Sabato 3:

SHOCK TREATMENT + BAR + REDRUM

Da oltre un decennio sulla scena gli Shock Treatment sono dei veterani dell’alternative rock salentino, un punto di riferimento per la scena Hard Core pugliese, una realtà nel panorama indipendente che in questi anni è riuscita a costruire tanto. La loro musica, al di là delle etichette che gli stessi Shock Treatment rifiutano, è vicina al sound di gruppi come Fugazi, No Means No, Victim's Family, Sabot, Shellac, Jesus Lizard, Rollins Band, Black Flag, Minutemen. All’attivo più di 300 concerti in giro per l’Italia e l’Europa (Svizzera, Slovenia, Francia, Croazia, Rep. Ceka, Danimarca, Belgio, Olanda e Germania).
Molti i dischi realizzati fin dai primi anni novanta e tutti prodotti da Rumble Fish, etichetta dietro la quale si cela la band stessa.. Incazzati e potenti, ruvidi e sporchi in perfetto stile old school. L'ultimo disco è stato coprodotto da El Paso.

ASCOLTATI "Box Me In" in Mp3 (1,87Mb)

Rumble Fish è una etichetta-distribuzione, nata nel ‘93 con l’uscita del 7"ep "Looking for..." degli Shock Treatment. Nasce e si muove in Puglia, ma ormai riesce a distribuire i suoi dischi dappertutto (dal Giappone al Canada, dal vecchio continente agli Usa, non tralasciando Sud America ed Australia, e naturalmente su tutto il territorio nazionale). Rumble Fish, in realtà è la non-etichetta "personale" degli Shock Treatment. La band, in tutti questi anni, ha "lavorato" alla creazione di questa struttura; basata su criteri di autogestione ed autoproduzione, fuori dalle leggi di mercato del business discografico; e che oggi riesce a far uscire, anche dischi di altre formazioni, vicine perlopiù "attitudinalmente"(più che nei suoni), al gruppo "fondatore". Fino ad oggi ha collezionato 16 titoli; molti dei quali, ormai, già SOLD OUT.
L’etichetta è anche punto di distribuzione di materiale indies "vero" e d.i.y. da tutto il mondo; inoltre organizza anche tour al Sud Italia (nonostante la precaria situazione del meridione). Comunque niente "vittimismi" o quant’altro, continuiamo a far il nostro "lavoro"; consci e coerenti con il fatto di essere dei bravi ed intelligenti "dilettanti". Cercateci, noi siamo sempre disponibili.
RUMBLE FISH CORPORATION c/o L’ABBATE ANTONELLO via Giusti 93 - 72015 Fasano (Br) - rumblefishap@yahoo.com

Con loro sul palco uno dei gruppi di casa, il gruppo BAR.

Ascoltati "Sul Set" i Mp3 (2.24Mb)
registrata dal vivo al Paso nel maggio 2002

Qui a fianco il loro cd live a El Paso registrato nel maggio 2002.

Non in vendita (almeno per ora).

E infine, i giovani

Domenica 4: TURBO AC'S + BAD DOG BOOGIE
ovvero: se vi piacciono Motorhead, Gluecifer, Radio Birdman, AC/DC, Stooges.

http://www.baddogboogie.com/
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW ON NICOTINE RECORDS!

New York punk rock

The Turbo A.C.'s are three guys who don't mess around when it comes to making Rock-n-Roll!
The Turbo A.C.'s have emerged from the energetic roots of punk rock. Combining intense surf guitar twang with honest lyrics that scream "LIVE TO WIN" and contagious sing along choruses a la Misfits, the A.C.'s churn out their own brand of greaser-punk dragstrip rock that has been described as Dick Dale meets Motorhead. Although hailing from New York City, The Turbo A.C.'s never try to wave that common "NYC band" flag. When asked "What's it like to be a NYC band," bassist Michael Dolan will always reply, "We're not... we're an international rock and roll machine!"
Nevertheless, The A.C.'s did get their start in NYC blowing away crowds at the legendary CBGB's, gaining respect from all sides, doing shows with Social Distortion, Sick of it All, even No Doubt. It was back in 1996 when world famous NY hard-core label Blackout Records founder (and huge Turbo A.C.'s fan) Bill Wilson put out the first Turbo A.C.'s LP Damnation Overdrive.
Touring the U.S. and Europe, the A.C.'s would soon experience the uphill battle of being a punk-rock band on a hardcore label. It was after the band got stuck squatting in Germany and Italy while on tour that they adopted the skull and monkey wrench as their logo, representing the music as well as their endurance while facing hardship.
In 1998 after another U.S. and European tour The Turbo A.C.'s signed to Cacophone Records. Cacophone released Winner Take All and with this album, the turbo-sound really took off and critics and fans responded! Gearhead magazine called it "brilliant...a younger, hungrier Supersuckers." Flipside and other fanzines featured the band, and it wasn't long before the skull and monkey wrench adorned a legion of leather jackets.
The popularity of Winner Take All led the Turbo's to be a part of the 1999 WARPED tour in Germany. After a productive year of touring the states and Europe, friend and fan Roger Miret of NY/HC heroes Agnostic Front expressed interest in producing the next Turbo A.C.'s album (wanting to do something different than hardcore). The band liked the idea, and Roger took them into one of the best studios in New York to record Fuel For Life. This album, containing some of the hardest hitting Turbo A.C.'s material to date, caught the attention of Nitro Records. Fuel For Life will debut on Nitro Records and hit the streets February 20, 2001!

Whether The Turbo A.C.'s are back where they started on the East Coast playing basement punk rock shows with the Dropkick Murphys, or on stage in front of 10,000 people at a festival in Europe, the style and integrity has remained intact.

Kevin Cole: lead vocals,guitar - Michael Dolan: vocals, bass - Kevin Prunty: vocals, drums

ascoltati 'MAFIOSO' in mp3!!!! (2,53Mb)

Here is another band that can get together every kind of rock'n'roll fans. Indeed, the trio's music can be described as Rock'n'roll with a big "R", it has the energy of punk'n'roll, the melodies of surf rock, the rawness of garage rock and the insolence of glam, it's like putting MOTORHEAD, The SHADOWS, The RAMONES and HANOI ROCKS in a cocktail shaker to see what will come out of it.

NEW LP OUT NOW: "AUTOMATIC"

NYC's The Turbo AC's take an adrenaline charged shot of ragged garage/punk rock, a la The Supersuckers and Devil Dogs, then throws in some Dick Dale-styled surf guitar and a touch of rockabilly, resulting in thirteen cuts of raw, "live fast, die young" rock and roll.

http://www.turboacs.com/

sabato 10: nuovi suoni italioti, MONKEY BUZZNESS e ALIX

mONKEY bUZZNESS recorded five dynamite tracks. They are three from Turin: Gianluca Gozzi (ex Boyz Nex' Door) on drums and two Fender Mustang ('64 and '69), the one played by Mister Giovanni Inverno and the one played by Mr. FF, born in Texas who came to live near the Alps. No bass. They play sepulchral blues punk with Stones, Oblivians and, most of all, Chrome Cranks reminiscences, and more than just one recall to the Gun Club legend. The first track, Your Black Love, woulnd'nt had been out of place on Miami. Yearning, deep, sick: beautiful. Remember well Monkey Buzzness name. In their sound the Southern USA Blues melts and sublimes with minimal nineties punk-rock, and make no prisoners. If you think that I'm exaggerating listen to their tracks. We'll talk again when you'll recover. An italian combo who plays american music!!! But Why?... Rock and Roll it's universal, and so it is for fun and parties!... but there is something more... as melting together Dostoevskij characters and surf music! mONKEY bUZZNESS are as their own music: wild, dramatic and supersound. Mr. FF, the main singer, was born in Nacogdoches, Texas, but came as a child in Italy. mONKEY bUZZNESS play Delta music, so Mr. FF can sing in the original language. Giovanni Inverno, as a Southern preacher, takes care about the Word diffusion and the band literary references: Cormac Mc Carty, Flannery O' Connor, the Gospels, Willliam Faulkner, Herman Melville... Cugino Gozzi takes care about the surf sound expansion techniques.

ascoltati 'Your black love" in mp3

I MB stanno registrando il disco nuovo...

http://www.monkeybuzzness.net/dw-index.html

Gli Alix sono insieme sotto questo nome dal lontano 1995 e giungono alla realizzazione di questo ep dopo un paio di precedenti lavori autoprodotti che hanno riscosso un discreto successo: in particolare il disco del '98, "Cuore In Bocca", ha permesso al gruppo bolognese di salire sul palco del mega-raduno estivo dell'Heineken Jammin' Festival aprendo il concerto del Vasco nazionale! Tornando a "Nessun Brivido", cd che si può fregiare di una produzione molto curata oltre che di una bella copertina, scopriamo subito di che pasta sono fatti i ragazzi: gli Alix cercano di far sposare il rock duro, puro e sudatissimo - quello che si suona tra il deserto del Sud degli Stati Uniti e Seattle, WA - ad un certo tipo di pop/rock "cerebrale" alla P.J. Harvey. Le cinque tracce scorrono infatti quasi tutte su un tappeto ritmico marcatissimo e decisamente stoner - caratterizzato dalle tipiche chitarre circolari grattuggiate a dovere - sul quale si stendono in contrasto le melodie vocali della bravissima Alice Albertazzi (che evidententemente dona il monicker alla band!), il cui stile ricorda quello della famosa collega americana, in un'alchimia sonora quantomeno inusuale. Sulla stessa linea ipnotica si accodano anche i testi, intimi e leggermente visionari. Il risultato finale è naturalmente personale e - forse inaspettatamente - per larghi tratti piuttosto convincente: l'impasto musicale appare compatto e energico ed è impreziosito da tanti sapori e deviazioni (nella conclusiva Cavalette Gianfranco e soci si avventurano in un simil electro-indie-pop dai lievi rimandi orientali e dai suoni davvero strani!), mentre la voce non palesa mai una sbavatura. In questo caso devo necessariamente precisare che lo stoner non è proprio il mio genere preferito (fatta eccezione per Queens Of The Stone Age e qualche altro…), ma nonostante ciò mi pare che il dischetto meriti, anche per il fatto che qui si parla di stoner-rock ammorbidito, contaminato ed evoluto… Insomma, gli interessati drizzino le antenne!

http://www.alix.bo.it/

sabato 17: LOW FI PUNKROCK e ExxpeRimenTTT!..

Da Roma le

MOTORAMA

1 chitarra + 1 batteria + 2 voci: formazione ridotta all'essenziale, ritmiche trascinanti, riff esplosivi e dense distorsioni sono gli ingredienti di un selvaggio rock'n'roll, grezzo e adrenalinico. Le Motorama si formano a Roma nel 96. Dopo un mucchio di demo, esce nel 2000 il primo 7 pollici "See you at Bouledogue", da cui viene tratto il videoclip di King Kobra, vincitore del premio per la miglior fotografia al Festival del Videoclip Indipendente al MEI 2000. La band contribuisce anche alla colonna sonora del cortometraggio "Cercando Eva" della regista E. Pandimiglio che ottiene consensi nei migliori festival di cinema indipendente di tutta Europa. Nel 2003 esce il primo album "No Bass Fidelity", registrato e mixato da Bugo, coprodotto da Bar La Muerte e Vidaloca. Per vedere il video in rete vai su www.radioattivi.com.

Ascolta "Spastic song" in Mp3 !!! (1,98Mb)

No Bass Fidelity cd (2003, Bar La Muerte / Vida Loca)

R.U.N.I.

Dall'hinterland milanese, 5 persone, 13 strumenti... Sin dal 1994, anno di formazione, i R.U.N.I. hanno sempre cercato di concepire la musica nel suo più vasto significato: fonte di ispirazione è così la quotidianità, intesa come il silenzio piuttosto che il traffico o la stessa possibilità di utilizzare ciò che l'attuale tecnologia ci offre. I brani dei R.U.N.I. vogliono quindi essere spontanei e semplici, utilizzando delle forme espressive sperimentali e non, che caratterizzano anche le esperienze dal vivo del gruppo.

www.runi.it

ENTRAMBI I GRUPPI LI TROVATE SUL SITO DELL'ETICHETTA BAR LA MUERTE..
http://www.barlamuerte.com

Sabato 24: SERATA DANZANTE

Sabato 31: ANTIMANIAX (Austria) + LEFTOVER CRACK (Usa)

Punk rock (e ska) Usa:dalla Hellcat Records

In 1990, at Humanities high-school, in N.Y.C., Alec Shaheed Mohamed, a young politically active black youth, happened to have some of the same classes with a boy they now call the Stza (pronounced Stizza). They shared not only a love for punk & ska music, but also an intense hatred of white people and their pathetic milk-drinking, Gap-wearing, R.E.M.-listening, 90210 watching culture. Alec played bass & the Stza played guitar and sang, so they decided to join-up and play some music together. Eventually they got a drummer & another singer and started the punk/ska band No Commercial Value. After a couple of years of only playing at ABC-No-Rio and C-squat several times, Alec ditched out to start the 3rd wave ska crowd-pleasers Agent 99 with ex-Slacker Dunia Best, Jay Nugent (now in Stubborn All-Stars) and the wickedest ska drummer since Jar-Jar Binks, Ara Babajian.

In the mean-time, with-out a bassist, the Stza, known as Sturgeon at the time, enlisted Sascha Dubrul, a friend of N.C.V.s drummer. Of course the next logical step was to kick said drummer out of the band as the additional singer left for the west-coast. Sea monkey drummer and local Taco purveyor John Dolan was enlisted and the name Choking Victim was taken from the health department sign that loomed menacingly over John at his job, taunting him (day in and day out, etc.). Three-months and two shows later, John literally hands his drum-sticks to a guy named Skwert during a C.V. practice in Popeyes room at C-squat. A year later, and Sascha quits the group after recording the Crack Rock Steady e.p. & demo.

Ascolta "Crack city rockers" in Mp3 (2,30 Mb)

At roughly the same time, the Biggest-boy fuck-up big-time & Agent 99 breaks-up as a result. So being unloved, dirty, despicable squatters, C.V. take Alec under their filthy wing to record and release the “Squatters Paradise” 7”. After that, Alec is kicked out and brought on is dellow C-squatter Pezent Shayne, who’s just learning bass, so after a couple of mediocre shows Shayne is re-placed with Alec, who once again shows C.V. that his attentions are not with the band, but in the gutter (literally). He is replaced with the down, but not out, Shayne, whom has become a much more finely tuned and practiced bass machine. Soon the song “Infested” from the “Squatta’s paradise” 7” is contributed to the first “Give’em the boot” comp., and after an overwhelming public response to the track, Tim & Brett offer C.V. a spot on the Hell-Cat roster. With no other offers on the horizon, and being broke-ass homeless/squatting panhandling bums, C.V. realized that this would probably be the only opportunity to ever make a full length record.

So after several years of pain-staking negotiations a three-record deal is hammered out, including a luxurious suite at the Olive motel and the choice to not put a u.p.c. code on their record, at this point Ezra is abroad as a second guitar player. And finally after years of anticipation, thousands of practices & hundreds of shows, on the first day of recording Choking Victim break-up, but not before laying down all the tracks that would become the break-through, smash hit “No Gods/No Managers”.

The singer, guitar player & song-writer of C.V. also known as the Stza went on a nation-wide search for a new rhythm section, and after recording a 7”/demo entitled “Rock the 40oz.” For Bankshot! Records with members of F-Minus, Blindsided, the original drummer from Suicidal Tendencies plus a resurrected & rejuvenated Alec Shaheed Mohamed, Leftover Crack was in full effect. Soon they contributed the track "Crack City Rockers” to the “Give’em the boot II” compilation. Once again the public demanded more, so once again Tim & Brett dug through their pockets and pooled together whatever balled-up cash and spare-change they could find and offered the good Leftover Crizack the opportunity to join the Hell-Cat family. They agreed to the harsh terms and accepted the second chance at infamy and global-domination. In April of the year two-thousand, the Stza solidified the Leftover Crack line-up with Alec Shaheed Mohamed on Bass and Ara from Agent 99 on drums. In May they started recording their first full-length record for Hell-Cat and the rest is soon to be history, bitch.

http://www.leftovercrack.com/

We don't believe in such systems… it's about time to enlarge our abilities to work out the individuality as a free thinking being instead of applying to images as seen on TV. and commercials. We are the 'lucky' ones, brought up among the small percentage of mankind bathing in wealth and prosperity. I call it 'lucky' because I believe that in this so-called western world we are able to change something fundamentally, like the relations of man-animal-earth. Every spot on this planet is in its very own way so uniquely beautiful, and it's on us to keep that up for centuries to come. A solution must not be complicated or difficult to achieve, it starts in the little things in daily life. It's about waste/garbage separation, saving energy, becoming vegetarian or vegan, being positive to your vicinity, fighting any suppression of weaker ones and standing up for the ones being tortured, raped or even killed. Have yourself informed and stay involved in making our environment a better, nicer and safer place for all its living creatures. I don't believe that anyone shall be out to exploit other life forms or parts of the earth for his own desire/pleasure/advantage. It's on us to open our eyes and make people aware of what happens underneath. Knowledge is power - arm yourself

The established government systems are ever again compared to both hierarchical and authoritarian structures. the common people (so to say us) are dictated and manipulated from above. our capitalistic - materialistic system nowadays is a highly organized appliance of authority. it is pretended to the people that they are " allowed " to vote and therefore to choose the political leaders or even feel powerful themselves. but these honourable gentleman / ladies who earn a golden nose as " representatives of the people" ,are in the end nothing but puppets in suits for the economy, whose lobbies give a shit about human and even less about animal rights .in this context it makes no difference whether democracy, national socialism, communism, monarchy or however these complacent ideologies are called. on the trigger are mainly those, who, without compromise, give everything for power( authority control ). these people will continue to control our lives unless we rapidly start to change our way of thinking. naturally, we don`t expect anyone to turn 360 degrees from today to tomorrow, but at least 180 degrees were necessary. or we can lead for the next the supermarket straight away, buy a spoon and dig our own grave. every single one of us should decide for himself (without harming anyone else) whether to support a system that manipulates and restricts our everyday life (without questioning) or to fight it. if voting could change anything, it surely were illegal... amx

http://www.antimaniax.com/