107th RNR666 Party
Sept 11   BUDAPEST   TRAFIK KLUB
AUDACITY (USA, Burger Records)

Chaotic but melodic garage punk rock and roll with a little power pop edge. Their records were released on such labels as Burger, Suicide Squeeze, Volar or Goodbye Boozy Records. Their shows are incredible experience of rock and roll.

 They were the fashionable rocker King Tuff backing band

By King Tuff they succeeded get into the toilet of Jack White (White Stripes, owner of Third Man Records). Matt said: Once we were at Third Man Records recording with King Tuff and Jack White’s toilet was really nice and it just stood out to me just as, like, a really nice toilet… it was just super beautiful, and I’ve always looked up to Jack White a lot. But when I saw his successful toilet I felt nothing but pure envy and jealousy because I wanted that nice of a toilet to sit on everyday, when I should have been like, “Oh wow this is over the top.” So I went back and told Thomas and we both pooped in it.

Audacity Euro Tour: Aug 28 – Sept 27: Germany, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Poland, Czech, Hungary, Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, UK

in Budapest with Demjén Hirst (H). Ticket: 1000-

Line is our brand new fellow in the RNR666 team.

She is from France, but will move to New York soon,
and will do big bites to the Big Apple of course.
Her first article was sent from Santiago de Compostela. Enjoy

from the cases of the annoying little girl

with the shortest interview of the history of humanity

The good wind brought me here in Santiago de Compostela on the 24th of July, the night before the Galician National day (even the Spanish king is present!). This region is the north-western corner of Spain, and it is certainly full of independentists, people strongly attached to their identity and language, how nice!

Cause even though we are in Spain, Galicia is not as warm as you could imagine, and that’s fine enough, I love a little breeze in summer nights. So here I am, after having been offered some fruity white wine and illicit substance, fireworks worthy of a war bombing, and MUSICA. Woooow a big stage and I can hear…wait a minute… that’s…ROCK’N’ROLL. Oooo yeaaah. I can see from far away a tiny woman, ginger short hair, blackly dressed like a proper rocker, perfectly screaming with her hoarse voice, what a talent! She is surrounded by 3 nice stylish men, guitar, bass, percussion, and she rules them the way it should be done.

I get to the first row (thanks to my many years of sneaking experience), and she’s not that small anymore, rather impressive with her strong tattooed arms, and it has its effect, girls are going craAazyyy around here. This is not any woman we can tell. I can’t understand all the words expelled through her mouth but my friend Xemma from AGAL (Associaçom Galega da Língua, id est Association for Galician Language) tells me that she’s a feminist slash, activist slash, independentist, and it shows, ooo… interesting. After playing pop rock’n’roll, she sings a lullaby that everybody in the public knows by heart, this is a SHOW. And among that, other little popular tricks, she adapts some traditional song in Galician version, e.g. Guantanamera. But the best part was about to come… BLUES!  Aaaa blues, how I love women’s blues and she definitely has the guts (and the sunglasses) for it! Power and Perfection are the two P’s coming to my mind while dancing as if I was on stage myself (by the way, my neck still hurts from all the headbanging).

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Some weeks ago Labanna Babalon was in Budapest
at Monday Session party by RNR666.
Before her show Hungarian trendmag Urbanplayer
made a mail interview with her.
This article mainly based on the correspondence.
Thank Adam Lang for the stuff.

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The Natural Child is one of the best rock’n’roll bands recently. They started as a trio in Nashville, 2009. They are mixing garage rock, blues and punk elements in their music. During the years they have been influenced by the roots of rock and roll, so their blues burns with more power, their rock has a pretty heavy taste and they also add country elements to their music, while they just simply keep the élan of punk.

The Second Best Rock and Roll Band of the World

an interview with Seth (g/v)

Nashville is the capital of country music. How does it influence the average days there?

In Nashville everything is from the country, or from its profits. Many offices and bureaus use the Peace in the Valley (really very famous country song) for when they put you on hold on the phone. Country music also determined my life, because my grandfather was an excellent country guitarist. He played with Red Foley and Hank Williams. Lots of celebrated musicians took part in his famous all night long boozing and playing music in his home, like Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, one or twice Elvis Presley. My father could tell about these parties. I smoked weed for the first time on a morning after a party like this. I was nine or ten. My mother sent me over to grandpa for something. Everybody was sleeping, except Willie Nelson (multiple Grammy winner country legend) . He was sitting in the garden and offered me his cigarette. I asked him: what is this? He said „God’s gift to the suffering people.”

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Extremity on the cube. A gay professor of literature
has made one of the most interesting cover albums ever, titled
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
(Electronic Profanations of Black Metal Classics)
The cover art looks as if it was designed by a Satanist Tom of Finland.
Because of it one of the label main distributors
has refused to carry the record.
Out now on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

The Soft Pink Truth is the solo alter ego of Drew Daniel, one half of Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos. Mr. Daniel has taught the history of electronic music at the San Francisco Art Institute and a sound art seminar at Harvard. He now teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has written a book about industrial-experimental-electronic band Throbbing Gristle; released a similar album in 2004: Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?) which consists of house covers of classic hardcore and punk songs; produced remixes for Björk, Herbert, Grizzly Bear, Dat Politics and more. And he is a black metal fan.

Black metal is a very special subgenre of heavy metal. It was born on 1 November 1982 by British band Venom. That day the band’s second album titled Black Metal was released. Strange fact, but Venom’s music was fast, harsh and primitive rock and roll rather than heavy metal at that time. It stood nearer Motörhead or Ramones, than Judas Priest or Iron Maiden. As special features their lyrics had dark, occult and devilish themes. But Venom’s music and texts were refined and gentle compared with the subsequent, more and more extreme bands. Today’s black metal bands’ music is just like a mix of noise of coffee grinders and sounds of a pig-killing. Unfortunately some bands and many fans take the Satanist rubbish seriously. But the blackest black metal bands are adherents of white supremacist and Nazi ideologies. The words beget acts. In this case their fruits: violence, church arson, suicide, murder. All these in welfare states of North-Europe mainly. And they say always: I did it only in self-defence.

And then this man resolved to make a peculiar electronic black metal tribute album. And who was the first man whom he invited to cooperate in this? Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons). By the way, the others: Jenn Wasner from indie-folk rock duo Wye Oak, Terrance Hannum from drone-metal band Locrian, his Matmos partner M.C. Schmidt, Irish composer and  vocalist Jennifer Walshe and more.

And the music? Well, it’s not an easy pop album. A Mix of electro-industrial, drum’n’bass, trip hop, house and EBM. It came Kraftwerk, Björk, Madonna and Leather Strip to my mind. Some covers are spiced with samples of house hits. The album requires a good piece of sense of humour. At first it was very strange, but as I listen to it repeatedly, so like it increasingly. But „Who in the world wants to hear this?” Nobody, basically. Black metal people aren’t going to like it because it’s faggoty disco, but actual dance music people aren’t going to like it because it’s weird people screaming about Satan.” (Drew said this in a Pitchfork interview.)

Venom + Sarcofago covers

The album not requires know of the original songs, but you can listen to those here. There you can read about some words about the bands: Venom, Beherit, Sarcofago, Sargeist, Darkthrone, AN, Mayhem, Hellhammer and Impaled Northern Moonforest.

HAW is a Hungarian band formed in 2008 by four friends, who are well-known faces of the home metal underground. The news that former Stereochrist frontman Dávid Makó is joining forces with brothers Márton and Péter Szabó, members of IGOR and Gáspár Binder, drummer of Stereochrist (and at least ten other bands) were great, as their first demo song, The Free Ride of the Workhorse as well. That powerful track was an instant classic, and was followed by a 4-song demo in 2009. The great shows, their attitude and the songs had predicted a nice future, but due to some -yet unclarified- reasons they pushed themself to standby mode in 2011 for a one-year rest. Then, in a surprise appearance in 2012 they made it clear that these four pals need to be together, write new songs, and continue what they’ve created. Fortunately they did, and with their just released album, they are better than ever! Tovább / Read more »

I think I’m a very lucky man because I have knowledge of the electro-hardcore-punk Tit Wrench since the early 90s. I put them beside the Ministry, but the Tit Wrench is standing nearer my heart. They split up in the late 90s.

The reunite was great news, and the new songs… are amazing. So I have decided to do an interview. The story started in the late 80s in Chula Vista (near San Diego), California.

OK MFs! This is Tit Wrench Country

Bob: Tit Wrench started as a solo project for me as Neighborhood Watch was ending. I was asked to do a song for the Amity Records comp. „Beautiful Music for Beautiful People„. It took a few months of learning the Yamaha TX16W sampler and the Roland R8 drum machine and finally recorded the song „People Like that Should be Spayed”. I spent a lot of time with Mike Down from Amenity/Forced Down [hardcore bands – editor’s note] sampling guitar riffs. „Spayed” was recorded a few days before Christmas and mixed on Christmas Eve, 1989. Released in early 1990. Shortly thereafter „Go Back to Europe” and „Pit Bull with AIDS” was recorded and released as a 7″. „Go Back to Europe” was a comment on border relations as we are located just a few miles from Tijuana Mexico. Tim Gonzales from Amenity had some sampled guitar riffs for Pit Bull. Artist Michael Schnoor had some nice field recordings of light up the border idiots and my friend Rosebud did a few backup vocals. A few others had bit parts as well but the „band” was mainly me and Mike at that point.

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Get drunk almost every night, work for Mindfuck Office Ltd. and listen to Grown Younger by Sexdrome all day long: Ladies and gents, cats and dogs, the Negative Creep is born. What’s cookin’ for the night? A one man band show, a genre, I seriously don’t like. Doesn’t really sound like a great night, but hey, I really wanted to test the guy and myself. 

The first thing you should forget about Bob Log the III, is youtube videos. It is nothing compared to what you are about to see live. Shows like these are usually about clothes and jokes. Bob is much more. He plays his guitar like it’s last day on mother Earth, constantly leaving your jaws drop. Humour is an important part in music for me, Bob gets a 100 out of the possible 10. No, let’s make that thousand. Songs were cool, but I was waiting for the breaks between songs. I’m sure, the audience weren’t prepared for this show and I know why. You simply can not stare, dance, laugh, kiss and fell in love one at a time. Bob Log doesn’t need a knife to make you a Glasgow smile for the night, he does it with an amazing stage show and personality. This night, the Negative Creep died and the Happy Puppy was born. Thank you Bob Log the III! 

(a special invocation by David)

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I could tell you that this conversation took place on a beach in Yalta, not far from the place where Styopa Bogdanovich woke up alarmed at the end of the seventh chapter in The Master and Margarita or I could tell you that all of what you can read below (under the „read more” button) was recorded in a half-lit room of an illegal torture club in the deep of Berlin. Of course, neither the place, nor the time matters when a perverted rockandroll journalist finally makes the interview he wanted and there is one thing only he’s been wanting more…

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An interview with Susi, the bass player of German noise rock trio, Don Vito about music, travelling and friendship

What was the music milieu like around you  in Leipzig when you grew up? Who made the most significant impression on you in this period?

Well, we live in Leipzig since 2001. We all grew up in different cities around Magdeburg, a city 140 km north of Leipzig. That’s why it’s a bit hard to answer your question. Our guitar player used to listen to Hardcore when he was young, the drummer was a pure Punk and my own taste was chameleonic. During these years there were so many things, who influenced us, not only the music we liked/like and the bands we’ve in before, also the life itself, books, political circumstances, weather, family, friends, world… But I think the Fall of the Wall was the most significant impression in our youth.

How your music taste was being shaped by each other during the years?

As we know each other for decades it was a natural growing process. Someone came up with something new, the other liked it (or not) from the first moment, later or never ;). When you have 3 open-minded persons with different tastes of music, the individual taste grows a lot.

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here is the full new album of the Berlin resident notorious Canadian garage rocker King Khan and his big band The Shrines. But first some words about his previous things.

His infamous garage rock band was The Spaceshits between 1995-99. It was well known for their violent stage shows. Their sets lasted no longer than 10 to 15 minutes because the band or members of the audience would create disturbances, including fireworks or food fights. The band’s shows would lead them to be effectively blacklisted from many venues in Montreal. During the European tour King Khan has decided to remain in Berlin, hereby the Spaceshits disbanded. In same year he has formed his garage rock psychedelic soul outfit The King Khan & The Shrines. The band’s percussionist, Ron Streeter formerly played for Ike and Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau. The organist is Fredovitch, the French multi-instrumentalist.

The Spaceshits on a TV Show + King Khand & The BBQ Show – Fish Fight
+ Tandoori Knight – Brown Trash

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An interview with

Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel

a really great 60s style psychedelic rock band from California

Hey guys! You’re Mr. Elevator and The Brain Hotel! You’re doin’ fuckin’ good things! What’s the style?

Hey, thanks man! The style? I guess if you combined a lot of hair, burritos, and bad jokes all at once in a weird magical spell it’d come out being somewhat of something like us….

You make many kinds of music like garage-psych-glam-pop-punk-rock in other bands as Feeding People, Cosmonauts*, Peach Kelli Pop, etc. How came the idea of the new style and band?

Mr. Elevator, like Moses, was a calling to us from a burning bush. A female’s burning bush.

Your music reminds me of The Doors and the Silver Apples (are an American pioneer psychedelic synth-drums duo. The group was active between 1967 and 1969. Reformed in 1996.  – editor’s note), but sometimes the Madness come to my mind too. What is your opinion?

All great bands man. There are very few bands that really gave light to what an organ or just piano related instruments can do and sound like. Ray did a very fine job though.. RIP (e.n: Ray Manzarek was the organ player of The Doors. He passed away on May 20.)  

Your name is very strange LSD-flavored. Were there some other alternatives?

We started actually as an all water zodiac signed jam band called Tropical Fish. Played a handful of shows with that name and a very obscure set of songs hahah but the name is actually a reference to a Donovan song. The ultimate musical mystic!

Your brilliant 1st LP is coming soon or…?

Soon! We’re re-recording what we just worked on the past few months because it just didn’t come out how we envisioned it. We have so many songs and not one album yet.. so expect a little something soon

Please offer some favorite local bands!

Froth! Mystic Braves! (Formerely known as Blackfoot Braves.) Jeffertiti’s Nile! Cool Ghouls! too many man good local music everywhere these days

And now please tell me a bizarre or a funny or a weekday story that happened in your circles nowadays!

Running Lolipop Records in Echo Park, we get a lot of strange encounters with homeless/batshit crazy folks. All ranging around supreme racial pride, death threats, and lactose intolerant homeless

What is your message to the readers?

You’re right where you ought to be why can’t you ever see everything you want is right here.

Their recently released single

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*The Cosmonauts are on Euro Tour in Aug-Sept in UK, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain.