Equalizing Distort: November 2023

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Radio : EXD 1279 - Sunday November 26, 2023

On this episode of EXD, an interview with Jason Flower about one of his early bands Stick Farm. Nicky does a couple of regional scramz features - Socal legends and an emerging Alberta scene. Some oldies, some newbies, some re-issues. The demo feature is Spleen a melodic oi band from Montreal.

NO FUCKER - They Cal it Peace (Noise Itch)

Oldies (Chris)

EDDIE AND THE HOTRODS - Quit This Town (Island)

BUZZCOCKS - Love Battery (United Artists)

EPPU NORMAALI - Poliisi Pamputtaa Taas (Poko)

THE COMETS - Big Business Jokes (Orange / Reminder)

THE DIODES - Time Damage (Columbia)

Stick Farm interview

Stick Farm were a metal tinged hardcore band from Victoria, also described as progressive thrash. They were in the scene between 1990 and 1991. Jason Flower, who does Supreme Echo Records, was in the band. This might have been his first band. I talked to him a few weeks back about the band and their collection release called “Re-Harvest”.

STICK FARM - Global Tribe (Supreme Echo)

STICK FARM interview (CIUT)

STICK FARM - Doors of Perception (Supreme Echo)

New stuff and reissues (Andre)

HOME INVASION - Never Silent (War)

BONEBEARER - Flesh Like Ice (Self-released)

SECTOR - Writing on the wall (DAZE)

NATURAL HUMAN INSTINCT - Disengage (Self-released)

FREEZERBURN - Worthless (Self-released)

SPLEEN - Advienne Que Pourra (RoachLeg)

SSD - How Much Art (Trust)

KILLING TIME - No More Mr. Nice Guy (Triple B)

So-cal screamo (Nicky)

IN CASE OF CAPTURE - Whats with all these flying angel bunnies? They’re fucking creeping me out!! (Self-released)

IWROTEHAIKUSABOUTCANNIBALISMINYOURYEARBOOK - 5 (ZBR)

KNUMERS - Untitled (Self-released)

WIDOWDUSK - Holding on (Larry)

FLOWERS TAPED TO PENS - I don't wanna come home (Driftwood Tapes)

INDIAN SUMMER - Orchard (Repercussion Recordings)

New Releases (Chris)

EXSANG - Toxic Insecurity (Attack With Force)

YDINPERHE - Ne Jotka Tekee Päätöksiä Ymmärtää Vähiten Asioista Joista Ne Tekee Päätöksiä (Hakaniemi Hardcore)

DESICCATE - Recoil (Self Released)

TRENCHRAID - Drink and Destroy (Blown Out Media)

CHIEN FLIC - Good Bed (Dirty Slap / You Suffer)

Alberta Screamo (Nicky)

TOTHETEETH / TOTHEHILT - We should hook up…naaah, just kidding! (Self-released)

I HATE SEX - I Hate Sports (Self-released)

CRIPPLED CHILDREN - Tuesdays With Tuesday Guy (Self-released)

OBROA-SKAI - Blink (ZBR)

4BPM - Attic Sounds (Self-released)

Demo Feature

SPLEEN are a Montréal based band and have a demo just out on RoachLeg Records. The band plays a mix of Street punk, Oi, (surf rock?) with melody.

SPLEEN - Cauchemard (RoachLeg)

SPLEEN - Décadence (RoachLeg)

SPLEEN - Colère Noire (RoachLeg)

SPLEEN - Advienne Que Puerra (RoachLeg)

SPLEEN - Sans Espoir (RoachLeg)

DEATH OF GUITAR POP - Suburban Ska Club (Ska Club Essex)

Sunday, November 19, 2023

Radio : EXD 1278 - Sunday November 19, 2023

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On this episode of EXD all covers. Punk bands doing covers. Covers of popular songs in various genres. Covers of each other. I find covers fun. I hope you do too. It’s also CIUT’s fundraising drive. We ask that you go onto the station’s website and make a donation at ciut.fm. Let’s get into the covers and some thoughts from our supporters.

RATSIA - Ihohygieniaa (Self-released / Stupido)

Metal Mat from Rotting Head Records

BAD LUCK #13 - Get off the Phone (NIM) - The Heartbreakers

HOAX - Bloodstains (Phobia) - Agent Orange

SOCIO LA DIFEKTA - Factory (Self-released) - Jezus and The Gospelfuckers

THE 5,6,7,8's - Batman Theme (Hi Tide)

MR. T EXPERIENCE - Spider-Man (Lookout / Sounds Rad)

GO - General Strike (Mangrove)

Testimonial Coleman (Trenchraid)

PHANE - Time is Running Out (Phobia) - Unruled

GREED - Warmachine (Pils) - Anti-Cimex

DOGMA - Witch Hunt (GYO) - The Mob

Daniel Benoit testimonial

BORN LOW - Dead Embryonic Cells (SEPULTURA)

SUNSTROKE - Salvation (THE CRANBERRIES)

THOUGHTS OF IONESCO - Under The Sun (BLACK SABBATH)

Andre interviews Nicky about joining CIUT

White Knuckle testimonial

MINOR THREAT - 12XU - (Wire) (Dischord)

HAMZAH Testimonial

THE SWARM - Revenge - (Spiritfall)

Boxcutter testimonial

PROPAGANDHI - Hard Times - (Cro Mags)

PERCEPTION CHECK - Manitoba Uber Alles (Self-Released)

Val Vale from Search and Destroy / Re/Search publishing testimonial

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Like A Virgin (Illegal)

NIRVANA - Here She Comes Now (Communion)

Gav from Decade

SPIKY BRATS - 4Q (Skunk Label) - Blitz

RANCŒUR - Suicide (Offside) - Camera Silens

WARSICK - Iron Fist (Rotting Head) - Motörhead

ME FIRST AND GIMME GIMMES - Rainbow Connection (Fat Wreck)

Krista’s testimonial

BORIS THE SPRINKLER - Paid Vacation (Hey Suburbia / Radiation)

THE BUSINESS - Do They Owe Us A Living (Fear and Loathing)

Testimonial Ron (Squander)

RITUAL WARFARE - Prayer of a Realist (VFR / Templum Obscenum) - GBH

AIN’T RIGHT - Television Addict (PILS) - The Victims

ABI OOZE - Right Now and Not Later (Rotten Apple) - The Shangri-las

THE OUTCASTS - 1969 (Captain Oi!)

Mike Murdersquad T.O.

CARBONAS - September Gurls (Raw Deluxe)

URGE OVERKILL - Stitches (Touch and Go)

Testimonial Chelsee/JT (High Anxiety)

EXISTENCH - Instinct of Survival (Broken Brains / Rural Muzik) - Napalm Death

DEPOPULATION DEPARTMENT - Exploitation (Crust As Fuck) - Doom

KRASH - They Declare It (Self-released) - Discharge

Ska Outro

JACK KEVORKIAN AND THE SUICIDE MACHINES - I Don't Wanna Hear It (Beach / Dill) - Minor Threat

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Radio : EXD 1277 - Sunday November 12, 2023

On this episode of EXD, there are a couple of new release sets which will debut Sex Virgin Killer, Motron, and Golden Shitters. We have a couple of sets inspired by shows so that our hosts have attended. Andre makes a medley out of three shows he has seen featuring Fiddlehead, Beef, and Sunami. Nick does a review of the IFO fest in Montreal which will include Antisect and Warkrusher. Our demo feature will be Holy Spirit from Toronto and they are connected to Workers Comp whom we featured in an interview a few weeks back.

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BANANA ERECTORS - Fun At The Beach (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

Oldies

DISTORTED INFLUENCE - Old Bros In The Hood (Supreme Echo)

LITTLE WARRIOR - Up The Punks!!! (Self-Released)

THE FOOD - See What I Care (Self-Released)

BAD BRAINS - Pay to Cum (Roir)

MUMPS - Stupid (Omnivore)

New Releases (Chris)

HOMEFRONT - Nation (LVEUM)

DEADBOLT - Waste Management (Self-released)

SEX VIRGIN KILLER - Rebirth (Lilii Sound Loom)

VOLTAGE - Persecution Nightmare (Blown Out Media)

SOCIO LA DIFEKTA - Libera Maŝino (Self-released)

Rob

FRIED REALITY - Fried Reality (Disciplined Electronics)

RADIO STARS - Good Personality (Moonlight)

TOMMY AND THE COMMIES - Straight Jacket (Slovenly)

THE SUBURBS - Memory (Twin Tone)

CARDBOARD BRAINS - I Wanna Be A Yank (Intemporel)

Shows of the past few week / new stuff (Andre)

PMS 84 - Gaza (Discos Enfermos)

FIDDLEHEAD - True Hardcore (II) (Run For Cover)

RESTRAINING ORDER - Inmates (Triple B)

BEST WISHES - Unconditional Surrender (Self-Released)

GUMM - No Frontier (Convulse)

SUNAMI - Defraud (Triple B)

BIG BOY - T&T (Self-Released)

GAZM - Know A Place (Self-Released)

SPACED - Cycle Killer (New Morality Zine)

PUNITIVE DAMAGE - Bottom Feeder (Atomic Action)

BEEF - Tunnel Vision (Self-Released)

VERIFY - Slip Away (Self-Released)

antisect/warkrusher show recap 40 year since “in darkness there is no choice” came out La salla rosa mtl Ifo (Nicky)

ANTISECT - The Worlds Biggest Runt (Spiderleg)

WARKRUSHER - Epitaph (Audacious Madness)

PSYCH WAR - Screams at the Sky (Self-Released)

BETON ARME - Au Bord Du Gouffre

PUFFER - Iron Hand

New Releases (Chris)

FÖRX - Safe Supply (Pils)

TOZCOS - Siglo Infernal (Quality Control / Toxic State)

MOTRON - One Step Behind (Phobia / Pasidaryk / Born to Waste / Angry Voice / Bolo Punx / Autoproduzioni / Nothing to Harvest)

HOAX - Post Covid Rehab (Phobia / Pasidaryk / Born to Waste / Angry Voice / Bolo Punx / Autoproduzioni / Nothing to Harvest)

CITRIC DUMMIES - Doing Dope at Chucky Cheese (Feel It)

New Releases (Stephen)

STINGRAY - Fortress Britain Crumbles (LVEUM)

CHAIN WHIP - Re-Decapitated (Drunken Sailor)

REIFER MADNESS - Punx in the Streets (Self-Released)

GOLDEN SHITTERS - Don't Relax (Self-Released)

THE MASONICS - New Rose (Spinout Nuggets)

Demo Feature

HOLY SPIRIT was a band from Toronto that Workers Comp derived from in part so we are featuring them in our demo feature.

HOLY SPIRIT - Holy Spirit (Self-Released)

HOLY SPIRIT - Race to the Bottom (Self-Released)

HOLY SPIRIT - Thin Ice (Self-Released)

HOLY SPIRIT - R.I.P. (Self-Released)

HOLY SPIRIT - Chains (Self-Released)

HOLY SPIRIT - 55 Fires (Self-Released)

HOLY SPIRIT - Already Gone (Self-Released)

HOLY SPIRIT - The First Step (Self-Released)

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Flyer - Wednesday November 8, 2023

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Radio : EXD 1276 - Sunday November 5, 2023

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On this episode of EXD, we have a few new release features which include bands like Rampage, and Howlin’ Jaws. There is a show review Cold as Life show in Michigan. A feature on bands from the countries that made up parts of the Soviet Union, specifically Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Hungary. But up first Feature interview with Val Vale and Marion Wallace from Re/Search publishing // Search and Destroy fanzine.

SECRETORS - Comparing Missile Size (Roachleg)

Val Vale along with his partner Marion Wallace will be in town next Sunday at the Garrison doing a presentation. The presentation seems to be around the many topics that they are experts in. Val started the first punk fanzine in San Francisco called Search and Destroy. Val moved into publishing a series of books on the counter culture under the name Re/Search. We got to speak with Val and Marion about their works and the upcoming presentation and here is that conversation.