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Gigs' Reviews : Rock à la Buse 2019 : Prologs. Riske Zero, the Magnetix

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When we left Reims for Reunion island in 2009, one thing annoyed us a lot : the lack of rock'n'roll, punk and garage shows... We didn't know Gaël, Pascale and Appollo were in the place !! They managed over a 10 years' time to bring together all the local punk, garage, hardcore, post/synth-punk, rock'n'roll bands under their own pirates' banner, releasing compilations and albums with their  Maudit Tangue Records   x label, setting up gigs and rock-linked movie pictures shows with their association  La Ravine des Roques   x and organizing every year the great  Rock à La Buse   x festival. They widened the musical program of this event and organized the touring of awesome French bands from the mainland ( Frustration , Magnetix , Le Prince Harry , Double Nelson , La Colonie de Vacances , Washinghton Dead Cats ...) and the Indian Ocean area ( The Make-Overs , Mouse , Black Math , The Black Lungs , Dizzy Brains ...). This 2-days festiva...

Turning Round on the Turntable : Parsnip, the Shifters, Les Teckels, LTD

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Here come some reviews of vinyl ep/Lps I have been fond of for a few weeks... Cheers ! PARSNIP - Feeling Small - ANTI FADE Records - 2018 Is really Geelong, a city located near Melbourne, Australia, the New Center of the Universe for garage music? That's what the guys running  Anti Fade Records   x  seem to think and I'm not far to share the idea... They have been releasing so many killing records from terrific bands since 2011 :  The Living Eyes   x (Garage Punk),  The Frowning Clouds  (60's Garage, just try this masterpiece x ),  Ausmuteants  (Synth. Punk),  Straight Arrows  (Garage punk),  Useless Eaters  (Post Punk),  Wet Blankets  (Old School Hardcore) for the most well-known. A build-up that perfectly followed all that Aussie mid 00's garage/punk wave ( Eddy Current Suppression Ring ,  UV Race ,  Total Control ,  Ooga Boogas ...). Their new protege seems to be this ...