Radio : EXD 1257 - Sunday June 25, 2023

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On this episode we started with the Go-Go’s because Berlinda Carlisle has a new album out and she did a great interview on Q this week. Check it out. Pride really kicks off this weekend so we have another set of pride punk. We have a feature interview with Blue Oil who were an all woman punk band from Montreal in the early 80’s. Andre will be looking at Tied Down fest in Detroit and this will be a two part series, so he is focusing on Day 1 of the fest. Day 2 next week. We have a couple of new releases sets by Rob and Chris. And Andre has sourced tonight’s demo feature which is a local band named Fertilizer. 

GO-GOs - The Whole World Lost Its Head (IRS)

LGBTQIA2S+ punk 

CLUTTERED - Give Me (Self-released)  

PANSY DIVISION & TRÉ COOL - Can't Make Love (Ark 21 Records)  

TRIBE 8 - People Hate Me (Alternative Tentacles) 

PROM NITE - Eternity of Man (Self-Released) 

MIDDLE-AGED QUEERS - Gary's Making Biscuits (Self-Released) 

NFA QUEER PUNX - Try It, Riot! (Self-Released)

New Releases (Rob)
SWEEPING PROMISES - Eraser (Feel It)

SILICONE PRAIRIE - Serpant in the Grass (Feel It)

RANDOM KILLING - Genocide (A Future Denied) (Cursed Blessings)

DIABLOGATO - Damnation (Rum Bar)

POW WOWS - Going Dark (Get Hip)

New Releases (Chris) 

DESICCATE - Warden (Unreleased)  

HARÉN - Frakaso (Uterzine / El Lokal)  

DOGMA - Disarm Or Die (Grow Your Own) 

DICED - What Will You Do? (Self-released)  

SWORDWIELDER - Beneath A Blood Red Sky (Wielding Metal Massacre / Profane Existence)  

Blue Oil interview 

Blue Oil was an all women punk band from Montreal in the post punk vein. They released their own single called “Money” in 1982. They played a lot around the province of Quebec. And they have a full length collection that has just come our collecting a number of recordings. We are going to start off with one of those previously unreleased tracks which addresses urban congestion. This is a track called Sardine City. 

BLUE OIL - Sardine City (Supreme Echo) 

BLUE OIL - Interview (CIUT) 

BLUE OIL - Money (Supreme Echo) 

BLUE OIL - Interview (CIUT) 

BLUE OIL - Producer (Supreme Echo) 

Best of Tied Down Fest (Andre)

NEGATIVE APPROACH - Tied Down (Touch and Go)

D BLOC - The Fixer (Self-Released) 

GAG - London Fog (Iron Lung) 

PAIN OF TRUTH - Actin’ Up (Daze) 

GOD’S HATE - Violence Unlimited (Closed Casket Activities) 

GORILLA BISCUITS - Hold Your Ground (Revelation) 

Demo Feature (André) 

FERTILIZER are from Toronto, have a couple of shows coming up. 

FERTILIZER - Rot on the Vine (Self-Released) 

FERTILIZER - Shadows Behind the Curtain (Self-Released) 

FERTILIZER - Nature’s Favourite Creature (Self-Released) 

FERTILIZER - I (Self-Released) 

FERTILIZER - Folded In Half-Man(Self-Released) 

J.F.A. - Blood on my Board (DJ Jams)

Radio : EXD 1256 - Sunday June 18, 2023

On tonight’s show, we have new releases and a UK '82 set. There is an oldies set and a mixed bag set. A set of Jewish inspired punk to celebrate the opening of the Toronto Holocaust Museum. Tonight’s demo feature is a new band from Hamilton named Wasted Age that features members of Flesh Rag, Decomposeur, Burn Victim, and System System. But up first a set of new LGBTQ+ bands to celebrate pride month.

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MDC - The Jew That Got Away (R Radical) 

LGBTQ+ punk 

GAY PANIC DEFENSE - I am a poof (Self-Released)

ANTI - Queer Punk! (Self-Released)

EAT MY FEAR - Beyond Binaries (Refuse) 

CISECTOMY - Pride Month (Self-Released)

THE GAY AGENDA - Hid The Truth (Self-Released)

MUSTELMIA - Queer-teoria (Self-Released)

BURNING TIMES - Nuclear Family War (Tadpole)

New Releases (Chris) 

BIPOLAR - Darkness (Systema Mortal / Fuzzed Atrocities)   

Dauðyflin - Þorparaþjóð (Self-released) 

THROE - Nameless Shapeless (Mouth of Madness)   

AZIJNPISSER - Gentrification Hipstershit (Way Back When / Lonercult / Rinderherz)   

PUFFER - Warzone (Roachleg)   

RAT CAGE - Spitting On The Ceiling (LVEUM)   

Mix of new and newer (André)

WORLD PEACE - Penance Unending (Twelve Gauge)

BÉTON ARMÉ - Jusque à Mor (Roachleg) 

CRIME ‘84 - Hate Cops (Self-Released)

JETSAM - Clayborne (Self-Released) 

FUTURE TERROR - Supremacy Cult (Ryvvolte)

SPINE - P.O.C. (Convulse) 

WEAK PULSE - Ikari (Open Palm) 

BEST WISHES - Future (Self-Released) 

Oldies (Rob)
THE DISHRAGS - Tormented (Supreme Echo) 

999 - I’m Alive (United Artists)

DANGEROUS GIRLS - Heavy Fish on Mandrax (Rave Up)

DOA - Rip Dis Joint (Sudden Death)

THE CARPETTES - Cream of the Youth (Mad Butcher)

The Toronto Holocaust Museum is a space for education and dialogue about the vital history of the Holocaust and its ongoing relevance. The Museum just opened up last week in Toronto. In honour of this I have pulled together some Jewish centric punk rock.

YIDCORE - Dayenu (Swell)

D-COMPOSERS - Tzadik Ketamar (Fat Wreck) 

Israeli punk 

DIR YASSIN - Save Them from the Abyss of Forgetfulness (La Vida Es Un Mus / Alerta Antifascista)

CHAOS RABAK - Haverim Amitiim (Self-Released) 

DEAD RABINZ - Israhell (Self-Released)

SQUARE BRATS - DestrOi (Self-Released) 

SHORTFUZE - Burn the Streets (Self-Released)

HELEM - The Great Betrayal (Self-Released) 

GEVES - רוק חלאות (Scumbag Rock) (Self-Released)

Best Before ‘23 (Chris) 

ANTHRAX - Got It All Wrong (Small Wonder / Mad Butcher) 

EXIT-STANCE - Ballykelly Disco (Fight Back) 

THE WASTE - Dig up the Duke (Mortarhate) 

ANTI-SYSTEM - Big Fallout (Reconciliation / Antisociety)

AOA - Germ Warfare (Children of the Revolution) 

CRASS - Reject of Society (Small Wonder / Crass) 

Mid spring dance party 

THE INTERRUPTORS - As We Live (Feat. Tim Armstrong & Rhoda Dakar) (Self-Released)

QUARANTINE TARANTINO - Sound System (Coffin Curse) 

KILL LINCOLN - David Duke is Running for President (Asian Man / Bad Time)   

THE SUICIDE MACHINES - Potter's Song (Fat Wreck) 

BIG BROTHER - Stay Golden (Unknown / No Time) 

Demo Feature 

WASTED AGE is a band 4 piece from Hamilton formed last spring and features Grant Coates. Recorded and mixed by Matt Ellis the band features Eric of Flesh Rag on Bass, Steve of Decomposeur and Burn Victim on vocals and our secret weapon, Hugo on drums. 

 

WASTED AGE - Intro / Demolition Man (Self-Released) 

WASTED AGE - What’s Going On (Self-Released) 

WASTED AGE - Bad Trip (Self-Released)

Flyer - Sunday June 18, 2023

 

Radio : EXD 1255 - Sunday June 11, 2023

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On tonight’s show We started out with Unsanitary Napkin and the song TERF war. We played that in honour of Pride month and Chris will be starting of with a set of pride related material. Chris has some new releases. I speak with John and Harri from Johnny and the G-Rays. And Andre interviews Christina Wong and Daniel Innes about Denison Avenue which is a book about Chinatown. 

UNSANITARY NAPKIN - TERF War (Slimebag / Always Never Fun / Limbless)  

Punk and Proud 

CRISIS PARTY - Exist (Dirt Cult)  

STRONG BOYS - Pink Death (Static Shock) 

COCKRING - Airtight (No Time / Thrashtapes)  

Interview with J.T. from High Anxiety 

HIGH ANXIETY - Trans Rights Now! (Unreleased)   

GRUDGEPACKER - Fast ‘n’ Loud (Self-released)   

CLUTTERED - Napathy and Exhaustion (Self-released)  

CANAL IRREAL - Emergencia (Beach Impediment)  

Johnny and the G-Rays 

Last summer we spoke with John MacLeod about Johnny and the G-Rays around the launch of a film which captured a performance at the Palais Royale. The film is screening again next week on Thursday in Hamilton and Saturday at the Paradise in Toronto. We got to speak with John and Harri from the band just a couple of weeks ago and this is part of that conversation. 

JOHNNY AND THE G-RAYS - Who Scared John (Basement)

JOHNNY AND THE G-RAYS - Interview (CIUT)

JOHNNY AND THE G-RAYS - It Can’t Be Right (Basement)

We will be putting up a more in depth interview on the blog that has stories about Talking Heads and a show that ended up in a fight at U of T, and in depth talks about the album. But more importantly coming up this Thursday (June 15th) at Westdale the band will perform and the film will screen and then the same thing will happen on Saturday June 17th at the Paradise Cinema starting at 6:00pm. 

New Releases (Chris) 

THATCHER’S SNATCH - No Disco (Hardcore Victim)  

CONSEC - Feeble (Not For The Weak)   

C.I.D.B. - Duality (PILS)  

SPIRITO DI LUPO - Spirito Selvaggio (LVEUM / Iron Lung) 

PUFFER - Hard Way to Go (Roachleg) 

Denison Avenue - André 

Interview with Christina Wong and Daniel Innes, author and illustrator of the new book about Chinatown and Kensington Market in Toronto called Denison Avenue and published by ECW Press. 

RUINATION - Note To Self (Dead Alive/Politically Corrupt) 

MARILYN’S VITAMINS - It’s Good To Be Here (Ugly Pop) 

André’s reminiscences of Chinatown and Kensington CATHARSIS - Bow Down (CrimethInc) 

STIGMATA - Nothing But Enemies (Trainwreck) 

TEN YARD FIGHT - Hardcore Pride (Big Wheel Recreation) 

IRE - Evil Eyes (CrimethInc) 

LOS CRUDOS - Sin Cara/¿Porque? (Beat Generation)

MINOR THREAT - 12XU (Dischord) 

MINOR THREAT - Stand Up (Dischord)

Radio : EXD 1254 - Sunday June 4, 2023

 

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What can you expect from this episode of EXD? Myself, Chris and Rob have programed sets of new releases so that’s how we are going to start the show. With an onslaught of new releases. And then we have some feature programming - Andre pulled together a set of vegan straight edge, which I don’t think we have ever featured on the show before. Chris has programmed some songs to celebrate summer. And in our demo feature we are playing a band from St. John New Brunswick called Willful Disobedience who we played last week on the show. We will be playing the rest of their release called “Dedication” to showcase this band.

HONG KONG BLONDE - Day of the Clown (Self-Released)

New Releases (Stephen)

PSYCHOTERROR - Punk Pole Moes (Tallinn Old Town)

SCRAPS - Le Pen, Fuck You (Refuse) 

ON MY SIDE - Flares (Self-Released)

OVEREXPOSURE - Dead To Me (War Against) 

KINGS NEVER DIE - Make Them Anymore (Metalville)

New Releases (Chris) 

C57BL/6 - Red Dawn (Richter Scale) 

STREET GLOVES - Soft Target (Self-released / Sore Mind) 

EXWHITE - FOMO (Turbo Discos / Spared Flesh / Mangel) 

LIQUIDS - Asswipe (Self-released) 

MALDITA - Policia No Me Pegue (MFI Distro)

VOLTAGE - Sanctuary (Blown Out Media)

STEP TO FREEDOM - Control Therapy (Blown Out Media) 

New Releases (Rob)

OSEES - Intercepted Message (Self-Released)

MAPACHE - The Answer (Self-Released)

PRIORS - Taste For Blood (Self-Released)

LES LULLIES - Mauvaise Foi (Self-Released)

THE SORELS - Angel's Song

Vegan Straight Edge Set (André)

EARTH CRISIS - The Discipline (Victory)

ECOSTRIKE - Standing Hard (Triple B)

VANGUARD - Defeatist (New Age)

CLEAR CUT - Choices (Catalyst)

WITH WAR - Liberation (Self-Released)

GENUINE - Not A Wolf Pack (Self-Released) 

LIFE FORCE - Elevate (New Age)

SERVITUDE - Wicked City (Self-Released)

CLIMATE - Choices (Dog Years)

It’s June!! Let’s punk!!! (Chris) 

THE SPITS - Spit Me Out (Slovenly) 

FLQ - Calling All Cars (Bad Vibrations) 

NANCY - Luvletter (Neck Chop / Ketchup And Mustard Industries / ETT) 

MONONEGATIVES - Television Funeral (Dowd)

TIIKERI - Maiharit tai tennarit (Vox Populi / Open Up And Bleed)

THE ALMIGHTY TRIGGER HAPPY - Dirty Rotten (Bad Taste) 

KLOVER - Common Factor (Mercury) 

FAULTY COGNITIONS - On a Rock (Self-Released)

UNBELIEVER - War Sirens (Self-Released) 

THE DREADKNOUGHTS - The Amiens Polka (Self-Released)

Demo Feature

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE are a band from Saint John, New Brunswick. They just released a recording called “Dedication”. Last week we played the song “Hard as Fuck”  so we’ll play everything else from this new release, which starts off Sabbath-ish but will lead to endless raging. 

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Strike 

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Lost Bass

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Get Rich

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Butthole to Butthole

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Heat the Town

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Working at War

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Cliffside Beneficiary

ZORN - Oathbreaker (Zorn Is Your Master) (Estranged Communications) 

FAIRYTALE - Possible to Grow (Quality Control)