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Sunday, October 27, 2024

Radio : EXD 1307 - Sunday October 27, 2024

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On this edition of EXD, lots of material to celebrate Hallowe’en with

A tribute to the Misfits with Misfits tribute bands like the Bitchfits, the Mismiths and We Bite.
A Blackened punk featuring Sex Virgin Killer, Zorn, and Devil Master
An Alfred Hitchcock themed punk songs with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Talking Heads, and the Violets
An Anarcho set with post punk and goth inspired material like Honeybane, Rudi P, and Cry Out
A Goth / post punk set with Spectres, Skinny Puppy, and Bauhaus
A demo feature of Reaktori from Vancouver.

MISFITS - Spinal Remains (Caroline)

Bands inspired by the Misfits (Stephen)

THE BITCHFITS - We Bite

WE BITE - W.A.H.P. (We Are Horror Punk) (Self-Released)

MISMITHS - Highway Horror (Sioux After Dark)

THE GHOULS - We Are The Dead (Panic!)

SILENT HORROR - Beware (No Balls)

TERRILL - American Psycho (Rebellion)

Blackened (Chris)

SEX VIRGIN KILLER - Rebirth (Lilli Sound Loom)

ISKRA - Lawless (Yehonala Tapes, Sick Man Getting Sick / Criminal Attack / Panda Banda, Headnoise / Back On Tracks / Ya-Basta, Neanderthal-Stench, Crust Or Die, Dvvm / Dark Side of Punk / Kajfasz / Chainbreaker)

ZORN - Endless Funeral (Sorry State)

INANIMATE - Starvation Cove (Self-released)

DEVIL MASTER - Acid Black Mass (Relapse)

Alfred Hitchcock Punk Influenced Bands/Songs (Andre)

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - Spellbound (Polydor)

TALKING HEADS - Psycho Killer (Sire)

THE BATES - I Don’t Care (Snoop)

THE VIOLETS - Foreo (Angular Recordings)

THE MISFITS - Horror Business (Plan 9)

Hallowe'en tinged (Rob)

GOBS - Die Slow (Goodbye Boozy)

PET MOSQUITO - Mr. Repeater (Slovenly)

THE OKMONIKS - Cry a Little Longer (Slovenly)

NIGHT COURT - D List (Recess)

DEATHRAY 78 - When The Night Comes (Self-released)

Anarcho (Bee)

HONEY BANE - Girl on the Run (Crass)

CRY OUT - Garden Song (LVEUM)

EPAULET - Lucifer’s Garden (Broken Skull/Sore Mind)

RUDIMENTARY PENI - Pills, Popes, and Potions (Outer Himalayan/Sealed)

SUBDUED - Children of God (LVEUM)

Goth Set (Chris / Stephe)

SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES - Cities In Dust (Polydor / Wonderland)

SPECTRES - Insurgence (Artofact)

SKINNY PUPPY - Far Too Frail (Nettwerk)

BAUHAUS - Dark Entries (Axis)

THE ROUTES - Love will tear us apart again (Topsy Turvy)

Demo Feature - REAKTÖRÌ

This is a new band from Vancouver. Pedro plays in Phane and played in Brutalize.

REAKTÖRÌ - Reactor (Self Released)

REAKTÖRÌ - United Destruction (Self Released)

REAKTÖRÌ - Downwind (Self Released)

REAKTÖRÌ - Covert Ops (Self Released)

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Radio : EXD 1306 - Sunday October 20, 2024

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On this edition of EXD, we look at a number of scenes from a historical perspective.

Bee starts us off with an exploration of some bands she got into when first getting into the scene in St. John’s (think Regulations, Government Warning, Formaldehyde Junkies)
Andre looks at the H8000 scene in West Flanders (think Day of Suffering, Congress, Liar)
Cactus explains how York Region hardcore has had an impact on our scene (think Bombshelter, Dogs, Public Mess)
Demo feature – Discharge’s Demo-lition Style

SIEGE FIRE - Guilty-Unmoved (Self- Released)

Early 00s (Bee)

REGULATIONS - I Can’t Do Whatever I Want (Havoc)

CAREER SUICIDE - Play the Part (Deranged)

GOVERNMENT WARNING - Blank (No Way)

FORMALDEHYDE JUNKIES - Shitty Life (Firestarter)

URBAN BLIGHT - Slow Death (Deranged)

H8000 - West Flanders (Andre)

Between 1989 and 1999, the Belgian hardcore scene was a fervent powerhouse of hardcore punk. In West Flanders, this was especially prominent with the emergence of H8000, named after the region's postal code. The "H" was added later. During this time, a subgenre of hardcore emerged that would go on to influence many bands after 1999. Here is a small taste of that era.

DAY OF SUFFERING - Shades Of Red (Catalyst)

CONGRESS - Satanic Verses (Good Life)

REGRESSION - As We Speak (Good Life)

LIAR - 2000 AD (Genet)

SPIRIT OF YOUTH - Desolution (Good Life)

SEKTOR - Crypts of Darkness (Sober Mind)

ARKANGEL - Within the Walls Of Babylon (Released Power)

Resources:

No Echo Interview w/ Hans Verbeke
No Echo H8000 List of bands
FX7 H8000 book
Blog Post on H8000
Contraband Goods - Day Of Suffering Collection
Good Life Recordings Bandcamp

York Region Hardcore (Cactus Vella)

BOMBSHELTER - Swift Pain (Self-Released)

SINKIN’ SHIPS - Running and Jumping (Self-Released)

DOGS - Nightrider (Self-Released)

CLASS ASSASSINS - Start Again

PLAN 37 - Say Goodbye (Self-Released) - Plan 37 are playing a show on November 22nd. Please see show listings on the side for details

PUBLIC MESS - Summer, Don’t Let Me Down (Self-Released)

Demo Feature

Last year a collection of Discharge demos came out taking from three sessions between the years 1977 and 1981. The release was called “Demolition-Style”. We are gonna feature that in tonight’s demo feature.

DISCHARGE - Ignorance Your Surrender (Vile)

DISCHARGE - What Method What Madness (Vile)

DISCHARGE - Blood of the innocent (Vile)

DISCHARGE - Cries of Help (Vile)

DISCHARGE - Look at Tomorrow (Vile)

DISCHARGE - Is this to be (Vile)

Ska Outro

Jackie Mittoo was just awarded the Polaris Heritage Award for the album “Macka Fat”. Mittoo was one of the first musical director’s for Studio One working with the Skatallites. This album was considered a foundational reggae album and an important album for the Jamaica to Toronto musical pipeline. Jackie Mittoo moved to Toronto in 1969 and lived here the rest of his life. His haunting organ playing would go on to inspire the Specials “Ghost Town” and here is a song that sounds a little like that called “Lazy Bones”.

JACKIE MITTOO - Lazy Bones (Studio 1 / Coxsonne)

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Radio : EXD 1305 - Sunday October 13, 2024

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On this edition of EXD,

New releases by Worst Ways, High Vis, Secret World, Alement, Life, Destruct, Gene Champaign, Weegee, Sloks
a set of punk songs about politicians featuring
A windsor scene report by Stacie from Bad Egg featuring Reckless Upstarts, Trophy Knife, and the Waterheads
A crossover set by Radek featuring COC, Cro Mags, and Converge
A demo feature by a new local band called Mace

EXTROVERTS - Political Animals (Self-Released)

New Stuff (Andre)

WORST WAYS - Never Know (New Age)

BEIGE BANQUET - Mind Lapse (Future Shock)

HIGH VIS - Mob DLA (Dais)

SECRET WORLD - Living Less (Sunday Drive)

CROWS - Vision Of Me (Bad Vibrations)

TOUT DEBORD - If Only I Could (Self-Released)

New Releases (Chris)

MALDITO MUNDO - Lucha Palestina (Distro Cefalia)

ALEMENT - Surreal Perception (Desolate / Archaic)

LIFE - To Stop The Conflict (Desolate)

DESTRUCT - Glorified (Desolate)

DECADE - Clouded Shroud (Unreleased)

Songs about Politicians (Bee)

DAVID BUTLER BAND - Andy Wells Youth (Self-Released)

CRASS - Sheep Farming in the Falklands (CRASS)

RAMONES - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (Sire)

YUPPIE KILLER - Rob Ford Rides Again (Self released)

PURE TERROR - Fuck the Occupation (Self released)

Mostly new (Rob)

MAN-EATERS - Creepy Crawl

GENE CHAMPAGNE - Rock 'n' Roll Boy (Rum Bar)

WEEGEE - Primitive Thrill (Self-Released)

SLOBS - Outlier (High Anxiety)

SLOKS - I’m Gonna Sit Right Down (Goodbye Boozy)

Windsor Scene Report (Stacie from Bad Egg)

BAD EGG - Sick Child x Stupid Kid (Self-released/ESAD Rekz)

PSYCHIC VOID - Brat Boy (Self-Released)

TROPHY KNIFE - Jet Jerk (Self-Released)

THE WATERHEADS - Meta (Self-Released)

RECKLESS UPSTARTS - Rising Tides (Insurgence/Smith & Miller)

C is for Crossover (Radek)

CLOWN ALLEY - On the Way Up (Alchemy)

CRUMBSUCKERS - Breakout (Combat / Rough Justice)

CRO-MAGS - We Gotta Know (Profile)

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Holier (Death / Roadrunner)

CONVERGE - Hell to Pay (Equal Vision)

Demo Feature - Mace

New local Toronto beatdown band

MACE - Doom Generation (Self-Released)

MACE - Take Notice (Self-Released)

MACE - Mace (Self-Released)

MACE - Outro (Self-Released)

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Radio : EXD 1304 - Sunday October 6, 2024

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On this edition of EXD,

Girl group feature with Fifth Column, Dolly Mixture, and Dishrags
All Toronto set with Death of God, Visible Minority, Pests and Drift Current
What Are You Listening To? post mortem with Spectres, After the Bombs, Industry, and Rotary Beginners
New releases by Scared of Chaka, No Sunshine Collective, Closetalkers, Traume, Atomic Prey, Shafra, Paint Fumes, Fan Club, Prim, Candy, Greber, and Chubby and the Gang

DISCHARGE - City of Fear (Clay)

Girl groups (Bee)

FIFTH COLUMN - Bad Madelaine (Hide)

CHIN CHIN - Why Am I So Lonely (Farmer)

ALVILDA - Chomage (Static Shock)

DOLLY MIXTURE - Side Street Walker (Self-released)

THE DISHRAGS - Double Checkin’ Woman (Supreme Echo)

New Stuff (Rob)

THE FLESHEATERS - Police Gun Jitters

SCARED OF CHAKA - Nobody (Slovenly)

CPC GANGBANGS - Rock n Roll Enemy No.1

THE DEVILS SONS - Devil's don't disco (Wasted Wax)

NO SUNSHINE COLLECTIVE - Something With You

New Releases (Chris)

CLOSETALKERS - Inferno (Neon Taste) - E/N/CC

狗日的 - 成功? (Pils)

TRÄUME - Wrzask (Quality Control HQ)

ATOMIC PREY - Human Expression (Iron Lung)

SHAFRA - خراء عليك Khara Aleek (Saalepower 2)

Brand New Punk (Andre)

PAINT FUMES - Crime of Love (Slovenly)

FAULTY COGNITIONS - Las Cruces (Cercle Social)

ALIEN NOSEJOB - Gone To Gowings (Total Punk)

PET MOSQUITO - K (Slovenly)

FAN CLUB - Ain’t No Saint (Self-Released)

PRIM - Hot Enough (Sunday Drive)

WET SPECIMENS - Curtain Call (Brain Slash)

Locals only (Stephen)

PESTS - Swarm (Unreleased)

DEATH OF GODS - Reflections (FOAD)

YOA - Where's the Mike (Self-Released)

VISIBLE MINORITY - Don't Make Fun Of Me (FOAD)

DRIFT CURRENT - Dangerous Place (Unreleased)

WAYLT 83

WARKRUSHER - Armistice (Agipunk / Desolate)

SPECTRES - Pictures from Occupied Europe (Artoffact)

AFTER THE BOMBS - Condemned (The Total End / Vex / Runstate)

INDUSTRY - Apathy is Violence (Static Age)

ROTARY BEGINNERS - Moon Light Magic (Juke Boxxx)

Brand New Hardcore (Andre)

NO WAY OUT - Falling Man (Triple B)

CANDY - Football (Triple B)

ONE TRACK MIND - Can I Say (Collective Memory)

PUNITIVE DAMAGE - Baptism of Fire (Convulse)

GREBER - New Losers (No Funeral)

CHUBBY AND THE GANG - Anticop (Flatspot)

STATEMENT OF PRIDE - Into The Flames (Youngblood)

SQUARE - Friday Fight (Fucking North Pole)

Sunday, September 29, 2024

Radio : EXD 1303 - Sunday September 29, 2024

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On this edition of EXD,

A feature on thrash with S.O.B., Attitude Adjustment, and Voivod
New releases by P.I.G., Blockage, Inner Peace, Suffocating Madness, Krayat, Satanic Togas, and Frvits
A preview of the Street Code show
Live recordings with tracks from Ratpiss and Appendix
A celebratation National Edge Day with Planet on a Chain, Bajo Control, and Street Justice
A feature on punk gangs in the early years with bands like BFG, The Strike, Judge

ECHTHROS - Horrible wound - The flood (Iron Lung)

Thrash (Bee)

S.O.B. - Thrash Night /Freak Out/ (Selfish)

SLAUGHTER - Tyrant of Hell (Diabolic Force)

ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT - Hunger & Poverty (Pusmort)

SACRILEGE - At Death’s Door (Children of the Revolution)

LIFELESS DARK - Radiation Sickness (Self-released)

VOIVOD - Ravenous Medicine (Noise International)

DETENTE - It’s Your Fate (Metal Blade)

New Stuff (Andre)

P.I.G. - This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal (1753)

PURGATORIO - Una Broma (1753)

BLOCKAGE - Growing Pains (DBNO)

IT’S ALL GOOD - Livin’ Proof (DAZE)

ALL DUE RESPECT - Gone For Good (DAZE)

INNER PEACE - Are You Still Mad At Me (Self-Released)

New Releases (Chris)

SUFFOCATING MADNESS - Shove Yer Cross Up My Ass (Toxic State)

KRAYAT - Фалш-Falseness (Doomtown / Uprising Hardcore Distro) -

INFERNO PERSONALE - Follia (Symphony of Destruction / Neon Taste)

DECADE - Frozen Hell (Unreleased)

WOLFCHARGE - Addiction Industry (Unreleased)

New Releases (Rob)

SATANIC TOGAS - 1998 (Goodbye Boozy)

FRVITS - Eat Fruits Piss Rocks (Slovenly)

COMPULSION - Compulsion (Council)

PAINT FUMES - Crime of Love (Slovenly)

BY OCTOPI - Ramone (Cartridge Heart)

National Edge Day

October 17th is National Edge Day which started being observed since 1999. It’s most prominent in Boston where the idea came from but also is observed in places as far away as Sao Paolo and Gothenberg. The day was picked in celebration of Ten Yard Fight’s last show.

KEEP IT CLEAR - Something to Prove (Self-Released)

PLANET ON A CHAIN - About to End (Revelation)

BAJO CONTROL - Libres de drogas (Self-Released)

xINVICTUSx - Old White Men (Ugly and Proud)

STREET JUSTICE - Taste of Meat (Self-Released)

STREET CODE SHOW SET PLUS 3 - October 18, 2024

AIN’T RIGHT - Swing For The Fences (PILS)

NO HEART - Echoes Of Yesterday (Longshot)

BLACK DOGS - Bleed (Longshot) N/C/E

STREET CODE - Let Me Go (Self-Released)

BIG BOSS - Year Of The Rat (Primator Crew)

GROUNDHOG - Social Deviation (Self-Released)

FORCE MAJEURE - Au Gré Des Semaines

It’s Alive!! (Chris)

RATPISS - Black Snot (Self-released)

APPENDIX - Itsemurha (1753)

ABSOLUT - Noose (Prescription)

SKALP - Unterwerfung (SFA)

CRISIS PARTY - Numbers (Self released)

Punk Gangs (Stephen)

BFG - Exploding Gluebags (Back Alley)

CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Urban Violence (Schizophrenic)

THE STRIKE - Gang Warfare (Captain Oi!)

7 SECONDS - The Crew (BYO)

YOUTH OF TODAY - Youth Crew (Revelation)

JUDGE - New York Crew (Schism)

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - Join the Army (Caroline)

RUDE BOY - Detroit Ska City

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Radio : EXD 1302 - Sunday September 22, 2024

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On this edition of EXD,

a feature interview with DC band Soulside
New releases by Beef (Cincinati), Het Up, Night Court, Posicion Unida, Gut Health, Wolf Charge, Wolf Brigade, and Yellow Cake
a listening party for the new Search Warrant release
but up first a set on Crust with Gloom, Decomp, and Assuck

鉄アレイ(Tetsu Arei) - No Machine Trouble (Sunshine Sherbet Records)

Crust (Bee)

SHIT LEGION - Village of Apathy (Scum Tribe)

GLOOM - Uranium Bullet for Peace (MCR)

TOWER 7 - Delusion of Enlightenment (Roachleg)

ZYGOME - 6th Extinction (Black Against Night)

DECOMP - Rotted State (Black Water)

ASSUCK - Body Politic Equation (Sound Pollution)

Mixed bag (Rob)

BEEF - I’ve Got to Find Out (Goodbye Boozy)

HET UP - Painless Disorder (Cursed Blessings)

MAN-KA-ZAM - Spankathon (Britz)

NIGHT COURT - Mistakes Become You (Recess)

YUNG SCUMZ - Sum ppl (Self-released)

New Releases (Chris)

WOLFCHARGE - Keep Quiet, Consume & Die (Self-released)

WOLFBRIGADE - Cyanide Messiah (Metal Blade)

TOY TIGER - Cold Blooded (Self-released)

TUBE ALLOYS - Evil Angels (LVEUM)

YELLOWCAKE - Vinyl Chloride Rain (NFTW / Total Peace)

Stuff (Andre)

PURE IMPACT - I Don’t Care (Self-Released)

RETAIN - Dirt

POCISIÓN UNIDA - Ver Del Daño

SOPHISTICATED ADULT - Be Careful

GUT HEALTH - Stiletto

VESSEL - Telephone

Soulside interview

I really like Soulside.I think part of what I like about them is I feel like I grew up with them. As I was getting into the hardcore scene they too were emerging from a well known punk scene in DC. At their first show in Toronto they wound up staying at my parents place in North York even though they don’t remember it. But my dad did. They gave him a Soulside shirt which he always wore and he hated punk so that was the irony for me. The band were unique in the punk scene and were part of a generation of punks that experimented with sound in many ways. When I heard they were back together and recording I was excited and nervous. When I found out they were coming to town I reached out to the singer Bobby Sullivan to see if we could do an interview. He remembered me which made me feel good and was quick to accept. Before we get into that conversation this is a track called “Survival off the band’s latest release - A Brief Moment in the Sun.

SOULSIDE - Survival (Dischord)