Direct Approach studio 3 session

Direct Approach are a new hardcore band from the west end. Most of these guys went to school at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. They are inspired by a New York hardcore sound which explains the Cro Mags cover. Sebastian and Campbell switch between vocals and guitar and that is a regular modus operandi for the band. Spencer plays bass amd Matt (from the Wasteoids) plays drums. This was recorded by Jonathon Hawkes is CIUT's Studio 3 on Tuesday June 19th, 2012.


1. My Time (President of America)
2. Relief
3. Right of Way
4. Priorities
5. Hot Shit
6. Heretics Fork
7. Irrelexvxant
8. Uncross your arms
9. Public Education taught me class Division
10. Unaffordable
11. Malfunction (Cro Mags)
12. Eyes Wide Shut

Aldo Erdic video taped the session and will be posting up on editted version under the Punks and Rockers banner and will also be viewable at http://www.punksandrockers.com/.

Kremlin studio 3 session

I wondered if this session was ever going to happen. CIUT is wiring in a new broadcast board into the Map Room at Hart House. How does this figure into our story? Some DJs on Tuesday night program their show from the Map Room in order that we might record in the traditional broadcast studio known as Studio 3. So the Station Manager called mid day to cancel the session, but then he figured out a two hour window that we could try. It usually takes us the entire three hours, but I didn’t want to cancel the session because there is so much effort put into scheduling that when one gets cancelled it puts a damper mood on all involved. So much so that it becomes difficult to do another session. I get there for 7:30 and I wait downstairs for the band members. Zack and Harry got a lift with their dad. But I wait downstairs for another half an hour for Ivan. Eventually Ivan finds the studio. He was waiting at the front of Hart House since 6:00pm. So we get going and we barely get the session squeezed out. I gotta say that these guys sound like they live Discharge if it isn’t obvious from the patches and tattoo. Zack plays a flying V that reminds me of Buzz from Direct Action, who were also a local Discharge inspired hardcore band. The band played these songs running into each other with a break after “Duped” and “No Work”. So it was like recording three songs. I do love the momentum that builds with songs running out of another. Here is Kremlin’s session.


1. Esprit de corps
2. Abuse Asylum
3. Rot
4. Duped
5. Why Should I?
6. Buried
7. Will you feed me
8. Unscrewed
9. No Work
10. Leave nothing alone
11. Kremlin

Punks and Rockers videotaped the session and has editted together four songs from the session.



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Violent Future studio 3 session

Violent Future are a new hardcore band featuring Christian on vocals, Mike "Beav" Huntington on guitar (Urban Blight), Steve Musgrave (Which Side / Bad Choice) on guitar, Rick Smith (Bad Choice) on bass, and Greg Benedetto (Stuck in the City) on drums. These guys are serious about their punk and there was a million collectors stories before the session actually began. Rick was having trouble with the effects on his bass. By the end Christian was shouting himself hoarse. Here is session recorded in Studio 3.


1. Goon Life
2. Government Takeover
3. Bloody victims
4. Violent Future
5. Life Sucker
6. Fatal Reality
7. Chumps
8. Street Prowler

Here are four songs filmed by Aldo Erdic for Punks 'n' Rockers from the session:

Careers in Science studio 3 session

Careers in Science are a band of friends who decided to be a post punk band inspired by the book "Our band could be your life". If you took the premise that the periuod between 1981 and 1991 are post-punk that is a huge arena of influences to draw from and Careers in Science do just that. On their CD "Whateverwolf" I heard influences that draw from as diverse groups like Minutemen and the anthemic parts of Rites of Spring. In our conversations that night they referenced bands like Mission of Burma, Wire, and the Clash. They did covers by the Cars, Neil Young, and Electric Six who are a funk band. We will be interviewing the band live on the show on Sunday January 29th and featuring material from this session recorded by Jon Hawkes. Here is the recording.

1. Rockets
2. Elizabeth Brown
3. Konami Code of Conduct
4. The Luxury of Forgetting
5. Patchwork Children
6. Boss Fight
7. Suri Cruise Missile
8. Damaged Men
9. Holy Shit, Giant Spiders
10. Fucking Up (Neil Young cover)
11. Just What I Needed (Cars cover)
12. Holiday Song
13. Gay Bar (Electric Six cover)
14. Hardcore Nice Guy

Video : The Ugly

Here is a song from the Last Pogo 2 which took place back in 2008 to commemorate the event that saw the Garys getting kicked out of said club as their bookers. Effectively this was seen as the closing of punk on this early home for the Toronto punk scene. Greg Dick is on vocals, Steve Koch is on guitar and Screamin' Sam Ferrera is on bass with Tony Torcher on drums. Aldo from Punks and Rockers captured a little of their set.