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A Jazz Band in Hell
Trans Upper Egypt
Italian psychedelic rock band
among the members there is one of the best video makers I know
the Z-move specialist tab_ularasa
who made videos for Bazooka, Ultra Twist (as member), Hell Shovel, Feeling Of Love, Country Teaser, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Yussuf Jerusalem, Le Peucher
and many others
Fantasia
from the album Trans Upper Egypt on Monofonus Press (US)
Adventures of the Annoying Lil French Girl in New York
Not enough people know Anni Rossi, the singer/ songwriter/ violonist. She plays with her instrument like you’d play the guitar, indeed, she isn’t scared to strum the string, making it a perfect tool for RNR.
Meet with Anni
a place (I won’t name for some personal reason) in Williamsburg
On Friday night, following an evening of drinking cheap beer with colleagues, I joined my new roommate, Andy, a New-Yorker and member of an anarchist organization called The Base. I knew that he knew the place where I needed to be. It was his friend’s birthday, and their musician friends were playing for her. Those kinds of friends are very precious, between tours, they will certainly animate your greatest parties.
That said, the gigs were very pleasant. First line, a guitarist and a drummer nostalgic of Kurt , second, a band from the past future, I mean like the people during the eighties pretending to be from the future. ( I’m not sure if you know what I mean, I’m stoned.) Anyway, those guys freaked me out, they were really good, but I just couldn’t take it, it took me back to … a night in Budapest, it was November, We were waiting for the bus in Nyugati station, I was wearing somebody else’s hat and he loved it… I was mentally preparing for the long tricky way back home (since I live in the extremities of Bushwick, just on the border with Bedstuy…) when I heard the name of Anni Rossi, which surprised me for the reason I mentioned before. So I asked around: what about Annie? She’s here? Really??? Where? (Turned out she was there all the time.) Is she going to perform? She’s great, isn’t she? I was, let’s say, suddenly a little overwhelmed and turned straight back to shake her hand: Are you Anni Rossi? Yes, and what’s your name? Line. Line who? Line ** ******. Curious and nice, she seemed unfamiliar with this kind of devotion, yes because I confessed my passion for one of her song, it was playing in my headphones in Thailand, Scotland, and on various trips here and there.
I asked her insistingly to play it, she said she’d try as she didn’t bring her violon (maybe she was upset with it), that night she preferred an electric banjo, accompaigned by the classic bass and drum combo. The concert was like a Rob, Ryan and Anni family reunion. Her belly button proudly displayed, she performed with a nonchalant attitude and voice like a cool Cold War Kid. Sipping her whiskey in between songs, she took it slow, inspiring air, expiring it, creating beautifully contained bluesy waves.
And finally the way back home wasn’t that bad at all, walking with magical bubbles in my head. Anni Rossi is just Loveli, check it out!
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Bushwick
is located in the center of Brooklyn, where I live. It is full of brownish little 2 storey houses with flat rooftops and old factories transformed into lofts. It wasn’t such a nice neighbourhood (criiiiime) a couple of years ago, but as the rental price is cheaper than in other shiny and trendy places such as Williamsburg (headquarter of the hipster community), a lot of young and poor artists/ professionals like me are living in there. In my street seems to live many repented, retired gangsters, so it’s kind of quiet, apart from loud conversations and tooting at 2 am.
The mentioned neighbouring Bed-Stuy (Bedford-Stuyvesant) is the land of heavyweight rappers and boxers. For example Mike Tyson, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, but the chess world champion, Bobby Fischer also lived here.
Confirmed RNR666 Shows 2015
Jan 29. SKIP JENSEN GROUP > French Canadian garage rock and roll blues punk + THE HANDS > ex-Jack of Heart members’ psych fuzz garage rock band from France + ODDS > Hungarian raw power > Facebook
Feb 5. RONIN > “soundtrack for the defeated hero” cinematic music by Bruno Dorella, drummer of Italian experimental extreme metal duo OvO + DER TANZ > Lydia Lunch’s Hungarian warm-up band in free punk style (but where the punk isn’t free?) > Facebook
March 11. THE EXPERIMENTAL TROPIC BLUES BAND from Belgium. They already shared the stage with The Cramps, Bob Log III, Heavy Trash, John Spencer Blues Explosion, André Williams, Jay Reatard, The Black Lips. Frantic rock’n’roll
March 26. BLACK MAGIC SIX from Finland > Brutal Blues & Hard Rock’n’Roll > Facebook
Apr 18. ?ALOS > Stefania from Italian experimental extreme metal duo OvO plays „Queer-Pagan-Doom-Avanat-Metal” + RATZINGER > tormenting duo of INRI Stephanus (Digép, Büdösök) > Facebook
Jun 20. VAGINA TOWN > rock and roll from France a la Cramps
All in Budapest
From New Records
Ladywolf, nice prog bubblegum punk
digital EP and cassette on Resurrection Records (US)
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Jack Oblivian from the legendary reunited garage rock band Oblivians at home with friends. 35 minutes of pure Rock’n’Roll. Jack O and The Sheiks – Live in Memphis 12″
Secret Identity (Germany) and Red Lounge Records (Deutschland)
Bloody Sounds from the Fucktory
I don’t like the hardcore because it has became very boring for me, but two great Italian hardcore-punk bands
unconsciousness primitive sonic assault by the trio
PaperogA – My Super Sweet Fisting, debut EP
jazzy hc duo
Ludmilla Spleen – Eeeh?!? 12″ vinyl
on Bloody Sound Fucktory Records (Italy)
Maybe I like the hardcore still a bit.
International Geography
Old Mate, another shitty Aussie band with a bunch of musicians, Canned Heat, Syd Barret, Devo and Ween covers, originally was a solo project of Pat Telfer from Bitch Prefect (Bedroom Suck Records), suburban blues, spleen and kangaroo boxing in false flat
Truth Boy
from the album It Is What It Is on SDZ Records (France)
Our Black Godfather & Our Black Cousin
One year in penitentiary and bad conduct discharge was the sentence of Navy’s Court Martial in the fraudulent enlistment case of 15 years old Andre Williams, who was born in 1936, Alabama. „Kiss-my-ass-mother-fuckers!” was his response. Right after his discharge he went to Detroit with 25 dollars in his pocket. The day of the coming he entered for a talent show, afternoon wrote a song and won. His first hit was Bacon Fat in 1956 on Fortune Records
Then he worked with Motown Records as a producer too. Wrote and recorded songs together with Stevie Wonder, The Contours, Ike & Tina Turner and more, and also wrote some songs for Parliament and Funkadelic. In the 80s he became a homeless because his hard r’n’b lifestyle. He came back with a rap album in 1990. Since he has made amazing albums in various style: garage rock, blues, country, funk and soul. These were released such labels as In The Red, Bloodshot or Norton Records.
One of his early songs, Jailhouse Blues from 1958 has been covered by Obnox (aka Bim Thomes, drummer of blues punk band Bassholes)
The new Obnox album Boogalou Red is coming this month on 12xU Records (US). Gospel trash
Obnox on RNR666
They’re Cops
AUSMUTEANTS
is an Aussie synth punk band, such big international labels want them as: Goner, Goodbye Boozy and Total Punk
We’re Cops
from the album Order of Operation on Goner (US) and Aarght Records (Aus)
From New Records
Dan Melchior (ex-Broke Revue) is a highly talented British musician. He comes from garage punk, worked together with Billy Childish, Holly Golightly (it’s her real name!) and Walker Russel (Pheromoans), and usually makes experimental other music
„All At Sea” album on No=Fi Recordings (Italy)
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Wonderful little psychedelic melancholic folk pop songs from London by Dan Carey under moniker Astronauts. He is from alt-folk band Dark Captain (formerly Dark Captain Light Captain). His solo project was born while he was in a hospital because his fractured leg.
single on Lo Recordings (UK)
A Dream Comes True
French Canadian garage rock and roll blues punk musician Skip Jensen arrives in Budapest at RNR666 Party on 29 January.
Founder of garage rock blues punk band Scat Rag Boosters (which was like the Oblivians and the Gories) and played drums with the Demon’s Claw, but he had a bunch of songs the he’d written that just didn’t seem to fit in anywhere, so he created a solo project. In the beginning it was a one man band, then duo with Seb Normal (Feeling of Love) and finally a trio.
+ ex-Jack of Heart members’ psych fuzz garage rock band The Hands from Perpignan, France.
Skip Jensen + The Hand Euro Tour Jan-Feb
I Me Mine
1986, Pushkin (a town near Saint-Peterburg, Russia): engineer undergraduates have formed a band in order to show the dramatic situations of the everyday life in idiotic manner, and the idiotic situations in too dramatic mode, and it has been named NOM. Now here is a video by the legendary and fabulous group
I Can Control Myself
from their new album Семеро Смертных
Trivia: the man with beard Alexander Liver is a singer of the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
From New Records
Aged young rebels. Class war, resistance and other romantic things.
„Skinheads Home For Christmas” / Yesterday’s Hero (Bay City Rollers’ cover)
single in the classic pop tradition by Californian hard mod/punk band Hard Left, oi!
The covered Yesterday’s Hero cover by Scottish pop band Bay City Rollers (1976). The original from 1975 by Scottish born Aussie John Paul Young.
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Those were certainly very comic acts when the two founders looked for mates, because the condition was: can play any kind of instrument is absolutely needless. – Do you feel like joining us? – But I can’t play any instruments. – Oh it’s great! We need such an incompetent man exactly like you to make good noisy punk rock music:
Pop.1280 Euro tour single by Sacred Bones Records (US)
Euro tour Jan-Feb