Mixtape by Dazzle Ships on Warmer Climes

I was wondering on myspace, with nothing that much interesting to speak about when I found the mixtape made by both members of Dazzle Ships (for those who do not know, I interviewed them a month or so ago).
Here it is the link. They have good musical sugestions over there.

[upcoming bands] Youthless

Alex, from this duo named Youthless said in Muso's guide: "Youthless is Sab and I. I play drums and sing and sometimes I play synth lines with my free hand. Sab sings and plays bass through two amps which he alternates between using a footswitch. We also use a bunch of weird FX boxes and other toys. It’s a bit of a strange set up but somehow, amidst all the confusion, we manage to bang out some rockin’ tunes."
Like they've said in some interviews, they don't like to be labeled, since it doesn't give them that much freedom to record whatever they want.
They're a great promise and are going to launch this month, October this is, a new single through Enchufada records.
You can hear next [click on them] the following Youthless' songs: "Golden Age" and "Blondie".

Below is a videoclip of their song entitled "Monsta":

Death in June "The Guilty have no Past"

Death in June is probably one of the most important bands of the neofolk genre, a sub-genre of the more famous Industrial movement. Founded in the 80s by Douglas Pierce, which had previously a punk band called "Crisis" (draining its sound to a mix between the extreme right political movements and the post-punk music). This previous band evolved to a more melancholic, but still (as we hear in this album) which post-punk influences. Take into consideration that this album collects songs since 1983 to 1993 and almost all of them are from their early performances.
You can download the album here.

This is the 4th song from their album:

Rip it Up and Start Again

This book depicts post-punk music and shows us how this genre was born. The title of the book is actually "Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84", but most musicians, critics and media speak of it as "Rip it Up and Start Again". Although this work speaks mainly about post-punk, it gives us an excellent view of other similar music genres of that time; with this I mean that it also features industrial, 2-Tone, goth, synthpop, noise and new psychedelia music.
Based on over 125 interviews, this brilliant writing piece gives a new name to all the less mainstream music that emerged on those 7 years of constant creativity rising, that signed a final "dot" to punk's history. There are many editions of this masterpiece, however I'll only show to you how the United Kingdom edition is organised.
The U.K. Edition has the following topics:

Introduction
Author's Note
PROLOGUE: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION

PART ONE: POSTPUNK

1/ PUBLIC IMAGE BELONGS TO ME: John Lydon and PiL
Public Image Ltd
2/ OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING: Howard Devoto and Vic Godard
Buzzcocks. Magazine. Subway Sect.
3/ FEAR AND LOATHING IN OHIO: Pere Ubu, Devo and the Cleveland-Akron scene
Pere Ubu. Devo.
4/ CONTORT YOURSELF: No Wave New York
James Chance and the Contortions. Suicide. Lydia Lunch. DNA. Mars. Lounge Lizards.
5/ TRIBAL REVIVAL: The Pop Group and The Slits
The Pop Group. Alternative TV. The Slits. New Age Steppers. Rip Rip & Panic.
6/ AUTONOMY IN THE U.K.: Independent Labels and the DIY movement
New Hormones. Fast Product. Factory. Rough Trade. Cherry Red. Desperate Bicyles. Thomas Leer. The Normal. Mute. Swell Maps.
7/ MILITANT ENTERTAINMENT: Gang of Four and The Leeds Scene
Gang of Four. The Mekons. Delta 5. Au Pairs.
8/ ART ATTACK: Talking Heads and Wire
Talking Heads. David Byrne & Brian Eno. Wire. Dome.
9/ LIVING FOR THE FUTURE: Cabaret Voltaire, the Human League and the Sheffield Scene
Cabaret Voltaire. The Future/Human League.
10/ JUST STEP SIDEWAYS: The Fall, Joy Division and the Manchester Scene
The Fall. Joy Division. Martin Hannett. The Passage. Factory Records. A Certain Ratio. Durutti Column.
11/ MESSTHETICS: The London vanguard
Scritti Politti. LMC. Flying Lizards. This Heat. Rough Trade. The Raincoats. The Red Krayola. Young Marble Giants. John Peel.
12/ INDUSTRIAL DEVOLUTION: Throbbing Gristle’s Music from the Death Factory
Throbbing Gristle. Whitehouse. Nurse With Wound. Clock DVA. 23 Skidoo.
13/ FREAK SCENE: San Francisco
The Residents. Tuxedomoon. Factrix. Chrome. The Sleepers. Flipper.
14/ CAREERING: PiL and Postpunk’s Peak and Fall
Public Image Ltd.

PART TWO: NEW POP AND NEW ROCK

15/ GHOST DANCE: 2-Tone and the Ska Resurrection
The Specials. Madness. The Beat. The Selecter. Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
16/ SEX GANG CHILDREN: Malcolm McLaren, the Pied Piper of Pantomime Pop
Bow Wow Wow. Adam and the Ants.
17/ ELECTRIC DREAMS: Synthpop
Human League. Gary Numan. Ultravox. John Foxx. Visage. Spandau Ballet. Martin Rushent. Soft Cell. Japan. DAF.
18/ FUN ’N’ FRENZY: Postcard Records and the Sound of Young Scotland
Orange Juice. Josef K. The Fire Engines. The Associates.
19/ PLAY TO WIN: The Pioneers of New Pop
Scritti Politti. Heaven 17. Trevor Horn. ABC.
20/ MUTANT DISCO AND PUNK-FUNK: Crosstown Traffic in early Eighties New York (and Beyond…)[an oral history]
B-52s. Pylon. Club 57. Mudd Club. Jean-Michel Basquiat. ZE Records. Kid Creole & The Coconuts. Was (Not Was). Material. 99 Records. Bush Tetras. ESG. Liquid Liquid. A Certain Ratio. New Order. Arthur Baker. Sonic Youth.
21/ NEW GOLD DREAMS 81-82-83-84: The Peak and Fall of New Pop
The Associates. Altered Images. Simple Minds. Haircut 100. Orange Juice. Duran Duran. Eurythmics. Thompson Twins. Wham!. Culture Club. ABC. Human League. Scritti Politti.
22/ DARK THINGS: Goth and the Return of Rock
Bauhaus. Siouxsie & The Banshees. The Cure. The Birthday Party. Killing Joke. Virgin Prunes. Theatre of Hate. Sisters of Mercy. Southern Death Cult.
23/ GLORY BOYS: Liverpool, New Psychedelia, and the Big Music
Echo & The Bunnymen. Wah! Heat. The Teardrop Explodes. The Blue Orchids. Big Country. Simple Minds. U2.
24/ THE BLASTING CONCEPT: Progressive Punk from SST Records to Mission of Burma
SST Records. Black Flag. The Minutemen. Husker Du. Mission of Burma. Meat Puppets.
25/ CONFORM TO DEFORM: The Second-Wave Industrial Infiltrators
Psychic TV. Cabaret Voltaire. Coil. Foetus. Einsturzende Neubauten. Test Dept. Swans. Depeche Mode.
26/ RAIDING THE 20TH CENTURY: ZTT and Frankiemania
Malcolm McLaren. Trevor Horn. The Art of Noise. Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Propaganda. Grace Jones.

AFTERCHAPTER

Appendix: MTV and the Second British Invasion
Bibliography
POSTPUNK TIMELINE

Frustration "Relax"

The French crossed their frontiers, having plans for a new Cold Wave movement: they are Frustration. Lost in Post-Punk and Cold Wave music they launched their debut album last year. It's called "Relax" as ironic as it sounds. I discovered them thanks to Drop Dead Festival's bands list on their website.
According to Discogs, it's rated 4.67 (in a scale of 5). In a scale of 10, I'd give it a 7.8: they have awesome songs, but some of them are [almost obviously] ripped from Joy Division. The track called "She's so tired" is probably the most notorious one concerning the similiraties between Joy Division and Frustration. In this one you can hear almost Ian Curtis' voice and the specific guitar tunes created originally on J.D.'s album "Closer".
However, it's an awesome album. The intro is perfect, accompanied by splendid lyrics: "We have some... Frustration! / They have some... Frustration!". My favourite tracks are: Too Many Questions", "Faster" and "Waiting for the Bad Things"- I recommend them. There's only a little bad fact about the song "Waiting for the Bad Things" due to the singer's accent seem a bit strange and too french-like. The dissonance transmited by their synthesizers at "Too Many Questions" and "Faster" are marvelous, really great. It's a catchy depressive sound, known to be omnipresent in the Cold Wave genre, I'd say.
In conclusion I take that this is one good album (worth acquiring), from a band that has got enough guts to revive the early 80s - and I say this in a good way.

Feel free to listen to their songs on myspace, if you don't want to download the entire album...
http://www.myspace.com/_frustration

If you want to hear their album, download it here.
However, if you have enough money to spend on this, buy their album or a song of them or go see them live... all these tactics of promoting their music are featured on their myspace.