[engl] Long Hours is a solo project by Julian Medor. Long hours has been coined as being lofi, nowave, synth punk croon-core, gothdoowop with a relentless live show inspired by frontmen such as David Yow (the Jesus lizard) JG Thirlwell (Foetus) Alan Vega (Suicide). Long Hours has performed up & down the east coast of Australia countless times and has toured japan twice. He has also released 27 albums in the space of 3 years. "Never Enough" is his first LP available on Beast Records.

[engl] Revolving around singer/songwriters Johanna Brockman and her partner Dimitri Kucharzewski, Midnight Scavengers are a unique and compelling presence. Situated between sinister violent beauty and volatile fragmented shyness, Johanna Brockman, once a member of James McCann’s Dirty Skirt Band, and The Brian Hooper Band (who opened for Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds on their 2009 Tour) met up with now partner in songs Dimitri Kucharzewski (Nikki Sudden’s Last Bandits, The Hollowmen) in Berlin in 2011 to create the core of what would become Midnight Scavengers. After relocating to Melbourne in 2012, they grew to a five piece with the addition of Jeff Hooker (Brian Hooper’ s band, Kim Salmon, The Darling Downs) on bass, Tim O’Shannassy (MJ Halloran, Paradise Motel, Penny Ikinger) on drums, and Andrew Watson (The Man Who Wasn’t There, Charlie Marshall) on violin and guitar. Midnight Scavengers have become an extremely well respected and recognized band, playing alongside legendary figures such as Spencer P. Jones, Kim Salmon, Hugo Race and Ron S. Peno among others.

[engl] The eagerly anticipated debut long player from Naarm/ Melbourne trio MOODY BEACHES! Limited edition Acid Green colour vinyl - comes with download code. Following the release of their thundering lead single 'Crowded World' and the latest cut ounting Reasons', Naarm/ Melbourne trio Moody Beaches have announced their hotly anticipated debut long player 'Acid Ocean'; a 10-track serve of harmony-driven and brooding fuzzed-out songs, raw and scathing, channelling the loud-quiet-loud dynamic and introspection that made 80s-90s music so visceral. Emerging from Melbourne's punk-rock underbelly in 2017, Moody Beaches have since cemented themselves as a must-watch live act and staple of the Australian indie punk scene, who have shared stages with the likes of Magic Dirt, Screamfeeder, Dead Kennedy's and Spiderbait.

[engl] Hard to grab an original vinyl album of Mr Airplane Man out on Sympathy For The Records Industry back in the days, right? Beast Records are hopefully here to release this must have compilation including tunes from Mr Airplane Man first self-titled LP, “Moanin’” , “C’Mon DJ” and so on.

[engl] After a 13-year break from the road, the legendary two-woman garage Blues combo MR. AIRPLANE MAN is back with their sexiest, most sublime, soul-bending grooves yet brand new long-player, JACARANDA BLUE. Recorded in a magical shack right on the beach north of San Francisco JACARANDA BLUE is full of ocean California sunshine and MR. AIRPLANE MAN's unique dark sounds. The first song explodes on the A-side with the crackling ALAN VEGA slash JOHN LEE HOOKER inspired freak-out of Blues and lust "I'm In Love" and weaves through MORPHINE-ish atmospheres, swampy DR. JOHN type hoodoo, dark JESSE MAE HEMPHILL inspired trance Blues and dance floor Soul rockers. Deep Blues and garage Punk fans will delight in this latest adult dose of sex and magic conjured from earthly rhythms and ethereal desire. MR. AIRPLANE MAN is back, and more powerful than ever before. Available in the USA on Sympathy For The Record Industry, Beast Records make “Jacaranda Blue” available for Europe. The album comes with a different sleeve as well as a slightly different tracklisting.

[engl] Mr Airplane Man (Tara McManus and Margaret Garrett) first met Pat Bourbonnais (Demon's Claws, Gravel Route) a long time ago as he invited the band to come play up in Montreal in the 00's. They immediately loved each other bands and became friends. Around 2016, when Mr Airplane Man started to play again after a few years break, Pat invited the band to play with his new project Gravel Route. They soon made plans to come back and record a split single in Pat's basement. Mr Airplane Man went to Montreal a year later with no plans and zero idea of what they would record. The initial split single soon turned into a full length record with collaboration on every song: Mr Airplane Man backed Gravel Route on their songs, Gravel Route backed Mr Airplane Man on theirs, and they chose two songs to cover together. Pat's psychedelic country and Rembetika influences are there along with the raw garage blues and just kind of innocent folk rock moments. "Give to the Sun" isn't a split record, it becomes a fully collaboration between Gravel Route and Mr Airplane Man, a Gravel Man record!

[engl] "The birth of NITROBREW took place on a beautiful day in March 1997 when Seb and I received the order not to stay at the bottom of the musical food scale that reigned at the time. Other cowboys jumped on the train with us. First there were the Merienne brothers : Chris and Lorenzo (R.I.P. bro). And the two shooters with the quick trigger: Cyrille and later Ludo. It was a long and a quick and long run during which we could hear the crickets uncapping beers while listening to J. Cash. We thought like S. Colt. If God had made men unequal in musical taste, NITROBREW had finally restored the balance." Orville Gee Brody

[engl] For the voyeur in all of us, PDOA (Public Display of Affection) have arrived. Madeleine Rose, Lewis Lloyd, Anton Remy and Jesper Munk. Coming off a hot streak of touring, they have unleashed their Debut EP, and now gearing up to campaign the band's Debut Album Still Care.' Playing their part in keeping Germany's capital weird, PDOA's live shows hark back to the fearless eccentricity explored by the Berlin performance art and music collectives of the 1980's. The music reflects these same feelings of willful abandon, twisting and turning, one minute slow and slinky, the next full on post-punk assault. What PDOA guarantee is an act of near zen like non duality, hittin' that golden ratio between the soulful and the sinful.

[engl] Party Pest features ex-The Reprobettes members Jemma Jives (drums & vox) and Sally Balhorn (guitar & vox) alongside bass player Julia Watt (Moody Beaches, La Bastard, Hot Wings) and Kate Alexander on synth (Ute Root, The Hot Blood). Unpredictable and chaotic, Party Pest is influenced by artists such as The Slits, ESG, Kleenex, The Cure and The B52’s. On Uninvited, Party Pest channel post-punk irreverence, blending discordant melodies, jangly guitar hooks, wild primal drumbeats, big bold bass grooves and synthesised sonic mayhem into a celebration of life as they know it. Anything can and does happen when Party Pest play so strap in for a wild ride whether you’re invited or not. When the glitter settles, the Ajax’s been snorted and your Mum’s been pashed, wipe the love dust from your eyes and check your bathtub.

[engl] Midnight Show is the new album from Australian born singer-songwriter Pete Ross and the follow-up to his 2009 debut release Six String Suicide. Midnight Show offers a stark contrast with a comparatively structured message and compelling song writing, offset by a very raw and dynamic sound. Fans of Johnny Cash (American Recordings) and Nick Cave, will undoubtedly be intrigued by this record, as will existing lovers of the more countryesque Pete Ross.

[engl] Formed in the early 2000's in Pécs, Southern Hungary, Psycho Mutants is a cult underground band in their country. They owe this status to three things: the power of their stage performances, the charismatic personality of their singer, and that bass-baritone voice from beyond the grave, able to jump four octaves if necessary. Musically, Psycho Mutants is nothing we have ever listened to before: a mutation of music we've only felt, not just heard: rock'n'roll so intense it could have been played by Hank Williams if he'd been raised in the Carpathians, drunk on Palinka. Their influences are as diverse as Crime and the City Solution or Gallon Drunk, Jack The Ripper and The Gun Club. But the Magyar band is not just handling guitars. The addition of a trumpet, a keyboard, an accordion or a baritone sax to the line-up doesn't scare them one bit, giving this particular taste to their sound, which leaves nobody indifferent. Seven years after the success of "Baby Burn" (Volvox/PIAS), the Western Voodoo R'n'R combo is back with a mature album, "Motherland", discovered by Beast Records shortly after it was recorded. "Motherland" includes dark country ballads, monotone psychedelic melodies as well as garage tunes, laid on a moody, atmospheric, blues-based aesthetic. Listening to the album will make you want to see them play live, which they say, is well worth your time.

[engl] For the voyeur in all of us, PDOA (Public Display of Affection) have arrived. Madeleine Rose, Lewis Lloyd, Anton Remy and Jesper Munk. Coming off a hot streak of touring, they have unleashed their Debut EP, and now gearing up to campaign the band's Debut Album Still Care.' Playing their part in keeping Germany's capital weird, PDOA's live shows hark back to the fearless eccentricity explored by the Berlin performance art and music collectives of the 1980's. The music reflects these same feelings of willful abandon, twisting and turning, one minute slow and slinky, the next full on post-punk assault. What PDOA guarantee is an act of near zen like non duality, hittin' that golden ratio between the soulful and the sinful.

[engl] Death of a Gringo was recorded in a week live to tape: vocals, guitar, drums and bass all recorded live. Rhyece O'Neill taught Rick (bass) the songs a couple of weeks prior though Danny (drums) had never heard any of them until the day of the session. Once they had the right sound and were ready to go Rhyece would teach Danny and Rick the songs in the studio kitchen with an acoustic guitar. After a beer they were ready. They would go in and Nell (Engineer) would roll the tape. They never did more than three takes. Once a song was done they would go back to the kitchen, have another beer and learn another song. They recorded fifteen songs this way.

[engl] The Richmond Sluts may hail from San Francisco, but their hearts are far off in New York City, and their heads are stuck in other decades entirely. It would be easy to laud the quartet as the best glam trash band since the New York Dolls, but that's merely a convenient launch pad from which the Richmond Sluts set off into their long awaited 2nd album. Since categorization is a necessity in this age of overspecification, punk rock will do nicely, but doesn't begin to encompass just how cleverly the group churns other genres through its blender. The Sluts connect the dots between '60s garage punk and old school '70s style, then toss just a dash of new school into the mix. Variations on this recipe reverberate across the album, and answer a slew of niggling questions along the way. Ever wonder what the Dolls would sound like covered by a psychedelic band? Kept up at night trying to imagine a cross between the Cramps and the Velvet Underground? Curious what the result would be if a time warp sent Richard Hell circa 1978 a decade into the past? And what if Eddie & the Hotrods were really the Ramones with English accents? The Richmond Sluts answer all these brain teasers and more you've yet to even imagine, and they do it without an ounce of pretentiousness or braggadocio. In fact, the Sluts lay down their songs with such insouciance that one's tempted to believe they are totally unaware of their own genius. And if this is the level of their debut, what treats await us next?

[engl] R’n’Cs – Power trio from Orléans formed at the dawn of the 2nd millennium by combining punk/hard core with a supercharged garage… giving birth to a fast and furious Rock’n’roll. After releasing 6 opus always in the lineage of Zeke, Peter Pan Speedrock, Motorhead… Their 7th Opus “Flytrap in the Murderhouse” released by the stables Beast Records and Fly House Records (Trauma Social for the CD) was released in Spring 2024 and is announced as the missing link between Zeke and The Dwarves… This incendiary bomb will not denote previous productions… Always in sweat, flames and Rock’n’Roll!!!

[engl] The new Shifting Sands album is available! A few words about the band? Shifting Sands feature losers from SixFtHick, Gentle Ben & his Sensitive Side, (Dave McCormack &) the Polaroids, Family Jordan and Jeremy Neale Band. They are good for pretty much nothing except for creating warmth in an emergency situation by way of fuelling fire, or accenting or emphasising an important point during an argument or domestic dispute by way of smashing into kindling. At least that was what Geoff Corbett (SixFtHick, The Tremors), lead vocalist of Shifting Sands thought, but just like so many times across his career of “blink and you’ll miss it” highs and extended lows that would crush a purpose built mini-sub through sheer and immense pressure he would be proven wrong. Step into the downward spotlight Dylan McCormack (Gentle Ben & his Sensitive Side, David McCormack & the Polaroids) and take that abortion of pine and tinsel and pluck forth from it songs that don’t suck, are not Alt. country nor singer songwriterly but speak of but two things: Sex and Sadness – the Shifting Sands mantle. Bread and butter if you will, except in this instance the bread has a hard on and is trying to kiss you and the butter is drunk, sobbing and cutting itself with a sharpened piece of broken C.D case. Clearer? Anyway the resulting recordings captured the depression, anxiety and anger dredged up by severe alcohol withdrawal and just a little bit of love. “Hibiscus” is born!

[engl] Though the first (solo) recordings were done in 2008, the Skeptics started playing live shows in June 2011. They are now celebrating their six years as a band with their new self-titled record, and fourth album, out on Beast and Juvenile Delinquent Records. The nine tracks filling the gap between ‘Fuzz Punk’ and ‘Heavy Garage’ have come a long way from the Revival kind of sound of their first efforts. The overall sound here is more contemporary, with the bass heavier and the fuzz thicker. This LP, recorded by none other than the master, Lo’ Spider, and housed in a sleeve designed by Hélène Jeudy will please both the Spits’ fanatics and the early-Dead Meadow lovers.

[engl] Imagine if you can, two outer space rednecks, two freaks halfway between the spirit of « Deliverance » and « Two Thousand Maniacs! » who decided to replace ultra-violence by injecting right through their carburators a great dose of humor directly influenced by B movies and cheap comic books… Bipolar duo from Lorient, Brittany, Skin a Buck distils his own "Barn Rock" mixing influences from 90’s grunge, punk rock and dirty blues musics.

[engl] Skinny Milk are back! Formed in 2016 by Johnny Hart and Tim Cox, Brighton Psyche punk duo Skinny Milk have hit the gas, releasing a flurry of EPs and singles along with relentless touring across Europe and the U.K. with the likes of Osees, The Blind Shake, Doyle, Michale Graves, Flatworms, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Iguana Death Cult, Hockey Dad, Turbowolf, Toy, Bad Nerves... Get ready for Shadowplay! 4 unheard songs from the depths of 2020 along with the cream of previous releases all churned into one full fat serving!

[engl] Acoustic duo, Sleeper Bill (singer/ guitarist of Sleepwalkerz) and Mr Tof (upright bass for Hudson Maker) blend folk, blues, rockabilly and country to create a magnetic live show of original music. The two friends came together in 2015 with a mutual love of Americana, influenced by heavyweights Johnny Cash, Hank III and Bob Wayne, which shines through their vintage sound. They recruited the beautiful Mylène in 2016 on the musical saw and washboard, adding to their twang and continuing to present their own catchy rhythms and melodies with tales of heartache and loneliness.