Rat Motel; Ginger Root; Jay Royale; Bumble B. Boy; Choir Boys; Verminizer; Isaac Watters; Thank; David Wallraf; Salem Trials; Reine des L​é​zards

It's been a little over a month since my last new music round-up, so here we go. And don't forget tomorrow, Saturday 6/24 at 5p EST is Clean Nice Quiet on KPISS.FM, the golden stream. Here's some stuff you might hear on the show:

Rat Motel's full length The Rat Motel is finally out, it's great stuff, I've been playing tracks from it on the show. Here's a killer new single from The Rat Motel, "Dead Man."

Ginger Root's got a new EP up on Bandcamp, plus vinyl. This came out in September 2022 apparently, but Huntingon Beach's finest purveyor of "aggressive elevator soul" didn't upload it to Bandcamp until this week:

Hip-hop fans should take note of Baltimore's Jay Royale's new full length, Criminal Discourse. 2020's The Baltimore Housing Project is a classic as far as I'm concerned, and what I've heard so far from Criminal Discourse does not disappoint:

My buddy Christo from the excellent Echobox music program The Hidden Fruits of Terra turned me on to this Australian/Dutch failed children's entertainer and art-punk musician, Bumble B. Boy. Fun stuff:

For hardcore fans, Choir Boys from Germany have release 30 Years of Choir Boys. Killer blastbeat, plus they got cassette and t-shirts:

Speaking of heavyosity, here's some righteous noise. It's the debut album from Verminizer, a band from somewhere in the USA, and they describe it as "blackened grindy noisy industrial glitch thrash," and that sounds right. It gets my seal of approval:

Recorded live at the Hi-Res Records Studio in LA, here's new video for Isaac Watters' "Coconut in the Street," it's a cool track, and from an EP called Extended Play 002, due out August 30:

Leeds' Thank can do no wrong, as far as I'm concerned:

I've featured Hamburg, Germany's David Wallraf on the blog a lot, he does great noisescape stuff, and he has a new releae on the French tape label Falt. The cassette's already sold out, but you can listen and purchase the digital of course. If you're a fan of avant garde, experimental sound art like I am, you should def check out Wallraf's new release, SANTÉ ET EFFICACITÉ:

Finally, would it be a CNQ round-up without bitchin' new releases from Metal Postcard Records???

Specular-D; Anna's Bones; Pissabed Prophet; Eric Angelo Bessel; Jean Mignon; Salem Trials; The Conspiracy

Naturally at the first of the year I have every intention of posting more often, I think I've said that every year for the past 11 years. But, here we are, more than two weeks since my last post. But, a day before my KPISS.FM show tomorrow (Every Saturday at 5PM Eastern, in fact).

Specular-D is a sample-based electronic musican out of London. His new release on Bandcamp You Do You has a single available, "Don't Overcome Directly." It's a trip, man:

DIY label Antigen Records out of Ipswich has a couple of new rockin' releases out. "Silver Thread" by Anna's Bones is a single from someone who may or may not be named Becky Blenko. Cool song with a cool video:

And then "Spooling," the available single from an upcoming full length by Pissabed Prophet, is the tops as well:

On April 21, Lore City Music will will release the debut solo album from visual artist and musician, Eric Angelo Bessel, called Visitation. Intrumental, atmospheric, very groovy:

Finally, a couple of websites to check out. Pop Thruster is making a running list of the Best 1000 Albums Ever. An ambitious project and I'll keep an eye on it, I love lists.

Metal Postcard Records honcho Sean Hocking has a new site for his Bottom of the Pops show, aptly titled Bottom of the Pops. Sean's the man, if you want to have any hope of staying cool, you need to follow Bottom of the Pops.

Speaking of Metal Postcard Records, a trio of excellent new releases from the best digital label on the planet:

CNQ Video Debut: Geiger von Müller -- "Space Digger #2" from new album "Slide Sonotas I."

Hey check it out, it's the world premiere of Geiger von Müller's video for "Space Digger #2," the second single from his excellent new album, Slide Sonotas I. Based out of London, von Muller's Bandcamp page describes him as "a solid proponent of the neo-cubist semi-deconstructionist blues scene;" and the album "(explores) the pure sound of slide guitar." It's acoustic, avant garde, and awesome.

The album premiered on It's Psychedelic Baby and the first single's music video, "Space Digger #1," premiered over on Grateful Web. Here's what other folks had to say about the Slide Sonotas I.:

'Avant-garde slide maestro' -It's Psychedelic Baby Mag

'Exceptional great piece of guitar playing' -Rebellious Jukebox

'completely unique musician, instantly recognizable with a sound all of his own' -Roots & Fusion

'the right kind of strange - very creative' -Backporch Blues Ramble

The quirky video was directed by Atilla Riegler, with Lego stuff by Red Ey. Geiger says the theme is "Classic Space: exploration, science, creativity. No conflict." Slide Sonotas I. has a space-like feel throughout it, so that tracks.

Geiger also says, "I swear to God I never heard about the movie Gravity with those rad visuals until I watched it this week. Thus Space Digger #2 is in no way plagiarized from that movie. Also, we have aliens and a flying saucer, which they don't."

Enjoy!

Philomena Lauprecht; No Base Trio; Henry Dagg and Evan Parker; Russ Spence; The Conspiracy; Desborde

It's Bandcamp Friday, and tomorrow, Saturday 11/4/22 at 4PM Central, is Clean Nice Quiet on KPISS.FM, so how's about we look at some recent cool submissions and some of the stuff that's in my Bandcamp wantlist.

From Hamburg, Germany, Against Evil Company by Philomena Lauprecht is, according to her Bandcamp page, "her re-working of the songbook Divine and Moral Songs for Children, first published in the 17th century." It's produced by noise/soundscape artist David Wallraf, who've I've featured on the blog before:

Experimental jazz combo No Base Trio have a new video out for "ST 7," a track off their new full length release, NBT II, which I've also featured before here on the blog, and played on the show:

More wild sounding experimental jazz -- Then Through Now by Henry Dagg and Evan Parker, courtesy False Walls out of the UK:

Keeping in line with tonight's experimental theme, Metal Postcard Records' latest release is the first solo effort from Russ Spence, the vocal half of CNQ faves Salem Trials, mixed by Neon Kittens and produced by the other half of Salem Trials, Andy Goz. The EP is called Attempted Soundscapes:

Another new release from Metal Postcard, this is "See Ya Mate" from the album Dance of the Predator by The Conspiracy:

Desborde is three piece punk from Argentina, their new three song s/t EP is a ripper:

Science Man, Geiger von Muller, The Slime

Hello, fellow kids!

First up, the Science Man Nines Mecca package finally arrived in my mailbox the otherday, after an unfortunate but unavoidable delay, and it's impressive -- white vinyl LP with a really bad ass special edition t-shirt, and the gem in the package -- a limited to 50 VHS tape of videos for each of the ten tracks on the album. And it is so frickin' cool, you oughta pick it up if you love low budget horror-themed music videos, and if there are any left. The album, as I've mentioned before, is great also. 20 minutes of noisey hardcore, a great racket. Here's the video for Poach The Mind's Eye, and you can see all the videos here.

From London, guitarist Geiger von Muller has a new single out called "Space Digger #1," and it's a neat instrumental piece of slide guitar work, check out the video and you can get it pay what thou wilt via Bandcamp. It's from an upcoming album called Slide Sonotas I.

Toronto's The Slime have a new album out called Living on Borrowed Slime, it's killer diller punk -- if Science Man could be described as David Lynch-ian, I'd say The Slime would be Ed Wood-ian. And maybe I'm just saying that because there's a sample from Plan 9 in the first song, but regardless, the one two punch of the opening song on the album, "Arms Race," followed by the single, "Real Garbage," is a sweet punch in the face, and the rest of the album doesn't let up. Living On Borrowed Slime is available on vinyl from Cursed Blessings Records, and here's the video for "Real Garbage."

Alright, I plan on doing a live show here around 8:30PM CST, give or take, so in about 40 minutes, as I celebrate the 30th anniversary of one of my favorite albums, Faith No More's Angel Dust. Nothing special lined up, just going to play some cool music.

Click here to listen, or click the play button on the embedded player at the top of the blog's desktop version when you see it says "Live."

You ever seen this interview of Mike Patton eating a sandwich and being petulant in 1992?

...and here's that show:

Three Singles from The Legless Crabs

Ya know I completely forgot to mention, The Legless Crabs have a new video for their smash no-hit, "(I Wanna Be A) Cult Musician," from the recent Metal Postcard release, Always Your Boy. Cult Musician will also be released as a single soon on MP, with a b-side that I think is pretty rad, but honestly I don't even remember what it was I sent to Sean for the flip. Meanwhile here's the video for Cult Muso, directed by Son of El Borko, the Crabs' shadowy, bizarre front man and main lyricist:

The erstwhile three to four piece also have a couple of new tracks available for pay what thou wilt over on their Bandcamp page, "I Know What Yr Dad Is Sayin' (And He's Wrong)," and "Anti-Christian Scientists." Appreciation of naive noise rock and a degenerate sense of humor may be required to fully enjoy, but give it a listen anyway:

Rothbard Cottingham Bandwagon (Texas); Salem Trials (UK); BRNDA (Washington, DC)

From Earth, Texas, the two piece Rothbard Cottingham Bandwagon has a nice new instrumental track out called "Soft." Rothbard has been steadily pumping out material since I purchased his all handpan album The Happy Ten, back in 2017, but I've been remiss to keep up. Shame on me. Here's "Soft":

New Salem Trials courtesty Metal Postcard. Just gets better and better:

DC's BRNDA has a 10 track album called Do You Like Salt?, available on vinyl, CD, and now, cassette. It was released in August of last year and I totally missed it -- they had a WaPo feature in September 2021, and a shit ton of people are supporting them on Bandcamp, so I'm late to the party here. But it's a rad album. Here's the video for "Service Loser" and then "Perfect World":

Jeffrey Lewis (New York); Sour Blue (Los Angeles); Rick Treffers (Netherlands); Gasp (Sweden); and Last Wars (New Jersey)

Working on an interview with The Mangfather Bob Katz. Bob turned me on to an artist I'd never heard of before, Jeffrey Lewis, and I have just been blown away listening to him all day. The latest thing on his Bandcamp page is The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band: Both Ways (The Great Lost 2017 Double Album!). Lewis is a New York boy, and a cult figure at this point, who also does comic books. When I see a guy my age doing what I'd like to do, in this instance making great tunes and creating comic books, I'm always a little jealous. But these songs I've heard of his today are so great, my jealousy is overshadowed by the joy his off-kilter songs immedietly brought me. Weird, unique, utterly listenable:

Schema EP is a 7 track digital release from LA band Sour Blue. Their introductory e-mail describes them as "dream pop melted into...IDM, shoegaze, (and) ambient...(with) lots of tape experiments, warping, (and) sound design." I'm not as hip as I used to be, if I ever even was, and had to look up IDM -- "intelligent dance music." At any rate, it's cool stuff, worth checking out:

Rick Treffers' final single, "The Earth is Turning Round the Sun," from his digital album, Looking for a Place to Stay, is good stuff. Indie pop from the Netherlands:

The new Gasp video is cool. Gasp is from Sweden:

Last Wars' latest two song digital release is bitchin'. The first song, "Pale Fire," is Tubeway Army meets the Wipers, I'm super into it. Last Wars is from New Jersey:

Predator (Atlanta); Heavy Metal (Germany); Trzpiot (Poland)

Predator is punk out of Atlanta, and they've got a new 11 song digital album called "Spiral Unfolds" due out May 28 from Total Punk Records. I've had a sneak peek at the full album and can attest to total radness through the length of the album:

Also got a sneak peak at Heavy Metal's "V: Live at the Gas Station Fighting the Devil," a 12 song digital release from the German band, also on Total Punk, and due out July 23. I wanted to like this rock'n'roll more than I did -- it's not bad, has some hits and misses -- the singles available for listen, "Motorbike" and "I Am Something" are swell, but the punky cover of "Burning Love," ("Gebrannte Amore") isn't as fun as the band thinks it is, and as the album was wrapping up I was kinda ready for it to wrap up. My favorite was "Centipede Venom," a brut piece that stood out from all the ironic garage punk pranksterism.

New CNQ fave Syf Records has been crankin out the hits, here's the latest, a two song digital release of lo-fi lovin':

Harmonica Lewinski and Billy Dunz's "Mr. Disco Pants"

Harmonica Lewinski is from Rochester, NY. A great band name and the video for their song "What's Behind the Veil" is the f'n s.

"What's Behind The Veil" is off their 10" "Human BBQ," physical copies still available on Bandcamp. Human BBQ was released back in April, 9 tracks, a little over 20 minutes of weirdo lo-fi surf-and-psych-tinged garage rock...highly recommended, and looks to be their first release since 2018.

This great Tarintino inspired stop-motion video is by Billy Dunz, the creator of a web series called "Mr. Disco Pants." I've never heard of it, so I watched the first episode. Mind. Blown.:

Youtube stuff

From 2015:

Look like an AI nightmare:

Proto Idiot, Andrew Anderson, Sauveterre, and Fuzzsucker

A full month in sequesterin' myself off. The missus and I are doing fine and we hope the same for you and yours. Hoppy Easter.

New from Manchester's Proto Idiot, featuring Andrew Anderson of Freak Genes and just ya know l'Monde de Cool:

Back in July of last year, Proto Idiot released a full length that I totally slept on. Here's a video from the song "I Like To Think." I dunno why these guys aren't making millions doing stadium shows, so fuckin' cool:

Meanwhile Anderson continues to fill out his quarantine album "Music Album Idea," now at 11 songs after almost a month since he first posted it to Bandcamp. Here's the most recent track. Again, how am I the only person to have purchased this album on Bandcamp? You fools are sleeping on Anderson:

A new discovery for me, courtesy Hex Windham, is New Orleans' Sauveterre, a French ex-pat doing absolutely gorgeous folk pop. Here's a couple of his recent tracks:

And to wrap things up, a collaboration between Melbourne's Fuzzsucker, and someone named Dirty Juice Boy. Nutty stuff. They set the price for this at $666, and like sure that's funny, but I would drop $10 on this. Maybe they don't need my $10. Here's a great track from it:

Dispatch from the Neo-Gilded Age

I've got the songs I wanna put on the next podcast lined up, just haven't pulled the trigger because I've been in vidja game mode. Put down Pillars of Eternity and have logged some serious hours over the past couple of weeks on Conan Exiles. Keep getting my ass kicked and having to start over from scratch. Super-fun game but very frustrating. Downloaded the Rise and Fall expansion for Civ VI, but wasn't impressed with it at all.

Last weekend I did deep cleaning on a lot of my classic rock records, replaced the paper sleeves and gave them new outer plastic sleeves. I got an autographed Johnny Otis album!

Been rocking The House of Love's second self-titled album (they have three self-titled albums, apparently) on my streaming service. Never got into 'em until recently, but certainly in my wheelhouse of what I enjoy:

Listened to R.E.M.'s Document tonite. A political album that rings as true now as when it was released in 1987.

Oh, a couple of weeks ago saw The Jesus Lizard in Austin. One of the finest shows I've ever attended:

Watched most of Batman: Bad Blood cartoon on Netflix today. Cool stuff.

Bought some new canvases and painted something to get out my feelings on the fucked up appointment of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. That is some illegitimate bullshit. My painting is a little extreme and I'm not ready to share it.

The Gilded Age only lasted about thirty years.

Hopefully I'll feel like crankin' out a show tomorrow.

You ever seen Blood Freak? That's what we're watchin' right now.

R.I.P. Big Jay McNeely; plus New Music Videos from Dot Dash (DC), White Petals (Lynchburg), and Trauma Harness (St. Louis)

Tenor saxophonist and rock'n'roll forerunner Big Jay McNeely passed away today in Watts, from cancer. He was 91. Here's the LA Weekly's obit for the man. CNQ sends condolences to McNeely's friends and family. From the 80s, here's live video of McNeely playing his 1953 blast of a song, "3-D," with Detroit Gary Wiggins:

I need to get started on a new podcast. Next one should have lots of new acquisitions from the much hallowed CNQ vinyl vault, but in the meantime, how about some new videos?

DC's Dot Dash has a new full length, "Proto Retro," it's fresh sounding jangle pop, their first since 2016 and sixth album total. You can get the CD from Ottowa's The Beautiful Music. Here's the new video for the uber-catchy single, Unfair Weather, which has been stuck in my head for a few weeks. They're giving away the single for free on bandcamp, so grip that here.

Next up, from Lynchburg, Virginia, new to me is White Petals. Here's a video from a three song EP coming out next month. The artist says the EP will be about his struggle with dissociation and cyclical bouts of anxiety. I can relate. A little nu-gazey, slightly ambient/electro, gloomy bedroom pop. I like his vox and this is a neat looking video:

From St. Louis, out on Lumpy Records, a fun video and cool synth-pop:

I'll start working on that new show...maybe first I'll play some Pillars of Eternity. Hashtag priorities.

New Rock'n'Roll from Bandcamp & Youtube

Good Lord Almighty it's hot in Texas. I got a few things to share tonight. First up, the latest album from Freak Genes, "Qwak Qwak," is absolutely incredible. It's available via the UK's Drunken Sailor Records, and was released back in April, so I'm late to the party on this gem, but better late than never. So many good songs on this 17 song album. Indebted to Television Personalities, Wire, the Buzzcocks, and the Kinks, their press release says this album's "original inspiration was the Raincoats LP Odyshape. So far, they sound nothing like that."

I love this shit tho. They've got a video coming up for "Give Way," and you can get the album on vinyl from Sorry State Records. Oh, man, this is the good stuff:

Full disclosure -- Metal Postcard is amazing. Here's a new one from the Hong Kong based label:

And you know the first full length release of my own no-fi, electro-brut music project, Occult Character, is on Metal Postcard, right?

Australia's Tom Ugly has a new catchy single. At first I thought, oh, this is good but it's too poppy, but it's growing on me:

Next up is a new video by Sage from Ontario, the single off their new self-titled debut album. God, I love music videos, and I'm glad when new bands do them, and I'm glad when they contact me to feature them. Cool shit, check it out:

From Hartford, CT, a track off a new 6 song album you can get on CD and dl on bancamp, a good first effort:

New Punk and Rock'n'Roll from Bandcamp

Scotland's Mind Ripper Collective has just released a three song tribute EP to grindcore legend Assück. Contributing bands are Dallas' Pavel Chekov, California's Gruk, and Indiana's Nak'ay. From MRC's bandcamp site you can pre-order the less than three minute long EP on a lathe-cut 5" flexi or pay what you will DL:

New 5 song demo EP from a band called Croche, courtesy Montreal's Runstate Records:

The UK's Vukovar has a new video for their song "The Blood Garden," off their new album "Voyeurism," available on bandcamp from Small Bear Records:

Jay over at Dynamite Hemorrhage already shared this gem from London's La Vida Es Un Mus, but it's worth sharing again:

Speaking of something you know about all ready:

New Rock'n'Roll Videos from Sweden and France; New Rock from Pittsburgh, Michigan, and The Isle of Man

Loyal Quieteers (both of you) might have noticed it's been a couple of months since I've done a regular old CNQ blog post. I've been having a lot of fun with the podcast. But, that's my typical M.O. I'll go hard on a new project and focus on it to the detriment of anything else for a while, then eventually come back around to whatever it was I was doing before I got manic about the new thing.

So anyway, here's some new rock'n'roll.

From Malmö, Sweden's Shallow Shit Records, here's a new video from "spiritualist musical collective" Piglet Outlet:

From Strasbourg, France, here's another new video, this from the band Slaap:

Two new heavy tracks from a new split put out by two Pittsburgh bands, Cyrus Gold and T-Tops:

Bobby Hatch is a bluesy rock'n'roll band from Michigan with a new album out. Songs are in a Jack White vein:

Finally, what CNQ post would be complete without something from Small Bear Records? Here's an awesome, noisy tune from Small Bear's first ever live EP. It's a four song EP and this is the last track, from Phil Reynolds and the Dearly Departed (which is four-fifths of CNQ dears Postcode, also featured on the EP):

CNQ Podcast #14, plus New Videos from Mirage512 and Dog, Paper, Submarine

A little over 40 minutes of tunes, a free-form mix of new punk, rock, hip-hop, Americana, Latin big band and jazz from the mid-20th century, psych from the 60s, and a Tammy Faye Bakker song. Tammy sings tonight on CNQ!

The Sweathearts: “Man Meat” (from “Boner Jamzzz,” available on Bandcamp, 2016)

Dog, Paper, Submarine: “View From The Sidewalk” (available on Bandcamp, from the forthcoming mini lp “Trouble On Earth,” 2016)

Mirage512: “It Don’t Stop” (from “The Amelioration Collection,” available on Soundcloud, 2016)

The Monkberries: “Wide Prairie” (from “Black Star/Wide Prairie” available on Bandcamp, 2016)

Xavier Cugat: “Miami Beach Rhumba” (from "Cugat Calvacade," Columbia, 1958)

Crime Department: “Snooze” (from “Bad Sex” EP, available on Bandcamp, 2016)

GUSH: “Where The Fuck Is My Skin” (from "Naughty NuFF," Ooey Gooey Tapes, 2015)

Swimsuit Addition: “Sister” (from demo off “Dumb Dora,” due out 2017, 2016)

Elephant’s Memory: “Jungle Gym at the Zoo” (from “Elephant’s Memory,” Kama Sutra, 1969)

The Miles Davis Quintet: “Drad Dog” (from "The Headliners, Vol 2," Columbia, 1961)

Neurotic Wreck: “Let’s Make Hate” (from “Priceless, Bloody Priceless,” available on Bandcamp, 2016)

Tammy Faye Bakker: “You Can Make It” (from “You Can Make It,” PTL Records and  Tapes, 1982)

Also, tonight, here's two new videos. First up is new hip-hop from Austin's Mirage512, off his The Amelioration Collection, available on Soundcloud. Mirage512's song "It Don't Stop," also from The Amelioration Collection, is featured on the new podcast (see above).

MIRAGE512 (@MIRAGE512) - MY PEOPLE from MIRAGE512 on Vimeo.

Next up is the new video for Dog, Paper, Submarine's new song, "View From the Sidewalk," from their upcoming mini-lp "Trouble On Earth." "View From the Sidewalk" also featured on tonight's podcast! Dog, Paper, Submarine is from Sweden.

  

Dog, Paper, Submarine - View From The Sidewalk from Tobias Åström on Vimeo.

35 Denton Festival: Sunday

If you're still in town Sunday afternoon for 35 Denton, you might want to check out Drone Church, an afternoon showcase featuring different experimental electronic musicians, at Sprockets Bike Shop. Might be interesting. Meanwhile, here's the last of the Fest's bands that worth checking out:

Male hip-hop from Denton:

Female hip-hop from Dallas:

LA's Son of Stan is cool:

Rock'n'Roll from Philly:

Rock'n'roll from Denton:

Garage rock from Louisville, Kentucky:

Rock en Español from California:

Indie rock from New York:

Nervous Curtains are a post-punk band from Dallas and I've featured them on the blog before:

Post-punk, also from New York:

Post-punk from Cophenhagen:

Jazzy singer-songwriter stuff from Denton. This is from 2012:

Country-rock from Texas -- everything I've heard from Ratley so far I've enjoyed:

Shoegaze/dream pop all the way from Israel:

Garage psych from Norman, Oklahoma:

Here's something different from Denton, experimental, instrumental, kind of like score music for a film:

Anyway, so, there's a lot more bands playing. Some bands I couldn't find online and others I wasn't as into as the ones above. Biz Markie's playing at 8:30. Denton's a fine town. Have fun, and don't litter!

35 Denton Festival 2016: Saturday

Some bands and such you might want to check out on Saturday, if you're up there:

Folk rock from Akron:

Rock'n'roll from Denton:

Fun punk...from Monaco!?!

Post-punk from Houston:

This is an old video/song and the sound is pretty low, but Cornhole should be cool to catch. Their album "Hornswoggled" is on Google Play Music so probably on Spotify too; worth checking out:

From Monroe, Louisiana, one man band who, according to the bandcamp page, wears an alligator mask and plays with three inanimate objects. Here's a song he wrote about Slayer's Jeff Hanneman:

Shoegazey alt from Brooklyn:

Pretty tune from Argentina:

Singer song-writer rocker from Denton:

Relaxed indie pop from Denton:

Grungey rock'n'roll from Beaumont, Texas:

Bluesy alt-rock from Fort Lauderdale:

More rock'n'roll, this from New York:

Indie rock from Dallas:

This is what's up -- KBD-esque punk from Denton:

I'm into this electro-punk from California:

Finally, soul from Brooklyn:

Whew! That's not near all the bands playing on Saturday, just the ones that appealed to me.