Top 10 - July 2012

1. CHEAP ART demo (Self-Released)
2. CRUTCHES demo (Self-Released)
3. S.H.I.T. demo (Self-Released)
4. UNHOLY THOUGHTS “The Attic” LP (Even Worse)
5. NO MORE ART “Evil Eyes / Peripeteia” ep (Erste Theke Tonraeger)
6. PICK YOUR SIDE “Let me show you how democracy works” LP (A389 Records)
7. DNF “Hurt” ep (High Anxiety / No Idea)
8. BILL BONDSMEN “Overcrowded Control” ep (Self-Released)
9. HUMAN TOUCH ep (One percent press / Feral Kid Records)
10. BIG EYES “Back from the Moon / I don’t care about Friday Night” ep (Grave Mistake)

Labels:
* Cheap Art – 232 Wilbur Avenue / Atlanta, GA / 30316 / USA / cheapart.bandcamp.com
* Crutches – crutches666.blogspot.com
* S.H.I.T. – 107- 27 Brock Avenue / Toronto, ON / M6K 2K9 / Canada / greg.benedetto@gmail.com / http://www.mediafire.com/?u5wg88oygaij1al
* Even Worse – van ostadestr 93-f / 1072sr, Amsterdam / The Netherlands / www.evenworserecords.com
* Erste Theke Tongraeger – www.erstetheketontraeger.blogspot.com
* A389 Records – P.O. Box 12058 / Baltimore, MD / 21281 / USA / www.a389records.com
* High Anxiety Records – highanxiety416.blogspot.com
* Bill Bondsmen – 15016 Paris Street / Detroit, MI / 48101 / USA / billbondsmendetroit@gmail.com
* Feral Kid Records – 27 Ripley Place / Buffalo, NY / 14213 / USA / www.feralkidrecords.com
* Grave Mistake Records – P.O. box 12482 / Richmond, VA / 23241 / USA / www.gravemistakerecords.com

Radio - Sunday July 29th, 2012

Started off with a gun theme to reflect the number of gun shootings in Toronto over the past month. All music show tonight with diverse sets involving Dan Vapid who was in town last night, a new Kieltolaki discography, some requests from last week like the Fits, a tribute to a guy who passed away in THEE VICARS, and a demo feature involving a band from Australia known as EX-CRAW. Listen to the show and read about the set list below.



DOA - He's got a gun (Sudden Death)
THE GUNS - I'm not right 2 (Smog Veil)


DNF - Waste (High Anxiety)
CHEAP ART - Hate City Machismo (Bandcamp)
PICK YOUR SIDE - New War (a389)
UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Hell is other people (Even Worse)
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. - Can't turn off my brain (Doomtown Sounds)


DAN VAPID AND THE CHEATS - Beware of the Fog (Torture Chamber)
VICTIM PARTY - Tracks (Black Pint)
FAIRMONTS - Spend the night with me (Tidal)
MARKED MEN - Get to you (Dirtnap)
SICKO - Closer to fine (Empty)
TIME AGAIN - Montreal (Street Kids)


KIELTOLAKI - Vihasta ammennan voimaa (Moo Cow)
KREMLIN - Anti-Septic (Hardware)
NAPALM RAID - Misery (Rust and Machine)
PASSIV DODSHJALP - Pa med sirenen (Halvfabrikat / Totalpunk)


THE FITS - Bored of Education (No Exit)
BARRACUDAS - Don't let go (Bomp)
THE DOGS - Charlie was a good boy (Flashing Blood)
63 MONROE - Strike Three (Rave up)
REAL KIDS - down to you (TKO)


MODERN PETS - Dead end beat (Doomtown Sounds)
BROWN SUGAR - Too fucked to drunk (Feral Kid)
TEENANGER “Frights” LP – Tired of you (Telephone Explosion)
THE BEATLES – Polygamy (Self-Released)
TORTURA – Cerraduras (Self-Released)


THEE VICARS - Come on stomp! (Dirty Water)
THE UGLY DUCKLINGS - Nothin' (Unidisc)
GROUPIES - Primitive (Rhino)
MC5 - Tonight (Atlantic)
RICHMOND SLUTS - Drive me wild (Alive / Total Energy)


Demo Feature
EX-CRAW - Macho Man (Self-Released)
EX-CRAW - No Asylum (Self-Released)
EX-CRAW - Never Fit In / Consistent Control (Self-Released)
EX-CRAW - Repeat (Self-Released)
EX-CRAW - Death of Truth (Self-Released)
EX-CRAW - Go to work (Self-Released)
EX-CRAW - Pacific Solution (Self-Released)
EX-CRAW - One track mind (Self-Released)

Review - Pick Your Side "Let me show you how democracy works" LP

This is a review of the first full length by Pick Your Side from Hamilton. A389 Records released the ep and MRR wrote the review for this in the July issue (#350) of MRR.

Radio - Sunday May 13th, 2012

This is the Mother's Day (May 13th) edition of EXD and in honour of Mother's Day we started off with the Lucky Ones and a song called "Your mother's a man". Just a little humour to start off the show before getting into a set of material inspired by the student protests in Quebec, which see the provincial government making it too expenisve for kids to go to university, which really sees them pulling out of the investment in our future. So the first set is about how bleak our future is. Rob gets into some recent Ugly Pop 5 re-issues with the Hot nasties and the Rock and Roll Bitches among others. D'Arcy features an all Canadian set with the Truncheons. And the show ends up with a demo feature by a new crust band from Montreal called Disrape. Listen to the show or read our playlist below.


THE LUCKY ONES - Your Mother's a Man (Stumble)


MANLIFTINGBANNER - Fighting in the Streets (Crucial Response)
SHIPWRECKED - Fast Violent Noise (Crucial Response)
VIOLENT FUTURE - Violent Future
PICK YOUR SIDE - Dark Future (A389)
HARDCHARGER - Call from Below (No List)
END PROGRAM - White Wolves (High art for the lowdown)


BLUE DEMONS - Beatnik Bandit (Boppa do down)
ARSON - Coho? Coho! (Ugly Pop)
SPYS - Underground (Ugly Pop)
ROCK AND ROLL BITCHES - Someone could lose an eye (Ugly Pop)
HOT NASTIES - I am a confused Teenager (Ugly Pop)


SECRET PROSTITUTES - Jubaton dicopot (Bat Shit)
CHAINSAW - Fill in the blanks (Self-Released)
SS KIDS - Disorder
MAYHEM - Dogsbody
FINAL CONFLICT - In the family (Self-Released)


BILL BONDSMEN - Overcrowded Control (self-Released)
NIGHT BIRDS - Paranoid times (Artcore)
THE LOVE BELOW - Holy Dose (A389)
HUSKER DU - Something I learned today (SST)
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Citizen (Caroline)


SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - I shot the devil (Frontier)
FEAR - I don't care about you (Slash)
CHANNEL 3 - I got a gun (Posh boy)
ADRENALIN OD - Bugs (Buy our Records)
ANTI-CIMEX - Pain killer (Distraught)


LIMP WRIST - They want us dead (Lengua Armada)
RESISTANCE '77 - Nottingham problem (Captain Oi!)
VARUKERS - Die for your government (Captain oi!)
BRISTLES - Bristles song (MCR)
TOTALITAR - Valj min logn (Prank)


TRUNCHEONS - Blow it all to hell (Self-released)
SCHOOL JERKS - Screamer (Cowabunga)
TOTAL WAR - Nuclear meltdown hysteria (Self-released)
DIRECT APPROACH - What did we do (Self-released)
RAPID LOSS - Negative disease (Self-released)
BORN WRONG - Promise of the godless (Self-released)


BBQ CHICKENS - Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini (pizza of death)
VITAMIN X - I can't get enough (Havoc)
ROTTEN SOUND - Plan (Full Steam)
GOOGLE PLEX - die for it (Noizaw)
DEAF MUTATIONS - Mutation shuffle (Static shock)
TERRIBLE FEELINGS - Trash and burn (Erste Tontujar theke)


Demo Feature
DISRAPE - Dis nightmare continues (Self-Released)
DISRAPE - Vulture's feast (Self-Released)
DISRAPE - Grim & frostbitten (Self-Released)
DISRAPE - Deathriders (Self-Released)
DISRAPE - Abracadaver (Self-Released)
DISRAPE - Watch it rot (Self-Released)
DISRAPE - Mercy of a swift death (Self-Released)

Flyer - Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Pick Your Side "Let me show you how democracy works" LP

This is Pick Your Side's first full length. Even though this recording features a full band, the sound is very similar to the "Survival Prayer" ep. Raw hardcore with this heavy low end crushing feel that compliments the anger spewed forth in the lyrics. This is a band that picked up where Haymaker left off. This recording was done in a real studio out of Chatham which is a studio space made from a converted church. In an interview with the band I learned the follwoing about their songs:

 1. Dark Future is a song about environmental cons and the lies behind it. The line "your dark future is a lie" is how they line up on environmentalism.


2. Plug-in Generation is a song about this generation's reliance on technology from smart phones to social networks and Jeff has a doomsday senario for them which involves an electro magnetic pulse that would render this all obsolete.

3. More Cops, More Crime is the observation that we have seen an escalation in police hirings at a period when crime goes down. They have to justify their existence and as a result everday people get hassled and incarcerated. That's how the cycle works.


4. Meltdown is a song about nuclear disaster experienced in recent times in places like Fukushima with a line like "you can't pretend - leaking into the ocean, you can't escape the pain".


5. How to Cope is Jeff's personal coping strategy. The anxiety that comes with a bleak future requires a day-to-day perspective in order to sleep at night. He calls it his own PMA, which he has tattooed on his hand.

6. Looking Back is a song about regret within the hardcore scene. There were many divisions over debates on ideology and this is Jeff's song about how he wish he could take it back because losing friends over this was not worth it.

7. Paranoid or prepared? Despite the cautions of conspiracy there are some very real ones eroding civil liberties. This song is a warning about the new slave nation of microchipped humans.


8. This too shall pass is an optimistic song about history demonstrating that we survive the bad times.

9. My Troubles is an autobiographical insight into problems weighing a person down. In some ways it is a first hand account at how depressing reality can be.

10. Ham Sandwich is slow and plodding like Infest's "Fetch the Pliers". The song attacks religion singling out some of the more fundamentalist sects of the Muslim faith.

11. Doomsday Demise is a song that takes on these apolcalyptic religions that use faith to scare people into belief.

12. It could be better is a song about police oppression which dare I say sounds informed by real life events. The song talks of the falsehoods of freedom with Freedom of speech being held up as the golden goose. How free are we in a police state? Just because it doesn;t happen to you doesn't mean the crackdown doesn't happen.

13. Matter of time predicts the collapse of our capitalist system which is unsustainable built around lies and falsehoods.

14. New War talks about Class War being the new enslavement principle.

15. All your fault is a song about spin doctoring lead by lawyers to let corporations off the hook blaming everyday citiznery solely for the mess we're in.

16. No good will come from this is another civil libertarian warning about the erosion of our rights.

17. 2 Headed Snake is directed at an unamed culprit who lies from both sides of their face like a two headed snake.

18. Right Turn is a callous call for survival in what has become a system that has focused us on the me. It reads like a paradise lost realization and ultimately expresses disdain for our system.

This full length came out on a389 Records.

Radio - Sunday January 1st, 2012

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FROSTBACKS – American Invasion (True North Records)


Stephe's Top 10 Canadian punk releases for 2011
THE REBEL SPELL– Uncontrollable (Rebel Time)
KNUCKLEHEAD – Rock, Rhythm and Boots (Stumble)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS – I Hate Chores (Deranged)
HAZARDOUS WASTE – Jock Rock (Schizophrenic)
RAPID LOSS - Complete Wreck (Self-Released)
SICK CHARADE – Fucking Hesitation (Self-Released)
NO PROBLEM – Wish you were here (Deranged)
WEAK LINK demo – Last Rung (Self-Released)
TOTAL WAR demo – Total War (Self Released)
PICK YOUR SIDE ep – Help Me Forget (A389)


Rob's Top 10 Canadian punk releases for 2011
SCHOOL JERKS - Ready to Die (Cowabunga)
SNAKEPIT - Frat Bopy Holocaust (No Contracts Jusrt Friends)
TEENANGER - Wasted (Self-Released)
MATURE SITUATIONS - Yoga Predator (High Anxiety)
SLOBS - Weapos Free (Cowabunga)
B-LINES - Psychedlic High School (Deranged / Nominal)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Decapitate me baby (Red Lounge)
TV FREAKS - Casual Encounters (Self-Released)
KREMLIN - No Work (Self-Released)
VACANT STATE - So Sick (Deranged)


D'Arcy's Top 5 Canadian punk releases for 2011
TRUNCHEONS - Killing Fields (Self-Released)
TOTAL WAR - They lead and we follow (Self-Released)
DEKODER - Hate song (Self-Released)
OMEGAS - Blasts of Lunacy (Deranged)
PREGNANCY SCARES - Don't Try (Self-Released)


Stephe's favoruite hardcore releases of 2011
LOW THREAT PROFILE “Product #2” LP – My Only Friends (Deep Six / Draw Blank)
VILE NATION “Tight Leash” ep – No War No Future (Even Worse / Way Back When)
SYSTEMATIC DEATH “Systema-8” ep – Sakitchodakedemo (Way Back When / Even Worse)
NUCLEAR CULT “Better Nightmares” ep – Der Mast (Warm Bath)
LIEUTENANT LP – Wake up Dumb (Peterwalkee / Warm Bath / Art of the Underground)
RUIDOSA INMUNDICIA “Huellas de odio” ep – Contaminados (Heart First)
REPROACH “The Bitter End” LP – Is This It? (Deep Six)
POISON PLANET “Undermine” ep – Bible Stories (Third Party)
SOCIAL CIRCKLE “Expiration Date” ep – Up the Ladder (Side Two)
WHOLE IN THE HEAD “Them and Us” ep – Fight Prejudice (Warm Bath / Dogdown / Zandor / Tadpole / Active Rebellion / Opiate)


Rob's favoruite hardcore releases of 2011
SPITS - Beat You Up (In the Red)
CRAMPS - I was a teenage werewolf (Moonlight)
CHIEFS - Eddie's Revenge (Dr. Strange)
HUNX AND THE PUNX - He's Coming Back (Hardly Art)
PUFFY AREOLAS - Gentlemen's grip (Hozac)
BROWN SUGAR - Brown Eyed Girl / Copper Helicopter (Feral Kid)
HEAVY TIMES - Let it Die (Hozac)
COLA FREAKS - Sniper (Hjernespind)
WAX IDOLS - Hotel Room (Hozac)
CULO - Military Trend (Self-Released)


D'Arcy's favoruite hardcore releases of 2011
DEATHRATS -Please (To Live a Lie)
CLEANSING WAVE - Collect Your Dirt (Katorga Works)
DEATH TOKEN - Al dreams are nightmares (Adult Crash)
NITAD - Ingen Chens (Adult Crash)
HUBRIS - Former (Self-Released)
NO STATIK - We all die in the end (Prank)
RALPH - I Can't Breathe (Self-Released)


NEGATIVE LIFESTYLE “Panic” ep – New Solutions (Deranged)
PSUDOKU “Space Grind” LP – BAaang (625 Thrash / Crucificados)
PETTURIN PALKKA “Kaikellaista Harmia” ep – Utopia (Tuska ja Ahdistus)
RAW NERVES “Burnt Skin” ep – Delusions (Inimical)
AVFART 33 – Panik / INSIDIOUS PROCESS – Internal Wars split LP (Halvfabrikat / Undislessed / Aborted Society)

Radio - Sunday, October 16th, 2011

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MAYDAY - In it to Win It (Feral Kid)
ZOUNDS - What is it Worth (Overground)


DRI - I Don't Need Society (R Radical)
MDC - Business on Parade / Dead Cops (R Radical)
CONFLICT - An Ungovernable Force (Mortarhate)
DIRECT ACTION - Repression / Eat the Rich (Bitzcore)
DISCHARGE - Drunk with Power (Clay)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Greed (Fringe)


ANGRY SAMOANS - Right Side of my Mind (Triple X)
BLACK FLAG - Black Coffee (SST)
DEAD BOYS - Down in Flames (Sire)
THE SAINTS - Wild About You (Raven)
RADIO BIRDMAN - Non-stop Girls (Sub Pop)


PLATES – Marching (Feral Kid)
ORDER – 4th song (HG Fact)
ENDPROGRAM – Confidence Man (Self-Released)
DEATH TRAP – No Majority (Feral Kid / Warm Bath)
BROWN SUGAR – Valu Meal (Feral Kid)
GUNNAR HANSEN – My Crimes (Schizophrenic)
PICK YOUR SIDE – Gnarly Times (A389)
SUPER REPEATER – 0636 (Self-Released)
WEEKEND NACHOS – No Saints (A389)
WARHEAD – This World of Confusion (HG Fact)


LIQUOR STORE - Commando (Almost Ready)
KETAMINES - New Victims (Hozac)
PUFFY AREOLAS - Gentlemen's Grip (Hozac)
I.V. EYES - They Saved Teri's Tube (Rubber Vomit)
THE AVERSIONS - Scarlet Street (In Style)


ATTENTION - Tonight Will Be Like Any Other Night (Juicebox Dot Com)
ANTISCHISM - Greedy Bastard (Prank)


Demo Features
AVFART 33 - Packa och ak (Self-Released)
AVFART 33 - Dubbelmoral (Self-Released)
AVFART 33 - Latsaskontroll (Self-Released)
AVFART 33 - Pregnant with seitan (Self-Released)
AVFART 33 - Dra ditt vapen (Self-Released)
AVFART 33 - Punkhierarki (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, October 9th, 2011

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ARSON - Prime Time (CIUT)
THE ANEMICS - Sick Boy (CIUT)


PICK YOUR SIDE - Controlled by Fear (A389 Recordings)
RIDE AT DAWN - A Bloody Threat (Schizophrenic)
LEGION DCLXVI - The Final Days (Schizophrenic)
INTERNAL ROT - Pig Teeth (625 Productions)
BOMB BLAST MEN - Religious Shit (Vex Records)
WITCH LORD - Bones are Left (A389 Records)


WILD CHILD -Piss Down a Drain (Self-Released)
KREMLIN - Kremlin (Self-Released)
VACANT STATE - Nothing New (Deranged)
CIRCLE FLEX - My Choice, Your Choice (Crew for Life)
LOGIC PROBLEM - Sterile Anxiety (Abuse)
NIHIL BAXTER - Angry Youth (Spastic Fantastic)
DEATH TOKEN - All dreams are nightmares (Adult Crash)


THE BLUE DEMON - Dick (Self-Released)
PAMPERS - Eruptions (JKSHK)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Decapitate Me Baby (Red Lounge)
CONNOISSEURS OF PORN - Peasant Terror (Buzz Records)
THE TERRORISTS - 30 Minute Love (Self-Released)


BURNING KITCHEN - Missed the train (Alerta Antifascista)
FAILURES - Available: (Youth Attack)
ONE BY ONE - Nazi raus (Words of Warning)
TV FREAKS - Never finish what you started (Self-Released)
MOLESTED YOUTH - Recycled life (Deranged)
NABAT - Kill Police (Self-released)
POWER TRIP - Suffer no fool
VILLAIN - Debt nation
MASAKARI - IX tempt providence


AVFART 33 – Orattvisan (Halvfabrikat / Undislessed / Aborted Society)
LIEUTENANT – 1 out of 4 (Art of the Underground / Warm Bath / Peterwalkee)
SPASTIC PANTHERS – Panther Bomb (Handsome Dan)
WHOLE IN THE HEAD – Fight Prejudice (Warm Bath / Dogdown / Zandor / Tadpole / Active Rebellion / Opiate)
TEENAGE RAMPAGE – What’s the Rush (Handsome Dan)
UNLEARN – Used + Killed (Deranged)
INSIDIOUS PROCESS – Internal Wars (Halvfabrikat / Undislessed / Aborted Society)
NO PROBLEM – I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (Deranged)
THE SHIRKS – On Time (Grave Mistake)
BLOOD RED BABY BLUE – What?! (No Profit / Peer Pressure)


DEADBEATS - Kill the Hippies (Dangerhouse)
e-150 - Azul (Self-Released)
STREET TRASH - What the shit? (Blacknoise)
CODE ORANGE KIDS - Walls (Mayfly)
ANTI-YOU - H Bomb (Six Weeks)


Demo Features
LIVING DEADBEATS - Theme Song (Self-released)
LIVING DEADBEATS - (Just to make) Rent (Self-released)
LIVING DEADBEATS - Lost (Self-released)
LIVING DEADBEATS - Stumble (Self-released)

Radio - Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

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DOUBLE NEGATIVE - Beg to a Vile Nude (Sorry State)


MUKEKA DI RATO - Atletas de Fristo (Laja Records)
LEPTOSPIROSE - Aqua Mad Max (Laja REcords)
BORED STRAIGHT - Alienation, Part Three (Data Control)
RESIST CONTROL - Don't Want It (Feral Kid / Shock to the System)


THE CRAW - Is This what we really want (Live Fast Die Drunk)
AVON LADIES - Hang 'em High (SYG Records)
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. - Cold Cold Rain (Doomtown Sounds)
BURIAL - Dissatisfight (Heart First)
ETAE - Mind Set (La Familia Releases)


HOAX - Dead Weight (Self-Released)
NO TOLERENCE - Pay The Cost (Painkiller)
URBAN BLIGHT - Leech (Slasher)
SCHOOL JERKS - Screamer (Cowabunga)
WASTE MANAGEMENT - Medicine (Painkiller)
BOSTON STRANGLER - The Truth (Self-Released)


SALVATION - The Internal (Youth Attack)
CREEM - Good Riddance (Katorga)
RAH - Keep Walking (Labeled)
OMEGAS - Excessive Force (Parts Unknown)
CONFINES - Downward Harmonization (Labour of Love)
RIVAL MOB - Tough Love (Six Feet)
DROPDEAD - Control (Ad Absurdum)
STICK TOGETHER - Stick Together (Self-Released)


SLUTS ON 45 - Hung up drunk (Cheap Slut Records)
THE LIVING DEADBEATS - Time (Self-Released)
SPOILED ROTTEN - I Want my Rock 'n Roll (Amp)
OS PEDRERO - Sua Bouca Gatiiama (Laja Records)


DISCHARGE - Realities of War (Clay)
DISSYSTEMA - Depression and Discontent (Despotic)
DISTRESS - Filthy Business (Total Punk)
DISFEAR - Det Sista Kriget (Self-Released)
DISPENSE - Detached (No Records)
DISGUST - War Crime (Nuclear Blast)
DISARM - Dagen Efter (Self-Released)
DISCLOSE - Battlefield of Hell (MCR Company)


PICK YOUR SIDE - Controlled by Fear (A389 Recordings)
RIDE AT DAWN - A Bloody Threat (Schizophrenic)
LEGION DCLXVI - The Final Days (Schizophrenic)
INTERNAL ROT - Pig Teeth (625 Productions)
BOMB BLAST MEN - Religious Shit (Vex Records)
WITCH LORD - Bones are Left (A389 Records)


NEWTOWN NEUROTICS - Kick out the Tories (Captain Oi!)
INSERVIBLES - Acedtalo Todo (Captcha)
CODE 13 - Darkness at noon (Havoc)
DEATHRITE - Locust Swarm (Self-Released)
WRITTEN OFF - Reiterator (IMC)
HATEWAVES - Pride (A389 Records)


Demo Features
SKINNED ALIVE - Skinned Alive (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, September 25th, 2011

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PENETRATION PANTHERS - Lipstick on Leather (A389 Records)


DEVO - Space Junk (Warner Bros)
PICK YOUR SIDE - Webs in the Sky (A389 Records)
THE LOVE BELOW - High Friends in Low Places (A389 Records)
TARANTUJA - Burning the Bridges (Unrest)
LEGION666 - Evil (Schizophrenic)
OVERPOWER - Montreal (self-Released)
GEHENNA - Caveman (A389 REcords)
GRAVEHILL - Black Mass Prophecy (A389 Records)


THE SPITS - She Don't Care (In the Red)
THE DICKIES - Give It Back (A&M)
THE OKMONIKS - Not That Good (Slovenly)
THEE MIGHTY CEASARS - Lie Detector (Crypt)
GENTLEMEN OF HORROR - Overhead projector (No Exit)


ARTICLES OF FAITH - What we want is free (Version Sound)
FUCKED UP - Two Snakes (Vice)
SLOBS - Technophile Society (Cowabunga)
HARDA TIDER - Bring the Ruckus (Not Enough)
HYSTERESE - Headlocked (Self-Released)
SEPTIC DIETER - operland (Yakuzzi Tapes)
ABSURD - Bojkotta Coca-Cola (Killed by death)


DEATH TRIP - No Hicks (Feral Kid / Warm Bath)
HOMEWRECKER - Internal Morgue (A389 Records)
SWINDLED - Apathy Rules (Swi-Fi Music)
B-LINES - It Rains (Deranged / Nominal)
DEAF MUTATIONS - Mutation Shuffle (Static Shock)
ASSHOLE PARADE / SLIGHT SLAPPERS - Boso! Control (No Idea)
PULLING TEETH - Extinction (A389 Records)
OMEGAS - Social Slasher (High Anxiety)
WHOLE IN THE HEAD - A Brief History of Working Class Resistance (Warm Bath)
NUCLEAR CULT - Heimspiel (Warm Bath)


NOTFUNNYANYMORE - College Park (One Way)
ADOLESCENTS - Amoeba (Frontier)
IRON CROSS - Crucified for your sins (GMM)
BLUE DEMONS - Hot and Heavy (Schizophrenic)
FUNGI GIRLS - Velvet Days (Hozac)


CIVIL VICTIM - We are 129A (Cowabunga)
LOW PLACES - Controlled Chaos (A389 Records)
DYS - City to City (Taang!)
SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE - Send the pigs (12 Gauge)
ANIMAL FACES - Living Spaces


Demo Feature
TOTAL WAR - Total War (Self-Released)
TOTAL WAR - And For What (Self-Released)
TOTAL WAR - Lifeline (Self-Released)
TOTAL WAR - Mind Destruct (Self-Released)
TOTAL WAR - They Lead, We Follow (Self-Released)

Top 10 - July 2011

1.       WARHEAD “Acceleration” ep (HG Fact)

2.       WEEKEND NACHOS “Black Earth” ep (A389)

3.       SUPER REPEATER “Age of Irony” ep (Self-Released)

4.       PICK YOUR SIDE ep (A389)

5.       GUNNAR HANSEN / U.T.I. split LP (Schizophrenic)

6.       BROWN SUGAR / MAYDAY split ep (Feral Kid)

7.       DEATH TRAP “No Hicks” ep (Feral Kid / Warm Bath)

8.       ENDPROGRAM “Balatus” CD (High Art for the Downlow)

9.       ORDER “Nazo Nazo / Aaso” ep (HG Fact)

10.    PLATES “Taking Pictures of Poor People” ep (Feral Kid)

Labels:

* HG Fact - 105 Nakeneah Inbach 1-M / 2-7-15 Yayol-cho / Nakano, Tokyo / 154-0013 / Japan

* A389 Records - P.O. Box 12058 / Baltimore, MD / 21281 / USA / http://www.a389records.com/

* Super Repeater – superrepeater@gmail.com

* Schizophrenic Records – 17 W 4th Street / Hamilton, ON / L9C 3M2 / Canada / http://www.schizophrenicrex.com/

* Feral Kid – 27 Ripley Place / Buffalo, NY / 14213 / USA / http://feralkidrecords.com/

* Warm Bath – P.O. Box 652 / Buffalo, NY / 14215 / USA / www.warmbathlabel.wordpress.com

* High Art for the Low Down – theendprogram@live.ca

Pick Your Side “Survival Prayer” ep

This debut PICK YOUR SIDE release reminds me of a basement version of SHITFIT. So think lo fi Montreal crust. Except this is a project band pulled together from some major players in the respective hardcore scenes. Jeff Beckman of CHOKEHOLD / HAYMAKER fame plays guitars and vocals. Johnny Ibay from FUCK THE FACTS plays drums. This was a jam band formed out of a failed Haymaker reunion. The ep was recorded in Jeff's basement and I have to say his venomous lyrics are too good to not mention.  

1. Controlled by Fear is a song that explores the development of the culture of fear that we live in
2. Gnarly Times makes subtle references to Fucked Up lyrics but the message is about Civil Liberties are being eroded by the Government.
3. Happy When is a call to arms and an awakening from our apathy.
4. Mentally Fucked
5. Digital Currency is a critique of the plastic currency (Credit and debit cards).

6. Survival Prayer is a song of disdain for those who use faith as the solution for misrable times.
7. World Splits Open is a dream about the earth getting rid of us as a species as a survival story.
8. Help Me Forget rationalizes pills and booze to numb reality.
9. Webs in the sky is a song about pesticide sprays and their role in causing cancer.
10. Hinkley Had a Vision is a Crucifucks cover and if I'm not mistaken Haymaker did a cover of this as well to further suggest that this is the extension of an aborted Haymaker reunion.

It may be lo fi, but like the good demoes back in my day they have a way of growing on you.

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