You might already be familiar with Barcelona’s punk side but if you ever wondered what the independent pop music scene is like in sunny Barcelona, here’s your chance to listen to a brand new compilation of emerging bands from various genres brought to you by LaFonoteca Barcelona and ShookDown webzine.

From softer psychedelic tracks and eccentric pop tunes to the noisy garage pop sound this is a wide range of selection inspired by the devotion to quality pop music. Thumbs up!

Stream the compilation at Rockdelux.com and order your vinyl here.

“I guess there’s quite a dark side to me. It always comes out when I’m writing songs. I love Sylvia Plath, and I love listening to songs that have that haunting darkness that really pulls you in, so it’s probably something that I want to create in my songs.” She plays every instrument on her recordings, from bass to piano, from guitar to sitar. Strange bitter-sweet haunted folky pop songs by Marika Hackman

Deaf Heat EP by Dirty Hit Records

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Cobra is a French thrash rock band. Outrage & destruction since 1984.

7″ on Born Bad Records

There are two talented Hungarian bands makrohang and 12Z. Makrohang is a noisy rock trio and plays „jazz for metalheads.” 12Z is an „improvised and experimental yet theme based jamming trio with psychedelia flavoured mondo-gothic hauntology.” They will play together in JazzaJ Crash Series in Budapest at Mika Tivadar Mulató on April 2.  Facebook

Chris Imler a Berliner drummer.  He is one of the drivers in avantgarde pop duo Driver & Driver. The other is the electronic musician Patric Catani.

Dark Spot Of Joy by Chris Imler

from his debut album Nervös on Staatsakt Records. „Imagine Alan Vega, DAF, Silver Apples, Hasil Adkins and Joe Meek being played and performed by one person!” – say the press kit. By the way, Joe Meek was an occultist paranoid innovative producer and songwriter.

Sonic Chicken 4 was a French garage punk band „before garage punk bands had booking agencies, five-page hospitality riders and tuners…” Their posthumous album was recorded in 2009 by King Khan and was continously re-set and re-postponed until this year, but meanwhile the band stopped his activity.

Bachelor (EU) and Dusty Medical Records (USA)

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Mixed Band Philantrophist was a project of English industrial noise group The New Blockaders. From their anti-manifesto: „It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-music, anti-art, anti-books, anti-films, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless…” The Mixed Band of Philantrophist is an international noise conspiracy (or anti-conspiracy). The Impossible Humane album is a sound collage, made from assembled tape recordings of Merzbow, Controlled Bleeding, Nurse With Wound, Etant Donnes and same industrial and noise artists.

It was released in 1987. Reissue with two bonus tracks by Staubgold. 12″ vinyl, only 400 copies. Listen to it entirely. So big, so fun!

I also like the Pixies. It was a good band. But The Breeders are the better.

I Lost My Hope by Mountain Bike from Belgium

Debut album out in April on Humpty Dumpty Records

“I enjoy being called weird, because why not? Morgan doesn’t think we’re weird because our songs are pretty poppy and you’re able to dance to them and you can recognize hooks and choruses. We kind of purposefully made them as non-band-sounding as possible, but at the same time, we’re a band!” – said Jasmyn, singer of the Canadian band Weaves. Debut EP in full:

Out on April 1 by Buzz Records

Heartfelt songs of dread, sadness, love and anguish by Gallon Drunk

in Budapest on March 30 at A38

Euro tour is under way. There’re dates for Germany, France, UK and Spain

New album “The Soul Of The Hour” is recently released on Clouds Hill Records

Among these Englishmen’s „side projects” there’re Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Big Sexy Noise (with Lydia Lunch) or the kraut rock legend Faust.
The multi-instrumentalist saxist Terry Edwards played with a wide range of bands and performers for example Barry Adamson, Bangles, Julian Cope, PJ Harvey, Jesus & Mary Chain, Lush, Madness, Test Department, Tindersticks.

„Allegedly the styles return 20 years after. So – if you didn’t recognize it – the 90s are came back.  By the way, we continuously repeat ourselves from the creation. Just our instruments are altered. ” Some years ago I wrote this in connection with previous Odonis Odonis records. It was a mix of 90s style music. The chaos keeps growing. Er industrial grunge experimental cold gaze “punk or whatever i feel.” Another fantastic Canadian band

„Hard Boiled Soft Boiled” album on Buzz Records in mid-April

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All is vice versa. Freethinkers of nightclubs pour melancholy slogans on the dance floor. Swiss psych kraut pop by Klaus Johann Grobe. By the way, this is a duo

7″ + debut album on Trouble In Mind Records