Radio - Sunday, October 27th, 2013

Tonight was our fundraising show for CIUT. We decided to take the theme, Sound of your city, literally and program an entire show of Toronto punk and hardcore bands that span the generations of the scene. You can hear the show on the player above or download an MP3 file of the show here. Thanks to all of those who donated to help the station make a dent in the unforeseen expenses that have plagued the station over the past six months. This will help us bring a better sounding broadcast in the future.

S.H.I.T. - Feeding Time (Self-Released)

KREMLIN - Old Man (Hardware)
SNAKEPIT - Hogtown Blues (Self-Released)
DEAD MOUTH - Hipster Holocaust Been Years and Years (Self-Released)

REPROBATES - Abandoned City (No Way)
SCHOOL JERKS - Slums of the Future (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)
TOTAL TRASH - No York (Self-Released)

URBAN BLIGHT - Cut Back (Slasher)
VIOLENT FUTURE - Government Takeover (Painkiller)
WASTOIDS - My Toronto (Self-Released)

DIRECT APPROACH - Unaffordable (Self-Released)
HASSLER - Pig Pen (Schizophrenic)
ABSOLUT - Neofuckers (CIUT)

YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Louie Louie / Part Time Punks (Fringe)
THE YOUNG LIONS - Shithole (NRK)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Four Points (NRK)

HOCKEY TEETH - Not so long ago
MARILYN'S VITAMINS - Ernst Zundell, Voltaire and Me (Underground Operations)

THE CURSE - Shoeshine Boy (Other People's Music)
TYRANNA - Toronna Boys (Rave Up)
THE POLES - CN Tower (Self-Released)

SLUTS ON 45 - Waltz Me Dirty (Self-Released)
SKULLIANS - 416 / Doomsville (Self-Released)
CAREER SUICIDE - Quarantined (Deranged)

THE FALLOUT - Robin Hood (Red Menace)
THE DELINQUINTS - Wicked City (Self-Released)
CRASH KILLS 5 - What do you do at night? (Ugly Pop)

BURNING LOVE - Pig City (Southern Lord)
KREMLIN - No Choice (Self-Released)
JOEY'S ARMAGEDDON - Queen and Peter (Self-Released)

CEREBRAL SCRUB - Fucks Shit Up (Self-Released)
BIRD DEATH - Chest Pain Blues (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Nazi Space (Self-Released)
LIGHTNING FOR LEGS - Me (Self-Released)
VCR - Dirty Girl / City Boy (Self-Released)

RIOT99 - Destroy the City

Flyer - Saturday, July 20th, 2013

Flyer - July 17th, 2013

Given the number of bands from Alberta on this bill I bet this show was in Edmonton or Calgary.

Flyer - Monday, July 15th, 2013

Radio - Sunday, May 26th, 2013

Proxy were in town all weekend. We got to speak with them yesterday and so tonight's show is based around our interview and the bands that came up. Even the demo feature is based on a band that Proxy highly recommended, Thee Nodes. You can hear the show using the player or you can download the MP3 file.

FUGAZI - Repeater (Dischord)

PROXY - Police Car Goin' Home (Self-Released)

PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Lawless (Self-Released)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Shackled to a Corpse (Imminent Destruction/Inflammable Material)
INFA RIOT - Emergency (Captain Oi)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
SUBHUMANS - Firing Squad (Friends)
SUBHUMANS - Behind my smile (Alternative Tentacles)
SEX PISTOLS - Pretty Vacant (Virgin)
CHELSEA - Years Away (Captain Oi)
DOA -Taking care of business (Sudden Death)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Pox (Imminent Destruction/Inflammable Material)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Skeleton's Eyes (Self-Released)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Instrumental (Imminent Destruction/Inflammable Material)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Nuremburg Nightmare (Imminent Destruction/Inflammable Material)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Land of Guns (Imminent Destruction/Inflammable Material)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Insane (Imminent Destruction/Inflammable Material)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Johnny's got his badge (Imminent Destruction/Inflammable Material)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
KREMLIN - No Hope for you (Bad Vibrations / Hardware / Beach Impediment)
PROXY - Interview (CIUT)
PROXY - Free Radicals (Self-Released)

ASILE - Systeme Violent (Rust and Machine)
S.H.I.T. - Feeding Time (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Feeding Time (Cut the Cord)
TV FREAKS - Only Child (Schizophrenic)
SCHOOL JERKS - Endless Mirrors (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)

Thee Nodes demo can be downloaded at their bandcamp page.
THEE NODES - Future car (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - We are thee Nodes (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - Shut Up (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - My Mask (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - Living like a Corpse (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - Screen Addiction (Self-Released)

Valley Boys 12"

The VALLEY BOYS are a new band although they have been functioning as a group for a couple of years. But as a current line up the band is relatively new. Matt, formerly of the School Jerks, is the driving force behind the band. He is the principal song writer and the guy who has brought this group together. Matt brought in Jon from Brutal Knights after they had broken up but while Hassler was being formed. It is that fast paced garage that Jon brings to the sound. Jon also convinced a boyhood friend Kalle to play drums. This is the first band that I know Kalle for. Jimmy Vapid recorded these two sessions out at his new place in Oshawa and in the process convinced everybody that he could play bass for them. It's not like they needed convincing. But these recordings represent the band before Jimmy was on bass just knob twiddling of the production sort.

Matt loves the Modern Lovers so they start out this release with a cover of "Modern World". Has anyone been paying attention to that contest that is trying to get "Roadrunner" as the official state song for Massachusettes? The sound comes across like the TV Freaks meets MC5. Matt's vocals are similar to Dave's, but there is a fuller sound to the Valley Boys which comes from having two guitar players. Some of the songs like "Feeding Time" are so primal which works for this song. It is a song that repeats and is just pounded out but really gets into your psyche. Matt has a lot of observations like the pharmaceutical industry creep into life with the outrageous "Side Effects" that they can have on a person. And "Shooting Politicians" is about the incident with Gabrielle Giffords that happened in the States. The song "Auto Pilot" feels like how I get through many days and I take it as a statement on how life can become monotonous.

This recording is a collection of two different sessions but it sounds like one. It was originally released as an on-line demo through their bandcamp site, but Cut the Cord has pressed it as a limited edition 12", which I understand is sold out in the black vinyl and there are limited copies of coloured vinyl that can only be ordered through the label at this time. The songs on this release are as follows:

1. Modern World
2. Eyes on Fire
3. Feeding Time
4. Feels like shit
5. Pills
6. Rich Kids
7. Side Effects
8. Auto Pilot
9. Shooting Politicians

10. Fired

Flyer - Friday, April 12th, 2013

Radio - Sunday, March 3rd, 2013

Tonight's show featured Matt Hitch in as a guest host because he is up here to record a studio 3 session with the Valley Boys. Matt is also in the School Jerks so we started off the show with a School Jerks song.

SCHOOL JERKS - Why ask why (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)

This week I got in a book titled the "Encyclopedia on Swedish Punk" and I tracked down a MISSBRUKARNA release that made me think of Bad Brains classic "Pay to Cum", so the first set is built around that.

SNFU - Strip Search (Rubber)
MISSBRUKARNA - De nakna och de doda (Forasaljud Fods)
ABSURDO - Nunca es tarde (Self-Released)
BAD BRAINS - Pay to Cum (Caroline)
S.H.I.T. - Regulator (CIUT)

This is Matt's first set

OMEGAS - Nazi Rules(Painkiller)
IMPERIALIST PIGS - Live pigs (Fatal Erection)
HASSLER - Amoral (Beach Impediment)
WILD CHILD - Bogged Down (Fashionable idiots)
SWINEHEAD - Girl Cops (Ken Rock)

The EATERS song is amazing in Ivan's set

OUT COLD - Just because (Acme)
INSERVICIBLES - Yo no e (Shogun)
CRAZY SPIRIT - They Sleep easy (Toxic State)
AGENT ORANGE - Dogs (Kangaroo)
EATER - You (the Lable)
CRASH KILLS FIVE - What do you do (Ugly Pop)

Matt starts out with TERMINAL STATE

TERMINAL STATE -Panic Attack (Hate the 80s)
VIOLENT FUTURE - Steet Prowler (Slasher)
YAHMOS - Letterbomb (Sunday indicut)
NAUGHTY GIRLS - Too many lies (Bad Vibrations)
VILETONES - Rebel (Man's Ruin)

A number of re-issues came out last month so here is a set of some of these renewed releases.

ASTA KASK - TV'n (Prank)
POISON PLANET - Bible Stories / Outro (Offside)
FORWARD - Burn Up (Prank)
PELIGRO SOCIAL - 20 Anos (Tankcrimes)
POLITICAL ASYLUM - Flight of Fancy (Boss Tuneage)

GRABBIES - I wanna be blind (Fashionable Idiots)
OUT WITH A BANG - Fucked Up (Criminal IQ)
KREMLIN - Anti-Septic (Hardware)
CHICKENHEAD - Smash & Grab (Recess)
ELECTRIC VOMIT - Treasure Hunt (Garbage Bag)

LOS CRUDOS did a reunion show in Chicago this weekend. The NUKES played with them.

LOS CRUDOS - Neciste con Voz / Migra Violencia (Lengua Armada)

THE NUKES - Creep / Pretentious (Self-Released)
DISTRACT - Organized (Self-Released)
STRANGERS - Closet case (Self-Released)
LUMPY AND THE DUMPERS - Eel goo (Self-Released)
HAKA -Alone (Self-Released)

CRUCIAL UNIT - Five inches of Oppression (Six Weeks)
TERMINAL YOUTH -Don't Step in the Nationalism (Rich White Kids)
ZERO BOYS - high Places (Nimrod)
SUCKED DRY - Arachnophobia (Pass Judgement)
KREMLIN - Fanatics (Hardware / Bad Vibrations / Beach impediment)
SUBVERT - What does it mean (Hippycore)
CHEAF DRUGS - Overall (Fortyweight)
BASTARD - To the Stumped underdogs (Self-Released)

Tonight's demo feature is from Vancouver and features Aaron Brown of BRADY'S PROBLEM and Generation Annhilation. The recording was done by Adam Payne of One Blood. They do a SKEPTIX cover.

ALL OUT PANIC - Ivory Tower (Self-Released)
ALL OUT PANIC - Don't Need to Hear It (Self-Released)
ALL OUT PANIC - Victims (Self-Released)
ALL OUT PANIC - Cost of Living (Self-Released)
ALL OUT PANIC - Pathetic Existence (Self-Released)
ALL OUT PANIC - Traitor (Skeptix) (Self-Released)
ALL OUT PANIC - Pig (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

This is the program for Equalizing-X-Distort on Superbowl Sunday and I had just heard an interview with Malcolm Gladwell equating the NFL to a bloodsport with regards to dementia so I started out with 7 Seconds "I Hate Sports", for which the lyrics of the song start out "I hate football games".

In Toronto, our Mayor is in the midst of his latest scandal, this one regarding election overspending, so we started off the show with bands that have written about the Rob Ford influence on this city.

Ivan starts out a set with a band from Mexico and also plays the Hygiene single which features a guy from the Toronto scene on vocals. He also gets the Feederz and the Comes and the Damned in a set.

Rob profiles the latest Ugly Pop garage series releases. Bands like A Passing Fancy and Northwest Company.

There was a second setbased around current events but more of an international nature looking at the Superbowl, the Idle No More protest at Lansdowne and Dupont, The escalating war in Syria, and the tech stories with RIM and Twitter. It is my version of "Riffing the News".

D'Arcy did a set of hard hitting hardcore.

Ivan did a second setof classics, this time playing Systematic Death and Icons of Filth and the Chiefs.

Rob did a set with Steel Pole Bathtub covering Cheap Trick.
7 SECONDS - I Hate Sports (To the Positive Youth)

DIRECT APPROACH - Unaffordable (Self-Released)
WASTOIDS - My Toronto (Self-Released)
SCHOOL JERKS - Problems (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)
HASSLER - Pig Pen (Schizophrenic)
VIOLENT FUTURE - Government Takeover (Self-Released)
URBAN BLIGHT - Cut Back (Slasher)

LOS MONJOS - Los Margaritos - Canibalismo en Africa (Cintaspete)
URINALS - I'm a Bug (Bootleg)
HYGIENE - L'Hygiene (Sorry State)
THE COMES - Wa-Ka-Me (Bootleg)
UK SUBS - C.I.D. (Cherry Red)
DAMNED - Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick)

POW WOWS - Killing Me (Get Hip)
IN-SECT - I can see my love (Ugly Pop)
NORTHWEST COMPANY - Get Away from it all (Ugly Pop)
A PASSING FANCY - I'm Losing Tonight (Ugly Pop)
MASTER'S APPRENTICES - War or hands of time (Ugly Pop)

PROPAGANDHI - Superbowl Patriot XXXVI (G7 Welcoming Committee)
THE FALLOUT - Trail of Tears (Longshot)
ONE BLOOD - Indian Summer (Gern Blandsten)
CRASS - Major Generals Despair (Crass)
PICK YOUR SIDE - Plug in Generation (A389)

ARSON ANTHEM - Hammer them out
SUBURBANITE - Out of Line
HEADS KICKED OFF - Blind
EVIL ARMY - Scum of the Earth
FINAL EXIT - Emptiness a virtue
LAST RITES - Out of on monts (Taang)

REPROBATES - Abandoned City (No Way)
SYSTEMATIC DEATH - Japanese title (Partners in Crime)
ICONS OF FILTH - Power for Power (Get Back)
CHIEFS - Tower 18 (Dr. Strange)
CHIN CHIN - World's Burning (Mississippi)
FATAL MICROBES - Beautiful Pictures (Crass)
WOMYNS PRYSYN - John Titor's Blues (Scavenger of Death)

STIKKY - The scene has suffered, part2 (Pintonium AG)
STEEL POLE BATHTUB - Surrender (Man's Ruin)
TV FREAKS - Pusher (Scion)
SUBWAY SECT - Ambition (Rough Trade)
SPASTICS - Cherry Pop (Rip Off)

LOST BOYS - Are you with me? (Still Holding On)
GARY - Hell's around the corner (Dan-Doh)
BLUE HEARTS - Japanese title (Meldac)

Demo Feature
A new raw-punk band from Toronto featuring former members of RAMMER, SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL, and CITY SWEETHEARTS.
ABSOLUT - Insane Power (Self-Released)
ABSOLUT - No Single Tear (Self-Released)
ABSOLUT - Dirty Grave (Self-Released)
ABSOLUT - Martyr Fuckoff (Self-Released)
ABSOLUT - No Card (Self-Released)
ABSOLUT - Thieves in Law (Self-Released)
You can hear the demo at http://absolutnoise.bandcamp.com/ or you can write the band at insaneabsolutnoise@gmail.com.

Radio - Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Down in Baltimore next weekend there is a a389 Records Anniversary bash that LEFT FOR DEAD are playing. There is all this talk of a warm up show taking place somewhere in the city on Wednesday or Thursday so keep your ear to the ground. So we started out the show with a set that showcases bands at that fest. There is also a tribute to the film on the Boston scene called "All Ages". And the demo feature is a new local band called Valley Boys. Click the player above or download the MP3 file here.

LEFT FOR DEAD - Who d'you know? (No Idea)

a389 fest
INTEGRITY - No One (Victory)
VILIPEND - The last stand of the Hopeless Romantic (a389)
GEHENNA - Swarm (a389)
WEEKEND NACHOS - The fine art of bullshit (Deep Six)
SICK FIX - The Toll (a389)
DESPISE YOU - Tired of Trying (Theologian)
LACK OF INTEREST - What's Wrong (Slap-a-Ham)
PICK YOUR SIDE - This is not a Test (Regurgitated Semen)

THE FIX - Cos the Elite (Touch and Go)
EXECUTE - Japanese song title
ROCK 'N ROLL BITCHES - Broad Daylight (Ugly Pop)
TEENAGE HEAD -Little Boxes (IGM)
DEMICS - I wanna know (ready)
TESTORS -Time is mie (Windi-an)

BLOTTER - All dogs go to war (Self-Released)
BLOODKROW BUTCHER - Anti-You (Self-Released)
SELF ABUSE - Senseless Violence (Self-Released)
DIRTY WORK - Dirty Air (Self-Released)
PISSHEADS - Kill Hippie System (Self-Released)
SWINGBACK - On my way out (Self-Released)

CONDITION - Smouldering Wreckage (Man Decisive)
EFFLUXS - Final Injustice (Rust and Machine)
VITAMIN X - Burn em down (Havoc)
ASILE - Choisie demourir (Rust and Machine)

ESKOBURTO - Maldito Pais (Munster)
UGLY PARTS - Waste (MMR)
SCHOOL JERKS - Outcast (Grave Mistake / Bad Vibrations)
NERVOSAS - Incinerator (Meth Mouth)
DEAD KENNEDYS - Triumph of the Swill (Alternative Tentacles)

FLUX OF PINK INDIANS - Background Noise (CRASS)
PAGANS - Don't leave me alone (Crypyt)
MINUTEMEN - Sell or be sold (SST)
GORILLA ANGREB - DeKommer ud om natten (Kick 'n Punch)
DICKS - Young Boys Feet (Alternative tentacles)
REAGAN YOUTH - New Aryans (New Red Archives)
GASRAG - Chernobyl (Self-Released)

KONTRA ATTAQUE - Respeto (Self-Released)
GUILTY BYSTANDERS - Hardcore Alphabet / It's Okay with my mom (Self-Released)
TRAGETELO - Tragelelo (Lengua Armada)

Tribute to All Ages
THE FREEZE - Boston not L.A. (Modern Method)
DYS - More than Fashion (X-Claim)
SSD - The Kids will have their say (X-Claim)
JERRY'S KIDS - I Don't Belong (Taang)
THE F.U.s - Green Beret (Lost and Found)
GANG GREEN - Have some Fun (Modern Method)
LAST RITES - Wasted Time (Taang)
ANTIDOTE - Something Must be Done (Hellbent)

JIMMY VAPID - Superman-Garbageman / Big in Toronto / Dollar Store Microphones (Surfin' Ki)
THE CAPITALIST KIDS - We are each ultimately along in the universe (Toxic pop)
TRANZMITORS - Concrete Deprtession (La Ti Da)

Demo Feature
VALLEY BOYS - Modern World (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Eyes on Fire (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Feeding Time (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Feel like shit (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Pills (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Rich Kids (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Side Effects (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Auto Pilot (Self-Released)

If in barbed wire things can bloom, why can't I?

Tara Bursey, the fantastic artist who does all the great School Jerks covers, did a full page drawing for the January issue of MRR (#356). She was telling me that this is the first time MRR has offered up a page for punk artist. They have done some things in the past, but hopefully this will become a regular feature. Tara's drawing is based on a famous photo taken by Arthur Fellig who was a photojournalist more commonly known as Weegee, a phonetic interpretation of ouija which was given him for his ability to show up at the scene of a crime within minutes of it being reported. Weegee's subject matter mostly focused on urban life, crime, injury and death found in his native New York City. This drawing is based on a photo known as Their First Murder and the caption is taken from a poem writtne by a child in a concentration camp. Tara has brought the two together to create a piece expressing an inspiring message about building an ideal world and is best expressed on Tara's blog.

Radio - Sunday December 30th, 2012

We continue with the Year in Review for 2012. Stephe starts out with his favourite new bands from 2012. Rob plays his favourite Canadian punk releases from last year. D'Arcy plays his top 18 from last year. Then Stephe highlights comilations from last year. Tonight's demo feature is Flaccid from Calgary. The show is more exciting than this playlist so download the MP3 here.

UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Hell is other people (Even Worse)

Stephe's Top new bands of 2012
BRAIN TUMOURS - Improper Execute (Fashionable Idiots / Pass Judgement)
BAD JESUS EXPERIENCE - Veikki Seivastaja (Kamaset Levtt)
SECTARIAN VIOLENCE - Lined and Shot (Grave Mistake)
ANCIENT FILTH - Pushed to the limit (Shock to the system)
HAUTE COUTURE - Act your age (Shogun)
SICKOIDS - Human Steps (Hardware)
URBAN UNREST / PARENTAL SHOCK - Anxiety Attack (United Shoebrothers / Rabbit's Foot)
URSUT - Sten som sten (La Familia)
SHIPWRECKED - It's Grim Up North (Crucial Response)
BRAIN KILLER - Trying to remember (Vinyl Rites)

Rob's Top 10 Canadian punk releases
METZ - Knife in the Water (Sub Pop)
PUSSYPOPS - I don't wanna (Self-Released)
WHITE LUNG - Bunny (Deranged)
RISING CRUST - Sad Clown (Self-Released)
BURNING LOVE - Hateful Comforts (Southern Lord)
WHITE WIRES - Down on my own (Dirtnap)
PROPAGANDHI - Lotus Gait (Epitaph)
SAM COFFEY AND THE IRON LUNGS - East Side (Slop Bop)
SCHOOL JERKS - Ugly Minds, Ugly Faces (Grave Mistake)
TV FREAKS - Co-Worker Blues (Schizophrenic)

D'Arcy's Top 18 for 2012
CRASH - Life to Live (Post Present Medium)
RAH - Give Up (Climbin' Aboard)
DIRECT APPROACH - What did we do? (Self-Released)
EAT A BRICK - Rotten teeth (Disinfect)
CONFINES - Mediocrity Rules (Side two)
INFERNOH - Infernoh (Dtaht Rapunk)
SQUARE THE CIRCLE - Soap opera (Crew for Life)
SEA OF SHIT - Episodes (Disease Audio)
BORN WRONG - Burn a Debt (Self-Released)
WEBCAM TEENS - Self Destruct (Self-Released)
TV FREAKS - Freelancer (Schizophrenic)
KREMLIN - Esprit de Corps (Self-Released)
WATER TORTURE - Synthetc Waste (Disease Audio)
ZYANOSE - Pride (Nose Noise)
KOSZMAR - Zycie W Grobie (Self-Released)
SCHOOL JERKS -Endless Mirrors (Grave Mistake / Bad Vibrations)
GOVERNMENT FLU - Walcz oSiebie (Yama Dori)

Stephe's favourite comps of 2012
PONX ATTACK - Ponx Vacation (Profane Existence)
THE BABOON SHOW - What it Takes (Turist I Tillvaron)
DHK - Y Si No Estas Preparadx? (Artcore)
LUCY AND THE LIPSTIX - S.O.S. (MCR Company)
MAYPOLE - Why Duck (Warsaw HC Punk Attack)
SNAKECHARMER - Corrosive Tension (Schizophrenic)
END OF ALL - Folkhemmet (Halvfabrikat)

Demo Feature
FLACCID - The Aether (Self-Released)
FLACCID - No Safe Word (Self-Released)
FLACCID - Flaccid (Self-Released)
FLACCID - Shallow Thought (Self-Released)
FLACCID - Trash (Self-Released)
FLACCID - Black Sun (Self-Released)
FLACCID - Untitled (Self-Released)

THE YOBS - Auld Lang Syne (Captain Oi!)

Radio - Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

This is the MP3 sound file for Equalizing-X-Distort on Sunday December 23rd, 2012. The show starts out with a Christmas song by the Pointed Sticks and the rest of the show is Top 10s as a gift to the listeners. The best of re-issues, new Canadian punk and hardcore, and some demo releases specific to 2012.


POINTED STICKS - Power Pop Santa (La Ti Da)

IMPALERS demo - Turn Me Loose (Beach Impediment / No Way)
DREAM DATES - Surfer Joe (Ugly Pop)
THE RETROS - All Talk, No Action (BDR Records)
ABADDON - Wet za Wet (Warsaw Pact)
WARRIOR KIDS - Marseille Tombe (Katorga Works)
UNRULED - Time is Running Out (Schizophrenic)
THE GUNS - Locked Inside (Smog Veil)
URBAN WASTE - Ignorant (Even Worse / Way Back When)
FRONT LINE - Front Line (Beach Impediment Records)
DESPERAT - Demokrati? (Beach Impediment Records)

HOT NASTIES - Invasion of the tribbles (Ugly Pop)
ARSON - Coho! Coho? (Ugly Pop)
HARD ONS - Something about you (Citadel)
DREAM DATES - Tallahassee Lassie (Ugly Pop)
MASTERS APPRENTICES - Undecided (Ugly Pop)
GERMS - Lexicon devil (Real gone)
VELVET UNDERGROUND - European Son (Polydor)
AVENGERS - the American in me (4 Men with beards)
JAWBREAKER - Chesterfield king (Blackball)
HICKEY - Everyone is a Whore (1-2-3-4 Go)

HERD OF WASTERS - Turbo (Self-Released)
THE FORUM - Trading an empty bottle for a grave (Harsh Crust)
ILEGAL - Inutil (Lengua Armada)
WEAK LINK - Can't let it go (Self-Released)
NAPALM RAID - To Serve and Arrest (Rust and Machine)
TV FREAKS - Street Rat (Schizophrenic)
PICK YOUR SIDE - Dark Future (a389)
SCHOOL JERKS - On Every Corner (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)
HASSLER ep - Innocent (Schizophrenic)
KREMLIN - Anti-Septic (Hardware)

SECRET PROSTITUTES - Gimme Money (Self-Released)
F.I.S.T. - Be Yourself (Self-Released)
MINEFIELD - (Self-Released)
PRIMITIVE RITES - the Kids (Self-Released)
ASSUMPTIONS - Control (Self-Released)
NATION ON FIRE - No god or man (Self-Released)
SYSTEMATIK - Your Disease (Self-Released)
COPS - Angel (Self-Released)
IRON REAGAN - Running out of time (Self-Released)
CONVERGE - Sparrows fall (Self-Released)
THRASHERS - Kaaos (Self-Released)
NO STATIK - Pompus words and pictures of King (Self-Released)
CONTRAST ATTITUDE - Resistance after the gig (MCR Co)
BURNING LOVE - Karla (High Anxiety)
BRAZEN HELL - Disinterest (Self-Released)

KOSZMAR - Zgnilizna I Rozpad (Self-Released)
TOTAL WAR - They Lead We Follow (Self-Released)
REPLICA - You Can't Stop The Weather (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Ripped off (Self-Released)
AUTUUS - Apaattinen Runkkari (Self-Released)
THE INSTIGATION - BTB (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - Blow It All To Hell (Self-Released)

WORD ON THE STREET - H.R.M. Mayhem (Self-Released)

Valley Boys demo

The VALLEY BOYS are a new local hardcore band inspired by KBD punk, oi, garage punk, the ANGRY SAMOANS, rock n roll, old American hardcore and old punk.  The band is made up of Jimmy Vapid (the VAPIDS) and Jon (BRUTAL KNIGHTS) fame. Jon grew up with the drummer Kalle who is from Cornwall. And the missing link is Matt Hitch who is on guitar and vocals and used to be in the SCHOOL JERKS. The band has just learned that Cut the cord that... Records (http://ctct-records.tumblr.com), out of Munster Germany,  will be releasing the demo as a 12”. Cut the Cord that...  has released material by NEON PISS, FOREIGN OBJECTS, and VACCINE among others so the VALLEY BOYS are in good company. Look out for P-Trash doing a 7” after that. You can download the demo at http://vboys666.bandcamp.com/album/valley-boys. (e-mail -  vboys666@gmail.com).

MRR Review - School Jerks LP

The School Jerks are a punk band from Toronto. This is their first full length and it is co-released on their own label, Bad Vibrations, and on Grave Mistake Records. This was reviewed in the December 2012 (#355) issue of MRR.

Flyer - Saturday, November 10th, 2012

After party
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10th @
Soybomb, 156 Bathurst, 11:00pm
CAREER SUICIDE
SCHOOL JERKS
NEON PISS
RAW MEAT
NUCLEAR SPRING

Flyer - Thursday, November 8th, 2012

Radio - Sunday, October 28, 2012

This program started out with a set of Hallowe'en songs written or performed by Canadian hardcore bands. That was followed up by a set up power violence and noise rock inspired bands which included the new Column of Heaven LP and the Veuve SS 12". We followed that up with a set of bands featuring women in the line up and included Sick Fix from Baltimore, and Criaturas among others. The next set featured a rare Polish band called Abaddon and a request from last week for Personality Crisis. We did a Black Flag inspired set with the new School Jerks and new Off! because they were in town last week. We finished up with a get up and go set that featured this incredible Japanese hardcore band named Think Again, after the Minor Threat song. Tonight's demo feature was a new Toronto group called Spearhead which features members of Total Trash, Snakepit, and Foxmoulder. Here is the playlist and you can also download the show.

TEENAGE HEAD - Disgusteen (Attic)

SNFU - Cannibal Cafe (BYO)
STRETCH MNARKS - Bad Moon (Headbutt)
BLACK DONNELLYS - Freddie's Revenge (Audio Fellatio)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Hallowe'en Party (Sell-Out Activities)
THE SWARM - November First (No Idea)

COLUMN OF HEAVEN - Buried Secrets / Barghest Jugend (SPHC)
EYEHATEGOD - New Orleans is the New Vietnam (A389)
BURNING LOVE - Tremors (Southern Lord)
DISABILITY - Tooth (Self-Released)
VEUVE SS - Discipline (Self-Released)
MAKABERT FYND - Ett Kok Stryk (Sorry State)

SICK FIX - The Toll (A389)
CRIATURAS - Los Elijidos (Lengua Armada)
RAD - Geekonomics/ So say we all
THE TANGLED LINES - Battle (Refuse)
THE WARD - the New Dykes (Self-Released)
UTAH JAZZ - Contact Low (Feral Kid)
RACKULA - G20 (Schizophrenic)

ABADDON - Rewolucja (Warsaw Pact)
PERSONALITY CRISIS - The Advocate (Workers Co-operative)
DOA - Bring out your dead (Sudden Death)
UNRULED - Screams of Fear (Schizophrenic)
BOOK OF BLACK EARTH - Road dogs from hell / See demons (Inimical)

GOVERNMENT FLU - Role Model (Refuse)
SCHOOL JERKS - Crux (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)
BLACK FLAG - I've Heard it before (SST)
OFF! - I got news for you (Vice)
NOOSE - Lex Talionis (React)
THE FORUM - Mercy for Now (Harsh Pizza)

BRAIN KILLER - Re-educated / Trying to remember (Vinyl Rites)
JOINT DAMAGE - Poison II / Damp (Sorry State)
THINK AGAIN - My War (Even Worse / Way Back When)
CITIZENS PATROL - Sick (Way Back When / Too Circle / Spastic Fantastic)
UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Sleep (Way Back When)

Demo Feature
SPEARHEAD - Contra (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - More World Wars (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Pet Shop (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Sword and Sorcery (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Gas the Dancefloors (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - A Raid (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Acid Burn (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Apocryphal Scum (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Knocked Out (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday September 9th, 2012

We started off tonight's show with a tribute to Hits and Misses because they are closing down this week so we started by playing the song that the store was named after.

Then we went into a live interview with Demolition who drove down from Barrie. We got a sense of who they are, where they come from in terms of influences, some insight into their songs, and where they are going in terms of recordings and shows.

We played some new Canadian material such as the New School Jerks LP and the new Wasteoids demo.

And we finished with a demo by a band from Helsinki called Autuus. The name translates to mean Bliss, which could be true if you are a fan of a pan-Scandi sound in hardcore embodied by bands like Āäritila.

Have a listen to the show here.

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - Hits and Misses

DEMOLITION - Intro / Here to Stay
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Don't Need Your Help
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Sick People (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - United We Stand
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Dream of Mine (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Honesty (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - In My Way (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Us Against You (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
ANCIENT HEADS - Moving On (Blank Stare / Ground Floor)
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Reach Out (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - Interview (CIUT)
DEMOLITION - New Song #2 (CIUT)

ILEGAL - Callejon sin Salida (Lengua Armada)
MARGARET THRASHER - No Offense (P Trash)
SCHOOL JERKS - Arrogant Order (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)
WASTEOIDS - I'm a prick (Self-Released)
TV FREAKS - Freelancer (Schizophrenic)

POISON PLANET - Boycott Everything (Refuse)
NAPALM RAID - To Serve and Arrest (Rust and Machine)
PICK YOUR SIDE - My Troubles (A389 Records)
BEATRIZ CARNICERO - Pensa, No Reces (No Reces)
ACxDC - Anti-Christ Demon Core (To LIve a Lie)

POW WOWS - Killing Me (get Hip)
NO BUNNY - Motorhead with Me (Hozac)
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - Death of a Mighty Caesar (Crypt)
BLACK FLAG - Black Coffee (Fringe)

Demo Feature
AUTUUS - Maatuneet Lapset
AUTUUS - Autuus (Self-Released)
AUTUUS - Sota (Self-Released)
AUTUUS - Pelko Pahemmasta (Self-Released)
AUTUUS - Apaattinen Runkkari (Self-Released)
AUTUUS - Yritan Jaxaa Huomiseen (Self-Released)
AUTUUS - Kaaoksen Partalla (Self-Released)

Flyer - Sunday, September 2nd, 2012