Pretty 50s-60s style surf rock by all girls La Luz

7″ by Suicide Squeeze Records

Al Lover is a producer from SF who makes psychedelic music and remixes for example for Davila 666, Natural Child, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall. His first single will release shortly.

Snake Hands feat Tim Presley (White Fence)

A free remix album

The original was played by The Strangeloves in 1965. This was a fictional band created by a producer group: Feldman, Goldstein, Gottehrer. The members played significant roles in the careers of War, Blood Sweat & Tears, Richard Hell, Blondie, Fleshtones, Circle Jerks, Sly & The Family Stone, etc. Gottehrer produced the Dum Dum Girls’ debut full-length album and continues producing them to this day.

Then comes the famous cover by Bow Wow Wow from 1982. The band was created by Malcolm McLaren after the Sex Pistols. The third one is from the Megapuss, a joke band with Devendra Banhart and Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes) among others. They have written own peculiar lyrics in 2008. And now here is an up to date version by the experimental electronic duo, Matmos: I Want Snowden

The track is free! Just click the download.

„I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.” Songs about blue collar’s weekdays by Scott & Charlene’s Wedding:

Lesbian Wife + Fakin’ NYC + Gammy Leg from Any Port In A Storm LP by Fire Records

The SACW is the solo project of the Australian musician, Craig Dermody. I have been following with attention to his works since his Para Vista Social Club LP (2011).  Not long ago he moved to New York.

Beside the fantastic LP here is a Lantern 7″ too

You get it; put it and some moments hence you get the bang! Such is a perfect start for a rock and roll record. And the Rock’n’Roll Rorschach starts exactly in this way. But in this case there are the recognition and the surprise too in the bang of first track. Hey! Where did I hear this rhythm? Where? Where? Got it! The Evil Eye rhymes with Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life and not only with its title. And Iggy and The Stooges stay with us throughout. Moreover they whip out a saxophone too. But the Lantern has got mood to the sax from the Rolling Stones’ Exile in Main Street album. They listened to it around the recording time luckily for us. Their music is hard rhythm’n’blues & raw rock’n’roll, sometimes such like a little slow-motion Cramps. Yes, the Philly trio has made such a great album that their every ideal could proud of it.

By the way
„Any dream bands you’d love to tour with in the future?
Zach: ZZ Top!
Emily: Tom Petty.”

I have heard of him already, but didn’t know about him too many things until this album that he has made with Takako Minekawa. I have caught sight of her name and pounce on the record immediately so I had to know him:

Dustin Wong is a Hawaiian born half Chinese/half American guitarist. He grew up in Japan and went to college to the US. There he founded an experimental guitar duo with Matthew Papich (nowadays: Co La), the Ecstatic Sunshine (2004-07) and the Deerhoofesque art rock band, Ponytail (2005-11). After the break-up he has begun solo career and made experimental guitar albums. He lives in Japan again.

Takako Minekawa is a Japanese musician. She was active in the 90’s as the most interesting shibuya-kei artist. The term comes from Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. The district is the centre of the Japanese fashion and pop culture. Shibuya-kei (literally: Shibuya system) is described as a mix of jazz, pop and synthpop. Takako Minekawa’s music is experimental shibuya-kei. She loves cats, clouds, Kraftwerk, French pop and vintage instruments.

They have met in Tokyo in 2011 after a Dustin Wong gig and become working together. The outcome of their labour is the recently born Toropical Circle album. It’s Takako Minekawa’s first work for 13 years. Her weird synth sounds and dreamy singing voice meets his strange guitar sounds

The record is rather experimental with ambient, gamelan and oriental moods than pop, but there are some shibuya-kei moments too. It’s a really nice, pleasant album.

Released by Plancha Records, Vinyl from Thrill Jockey

Some useful links

Free Music Archive Dustin Wong   Ponytail

Live at Shea Stadium Dustin Wong   Ecstatic Sunshine