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Here is their first Lp after some aclaimed singles. Gories, Beat Happening, Subway Sect or Gun Club are in their road to your heart. If you're young and ready to destroy the worldm this record can be your soundtrack!

More Pop than their first Lp, Something Special is ready to make you dance. Lo-Fi with a mix of The Pastels, Beat Happening and The Clean!!

ARTIST: LAS RODILLERAS
TITLE: 3
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: DISCOS CALAMIDAD
CATALOGUE NUMBER: -

Their second album is better than their great debut. 

Three women playin' dark rock&roll ala Desechables, Seres Vacios, Paralisis Permanente... Awesome!

ARTIST: ONE OF THESE DAYS & THEE HEAVY RANDOM TONE COLOUR LAB
TITle: A PEACEFUL NACHT IN HELL
FORMAT: LP (gatefold)
LABEL: -
CATALOGUE NUMBER: -

In words of their American producer Paul Ronnie "I understand music to be a liturgical act, a message from the beyond, wrapped up in a semiconsious meditation but in a spaced and physical concept, the music is like a large mass of flesh that sticks between your teeth and which we play with to rub against our tongue".

ARTIST: STRONG COME ONS
TITLE: STRONG COME ONS
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BR134

Here comes the debut full length self-titled STRONG COME-ONS record! The band emerges from the ashes of the well-known DARE DARE DEVILS and CHEWBACCA ALL STARS and appears to be that kind of missing link between the OBLIVIANS and the CHROME CRANKS, no less!!

ARTIST: BURIED HORSES
TITLE: TEMPEST
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BR123

'Tempest' has already been released in Australia on CD to critical praise through Spooky Records (The Drones, Beasts of Bourbon, Spencer P. Jones...). The album seamlessly combines the craft of storytelling with the dark art of noise, sounding like "Steve Earle filtered through the Birthday Party" (Blurt Online).

ARTIST: DAN BRODIE & THE GRIEVING WIDOWS
TITLE: MY FRIEND THE MURDERER
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BR122

My Friend the Murderer was recorded live at Headgap Studios in Preston, Melbourne during 2010 by engineer Brent 'Sloth' Punshon (Adalita/The Nation Blue) with Brodie's new band, Dan Brodie & the Grieving Widows featuring Brodie on guitar and vocals, Dave Nicholls (Ian Rilen/Spencer P.Jones) on drums and Chris Brodie (Broken Arrows) on bass and lapsteel. Played with a sparseness of instrumentation, Brodie has created a classic Australian rock n roll record, lyrically channelling the troubled obsessions of people whose love has turned into hate, with disastrous consequences for all.

ARTIST: BURN IN HELL
TITLE: SPIDERFIGHTCATWATERHATE
FORMAT: LP (gatefold)
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BR111

Burn in Hell comes from Melbourne. Demented piano, junkyard beats and gravel gargling voice,
from industrial era carnival to cabaret, from Chopin to chaos, docking all ports between. Burn in hell - explain nothing and tell it like it isn’t.

ARTIST: PETE ROSS
TITLE: MIDNIGHT SHOW
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: LP-BR106

Midnight Show is the new album from Australian born singer-songwriter Pete Ross and the follow-up to his 2009 debut release Six String Suicide.  Midnight Show offers a stark contrast with a comparatively structured message and compelling song writing, offset by a very raw and dynamic sound.
Fans of Johnny Cash (American Recordings) and Nick Cave, will undoubtedly be intrigued by this record, as will existing lovers of the more countryesque Pete Ross.

Australian trio produced by Ward Dotson. Punk Rock and Noise!

ARTIST: CURTINAITIS
TITLE: CURTINAITIS
FORMAT: LP +CD
LABEL: LIXO URBANO
CATALOGUE NUMBER: LU 025 LP

First work of this rock&rollers from Galicia, Spain! Funk-Soul, Psychedelic and Hardcore mixed with good taste and lot of attitude! James Brown, Townes Van Zandt, The Birthday Party and Beasti Boys ready to go out and make you sweat!

Pat Fear (de White Flag), Javier Escovedo (de The Zeros), Ken Stringfellow (de The Posies) and Brian Young (de Fountains of Wayne).

First Lp released in 2000 by this San Francisco band with members of Thin White Rope, Residents, Sunny Day Real State and Loud Family. Their music has been described as a combination of Sonic Youth, Stooges and Sun Ra.

Noise psychedelic Pop from Brooklyn ala Yo la Tengo, Spacemen 3...

From Holland the one-man-band Belch sounds like Hasil Adkins covered by Pussy Galore. Lo-Lite serve a dose of Blues-Punk!

ARTIST: LAZY LANE
TITLE: SEA WITCH
FORMAT: 7"
LABEL: BUTTERFLY RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BUT-13

ARTIST: THEE BUTCHERS' ORCHESTRA
TITLE: STOP TALKING ABOUT MUSIC (LET'S CELEBRATE THAT SHIT!)
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: VOODOO RHYTHM
CATALOGUE NUMBER: VR1222

Recorded live in Dallas in 1995!

On Pablum, Claw Hammer once again put hard rock and blues through the punk wringer. In comparison with 1992's Ramwhale, the songs are perhaps more concise and the album more cohesive as a whole, but that's not to say that things have been toned down for this release. On the contrary, although Pablum displays a more focused approach, it's infused with a greater measure of explosive energy than its predecessor. From the outset, as the band crashes unceremoniously into the frantic, staccato charge of "Vigil Smile," Pablum has a feel of managed mayhem. This is a band seemingly operating on the brink of sonic anarchy at all times. Indeed, that precarious balance between chaos and relative order is one of the most compelling features of Claw Hammer's sound. Throughout Pablum, the group achieves that balance with a combination of signature elements: Jon Wahl's verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown vocals, a guitar assault that often puts songs into overdrive and threatens to push them over the edge, and a talent for seamlessly integrated stop-start rhythms and bursts of sudden acceleration. Although abrupt shifts in intensity and pace are a crucial characteristic of Claw Hammer's often frenzied sound, there's also a more intricate dimension as the band incorporates changes in time signature. "Pablum on My Mind," for instance, occasionally breaks into a near sea shanty lilt that gives the number a playful, off-kilter flavor. On the album's standout track, "William Tell," Claw Hammer's more frazzled, manic tendencies are amplified by Wahl's punctuating blasts of harmonica. Those harp squalls lend a blistering, crazed feel that's entirely appropriate to the song's apparent subject matter -- William Burroughs' bizarre murder of his wife. All told, the title of Claw Hammer's fourth album is supremely ironic: Pablum is about as far from bland, insipid entertainment as you could get.

(Allmusic.com)

ARTIST: CORY CASE
TITLE: WAITING ON A REMEDY
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: DEAD BEAT RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DB 81

Mostly acoustic tuneage here, more reminiscent of Jim Croce, early Dylan, and such than Jay Reatard, which is not said to malign what’s goin’ on here, ‘cause there is some seriously good writing in evidence. Pop this into the Wayback Machine, set the controls for 1972, and this vato is a millionaire.

ARTIST: DARING BLONDE
TITLE: EVERYBODY GOT TWO LOVERS AND IT WORKS
FORMAT: 7"
LABEL: RUFUS RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: RUF.7001

Psychedelic Pop with influences of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buffalo Springfield, Traffic, Canterbury sound or The Rolling Stones!

"The third album from French quartet Dimi Dero Inc is an ugly, cantankerous creature. If music has charms to sooth the savage beat, this is the sound of someone taking a washed-out, dull-eyed bull by the horns and planting a big knife squarely between its sagging shoulder blades. There are no half measures on "Cremation Day". It's a dirty, grinding bag of songs and an engrossing trip down the funeral chapel conveyor belt and into the rock furnace. Few introductions should be needed. DDI is on its third Australian tour in October 2010 and two of them like it here so much that they're doing more dates, backing Penny Ikinger. That's an admirable work ethic by any stretch. Dimi Dero Inc also collectively knocks around with the likes of The Drones, the New Christs, Beasts of Bourbon and Tex Perkins. With friends like those, etc. etc. but there's a common characteristic shared by all - intensity - and this is a key point on "Cremation". Dimi Dero (the person) is the smouldering frontman, the singer and guitarist with a burning desire to be an Australian. Well, dream on, mate! No, I'm joking. Dimi is one talented multi-instrumental motherfucker and a nice guy to boot whose cunning master plan to make his band more known around the world than Nicolas Sarkozy might just come off. Most of the time when you listen to this album, you'll be hanging off his words. DDI's bass player is Vinz Guilluy; he wears his left-handed instrument slung around his ankles to summon up fluid, thunderous bass-lines. He doubles up in the great Holy Curse and he and Sophie throw a great party. Guitarist Jean-Luc Barranco's thick, distorted chord work provides tuned-down riffage that's a focal point for most of the songs, and delivers a fine vocal on "Little Big Baby". Drummer Pascal Manganaro (an ex-Holy Curser) drags and pushes the rhythms around like he's toting a body bag to the morgue, but there's also a deft skill in his work and his neatly-placed, Billy Ficca-styled accents colour the songs. Some people are going to make a big deal about Rob Younger being the producer - and they should because he has brought a sharper focus to DDI. The mix is full yet translucent with globs of fuzz ("Unfair Enough".) Sure, these guys have cocked an ear to Rowland S. Howard and the arty end of Oz Rock (the Birthday Party crew), but there's a distinct New Christs rock feel to "Bored" and "Recipe For Happiness." You can pick up on the St Kilda affectations, but I maintain that the "Sour Milk" Beasts and second phase Scientists are the real progenitors. There's still ample angst among the guitars and although the prevailing dress code is black, DDI let their sense of humour show right through on songs like "The Dentist" and "My Pals". So don't be too busy slashing your wrists to miss it. Things aren't that grim. DDI even shows a hard pop side on "Sinner Saint" and "Euterpe". I've grown to like each DDI release more than the one before. I'm fairly sure you will too."

(i94bar.com)

For the first time Bang! Rcds releases a non Australian artist. This is Dimi Dero Inc. from Paris, France. The reason for it is very simple, Dimi Dero Inc. is the personal project of this creative, innovator, multi faced artist Dimi Dero (producer, multi instrumental musician, song writer etc) who has known how to gather in this record all his emotions and demons. Think of a mix between Scientists, The Birthday Party and Einsturzende Neubauten, with the unique personality of this man/band and that special French touch which might remind you a bit of the old Dum Dum Boys records.

ARTIST: THE DOUBLE AGENTS
TITLE: SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA… AT THE TIME
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BEAST077

The Double Agents- Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time LP. Like kids who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, these five from Melbourne play an old kind of rock’n’roll, a down south Memphis sound. Distilled on equal doses of honky-tonk, country and jukebox rock. The Double Agents define their own stuff as “a gang-bang with The Gun Club, The Stones or The Saints.”

ARTIST: JAMES McCANN'S DIRTY SKIRT BAND
TITLE: LOST PROPERTY
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BR105

Based in Melbourne, the Dirty Skirt Band is lead by one of the founding members of the australian well-known Drones: James McCann. Here the band is nearer The Byrds, Neil Young and Country Rock than their first albums.

ARTIST: K SCOTT RITCHER
TITLE: NASHVILLE GEOGRAPHICS
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: HOMETOWN CARAVAN
CATALOGUE NUMBER: 008

Singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Metroschifter, here is Scott Ritcher's second solo album. This legendary Louisville svengali has been on the scene making engaging records and creating innovative artwork for over a decade. His new record is an amazing departure into the realm of alternative country with dub beats and samples and all kinds of other stuff going on. Scott has always been a true original and he keeps it real on Nashville Geographic.

ARTIST: LADY JANE
TITLE: IN PIENO
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: BEAST RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: BR090

ARTIST: MONKEY BUZZNESS
TITLE: LOVE RIDE
FORMAT: 7"
LABEL: PURE VINYL RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: -

A combination of Jon Spencer, Cramps, Pixies and Gun Club.

ARTIST: PISSINBOY
TITLE: EMILY
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: LARSEN RECORDZ
CATALOGUE NUMBER: LZ098

Based in Stoke Newington, the three-piece make lo-fi fuzz-pop, and kind of sound like a mariachi band who have discovered the joys of garage rock. Piro’s songs are endearingly simple, as are his lyrics, which concern everyday things like the colour of his tracksuit as he runs through Hackney Marshes. There is something really charming about Pissinboy’s music, which owes as much to the lo-fi naivety of Daniel Johnston as it does to '60s garage bands.

Kim Salmon’s creative productivity knows no bounds. While he occasionally looks backwards, re-visiting his Scientists and Beasts of Bourbon history in the live sense, for example, the overwhelming sense with Salmon is one of overwhelming momentum.
That’s the case with “True West”, his latest project which pairs him with late period Scientists drummer Leanne Cowie (nee Chock) to be his most vital sounding record since “Sin Factory”.
People will say there’s a lot of the Scientists in this album and the antecedents of both members of the duo makes it hard for that not to be the case. It’s also true that Salmon became the dominant force in that band so any mirrored traits are as much his as his old band’s.
That’s not to understate the contributions of his bandmates, but Salmon’s harrowing vocals and circular, insistent fuzz guitar lines were the glue for those throbbing one-note bass-lines and primal drum feels. Kim and Leanne is very much be a partnership on-stage but the songs are Salmon’s, with co-producer and Precious Jewels bandmate Michael Stranges a co-writer.
Make no mistake: From the creeping damp of industrial-smeared opener “The Science Test” to the piercing wail of “Freudian Slippers” and the death march of “Rude Embryos”, these are great songs. They’re not as brazenly abrasive as the last Surrealists album “Grand Unifying Theory” but they’re ugly enough in their own way. There’s no mid-album sweetener like “Rose Coloured Windscreen” on “Sin Factory” - a seeping cover of the Stones’ “Dead Flowers” serves that purpose - but there’s ample energy among the at times crushingly acrid sounds.
Do you listen to the words in songs? The lyrics are suitably twisted and off-the-wall.
While the chunky fuzz of “Hard To Get” embeds itself in your head, “So Naive” borders on perverse pop. it’s nicely brought undone by the atonal closer “Double Negativ”, where discordant guitar and vocals entwine themselves around Leanne Cowie’s rhythms.
You rarely hear people raving about Leanne’s drumming but Kim feels so highly about it that he installed her in a re-activated Scientists line-up a few years ago. Her drumming is the prefect foil on “True West” and it's easy to forget you’re listening to a duo.
“True West” is a high point. Don’t let it pass you by.

(i94bar.com)

ARTIST: DED ROUTINES
TITLE: END OF THE NIGHT
FORMAT: 7"
LABEL: NWM
CATALOGUE NUMBER: NWM#1

From A Guarda (Spain) a mix of Dead Moon and Fugazi!

December 2014 is the month. The brand new (and expectant) Los Tupperalbum sees the light. ''Yesterday's Pizza'' is a compendium of garage-blues-rock and pop psychedelic tunes stone baked. Since the publication of ''Sardinista'' Los Tupper have been involved in the recording and production of a couple of gems; ''Throwing Rocks in Heaven'' with the Jacobite Dave Kusworth, and ''Madame Zodiac EP'' joined together with Mr Darrell Bath. With a new line up (Pepe Terán on keyboards), and always looking forward, Los Tupper are working in new songs and preparing the set list for the new album tour. Take your slice of Yesterday's pizza and taste the original flavour of Rock&Roll! Deluxe edition for the vinyl format!

Tony Thewlis (Scientists, Interstellar Villains) is the responsable for this new project. A gathering of his unique style well known due to his work in Scientists and influences such as Alex Chilton or T. Rex, create the sound of The Scoundrelles, where Pop meet impossible melodies and interstellar music trips. Noise Pop and beautiful sounds taken to weird places by the hand of this master of electric sound. Mentioning the cover of Suicide´s "Rocket U.S.A." is a must in order to see where the music goes to.
Limited edition (500 copies) 180gr vinyl LP with gatefold cover. Soon to be a collector´s item.

ARTIST: SOLEX
TITLE: CANCIONES ROBADAS
FORMAT: 10"
LABEL: ALEHOP! RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: AH-004

Garage-Punk-Lo-Fi!

From New Zeland this four pice combo remains the Flying Nun sound and bands like Clean, The Bats, Modern Lovers or The Feelies.

Devil And Daughter is the debut album from Melbourne-based music artiste Stu Thomas (known the world over for his bass work with Kim Salmon & the Surrealists, Kim Salmon & The Business, The Scientists, Dave Graney & Clare Moore Featuring The Lurid Yellow Mist, The Brass Bed, Luxedo and more…).
Under the influence of writers, poets and revolutionaries, Stu T offers a rich musical journey through a darkly compelling world that’s bursting at the seams with an unholy grace.
A world of menacing glances, seedy bars, red wine and heavy breathing over a dodgy phone line. Think of the soundtrack to a 50’s film noir outing, with Stu T as detective, inhabiting scenes full of intrigue, cigarette smoke, the wife of another man and heavy consequences, all played out in saturated black and white.
Deep-well baritone vocals and warm, nocturnal undercurrents recall Serge Gainsbourg and Johnny Cash, alongside twisted Lee and Nancy duets for a new generation.
Recorded in Stu’s Melbourne home, Audrey Studios (Melbourne) and Mez Studios (Berlin), all songs were penned by Stu T except for the chilling re-working of “Folsom Prison Blues”. Guest appearances include: Clare Moore (Moodists), Anna Burley (Killjoys) and Mike Noga (The Drones).
“Devil & Daughter” is destined to remain a Sunday-morning-coming-down favourite.

ARTIST: VIVIAN GIRLS
TITLE: VIVIAN GIRLS
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: IN THE RED RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: ITR 161

TRACK LIST:

All The Time 
Such A Joke 
Wild Eyes 
Going Insane 
Tell The World

Where Do You Run To 
Damaged 
No 
Never See Me Again
I Believe In Nothing

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The Vivian Girls drop sweet girl-group melodies into proto-shoegaze squalls the way the Jesus & Mary Chain used to and the way groups like the Aislers Set, C86s-ers the Shop Assistants, and the Manhattan Love Suicides have done with female vocalists. They keep the Shangri-Las' melodrama to boot.

NYC-Texas based Fireworks delivered during the 90s some of the most brutally loud and distorted swamp-noise-psycho-billy.FIREWORKS were lead by Darin Lin Wood, who_s signature was involved, among other projects, with Black Snakes or Blacktop, for example. 15 years ago ,and after releasing their debut album on cult label Crypt, Fireworks recorded and released only on cd format and only in the USA this 2nd album where they developed further their sound going further to what seemed to be unreachable lebels of swampy trash feedback. This album, released now for the first time on vinyl by Bang! Records, makes you feel like Pussy Galore are covering The Scientists and The Cramps on a psycho bad trip of metallic rusted scrap. This will make your ears bleed, mate...

Sunthunder Records has the huge pleasure to release the new Malcolm Scarpa album, ''Something like that''. After a long wait for a new release from Malcolm, this instant classic has been born. With the same ingredients used in the past, Malcolm strikes again with one of the best albums on his career, pop and psychedelic tunes with jazzy elements and clever lyrics and arrangements. With the sight on the eternal classics (Davies,Wilson, Lennon&Macca), but with his own personal universe to delight us. Don't miss it!!!