English artists’ Xmas thinks

The Drones by Fat White Family for that special night

FWF short Euro tour in Feb

Greeting of visual artist and writer David Shrigley

Lydia Lunch, James Johnston and Ian White were back on „the ship” once again, and after last year’s mindblowing Retrovirus gig, I was more than looking forward to what they were going to do this time.

But firstly, let’s talk about derTANZ. It had been a while since I last heard them live, so I didn’t quite know what to expect, but I was definitely more excited about them opening for Lydia Lunch than I was about last year’s support band, and – oh, boy! – they didn’t disappoint. The moment I heard the bass, I knew this was going somewhere. It is the kind of dirty, distorted bass sound that makes you question why most bands even had guitars in the first place, while wondering what Rob Wright might be up to these days, and remembering how much you love Shellac, when a perfectly positioned, close-to-deafening shriek pulls you back into the audience. This by itself should be enough to make me giddy, but when accompanied by tight, syncopated drum work, the result is ecstatic.

Some might call it post-punk, they themselves might call it freepunk, but it’s also the kind of noise rock that has been missing from the Hungarian music scene for so long, and finally, there we have it: a sufficiently dissonant, simple, but heavy rhythm section (too bad the drum groove falls apart a few times) with an interesting addition: Kovács Gábor’s singing. It’s from a completely different musical universe. It starts out deep and haunting, then it turns into a chant (sometimes even reminiscent of Jim Morrison-esque spoken word), then there’s a shrill, a scream, some praiseworthy shouting, and yes, it is more often than not a tad off-key, but it still all fits together fine enough. There’s not a word uttered between songs, only when the last sound of the cacophonic jam session has died off do they announce their name and say good night, so we can all grab a drink and get ready for Big Sexy Noise.

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Special Italian electro blues by The Cyborgs

Bee Leave Me

from their first 7″ on Soupy Records (Italy)

and here is a split with The Blues Against Youth on Bloody Sound Fucktory

él és élni fog: legközelebb a SZOMBAT ESTI születésnapibuliján

a Zsiga Bárban

After their hot Budapest show in the summer (at Rakéta Festival) Warsaw-based Black Coffee is soon releasing a new album filled with jamming/tripping tracks  – titled ‘What Happened To The Gang’.

As an appetizer, here’s a weird new video to check out as well!

(if you dig the music, just share their FB post for a pre-release album download code)

„beauty addiction”
a track from the makrohang‘s new album „MAXREBO”

out now on S*10 Records

record release party > dec 19, Budapest, Corvintető

+ Amoeba + Fixi4     FB event     Ticket: 1000

on dec 26 makrohang plays in his hometown Nyíregyháza

Xtreme Blues Dogs (Brazil) + Crank (F) + Húrkúrók

some fine shots from the last RNR666 Party this year by Gyerage

Aussie drums’n’guitar punk duo Gooch Palms‘ self-describe: equal parts GG Allin, Iggy Pop, Roy Orbison and Olivia Newton John (circa Let’s Get Physical era). First single from the double A-side 7”

to be released on Urinal Cake Records (US) before the year is out.

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Silver Apples Trans Upper Egypt

album on Monofonus (US)

The Queen of No Wave in Budapest again with her fellows from Gallon Drunk under moniker Big Sexy Noise

on Dec 17 in Budapest at A38 with der TANZ (Hu)

Listen to our special playlist: Lydia Lunch &

“Hell is a good place to write songs, get smashed, take drugs and destroy your sanity, well-being, future and relationships” – on the voice of Lee Hazelwood said the clown Warren Thomas, the head of country band The Abigails.

Butthole Surfers or Negativland style freaky video for the song 29

from the album Tundra on Burger Records

Baroness von Sacher-Masoch aka Marianne Faithfull
gives a concert in her mother’s hometown on Dec 15 at MUPA

There she presents her new album which was made in collaboration with Nick Cave, Roger Waters, Anna Calvi, Rob Ellis, Dimitri Tikovoi, Pat Leonard, Tom McRae and more, along with her famous song.

She has begun her singing career as a folk music performer in coffeehouses in 1964. Her first hit was “As Tears Go By” was written by Jagger, Richards. It was among their first original compositions. As Jagger’s girlfriend in these years she made big impression on the Stones. For example she is co-author of Sister Morphine. First it was recorded by herself with Jagger, Ry Cooder, Jack Nitschze and Charlie Watts, and was released as B-side of her single in 1969.

„Things are not what they seem
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams
Oh, can’t you see I’m fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last
Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my head”

The Stones’ version was released in 1971, but by this time she broke with Jagger, and became a drug  addict homeless…

You can find an article about her life here

She is on Euro Tour in Dec-Feb

What a great year! Even though the world has not been saved in 2014 and the Antichrist is still hiding somewhere, I have discovered quite a lot of new bands, been to great shows and managed to write many songs as well. I’m not saying that it has been a legendary year, neither has it been any milestone in the history of music but to those who haven’t found any new favorites in 2014 I have two things here!

Firstly, as a heartfelt advice, don’t get lost in your listening routines and the good old favorites… Just open your ears because the enormous amount of information we consume every day almost excludes any sort of in-depth experience, so next time don’t skip to the next or scroll like a maniac.

Secondly, … of course, here are my favorite albums of 2014 – sorry but I am not setting up an order so that you could not skip to the no. 1 hahaahaa!

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