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RUBEN RILEY - Juxtaposition Ep - UNDER HEAT Records - 2022 X Ruben Riley ? Of course you know this guy! He was that outrageously young drummer who played alongside Billy Twyford in Disco Junk x a few years ago. After their happy meeting on that hardcore band, they both set up their own solo project: his was soberly called Ruben Riley   x , while his sidekick-singer one was named Billiam x (by the way, check again the band Remote Control x , a band that Billy/iam has recently set up with Ishka Edmeades of Gee Tee x ). The Ep Juxtaposition is aptly named. Because Ruben Riley exactly knows how to play everything and intends to prove it with these four disparate songs. Not The Sharpest Tool is a lo-fi, juvenile and nervous garage-punk tune in the straight line of the recordings of his Nystagmus demo released in 2020. It is followed by two unexpected songs, Amygdala , an instrumental math-rock/post-rock cut, and Head Cleaner , a psychedelic bedroom-pop one with strong Kinks ...

Finally, here comes the third issue of the Shut Up & Play The Music's fanzine. With one more time : -  50 hand-numbered issues; - 60 pages each, all professionally printed in black & white; - written in French; - compiling the 2022's reviews  of the blog; - many topics and reviews  to understand (almost) everything about the International garage-punk current wave. Get yours on the blog's bandcamp, here : X Le voici enfin, le tout nouveau Shut Up & Play The Music! Le numéro #3 est disponible ! Avec une fois de plus : - un tirage à 50 exemplaires numérotés à la main; - une impression professionnelle en noir et blanc de 60 pages; - un fanzine rédigé en  français; - un e compilation  des articles du blog écrits en 2022; - un contenu axé sur la Grande Internationale du garage-punk contemporain. Demandez vite le votre !  Lien vers le bandcamp  Shut Up & Play The Music! : X

Let's go for a new compilation of killer punk & rock'n'roll tunes from all around the world. They tingled our eardrums in 2022, made us dance and yell, and stood as the fav' ones, at Shut Up & Play The Music !  All the bands are referenced on every track, so, listen to their other songs, check the reviews and interviews, buy some records to their labels, and between two sanitary episodes, support them live !  I make no business on this Deezer comp’, but if ever you want to be removed from it, whatever the reasons, just ask!  Now, just click on the link below and enjoy the full shit !  Cheers ! Punk Jerks #2, c'est une compilation bourrée de tubes qui nous ont fait vibrer, dancer et gueuler tout au long de l'année 2022. Chaque groupe est référencé, donc n'hésitez pas à creuser sa discographie, à acheter ses disques auprès de ses labels et à assister à ses concerts. Je ne fais aucun profit avec ces compilations, mais si jamais vous désirez...

Born Toulouse. My stay in Toulouse had only lasted for fifteen months at the most, intermittently between 1998 and 2001, but this short-lived period announced a major change in my musical tastes. I tried someday to catch again those two bands, Mass Murderers and the Casualties , that had beautifully marked the end of my teenager's years. They were both playing downtown. The local punkers, gathered around that night, dissuaded me forever from going to such a gig again. They were just like the city in those late 90's: dirty and gloomy, and infested with ugly gangs of aggressive junkies and crusty punx barking much louder than their packs of hounds.  The Toulousan Oi scene wasn't much better, since it had largely been swallowed up by some young neo-Stalinist guards who were still dreaming of being skinheads' hunters and were trying hard to ape their famous Parisian predecessors with a ten-years time lag. The Klasse Kriminale and P38 gig had thus turned into a messy pitc...