Nobunny - Live at Third Man Records (Third Man Records, 2010)

What a curious thing is Music. Someone appears in your life coming out of the blue, nothing too original—as evokes a lot of different bands, but at the same time, with a distinct and unique sound. You inevitable get hooked on that sound, the guy becomes one of your favorites and you get crazy looking for his albums. Well, that guy is Nobunny, alias Justin Champlin. The first record I listened to was First Blood (2010); it was put in my hands by a record store owner—one of those guys which musical criteria you can trust blindly, and from the first time I played, I realized that I was in front of something fuckin’ great. Since then I've been looking for every single work he has released. My last acquisition was this Live at Third Man Records (2010), from the Live at Third Man series, recorded at Jack White's studios in Nashville, TN. It will bring to your ears this rock and roll, bubblegum punk, garage and lo-fi mixture which might remind you to millions of bands, but, to me is just Nobunny. And no one else.

Los Saicos - Demolición b/w Lonely Star (DisPerú, 1965) (reissue from Demolición! The Complete Recordings, Munster Records, 2010)

No doubt, Los Saicos were one of the wildest bands from Latin America in the mid-sixties. What the hell, they were one of the wildest in the entire world! These Peruvian crazy guys are usually compared to The Sonics, because of their wild, crude music and attitude. But, if you ask me, I think that musically those bands are quite different: Los Saicos are more melodic and psychedelic than the Sonics, which means the formers were wilder, but the voice of Erwin Flores is ruder and more, much much more badass than Gerry Roslie's. "Demolición" b/w "Lonely Star" was their second 7", released in 1965 by DisPerú and reissued, as part of a boxset, by Munster Records in 2010. "Demolición" ("Demolition"), an instant hit, is probably the most badass-lyrics they ever wrote. That their gratuitous violence apologia in form of garage-like surf was released with no problems in 1965 at Peru is a remarkable fact, as remarkable as its success among the juveniles —"Let's wreck the train station / Demolish, demolish! / We like blowing up train stations / Yeah, yeah!". Really funny, isn't?