V India hraje na kytaru Tomáš Kopáček (Black Tar Jesus, Tempelhof, Latviri…) a svoji už tak legendární kytarovou hru po odchodu do Budějic přetransformoval na úroveň monstrum a k sobě si přibral dva (skoro) lokální klasiky: Sokola (Nuly, Microvomit…) a Bejbiše (DAT, Benelux, Kidney Trauma…). S repetitivním kytarovým zvukem u nás pracuje málokdo lépe než právě India, energická intenzivní nálož ale opouští hranice žánru a je schopná zaujmout širší nezávislou posluchačskou scénu. Space rock, woodstock, krautrock.

https://stoned-to-death.bandcamp.com/album/india-2

SUPPORT: Jakub Šimanský
Lehké pocukávání koutků vetřelce, putujícího v zemi, kde Fahey je králem.

https://soundcloud.com/jakubsimansky
https://stoned-to-death.bandcamp.com/album/face-to-face-against-american-primitivism-in-eastern-europe-vol-i

V rámci svojho európskeho turné nazvaného Ghosts príde do trenčianského klubu Lúč talianska partia Kill Your Boyfriend a predstaví tu svôj nový, rovnako nazvaný album. Duo KYB vzniklo v roku 2011 a tvoria ho Matteo Scarpa a Antonio Angeli z talianskeho Trevisa. Ich hudba je brilantne vyváženou zmesou postpunku, dark wave, garage rocku a shoegaze. Muzika KYB osloví fanúšikov kapiel ako Joy Division, M!R!M alebo napríklad Indian Jewelry.

Posledný album Ghosts vyšiel koncom roka 2016 na nezávislej značke Shyrec Records, po boku kapiel ako Diplomatics, Wora Wora Washington, The Giant Undertow či ďalších nezávislých zoskupení. Album Ghosts nadväzuje na ich predchádzajúci, úspešný počin The King Is Dead z roku 2015. Jedna zaujímavosť súvisiaca s názvom kapely Kill Your Boyfriend – jednotlivé pesničky na predchádzajúcich albumoch nesú rôzne mužské mená (Rudolph, Frank, Alan…). Na poslednom albume už sú to zovšeobecnujúce názvy (Man1, Man9, Man4, Man5) Jednoducho muzika pre (nielen) nahnevané dievčatá a (nielen) dobrých chlapcov.

https://killyourboyfriend.bandcamp.com/
http://killyourboyfriend.net/
https://www.facebook.com/kyboyfriend

30/10/2012 @ Klub Lúč / Trenčín / Slovakia 20:00

Americká skupina Yowie zo St. Louis, má na svojom konte debutový album Cryptooology, s ktorým sa jej podarilo etablovať na noiserockovej scéne a druhý album vydáva túto jeseň. Zároveň k nemu ide svoje prvé európske turné! Táto partička vydáva na prestížnom labeli Skin Graft records, kde mimo iných vydávajú noiserockové hviezdy Arab On Radar, AIDS Wolf, Colossamite, The Flying Luttenbachers čí Melt Banana. Pripravte sa na zlatú dávku energického avant-math-noise-rocku!

Tento koncert si rozhodne nenechajte

 ujsť!!!

o “The climax of rock music. This is outsider music for our entire dimension. No band has had this sort of vision since Beefheart marinaded us with tales of Big Joan’s anatomy. In the dozens of times I’ve listened to this album I’ve never heard the same album twice.” – Loving Peter Cetera

o “Watching them live is like witnessing a reptile birth a human; utterly perplexing, yet amazing.” – KDHX Radio 

o “Yowie are the spastic, elastic-limbed progeny of the forefathers of prog, purveyors of a heady mix of energetic fervor and intelligent complexity.” – Dusted Magazine 

http://www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/yowie.html

CRTVTR’s path is a path of both the physic and the mind, where experimentation has always walked arm in arm with improvisation.
Everything that music can teach human beings about themselves, is what Cartavetro want to learn from music.
The aim might seem pretentious, we are well aware of it, but it’s just seemingly so: it’s all simply about regaining possession of that pleasure of experimentation, in a ludic sense, that children feel when they play.
The effort is that of keeping together an elementary expressive urgency (rock?) with a necessity, as strong as the latter, of exploring the music uttered. The instrument is thus the sound, not the bass , the drums or the guitar.
Some forms are just sketched, other clearly non-finished, and it is not simply a self-condescending vice: it is more of a necessity, to throw it out here and now, always. The firm belief is that it is inside the edges that you can find the exact spirit of the moment.
Some sounds are excessive, some forms crooked, some solutions difficult, but they spring from the need to acquire a new point of view and to never give anything for granted, not even the sound uttered by the classic instruments, that of the power trio, prominently rock.
That is like saying that complexity is the opposite of adulteration, that simplicity is the opposite of banality, and that music is a performatory art.

http://www.myspace.com/cartavetro

Japanese Gum is an experimental Italian duo originally from Genova born in the spring of 2005.
The band consists now of Davide Cedolin and Paolo Tortora. During first two years of activity, there was a third member, Luigi Bozzo, that now is only a collaborator.
JG music is characterized by wall of delayed guitars, soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and synth pads, but it’s not right to define their sound into a specific kind: the guys are always looking for new developments and different sound solutions: from the first release “Talking. Silently e.p.”, focused on an ambient-glitch type of soundscapes, to “Without you I’m napping”, more oriented to massive shoegazing guitars melted with psychedelic obsessive loops and first real percussions ever.
During the sessions for the first full-lenght, Japanese Gum put some unreleased tracks/versions together with few friends’ remixes into “Lost in weirdness” (remixes by Isan, Die stadt der romantische punks, Eniac…).
The new album “Hey Folks! Nevermind, we are all falling down” will be released in september 2009 by Friend of mine records, and it’s a perfect balanced combo of liquid atmosphere, droning guitars, suspended vocals, electronic patterns and real drums.

http://www.myspace.com/japgum

S nástupom jari sa opäť k slovu dostávajú bicykle. V Trenčíne, tak ako vo vačšine slovenských miest stále platí, že bicykel slúži skôr na relax (mimo mesta) ako dopravný prostriedok. Dôvody sú predpokladám všetkým jasné.


cyklotrasy na slovensku

Spôsobov ako túto situáciu riešiť je viac. Niektorí mladší aj starší veční optimisti sa snažia dovolať nápravy u tých, ktorých to (ako sami dobre vedia) vôbec nezaujíma: http://scepko.blog.sme.sk/c/197065/V-Trencine-cakame-na-cyklisticku-tragediu.html

Iní sa rozhodli zobrať iniciatívu do vlastných rúk: http://cykloguerilla.blogspot.com/

Sympatickým spôsobom ako na túto problematiku upozorniť sú Critical Mass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass
Prvá Bratislavská sa uskutoční 30. apríla 2010 o 18:00: http://www.bikemap.net/event/2008-critical-mass-bratislava-april-2010

Nakoniec ešte článok na danú tému nedávno uverejnený na webe kolektívu Wild and Free: http://waf-kolektiv.blogspot.com/2010/03/nech-ziju-bicyklisti.html