TUNE-YARDS were started by puppeteer and ukulele player Merrill Garbus in 2006. She has recorded her first album with a handheld voice recorder only. It was self-released on recycled cassettes and there were limited pressing vinyls by Marriage Records in June 2009. In July Tune-Yards had signed to 4AD Records.

Tropical art pop madness in Water Fountain

from the album Nikki Nack on 4AD.     Some shows in Europe in May

Brilliant name, music & video(s)
THE ADMIRAL – Bother Me

from their split 7″ with Cool Runnings by 1:12 Records, New Zealand.

Cool Runnings’ track

Rip van Winkle is a short story about a Dutch settler who escapes to the mountains from his naggin wife. He meets a group silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins. Rip does not ask who they are, instead, he begins to drink some of their moonshine* and soon falls asleep for 20 years, so sleeping through the American War of Independence (1775-83). This is told by Shannon & The Clams in 50s style dirty sweet rock and roll

from the album Dreams In The Rat House on Hardly Art. Video is made by the many sided guitarist Cody Blanchard.

Euro tour May-June

*Term for illicitly distilled spirits in the US.

„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”.

A wanderer bluesman on Robert Johnson’s path
from Christchurch, New Zealand

DELANEY DAVIDSON – Big Ugly Fish

from the album Swim Down Low on Outside Inside Records (Italy). His previous two albums were released by Voodoo Rhythm Records (Switzerland).

Euro tour: May, July-Aug. Vienna: May 10

TRAUMAHELIKOPTER from Holland recently landed at RNR666 Party
where they injected a heavy dose of garage punk’n’roll to the addicts.

LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I KILLED MYSELF

from the album I Don’t Understand Them At All on Excelsior Recordings (NL). iTunes

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

Among the best new punk bands:

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animals

taken from the album on the same name on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July

Parquet Courts Soundcloud

Black Moth Super Rainbow mix anything with everything.
Their hotchpotch is called as experimental music.
The frontman’s side project is TOBACCO
plays nerve-racking electro-noise hard pop
on analogue electronic instruments and tape machines.
Streaker

from the album Ultima II Massage on Ghostly International. Direted by Eric Wareheim

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

RED MASS is a Montreal based global free style rock‘n’roll”community
of musicians, writers and artists

SHARP

from the upcoming album „A HopEless Noise: The Story of The Diamond Girl”
feat. King Khan, Mac De Marco, Mike Watt and more

French fuzzy garage rock in between Small Faces, Black Lips, Monkees and King Tuff

MADCAPS – All I Really Wanna Do

from debut EP on Howlin’ Banana

Video is made from a Marcel Carne film les Tricheurs / The Cheaters (1958).
It’s depicting young people as pleasure-seeking rebels.
The film was banned in some regions of France.
The full film with English subtitles.

Hungarian Austrian jazz singer film maker enfant terrible femme fatale, Réka Csiszér
Thai Vietnamese Parisian burlesque performer, Lala Morte
Swiss musician, Simone form The Pussywarmers
Italian musician, Nene from Movie Star Junkies
recorded Dawn Penn’s reggae hit from 1967, You Don’t Love Me
in a Billy Holiday and a Jane Birkin style French versions.

The Me’s – Oui Oui Oui

7″ by Voodoo Rhythm Records