LAMONT THOMAS is maybe best known as the drummer of blues punk legend THE BASSHOLES, but he has started a very own project as OBNOX some years and eight albums before. „His approach to punk is well… punk as fuck. Thomas doesn’t care about rules and he certainly isn’t afraid to experiment, blending his sound with noise rock, hip-hop, garage, soul, and hardcore. It’s usually abrasive and often pretty steeped in political and social consciousness, he speaking as a voice for the oppressed without gimmick or pandering” – as Post-Trash Mag wrote about him and I just could write the same.

A few years ago Monofonus Press head Morgan Coy had that crazy idea…why not ask OBNOX to make a free jazz record? And he has made one. Morgan says about it: Although it may not directly sound like it, to these ears it’s an updated take on some of the late 70’s free jazz LP’s that, at the time, were panned by critics but now are being rediscovered… think Albert Ayler’s „New Grass”, Archie Shepp’s „Attica Blues,” Larry Young’s „Fuel”, even reminds me of Tony Williams Lifetime at times. OBNOX has infused „templo del sonido” with that same sense of urgency and protest.  Like the 70’s, we are once again in a time of protest and discontent with the world around us – as Thomas so elegantly states in the first lyrics of the album:

„wake up… wake up… America… wake your punk ass up!”

Perhaps you are afraid of jazz, even more free jazz, but this album is so much punk than jazz. It needs your open mind only:

Anyway his previous recordings were released e.g. on punk rock’n’roll label Slovenly or noise rock one 12XU.

“I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity – through him all things fall.”

Hello everyone. On the pic is Europ Europ, and here’s the 4th historical KILLBONOCLUB broadcast

just a colorful mix of songs from the best new records

with some notes about the songs and some quotations from German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nitzsche’s work Thus Spoke Zarathustra because of Laibach’s new album is based on that book – instead of they would have made their own version of Hair.

“The creator seeks companions, not corpses – and not herds or believers either.
 The creator seeks fellow-creators – those who grave new values on new law-tablets.”

punk punk punk. for the lovers of axemen, butthole surfers, fall, country teasers, fat white family. büdösök, i love 69 popgeju, csermanek ltp and this kind of shit. original sound!!! nothin fuckin remastering!!! with extra tracks, e.g:
ERRATIC (US) – from EAT HOT LEAD 1980 album reissue – Black Gladiator Records (US)

“They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds.”

i dont know why miranda sex garden comes to my mind, but it is totally different
BAMBOO (UK) – THE DARGON FLIES AWAY album – Upset The Rhythm (UK)

scotch psychedelic horseshit
LUSH PURR (UK) – CUCKOO WALTZ album – Song by Toad (UK)

“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!” “Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.”

punk blues soul rock and roll noise by lamont thomas, drummer of bassholes
OBNOX (US) – NIGGATIVE APPROACH album – 12XU (US)

good ol andre willimas, pure genius, just fine songs about fucking
ANDRE WILLIAMS (US) – DONT EVER GIVE UP purple vinyl LP – Pravda Records (US)

“The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all — is called „life.” Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft — and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves.”

shit and shine + butthole surfers + drain. csühes said „i cant find words…”, hercule poirot said „terrible”
USA/MEXICO (US) – LAREDO album on 12XU (US) and Riot Season (UK)

new wave electro disco and other noises in the Aussie 80s
ASPHIXIATION –  WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED  DISCO? – 1981 album reissue – Chapter Music (AUS)

free will is a bullshit – cynic rock and roll by
CHAIN AND THE GANG (US) – THE BEST OF CRIME ROCK album – In The Red Records (US)

“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”

pale pink disco queen of sweden
MOLLY NILLSON – IMAGINATIONS album – Night School Records (UK)

fine stupid primitive synth punk                                      
11. TONY PRICE (CAN) – I PREFER COCA-COLA cassette – Burger Records (US)

little frenchy psych rock and roll, swiss, just not from the voodoo rhythm, if you are lucky enough to know roy and the devil’s motorcylcle then you know what i say
HARVEY RUSHMORE & THE OCTOPUS – A NIGHT album – A Tree In A Field (CH)

“The greatest events – they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.”

indie pop hit song of the day
COURTNEY BARNETT (AUS) – HOW TO BOIL AN EGG 7″ – Milk! / Bedroom Suck  Records (AUS)

“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”

hyper normalization by
IAN MARTIN (NL) – RITES OF PASSAGE 12″ EP – Goiland Elektro (NL)

punk punk punk. for the lovers of axemen, buttholesurfers, fall, country teasers, fat white family. büdösök, i love 69 popgeju, csermanek ltp and this kind of shit. with extra tracks – original sound!!! nothin fuckin remastering!!!
PUKE SPIT & GUTS (US) – EAT HOT LEAD 1980 album reissue – Black Gladiator (US)

sardinia rockers
THE RIPPERS (ITA) – A GUT FEELING album – Slovenly Recordings (US)

“Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”

experimental industrial noise block

“The man looked up distrustfully. „If you speak the truth,” said he, „I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.”

SONGS FROM THE HEART
album by EUROP EUROP (Norway) – Enfant Terrible (NL)

APROPOS OF THE WET SNOW
album by ZOSIMA (Austria) – Enfant Terrible (NL)

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”

the dark side of the earth
LAIBACH (Slovenia) – ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA album – Mute (UK)

“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”

the western side of the wall
DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS (German) – „DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS” 1982 album reissue – Superior Viaduct (US)

just drum’n’organ
ARCHIE AND THE BUNKERS (US) – free song form the next album on Dirty Water Records (UK)

A date with Elvis by Giovanni Ripper

„Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”

and /or listen to KILLBONOCLUB # 3

I put this

on bandcamp as a single b/w Pope Innocent if anybody wants to download it. I hope everyone is happier than me.

Don Howland, The Bassholes

Thanx Don.

ps: At first there were the legendary Gibson Bros. in Ohio in the mid-80s. They played a unique mix of American roots music: blues, gospel, hill- and rockabilly with punk attitude. After split of the Gibsons the Bassholes were founded in 1992 by a “Gibson”, Don Howland (guitar) and Bim Thomas (aka Obnox, drums). But now on drums: James Owen (Burning Bus, Doom Ribbons, Wooden Tit) & keyboard: Kim Roney (The Family Swaggards, Rip & Run).

Whooa! It’s a fucking good band – I said during the listening to the recordings, despite I am not a big fan of math rock. And finally it turned up that two bands’ songs was mixed up in my player, the Ukrainian Gravitsapa, and the Italian Astolfo Sulla Luna (Astolfo on the Moon).

Astolfo plays quantum mechanic rock which is based on uncertainty principle under strong influence of literature. „Obnoxious, antiseptic, mathematician, restless, unreal, evil, tender.” Synthesize the reality and then spit it out with delay distortions. Anyway „Astolfo hates you. But basically, it is hated by everyone…” And he has a horn, so loud that his all enemies to flee in terror when it sounds.

Astolfo is one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne, went to the Moon on Elijah’s chariot of fire to search his friend Orlando’s wit. Because on the Moon „is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.” And there Astolfo of course found Orlando’s wit in a bottle – by poem of Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533).

But chariot of fire does not run too often, so if we want to travel to the Moon because for example do not find our mental balance, we maybe can use a Pepelats interplanetary spacecraft. And it has an important component which allows intergalactic travel: Gravitsapa. From which this Ukrainian math rock band has got his name.

„Musicians do not expect to find understanding on Earth, so they are trying to gain spiritual experience and create music as divinities for new audiences of spiritual connoisseurs of inadequate.” They are constantly compared with King Crimson, which band was unknown for them, and mainly inspired by film directors: by sincerity of Jodorowsky (Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist), craziness of Lynch, atmospheric of Sokurov (Russian), conceptuality of Yevgeny Yufit (necrorealist Russian) and the monotony of Hungarian Béla Tarr. And Pepelats comes from a Soviet sci-fi black comedy Kin-Dza-Dza!

When I listened to them two bands came to my mind: the  proto math rock hardcore jazz Victim’s Family, and the Dutch jazz punk band Morzelpronk.

Astolfo Sulla Luna – Ψ² CD + digital album. (Vinyl version from the band) &

Gravitsapa – Radio Free Vulgata digital album (It contains two EPs from 2013)

released by Australian label TENZENMEN

Here is the new album of Rocket From The Tombs

– Is it a punk band? – No. It pre-dated punk rock.
– Is it alternative? – No. It aspired to the mainstream.
– Is it legendary? – No. It’s mythical.

It was formed in 1974 by e.g. David Thomas and Cheetah Chrome in Cleveland, where – they say – everything was doomed. The band did not reach its first birthday, and never went into a studio. But it left behind such songs as Sonic Reducer or 30 Seconds Over Tokyo for its descendants. The first would be a Dead Boys anthem, the second one a Pere Ubu hit.

The originals were released in 2002. Almost the original line-up reunited in 2003. Their first studio album was released in 2011, and now here is the second. The Black Record has been made in co-production with the members of This Moment In Black History. Where the drummer is Bim Thomas, aka Obnox, who is the drummer of Bassholes, one of the best blues punk band.

A bloody actual song from the album

The band is on tour now in US, UK, NL, Belgium and France.

And `you want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven’t ended yet.` This is the end of Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut.

One year in penitentiary and bad conduct discharge was the sentence of Navy’s Court Martial in the fraudulent enlistment case of 15 years old Andre Williams, who was born in 1936, Alabama. „Kiss-my-ass-mother-fuckers!” was his response. Right after his discharge he went to Detroit with 25 dollars in his pocket. The day of the coming he entered for a talent show, afternoon wrote a song and won. His first hit was Bacon Fat in 1956 on Fortune Records

Then he worked with Motown Records as a producer too. Wrote and recorded songs together with Stevie Wonder, The Contours, Ike & Tina Turner and more, and also wrote some songs for Parliament and Funkadelic. In the 80s he became a homeless because his hard r’n’b lifestyle. He came back with a rap album in 1990. Since he has made amazing albums in various style: garage rock, blues, country, funk and soul. These were released such labels as In The Red, Bloodshot or Norton Records.

One of his early songs, Jailhouse Blues from 1958 has been covered by Obnox (aka Bim Thomes, drummer of blues punk band Bassholes)

The new Obnox album Boogalou Red is coming this month on 12xU Records (US). Gospel trash

Obnox on RNR666

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)

Second common work of Hawaiian born half Chinese/half American experimental guitarist Dustin Wong (was in Ponytail) and Japanese pop star Takako Minekawa. It’s more playful than the previous one, because there are more J-pop moments.  Takako sings about quantum physics, human consciousness, and flying above a desert all within the framework of Japanese puns in the song “She He See Feel”

„Savage Imagination” LP, CD on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

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Obnox is Bim Thomas Lamont, the drummer of raw blues band Bassholes. He has plenty of drive because he is working on two albums at the same time now. But before everything else he has thrown out an EP which is stuffed his basement jams. Harsh distorted rock and roll sometimes is like a strange Ministry.

„The Juke That Sat By The Door” EP on Chunklet Records (US)

This podcast is made by RNR666
for Hungarian trend mag Urbanplayer

DON’T LISTEN! DANGEROUS

1. Dog Faced Hermans – Mary Houdini  2. Fuzz – Preacher  3. The Damnation Kids – College Rock  4. Butthole Surfers – Julio Iglesias  5. Obnox – Deep In The Dusk  6. Night Of One Sadist – I Am Primitiv  7. JC Satán – The Junkie Knight  8. Cretin Stompers – Industro  9. Psychedelic Voodoo Children – Satan Lives  10. Piresian Beach – Blood In The Gutter  11. Agydaganat – Újhullámos állat  12. The Cramps – Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White  13. Coathangers – Don’t Touch My Shit  14. Szentcsalád Oral Orchestra – Kopaszmajom  15. Night Of One Sadist – Punk Rock  16. NUN – Evoke The Sleep  17. QSS – Kézigránát (zongorás)  18. Bobby Soxx – Learn To Hate In The 80s  19. Harlan T Bobo – Mlle. Chatte  20. Thee Headcoast & Sexton Ming – No One  21. LiveFastDie – Thought You Could Steal My Beer  22. GG Allin – Die when you die  23. Ápolók – Ha megfogtad az ördögöt

& if you are familiar with Hungarian language can read
an interview with the 3 Most Wanted Elvis aka RNR666

OBNOX. Aka Bim Thomas. Drummer of Bassholes. Maybe the best blues punk band. And from Puffy Areolas and This Moment in Black History.

Special mix of electronic beats, blues, rock, soul, funk, hip-hop with lots of weed. Molecule and How To Rob

from the album „Louder Space” on 12XU Records

OBNOX on RNR666

At first there was the legendary Gibson Bros. in Ohio in the mid-80s. They played a unique mix of American roots music: blues, gospel, hill- and rockabilly with punk attitude. After split of the Gibsons the Bassholes were founded in 1992 by a “Gibson”, Don Howland (guitar) and Bim Thomas (drums). They’re the best blues punk band: crude, rude and harsh

After 4 years here is a new album with three covers: The Groundhogs – Express Man (1969), Wayne County & The Electric Chairs – Paranoia Paradise (1977) and Noh Mercy – Caucasian Guilt (1978). Boogieman Stew LP by Columbus Discount Records

Beside the Bassholes Bim Thomas plays in Puffy Areolas and This Moment in Black History. His solo project is the Obnox: weird garage blues soul punk with Tricky-like remixes.

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Strange Attractor: fuzzy garage punk from a small town in Northern Ontario, Canada

„Total Shit” trilogy on the b-side. „Feel Like Total Shit” / „This is Total Shit” / „I’m Total Shit” – three songs that give you a 360 degree views from the dregs of modern life : making bad choices, feeling powerless against the will of people who make bad choices, and just generally having everything stacked against you and turning those bad vibes inwards. In the Strange Attractor land, when we point fingers we have to remember that we are simultaneously pointing at ourselves.”

Back To The Cruel World LP by Resurrection / FDH / Mammoth Cave Records