Berlin based Indo-Canadian notorious garage rocker Arish Ahmad Khan aka King Khan and his big band The Shrines

in BUDAPEST at KUPLUNG on APRIL 27 with a Brazilian one-man-blues-trash-rock’n’roll band XTREME BLUES DOG and WATTICAN PUNK BALLET.

Before the show XTREME BLUES DOG will playing on the air at Bang Bang Radio Show on Tilos Radio from 3pm.

About Herr KHAN     Facebook event

There are some dates for France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland.

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Black Ice Cream Experience

Peculiar experimental tropical music from electro-noise tunes to danceable pop melodies by Helado Negro. Son of Ecuadorian immigrants, who has grown in the Latin-American bustle of South-Florida. His interest was arouse by the sounds of tropical nature and environment: subwoofers in the cars, howling music of portable stereos, uproars of night parties and more. Since then he looks on every device as musical instruments. I’m glad to hear about him again, because

Third part of his EP series Island Universe Story on Asthmatic Kitty. Cassette or digital

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Back To Back. Nice Texan hardcore punk – raw, brutal and fatal

7″ by 540 Records

„I was eleven. I took a few lessons, but not many really. I used to hide from my guitar teacher. Maybe I didn’t feel he was teaching me the right stuff or something.”

In the mid-80s under the influence of 50’s rock and roll Dex Romweber founded his legendary „hardcore Americana” band Flat Duo Jets – as if it came from the grave

Then they went US tour with The Cramps. Their records were released by roots and authentic rock and roll specialist Norton Records and others. 1998 brings the major label contract to them but the album Lucky Eye (with unusual horn and strings arrangement) was the swan song. After the break-up Dex made some solo records and founded the Dex Romweber Duo with his drummer Crash LeResh. In 2007 he was replaced with Dex’s sister, Sarah, who was member in indie pop band Let’s Active in the 80s. She says: „there are few things that me and Dexter absolutely agree on 100% – like Chopin, reincarnation, UFO’s, ghosts…”  „and psychology” – Drex completes the list.

„There is a real film noir quality to what we do. Really man, you see the darkest alleys. You see the most haunted streets. You see the wildest prostitutes. You come across drugs. You come across incredibly long drives. You come across band arguments. You come across mysterious people. You come across great people. You come across tremendous assholes, you see this real weird part of America that most people don’t really see on that level. When each record comes, I’m trying to figure out what’s going to fit at this time and what’s a picture of the last two years I’ve lived. The songs that come to me are very much a mirror of what my life has been like since the last record.”

The next chapter is Images 13 with repainted versions of Who (So Sad About Us), Rachmaninoff (Prelude in G Minor), Henry Mancini (Blackout!), Harry Lubin (composer, 60s sci-fi series, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond) and there is a deadly love ballad We’ll Be Together Again, which was written by Eddie Cohran’s girlfriend Sharon Sheeley after the fatal car accident. She also was in the taxi. The song was never released formally but recorded by Jackie DeShannon in the early ‘60s.

Images 13 – new Drex Romweber Duo album on Bloodshot Records. Two intelligible, post-edited sentences from my notes about it: Dynamic roots rock’n’roll with surfy garage rock feeling. There’re some reminiscence of Elvis, Bowie, Iggy Pop.

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Manchester’s Laurie Hulme writes intimate songs about his grandfather’s life from caravan holidays to communistic views.

Weekday stories about the life or musical family photo album in bedroom folk pop / lo-fi indie rock style.

Songs For Walter – Meet Me At The Empire EP. Extremly limited re-issue with two bonus tracks on CD by Red Deer Club. Digital download is available sure.

Among the best and most interesting British music projects.

Industrial surf gaze experimental cold wave disco
“punk or whatever i feel.”
Another fantastic Canadian band
ODONIS ODONIS
Order In The Court

from the album Hard Boiled Soft Boiled on Buzz Records

Tropical garage punk from Puerto Rico in Latino manner by Los Vigilantes

„Al Fin” album on ChaCho Records

In Budapest at RNR666 party on May 27 with Paint Fumes. Euro tour April-May

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Texan raw retro garage rock a la 60s like the Stooges or Sonic Rendezvous Band, influenced by Misfits and Danzig style punk, rock. OBN III’s

Third Time To Harm album on Tic Tac Totally

Berlin based Indo-Canadian notorious garage rocker KING KHAN and his international big band THE SHRINES

in BUDAPEST at KUPLUNG on APRIL 27 with a Brazilian one-man-blues-trash-rock’n’roll band XTREME BLUES DOG and WATTICAN PUNK BALLET.

Before the show XTREME BLUES DOG will playing on the air at Bang Bang Radio Show on Tilos Radio from 3pm.

About KING KHAN

There are some date for UK, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland.

Tegnap volt utoljára 66 éves a gyerek. / The buddy was 66 yesterday last time.

Popdavec cimborád is csókoltat! / Best wishes, Popdavec

Even though I’m not too much familiar with the 2014 Polish music scene, I still bet (or hope) that the first full length album of Wild books will make it to most end-of-the-year lists there and without any over-argumentation this is simply because their self-titled LP is insanely good!

Ever experienced listening to an album and saying to yourself ‘oh these guys clearly have their own musical influences, let’s see which bands …’ ? And suddenly finding yourself in a dead end as soon as you realize that you are listening to something great and there’s no need to compare it to anything else. And hey, music freaks, I bet you also recognize when you are listening to music made by another music freak… I think you all see my point by now: Wild books knows how to write good songs and they also have their own prescription for sound. I hate to be snobbish but I appreciate this approach most of all – even though the band consists of only two guys, the music is not lacking anything and they do not sound minimalistic at all (if you want to read more about the recording process and their previous bands, read this bilingual interview here).

If you are not scared away by genre labels like garage, surf and noise pop (I might even say grunge, sorry) then give it a listen and feel the inexplicable waves of nostalgia rushing all over your body, get a nice ear massage from the crispy fuzz, press replay at the end of the album and consider a name-your-price donation for Wild books.

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