This awesome oddball lo-fi pop is the new solo project of Martin Månsson Sjöstrand, frontman of Sweden’s Dog, Paper, Submarine. Comes courtesy of perennial CNQ favorite Manx label Small Bear Records:
More weirdo lo-fi, this from Japan. I've featured Boys Age a lot in 2015. Cool, weird stuff:
No-wave from Brisbane's Moontown Records. I'm not sure where the band Bent is from though:
Glasgow freak-out:
Garage-psych from France:
More garage-psych by Boys, off a PNKSLM 2015 End of the Year Sampler:
Great jangle with a new video from Washington DC's Dot Dash:
Feminist punk from Olympia:
And more, this from a Bridge Nine 2015 compilation. War on Women are from Baltimore and I'll mention again, are a great live show:
New power pop from from Sweden. This sounds like it's from 1983 but I think it is new:
From Fort Wayne, Indiana:
Found this Argentinian crusty hardcore courtesy France's Crapoulet Records. This was released back in October:
Finally, this is from Puerto Rico's Krampus Records, who brought us one of my fave new bands of 2015, Madd Blake and the Stalins.