Radio - Sunday, April 27th, 2014

Two months back we interviewed Mark Black about his bibliophonic "No Means No: Going Nowhere". The book came out last year and is difficult to get, but Mark recommends you check your local library. Above is a player for the show that was mixed with material. there was a computer malfunction during the show and so the interview goes off the air but we did play the Hanson Brothers while we recovered the computer. You can hear the interview on it's own.

I noticed that the player is a bit glitchy so if you wanted to download an MP3 of the show click on the word MP3 above.

NOMEANSNO - Going Nowhere (Alternative Tentacles)
NOMEANSNO - Interview (CIUT)
NOMEANSNO - Victoria (Wrong)
NOMEANSNO - Interview (CIUT)
INFAMOUS SCIENTISTS - Canada's Pissed (Alandhiscar)
NOMEANSNO - Interview (CIUT)
NOMEANSNO - Victory (Alternative Tentacles)
NOMEANSNO - Interview (CIUT)
NOMEANSNO - Two Lips, Two Lungs and One Tongue (Alternative Tentacles)
NOMEANSNO - Interview (CIUT)
HANSON BROTHERS - He looked alot like Tiger Williams (Alternative Tentacles)
NOMEANSNO - Interview (CIUT)
NOMEANSNO - I Need You (Alternative Tentacles)

Book Review - No Means No - Going Nowhere

Chapter synopsis of "No Means No: Going Nowhere" written by Mark Black

The author starts out by exploring his introduction to No Means No, which like many punk rock stories involves a sibling. This happens in a number of ways, but in Mark's particular circumstance begins with an older brother moving from Glace Bay on Cape Breton Island to Nelson, BC, which for people not familiar with Canadian geography is pretty close to the farthest distance you can travel in Canada. In phone conversations Mark would get his brother to tell him about punk bands that he had seen. Not many, if any, bands would make it to Glace Bay. But Nelson was on the way to shows in Vancouver. It was his brother's difficulty with describing No Means No that intrigued Mark about the band. "Dance of the Headless Bourgeousie" was Mark's introduction to No Means No's material. This is more recent in terms of No Means No's back catalogue, but then we are talking about thirty years worth of music. "Going Nowhere" was the only song from that record that Mark considered punk sounding upon his first impressions. This bibliophonic has to be read through the lens of Mark Black, which is great because I know Mark from having put on a show for a band I was in and he made a lasting impression on me as an interesting kid. The book gave me an opportunity to learn more about him as well as No Means No.

The Myth is Real
This first chapters gets into how the Wright Brothers started playing music. This is good background which involves being army brats. Having moved around the country I think that might partially explain why No Means No were such tour hounds. The Wright Brothers may not have been very grounded to one community. Mark also explains that there was an 8 year difference between the brothers and playing music would be a great way to bridge that generation gap. John, the youngest brother, had some training with a school band. Rob was inspired by the Calgary punk scene, the Sex Pistols and Devo. In 1979, DOA played the university and that became a turning point for hooking them on the local punk scene. You often hear the story about Black Flag playing their first shows in little towns and when they came back the next year a scene was starting up. The same was true for DOA up in Canada and the experience had worked it's magic on the Wright Brothers. They also talk about the Ramones being a keystone group, which also figures into the author's story with his older brother coming to pick him up at baseball practise. This revisiting of ones roots may also explain the development of the Hanson Brothers and there are plenty of examples that followed like Criminal Damage and Hard Skin. Anyway the Wrights joined a cover band before starting No Means No to get some experience. The band was called Castle and the two would write original music outside of band time. They recorded a song on Rob's four track called "You're so Blind" which was a long meandering song with progressive song structures that evolved while playing them. That is kind of what Black Flag became. The first Wright brothers release had a Wire inspired number called "SS Social Service". The A Side was a Devo meets Joy Division song called "Look here comes the wormies" and together this became a No Means No / Mass Appeal split single that Ray Carter wrote about in the "All Your Ears Can Hear" compilation.

Victoria
Punk bands have a good track record with writing insightful songs about their home town. No Means No is no exception. And yet without the song, which I didn't even know existed, No Means No are identified with Victoria. They are an unofficial ambassador for the province's capital. I stayed in Victoria for week and although I knew of other bands I kept thinking of it as No Means No's hometown. The song "Victoria" appears on "Mr. Right and Mr Wrong: One down and Two to go". The title of the LP is a play on the Meatmen song given the band's loss of Andy, but the song  "Victoria" is a play on the Kinks number by the same name. They just changed the lyrics to talk about unpleasant truths of this retirement city. The song is actually produced through a Hanson Brothers collaboration, but the song gets credited as a No Means No song.  This chapter goes on to explore things about Victoria which might help account for bands like the Neos. And conversely the chapter explains why people like Jesus Bonehead would escape to the larger metropolis of Vancouver.

Stock Taking
This chapter explores the thinking behind No Means No. This starts with an exploration of the name which is taken from an anti-rape slogan. The band doesn't really help with interpretations or explanations. This gives Mark creative licence to apply etymology to punk band names in general and No Means No in particular. Mark starts exploring the meaning behind songs and uses an example with the song that the book is titled after as an example of how songs can be wildly misinterpreted. Mark was working on a TV show about John Wayne Gacy at the time and thought the song was about him. No Means No resist providing explanations because they want the listener to apply their own meaning to the song. I get this although it can be annoying when you are looking for insight into a song. It could also be seen as a cop out with not wanting to provide explanations. Or it could be that the band thinks the subject matter is too ordinary to explain and as a result self-evident. The information vacuum on No Means No's material does have us debating and I wonder if a book like the "Stranglers: Song by Song" might be due for No Means No. This book starts it off with an interpretation of the "World Wasn't built in a day." John Samson from the Weakerthans notes that No Means No writes songs about "Existential darkness". Ford Pier remarks at the band's ability to frame complex philosophical musings in a way that doesn't sound to show offish. "Victoria" gets used to demonstrate layers of cerebral thought.

Canada is Pissed
This chapter explores Andy Kerr. He was in the Infamous Scientists a band that is confused as being the band that morphed into No Means No. And Mark breaks down a number of areas for the confusion. "Canada is Pissed" was an Infamous Scientists song which No Means No would cover later on and only helps to add to the confusion. The Infamous Scientists broke up in 1982. The band had John Wright playing in the band at the end. No Means No asked Andy to join No Means No which he did in 1983. This chapter is the closest thing to a discography which is only for the Kerr years which is roughly the first ten years. Mark writes about the importance of the "Wrong" album and delves into the song "Two Lips, Two Lungs, and One Tongue" as the punk version of the human condition. I remember taking a second year philosophy course which covered the basics in this area with Hobbes and Rousseau and I had never tried to apply this to a punk song. It does make sense out of the song, but I also think that this is another example of transference by the author. Psycho analysts would have a field day with this.

Blitzkrieg Hops
This chapter explores the origins of the Hanson Brothers starting out with fun facts about the characters in the Paul Newman film "Slapshot" where the characters come from. This hockey goon squad becomes the alter ego for the Ramones tribute band. The three chord side project of dumbed down songs is a head scratcher when compared to the cerebral and chord complicated No Means No. Searching for the Wright Brothers roots is how to make sense of this. The traumatic break with Andy Kerr left the band searching after what had been a fairly intense period of creativity in their first decade. The break of a jam band that combined three chord punk with their love for hockey, which is a genetic disposition for Canadians, and the particular area of goon culture within hockey allows for the worlds of punk and hockey to co-exist. Andy's roommate, Tom Holliston of the Show Business Giants, was asked to play guitar. He became Tommy Hanson. Bits of the Hanson Brothers discography get laid out on this chapter. Fun facts like "Sudden Death" being a tribute to DOA's "The Prisoner". The band also started up a campaign to get Dave "Tiger" Williams into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

I'm Doing Well
This chapter starts out by explaining how Tom comes to join No Means No. It was on a Hanson Brothers tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1993. Tom played guitar differently and the transition wasn't easy. Lots of people, including myself, considered No Means No over after Kerr left. I haven't listened to an album post Kerr until this book. Mark makes the case that the band has never stopped being No Means No. John worked with Tom for a year to get him up to snuff. And the reason why they stuck with Tom was chemistry. Something you can't teach. This chapter is mostly about Tom's transition.

My Game
The third Hanson Brothers release comes out in 2002 with an homage to Black Flag's "My War". This release saw a new drummer in Mike Bramm, who would become Mikey Hanson. Mike was playing in a band called Freak Accident but was known for playing in Fang and Capitol Punishment. This release had the worse production and inspired the brothers to go back and re-mix this record and then everything which started up Wrong Records, the band's own label.

Heaven is the dust beneath my shoes
Starts out with an observation that bands that sing about themselves, exemplified by the tour song is usually a sure fire sign that it is over. But really this discussion serves to point out that No Means No lyrics are grounded having never written a tour song. The Wright brothers grew up with an anti-music industry attitude and they share how ordinary they are by talking about how the band plays jeopardy in the van to pass time. But there is a tour story too juicy to keep to themselves which is the time when their van got ripped off in Poland. The band does get the van back after paying ransom for it, but the story about the dangers of 2nd world gangsters and negotiating a lie to the police so that they could leave the country is exciting and revealing.

'Til I Die
This chapter can be read as a contemplation. It starts out as a contemplation of No Means No lyrics. The band wrote about their experiences which is what they know. Mark uses the song "This town", which suggests there was unfinished critiques not found in "Victoria". No Means No wrote on equal fitting with their audience which is evidenced in songs like "Mr. In Between" or "The Graveyard Shift" or "Now" or "The World wasn't built in a day" or "Stock Taking". But the song "One Fine Day" seems to sum up what No Means No is about with the challenge of every day life. This is a similar story that Black relates with his dad. And No Means No was a band that allowed Mark to connect with his older brother that moved across the country. The Wright Brothers started playing together as a way of connecting. And perhaps this book is a way of connecting to No Means No because there is an air of unapproachability to the band which is really and clearly not the case as "Going Nowhere" points out again and again and again.

The publication is almost sold out so Mark recommends that you read it through your public library.

Radio - Sunday, January 26th, 2014

We start off tonight's show with a studio 3 session recorded this past Tuesday with the Rezentments from Hamilton. you can hear the show on the player above or download an MP3 of the show.

THE REZENTMENTS - Yer what's wrong (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Anxiety (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Friendly Fire (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Barton Street Hag (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Photo Bomb (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Dick (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Piece of Me (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Somedays (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Hey Pig (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Crowd Control (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - You Got Two (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Interview (CIUT)
THE REZENTMENTS - Try (CIUT)

DEVO - Fountain Of Filth (Superior Viaduct)
NOMEANSNO - Widget (Wrong)
THE STRANGLERS - Shut Up (United Artists)
FREESTONE - Church (Akhashic)

SUBSERVIENT FUCK - The Scene (Human Resources)
APEWAR - Templar (Self-Released)
SEEIN' RED - Discussion with a Christian (Peculio Discos)
AK47 - Liberation (Self-Released)

Tonight's demo feature is a band from Chicago with dual male/female vocals. They received a rave review in the December issue of MRR (below) and you can hear or download the demo through at http://escalofrio.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2.

ESCALOFRIO - House of the Dead (Self-Released)
ESCALOFRIO - Camp Cold Lake (Self-Released)
ESCALOFRIO - Macho Man (Self-Released)
ESCALOFRIO - Dummy (Self-Released)
ESCALOFRIO - Vomitrocious (Self-Released)
ESCALOFRIO - Holey Vision (Self-Released)
ESCALOFRIO - Mood Killer (Self-Released)
ESCALOFRIO - Haunted Mask (Self-Released)

INSTIGATION - No Way Out (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, September 15th, 2013

Tonight's show is lots of new releases. You can hear the show using the player above or you can download the MP3 of the show.

BISHOPS GREEN – Blinded (Self-Released)

KICKS – The Return of Action Men (540)

GEHENNA – Bite It (A389)

WEEKEND NACHOS – Watch you suffer (A389)

CRACKS AND SCARS – Just time (Steel Town)

SABERTOOTH – Morning Breath (Debt Offensive)

AVON LADIES - Combat Sharman (Distort)

PURITY CONTROL – Mock Suicide (Self-Released)

DNA - Thrill seeker (Way Back When / Kangaroo)

HOLIER THAN THOU - The Quick and the Dead (Six Weeks)

CRYSTAL MESS - The world's a fucking write off (Daylight Savings)

HASSLER - Train Wreck (Beach Impediment Records)

DFA - Hockey Hair (Unrest)

REVENGE - Under Attack (Self-Released)

PRETTY LITTLE FLOWER - Dissolution of Rights, Part 4 (Six Weeks)

NO MISTAKE - Crossed Words (Refuse)

VACCINE – When Will we Learn (Refuse)

BORN WRONG - Wage Slave (Schizophrenic)

RAD – Corporate Drugs / Banned in Citrus Heights (Phono Select / Sacramento)

BLOOD RED – Your Torment (Voice of a Generation)

MASSACRE DIVINE – Esta Maldita Rotina (Blindead Productions)

DESADIST AU GO GO – Shit for Brains (Schizophrenic)

THE NEW ENEMY - House of Cards (Self-Released)

KLAXON - Solo Una Guerra (Sydney Town)

CAMERA SILENS - Camera Silens (Sydney Town)

HELTA SKELTA - Suedehead (HSR)

HARD SKIN - The kids are Innocent (JT Classics)

NOMEANSNO - Beat on the Brat (Alternative Tentacles)

MOLTEN LAVA - Thanks Pati (Shredded Wheat)

NIGHT BIRDS - Born to Die in Suburbia (Grave Mistake)

CITIZENS PATROL - Screw me Over (Way Back When / Kangaroo)

STRONG AS TEN - Is this Reality? Is this Me? (Shogun)

REPROACH - '92 (Way Back When / Kangaroo)

CONTAMINATE - No End in Sight (Harvest King)

BARGE - Where's the Violence (Grave Mistake)

IRON LUNG - (sic) (Prank)

SADIST - Sex Doll (MCR Company)

S.H.I.T. - Bondage (Self-Released)

YDINASEETON POHJOLA - Kuka Omistaa (Who Owns) (Nightstick Justice)

KREMLIN - Old Man (Bad Vibrations)

DISPOSE - Neutral (Shogun)

NIGHTFALL - Crematorium (Shogun)

TOTALICKERS - Una grana mierda (Shogun)

DEVIL'S HANDS - World Gone to Shit (Grave Mistake)

MAHRIA - Sleep (Self-Released)

BIG EYES - Can't Catch a Break (Grave Mistake)

DYSCONTROL - Calling Back (Sewercide)

Demo Feature

LIFE CHAIN - Uniformed Cowards (Self-Released)

LIFE CHAIN - Troubled Youth (Self-Released)

LIFE CHAIN - Sad Land (Self-Released)

LIFE CHAIN - Mind Pollution (Self-Released)

LIFE CHAIN - Nightmares (Self-Released)

LIFE CHAIN - Out Of Sight (Self-Released)

LIFE CHAIN - Conquest (Disclose) (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, June 9th, 2013

This is for Equalizing-X-Distort's broadcast on Sunday June 9th, 2013. The show mixes lots of old, new and songs sparked by current events whether they be about our Mayor or about Chaos in Tejas. Listen to the show from Sunday, June 9th or click on the player above.

GAG ORDER - Land of the Free (Self-Released)

MINUTEMEN - Corona (SST)
THE EX - Knock (Self-Released)
NOMEANSNO - Paradise (Alternative Tentacles)
BIG BOYS - Prison (Touch 'n Go)
GANG OF FOUR - Return the Gift (EMI)

PEDESTRIANS - Suicide (World is Round)
AMOUR - Hanei (MCR Company)
NEIGHBORHOOD BRATS - Birth Right (Deranged)
HARD SKIN - The Man who ran the town (JT Classics)
CRACKS AND SCARS - Rotten to the core (Steeltown)

BLACK FLAG - Jealous Again (SST)
WHITE LUNG - I Rot (Deranged)
DELINQUINTS - Holidays (Self-Released)
DOWNBELOWS - 52 Pickup with your Teeth (October 32)
SUPERSUCKERS - Creepy Jackelope Eye (Sub Pop)

X - Los Angeles (Slash)
COLD WARPS - Let's Just Fun (Self-Released)
VINCAS - Hell Ride (Douche Master)
SAINTS - River Deep Mountain High (Sire)
CRAMPS - Human Fly (Slash)

DAMNED - Problem Child (Stiff)
CENTURIES OF WAR - Centuries of War (Crust War)
TERVEET KADET - Alien (Propaganda)

THE REACT - Sounds that I've Heard (La-Ti-Da)
SNFU - A hole in your sole (Self-Released)
222'S - First to Third Round (Sonik's Chicken Shrimp)
POINTED STICKS - Somebody's Mom (Ugly Pop)
TRANZMITORS - Concrete Depression (La-Ti-Da)

GOD'S AMERICA - Dale Nixon (a389)
TRIAC - Tick / Cutter (Regurgitated Semen)
VILE INTENT - Front (Choking Hazard)

Pillage are a new band from Chicago featuring former members of CHARLES BRONSON, LOS CRUDOS, MK ULTRA, PUNCH IN THE FACE and that is just from one member. The band also features members of SICK/TIRED who did that split with OXBAKER.

PILLAGE - Intro (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - Dark Road (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - Their World (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - Head In The Sand (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - One Day (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - Trickle Down (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - I would rather be alone (https://soundcloud.com/sick-tired/pillage-i-would-rather-be)
PILLAGE - Bleeding Inside (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - Starvation (Siege) (Self-Released)
PILLAGE - Indoctrinated (https://soundcloud.com/ebrovirumbrales/pillage-indoctrinated)

Radio - Sunday, April 14th, 2013

You can hear the show using the player above or download an MP3 file of the show.

BORN WRONG - Torch the Place (Schizophrenic)

RUNNAMUCKS - Fuel for the Youth (Self-Released)
GAS RAG - Chernobyl (Self-Released)
KNIFES AND FORKS FOR FREEDOM - What How Why (Self-Released)
SEX DWARF - Bevakad (Self-Released)
LIFE CHAIN - Out Of Sight (Self-Released)
KREMLIN - Fanatics (Bad Vibrations / Hardware / Beach Impediment Records)
KAIVOSURMA - Painot jalkoihin (Slode)

KRAUT - All Twisted (Garage)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - We have a website (Deranged)
DR. KNOW - Circle of Fear (Ghetto Way)
REDD KROSS - I'm Alright (Frontier)

Born Wrong were in from Hamilton to share their new ep and catch us up with their plans which include a summer tour.

BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Always here to help (Schizophrenic)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - No Etiquette (Schizophrenic)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Wage Slave (Schizophrenic)
BOSTON STRANGLER - Primitive

GUN CLUB - Sleeping in Blood City (Passport)
NOMEANSNO - Dad (Psyche)

HUSKER DU - Keep Hanging on (SST)
CORRUPTED MORALS - Big Man (Lookout)
MONO MEN - Waste o' time (Estrus)

GLAM - Montruos (La vida es un mus)
GAG - I'm a punk (Self-Released)
WHO KILLED SPIKEY JONEAH Pigs in bondage (Total Fucker)
CHAINSAW - Out of Stupid (Six Weeks)
GOOSEBUMPS - Stcept Scarred (Burn Books)
BUZZCOCKS - Breakdown (New Hormones)
POLITICAL CRAP - Slow Death (American Sandard)
SUBURBAN MENACE - Get outta my way (Chainsaw)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Vancouver called Write Off. Write Off features former members of Strain, Contessa, Deadsue and many others. Recently in MRR the band was likened to No Comment for how fast and short the songs are, but what was missed was just how heavy the band sounds. The band features older guys in the scene who will only play all ages shows which remembers how tough it was for them when they were kids to get to see shows. It is admirable to see a band take a stand like that these days.

WRITE OFF - Trapped (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - You Support Hate (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - Dodger (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - Dumb Fuck (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - Smoke and Mirrors (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - Stumble (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - State the Obvious (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - Knob (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - Pissy (Self-Released)
WRITE OFF - I didn't learn shit (Self-Released)

You can get in touch with Write Off at writeoffvancouver@gmail.com.

VENKMAN - Powerviolence and Applesauce (Self-Released)
RAPTUROUS GRIEF - Attaque de Nervios (Self-Released)
METRALLETA - Kaidaren Erasda
UNFAIR FIGHT - I'd Rather Be Skating (Crucial 45)
DRI - I'd Rather Be Sleeping (Death)

Radio - Sunday November 18th, 2012

This is Equalizing-X-Distort, the two hour hardcore punk show from Toronto that broadcasts live on CIUT 89.5FM every Sunday night. This is the program for Sunday November 18th, 2012 in which we played the likes of Gang of Four, the Real Kids, the Spits, Adrenalin O.D., Motorhead, the Crumbsuckers, the Ramones, and so many others. The demo feature is Word on the Street who are from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Click here to download the file. 

HOAX - Skills or Death (Self-Released)

BILL BONDSMEN - Things Fall Apart (Self-Released)
VALSE TRIST - Takuukorjaus (Kamaset Levtt / Roku / Popo's Bistro)
NOMEANSNO - Wake Up (Ant Acid Audio)
GANG OF FOUR - At home he feels like a tourist (Strange Fruit)
CAREERS IN SCIENCE - Rockets! (Self-Released)
TEENANGER - Bank Account (Telephone Explosion)

DEKODER - Like Men (Self-Released)
VAPID - Take a walk, baby (Nominal / Deranged)
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY - Blue Cage (Residue)
PUNK LOREX - Liittoudutaan (Kamaset Levtt)
SUICIDAS - Hoy No (Kamaset Levtt)

WRECKLESS ERIC - Whole Wide World (Rhino)
REAL KIDS - All Kindsa Girls (Norton)
NO BUNNY - Boneyard (1234 Go)
SONIC AVENGERS - Television Youth (Dirtnap)
SPITS - Life of Crime (Thrift Store)

ADRENALIN O.D. - A.O.D. vs. Son of Godzilla (Buy our records)
MOTORHEAD - Ain't my crime (GWR)
CRUMBSUCKERS - Bullshit society (Combat)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Bad Choice (High Anxiety)
VINCAS - Black Mountain (Douche Master)

RAYDIOS - Bad Signal (Self-Released)
SLOBS - Chronic Disease (Self-Released)
KREMLIN - Duped (Self-Released)
CRUTCHES - Shit Storm (Self-Released)
SNAKEPIT - Collapse (Self-Released)

RAMONES - Judy is a Punk (Norton)
MONO MEN - Boss (Estrus)
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - Action Time Vision (Hangman)
CRAMPS - Cornfed Dames (Big Beat)
UNNATURAL AXE - The Creeper (Redrum)

ZYANOSE - Envy (Nose Noise)
EVIL ARMY - Severe Metal Disorder (Get revenge)
MONDO GEKO - Secret Sector (Hit Time)
INSULT - We don't give a fuck (Balouski)
COPS - Water Polo Massacre (Self-Released)
GEORGE HARRISON - Maho dickhead fuckin' pig
CYBORG - Past Denier (Self-Released)
CONVERGE - Trespasses (Deathwish Inc)
BLACK AGE - Apathy (Self-Released)
HAIL OF RAGE - the feeling is mutual (Anomie)
HATE UNIT - Old school or no school (Thrash 'n Burn)
SOME CHICKEN - Blood on the wall (Damaged goods)
OLD FEARS - Bertolome de la Casas (Self-Released)
NERV - inside out (Self-Released)
HEKTOMBE - Sobras (Indmita)
JUST DIE - Nothing Personal (Self Aware)

Demo Feature
WORD ON THE STREET - Rise to the Challenge  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Cut to the Chase  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - H.R.M. Mayhem  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Steppin' out of line  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Freedom of choice  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Round of Applause  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)

Radio - Sunday, May 15th, 2011

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SWINDLED – Soldier of Fortune (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – David’s (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
THE DEMICS – New York City (Ready)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Possession (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED - Room for Two (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Who Wants Guns (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Hymn #84 (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Anti-Thatcher (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Combat Zone (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Nazi Dog (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Call to Arms (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
BATTERED WIVES – Wake Me When It’s Over (Bomb)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Meantime (CIUT)
Interview with SWINDLED
SWINDLED – Apathy (CIUT)


GUNNAR HANSEN – Hammered (Schizophrenic)
HAZARDOUS WASTE – Destroy (Schizophrenic)
U.T.I. – Dumb Then Dead (Schizophrenic)
SHEGLANK’D SHOULDERS – Skate Pit (Handsome Dan)
NO PROBLEM – Paranoid Times (Handsome Dan)
NO SYSTEM – Holy Vision (No Way)
GENETIC CONTROL – Suburban Life (Psyche Industry)
DISABLE – Enola (Charged //Distorted)
BOMB BLAST MEN – Dad (Vex)
WARVICTIMS – Take Control (Charged //Distorted)

Radio: Sunday, March 20, 2011

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CLASS OF 1984 – Picked a Fight with Satan (Self-Released)
BRADY’S PROBLEM – Dead Fuck (Self-Released)

DIRECT ACTION – Repression / Eat the Rich (Bitzcore)
BROKEN – Gated Community (Rotten Propaganda)
DOGFLESH – City of Dust (Unrepetent)
CHRIST ON PARADE – Rock ‘n Roll Armageddon (FOAD)

BLACK LUNGS - Stay Out of Parkdale (Deranged)
WHITE LUNG - Shoot (Deranged)
EATING GLASS - Beating Myself Up (High Anxiety)
BITTER END - Guilty as Charged (Deathwish)
NOOSE - Fuck Art / No Respect (React!)
BACKTRACK - Retrace the Lines (6131 Records)

B-GIRLS - Fun at the Beach (Bomp)
MANNEQUIN MEN - Hobby Girl (Hozac)
WHITE WIRES - Pretty Girl (Trouble in Mind)
FIRST BASE - I Don't Feel So Happy Now (Ric Rac)

BURNING LOVE - Curse Breaker (Deranged)
UNITED NATIONS - Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Fingers (Death Wish)
SCHOOL JERKS - Screamer (Cowabunga)
SCHOOL JERKS - Ugly Faces, Ugly Minds (Cowabunga)
BAD BRAINS - Attitude (Victory)
BLACK FLAG - My War (SST)
DOUBLE NEGATIVE - Emergency Room (Sorry State)
CREEPER - Get a Grip (No Contracts, Just Trust)
QUILL - DxMxBx Quill (You Study)
4SCUMS - Resource for War (Self-Released)
RAH - All I Know (Labelled)

DANGERMAN – Every Little Seed (Boss Tuneage)

KNUCKLEHEAD – Rock Rhythm and Boots (Stumble)

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS – Guitar and Drums (Kung Fu)

CANADIAN RIFLE – Historic Landmark (Residue)

MOR – Skrid ud af mit lorte liv! (Spaghetti Cassetti)

NOMEANSNO - Dad (Alternative Tentacles)
76% UNCERTAIN - Just Cuz (Wishing Well)
THREE - Swann Street (Dischord)
OWL EYES - Nightmares (Self-Released)

OWL EYES - Low Spirits (Self-Released)
OWL EYES - Lawful Brutality (Self-Released)
OWL EYES - En Vista De Dios (Self-Released)
OWL EYES - When Hell Freezes Over (Self-Released)
OWL EYES - The Serpents Son (Self-Released)
OWL EYES - Lonely Roads (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, January 23, 2011

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NOMEANSNO – ‘Til I Die (Ant Acid Audio)
COLA FREAKS – Slukket (Hjernespind)
THE SECRET PROSTITUTES – Job (P Trash)
TIJUANA BIBLES – Death Rattle (Trophy Records)
LA BANDA TRAPERA DEL RIO – Confusion (Munster)
THE HOMOSEXUALS – Neutron Lover (Messthetics)
THE MODS – Reactions (Other Peoples Music)
THE KIDS – Old DJs (Sonik’s Chicken Shrimp)

FIRST BASE - I Saw Her First (Ric Rac)
WHITE WIRES - Pretty Girl (Trouble in Mind)
RIPTIDES - Punk Girl Punk Boy (Goblin)
THE VAPIDS - Ain't Got No Sense (Double Hell)
CITY SWEETHEARTS - Trouble Tonight (P Trash)

VITAMIN X - Suburban Nightmare (Tank Crimes)
OPERATION IVY - Big City (Lookout)
DISCHARGE - Suburban Dreams (Unrest Records)
MARILYN'S VITAMINS - One in the Chamber (Raw Energy)
RIOT99 - Destroy the City (Longshot)
F-MINUS - Suburban Blight (Hellcat)
WEAKERTHANS - One Great City! (Epitaph)

EXTINCTION OF MANKIND – Bleed (MCR Company) FLATBUSH – Fascist Terror (Kool Arrow)
INSERVIBLES – Una Vez Mas (Shogun Recordings)
THE NARCS – Nightmare (Reel Time)
VILE NATION – Spit U Out (Even Worse / Way Back When)
CULO – I Don’t Like Today (Deranged)
COKE BUST  – Patriot (Six Weeks)

TYRANNA - Back Off Baby (Boppa Do Down)
SHEEP HEAD - Shooter (Zafio)
CRIMPSHRINE - Crimpshrine / Another Day (Maxiumumrocknroll)
MR. T EXPERIENCE - So Long Sucker (Lookout)
SWEET BABY JESUS - She's from Salinas (Maximumrocknroll)

RUINATION - Hero / Suspect (Plus/Minus)
SOME KIND OF HATE - All My Heros (Bridge 9)
DOA - Royal Police (Sudden Death)
HIS HERO IS GONE - Monuments to Thieves (Prank)

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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LA PLEBE – Jaulas (Koolarrow)


BROKEN BONES – Persecution (Dem Bones)
EXTINCTION OF MANKIND – Bleed (MCR Company)
LEGION666 – Broken Vows (Schizophrenic)
LIMB FROM LIMB – Relentless Torment (No Options)
DUSGUST – Natural born Armies (MCR Company)

GAUNT - Solution (Snap Crackle Punk)
DWARVES - Drug Store (Sub Pop)
QUINCY PUNX - Darby was a Martyr (THD)
NEW BOMB TURKS - Sharpen Up Time (Bag of Hammers)
CRIMINALS - CST Bitch (Rhetoric)

SSD - Glue (Taang)
INSURANCE RISK – Choke On It (Crucial Response)
BROTHERHOOD – Won’t Turn our Backs (Crucial Response)
BORED STIFF – Your Face (Unreleased)
VACANT STATE – Internal Conflict (Deranged)

STANDELLS - My Little Red Book (Tower)
THEM - I Can Only Give You Everything (Parrot)
SONICS - Strychnine (Norton)
ZOMBIES - I Got My Mojo Working (Parrot)
THE WEE FOUR - Weird (Teenage Shutdown)

AARITILA – Ihmisyyden Hapea (Feral Ward)
UNRULED – Clear the Pigs Out (Schizophrenic)
HZERO – Adicted (Sell Our Souls)
HERTYS – Ostovoimaa (Not Enough)
DISKELMA – Nihilist Statement (Kamset Levyt)
POISON IDEA – Subtract (Taang)

NOMEANSNO - I Don't Care/Glad All Over (Kirbdog)
F.Y.P. - Allergic (Recess)
CAREER SUICIDE - Dicta Flag (Schizophrenic)
JAWBREAKER - Caroline (Piggly Wiggly)
BLUE DEMON - Hot and Heavy (Schizophrenic)

UBER – Assassitat per la Creativitat (Sell our Souls)
SCHOOL JERKS – Guestlist (Cowabunga Records)
LOST BOYS – Keep Your Smile (Self-Released)
MINUS APES – Nothing is Nothing at All (Thrashbastard / Inge’s Revenge)
GOVERNMENT WARNING – Safe and Sound (Grave Mistake)

Demo Feature
LEPROSY – No More Warfare (Self-Released)
LEPROSY – Dead Soldier (Self-Released)
LEPROSY – Bring Out Your Dead (Self-Released)
LEPROSY – Atomic Age (Self-Released)
LEPROSY – Capital Punishment (Self-Released)
LEPROSY – Collateral Damage (Self-Released)

FLATBUSH - Dear Uncle Sam (Koolarrow)

Various Artists "All Your Ears Can Hear" Double CD

This is a truly amazing compilation. It is one of those scene documentary pieces but instead of it being a film this is a comp. Jason Flower was the main person behind the project and as a result the comp needed to be on 2 CDs. An amazing book where each band participating gets a page that is used to help find out details on them. And the scene they document is their own which is in Victoria, BC. Vancouver is documented pretty well but the scene that NoMeansNo grew out of isn't. The Neos is probably the only other band really known from here and that is only by hardcore collectors. And being geographically isolated Victoria had a chance to develop on thier own more so than other scenes that were on touring routes. As a result you get a snapshot of just some collected highlights of Victoria. You can inquire at Supreme Echo about the availability of this comp but I doubt there is any left. The songs on here are:

Disc 1:

1. Infamous Bastards - Canada's Pissed

2. Pink Steel - Here We Go Again

3. Clix - Sidewalk Trot

4. Automatic Shock - Mushrooms

5. Sickfucks - Long Blink

6. Jerk Ward - Millions of Dead BMXers

7. Velox Strepitus - No Mind

8. Beaten Retards - Mutated

9. NoMeansNo - Almost Like Home

10. Red Tide - NATO Actionaut

11. Keys - Ups & Downs

12. Neos - Ripped off

13. Neos - Sexual Revolution

14. Censored Chaos - Dinner at McDonald's

15. Resistance - Amerika

16. Ascensions - She's Weird

17. Easy Money - No Stranger to Danger

18. Dioxyn - Free from Vice

19. Malcom Dew-Jones - Secret Agent 000

20. Infamous Scientists - CKDA

21. Dishrags - High Society Snob

22. Twisted Minds - Vancouver

23. Distortion - Leave Us Alone

24. Do-wops - Kill Mash Die

25. Do-wops - Butchart Gardens

26. Fake Dogs - Fuckin' Jerk

27. Purple City - Untitled

28. Squirrels in Bondage - Who Cares

29. Trouble Boys - Not So Bad

30. House of Commons - Low

31. Noise Generation - Breakdown

32. Nematodes - Down with the KKK

33. Nevar - Iran

34. Commodes - Bunyon

35. Dayglo Abortions - Whiter than Hitler

36. Ryvals - Floating

37. Suburban Menace - What's So Wrong

38. Jerk Ward - UFO

39. Harvest of Seaweed - The End

40. Mass Appeal - SS Social Service

Disc 2:

1. House of Commons - 1999

2. Red Tide - My Son is a Kuwahara

3. Neos - Destruct

4. Neos - Russian Folk Song

5. Infamous Scientists - Someone Else's Shoes

6. Sickfucks - P.O.W.

7. Ascenisions - The Stud

8. Dishrags - Bullshit

9. Keys - Lied To!

10. NoMeansNo - Too Much Dope

11. Twisted Minds - BC Tel

12. Malcolm Dew-Jones - Modern World

13. Easy Money - On the Edge

14. Da Jeep - Save Me

15. Velox Strepitus - Mutt

16. Fake Dogs - Bombs Away

17. Nematodes - Hatred

18. Nevar - Chorus

19. Sludge Confrontations - Slug Death

20. Sludge Confrontations - Astronomy

21. Tumours - It Hurts When I Think

22. Jerk Ward - Flesh & Bones

23. Nuclear Errors - We're Rebels

24. Red Tide - It's More a Feeling

25. Ray Luxemburg - Following

26. Dayglo Abortions - Nuclear Supremacy

27. Harvest of Seaweed - Accidental Exile

28. Surburabn Menace - Outta My Way

29. Beaten Retards - School

30. Nu-Lib - New Liberation

31. Censored Chaos - Violence in the Streets

32. Divine Right - Outta the Grave

33. NoMeansNo - NoMeansNo

34. Slivers - Black Hole

35. Disrupt - These are the 80s

36. Salty Seamen - CUFA

37. Sickfucks - Mother was a Man

38. Infamous Scientists - Baldwang Must Die

39. Purple City - Invisibility

Radio - Sunday October 28, 2007

CHAOS U.K. - The End is Nigh (Cherry Red)
DEAD KENNEDYS - Hallowe'en (Alternative Tentacles)
NOMEANSNO - Dead Souls (Alternative Tentacles)
MISFITS - All Hell Breaks Lose (Ruby)
BAD BRAINS - Fearless Vampire Killers (Abstract)
DISKONTO - Happy Happy Hallowe'en (C.A.F.)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Hallowe'en Party (Self-Released)
ILL REPUTE - Monster Mash (Grand Theft Audio) THE
ACCUSED - the Hearse (Combat)

THE VAPIDS - Got Me on a Leash (Self-Released)
DICKIES - Manny, Moe and Jack (Captain Oi!)
TRANZMITORS - Everyone Wants to Lose Control (Deranged)
SHOCKS - Simulation (Dirty Faces)
KAKKA HATA-77 - Hamaan Haimatulehdukseen Asti (Combat Rock Industries)
SUNPOWER - My God Rides a Skateboard (Peter Bower)
SPERMBIRDS - Set an Example (Common Thread)

HOMOSTUPIDS - Back with the Wolf (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Brown Items (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Weekend (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Candy Candor (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Apeshit (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Mr. Payback (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Taping the Worm (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Caveman (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Flies Die (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Interview (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Station ID (CIUT)

RAW/WAR - Raw (Crash 'n Burn)
RED DONS - Everyday Distraction (Deranged)
YOUNG WASTENERS - Suburban Voize (Hjernespind)
DISSENT - Somewhere (Amity)
THE MEATMEN - I've Got a problem (Touch n Go)
ULCER - Don't Wanna Show It (Outcast)
EAD STOP - Dead alive (Deranged)
BATTLETORN - Terminal dawn (Mad at the World)
TOTALITAR - Klassinte Ras (Prank)
BILL BONDSMEN - End of the cold / Signals (Acme)
HONOR ROLE - I'm a Nerd (No Way)

Demo Feature
REPROBATES - Abandoned City (Self-Released)
REPROBATES - Brainwashed (Self-Released)
REPROBATES - Falling Apart (Self-Released)
REPROBATES - Self Destruct (Self-Released)
REPROBATES - Rat Maze (Self-Released)

TRIGGER EFFECT - Dropping Acid into the Eyes of Your Enemies (Signed by Force)