Skip Danko may very well be the Ty Segall of western Europe. The German singer song-writer and musician has been plying his trade on the outskirts of punk for over thirty years, his music diving in and out of the genre like a one-eyed loon. His music is quirky, sloppy, dirty and weird in all the ways that made the prolific American musician Segall rock his way through seventeen studio albums in less time it takes most kids to graduate high school. Like Segall, “No Bum”— the new video being premiered on Everything Is Noise today— is a desert-soaked psychedelic journey through the sordid underground of the two-bit bars and puke-covered clubs Danko has been playing for most of his career. In other words, it’s a slimy, nasty piece of work, and I mean that in a good way.
The video features a Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club (the name of his new project) cabinet with an amplifier and record player on top. As the camera zooms in on the open doors of the set piece, viewers are taken on a hallucinogenic voyage into Danko’s wild past. The song is culled from the band’s upcoming album Trippin’ On a Chinese Market, and Danko plays with the verb like a cat batting a half-dead mouse. His own journey has seen Danko rocking dark bars as a resident of Las Vegas and Los Angeles, with all roads leading back to Germany, where the artist is now based.
The song is a kaleidoscopic mess of grungy guitars and chain-swinging drums that push the song along as if it were strolling on the streets of a city that had been worn thin by billions of boots on the ground. Danko’s vocals are drunken slurs that are compressed into a Butthole Surfers-like hit of lysergic acid diethylamide, as the song slinks along the blues-driven lick of the main motif. It’s as if “No Bum” is the sound of the paper as it hits the tongue, the first drop of mind detergent about to surge through your bloodstream.
If it’s any indication, the songs on Trippin’ On a Chinese Market will take all of us on a mission to the hidden crevices of our brains. In the meantime, check out Skip Danko‘s endless musical trek on his Instagram or Bandcamp. The new album will be released on May 22, 2026 via Aalzorp Recordz, Z-Muzic, and Rasant.
