You’re in for treat with two great Rock and Roll acts from down-under! It’s an Aussie invasion at the Outer Limits!
First up is R.M.F.C (otherwise known as the Rock Music Fan Club…)
“Yet another top-notch band out of Australia. I have said it over and over again at this point, but they really know how to rock in the Southern Hemisphere. Lovely dance punk that reminds me quite a bit of SHOPPING, CHERRY CHEEKS, and all things ADAM ANT. I am smitten with the guitar tones here. Very natural, but unique and ethereal. Lots of care and patience went into this recording and it really shows.” -maximum rock and roll
Next we have the mighty, the powerful, Gee Tee
“Based in Sydney, Australia and lead by the iconic Kel Mason, this band of maniacal rock n roll miscreants has been blowing drooly-punk minds for the past few years with a rash of out-of-print records and ridiculous videos that have bounced around the proper channels of the internet underbelly.
A white hot set on the web-only Gonerfest 17 was greeted with cheers of joy, and ultimately re-issued as a cassette and LP. They made it over in full three-dimensional form for Gonerfest 19 and a completely unhinged US tour in 2022.
Now Goner is proud to unleash their new album -- Goodnight Neanderthal -- ten blasts of the spazzy lo-fi attack you know and love, full of buzzy guitars, cheap synths and earworm hooks that demand to be sung in the shower. Or in your car. Or on your bike.”
Oh and yeah, The Stools are back for their first show in all of 2024! Here’s from where we left off:
“muscular, blues-bent rock riffs, dialed up to the speed of ’80s hardcore. Lorenz’s lyrics are bizarre and impressionistic, stoking the imagination with a few specific visuals. On the raucous opener “Stare Scared,” he spools out surreal lines over grimy power chords: “Bunk beds glowing gold/Like chains of pearls…Thumb burned by lamplight.” “Into the Street,” a street punk bruiser bred with ZZ Top guitar, is born of a similar disorienting, dreamlike logic.” -Pitchfork
Hometown hero’s Fen Fen, still hot off releasing their debut album National Threat on Sweet Time Records, round out this mega-lineup.
“I guess it would be lazy to name check early Detroit and adjacent hardcore like NECROS and THE MEATMEN. Still, listen to the early work by those bands as they push their snotty, first-wave sonics to ever greater limits. Throw this band’s original garage punk sensibilities into the mix, and this is the new sound of FEN FEN. Raw, hyperactive, unpredictable, National Threat is a mighty fine mix of Detroit scuzz and primitive, hardcore snot. A hugely enjoyable listen.” –personalpunk