Lilacs & Champagne is an alternative project of Emil Amos (drums) and Alex Hall (guitar) from Grails which plays instrumental cinematic music. They have started a fantasy record series Midnight Features. Inspired by the Marvel comics series What if? These were alternative stories of well-known super heroes of Marvel. In musical equivalents of these the band places himself into various musical eras. The first chapter, the Shower Scene takes place in the 70s, and was inspired by the background music of TV shows, crimes, dramas, romantics and more.

Shower Scene + Maple St

EP out now on Mexican Summer

heavy psychedelic trip into unknown with mutant punks of Detroit

HUMAN EYE

from the album „Into Unknown” on Goner Records
The clip is made by the band’s singer/guitarist Timmy Vulgar

PARQUET COURTS

“’90s slacker heroes”
“punk vigor and slacker looseness”
“these boys are old-school slackers”
“typical laid-back NY-slacker manner”

Sunbathing Animal

from the new album „Sunbathing Animal” on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July     Parquet Courts Soundcloud

Tacocat about the order of street behavior

„Hey Girl” from the „post post punk pop pop” band’s new album „NVM” on Hardly Art

crampsy surfy fuzzy garage rock duo from France
Los Dos Hermanos play Alienor

from their 7″ single on Six Tonnes De Chair Records. They fill unexpected historical references into their exotic music due to their shared passion for History. For example

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.

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

pref: Tuaregs are nomadic people in the Sahara. They’re living as refugees in some countries of Africa.

„TINARIWEN IS A BAND BORN INTO CHAOS.”

The founder, Ag Alhabib has seen a cowboy to play on guitar in a western film in his childhood. After the happy end he fabricated his first guitar from a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wire. He has formed his band in a Libyan Tuareg refugee camp, where they were under military training in 1979. When the revolution broke out in their homeland, they left Libya behind, put down their instruments and took up guns to fight for the Tuareg independence in Mali. When the conflict died down, the band returned to music. And they became successful refugees around the world with their traditional Tuareg music, which is influenced by blues and Hendrix.

Islegh Taghram Tifhamam from the album „Emmaar”

For a Tuareg the Sahara is not one desert but many,
they call it Tinariwen, id est: The Deserts

„WE LOVE ALL THE DESERT, THESE ARE PLACES
WHERE WE FEEL GOOD TO LIVE AND TO CREATE.”

The singer of Canadian band Weaves, Jasmyn said: „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!” Light schizophrenic situation, but really hard to categorize their weird pop music. Buttercup

from self titled debut EP on Buzz Records in April

Because it is in their blood.

The Mexican Lorelle Meets The Obsolete plays amazing haunted psych garage rock songs about the uncertain. Sealed Scene

from the album Chambers on Captcha Records

Euro tour is under way. There are French, German and English dates yet.

Do you remember the early Therapy? It was like these Canadians. But White Lung has a little more metallic sound than the mentioned Irish punk rock band. Drown With The Monster

7″ single in April by Domino Recordings. Third album is coming in Spring.

Per Prupp (1 week ago): Gaaaah! Scott H Biram fuckin rules!!! (Think slayerfan) SCOT H BIRAAAAAM!!!

Alcohol Blues, Never Comin’ Home, Only Whiskey, Nam Weed, Backdoor Man, Church Point Girls, I’m Troubled and more everyday stories from Texas by Scott H. Biram on his new album ‘Nothin’ But Blood’ on Bloodshot Records. His country music is spiced with sludge metal, punk, blues and hillbilly tunes.