Olive the Jerk 2

Here comes the wild bunch of 2019’ fav nuggets at Shut Up And Play The Music ! All these awesome bands are referenced on every track, so, listen to their other tunes, check the reviews made around here, support them live, have a drink with them sometime and buy some records to their fabulous labels ! Surely, the best way to give a fuck to all that mud surrounding us. I make no business on this Deezer comp’, but if ever you don’t want to feature on it, whatever the reasons, just ask! Click on the link below and enjoy !                                                           X                                                             ...

FRUSTRATION - So Cold Streams - LP - BORN BAD Records - 2019 Born Bad Records   x released the fifth Frustration ’s album x last summer. The Parisian label has ever had a consistent approach on it multi-faced choices and set up an extensive selection of records. Kind of a modern New Rose Records , the compulsory 80’s French label… As usual, Shut Up And Play the Music , arrives monthes after the fair. Indian Ocean remains sometimes such a far away area... Half a year before the release of this album, the band had announced a huge evolution in its sounding and its universe. The kind of announcement that usually sounds pretty scary when made by a beloved band. But regarding the background, the guaranteed tastes and the musical gift of the five guys involved, no deep worries to have on that. So,what’s on with this new album ? Deep evolution or a few remainings of the good old Frustration  ? An evidence comes from the very first listening ! A stron...

Les Roches Noires - the nowadays deserted surf spot, Saint Gilles-les-Bains, Reunion Island. Under a January bright and hot sun, Cristian Bergoglio , the tattooed guy in Mr Occhio , a local and awesome garage punk / delta blues one-man-band, explained his frustration and disappointment about the local surfing situation : " fucking sharks crisis" ! It was kind of a duty to interview him in the place where we had met three years before. The guy, in his mi-40’s, was Italian born and left his country 6 years ago for Reunion Island. He was really talkative - he talked for two, easy thing for a hushing interviewer on his first try - and lengthily came back on his Turin’s background, his musical tastes, his ups and downs in his carrier as a one-man-band, his Reunion Island years, his projects and his brand new Absürd festival organisation. U’ Onda d’Urto Italiana! is the perfect soundtrack to read this wild thing. A travel, settled down with the help of  Mr O...

I met Cristian Bergoglio a few days ago, he’s the guy in Mr Occhio one-man-band. While I was working on his interview we recorded (coming very soon), I checked many Italian bands we talked about and re-listened to many others I used to love. In the end, I decided to settle down this little compilation on the blog - the perfect soundtrack for the reading of the forthcoming interview - with awsesome tunes that made me travel through 50 years of wild Italian rock’n’roll. Most of the genres are represented : 60’s beat, psyche garage, glam rock, 77 punk, Oi, post-punk, revival garage, hxc, anarco-punk, garage punk, surf, lo-fi noisy garage, power-pop, punk’n’roll, weirdos...                                                                          x 01 - Clem Sacco E I Suoi Ca...

Was the timing a pure coincidence ? Was it the Reunion uprising call for some dark wave’s sound ? Did the 1000 Balles Records  and the Geneva Kakakids Records   x planned the whole thing on purpose ? Wasn’t it simply a question of high quality and integrity of the worthy bands on these labels ? Whatever ! Three local gigs’ associations, without any close connexions - a garage, a punk/synth-punk and an electro one, invited three bands of the two structures in November  : Maria Violenza , Les Morts Vont Bien and Jessica 93 . To the delight of those distinctive tribes, which had a perfect opportunity to stick together ! MARIA VIOLENZA’s Tour - from the 11/10 to 20/10/2019 - Reunion Island Christiano Bergoglio , the guy in Mr Occhio , seems highly motivated to organize gigs on Reunion Island. A huge One-man-band garage festival in scheduled in the city of Le Port in February - stay tuned, the informations are coming very soon - ...

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - All In Good Time Lp - Castle Face records - 2019 What a damned good album the Melbourne’s guys recorded in May! The brand new album of Eddy Current Suppression Ring x , All In Good Time , has turned around maybe 100 times in a fortnight ! A good opportunity to revisit their entire discography ! After a 2006 self-titled Lp on Dropckick Records with some pretty good punk tunes, the four guys in the band really found their own sound on the 2007 Primary Colours LP, released on the compulsory label Goner Records . A sound at the crossroad of a typically mid-noughties mid-tempo garage/punk and a stylish 79’s post-punk, with hypnotic bass lines, standing-in-the-head- Buzzcocks -like’s riffs on guitar with a few touches of high tones’ noise, and that distinctive, piercing voice close to the one of Ian MacKaye . Wrapped Up , Colour Television or Which Way To Go , just to mention a few timeless killing hits. The 2009 Rush to Relax gat...