Sunday, December 25, 2022

Radio : EXD 1232 - Sunday December 25th, 2022

This week's show is the annual x-mas show hosted by Dave Stevenson (Emissions Records). The playlist features unique songs about christmas by punk bands, and punk covers of x-mas carols. There will be another Angry Snowmans feature. You can expect bands like the Yobs, the Muffs, and Kohu-63 as return appearances. You can also expect lesser known bands like the Sled Kennedys, Dad Brains, Colt Turkey, and Krypt-Keeper 5. New Chubby and the Gang is in the mix. There is a Ramones themed set, a feature on the Cashing in n Christmas comps, a Scandinavian set, a horror themed set, and a set of duets. Actually the Helen Love cover in the duets is my favourite from this year's show. And the show is capped with a demo feature from Oz. Download the show here

TOXIC SONIC - Can't Stand Xmas (Self-Released) 

Dave’s Favourites: 
COLT TURKEY - The Book (Crucial Response
HYBRID KIDS - Dead Ducks (Cherry Red) 
EA80 - I Know That You Know (Self-Released) 
THE MUFFS - Nothing For Me (Sympathy For The Record Industry) 
THE YOBS - Who Had All The Christmas Cake? (Captain Oi!

Ramones-Influenced: 
VINDICTIVES - Jingle Bells (Gutter Pop) 
THE LUCKY EEJITS - Santa on 98th (Wiretap
BLACK RUSSIANS - Garbage Day (Self-Released
THE BUDWEISERS - Christmas bells (Family Spree Recordings / Monster Zero)
THE PUTZ - I Hope You Get Coal (Coffin Curse

Cashing In On Christmas comps: 
NOTHING BUT ENEMIES - Foul Mouthed Elf (Blackhole
THE FISTICUFFS - Santa Smells Like Whiskey (Blackhole
VIOLENT AFFAIR - On Christmas Day (Blackhole
CITY SAINTS - I Hope Santa Dies (Rebel Sound
OLD BREED - For Christmas (Rebel Sound

Scandinavian xmas: 
RIPOFF - Christmas Sucks (But Not so Much) (Fucking North Pole)
UPSKIRTS - Fuck off It's Christmas (Fucking North Pole
KOHU-63 - Ottakaa Joulupukki Kiinni (Wotan) 
UNDERGANG - Hjerternes Tid (Extremely Rotten

Angry Snowmans: 
Razorcake interviewed Angry Snowmans in a recent issue.
ANGRY SNOWMANS - Festive (Stiff Hombre) 
ANGRY SNOWMANS - Naughty Or Nice (Jukebox Records Music Company) 
ANGRY SNOWMANS - Slave To Saint Nick (Stiff Hombre) 
ANGRY SNOWMANS - I Hate Reindeer (Self-Released) 
ANGRY SNOWMANS - Oh Santa Claus (Stiff Hombre) 
ANGRY SNOWMANS - Buildin' Toys (Stiff Hombre) 

Horror-Themed: 
CHUBBY AND THE GANG - Violent Night (A Christmas Tale) (Partisan
THE KRYPT-KEEPER 5 - Black Christmas (Murder Cow
THE KRYPT-KEEPER 5 - Better Off Dead (Murder Cow
VAGINAL CROUTONS - Mamma's Gonna Die This XMas (The Show Must Go On) 
THROMBUS - Turkey Terror (self-released) 

Duets: 
HELEN LOVE - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight) (Damaged Goods
SHAUN & PAUL - Christmas Will Roll Right In (Self-Released
EBENEZER BOOZE - Xmas Attack (Columbus) 

Fun stuff
PIZZA RIDER - It Feels Like Christmas (Swoody
SLED KENNEDYS - Santa Song (Self-Released
URBAN CRATER - XmasX (Self-Released
 
Extras
ALICE BAG - No Gifts for Nazis (Get Better)
JINGLE PUNX - Christmas time is here (Self-Released)
ALMIGHTY TRIGGER HAPPY - Seasonal Excuses (Cursed Blessings)

Demo feature 
From the Best Wishes bandcamp page "Blindside are the newest band hailing from the Sunshine State. Being very much influenced by the mid 2000s period of melodic hardcore, think along the lines of Comeback Kid or local acts 50 Lions and Pro-Team. Their demo brings hints of modern youth crew and and classic / semi traditional hardcore."

BLINDSIDE - Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (Best Wishes) 
BLINDSIDE - Sunsets (Best Wishes) 
BLINDSIDE - Fed Up (Best Wishes)

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Radio : EXD 1231 - Sunday, December 18th, 2022

One tonight’s show we have Chris’s Year in Review albums picks so a sneak peak into full lengths for the year that was 2022. Andre has a set of music new to him but not really new. Rob has a mixed bag of new and old releases. I put together a nostalgic set of songs about Thatcher inspired by nephew who you will hear from. Download the show here

But up first a tribute to Jet Black which gets to why we opened with “Down in the Sewer”. Jet Black (R.I.P.) - Died Dec. 6th, 2022. Jet Black (real name - Brian Jones Duffy) died on December 6th, 2022. Jet was the drummer and founding member of the Guilford Stranglers. Jet was a successful business man owning a fleet of ice cream vans, The Jackpot which was an off license that would serve as the Stranglers home base, and one of the first home brewing facilities. Jet was a drummer in the late 50s / early 60’s and returned to drumming in 1974 starting up the Stranglers. Although Jet’s drumming was described as basic with some jazz influences the songs Down in the Sewer and Duchess exhibit more frantic drumming.

THE STRANGLERS - Down in the Sewer (United Artists) 
THE STRANGLERS - Duchess (United Artists) 
THE STRANGLERS - The Raven (United Artists)
THE STRANGLERS - Nuclear Device (United Artists)

Chris top 10 LPs of 2022: No order
UNSANITARY NAPKIN - Peter Thiel (Literal Fucking Vampire) (Slimebag / Always Never Fun / Limbless
NIGHTFEEDER - Species on the Brink (Self-Released)
INYECCIÓN - La Integracion (Discos Enfermos)
SWAB - Hippies Still Exist (And I Hate Them) (Hardcore Victim)
LONG KNIFE - Curb Stomp Earth (Beach Impediment / Black Water)
BOMBARDEMENT - Prédateur (Symphony of Destruction)
SAVAGEHEADS - Prisoner of the CIA (Social Napalm)
MOCK EXECUTION - Mock Execution (La Vida Es Un Mus)
CRUTCHES - Stopp I Huet (Not Enough / Phobia / Profane Existence)
RIGOROUS INSTITUTION - Laughter (Black Water / Black Konflik / Symphony of Destruction)

Rob
MORAL PANIC - White Knuckles (Alien Snatch / Robellion / Slovenly
THE LICKS - 1970's Have Been Made In Hong Kong (Cherry Red / Overground)
SWELL MAPS - Real Shocks (Cherry Red)
T.P.I. - She’s Too Clever For Me (Self-Released)
S.U.G.A.R. - Heartbreaker (Alien Snatch

New To Me Set (Andre)
RESIST CONTROL - Liberty in America (Feral Kid)
PLEASURE LEFTISTS - Passing In A Ghost Ship (Feral Kid)
SQUINT - Pig Pen (Sunday Drive)
SWEEPING PROMISES - Hunger For A Way Out (Feel It)
DEAD BROKE - Sludgehammer (Self-Released)
NOSEDIVE - Bad Mood (Best Wishes)
NO BRAINER - To You (Best Wishes)

Maggie Maggie Maggie
Margaret Thatcher served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Nicknamed the Iron Lady, Thatcher was known for her steadfast conservative politics. Thatcher's term coincided with a boom in English music in the wake of the punk movement, and much of this music harshly criticized her policies or straight up attacked her on a personal level. Bands tapped into the atmosphere of anger and discontent in Thatcher's England, singing about everything from high unemployment rates to the Falklands War. I was talking about this with my brother in law and his son on the weekend and he had some chants that became earworms that became something I had to revisit in the show this week. Here is part of a conversation with my nephew - Dylan as we talk about slogans.

KLAUS NOMI - Ding Dong (RCA)
THE NOTSENSIBLES - (I'm in Love with) Margaret Thatcher (Redball / Snotty Snail
THE LARKS - Maggie Maggie Maggie (Out Out Out) (Exhaltation)
CRASS - How Does It Feel (CRASS)
THE VARUKERS - Thatcher's Fortress (Rot)
THE EXPLOITED - Maggie (Combat)

A Final Listen to PILS 2022 (Chris)
B.A.L.M. SQUAD - No Pride in Genocide (PILS)
B.A.L.M. SQUAD - Sewercide (PILS)
ACID CROSS - To Kill a Lich (PILS)
ACID CROSS - Mistwraith (PILS)
UZU - مستحيل (PILS)
UZU - ماذا تبقّى؟ (PILS)

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Radio : EXD 1230 - Sunday December 11th, 2022

 

On tonight’s show we have a band feature on ORCHID, the screamo band from Amherst.  Grant delivers a new feature on Hamilton punk. There is a lot of new material peppered throughout the show. A demo feature by Knull from Charlottetown which is related to a movie they have on youtube. A mostly crate diggin’ set starting out with a mod band from Glasgow called The Jolt. However the show starts out with a yet to be Partisans cover by Crosshairs which they let us air on the show as an exclusive to listeners. Download the show here

CROSSHAIRS - Police Story (Unreleased) 
 
THE JOLT - Midnight to Six (Detour
ERVIN BERLIN - Junior's Got Brain Damage (Total Punk
THE NOSTRILS - Kick You in the Head (Supreme Echo
THE B-SIDES - Hooked on Phonics (Pat Riot) 
ALIEN NOSEJOB - Post Punk Posers (Total Punk

New releases (Chris) 
T.O.A.D. - Perspective Breached (Grindfather
WARHAWK - There Will Be Blood (Headsplit / Cimex
DEATH PILL - Расцарапаю Ебало (New Heavy Sounds) 
E.A.T.E.R. - Voice of the People (Self-released) 
ANTAGONIZM - Complacency (Quality Control HQ

MONDROOF - Rotten Inside (Self-Released)  
THE FOMITES - Pinstripe Suits and Combat Boots (Self-Released
BOTHERS - Washed Out (Dirt Cult
'63 MONROE - Goodbye Guyana (Nardem / Yeah Right!
CURLEYS - Stink (Total Punk

Orchid Set and Tribute Tracks (Andre)
ORCHID - Le Désordre, C’est Moi (Ebullition) 
ORCHID - Weekend at the Fire Academy (Ebullition) 
ORCHID - The Action Index (Ebullition) 
ORCHID - Light’s Out (Ebullition) 
ORCHID - I am Nietzche (Ebullition) 
ORCHID - Anais Nin By Numbers (Ebullition) 
ORCHID - Ding Dong Dead (Clean Plate Records) 
ORCHID - Eye Gouger (Clean Plate Records) 
¡SILENCIO, AHORA, SILENCIO! - A Visit From Doctor Goodsex (Dog Knights
DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS - 36 Day Syndrome (Dog Knights
MAHRIA - Let’s Commodify Sexuality (Dog Knights
FULL OF HELL - Framecode (Dog Knights

SOFT ON CRIME - Telex Eyes (Self-Released
DEAD MAMMALS - Kim, Am I Dying (Self-Released)
ANDROID - Evolution Let Down (Invisible Audio)
URN - Fractal (Self-Released
STRIKT - Stockholm (Self-Released) 

Hamilton (Grant) 
GET OFF THE COP - Bermuda Triangle (Perdu Hamilton)
SAILBOATS ARE WHITE - My Family (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Zero Light Emission (Self-Released)
BLACK BARON - Flourescent Light (Self-Released)
LIZZY BOREDOM - Garbage Night (Self-Released)

NO HEART - Come and Gone (Self-Released
BOOTLICKER - Calm Mind (Static Shock)
RAT CAGE - In the Shadow of the Bomb (LVEUM)
BLOODCLOT - Save the Robots (Upstate)
SNIFFING GLUE - Generation Shit (Search for Fame / Play to Destroy) 

New releases (Chris) 
DÖDA ÖGON - Hippie-medelklass-inbillning (Self-released
ELECTRIC MASOCHIST - Finance Drugs (Self-released
DEAD CITY - Human Chop Shop (1753
WARNING FROM HELL - The Gain Machine (Self-Released
PHANTOM - Business Man (11PM

Demo Feature 
Tonight a band I found on instagram with a movie they made on youtube. And this recording is it’s sound track. The band is Knull and they are from Charlottetown, PEI and this recording is called “Devour”. 

KNULL - Devour (Self-Released) 
KNULL - Neglected Life (Self-Released) 
KNULL - Motor Mouth (Self-Released) 
KNULL - Shocking Grasp (Self-Released) 
KNULL - Circle (Self-Released)

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Radio : EXD 1229 - Sunday December 4th, 2022

On Tonight’s show a look back at Gauze, a feature on Delayed Gratification, new releases, and a demo feature by Butcher’s Laugh. You can download the show here

GAUZE - Pressing On (Prank)
 
New releases (Chris)
CROSSHAIRS - Police Story (The Partisans) (Mendeku Diskak)
MESS - Don’t Look Back (Mendeku Diskak / Beach Impediment
THE CHISEL - You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (Mendeku Diskak/ Beach Impediment
MÉFAIT - Facade (PILS / Total Rampage) 
EXPLOATOR - Skiter På Allt (Phobia

Some new releases (Rob)
OSEES - Fucking Kill Me (Castle Face
NATURE BOYS - Caught in the Fix (Dead Broke / Dirt Cult
THE SOVIETTES - Blue Stars (Dead Broke
THE STREETWALKIN’ CHEETAHS - Know Your Product (Rum Bar
NO WAY - Breaking Point (Our Own)

Delayed Gratification Records
Delayed Gratification Records is a label run by Vladimir Necovski and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. On this weeks set, André interviews Vlad about the label, how he chooses his bands, how the pandemic affected the scene in Ohio, vinyl and tape production, as well as Vlad choosing 5 bands off of his label and why he loves them. Enjoy! Photo courtesy of Kristen Necovski (IG: @kristenecovski) Vlad is the dude on the left in the above photo. 

EN LOVE - Thrill Is Gone (Delayed Gratification
PREVENTION - What Must Be Done (Delayed Gratification

GAUZE (R.I.P.) 
Our namesake for the show has just called it a day. Reported in Metal Injection - Gauze, the influential Japanese hardcore punk band, are breaking up after 41 years. They announced the news today (November 26) on the band’s official Twitter. “Report of disbandment of GAUZE,” reads a translated version of their statement. “Ever since I became a current member, I have decided that if even one person leaves the group, it will be disbanded. That statement alludes to one of the rare interviews Gauze did during their career. In 1997, bassist Shin told Maximum Rocknroll, “To be honest, if one of the members quit, it won’t be Gauze anymore. We never change the members. It’s not because how good they play, but how they think or feel about these things.” Gauze formed in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan. Singer Fugu, guitarist Momorin, and Shin remained in the band over its 41-year-long career, with drummer Hiko joining the original members in 1989. They established themselves as a hardcore punk band that played around with D-beat and thrash conventions. Famously, they wanted to capture the feeling of grindcore without maximizing their tempo. “There is a limit to how fast you can play. We wanted to challenge the limit,” Shin told MRR. “To us, the feeling of the speed is the most important part.” Here's a track off of everything Gauze released. 

GAUZE - Syodokueki (ADK) 
GAUZE - Desperate (City Rockers)
GAUZE - Core Tick (ADK / XXX) 
GAUZE - Crash the Pose / Distort Japan (Selfish) 
GAUZE - 山深雪未溶 (Selfish) 
GAUZE - 歯を喰いしばれ (Prank)
GAUZE - ワッショイ (Wasshoi) (XXX)
GAUZE - メシ喰え (XXX / Prank
GAUZE - 言いたかねえけど目糞鼻糞 (XXX) 

Other sources
Pitchfork

Demo feature
Tonight's demo feature is the brand new release on Slow Death by a band called Butcher's Laugh. 

BUTCHER'S LAUGH - Die Rabid (Slow Death)
BUTCHER'S LAUGH - Quantified (Slow Death)
BUTCHER'S LAUGH - Terror Dripping (Slow Death)
BUTCHER'S LAUGH - Mental Hygiene Unit (Slow Death)
BUTCHER'S LAUGH - Pixelated (Slow Death)
BUTCHER'S LAUGH - Shooting Target (Slow Death)

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Radio : EXD 1228 - Sunday November 27th, 2022

Want to thank everyone who donated to CIUT's fundraising drive. Specifically Dave Stevenson, Michail Markatselis, Jane Farrow, Sunaya Sapurji, Aaron Brown, Craig Wattie, Erik Lovblom, Chris Labonte, Craig Hinshelwood, John Di Marco, John Viktorin, James Glaspey, Betsy Carter, Soft on Crime, Jamie Stowe, Shawna Carlton, Mark Evard, Steve Milo, and Adam Furukawa. Those are the ones we know about. The station is short on our goal and we ask if you haven’t donated that you do so now at Donorbox

On tonight’s show we have a few features of new material, some mixed bag sets a tribute to Keith Levene who passed, an anarchist corner feature on Rudi P, and our demo feature will be the Endless Blockade and their second demo. Rob’s gonna get things started. Download the show here (320 BR mp3).

ARBOGAKVINNAN - Samma Skit, Andra Grisar (Self-Released

New Stuff (Rob) - 12:53 
BANDA DESTRUIDA - Radicalito (Beer City
TOEHEADS - Mixed Up (Big Neck
WEREWOLF JONES - Don’t Look Now (Big Neck
CLUTTERED - This Rusted Bike Lock (Self released

Julian Keith Levene tribute
was a founding member of the Clash and Public Image Ltd his punk and post punk guitar sounds have been described as "both melodic and discordant, sonorous and violent". In 1976, he helped persuade Joe Strummer to leave the pub rock band the 101ers and join the Clash. Although he left the band before their first studio recordings, he co-wrote "What's My Name", which appeared on their first album. After the Sex Pistols disbanded, Levene and their lead singer John Lydon co-founded Public Image Ltd (PiL). He was involved in the writing, performing and producing PiL's first three albums: First Issue, Metal Box and Flowers of Romance. He was described in the BBC's obituary as "one of the most influential guitarists of all time... who helped pioneer an angular post-punk sound that is still regularly cited". 

THE CLASH - What’s my Name (CBS) 
PiL - Annalisa (Virgin) 

New releases (Chris)
FRACTURED - Morality of War (Phobia / Trujaca Fala
PHANE - No Need To Breath (Phobia / Trujaca Fala)
PUBLIC ACID - Siphon (Self-Released / Voice From Inside / La Vida Es Un Mus)  
BAREBONES - Black Seeds (Break the Records)   

André Set 
LEXAN - Union Hoax (Delayed Gratification
IDEATION - Blunt Instrument (Dynastic Yellow Star Label) 
MUTE - Digital Hell (Invisible Audio
PLASMA - Kiss The Void (Invisible Audio
MAHRIA - Mask (Dog Knights Productions) 
TORCHES TO ROME - This Is Not A Step (Ebullition) 

All Canadian, mostly new releases (Stephe)
URBAN BLIGHT - Urban Blight (Deranged) 
ROUGH CUTS - Street justice (Self-Released)
THE BARE MINIMUM - Back in the D.P.R.K. (Self-Released 
THE HOLDOUTS - Secondhand Smoke (Cursed Blessings)

90s crust (Chris) 
GLOOM - Defector Disturbing People (MCR Company / Crust War) 
CLUSTER BOMB UNIT - Jagd (MCR Company) 
FORÇA MACABRA - Medo (Genet / Angry / Agipunk) 
DISKONTO - Jag Vägrar Lyssna (Crust As Fuck) 
ASSÜCK - Dataclast (Sound Pollution Records / R.A.S.P.) 

Rudimentary Peni (Anarchist corner) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Media Person (Outer Himalayan) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Teenage Time Killer (Outer Himalayan) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Bloody Jellies (CRASS) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Zero Again (CRASS) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Quarter Dead (Corpus Christi) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Pig In A Blanket (Corpus Christi) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Radio Schizo (Corpus Christi) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Night Gaunts (Outer Himalayan) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Dream City (Outer Himalayan) 
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Blood for Seed (Sealed
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Path of Glory (Sealed

Demo Feature
The Endless Blockade were a super group power violence band in the city featuring Andy Nolan who had been in Ebola, Sawn Off, Shank, and Nation of Finks. Matthew Carrol was also a new arrival from Halifax and played in a band called Capital Death. Ryosuke Kiyasu was also a newcomer from Japan and played on this demo recording. And Ben Edgar also played in the band. They recorded two demos and this is the second one. 

THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Timebomb (Self-Released) 
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Barely Legal (Self-Released) 
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Demograhics (Self-Released) 
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Haymaker vs Manowar (Self-Released) 
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - The Endless Blockade (Self-Released) 
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Island(Self-Released) 

INTENSIVE CARE - Collapse (Iron Lung)

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Radio : EXD 1227 - Sunday, November 20th, 2022

Tonight we are raising funds for CIUT. You can go onto our site at ciut.fm and visit the donate page or there is a peer to peer fundraising page that we have set up where funds go directly to CIUT. Many things about this station are free. The volunteer time that hundreds of us put in every week. The programming is free. It’s not behind some paywall. The programming is diverse. It is done by learned experts - people who have dedicated the majority of their spare time following their scene. Very little advertising, so you don’t have to endure endless amounts of commercials to get to hear the thing you tuned in for. CIUT has figured out how to do a lot with so very little, but we do need to make up some operating costs and we could use your help. Find one of those funding portals and pitch in. It takes a community to keep a radio station broadcasting. 

On tonight’s show you will hear lots of people talking about the merits of the show. I was touched but listeners and musicians who spoke about what the show means to them. There will be a lot of covers because covers of songs are fun and punk bands do a lot of them. I am also excited to share an interview with Don Pyle and Martin Sorrondeguy in the second half of the show about a double launch release party on November 26th that you should know about. Don has a new photo book coming out called Shot in the Mirror and it sounds like it is going to be amazing. And Martin has a new issue of Susto coming out.

Download the show here

CHUBBY AND THE GANG - Getting Beat Again (Partisan

Covers (Andre)
Jack from the The Flying Hotspur Podcast (Part 1) 
ZEKE - Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac) (Epitaph

Covers (Rob)
THE B-MOVIE RATS - Borstal Boys (Junk)
THE MODERATES - For What It's Worth (Hyped)
THE OUTLETS - You Told Me (Modern Methods)

Covers (Chris) 
SKITKRIMES - Fight Against The Plutocrats (Confuse) - (Razored Raw)
ACTION - Blame It On The Youth (Xtract) - (Punkcore
INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL - Americans Out (Oi Polloi) - (Self-released)  
DISTHROAT - They Call This Progress (Excrement of War) - (Victim)
DECADE - Where There Is A Will (Discharge) - (Unreleased) 

Covers (Andre)
Julian the Twin (Part 2) 
NEGATIVE APPROACH - Borstal Breakout (Sham 69) (Self-Released

Covers (Rob)
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH - Right Brigade (Self-Released)
BLIND PIGS - New Generation (Hearts Bleed Blue / Neves / Detona)
SONIC YOUTH - Nic Fit (Geffen)

Covers (Andre)
André’s Testimonial (Part 3) 
EARTH CRISIS - Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream) (Victory

Testimonials (Chris
CRISIS PARTY - Exist (Dirt Cult
Matty Grace - Crisis Party/Cluttered Testimonial 
MARTHA - Dom Kan Inte H​ö​ra Musiken (Masshysteri) - (Drunken Sailor)
DESICCATE - Raw Nerve (Self-Released)  
Kenny - Desiccate Testimonial 
NAPALM RAID - In Conspiracy With Satan (Bathory) - (Self-released)
SQUANDER - War crimes (Greymatter Tapes
Greg - Squander Testimonial 
DEPOPULATION DEPARTMENT - Born To Die In The Gutter (Discharge) - (Loner Cult / Hecatombe / Romantic Songs / Crust as Fuck)    
WARKRUSHER - Visions Of Mortality (Audacious Madness)  
Tom - Warkrusher Testimonial 
SEPULTURA - Orgasmatron (Motörhead) - (Roadracer / Takt Music / Estúdio Eldorado / R/C / Roadrunner / MG / Güneş Plak Ve Kaset / Far East Metal Syndicate / Jigu / I.T.M / Radio Tripoli)

So fundraising is on and we are doing are best to not torture with begging and pleading, but the station does need your help. Nobody’s really sure how live broadcasting might work at CIUT in this next phase of covid but we continue to work at bringing you a unique two hour of showcase of the week in punk. And we are not always so current affairs based but we do work to bring you things relevant to this scene in the form of playing bands or doing interviews or having features. And so that is where this next feature fits. On Saturday November 26th at the Annex Hotel a launch party is being thrown for the release of a new Don Pyle book called Shot in the Mirror. The book is being released with a number of features which we talk about in the interview. And Martin Sorrondeguy is co-releasing an issue of Susto which makes a collage piece of art out of some of Don’s photos which sounds pretty spectacular. And Martin will be playing music at the event. I had the chance to speak with these two prolific and important people in our scene. And here is that interview.

DICKS - Hate the Police (Radical / 1-2-3-4 Go!)
Interview with Don and Martin
LIMP WRIST - Thick Skin (LVEUM)

NOFX - Straight Edge (Epitaph)

CIUT fall fundraising 2022

We’re reaching out to you as a listener to Equalizing-X-Distort (EXD) to ask you to support CIUT. CIUT is the campus community radio station that broadcasts EXD, as well as many other unique and underground programs.  As a station we need funds to do things like maintain the broadcast transmitter, to maintain broadcast equipment, and to keep the station running. 


New this drive is a show portal that you can donate to the station through which is found at : https://donorbox.org/2022-fall-fundraising-drive/fundraiser/equalizing-x-distort

And we think CIUT is worth investing in. There are a ton of shows to check out and most of our listeners are fans of more than one show. 

We also happen to think that what we offer in terms of a punk show is unique.








Sunday, November 13, 2022

Radio : EXD 1226 - Sunday, November 13th, 2022

For tonight’s show Andre interviews Adam Croft of Convulse Records about the label, band’s and Denver. I interview Mike from Rough Cuts about the band, the Reds, and their latest recording “Last Call”. There is quite a bit of new material and a demo feature by the Clitboys who were from Milwaukee in the early 80’s. Download the show here

RAT CAGE - In The Shadow Of The Bomb (Lughole / LVEUM)    

New Releases (Chris)
BLACK DOG - Gnashing Of Teeth (Self-released
RESIN - Chaos (1753
BALTA - Hatalom, Atom (LVEUM
CRUTCHES - Stopp I Huet (Phobia / Not Enough / Profane Existance)      

Rough Cuts Interview (Stephe) 
What Do I know about Rough Cuts? Not much. I mean they have been around for about 4 years and they write oi music. They support TFC which how they first came across my radar. They have a split out with Red Alert. They are not too active right now but they just released a new set of songs called “Last Call”. I got to speak with the singer Mike. We talked about Rough Cuts, oi, Toronto, and a bunch of their songs. We’re going to start off with the song “New Breed” which is off their first release. 

ROUGH CUTS - New Breed (Self-Released)
ROUGH CUTS - Interview (CIUT) 
ROUGH CUTS - Reds (Self-Released)
ROUGH CUTS - Interview (CIUT) 
ROUGH CUTS - Nobody’s Fool (Self-Released)
ROUGH CUTS - Interview (CIUT) 
ROUGH CUTS - Come into my Parlour  (Self-Released)
ROUGH CUTS - Interview (CIUT) 
ROUGH CUTS - I’m Done  (Self-Released)
ROUGH CUTS - Interview (CIUT) 
ROUGH CUTS - Rough Cuts (Cursed Blessings
ROUGH CUTS - Interview (CIUT) 
ROUGH CUTS - Carry On  (Self-Released)

New Releases (Chris)
AMMO - Kleptocracy (Web of Lies / Death Won’t Even Satisfy / Static Shock
ELEVATE - Stab From The Front (Breakout / Dirtwave / Richter Scale)
VIOLIN - Parasite (LVEUM
WAR//PLAGUE - Disruption (Phobia)
COTÄRD - Delirio (Neon Taste)   

New Releases (Stephe) 
KEVIN SHORT AND HIS PRIVATES - Punk Strut (Self-Released) 
FRESHLY RIOTS - Blind Like Facists (Bondeskiver / Queer Pills
SLOTH FIST - We're Fucked (Self-Released
CONDITIONS APPLY - Destroy My Quiet (Self-Released)
TOKYO LUNGS - Living on Crumbs (Amok / Toxic Wotsit)

Convulse Records 
On this week's set André speaks to Adam Croft, who runs Convulse Records based in Denver, Colorado. Adam speaks on running the label and its origins, how the hardcore scene in Denver has evolved and grown, and Adam chooses five bands off of the label which he thinks bests represents what Convulse is all about.

YAMBAG - Capture The Flag (Convulse) 
RAW BREED - G.D.K (Convulse) 
COMPASSION - Pacing Animal (Convulse) 
CANDY APPLE - Re-Animator (Convulse) 
GEL - Predominant Mask (Convulse) 
 
Demo Feature 
THE CLITBOYS were a hardcore band from Milwaukee between 1982 and 1984. Best known for their single “We Don’t Play the Game”, but one of the first places I heard about them was as a reference in Meatmen’s “Punkerama”. Anyway I came across an early demo of the band’s 7 out of 8 songs not on the ep. I thought it would make for a great feature. 

THE CLITBOYS - Time for Another War 
THE CLITBOYS - Have Faith 
THE CLITBOYS - I Hate the KKK 
THE CLITBOYS - Apathy Rules 
THE CLITBOYS - So Funny 
THE CLITBOYS - Rat Race 
THE CLITBOYS - 3rd World War 
THE CLITBOYS - We Don’t Play the Game

Sunday, November 6, 2022

Radio : EXD 1225 - Sunday, November 6th, 2022

Coming up on the show we will do a new feature called anarchist corner which will take a look at MDC. There will be a vintage segment feature on Scarborough so paying love to the burb in the east. But the overall theme of tonight’s show is new releases from everybody. So everyone has new material…… And a demo feature by ABOMINATRIX. Download the show here

AGRAVIO - Amigos del Estado (SPHC
 
New Releases (Chris
SIBAFÜ - キ (Black Hole/ A-Z) 
PHANE - Vacant (Self-released)  
ASILE - Brume De Guerre (PILS) 
SKITKRIMES - Human Off Switch (Razored Raw) 
KOMPLEX VINY - Optickej klam (Phobia) 

Anarchist corner (Stephe)
Anarchism has been a feature in punk rock from the Sex Pistols singing about “Anarchy in the UK” to it being taken more seriously with that wave of bands in the early 80’s that Ian Glasper writes about in his book “The Day the Country Died” with bands often referred to as peace punk bands. We have been talking about doing a feature on the show that would look at various anarchist bands in a feature like segment and I was telling this to Chris LaBonte who plays in the Hard Toms. His band Son of Happy got to play with MDC at the anarchist unconventional in 1986 here in Toronto and thought MDC was a natural for this segment. So having thought about it for a week I think he is right and so i thought I would start this feature off by looking at MDC. MDC was a punk band from Austin originally known as the STAINS. The band released an early version of John Wayne was a Nazi on their own label R Radical Records in 1980 and then moved to San Francisco forever being known as a band from San Francisco. Here’s that early recording of their classic song. 

STAINS - John Wayne was a Nazi (R Radical) 
MDC - Dead Cops - America's so Straight (R Radical) 

So MDC move to California and their is a band from L.A. known as the STAINS so they had to change their name. The band played a show with BLACK FLAG in Orange County and witnessing the violent attacks by the police at the show they decided to called themselves Millions of Dead Cops. So we heard that coming out of this first set. The name MDC was a three letter acronym that took on a new name with every release. The band prompted other bands to do the same even causing a local band to make fun of it by calling themselves MSI which stood for More Stupid Initials. MDC stood for many progressive radical issues at the time. “America’s So Straight” becomes one of the first songs to challenge hetero normative culture. The Millions of Dead Cops album is an incredible album for so many reasons. I remember listening to that album and my views on punk rock opened up like no other record. Lyrically they took on many issues like American foreign policy, the prison industrial complex, fast food chains, the separation of church and state, dysfunctional families. Some of these concepts had been introduced through anarchist bands in the UK but they were a little more drawn out in theoretical methods. A bit more black and white. A bit too simple. MDC presented concepts of progressive ideas in everyday ways. Here are a couple of more tracks from that album…..because it is too great not to leave out a two song medley in the first set. We’re going to start off with the song that has a chant that is used today at defund the police rallies showing the longevity of their ideas and the speaking truth to power that makes it thoughts before their time. 

MDC - Born to Die (R Radical) 
MDC - I Hate Work (R Radical) 
MDC - I Remember (R Radical) 

The lightning stop and start parts of their songs really changed the way how hardcore was written. And crossover would soon make in roads with DRI essentially writing the next iteration of stop and start hardcore. Bands like Stark Raving Mad would up the ante. I think MDC were starting to make their next releases even more substantial. Borrowing on the anarchist style of CRASS records releases their next two releases become single issue focused releases with poster sleeve self covers that fold out into nine panels of information. Picking up on the “Corporate Deathburger” theme the first is those singles is called “Multi Death Corporations” which ties in ideas of the military industrial complex and anti nuke movement seamlessly. So we’re gonna start off with that. 

MDC - Multi Death Corporation (R Radical) 
MDC - Chicken Squawk (R Radical) 

We finished up “Chicken Squawk” which is the best known song from the “Millions of Dead Children” ep. That single and the arguments laid out for vegetarianism is the reason why I am a vegetarian today. My brother photocopied the content of those sleeves and made anti-McDonald’s flyers. The band started playing “Rock Against Reagan” shows with Big Boys and Bad Brains. HR finds out that Randy Turner from the Bog Boys is gay and this leads to a heated argument between HR and Dave Dictor which results in the song “Pay to Come Along” which gets released on “Rat Music for Rat People volume 2” so we are going to hear that… 
 
MDC - Pay to Come Along (CD Presents) 
MDC - Missile Destroyed Civilization (R Radical) 

“Missile Destroyed Civilizations” ends the PEACE comp which becomes the bar from which no other comps have been able to meet. An international comp with bringing attention to a single cause like war. 55 bands on the comp from around the world on a double LP rivalling the second MRR comp “Welcome to 1984”. This comp came with a 72 page zine/book. In more recent times Dave Dictor has continued his compilation work recently releasing a series of comps called “Punk for Ukraine” which was a 6 CD set and a Myanmar Resistance compilation. This is on a new label called Grimace Records. MDC would go on to release a shit ton of records (9 albums / 3 singles / 10 splits). Lots of amazing releases on all of them. The band stopped and restarted. But this is the stuff that I found most influential from MDC. Had a huge impact on my life. Had a huge impact on the scene. They would run a show space called the Farm, which would become a blueprint for punk run event places that people lived in like squats. Had a huge impact on activism. So that’s my take on MDC. 

NewStuff (Rob) 
1876 - DGAF 
ETERAZ - Blood Drunkard (Iron Lung) 
HEADCHEESE - Loss Prevention (Neon Taste)
GENERACION SUICIDA - Fuego (Drunken Sailor) 
A.I.D.S - Blood on Blood (La Vida Es Un Mus) 

New and Old (André)
FACE DOWN - Cursed In Sickness (Tribunal) 
BERTHOLD CITY - Out Of Darkness (War Records) 
CINDERBLOCK - Breathe The Fire (War Records) 
SCOWL - Idle Roaring Room (Flatspot) 
LAW OF POWER - $80 Devil (Flatspot) 

Scarborough punk 
Scarborough is one of the original six boroughs that make up Toronto. It is the borough to the east. It is the place that gets made fun of the most out of all the boroughs of Toronto. When I was a kid we would see rows and rows of strip malls. But in hindsight I would say that this wasn’t unique to Scarborough. When I was growing up the subway was being extended through Scarborough Town Centre to Kennedy station which was great dystopian futuristic underground to play in. Scarborough was home to many immigrant communities which may have been a reason why Scarborough became the butt of many jokes. I grew up in North York very close to the Scarborough border. Scarborough goes from the lake to Steeles so it is a borough that spans the entire height of the city. The Beaches communities are older more established communities. As you move north you get more high rises and lower income places. The northern areas were victim to post WWII planning. You either need a car to get around or you are victim to hours on public transit so there is a feeling of being under serviced or being on your own. But in some ways that environment helped create some of the best bands in our scene. Being out there on your own. Living in a place that people shat on. Being from Scarbrough embues residents with the underdog fighting spirit. Here are some bands from Scarbrough and surrounding area to make this point. 

THE MODS - Step Out Tonight (Bomb) 
A.P.B. - Constant Threat (NRK) 
SWINDLED - Hymn #84 (Swindled) 
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Kill The Press-Pantyhose-Plastic Punk-Street Car Windows-Baby Killer (NRK) 
BLIBBER AND THE RAT CRUSHERS - Nazi Punks Go Bowling (Self-Released) 
 
Current melodic punk (Chris
PÖLS - Otras formas (Discos Enfermos / El Lokal / A-Z, Exabrupto)    
SWEET REAPER - Fun Dip (Self-Released / Alien Snatch) 
CLUTTERED - Dysphoria City Limits (Self-Released) 
1-800 MIKEY - Plushy (ETT / Under the Gun)  
NANCY - Captain Lou (Neck Chop / ETT) 
 
PISS KINKS - Why Don’t They Catcall Me (Dirtbag Distro) 
CONDITION - Signed in Blood (Iron Lung)
ACID BLOOD - To The Grave (Jan ML / Maja Von Lobeck)
INTERROBANG - The Inclement Weather (On the Fiddle)
DISOLVENTE - Mi Desesperacion (Self-Released
 
BUTCHER BABY - Beer, Weed And Three Lines Of Speed (Self-Released
OTOBOKE BEAVER - George and Janice (Damnably) 
RASHOMON - Nin-Gen (Iron Lung)
LEXICON - Bleak Future (Iron Lung) 
WOUND MAN - Infection (Iron Lung)  
 
Demo Feature 
ABOMINATRIX are three submissive slaves from the dank, dark corners of rock n roll. ABOMINATRIX are playing at the Bovine on Saturday November 12th with Anxious Pleasers, Private Lives, and Shiv and the Carvers. You can find this recording on bandcamp.

ABOMINATRIX - She Walks All Over Me (Self-Released) 
ABOMINATRIX - Cuckolder But Wiser (Self-Released) 
ABOMINATRIX - S(he)&M(e) (Self-Released) 
ABOMINATRIX - I Get What I Deserve (Self-Released)

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Radio : EXD 1224 - Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Welcome to Equalizing-X-Distort for the night before Hallowe’en, so most if not all of tonight’s show has a tie in to tomorrow. Near the end Andre does a beatdown feature. And a Kamloops band named HEADCHEESE will be tonight's demo feature. Download the show here

THE FERTILIZED EGGS - Trick Or Treat Smell My Feet (Dirtbag Distro)  

Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights (Chris)
HAZMAT & THE TOXIC WASTERS - Graveyard Shift 
SKOTOS - Concealed Carry 
PARADISE TAX - Sneaker Wave  
STEREO JOY - Dionysus  
ORRENDO SUBOTNIK - Peso Morto 
 
Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights Part 2 
TOTAL SHAM - Bloodsucker  
BILLIAM - It’s Spooky 3  
GHOST BEEF - Mutants Run This Town  
DUMPSTER RATS - Monster Mash  
SILICONE HEARTBEAT - Slime City 

Emissions Hallowe'en (Dave Stevenson) 
YDI - Haunted House (Southern Lord
THE PROWL - Wicked Annabella (Self-Released
CRUCIFUCKS - You Give Me The Creeps (Alternative Tentacles
GHOUL - Proud To Be Creepsylvanian (Tank Crimes

DIE KREUZEN - Halloween (Touch and Go
PART 1 - Black Mass (Pusmort) 
BATTALION OF SAINTS - I Wanna Make You Scream (Taang
M.O.D. - Man of Your Dreams (Caroline) 
POISON IDEA - Getting The Fear (American Leather

Toronto post punk (Stephe) 
NASH THE SLASH - Blind Windows (Cut Throat)
TBA - Through My Fingers (Smash) 
JOLLY TAMBOURINE MAN - Sweater in Sri Lanka (Assembly Language) 
NEON ROME - The Magical Summer of 85 (New Rose)

Rob’s set 
THE SOFT BOYS - Wading Through A Ventilator (Delorean)
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Release the Bats (4AD / Missing Link)
UNWOUND - Murder Movies (Kill Rock Stars)
BORN AGAINST - Well Fed Fuck (Vermiform)
SHOTMAKER - Drown (GAS Religion)

Vancouver new wave (Stephe) 
THE BRAINEATERS - I, Braineater (Wrong World)
ZELLOTS - Vampire Love (Supreme Echo
FEMALE HANDS - Stop All Biology (Quintessence) 
UJ3RK5 - Booty Dread (Quintessence) 
SI MONKEY - Get Rigid (Friends) 

Beatdown set (Andre) 
BULLDOZE - The Truth (Self-Released) 
NEXT STEP UP - Karma (Gain Ground) 
IRATE - Awakenings (Self-Released) 
WORLD DEMISE - Can’t Relate (Flatspot
SWEAR TO GOD - Six Feet Deep (Self-Released
SUNAMI - Feds Watchin’ (Creator-Destructor) 

Demo Feature 
Headcheese are a band from Kamloops that we heard a few weeks back in one of Chris’ sets. They have a full length out on Neon Taste. On the label’s site they have tagged their release with comparisons to White Pigs and Brutal Knights.

HEADCHEESE - I Can’t Win (Slow Death
HEADCHEESE - Loss Prevention (Slow Death) 
HEADCHEESE - I Wanna Be Special (Forces) (Slow Death)