Radio - Sunday, June 15th, 2014

A great new one off zine has come out of Toronto exploring Raymond Pettibon's artwork as used by Black Flag. The zine is called "Art Through Intimidation" and we interviewed the author / publisher of this zine a few weeks ago. Black Flag are in town this week so what better time to explore an aspect of Black Flag, namely the image in front of the band. You can download the show here.

BLACK FLAG - What I See (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Nervous Breakdown (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Spray Paint (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Police Story (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
CIRCLE JERKS - Wasted (Frontier)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Damaged II (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - My War (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (SST)

Steven Davey passed away last week. he played drums in the Dishes and the Everglades and wrote one of Toronto's greatest punk anthems "Rebel Unorthodox" performed and recorded by the Viletones. In memory of Steve's passing here are is a song by each pf those bands.

THE DISHES - Fred Victor's Mission (Regular)
THE VILETONES - Rebel Unorthodox
THE EVERGLADES - Rock n roll cliche

Tonight's demo feature is a new Toronto band called Conundrum. The demo was released in March and can be downloaded at http://conundrumhc.bandcamp.com/.

CONUNDRUM - Suppress (Self-Released)
CONUNDRUM - Consume Me (Self-Released)
CONUNDRUM - Drained (Self-Released)
CONUNDRUM - Intruder (Self-Released)

NEGATIVE RAGE - Sensitive City, Volume 2 (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, March 23rd, 2014

This show features a session recorded with Screamin' Sam and the Problems earlier this week and you can find a post that has the songs and interviews in downloadable formats. Here is the pieced together version with bits of an audio collage from various other sources like the articles scanned from Steve Koch's archive

- "Horseshoe closes with riot", Toronto Sun, Sunday, June 14th, 1981
- "Beyond Primal: The Ultimate Scream", Shades Magazine #19/20, Oct. - Nov. 1981
- "..but Kennedys crowd dances on", Toronto Star

or this first hand account of the Professionals show

Some stories require visual aids like the video recorded at Roger's found below.



You can hear the whole show on the player above or you can download an MP3 here.

SCREAMIN' SAM - Live for Today (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Interview (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Do you Like It (Unreleased)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Interview (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Another World (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Interview (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Big Smoke (Pelican)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Interview (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Hot Dog City (Pelican)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Interview (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Oh Oh Oh (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Interview (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Been so Long (CIUT)
SCREAMIN' SAM - Interview (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Sam (Fleurs de Mal)

TBC - Musik I Plast (Mjalthugg / Re-Ken)
ASTA KASK - Fredagsmys (Prank)
KNUCKLEHEAD - Bigger Bombs for a Better Tomorrow (Stumble)
SNFU - Crude Crude City (Cruzar)

FISSURE - Junkie's Day Off
LACK OF INTEREST - Head Trip (Deep Six)
NO COMMENT - Dead Stare for Life (Deep Six)
TO THE POINT - First world problems for a middle class white guy (Deep Six)
COLD WAR - No Regrets - (Deep Six / Regurgitated Semen)
PICK YOUR SIDE - Weakling (Deep Six)

SICKFIT - Guilt Trip (Bong)
MILKMAN - Gurkenzeit (Bong)
NUEVA AUTORIDAD DEOCRATICA - Genta mierda (Solo para punks)
TENSE REACTION - De wilders sharia / Angstendictatuur (Bong)
UNAMED TERRORIST GROUP - You are involved in the war

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Calgary. You can download this demo on their bandcamp page.

EXOTIC FUNCTIONS - Feeling Good (Self-Released)
EXOTIC FUNCTIONS - Cobaxa (Self-Released)
EXOTIC FUNCTIONS - Vegetate (Self-Released)
EXOTIC FUNCTIONS - Petty Pursuits (Self-Released)
EXOTIC FUNCTIONS - Blessing in Disguise (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, February, 9th, 2014

You can listen to tonight's show on the player above or download an MP3 here.

Tonight's show started out with a live session recorded on Tuesday with VCR.

VCR - Pizza Party (CIUT)
VCR - Interview (CIUT)
VCR - Scream (CIUT)

We spoke about a video for "Scream". Here it is


VCR - SCREAM (MUSIC VIDEO) from Scott Thomas Jenner on Vimeo.

VCR - Interview - CIUT
VCR - Fake Freaks Fuck Off (CIUT)
VCR - Interview (CIUT)
VCR - Dirty Girl / City Boy (CIUT)
VCR - Interview (CIUT)
VCR - B.D.S.M. (CIUT)
VCR - Interview (CIUT)
VCR - Think Twice (CIUT)
VCR - Interview (CIUT)
VCR - One Trick Dog (CIUT)

Lots of re-issues sets tonight.

THE #1'S - Boy (Sorry State / Alien Snatch)
GROWN UPS - The things I could live without (Mammoth Cave)
STEVE ADAMYK BAND - For you (Hold On) (Hosehead)
THE FINGERS - Work It Out (Last laugh / Paradox)
THE VILETONES - Wet Dream Girl (Distortions / Funkadelphia)

ADIEXODO - Alternative Solution (B Other Side / Scarecrow)
STRESS - Fear (B Other Side)
THE ADICTS - Numbers (Fallout)
THE DISRUPTERS - Norvic the Clown / Gas the Punx (Resistance)
ROVSVETT - Världskrig 3 (Just 4 Fun)
H.C.P. - Policja (Warsaw Pact)

THOR'S HAMMER - My Life (Ugly Pop)
THE SONICS - Have Love will Travel (Norton)
SIMPLY SAUCER - Bullet Proof Nothing (Mammoth Cave)
DEVIL DOGS - Tattoed Apathetic Boys (Helter Skelter)
RAYDIOS - Fast Boy (Three Dimensional)

A set of releases by new bands.
GAS RAG - Chernobyl (Even Worse)
COKSKAR - Cokroachskar (Self-Released)
LIFE CHAIN - Dead End (Imminent Destruction)
MODORRA - Strangle Games (Plague Island / 11th Boil)
FULL OF HELL - Return to the Mines (a389)

Tonight's demo feature is a band that comes from Texas but takes their influences from Sweden. A copy of the demo can be downloaded from their bandcamp page.

ISKALLT REGN - Chaotic Advance (Self-Released)
ISKALLT REGN - Kaotisk varld (Self-Released)
ISKALLT REGN - Javala Framtid (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday, December 13th, 2013

 

Now Magazine - Thursday, December 12th, 2013

Radio - Sunday, December 8th, 2013

The Viletones have their first show in six years coming up this Friday. Steve Leckie, the singer for the Viletones, came in to tell us about the current line up, answer questions about their songs and provide some other background and context to the Viletones over the years.

You can hear the interview on the player above or download an MP3 of the show here.

THE VILETONES - Rebel Unorthodox (Vile)
THE VILETONES - Interview (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Possibilities (Other Peoples Music)
THE VILETONES - Interview (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Screamin' Fist (Vile)
THE VILETONES - Interview (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Screamin' Fist (Screwed)
THE VILETONES - Interview (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - KGB (Other Peoples Music)
THE VILETONES - Interview
THE VILETONES - C.O.N.T.R.O.L. (Other Peoples Music)
THE VILETONES - Interview (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Danger Boy (Razor)
THE VILETONES - Interview
THE VILETONES - Dog Style (Other Peoples Music)
THE VILETONES - Interview (CIUT)

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 24th, 2013

Here is the download for this week's show. The intro to the Culture Shock song made us forego our regular Mr Roger's introduction. The Culture Shock song comes from the band's first demo made available through the discography collection named "Everything".

CULTURE SHOCK - No Chance in a Million (Bluurg)

Last week we did the Top 10 for January and it was a month late so I thought we would be on ball with February's list.
KRIGSKONTRAST – Konfrontera (Not Enough / Halvfabrikat)
AGITATED - I need my fix (Helta Skelta)
NAPALM HEARTS – Expletive deleted (Helta Skelta)
ROYAL RED BRIGADE – Sickness (Self-Released) (Bandcamp)
FEJLFIX – Last inde (Spaghetti Cassetti / Pop & Sandals)
INSTINTO – Monstruos (Hysterical / Angry Voice / Grito o Muere / Mass Productions / Svodoba)
THE BRISTLES - Holiday in Thailand (Heptown / Noise of Sweden)
FORWARD – War and Death Sentence (Prank)
PURITY CONTROL – Walking Distance (High Anxiety)
DAMAGE – Time Flies (Gaphals)

Music from Belgium and Norway amidst a world premier of the Bad Skin single played from a test pressing. There is an intersting tie in to the FLQs show coming up and Steve Leckie's ongoing health problems. We hope you do better with this treatment Steve.
RAXOLA - 84 Man (Radio Heartbeat)
AKUTT INNLEGGELSE - De Dode Vakner (BCT / Schizophrenic)
THE EAT - Silly Drug Song (Redrum)
BAD SKIN - Flame Job (Bad Vibrations)
VILETONES - Little Girl (Other Peoples Music)
RED KROSS - Standing (Posh Boy)
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT - We've Realised (CRASS)

Here is a set of women in the comtpemprary punk scene.
NUCLEAR BLAST SUNTAN - Stampede / Death Ride (Aborted Society)VENGEANCE - You Breathe (Self-Released)
CHEAP ART - No More Hiding (Self-Released)
CURMUDGEON - Infallible (To Live a Lie)
NECKLACING - Disease (Self-Released)
RAT STORM - Flex your heart (Reality is a cult)
MOMS ON METH - History repeats itself (Offside)
BRIDGE - Red Hands (Self-Released)

This set was put togeither based on the posthumous Heratys release. We tried to play some bands that raged as hard with new releases.
CRUCIAL SECTION - Geriatric Union (Crew for Life)
ENDLESS GRINNING SKULLS - Bullshit Defender (Viral Age)
HERATYS - Kaikkitannehetinyt (La Familia)
DESPERAT - Bandlogga (Beach Impediment Records)
BORN UGLYS - Exposer (Prank)

WILD CHILD - Genie (Fashionable Idiots)
LEPERS - Flipout (Drome)
BLACK RAINBOW - Broomfields (Thrillhouse)
GUILTY RAZORS - I don't wanna be rich (Redrum)
TYRANNA - Back Off Baby (Boppa Do Down)
ZEROS - Don't push me around (Bomp)

RIOT SQUAD - In the future (Captain Oi!)
FROM ASHES RISE - Rejoice the end (Southern Lord)
ATTACK SS - Ideal future (Distort Reality)
DIR YASSIN - Oza forgotten place (Tofu Gorilla)
CERVIX - Death Culture (Video Disease)
ITANSHA - Isolation (Life Sucker)
DEFORMITY - Force Fed (Self-Released)

A set of Finnish hardcore
VARIX - Decay (Self-Released)
DESTRUCTION - Keno (Hardcore Holocaust)
FUCKING FINLAND - Loputon Sota (Turun Palo)
KONTALON LAPSET - Senkijajenkka (Self-Released)
VARAUS - Vasynyt Noyrtynaan (Feral Ward)

The demo feature is a great new band from Halifax featuring members of Genetic Angry and Concrete Asylum among others. You can find the demo at http://grump.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2013.
GRUMP - Imminent Premontion (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Devil's Agenda (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Empty Lungs (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Lethal Threshold (Self-Released)
GRUMP - SPQR (Tribal Hangover) (Self-Released)

DISSENSION - Blackout (Bad Idea Music)

Radio - Sunday. January 7th, 2013

This show was inspired by a feature in a weekly entertainment magazine known as Now. This past week they did a feature on the Best 50 albums by Torontonians. They had a punk singles list which made very little sense given the enormity of the period and the nubre of bands that have put out great things so we did our own list based on Generations of punk. We started off with the punk scene and then we did the hardcore scene. Then we looked at the 90's and the new milennium. Here are the respective lists in reverse order....

FUCKED UP - Generations (Slasher)

1975-1980
THE MODS - Reactions (Other Peoples Music)
CRASH KILLS 5 - Special School (Ugly Pop)
THE DIODES - Time Damage (Epic)
THE EXISTERS - Telex Love (Shy Anne)
BATTERED WIVES - Giddy (Pacemaker)
TYRANNA - Back off baby (Rave Up/Boppa Do Down)
ARSON - Coho Coho (Ugly Pop)
THE FITS - Bored of Education (No Exit)
THE UGLY - Baby you bug me (Other Peoples Music)
THE VILETONES - Screamin' Fist (Montreco)

1980-1990
ROCKTOPUS - E-Z Rider (Self-Released)
PHLEG CAMP - Clarify (Allied)
NOMIND - Worlds Apart (Lone Wolf)
SUDDEN IMPACT - Bent OK (Diabolic Force)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Democracy (Self-Released)
HYPE - Overeact (Reuben Kincade)
NEGATIVE GAIN - Situation all fucked up (Pusmort)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Cops Ain't Tops (NRK)
YOUNG LIONS - Young Amerikkka (Schizophrenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Damn-Age (Bitz-Core)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Fire in the Rain (Fringe)

1990 - 2000
KILL CITY BUTCHERS - Sweet Death (Beer City)
DIRTY BIRD - Talk Shit (Self-Released)
CRISIS OF FAITH - Doctor of Death (Ragamuffin Soldier)
HOCKEY TEETH - Not so long ago (Self-Released)
BLUNDERMEN - 309 and Beyond (Self-Released)
POLITKILL INCORECT - God bless you Jimmy Bakker (T.O. Mohawk)
SUCKERPUNCH - Once a week (Self-Released)
MARILYN VITAMIN'S - Squeegee Girl (Underground Operations)
ARMED AND HAMMERED - Kill Again (Obese Records)
TEEN CRUD COMBO - Days of Yore (Deranged)

2000 - 2010
REPROBATES - Brainwashed (Self-Released)
HOSTAGE LIFE - Ginny Applejack and the Potato Sack Prom Dress (Underground Operations)
RAH - Time will Tell (Chex Ogilvie)
URBAN BLIGHT - What Can be Done (Slasher)
HAZARDOUS WASTE - Skateblock (Schizophrenic)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Do Nothing (Deranged)
TERMINAL STATE - I'm so terminal (Hate the 80s)
THE FALLOUT - Action Today (Longshot Music)
RUINATION - Hero / Suspect (Self-Released)
CAREER SUICIDE - Impact (Deranged)

It was D'Arcy's birthday so he played some of his favourite songs...

IDIOTS RULE - Berg Up (Hate)
WHITE CROSS - Nuke Attack (Zero Degree)
JANKY - Extinguisher (Hold Up)
SADO NATION - Fear of Failure (Mystic)
TREASON - Drop Out (R Radical)
RANDOMS - Let's get rid of New York (Dangerhouse)
M.I.A. - Turning into what you hate (Insane Industries)

NO RESPONSE - Pay to Pray (HMACYT)
RAT PACK - Tell me how (Mystic)
OUT OF ORDER - Concerned (Fartblossom)
CRUEL FACE - Our hate for fascists (Terrotten)
CRUCIAL SECTION - Do as you feel (625 Productions)

CIVIL TERROR - Jaded at 23 (Demonumania)
CURSED - Bloody Mary (Deathwish)
CURSED - Head of the baptist (Goodfellow)
CURSED - Antihero Resuscitation (Goodfellow)

Radio - Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

Sid's Kids are a new punk band from Toronto made up from Cleave Anderson of the Screwed, and Marcel LaFleur and John Sutton of Arson. They have been playing this punk / new wave night at the Painted Lady and galvanizing members of the early Toronto punk scene in the process through their fun theme nights. We got a chance to speak and record the group with some of their collaborators. This group included Zero from Zro4, Mickey Skin from the Curse, Fergus Hambledon of the Basics and a Passing Fancy, Barrie Farrel of the Existers, and Chris Haight of Zoom and the Viletones.

We also played No Mistake in our demo feature. No Mistake are a new hardcore band from San Jose featuroing Mikey Bullshit of Go! on guitar and some other members of In Disgust and Permanent Ruin. There is a great review in the demo section November's issue of MRR with complete contact information or you can check out the bandcamp download at www.nomistake.bandcamp.com.

Have a listen to the show.

SID'S KIDS - Born to Kill (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS with ZERO - Poor Poor Girl (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS with Mickey Skin - Shoeshine Boy (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS with Chris Haight - Sweet Desperation (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS with Chris Haight - Does She Jump (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS with Fergus Hambledon - I'm Losing Tonight (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS with Fergus Hambledon - I Can't Help (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS with Barrie Farrell - Never Think Big (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Interview
SID'S KIDS - (This) Perfect Day (CIUT)

DEATH CRISIS - Can`t Die Young
HASSLER - Asphyxiate (Schizophrenic)
ABADDON - Koniec Swiata (Warsaw Pact)
THE DAGGER DAYS - Raygun (P Trash)
KNOTS - Heartbreaker (Last Laugh)
THE SUICIDE DATES - Heart Attack Rhythm (CIUT)

Demo Feature
NO MISTAKE - Rich`s song (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Crossed Words (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - We stole Hawaiì (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Respect (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Expiration Date (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Boiling Point (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - We Are Enemies (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Unlucky You (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - FBLA (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Whatever I Do (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - What a Bargain! (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Running (Self-Released)

Sid's Kids studio 3 session

Sid's Kids are a punk band featuring Cleave Anderson on drums and Marcel laFleur and John Sutton on guitar and bass from Arson. The band is similar to the Screwed in that they focus on early punk classics. This group is a bit of a session band set up to host a punk / new wave night and have involved quite a few players from Toronto's early waves of punk. The band does some covers like the Damned's "Born to Kill" and the Saints "(This) Perect Day". Covers by local artists include:

 
Zero singing Zro4's song known as "Poor Poor Girl",

Mickey Skin singing the Curse's song "Shoeshine Boy",

Chris Haight singing for Zoom and Viletones songs "Sweet Desperation" and "Does She Jump".

Fergus Hambledon sings and plays guitar on A Passing Fancy's "I'm Losing Tonight" and the Basics' "I Can't Help"

Barrie Farrell sings and plays guitar on the Existers "Never Think Big".

There is also an interview done with the group. One of my realizations in doing this interview is that this is a special group of people. The first wave of Toronto punks have remained to be active as a scene which is something I have noticed in other scenes. It is pretty special and continues to impact our scene in many ways. The other thing that needs to be said is that Cleave Anderson is the glue behind so many of these projects and his energy is infectious.

The session was recorded and cleaned up by Jon Hawkes.

Aldo filmed the session and it is amazaing what he was able to catch. Here is a link to the Punks and Rockers youtube channel

Toronto Star - Motor Mike

Radio - Sunday November 25th, 2012

We started off tonight's show with a tribute to the great Toronto punk drummer Motor Mike Anderson who passed away last Thursday.

We featured some great material by new bands like the Reacharounds (from Missouri), Permaculture (from the UK), Wiggler and the Tiny Humans, No Mistake (from California), and Kromosom (from Australia). We also featured new Canadian material by the Drunken Knights (from Barrie), the Facials (from Montreal), and Concrete Asylum (from Dartmouth).

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Toronto called Farang, a band made up with Payson who sings for Purity Control and played guitar in Capital Death, a band in which he played with Matt Carroll who is also in this band. Matt used to sing for the Endless Blockade. Ivan Davies-Roberts of the School Jerks and Kremlin is also moonlighting with Farang. Have a listen.

Tribute to "Motor" Mike Anderson
THE VILETONES - Rebel (Montreco)
ARSON - Coho Coho (Ugly Pop)
THE SECRETS - Teenage Rampage (Bomb)

REACHAROUNDS - Get in line or burn (Reacharound)
THE DRUNKEN KNIGHTS - A politikill standby (Self-Released)
THE BLUE DEMON - Beatnik Bandit (Boppa Do Down)
WIGGLER AND THE TINY HUMANS - The Kids aren't getting any smarter (Self-Released)
THE CAPITALIST KIDS - Socialism ain't a dirty word (Toxic Pop)

DEKODER - Anxiety (Chaos Rurale)
PERMACULTURE - (Inflammable Material)
FACIALS - Sickness (Chaos Rurale)
SLUTS ON 45 - Hung Up Drunk

THE CLASH - Death or glory (Epic)
JAWBREAKER - Fine Day (Shredder)
RED 40 - Frisco (Landmark)
OPERATION IVY - Hedgecore (Self-Released)
REVELATORS - Crawdad (Crypt)

CONFLICT - Big A Little A (Mortarhate)
CHINO HORDE - Paul (File is)
SWARM - Absent from the morning headcount (Fans of bad productions)
LOS OLIVADOS - Goin Down (Alternative tentacles)

HERD OF WASTERS - Glockey (Self-Released)
MEAN STREETS - Memories (Self-Released)
NO MISTAKE - Unibrower (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Circle E (Self-Released)
VIOLENT ENDS - Dregs (Self-Released)
NAUGHTY GIRLS - Bad habits (Bad Vibrations)

CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Cops ain't tops (NRK)
YOUNG LIONS - Things are gonna change (Schizophrenic)
MICROEDGE - D.P. was right (Self-Released)
DEAD END - The subversive fool (Self-Released)

KROMOSOM - Bred to Lose (Holy Terror)
FILTHPACT - Resurrected under condemnation (Chaos Rurale)
DESPERAT - 10 000 Offer (Beach Impediment)
KANSALAISTOTTELEMATTOMUUS - Hoist the Jolly Roger (Chaos Rurale)

Demo Feature
FARANG - Kill Asylum (Self-Released)
FARANG - Fountain (Self-Released)
FARANG - Blood Press (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, October 7th, 2012

Sam Sutherland is a writer for Exclaim Magazine that initially started writing a book on Canadian punk back in 2006 when he was studying journalism at Ryerson University. Since then he has travelled across the country tracing down the participants who were around back in the late 70's to talk to him about this cultural explosion known as punk that took place in every major city across Canada. Sam connects the dots between punk and loads of major cultural developments in this country. The radio interview is too long and cuts off but you can listen to it with all the background music. Or you can listen to parts 1 and parts 2 without the distractions.

 

POINTED STICKS - Perfect Youth
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Screamin Fist (Vile)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE UGLY - Revenge (Other People's Music)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE BOOMTOWN RATS - I Don't Like Mondays (Polygram)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
YOUNG CANADIANS - I hate music (Sudden Death)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
ACTIVE DOG - Good Filthy Fun (Active Dog Productions)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
HOT NASTIES - The Secret of Immortality (Fog Eye Productions)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
ROCK AND ROLL BITCHES - Someone could lose an eye (Rich Young)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
MODERN MINDS - Go (Bumstead)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
TYRANNA - Unfaithful (Rave Up)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
POPULAR MECHANIX - Ice Box City
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
DIEFENBAKERS - Colour TV (Punk History Canada)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE CURSE - Something you can't Tell your Mother (Other People's Music)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
B-GIRLS - Who says Girls Can't Rock (Other People's Music)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE DISHES - Hot Property (The Dishes)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE GOVERNMENT - Greetings from the Gutter (Soundspondence)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Rebel (Vile)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE MODS - Step Out Tonight (Other Peoples Music)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE DIODES - Red Rubber Ball (CBS)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE CHROMOSOMES - The Park (Punk History Canada)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE 222's - Hold Up (Sonik's Chicken Shrimp)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE 222's - La Poupeé qui fait non (Sonik's Chicken Shrimp)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE NORMALS - Nice Guy
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
LOWLIFE - White Lightening (Airout Music)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE NOSTRILS - I'm Vile (Punk History Canada)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
VICTORIAN PORK - Bad (Porcine Music)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
DOA - Let's Wreck the Party (Sudden Death)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE REACTION - Never Sold Out (Reaction)
SAM SUTHERLAND - Interview (CIUT)
THE SUBHUMANS - Big Picture (Friends)

For those wanting to get Sam's book you can go to ECW Press or the Perfect Youth booksite. There is loads of great photos and clips and background material on his book up at the Perfect Youth site.

Review - Treat Me Like Dirt

Saira Chhibber is a DJ for an open format show up at CHRY with a heavy punk slant. She wrote this review of Liz Worth's Treat Me Like Dirt for MRR, which appeared in the April 2012 issue (#347).

Radio - Sunday, July 31, 2011

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TROUBLE IN THE CAMERA CLUB – Side A (Vile)
THE VILETONES – Screaming Fist (Montreco)
THE NAZI DOGS – Mongoloid (Zurich Chainsaw Massacre)
USERS - Kicks in Style (Rave Up)
REGISRATORS - No Situation (Rip Off)
STRAW MEN - Jack rabbit (Foul and Fair)
SCHOOL JERKS - Guest List (Cowabunga)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Jimmy Swaggart stuck his pee pee in my poo poo (Sell Out Activities)

VICTIMS - We're Fucked (Havoc / Combat Rock)
AVART 33 – Punkhierarki (Aborted Society)
FINAL EXIT – Punk Enough (Monument)
SMALLTOWN – Implosion (Deranged / Combat Rock Industries)

AGENT ORANGE - Living in Darkness (Posh Boy)
BLUNDERMEN - Don't Wanna Hear (Ragamuffin Soldier)
CIRCLE JERKS - Coup D'etat (Allegiance)
CRIMINALS - Parlez Vous Fuk You (Lookout)
DAG NASTY - One to Two (Dischord)

LAMA – Tavastia (Svart)
BASTARDS – Hallelujah! (Hohnie)
RIISTETYT – Painu Helvettiin Natsiapara (Hohnie)
MELLAKKA – Ei Oi Keutta (Hataapu)
RYTMIHAIRIO – Olympiadi (Svart)

RESIST CONTROL – Nothing to Hide / Words (Warm Bath)
LIEUTENANT – Work is Great (Warm Bath / Peterwalkee / Art of the Underground)
INERDS - Erector Set / DMV (Warm Bath)
GAS CHAMBER – Teacher with Imperfection (Warm Bath)
PLATES – Marching (Feral Kid)
BROWN SUGAR – Cocksmoker (Feral Kid)
DEATH TRAP – No Majority (Warm Bath / Feral Kid)
MAYDAY – In It to Win It (Feral Kid)
SCHIESSE KRIEG - Death is Nothing to us (Warm Bath)
ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN - Sin City (Warm Bath)

SLIGHT SLAPPERS – I Won’t Belong to Your Side (No Idea)
NUCLEAR CULT – Angst (Warm Bath)
WHOLE IN THE HEAD – Fight Prejudice (Warm Bath)
ABDUKTIO – Maa en Tahdo Olla Punk / Banned in Ylojarvi (Combat Rock Industries)
ASSHOLE PARADE – Conformist Brands / Unclean / Portalsportalsportalsportals / Gurgle Forth / Skateparks / As Nails Rust / This will sow the seeds of destruction (No Idea)
FUK - Sick of Having Fun (HG Fact)

BOMBAY OF PIGS – Useless (High Art for the Low Down)
BOMBAY OF PIGS – Still Getting Sick (High Art for the Low Down)
BOMBAY OF PIGS – Fail + Fail (High Art for the Low Down)
BOMBAY OF PIGS – All Came True (High Art for the Low Down)

Radio - Sunday, July 24, 2011

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MOTORHEAD - Overkill
SACRIFICE - Re-Animator (Fringe)
NEGATIVE GAIN - Back from the Dead (Pusmort)
BEYOND POSSESSIONS - Beyons Possession (Metal Blade)
FUCKFACE - Welcome to Hell (PROBE)


WHITE WIRES - Lets go to the Beach (Dirtnap)
MEAN JEANS - Throwin Stones (Dirtnap)
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS - Summertime Blues (Baordwalk)
5 6 7 8's - Bomb the Twist (SFTRI)
NOBUNNY - Not that Good (1234GO)


VILETONES - Screamin' Fist (Other People's Music)
CHILD MOLESTERS - Hillside Strangler (Redrum)
THE USERS - Sick of you (Redrum)
DEMICS - You Tell Me (Ready)


MAD MEN - Too Hot (Self-Released)
URBAN BLIGHT - Toxic City (Static Shock)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Bikini Diet / Life Problem (Deranged)
LIGHTS OUT - Illusions and Summertime
WICCANS - Educational Films
VILE GASH - Every Day
NINPULATORS - Ghost Costume
DRONES - Be My Baby (Get Back)
WASPS - Jjjenny (Rave Up)
GENERATION X - Triumph (Chrsyalis)
TEENAGE X - Chelsea Hotel Horror (Self-Released)
EXPLODING HEARTS - Still Crazy (Screaming Apple)


FATAL RAGE - Die Lady Di
THE SLEAZE - Splotch
GOVERNMENT FLU - Next Door Secrets (Refuse)
FY FAN - Kirsten Rensing
THE SWARM - Smooth Running Order
THE ABUSED - Just Another Fool
PICKED CLEAN - Untitled


DEATH SENTANCE - RCMP (Fringe)
DEMOB - No room for you (Anagram)
DIRECT ACTION - International Blacklist (Irate Faction)
ILL REPUTE - Cherry Cherry
WASTE MANAGEMENT - Parasites
FUCKED UP - I hate summer (Matador)

Flyer - Wednesday May 4, 2011

We are very excited to announce a new slew of guests for the launch of Trouble In The Camera Club, the forthcoming book by Don Pyle.

Mike Belitsky, Sean Dean and Dallas Good of The Sadies will perform a set of the best of first-wave Toronto punk rock.


Joining them will be guest vocalists Martin Farkas of those precocious kids Career Suicide; Chris Colohan, the awesome voice of Burning Love; Damian Abraham, international sex symbol and frontperson for Fucked Up, and the legendary Caroline Azar of groundbreaking musical gang Fifth Column. Teenage Head are spotlighted in the book with a selection of images that pre-date their debut album, and we are fortunate to be joined by Gord Lewis, lead guitarist and songwriter of that band.

The evening will begin at 8pm with Don Pyle's Out-of-Focus Talking Slide Show. A rare live performance by the always epic The Ugly will follow and the evening will conclude with Belitsky, Dean, Good and heavy friends.

The launch is Wed May 4 at The Garrison. Admission is $8 or free with book purchase.

Here is the cover of the single that was sold at the book launch. Side A is at a Viletones show and is a recording of the crowd going wild. A fIght breaks out and tables get flipped. Side B is a radio documentary about punk from back in the day. It gives you perspective of what people thought back then. This was limited to 250 copies. 

“Trouble in the Camera Club” by Don Pyle, 8-1/2 x 11”, 300 pages

This is an incredible coffee table book on the Toronto punk scene through the excitement of the eyes of a fourteen year old first going to shows. Shot originally as keep sakes or momentos, these photos capture a new time in music for Toronto, which was Toronto’s first wave of punk. The book begins with some photos of the RAMONES first show in Toronto on September 24th, 1976 at the New Yorker. A botched attempt at filming the RAMONES leads to Don saving up to buy a 35 mm camera. Don also joins the yearbook club at Runnymede Collegiate, which gives him access to a darkroom, chemicals for developing film and the how to on DIY photographs. At one part of the book Don recalls that he bought “black and white film by the foot and he would wind his own canisters so that he could squeeze in more shots per roll. At times this would cause the sprockets to disengage.” This description captures the frugal nature of punk in describing the lack of resources but the determination to make these keepsakes nonetheless. The DIY practises as applied to photography out of necessity are captured. This kind of insight goes a long way and in some ways captures the essence of punk. That and the stories about the context behind the photos of these shows that took place in Toronto between 1976 and 1980. Don recounts these stories with incredible detail as only a music fan could.

“One afternoon I was flipping through the delete bins in the back of a Yonge Street record shop when this music came on over the stereo. In a wave of goose bump rush I hurried to the front to confirm what I already instinctively knew – it was the first Ramones album.”

Don also captures what it is like as an underage teen when going to shows.

"The first “bar” show I went to was the Crash ‘n Burn where my worries about being asked for ID disappeared as the door person took my money without question or a second notice.”

Nobody I know captures that nervousness, but most of us experienced it. This also describes the difference between bar show and those bigger concert hall shows that were all ages.

The story of the Toronto punk scene begins with some old movie houses, namely the Roxy and then the New Yorker, which housed the first shows when not screening John Waters or Alejandro Jodowsky films.

Don also adds to the punk rock archeology going on about the Toronto punk scene with a band called the HATE.

“The Hate performed one of the most memorable gigs I witnessed at the Turning Point as the singer Angie Ignorant stormed the stage with his cock impaling a photo of Pierre Trudeau, urine spraying the audience from what looked like Pierre’s mouth.”

Trouble in the Camera Club has some of the most accurate descrptions of the early Toronto punk scene releases. Here is Don’s review of the first VILETONES ep.

“Screamin’ Fist”, the first song on the first single by the Viletones is perfection in it’s goose bump inducing heaviness – the bass playing sixteenths on one note, then one big chord, a furious drum roll and then the whole band pounding one dirty chord. The record’s dynamic production and intensity were never matched again.

Don goes on to write about TEENAGE HEAD, the CURSE, the UGLY, the CARDBOARD BRAINS, the POLES, and the DEMICS with critical ear as only a music fan could. The accuracy of the description makes me think that Don missed his calling as a music reviewer, but this would just be one of his many talents.

“So many people have a desire to be given a finite defintion of punk, but so much is left out of the true story. Imagine a thousand embers sparking at once but all separate from each other, it became a movement, the thing that got called punk.”

Some of the early punk bands that Don got to see included XTC, the SLITS, the UNDERTONES, GANG OF FOUR, and BILLY FURY. Some photos that made it in the book include the CLASH, the RAMONES, BLONDIE, IGGY POP, and the DEAD BOYS.

Don also pays tribute to the flyer.

“Posters stapled to wooden telephone poles and handbills put up in the couple of used clothing shops were coded transmissions that could only be comprehended by those tuned to the same frequency. Cheap photocopies were the new thing.”

There are a lot of flyers used in the layout. Lots I have never seen before giving another added layer of historical relevance to this book. Photos, flyers and ticket stubs along with the stories make for the best scrapbook I have ever seen on the Toronto punk scene. In this Don’s reflections are more than mere artifact. He provides analysis. Sometimes it is favourable as in the VILETONES review already expressed and other times critical.

“In retrospect, I see aspects of how conservative punk was. Long hair and wide pants were not allowed, women were rarely equal and “faggots” were often reviled even though the origins of the scene were in gay discos and with homo art cliques. In so many cases, the new gestures and poses playing out were still firmly rooted in traditional images of rock stardom and bad seed mythology, despite the cleansing effect we dreamed punk would have on the old vision.”

Don pulls no punches making this a trusted account of the times. It is one of the most accurate records I have read of the period and it is easy to read because Don is so excited by his discoveries in music, which happened to coincide with punk. I couldn’t put it down and although the photos are spectacular don’t cheat yourself out of the insight provided by Don’s recounting of the times. This appealed to the historical musicologist in me.

I also noticed that the price is the same in Canadian as it is in American prices reflecting the strength of the Canadian dollar. We are on par with the Americans. Subtle but reflective of the unintended case made about our punk scene. (www.ecwpress.com)