Radio - Sunday February 20, 2022

Tonight more celebrations of Black History Month with a tribute to Rocky George (guitarist in Suicidal Tendencies, Cro-Mags, and Fishbone) and a second feature on Black artists in early punk bands. We also have the second installment of Speed Kills interviewing Robert Williams about the legendary band Siege. Tonight’s demo feature is a band from Victoria called Mass Distraction who have a crossover influence. Download the show here.

SIEGE - Life of Hate (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

Rocky George Feature 

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - Look Up..... (The Boys Are Back) (Suicidal)

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - Cyco (Caroline / Virgin / Fringe Product) 

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - The Feeling’s Back (Epic / Virgin) 

CRO-MAGS - Pressure Drop (Cro-Mag Recording / Cargo) 

FISHBONE - Faceplant Scorpion Backpinch (Sound In Color / Ter A Terre / Discograph / 3 Wise / Pony Canyon Inc.) 

CRO-MAGS - No One’s Coming (Mission Two Entertainment / Arising Empire) 

Speed Kills - Siege 

This is the next installment of “Speed Kills” a series started by Dave Stevenson on power violence. On Monday February 7th I got a chance to talk with Robert Williams about his band Siege and their influence on this genre. Siege were a second generation Boston hardcore band that improved on the speed of early GANG GREEN and JERRY’s KIDS. And although they released only a cassette and some comp tracks the songs were so good that many bands would make tributes to them and they would become legendary. I started out by showing Robert my copy of the “Drop Dead” ep which Robert was explaining was a bootleg. We pick up with that conversation.

SIEGE - Starvation (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

SIEGE - Grim Reaper (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

GANG GREEN - Narrow Mind (Modern Method) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

SIEGE - Armageddon (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

SIEGE - Drop Dead (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

SIEGE - Walls (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

SIEGE - Cold War (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

SIEGE - Two-Faced (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

SIEGE - Interview (CIUT) 

SIEGE - Conform (Armageddon / Deep Six) 

THE FREEZE - Broken Bones (Modern Method)

Early Punk Bands Featuring Black Artists 

DEATH SENTENCE - Victims of War (Beat The System!! / Lightbeat) 

PURE HELL - Noise Addiction (Welfare) 

HAGAR THE WOMB - Cardboard Theatre (Mortarhate) 

DEATH - Freakin Out (Drag City) 

THE PLASMATICS - Pig is a Pig (Stiff America / Stiff Canada / Passport) 

CAMPFIRE SHITKICKERS - Cockatoo Quill (Batcave)

FULL THROTTLE - Friday Night (Self-Released)

Tonight’s demo feature is a band out of Victoria with called MASS DISTRACTION. In 2019 they released something called “Inclusion not exclusion. And it sounds a little something like this. You can download this on bandcamp.

MASS DISTRACTION - Follow in Line (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - Massacre (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - Two Party System (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - War in your Livingroom (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - The Reality (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - Orphan Crust (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - No Better than the Rest (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - Biting the hand that feeds (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - War Remains (Self-Released) 

MASS DISTRACTION - Mental Anguish (Self-Released)