Grant Hart was drummer and co-songwriter in the Hüsker Dü. After the break-up he continued as a guitarist and vocalist in the Nova Mob. After the break-up he has been doing solo career. His double album based on John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. The poem was written from 1658 to 1664 in the time of restoration of the English Monarchy. The blind, impoverished and republican author began to write it right after the fall of the Commonwealth.

Letting Me Out from The Argument double LP by Domino

The record was also inspired by William S. Burroughs. While Hart visiting former friend and secretary of William S. Burroughs, the secretary showed him an unpublished manuscript for Lost Paradise, Burroughs’ science fiction story which portrays the fallen angels as men from distant planets and God as none other than Harry S. Truman.

Wow! „Wonderfully raw” noise rock. „If the Blood Brothers morphed with Sonic Youth.” And a little Butthole Surfers, Cramps,

Big Black Cloud – Cities Of The Red Night from Black Friday LP by Stankhouse

After I moved away from Boise, Idaho, I came back in the summer of ’61. Around that time, Jerry Lee Lewis was supposed to play at this big club in the Sagebrush Desert — I think it was called the Miramar. Back then, these big events would catch people’s imaginations. They would take their motorcycles or hot rods to these remote places to see some star. So we all drove out to this place, but Jerry never showed up and people were really pissed off. ‘Star Dream Girl’ has that same kind of charisma. People can’t wait to see her and come from miles around…The lyrics came to me all at once, but there was no music yet. Then one night, Dean (Hurley) was playing guitar in the studio and I was egging him on when he caught a wave like the surfers out in Hawaii. He was in the tunnel man…and the lyrics married with that ride.

from David Lynch’s second album. The Big Dream comes out in middle of July by Sunday Best (Europe) and Sacred Bones (USA). The songs stand on the basis of blues, among them is a Bob Dylan cover from 1963: Ballad of Hollis Brown, but it is „not really a cover of Bob Dylan as much as it is a cover of a Nina Simone cover of Bob Dylan” – said Lynch.

Do you want to listen to his first album?

I’m having this pretty weird vision in my head while I’m trying to grab the essence of Shannon and the Clams– I’m seeing a heartbroken John Waters trying to be a good girl, I’m seeing the sweetest pop music turning into a psycho-killer lollipop from too much overdrive and most of all I’m seeing lots of eccentric fucked-upness. Just look at these crazy Californian guys and you would probably know more of this band than any shitty record reviews could ever tell – the harshest of good old pin-up style, some weird uniforms, lots of gayness and colors everywhere, so obviously all of these (alongside with the catchy melodies) are about FUN and the result is fully pleasing.

Still, Shannon and the Clams are by no means a scam band with only one cheaply over-hyped debut album – Dreams in the Rat House is already their third full-length release while Shannon is also involved in Hunx and his Punks (another brilliantly gay band) and Cody is simply King Lollipop –  I honestly think they’re just getting better and better in their songwriting skills. If I was a bitch, I would even be envious of them, haha.

All in all, this LP is a perfect pick for the summer for any record junkies who enjoy surf pop with an almost sickening overdose of a hundred different bubblegum flavors, or who appreciate some troubled, nastier allusions meanwhile, or who are still fond of the garage ideal (i. e. exploding band dynamics plus infectious energies) or who are really fed up with bands trying to make an intellectual / arty impression. 

Dreams in the Rat House is out now on Hardly Art Records – sorry for demonstrating the album here so poorly but I’m afraid the label is a lot eager to make you listen to the vinyl and they are probably right!

Or you can catch Shannon and the Clams on tour in France and Belgium this July!

Reverend Beat-Man is founder of the legendary swiss garage-punk band Monsters & founder and owner of the cult roots rock’n’roll blues trash country label Voodoo Rhythm Records. At first he performs his special Blue Suede Shoes cover

Yeah! And then here is an interview with him in Hungarian

 by Bang Bang Radio Show

TORTOISE – The Taut And Tame + TUNNELS – Without Light

THRILL JOCKEY RECORDS

„The Steve Adamyk Band are a punk band.” They „play trash-pop inspired by seventies punk, the skinny tie bands of the eighties and nineties garage rock.” But their songs is too power pop for me often, but not this:

7″ by Hosehead

Another great Aussie garage rock band: The Living Eyes:

7″ by Goodbye Boozy

You can listen to their first album here.

The cult & legendary proto-punk & pre-new wave band DEVO‘s double album

recorded on various 4-track machines and in tiny studios, basements and garages between 1974-1977. Original versions and some unreleased tracks.

by Superior Viaduct

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„Új Látásmód Fúzió: egy kimért modorú szinti-pank, aki a végítélet előtti utolsó pillanatok presszó-rockját játssza. „ (rnr666)

Az 1992-ben alakult ÚLF az obskurus hazai szinti szintér egyik kultikus együttese, mely tlkp Gáspár Kornéllal egyenlő . Zenéje mélabús dekadens casio-szinti-punk, minimalista szinti-pop, iparias cold wave és analóg elektro cuccok egyfajta avantgarde giccs kabaréja.

Első ÚLF élményem a Csajok a pokolból címet viselő első RNR666 bulin volt. Addig még csak nem is hallottam róluk. Hevertem egy kanapén, néztem, hallgattam. Mivel nem szeretem túlságosan ezt a fajta muzsikát, rövid idő múlva megkérdeztem magamtól, hogy – Hát hülye vagyok én, hogy ezt a szart hallgatom? és menni akartam, de nem tudtam otthagyni. A koncert folyamán ez párszor megismétlődött. Azóta gondolom, hogy ez az ember tud valami különlegeset.

1. Mi volt az első saját lemezed?
Vagy az Edda Művek 1. vagy a 100 Folk Celsius Ohio című mesterműve, még a Drosztmér Pistás depresszív szocio-country időszakukból

2. Mi a kedvenc lemezed?
Erre nagyon nehéz válaszolni, de ha nagyon kell, akkor: külföldiek közül Invasion Planete Records – összes… magyarok közül Korda 1976-os, Boldog Idők albuma…az egész korongot áthatja egyfajta kicsattanó dinamikájú, konyakgőzben szárnyaló éteri romantika.

3. Milyen lemezt hallgattál utoljára?
Fad Gadget korai alkotásait hallgattam a napokban…a legprímább, igazán nyers new wave az Aranykorból… akárcsak Snowy Red művei.. sajnos már mindkét alkotó az Égi Mezőkröl figyel minket…

Az első ÚLF vinyl nagylemez

mindjárt megjelenik a 4mg records gondozásában.
Kapható ott vagy itt.

LEGKÖZELEBB!

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Good girls love bad guys forever! Two of the most bad-ass Hungarian bands gave a thrilling show this May in a small venue and I must say you are most unlucky if you didn’t attend.

So, here’s a little souvenir from that dark and raging night, proving that Hungary knows how to recycle everyday frustration and that certain roaring coming from a male human’s crotch.

Aren’t these the two essential ingredients for bad music?

Broken Cups is well-known for their maniac live shows and evil post punk sound – but with a frontman so eager to surprise the audience, you just never know what to expect from him. Those guys sitting with an astonished expression probably haven’t been to a gig where they had to face that aforesaid crotch at point-blank range (1.10)

derTanz is probably the best live band in Hungary now. What they do on stage today is the result of playing together for a damn long time, which clearly shows. Hypnotic improvisations and killer songs – well, no one really knows what Gábor is talking about during a gig but more or less everyone is shit scared. Or look at Broken Cups’ frontman, Dávid in this vid, totally frenzied from Statue, the opening track from the first derTanz LP, Kaktusz

The guys from the two bands couldn’t really stop making noise after the gigs, so they teamed up for a little jamming…sounds squishy? not at all