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DID AUSTRALIA HAVE OTHER MUSIC LIKE THIS?
This article is a response to a question posed to me by the wonderful giant Lavor, quarter of the indispensible cultural Budapest icon that is RNR666, from whose site you are probably reading this right now. While on tour and resting in the house of Dj Kanada Kaosz with Lavor, he asked me, very sensibly:
Unlike other „zeitgeisty“ scenes of the same period, Australia’s dark, mutant jazz-punk sound is much harder to explain in an equation as others styles of the same time :
Deep Anti-Communistic Sentiment + Deeper Love of Synthesizers
= Yugoslavian New Wave!
Pretentious Avant Garde + Immigrant Street Culture + Heroin Punk
= New York No Wave!
Mutant Koalas + Shit Beer
= Australian Dark Jazzy Punk???
…and while I wasn’t old enough to be active in the scene during the innocent and inarticulate Australian 80s, I did write a weekly column in my university paper for 2 years about the history of punk and garage in Australia, which was an extension of my final high school english project, where I was already becoming pen pals with legends of our 80s scene. I feverishly collected vinyl and fanzines from that time and was luckily coming of age in 2001, when a lot of attention was thrown towards the 70s and 80s legends of Australia’s underground rock scene for another chance at some tour money and adulation that might have eluded them the first time round. The 90s were a renaissance for Australian indie music and pushed out these mutant musicians in favour of younger grunge and alternative kids (like Fuckin’ Silverchair…), leading many of the 80s generation to either get regular jobs to support their families, or evolve into genuine pop stars such as Dave Graney, Nick Cave or Tex Perkins.
SO the short answer, for you Lavor, is FUCK YEAH! Australia’s ’78 to ’88 period is dense with amazing bands, both independent and major labels putting out kickass material all over the place. Bands gazed across the pond at what was going on in America, the UK, New Zealand and Germany and jammed it through our own interpretational meat grinder. No matter if it was 60s punk revivalists, Detroit rock or Kraut imitation bands, the Australian versions were dirtier, screamier, and stripped back to the bones. This had a lot to do with a form of music we had previously mastered: neanderthalic, psychedelic biker bluesrock, left over from the 70s „Sharpies“ movement, which acted as a brand of proto-punk.
I’ve got a few theories for this development, Lavor, that I think Hungarian and Eastern European musicians might relate to: with so few „cool“ bands actually touring to Australia in that time, musicians had to take the few key transmissions from the rest of the world and make up the rest from what they knew. A great example of this theory is the names checked by Nick Cave and Roland S. Howard about who inspired them for The Birthday Parties’ sound. While you see some totems of outsider music at that time – Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart – they cite books, poets and films such as Flannery O’Conner, Rimbaud, Johnny Cash, Night of the Hunter, Lee Hazelwood and Morticia Adams. That combo isn’t a menu from insider hipster academia, but rather a cyanide-laced pop-culture milkshake.
The distance between towns and cities meant that the nature of Australian music had always included lots of room for peerless mutation, and pockets of scenes popped up depending on exceptional pressures and strange circumstances throughout the country.
A clear example of this is the formation of the buzzsawing Saints in Queensland (The first ever punk band to chart in the UK). They formed during the corrupt police-state regime of Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen; who created a political climate described in Out of the Unknown: Brisbane Bands 1976-1988 as, „intolerant of anything different, …. animosity for anyone who leaves the cultural straight and narrow of beer, beach and burgers.” Many of their early gigs were shut down by police for no other reason than it was a group of kids together around guitars and amps. This gave their music a pre-Sex Pistols pissed of razor’s edge snarl. (also noted that they had the first ever UK charting punk song in history)
Likewise, Ann Arbour guitar player, future physician and military pilot Deniz Tek immigrated to Australia in 1972 ready to spark the Detroit sound authentically into a mileu of Sydney bands, most recognisably the powerhouse of Radio Birdman and later supergroup New Race with Ron Asheton and Dennis Thompson from The Stooges and MC5.
However, that doesn’t answer the meat of your question, Lavor – how did this mutant, punk-jazz-noir violence style appear in Australia?
Firstly, the jazz: the spread out nature of venues and population, as I have mentioned, meant that many punk bands had to play wherever they could find, which was often in Jazz venues, where a live music culture had already been established. Conversely, jazz musicians who were interested in more experimental forms, had to turn to punk as there was NO scene for free jazz in Australia, it was actively disavowed by jazz conservatorium leaders at the time, with gigs going to those playing „cool jazz“ or trad vibes. This marriage of highly qualified musicians playing with those who were in the punk world explains another side genre of Australian post punk, the „Little Band Scene“, which we will highlight later. Otherwise, in general, I think Australian musicians of this time, in forming their palate of sounds, heard the squawks of Coltrane, Coleman, Sun Ra, even John Zorn and thought, well, that sounds against the system and we want a piece of it.
As for the darkness, it gets personal. Other Australian art forms from the same time expose good examples of the colonial fear and violence embedded in Australia, that it was trying to gloss over during the financial boon of the 1980s, when we reached out to the rest of the world as a tourist destination. Peter Wier’s „Picnic at Hanging Rock“ is a haunting tale of the colonial stigma of modern Australia, and its failure to understand and accept the old rulers of the country, let alone the injustices against Aboriginal people that continue till this day:
Similarly, David Williamson’s „The Removalist“, among with many of his other works through the decades, exposes the machismo, abuse and patriachy in the culture of Australia, which was overlooked as „Larrikinism“. The violence and power in the bands presented in this article draw their horror from the reality of an Australian culture that includes attempted genocide, colonial penal systems, abuse. These parts of Australian history are the very essence of ghosts, who are also an essential part of Australian history and the sound of the bleakness in these songs.
That’s enough backstory. I am now gonna present a few bands that really nail this sound you have asked about, Lavor, with some of the cool live videos that luckily exist online. Enough vegetables, here’s the payoff !
VENOM P STINGER
A cult band that is outshadowed by two of its members being in the far more popular (and amazing) Dirty 3, this band is the ultimate sound in mutant Aussie jazz punk. Drummer Jim White is a total journeyman in a million amazing projects, check him out in Xylouris White recently!
THE MOODISTS
A project bound at the core by husband and wife team Dave Graney and Clare Moore, of whom both would have very successful later careers, The Moodists also shared many members of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and Mick Turner from the above mentioned Venom P Stinger. All that and they aren’t even the most incestuous band on this list! The Moodists took all the swampiness of The Cramps mixed with a smarmy velvet joker in the form of frontman Graney.
ESSENDON AIRPORT
An arty ironic disco post punk band associated with the Roland Barthes inspired performance group
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that is also VERY recommended to check out. Better than anything I can write in one paragraph, I offer you the liner notes to a recording: „songs which combine many of the most facile and insipid kinds of music in a redeemingly dignified manner… creating new trivia out of old. All this takes place along with a kind of pedantic fetishism for small-repetition games – the music travels in circles, spirals and solid blocks of sameness and difference.”
GRONG GRONG
Utter chaos band, who had barely played when they were signed personally by Jello Biafra, before the lead singer went into a 9 month drug induced coma, only to reform some 19 years later. Just watch the docu:
The whole „Little Band“ scene.
A whole arty punk scene had gathered around Melbourne called the „Little Band“ scene. It was kind of like an anti-intellectual version of the Berlin „Echtzeitmusik“ scene perhaps, glamourised by the film DOGS IN SPACE. Again, thats a whole other article so here is a last clip, do your own research, and thanks Lavor!
KILLBONOCLUB # 17
PLAYLIST SERIES
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The making of the album VOUS ET NOUS was also full of twists and turns. It started out as a solo effort by Kabyle musician ARESKI. But little by little, as Areski was filling tapes with poems, improvised skits, electronic experiments, North African trance, refined acoustics and medieval drones BRIGITTE FONATAINE would sneak into the studio at nightfall, adding her voice here and there, her whispers and screams, giving fuel to the fire in a total surreal blaze. The album was originally released in 1977. Now you can get it from KYTHIBONG RECORDS. Anyway Fontaine also collaborated such acts as Stereolab, Jean-Claude Vannier, Gotan Project, Grace Jones or Sonic Youth of course.
On their blistering 7″ debut on 12XU RECORDS, Texan band MISSING PAGES channel the anxiety, exasperation, and jubilation born of those delicate moments in life when the casual comforts and routine are stripped away, forcing us to confront the ugly truth of who we really are.
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John Schooley‘s project ROCKET 808 is like Suicide adding Link Wray as a third band member. Debut single out now on 12XU RECORDS. Full-length album in early 2019. Anyway his moment in time, Schooley is the only person who can claim to have been a member of the Crypt, Goner, Sympathy For The Record Industry and 12XU rosters.
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Ground-zero Louisiana-born rocker LINDA GAIL LEWIS is the younger sister and frequent performing partner of Jerry Lee Lewis, whose piano innovations she carries forward. Her present-at-the-creation cred buoys the record while country musicians ROBBIE FULKS – who sings, plays, leads the band, writes most of the songs, and arranges the others – provides an anchoring sensibility, one that savors old sounds but sidesteps nostalgia on the album WILD! WILD! WILD! on BLOOODSHOT RECORDS (US)
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„TERRY is domesticity. TERRY romances the mundane. This is how romance ekes out a triumph amidst mundanity. That’s what Billy Bragg’s New England and Squeeze’s Up The Junction do. TERRY’s suburban escapism moment is Ciao Goodbye.” You can find it on TERRY’s third album I’M TERRY on UPSET THE RHYTHM RECORDS (UK)
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Cleveland based gutter pop band FASCINATING perfectly melds its sharp, no-bullshit pop sensibilities with the raw, in-the-red sound indelibly connected to the midwestern underground. Debut album COMMUNIST POWER on DIRTY WATER RECORDS (UK)
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PINK AIR is the new album from the distinctive and idiosyncratic New York cult band ELYSIAN FIELDS. Their 11th record is a post-apocalyptic rock & roll joyride will be released by OJET in the States and by MICROCULTURES RECORDS in France.
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Swedish band HATER‘s new album SIESTA is the perfect soundtrack for that summer romance and the inevitable break up.
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In some respects New Yorker ANAMON‘s self released debut album PURPLE, GREEN & YELLOW is the fruit of what the hardcore underground once promised to deliver us: the self-reliance, moxie, and quick/dirty recording ethic of the Minutemen and the Meat Puppets, coupled with Fleetwood Mac and Blue Oyster Cult’s flair for drama and sprinkled with the goosebumpy starlit twang old Crystal Gayle and Gram Parsons records give us.
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… and that record is insane, Ivy Claudy the Female Singer is just a total wild woman! super crazy live show and she give you everything! and Buddy Fuzz the guitar player plays like a caveman… this is raw end of time punk no wave at its best!!! The SLOKS are a Super Raw Power Ultra Primitive Dirty Suicide Destructive Garage Punk No-Wave Trashed out Rock’n’Roll combo from Turin, Italy and their debut album out now on VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS (CH)
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JOSEPHINE FOSTER‘s new album FAITHFUL FAIRY HARMONY is a maze of spirituals, ritual prayers, blues laments, vestal hymns and jubilant benedictions.
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The 3 entreprenors of French trio THE WORLD stay on their ultra-liberal path with NIGHTS, their second album. Transhumanist synths, lyrics of winners, rhythms tuned to convince investors. Turn any car into an SUV. An ideal album to go with team building weekends, administration boards meetings and redundancy plans. it will release soon on KYTHIBONG RECORDS (F)
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SUPERHUMAN HAPPINESS is a musical collective led by Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Stuart Bogie (Arcade Fire, Iron and Wine, Antibalas). While the first album „Hands” has earned a reputation for ass-shaking, euphoric dance music, the new album BEACON takes a darker and more emotional turn. It is performed by musicians from Antibalas, Rubblebucket, Metropolitan Opera, Angelique Kidjo, Elysian Fields, War on Drugs, Darkside and more.
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Refined R&B grooves and defined jazz harmonies on New Yorker GADADU‘s second album OUTER SONG.
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If you claim MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS to be the Midwest’s answer to Boredoms (or at least F*ck B*tt*ns), they probably wouldn’t mind the compliment. Debut album TUFF GUY ELECTRONICS on PIONEER WORKS (US)
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BOGIE KAUFMAN MANN’s album VOLUME 1 is a record of improvisations that don’t sound like improvisations because “we wanted to feel like it was a group improvisation all the time, so there was never really a lot of soloing going on – there was a lot of trioing going on.” Playing at low volume on guitar, woodwinds, and percussion, set up close to one another in the same room, headphone-free.
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END OF THE GAME is the anticipated debut full length by EYES OF LOVE, a band helmed by Brooklyn songwriter Andrea Schiavelli. Assembling a crew of some of the most skilled musicians in New York’s underground; Lily Konigsberg (Palberta, Lily and Horn Horse), Sammy Weissberg (The Cradle, Sweet Baby Jesus), Paco Cathcart (The Cradle, Shimmer). These 14 tracks harness the chaos of reckless abandon amid classic structures.
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New Zealand band ORCHESTRA OF SPHERES‘ double LP MIRROR is an exploration of energies and atmospheres, from intense futuristic funk and sonic tape assemblages to windswept reflections from a far flung corner of the world. It combines the band’s ecstatic rhythmic power and ritualistic vocals with an expanded orchestral palette.
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The band JOBS is fueled by truly ambitious compositions that seem to defy all logic in the most profound of ways. They’ve always had a knack for producing melodic head-boppers within bouts of joyous experimentation. You can feel this on their new cassette LOG ON FOR THE FREE CHANCE TO LOG ON FOR FREE on RAMP LOCAL RECORDS (US)
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Globetrotting Swiss-American blues trash duo REVEREND BEAT-MAN & NICOLE IZOBEL GARCIA’s collaborative album BAILE BRUJA MUERTO of course on VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS (CH)
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WILLIMAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE is a singer-songwriter/banjoist/guitarist/drum-stompin’ solo act from Lee County, Iowa. He meld country, blues, folk, and punk styles. His songs are haunting, rustic, powerful, and byproducts of living his entire life on the family farm and being involved in the hardcore-punk scene in the local community. His brand new album KILONOVA is a collection of 10 cover songs from artists who have influenced him: Dock Boggs, Harlan Howard, Magnetic Fields, Bad Religion, Bill Withers, ZZ Top, Johnny Cash, Red Meat, Jimmy Driftwood and Captain Beefheart.
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„The foundation for what is on the record comes from long before I had any interest in playing jazz. It is heavily rooted in the grunge, indie, and punk rock that I was listening to in high school. We’d write music, rehearse bands, and play shows all summer long in Baltimore clubs like the Small Intestine, Talking Head, and the old Ottobar. The album CRICKETS is just the sound of those summers as a teenager, but with a decade or two of musical development mixed in” – said composer and bassist ADAM HOPKINS about his album. It is the first release of his label OUT OF YOUR HEAD RECORDS (US)
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THE CALLAS is the tip of a Greek artistic squad producing music, artworks, films, magazines, events, art shows, initiated by the brothers Lakis & Aris Ionas. They worked with Sonic Youth drummer LEE RANALDO on the soundtrack of their new feature film “The Great Eastern” and on their new full-length album TROUBLE AND DESIRE which is released now on INNER EAR (GR) and DIRTY WATER RECORDS (UK)
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Throwing Muses’ KRISTIN HERSH has recently released her new album POSSIBLE DUST CLOUDS on FIRE RECORDS (UK)
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TEKSTI-TV 666 is a six-headed shoegazing kraut-punk monster. Armed with no less than four (and sometimes, just sometimes, five) electric guitars. Nowadays they are one of the most in-demand live acts in their native Finland, and select performances abroad have caused a bit of a storm as well. Second album Aidattu tulevaisuus on SVART RECORDS.
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JOHNNY MAFIA. French reverb-soaked slap-backed fuzzed out sonic attack. Inspired by classics like The Ramones, T-Rex, and The Clash, they also draw heavily on contemporary acts like Ty Segall, Jay Reatard, and the Wavves. Their debut album PRINCES DE L’AMOUR is produced by Jim Diamond (The Dirtbombs) and will release on November 9 on DIRTY WATER RECORDS (UK)
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IGUANA DEATH CULT is just a fine Dutch garage rock band who has a new single. Buy the vinyl here.
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1. Thomas Bonvalet is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who releases his solo experimental works as l’ocelle mare. His fifth album TEMPS EN TERRE released now on French label KYTHIBONG RECORDS. After forests, urban spaces, churches and caves this is the first which was recorded in a studio with the help of piano, 6 string bass banjo, mechanical metronome, tuning forks, claves, hand and foot clapping and tapping, mini amps, amps, subwoofer, microphones, small mix desk, bells, mouth organ fragments, concertina, componiums, „stringin it”, audio ducker, drum skins, clockwork motors…
2. Post-punk psychedelic now country sometimes disco indie rock and roll music by THE JAZZ BUTCHER from England. 4 albums box set reissue series THE VIOLENT YEARS on FIRE RECORDS (UK). But before there were THE WASTED YEARS. Anyway if you want to know more about them you can find more in KILLBONOCLUB 10
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3. The third in the four-part boxed set series, Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés 1987-1991 with the albums ‘The Tenement Year’, ‘Cloudland’, ‘Worlds In Collison’ and ‘The Lost Album’ of American avant-garde rock band PERE UBU on FIRE RECORDS (UK)
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Californian NO BABIES‘ new album SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME on English label UPSET THE RHYTHM is such as if Scottish anarcho–punk band Dog Faced Hermans and Japanese experimental chaos hardcore band Melt-Banana would have been made an album together.
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5. SARAH SHOOK was born in Rochester, New York. She was homeschooled and grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family where music was restricted. In high school, she taught herself acoustic guitar. Inspired by artists such as the Sex Pistols, Elliott Smith and Hank Williams she started her first country band, Sarah Shook and the Devil in 2010. But now here is her second album with THE DISARMERS on Chicago BLOODSHOT RECORDS.
The album YEARS is about finding a way. A way through exhaustion, depression, betrayal, hangover after hangover, upper after downer after upper, fight after never-ending fight. It’s about picking yourself up and dusting yourself off after years of being trampled and beaten down, jutting your chin out, head high after they’ve done their worst, and shouting: Fuck you! I do want I want!
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6. Songs of alienation and anxiety from Kiev by post-punk shoegaze band BICHKRAFT. New album 800 on WHARF CAT RECORDS (US)
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„We are standing at the edge of the end of times. The catastrophe is imminent. La peur est partout. Fear is Everywhere.”
So Swiss dark folk funeral band THE DEAD BROTHERS hid in the Vosges mountains in the little French miner village Saintes Marie aux Mines to take the pulse of our time.
7th album ANGST on VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS (CH)
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8. For me the most shining pearl of this playlist this wonder and powerful song by Finnish prog rock band SAMMAL from the album SUULIEKKI on SVART RECORDS
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9. Dirty, filthy punk rock n roll with a dark sense of humor from New Zealand by THE CAVEMEN. New album NUKE EARTH coming soon on SLOVENLY RECORDS (US)
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10. 666 shades of synth-pop from Omaha by DIGITAL LEATHER.
HEADACHE HEAVEN 21 track new digital album. There will be a cassette version in the future.
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11. Chilean ANMLS play Black Flag influenced punk with a little psychedelic latin temperament. Debut album on Slovenly (US) and Algo Records (Chile)
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Easy to say something about Cleveland punk band PERVERTS AGAIN‘s new album FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHT because there are no other words just: total punk. Just like their label TOTAL PUNK (US)
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13. THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME is the double debut album of the Chicago jazz drummer QUIN KIRCHNER. Original compositions, spontaneous improvisations, and solo drum pieces alongside interpretations of classics. Out now on ASTRAL SPIRIT RECORDS. It’s the free jazz/experimental sister label of Monofonus Press (US).
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14. RICKY HELL & THE VOIDBOYS are like a punk Jesus & Mary Chain with a clarinet. HELL IS REAL album on QUALITY TIME, GREENWAY both US and DIRTY WATER RECORDS (UK)
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15. Witty, playful, Frenchy pop songs by the Swiss MONKBERRY MOON ORCHESTRA from Geneva. Their new album ECHO on LE POP CLUB RECORDS (CH) is among my recent favourites.
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1. Two from The Flying Luttenbachers formed short-lived Chicago no-wave band MY NAME IS RAR-RAR in 2000. Later vocalist of Xerobot joined them. And later their drummer formed XADDAX with post-hardcore math rock band Dazzling Killmen guitarist. MY NAME IS RAR-RAR recorded their first album in 2003 but broke up before mixing it. Now this fuckin funny split 7″ EP brings a pair of newly mixed and mastered tracks from that final recording session together with two new XADDAX songs on SKIN GRAFT RECORDS (US). And this is the premiere of the song „One”
2. „post punk rock psychedelic now country sometimes disco indie rock and roll”. I take the risk that I wrote this about JAZZ BUTCHER during the listening of their 1989 album BIG PLANET SCARY PLANET from the 4 albums box set reissue series THE VIOLENT YEARS on FIRE RECORDS (UK). But before there were THE WASTED YEARS. Anyway if you want to know more about them you can find more in KILLBONOCLUB 10
3. French SCANERS play punk rock and roll like Ramones, Dickies, Devo, Suicide, Spits, Les Thugs just somewhere between the 4th and 5th dimensions. Debut album very soon album on Dirty Water UK and a bunch of French labels: Adrenalin Fix Music, Casbah Records, Dangerhouse Skylab, Teenage Hate Records, Strychnine Recordz and Trokson Records
4. Komodina 3 was a Greek band. Everybody knows them but nobody saw them to play. Like the band Ghost Train (or Kummitusjuna) in the film Zombie & The Ghost Train by Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki which is among my favorites. The story of Komodina 3 started n 2005 in Thessaloniki. Some musicians recorded an album, made 80 CD copies, hand-delivered them to some local men of taste. But they didn’t drive to their only show because was too cold out. Seven years after the owner of Slovenly Records heard his CD in a van during the euro tour of his label’s two Greek bands, Bazooka and Gay Anniversary, and he released it. One of them started electro-punk solo career as NOMOS 751. Debut album on SLOVENLY RECORDS (US)
5. French drum duet DEUX BOULES VANILLE triggering analogic synthesizers, making grindcore constructions, techno and dub improvisations. Idiotic music. Danceable. New album PLANET GOUGOU on KYTHIBONG RECORDS soon.
6. For twenty years API UIZ was a polyrhythmic multicolored punky math rock-like trio from Bordeaux. They have influenced an entire generation of French musicians by their ferociously independent way they play and produce “raw, unworked, but structured music” which was the title of their debut album. Since 2015 API UIZ is a quintet. PEPLUM, their first album with the extended line-up released now on 12″ vinyl on Kythibong, Les Potagers Natures, Mon Cul C’est Du Tofu, La République Des Granges, Attila Tralala (Belgium) and Red Wig Records (Germany)
7. LADY BIRD is a movie about a young, rebellious woman living in Sacramento, California and the constraints studying at a Catholic high school. Its soundtrack was composed by JON BRION who can be known from bands like The Excerpts, The Bats, and The Grays or his film scores from eg Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Lady Bird soundtrack will be released soon for the first time on vinyl via FIRE SOUNDTRACKS (UK) and LAKESHORE RECORDS (US). It’s a strange big puzzle of different melancholic moods. Anyway Brion is featured as keyboardist and drummer on Marianne Faithfull’s 2003 album, Kissin Time, and co-wrote a song, „City of Quartz”, for her next work, 2005’s Before the Poison.
8. Crazy, chaotic, frantic, but melodic Spanish garage rock and roll band WAU Y LOS ARRRGHS!!! released a sold out in a flash 7″ single on their farewell gig last year. Out again on 2 Feb on SLOVENLY RECORDS!
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The Spanish Sinner bros with Carmelo Tornado formed the punk band HOLLYWOOD SINNERS. Album KHÖME KAKKÄ released now on DIRTY WATER RECORDS. At first I did not like it. I don’t understand why, because during the 3rd listening I found – Hey, this is fucking good! Since I love them.
10. Dirty, filthy rock n roll with a dark sense of humour from New Zealand by THE CAVEMEN. Debut album first time on vinyl with two bonus tracks: „Swamp Thing” + „Juvenile Delinquent” on DIRTY WATER RECORDS (UK)
11. A fresh indie-pop hit song from Sweden with cold by HATER. Red Blinders EP released on FIRE RECORDS
12. RIK & THE PIGS: nothing special just total punk. A CHILD GATOR album on TOTAL PUNK RECORDS (US)
13. Bad dream pop by New Yorker movie maker ALEXEI SISHKIN. New album, on cassette by FORGED ARTIFACTS (US)
14. The hymnic song Still Alive celebrates the present and welcomes the unknown by Scottish indie pop band THE SPOOK SCHOOL, but they are punks just like the Buzzcocks or Joanna Gruesome, but with a transgender with a beautiful moustache, and this is what a simple woman can’t.
COULD IT BE DIFFERENT? album on ALCOPOP (UK) and SLUMBERLAND (US)
15. DRIFT is the seventh full-length by NYC rock polymaths THE MEN. Release soon on SACRED BONES RECORDS. Collaborators: Delicate Steve on guitars, Parker Kindred (Antony & The Johnsons, Jeff Buckley) on drums, and Chris Coady (Beach House) as producer.
16. Nowadays Glasgow based alien-obsessed hyperactive girl KEEL HER plays high standard lo-fi sometimes noisy outsider bedroom pop alone. But with her band! It’s a revelation. Just like the Breeders were in the 90s. I know it. I was there with 28 lucky ones to see them on 22 Dec in Refugee Info Bus Fundraising Party at DIY SPACE FOR LONDON
17. MOON DUO worked up a version of ‘Jukebox Babe’ because their sound engineer Larry got it stuck in his head and was singing it all the time. And on the other side of the EP there is No Fun for the the 70th birthday of Iggy Pop. Released on SACRED BONES
18. Psychedelic ambient country band SUSS members have worked in various capacities with Lydia Lunch, the B-52s, Rubber Rodeo, k.d. Lang, David Bowie, John Cale, Wilco, Norah Jones, The War On Drugs, Burt Bacharach, and countless others. Their debut album GHOST BOX is a trip in the mid-western desert. It’s not psychedelic, it’s hallucinogen.
19. I am very surprised. I did not wait for anything special, but this is an exceptionally good album – writing this during the second track of first listening. Who is she: RUBY BOOTS? Scottish and Italian descent Australian-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter inspired by country, blues, and rock. This time her backing band is TEXAS GENTLEMEN who plays „Timeless American Music for fans of The Band, The Swampers, and Willie Nelson.”
Album DON’T TALK ABOUT IT released on BLOODSHOT RECORDS (US)
20. THE GOON MAT AND LORD BENARDO: Adrenaline and alcohol fused primal boogie mayhem from Liege, Belgium. Formerly they played as Stinky Lou and the Goon mat and lord Benardo, but Stinky left the band to open Lou’s Bar. New album TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES on VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS (CH)
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“Come on baby let’s rock!
Well, OW! Woo! Ah! Ah!
Aaaah-ooo!”
It has started in Boston in 1983 when punk rock guitarist Peter Greenberg decided to form an instrumental rock and roll band, but Barry White upset his plans when he began unexpectedly singing at the record store where they worked.
Yes, Barry White, who was 11 in 1966 when his uncle took him to see the James Brown Revue and „that was my first witness of a fantastic show. (…) all the girls were screaming and the guys were going AAAHHH!!! It was wild. It was probably the biggest moment of my life – said the frontman Barrence Whitfield who was born as Barry White who after the gospel choir became a drummer, and played funk, soul and prog rock music.
After two albums the original line-up of BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES disbanded in 1986 because of Greenberg and the bassist moved on, but Barrence rebuilt and kept alive the band until 1994. The three core member reunited in 2010 and now soon here is the new album SOUL FLOWERS OF TITAN. It was inspired by the cosmic outlook of Sun Ra and elaborates on the Cincinnati-based King Records and Federal Records sounds of the 1950s-‘60s.
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Scratch + Sniff
“Sex Pistols couldn’t hold their liquor, Ramones wear tennis shoes!
Alice Cooper is a party pooper, we’re the punk band for youuuu!”
PUKE SPIT & GUTS
was a Californian punk band, and we love them
only album “Eat Hot Lead” in 1980 by their label Important Records
some songs
anyway Dick Head is a real name
100 copies vinyl reissue + 10 digital bonus tracks + photos on BLACK GLADIATOR RECORDS (US)
will release on 2 June, but vinyls sold out, so need to wait for the 3rd edition.
Until digital only. Or buy an original.
For me a mix of among the best worst bands AXEMEN from New Zealand / BUTTHOLE SURFERS / GG ALLIN.
Now FAT WHITE FAMILY make similar shit.
Csühes Pali said: „15 másodperce szól és mán maximálisan elégedett vagyok!!!! danke!!!!!”
Check the full story in the upcoming Ugly Things Magazine #45.
mr sterile & co, nz
New Zealand, I like it. Home of some great artists like Axemen, Heart Attack Alley, Delaney Davidson, Stomping Nick, and
mr sterile and his company, a bunch of various musicians who working together under the name of mr sterile Assembly from 2004. They have made their latest album as drum and bass duo, so the music is pretty minimal punk
which bring the very early NoMeansNo to my mind when it consisted of the two Wright brothers only. And also bring the Minutemen and English anarcho-punk group CRASS, not just because
„the title track to the album It’s All Over, an anthem to and for the protesters at the front-line of the climate crisis; for Black Lives Matter, for Refugees are Welcome, for No one is Illegal; for resistance, for persistence; for workers struggling to obtain a living wage, decent conditions, a dignified workplace; Occupy, Anonymous, BDS, frontline communities; the opposers of the corporate wars, the oil wars, the water wars, the cyber wars; those fighting for transparency, equity, liberation; old folk connecting with young folk in affinity; for those fighting for potential and hope in health, education, housing; for fighting for freedom of expression from medieval thinking; for the radicals, for the first-timers; for us, for It All, for Everywhere, for freedom, for life!” – said mr sterile.
On their previous album in 2011 there was a bigger assembly with a pretty eclectic music
There come the English avantgarde experimentalist Fred Frith, Dutch anarcho-punk-folk-jazz The Ex, Hungarian psych rock band Másfél and art punk Ápolók to my head. But I could say Captain Beefheart or the Bez Ladu a Skladu from Slovakia too. Or there is the Belgian Morzelpronk, but anyway „they have a distinctive, South Pacific sound based on unusual and urgent time signatures, repetitive heavy rhythms, and angular lyrics.” And it is highly entertaining.
You can find more music on their bandcamp page.
Preach The Blues (Up Jump The Devil)
„Music has been the only constant thing in my life.”
Stomping Nick Jackman is a one-man-band from Lyttelton (Delaney Davidson also from there), New Zealand, who fuses primitive garage punk with rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie and Appalachian folk. The latter merges the Black, English, Irish and Scotch music traditions with the coal miners’ joy, sorrow and anger. And what is boogie-woogie? The phrase maybe comes from Bantu term „Mbuki Mvuki”. Mbuki: „to take off in flight”; Mvuki: „to dance wildly, as if to shake off one’s clothes”.
„I have tried to get a band like the Blues Grenade together with other people in the past but found it hard to find people who could understand the primitive blues aesthetic.” So he sings and plays harmonica, guitar and drums all at the same time, the old school way, without the aid of loop pedals, backing tracks, or any of those other fancy tricks. „The one-man-bands Joe Hill Louis and Doctor Ross are big influences – my act is based on these two artists.” But „The Gun Club would have had the biggest influence on me. Jeffrey Lee Pierce is the prophet. ”
In Europe in Cognac Blues Festival, France
Want to eat your breakfast with the sound of good music? At the Passions Village, for the end of the night or for early risers, come to the Tonic Day stage. This stage offers morning music to start a brand new day with Stomping Nick on 8 July from 16:15, and 9 July from 9:30 & 11:00.
from the brand new album
„Shake Your Cake” will be released by himself on 20 May
more onemanband music RNR666 RADIOSHOW
„Hey butt, what the fuck?”
The Melbourne based New Zealander Lynton Denovan’ works (Satanic Rockers, Sacred Product) always come the early Butthole Surfers to my mind. The Encounter Group is his new band
We like to rock and Satan – interview with Lynton on RNR666
From New Records
Chocolat started in Montreal in 2008, when a Bloodshot Bill and Bob Dylan mix one man band, Jimmy Hunt has begun jamming with Demon’s Claws bassist. Funny francophone psych prog rock
„Tss Tss” album on Born Bad Records (France)
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Post hardcore noise rock by Proton Beast from New Zealand
„Digitizer” album on Muzai. It’s a New Zealand record label based in Leeds (UK). We’re livin’ in a strange world.
Maybe Arizona Dream
New Zealander punkers Cool Runnings are touring in the US, it has been a good occasion for a new video, produced and directed by Spike Jonze…
Blister
from digital album I Hate It Here
ALT MUS NUS
SLUMBERLAND RECORDS (US)
Joanna Gruesome and Perfect Pussy release split single. Each band does one original song and one cover, and the single comes with a 24-page comic by Phil McAndrew. Listen to Joanna Gruesome’s Psykick Espionage. Order.
Allo Darlin’ release third LP. „We Come From The Same Place” is made up of smart, beautiful pop music, with lyrics that resonate with experience and melodies that chime, echo and soar. Have a listen to three songs from the album. Order. Also on Fortuna POP.
The Mantles new single. The Bay Area’s garage-pop greats The Mantles are back with a tweaked line-up featuring the swirling keyboards of Carly Putnam and the rock-solid bass of Matt Bullimore. „Memory” is an upbeat song that recalls some of the finest of the Paisley Underground bands.Listen to Memory. Order. Euro tour now.
The June Brides return with new EP. English pop legends The June Brides are back with their second single since re-forming back in 2011. The June Brides are true indie innovators, whose classic 80s records influenced everyone from The Smith/Morrissey to The Wedding Present and Belle & Sebastian. Smart, punk-influenced pop is the order of the day, bristling with jangly guitars, marvelous melodies and top-notch song-writing. Listen to Being There. Order.
Terry Malts have been exploring the murky area where hope meets disgust, an area populated with anger, hatred, exhaustion, delusion, seclusion, consumption, life, death, breathing, eating and a host of other conflicting and confusing ideas. Their records to date have a been a refreshing blast of catchy punk, pop-influenced but also chaotic, noisy, shredding. The Insides EP might be their most „pop” record yet, but don’t let that make you believe that they’ve given up on the blazing, verge-of-feedback guitars or pummeling rhythms. Listen to Let You In. Order.
The Aislers Set reissue their back catalog. Slumberland Records and Suicide Squeeze Records re-release all three albums from seminal indie-pop band The Aislers Set. The albums have been re-mastered. The band’s third album, „How I Learned To Write Backwards,” is available from Suicide Squeeze. Listen to songs from all three albums. Order.
SLOVENLY RECORDS (US)
GINO & THE GOONS – SHAKE IT (LP)
Gino and the Goons are the most unlikely band to have gotten any attention in the current shitpool of rock’n’roll posecrap. This is the album you wanted to be budget rock. This is the album you wanted to be dumb as fuck. This is the album that fails on both levels. This is the album that proves that Ramones worship doesn’t have to be predictable or generic. This is the album that proves that rock’N’roll doesn’t have a fashion, and that musical style rules supreme. PLAY LOUD cuz, cause you’re not likely to get this action for many years to come. R.I.P. Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy! Preview on Bandcamp and order
SICK THOUGHTS – Fat Kid (10″ EP)
Have you ever been to Hanover, PA? I’ve spent time there, and It’s WEIRD. Hanover is lousy with mongoloids /Juggalos and slack jawed farm people. Drew Owen, otherwise known as SICK THOUGHTS, was born there, and through the benevolent seer abilities of his dad was fortunate enough to escape to Baltimore, MD, currently ranked in the top 30 most dangerous cities in the USA. 17 years old Drew Owen has vinyl releases on labels from Italy (Goodbye Boozy), Sweden (Ken Rock), Zaxxon (Canada), and a few American imprints, including an upcoming single on Goner Records. Sick Thoughts channels GG and the Jabbers and Japanese noise with heavy negatory spirit on each track – a sonically screwed and
puberty drenched hatful of hateful punk rock sputum. Preview on Bandcamp and order
OVERGROUND RECORDS (UK)
The debut album from Steve Ignorant‘s new project Slice of Life, it’s very different from what you’d associate him with, but it’s a mighty fine album.
On the way home from the Australian & New Zealand Last Supper Tour in 2011; Carol, Pete and Steve Ignorant found themselves stranded due to the Chile ash cloud. During the long night gazing at the lights of Sydney reflecting on life while drinking beers, Slice Of Life was born. A far cry from the aggression of Crass maybe, with the songs in an acoustic setting of: piano, acoustic guitar and upright bass, Impossible to categorise, Slice Of Life’s first album is up-front and soul-baringly personal. It’s a mixture of songs and spoken word. Order
SINDERLYN RELEASES (US)
GIRL TEARS – TENSION (LP/CD/Cass). True to the spirit of punk, LA trio Girl Tears breathe life back into the genre of the one-minute song. Armed with a voice after David Johansen’s own heart, Kam Andresen’s vocals harmonize seamlessly with razor-sharp riffs on signature blink-and-you’ll-miss-it length tracks. Listen Here Order
HOMESHAKE is the solo project of Montreal-based Peter Sagar. Having previously recorded with Mac DeMarco, Sagar debuts with In the Shower. The special edition of this soothing album, with its smooth bass and groovy, jazz undertones, is pressed on blue vinyl and includes alternate silk-screened cover. Listen Here Order
ANTIQUATED FUTURE RECORDS (US)
Tucker Theodore – „Kill and Dress” LP – Demons being exorcised and caught on tape. Pop melodies covered with layers of grit. Bedroom classic rock, experimental folk, tape machine noise. An Inanambulance Recordings/Antiquated Future Records split release. Listen. Order
Mariner On Dry
a wanderer bluesman on Robert Johnson’s path from Christchurch, New Zealand
“Self Employment is the key to an early grave, I see this in lots of musician friends of mine as well. You are your own travel agent, your own booking agent, your own photographer, your own graphic designer, your own manager, your own producer… on top of that you are a musician. With my show I am the drummer, singer, guitarist and sometimes harmonica player, you could say it is not a way of life, it IS life”.
Delaney Davidson
„Rise & Shine” from the album Swim Down Low on Outside Inside Records (Italy)
His previous two albums were released by Voodoo Rhythm Records (Switzerland)