Swedish cold wave synth pop songbird Miss Molly Nilsson‘s first 7″ single is SEX with an Ugly Girl

and a Wrong Boy was recently released on Dark Skies Association

Bim Thomas, the drummer from blues punk duo Bassholes (were a main influence for The Black Keys), some years ago he makes excellent harsh blues music under the name of OBNOX. His brand new song, Infinite Trash

His latest album was released this year on 12XU Records (US)

RNR666 PARTY +
HUNGARIAN UNDERGROUND X-MAS MARKET
DEC 6 9PM  BUDAPEST  CORVIN TETŐ

CRANK – French 60s style psychedelic garage rock on sound of the 90s by ex/members of Jack of Heart, Liminanas, Sonic Chicken 4.
XTREME BLUES DOG – one man blues trash band from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
HÚRKÚRÓK – Hungarian primitive blues and harsh rock and roll, like The Mummies or The Ultra-Twist.

HUNGARIAN UNDERGROUND X-MAS MARKET >
RECORDS, CASSETTES, CDs, DVDs, T-SHIRTS, POSTERS

+ DJs: PYRAMIDS DON’T EXIST, RNR666

TICKET: 1500 HUF-, IS A TOMBOLA COUPON!

Dope Body. Noise rock.  It’s exactly like the picture

„Lifer” album on Drag City (US)

Euro Tour: Jan-Feb.  Vienna: 5 Feb

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Acid Baby Jesus: noisy, jingling  psychedelic garage pop with strong rock sensibility, influenced by complex folk history of Greece

„Selected Recordings” album on Slovenly Recordings (US)

“It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it”

Wild Grass by Gentle Friendly

from the album ” K A U A ‘  I   O’O  A ‘A” on Fat Cat (UK)

Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use.

29 years old British poet, playwright and rapper Kate Tempest‘s second Speedy Wunderground single is a duet with Londoner fellow Loyle Carner. In the Guts his acid jazzy sound blends with Kate’s hard, electronic beats. This is a special release because the label’s strict order of recordings: recording in the dark with smoke and lazers, need to use Swarmatron (a hand-built analogue synthesiser), recording time is one day, finish before midnight, no lunch break, mixing on the next day.

I can’t refrain to doing list Tempest’s main influences: Virginia Woolf, MF Doom, Samuel Beckett, John Coltrane, James Joyce, Roots Manuva, William Blake, Wu-Tang Clan, Milan Kundera, GZA, Knut Hamson, Mos Def, Yeats, Nina Simone, Carson McCullers, The Knife, Kafka, Scroobius Pip, and Confucius… Her first solo album „Everybody Down” was made together with the producer Dan Carey (Franz Ferdinand, Bat For Lashes, TOY, Django Django, Emiliana Torrini, The Kills, Kylie Minogue, Tame Impala, founder of Speedy Wunderground). It was released this year on Big Dada Records. „Alternative hip-hop” trio Sound of Rum was her previous project. It had a jazzy taste thanks to the drums and guitar.

Kate Tempest Euro Tour Nov-Dec. Vienna: 1 Dec

On Clapton Pound at dawn

The pond was calm
the sky was new
your voice was soft your lies were true.
You were me and I was you
and I was going blind with you.

You told me I reminded you
of Venus when I smiled at you,
or angels that go flying through
the paintings in the quietest rooms
of galleries. Renaissance girls,
all soft curves and floating curls.
We sat there and the light shone through
the leaves and we admired the view.

I loved you.
I had died for you
that night,
I’d closed my eyes
and through the gaps
I’d sought your silhouette.
I’d given up my mind for you.
We did what all our kind would do.

You sat beside me, finding new
ways to look away.
You kissed me. It was lighter fuel.
It burnt the night away.
And when I took my eyes off you
I saw that it was day.

More Speedy Wunderground’s recordings

silly experimental pop by Takako Minekawa (J-pop diva) + Dustin Wong (Hawaiian born half-Chinese / half-American guitarist)

She He See Feel

from their second album Savage Imagination
on Thrill Jockey (US) and Plancha Records (Japan)

More info about them + album review +
short Takako Minekawa interview here

Anthology of legendary Finnish metal fanzine ISTEN
804 page A4 hardcover book, 3 kilograms of heavy metal

will published by Svart Records (Finland). It’s in English.

„I craved life metal. Heavy metal for life. And “heavy”, for all you smart alecks out there, is not a prefix. Heavy metal is not even a genre. Heavy metal is a realm. Swear the oath. The Force is heavy metal. Mental Funeral is heavy metal. A Blaze in the Northern Sky is heavy metal. If it doesn’t work as heavy metal, it’s fucked, it fails, full stop.”

e.g. the Swiss Coroner in East-Berlin in 1990

ps: there’s no word Isten in the Finnish language, so they took a Hungarian dictionary, and seek out the equivalent of Jumala (God).

Soul Power, debut album of Curtis Harding (ex-Cee-lo Green), member of Night Sun, Black Lips’ garage soul side project. Black Lips members took part in making this album too. Soul, 60’s RnB, easy 70s disco feeling, garage rock. I know two who flew to Seattle from New York to see him

Burger (US) and Anti-Records (EU, AUS)

Euro Tour Nov Dec

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The Miseries, dutch singer’n’songwriter Tim Knoll‘s punky garage rock band, debut single

Excelsior Recordings (NL)

4 girls from Ex-Cult, Manatees, Toxie, Coasting are Nots, synth-punk, Memphis, Goner Records, Decadence

from the album We Are Nots