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RNR666 Rádió
explosions, lot of sex, 5 turtles, but without dog, because it is always complicated
CATASTROPHE
by VIRUUUNGA, a psych post punk duo from Switzerland, taken from the debut EP ‘Spank’ by ON THE CAMPER RECORDS, out in October. You can download this song
Country & Wastern
THE GODDAMN GALLOWS play „gutterbilly” or „hobocore”, a unique blend of country, blues, rockabilly and rock and roll, „but still with just enough hardcore and punk influence to make your parents hate it.”
It was founded as a trio in 2004 somewhere in Michigan, in the heart of the rust belt. Once it was named as steel belt because of the grade of industrialization. The decline occurred gradually, as rust eats iron. It started in the middle of the past century, in the heyday of American dream. But a nightmare came to the end of the century: shrinking cities, abandoned industrial buildings and homes, high unemployment and crime rates – just because the economic courses were changed during the dreaming. For example there is Motor City, aka Detroit, where a music empire, the Motown, was established on the black workers. More than 1 million residents ran away from there, and the city lost 61.4 % of its population (1950: 1 849 568, 2010: 713 777).
The band moved forward West, where they lived in abandoned buildings, squatter camps, storage units and shoebox apartments, and mainly on the road. Where they picked up stray musicians along the way during endless tours, so the band is a quintet today, and you can find there such instruments like accordion, banjo, mandolin and washboard too. Fortunately their drive has taken them to Budapest at RNR666 PARTY. Here are more smashing shots about that frantic show by Márk Martinkó.
You can hear the latest album The Maker here. New album is coming in 2017.
gothic gospel for sinister souls
In 1992 when the coach of the gothic country band Denver Gentlemen temporarily broke down David Eugene Edwards went forward with 16 Horsepower, while Slim Cessna has found his Auto Club, a christian, but apocalyptic country band. And so punk, that Jello Biafra signed them for his label Alternative Tentacles. (For what he was critizised by the dumb punk community.) But the new album ‘The Commandments According To SCAC,’ will be released soon by their own label SCACUNINCORPORATED in the US, and Glitterhouse Records in Europe.
The 7th: You Shall Not Commit Adultery
& the 4th Commandment: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
according to SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB
BORN TO BE PARROT
„We started university together, but we never were good students, so instead of just smokin’ and drinkin’, we decided to play music as well.
We’ve always listened to rock’n’roll and hip hop music. That’s our biggest influence, and The Strokes were very important to us. Our sound is similar to theirs, but just as it is to bands that were a big influence to them, like Television, The Modern Lovers, Iggy Pop, and anything produced by John Cale. But I think that people like Roy Orbison, Jack Nitzsche, Brian Wilson, The Creation, The Groupies, The Cramps, and The Beastie Boys played a more important part in the music we write.”
Right before I was in the kitchen, which is situated under my room where The Parrots went on loudly, but just the drums and bass could be heard in the kitchen, and I was listening a very good punk band. Anyway like Wildmen, or Black Lips, and so funny
THE PARROTS, from Madrid
7″ + debut album by Heavenly Recordings (UK)
„Also, if you compare Madrid to Barcelona, it’s really different. Barcelona is more European, it’s more similar to London or Paris, whereas Madrid is just really different in its own way!”
Quotes from an interview on Black on the Canvas
hey asshole
woodboot 7″ on total punk
Sea, Sand & Shovel
JC SATÁN
Killer Religious Psych Garage Rock from Bordeaux
from the S/T album on Born Bad Records
And there is
JC SATÁN / PIRESIAN BEACH split 7 „EP by RNR666 RECORDS. 2 x 2 songs. Exceptional beautiful cover painting by Paula H. Satán.
Taketori Monogatori by JC Satán + Baby Disorder by Piresian Beach
Few copies left. We can post it also from the UK. Order here
Pink Slip Daddy Does It Again
„Tell young teenagers the news, we got good hard rock”
Mick Cancer, Sal Mineo’s Only Son (aka Ben Vaughn), Barb Dwyer and Palmyra Delran are together
PINK SLIP DADDY
was a psychobilly punk band in Philadelphia from the late 80s up to 1995. Next year 12 Golden Country Greats was released by Ween with Ben Vaughn as producer.
The band was reformed in 2012, and in 2016 they have „returned to rock action with a vengeance, having recently played a string of calamitous live shows and a new 7” EP, a rollicking, raucous heartfelt celebration of the music of teen pop idol Fabian Forte, and the golden age of Philadelphia rock ‘n’ roll.”
Fabian’s music career lasted exactly so far while Elvis Presley as a sergeant of US 3rd Armoured Division served in Western Germany between 1959-60. A short film about Fabian, the manufactured idol.
But more important that here is a 7″ vinyl with 3 new songs on French label Kizmiaz Records. The first ones after 22 years
so PINK SLIP DADDY is a psychobilly punk band in Philadelphia again. And you can find some old songs on their soundcloud free to download
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
from blues punk Bassholes‘ Don Howland solo album
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang coming soon on In The Red (US)
Happy Happy Joy Joy
THE BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY INTERVIEW
an island, close to the sea, full of sun and green
in a huge and chaotic, besides beautiful and unique city
BIG MOUNTAIN COUNTY is a relatively new but great psych garage rock band somewhere in Rome. They are blessed with ability to write hits, even in the manner of Butthole Surfers. Moreover the bassplayer Wolfman Bob is our old comrade. He played at rnr666 party in Budapest with three different bands: wild garage rock Ultra Twist, lo-fi punk Trio Banana, and of course Big Mountain County.
How you have become musicians?
As for many other musicians: listening to music at home, trying to play any instrument and finally being completely captured by the desire to play over and over.
Your hometowns are Catania, Bari, Pescara, Rome. There are long distances between these cities. How you have got together? You understand each other without problem, or there are difficulties because of the language differences?
We come from different and quite far towns, but there are no particular language differences. So no communication problems. Alessandro and Bruno have met each other in Catania, their common hometown. They met Bob in a music festival, where they were performing with their respective past bands, Bruno and Alessandro with “The Boliers” and Bob with “The Ultra Twist”. A few years later, they all moved to Rome, where Alessandro and Francesco met each as roommate. They began playing guitars and writing songs together and soon they decided to start a new band, involving Bruno as drummer and Bob as bass player. We believe that the difference between our origins is one of the keys of the band. Alessandro and Bruno come from Catania, a hot and spirited city, Bob comes from another lively and dynamic town, whereas Francesco comes from a quiet village close to Pescara. These differences reflect on our music styles. So yes, we have different languages, but just “musical languages”. However, this is not a problem, but an unbelievable resource, since playing and writing together is a continuous mutual exchange, which every time creates new songs, new sounds and new atmospheres. We definitely like to be different but to appear as a unity on the stage.
You spent a month together to produce a better sounding in a house on the base of Etna. Was the session successful? Could you use that under ground latent energy?
Definitely yes! We live in Rome, a huge and chaotic (besides beautiful and unique) city. Sometimes we need to escape from the rhythm of the city life in order to find new inspirations. Therefore, when we had to complete our first LP Breaking Sound, we decided to stay a month in a nice house on the base of the Etna, where we had more time and the right atmosphere to write new songs and find out new sounds. Those days were relaxing, inspiring and stimulant. That was the right place in the right moment.
In some songs (e.g. Brain Machine) I have discovered the strong influence of Butthole Surfers. Are there accidents, or are you also big fans of those funny guys?
We know Butthole Surfers and we like their music. Anyway, we do not know if they directly influenced some of our songs. As said before, we are four and we have various and very different musical influences.
Psychedelic music is very trendy nowadays, almost every second village has a psych fest. What do you think about this revival?
We like psychedelic music, we play psychedelic music, so we follow the trend… Psych music surely is not new, but we believe that many bands are proposing new different, modern and interesting interpretations. We think that this kind of music can be fully expressed just during live shows. Therefore, we promote the spread of psych fests and we hope every second village will have more than one psych fest. We are so sure about this that we are contributing to the organization of the first Rome Psych Fest, which will be held in next October.
As band what was your biggest show experience?
We had many unforgettable shows, but if we have to choose one, that is Sarajevo in 2013, during our first European tour. We were very far from home, not only because of physical distance, but also because of history and culture. However, we felt at home. People got really involved by our show and our music. The atmosphere was perfect, in poor words, unforgettable.
Where is Big Mountain County geographically?
As for songs, pictures, or poems, each can have its personal idea about the Big Mountain County. Therefore, we cannot say where it is. In our minds, it is probably on an island, close to the sea, full of sun and green lands. Do you know any place like this?
What are your plans for the future?
In this period, we are promoting out live CD Anachronicle, out for Area Pirata Records. In the same time, we are writing new songs to record our second studio LP, which will be more psych and experimental than “Breaking Sound”. Our idea is to record in autumn and release the album at the beginning of 2017. Meanwhile, in next October, we will share the release of a 12 inches split, out for Annibale Records with the Italian band “Lame”, a project of Stefano Isaia from Movie Star Junkies. It will contain two new tracks by Big Mountain County, one to dance and one to dream.
And for the past? What would you change in the history if you could?
To answer this question is not easy. Everything could be better, but worse also. We think that what is done is done. Fortunately, just music and songs remain. We prefer to learn from the past in order to make the future better.
pic: Gyerage. More BMC at RNR666 Party in Budapest pics
Ninni Forever
Finnish Lunatic Synth Pop
Ninni Forever Band
The Best
Kuustoista nollakolme
from the album „Lätäkössä” will be released in the fall 2016 on Svart Records
Ninni Forever Band is Ninni Luhtasaari of Tampere. She makes hats too.
UPCOMING SHOWS
09.06.2016 Tavastia, Helsinki /w Räjäyttäjät, U.F. Ojala
29.06.2016 Lepakkomies, Helsinki /w Neiet
13.08.2016 TBA Pori
Post Plague
Canadian chaos brigade Odonis Odonis has come back with his psychedelic electro industrial post punk music
New album Post Plague by Felte Records (US/EU), Telephone Explosion (Can), Geertruida (NL)
IN EUROPE Jul 16 Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands – Jul 17 Centrum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands – Jul 19 Kinky Star, Ghent, Belgium – Jul 20 The Waiting Room, London, United Kingdom – Jul 22 Super Sonic, Paris, France
„DE-evolution has truly arrived”
Round Eye is weird ex-pat punk band with two sax in Shanghai. Their brand new video about what they think about America today. The band was founded by Chachy, who has moved there from Orlando, Florida in 2010.
He said an interview on Dangerous Mind
„It’s funny, Chinese media is using what’s happening with Trump and America as an example of why Democracy doesn’t work. ”
„I get a good earful of global opinions on how America is presenting itself and trust me, it’s universally laughed at. (…) Everyone sees the social nightmare he’s dredged up and they start to realize that what was once an American issue is now getting dangerously close to becoming an international one. Not laughing as much anymore.”
„DE-evolution has truly arrived. ” Because We the People
Anyway “the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter” as per Winston Churchill.
An interview with Chachy about China on RNR666