Radio - Sunday, July 7th, 2014

This week's show started off with a release of a band from the UK that had a double LP release in this month. I couldn't resist a song title of "Kanada" Kommondo". 

CRISIS - Kanada Kommando (La Vida Es Un Mus)

The opening song was inspired by looking at the reviews in MRR in June 2010. Here is a collection of top 10 recordings that we were able to gather for the past month.

HALDOL - Polish Hill (Self Released)
RAPTUROUS GRIEF - Fallecido
NEVER HUMAN - Not my views (Self Released)
DREAMBOAT - Streetfighter (Self Released)
CRUTCHES - Arbetarj‰vel (Phobia)
MULLTUTE - Nicht F¸r (Heart First)
ACCIDENTE - Policia No (Halo of Flies)
NUCLEAR AGE - Look Around (Self Released)
BACK TO BACK - Isolate (540)
RIPCORD - Lucky Ones (Boss Tuneage)

RESIST CONTROL - Full Human Experience (Peterwaulkee / Feral Kid)
PILLAGE - Their World (Regurgitated Semen)
RUINATION - Together (Regurgitated Semen)
BLITZ - Scream (Anagram)
CRIMINAL DAMAGE - Laid to Waste (Feral Ward)
HIRED GOONS - Way of Life (Self Released)
DOGS - Thunderballs (Rubber Factory)
BOMBSHELTER - Passing Days (Rubber Factory)
STAY CLEAN JOLENE - Old Songs (Eager Beaver)
HERO DISHONEST - Jumalan sel‰tys (Peterwaulkee)
NEW ENEMY - Benevolent One (Self Released)

BIG BROTHER - Labyrinth (Glass Master) (Self Released)
THE PROWLERS - Oi against racism (Insurgence)
RESTARTS - Clone Town (No Label)
URBAN SAVAGE - Minimum Wage, Maximum Slave (Self Released)
KOMPLOTT - Casa Lavaro Cimitero (Flophouse)
HAYMAKER - Cheque to Cheque (a389)

SCRAP IRON - Protest and Unnerve (Self Released)
HARM DONE - Hammer Stomp (Straight and Alert)
BRICKS - Wasted (Self Released)
KRUX - White Lines, White Lies (Self Released)
GUERRA DE CERDOS - El Cuervo

KOMA KOMBO - B.R.D. (KO)
NIKO TEENS - Leader of the Rotten Corpse (Positive Destruction)
DAGO WOPS - Arbeitscheu (Self Released)
HALSHUG - Dodskontronal (D-beat and Raw Punk)
FAILURES - Trust Me (Youth Attack)
ANXIETY HAMMER - My Peace (Self Released)
BLEED THE PIGS - Supremacy (
PRETTY LITTLE FLOWER - Fiendish electrocation (Blastasfuk)
BREAKING WHEEL - Martyrs Mirror (Self Released)
TRAP THEM - Habitland (Prosthetic)
WEAK WRISTS - Cavalcade (Self Released)
SNEEZE - Vatieant (Midnight We Revisit)
POST TEENS - Mexican Painkillers (No Idea)
VALLEY BOYS - Killing Politicians (Deranged)
HOLY - Prisons (Adagio)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Bikini Diet (Deranged)
WHITE LUNG - Sycophant (Domino)
WHITE WARDS - Defeated (Iron Lung)
JIGA - I Love Me (Self Released)
BAD CHOICE - BDS (Self Released)
DICTADURA -Hartos de Todo (Self Released)
TOTO LOTTO - Toto Lotto (Self Released)

You can download an MP3 of the show here.

Radio - Sunday, June 1st, 2014

Here is a player for tonight's show. you can also download an MP3 file to take with you on the go.

The show starts out with new Big Brother because they remind me of the Prowlers who opened for the Upstarts the night before.

BIG BROTHER - Cast Overboard (Conscious DIY Collective)

The first set features songs from demoes that came out last month according to MRR and didn't make it into last week's Top 10. 

NO.NEGATIVE - Feelin' the Heat (Self-Released)
GAZE - Shit With Your Eyes (Self-Released)
THE 4-SIDS - Kill (Self-Released)
SPERM - Atomized, Automatized, Homicide (Self-Released)
HOLOCAUSTO - La Hoguera del Dolor (Self-Released)

The needle on one of the turntables was broken so we had to improvise are all vinyl sets which was almost everything from we brought in.

STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Alex is a Night Banger (FDH)
NOBLE SAVAGES - In the Basement (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Killing Time (Ugly Pop)

KETAMINES - So Hot! (Hosehead)
AVERAGE TIMES - Summer Nights (Hosehead / P-Trash)
THE STEVE ADAMYK BAND - I run wild (ZZZ)
PROXY - Slow Suicide (Ugly Pop)

SANGESUGA - Snutdodaren (RGR)
DARFUR - Fallen on Deaf Ears (Ratbite / Bad Hair Life / Hakaniemi Hardcore)
DOOM - Apostasy
ESKATOLOGIA - I Kraballermas Mrker (Halfabrikat)
CONSPIRACY OF DENIAL - Apnheh (Scarecrow)

OBLITERATION - Their War System (Beach Impediment)
PUBLIC ANIMAL - One way ticket (Pre-Rock)
DESPERAT - Sveriges Stoksta Ljugarnbank (Beach Impediment)
BRULBAJZ - Dodens Apostlar (Re-Ken)
DANKO JONES - Bounce demo (New Damn Age)
PF COMMANDO - Svennie Pop (Re-Ken)
GAS RAG - On the run (Even Worse)

Here is a set of new bands from Berlin.

NUCLEAR CULT - Urtyp - (Heart First)
PEACEBASTARD - The Sirens (Heart First)
COLD WORLD - The Nihilist Rant (Deep Six)
CRACK UNDER PRESSURE - Existence ends in Oblivion (Heart First)
PIG//CONTROL - White Standard - (Heart First)
MULLTUTE - Exzess - (Heart First)
EARTH CRUST DISPLACEMENT - Reasons of War (Heart First)

This is a set taken from series of compilations titled "Ungovernable Resistance" put together by Schizo Fanzine to raise awareness and support for refugees in Syria, and people suffering in the Philippines who lost everything in the earthquake.  You can learn more about or download them at Ungovernable Resistance D.I.Y.

KRONSIK MISANTROPI - Permanent Hybris (Schizo)
SPOTLICKS - Vill Dra (Schizo)
HALL KAFTENN - Reflektiomer av eh Avant Land (Schizo)
KORSBARSFEFTECA - Det Finns Inget Slut (Schizo)
DISKENT - Vagra Anpassning (Schizo)
ATERFULL - Fraga Inte (Schizo)
NO FEALTY - Ravished (Schizo)
KAMPRESPONS - Punkelit (Schizo)
LOS CULITOS - Treinta Baja Cero (Schizo)
BETTER NOT BORN - Inner Void (Schizo)
RAMMSTEINGORKESTERN - Gulag (Schizo)
KOLLAPSE - Father (Schizo)
MORBELTAD - Den tid vi leveri (Schizo)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Hamilton called Thick Piss and features members of  Pick Your Side, Fuck the Facts, and Dismantle. You can hear the full demo at http://thickpisss.bandcamp.com/.

THICK PISS - Burned Alive (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - Disposable (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - Rip off your head (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - The Hound (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - Strangers (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - I'm not punk (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - Fear Boner (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - Firemen (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - I read it on the internet (so it must be true) (Self-Released)
THICK PISS - Gandalf (Self-Released)

Flyer - Saturday, April 26th, 2014

Radio - Sunday, April 13th, 2014

CIUT's transmitter stopped working last week. We have been operating off a temporary transmitter. The funding drive is all about raising twice as much money so that we can buy a new transmitter and have it installed. The theme for the campaign continues with "Sound of the City" but I reinterpreted it to be "Sound in our city" so that we could focus on some of the upcoming shows coming to town one of whic is the Stage Bottles next Saturday. This anti-fascist oi band has a great song called "Work Together" that rallies people together for a common cause and right now that is with getting CIUT back on air. You can donate by going to http://www.ciut.fm/about/donate-today/.

STAGE BOTTLES - Work Together (Insurgence)

Ewan at Embrace Productions programmed a punk show with us when we were back at CHRY. He knows the important roles that campus community radio plays. He also knows the challenges of fundraising and has offered up five pair of tickets for the Reagan Youth / Dayglos show on May 16th of the Upstarts show on May 31st. We still have some tickets to give away for this so if you make a donation to CIUT and want a pair of tickets to one of these two shows send me an e-mail at equalizingxdistort@gmail.com.

ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Kids On The Street (Dojo)
REAGAN YOUTH - usa (New Red Archives)

DAYGLO ABORTIONS - Kill the Hosers / Religious Bumfucks (Fringe)

Lots of people have helped out with this current drive. Alex, the drummer from the Sofistifucks, and his friend Nick came in last night to helop answer phones and come in on-air with updates on the phone room activity. We played something new from the Sofistifucks.

THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Memento Mori (Self-Released)
THE BUREAUCRATS - Grown Up Age (Ugly Pop)

Aldo from Punks and Rockers films all of the studio 3 sessions. He also edits them together and has started putting together limited edition DVDs of these sessions. For this drive he has put together a 2012 DVD which features footage of Pick Your Side, Hassler, Direct Approach, The Groggies, Careers In Science, TV Freaks, Wrong Generation, Born Wrong, Demolition, Violent Future, Kremlin, Suicide Dates, and Sids Kids which had Chris Hate from the Viletones, Mickey Skin from the Curse, Barrie Farrel from the Existers, Zero from ZRo4, and Fergus Hamilton from the Basics. He also created a 2013 DVD with footage from Abyss, Valley Boys, Anti-Vibes, Wastoids, Snake Charmer, Sluts On 45, Dead Mouth, Smooth Brain, Purity Control, Absolut, and S.H.I.T. if you make a $25 donation to CIUT you can have one of these or both for $50. E-mail me at equalizingxdistort@gmail.com with your name and address once you have made a donation. Then we played some bands on those DVDs. 

BORN WRONG - Destroying The Family (Schizoprhenic)
S.H.I.T. - Mind Fuck (Self-Released)
NERVOUS TALK - Introductions (Mammoth Cave)

Greg Dick, a long time advocate of the show, donated to our show and to Real Cool Time radio and we pointed out that you could ledge to more than one show as a way of demonstrating support for more than one show. This drive is fundamentally different in that we are raising money together to pay for a transmitter. We are all in this dire senario of having a compromised transmission until we can get that fixed. Help us be heard by donating at http://www.ciut.fm/about/donate-today/.

CAREER SUICIDE - Brought to the Brink (Deranged)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Litty oh Litty (Red Lounge)

CIUT is one of few independent voices left on air. Many media outlets have found themselves muzzled or compromised with what they can say about the lawyer. We express the frustration of what it is like to a Mayor that can't make it in to work most days creating dysfunction from the top down. Ugly Pop is throwing a This ain't the Ford fest with this song by Shit From Hell being released. Support independent voices on the radio.

SHIT FROM HELL - Mayor on Crack (Ugly Pop)
STIV BATORS DEAD BOYS - Son of Sam (Ugly Pop)

TV FREAKS played a benefit show organzied by the Suicide Dates  a few drives back. They have a new album. The show has the unique ability to record bands live in a Peel Sessions like setting. Please support these cool forms of documentation of the local scene by giving to CIUT so we can broadcast again.

TV FREAKS - Phone / Salvation (Schizophrenic)
VALLEY BOYS - Feel Like Shit (Self-Released)
VCR - One Trick Dog (CIUT)

The federal government has gutted the Ministry of Environment to bury the evidence of climate change. Meanwhile punk tells the story on things like air quality. Recently the feds have cut funding to the CBC as a way of getting rid of more adverse coverage of their resource extration policies. Stay informed by keeping CIUT on the air.

NO PROBLEM - Suffocate City (Deranged)
SNAKEPIT - Hogtown Blues (Self-Released)
URBAN BLIGHT - Toxic City (Slasher)

AVERAGE TIMES - Kraken (Hosehead / P Trash)
THE REZENTMENTS - Yer Whats Wrong (CIUT)

LIME SPIDERS - Slave Girl (Citadel)
KING KHAN AND THE BBQ SHOW - Tastebuds (In the Red)

THE FIRST STEPS - Airplay (English Gose)
THE DIODES - Tired of Waking Up tired (CBS)

Each week we feature a demo on the show. Kremlin's last demo and Snob from Vancouver were two great examples to be featured on the show. Keep this ear to the ground programming on the FM band by donating at http://www.ciut.fm/about/donate-today/. Our show is over but the drive for a transmitter continues.

KREMLIN - Sun Never Sets (Self-Released)
SNOB - Nature (Self-Released)

ADOLESCENTS - Amoeba (Frontier)

Thank you so far to Ed at FTFC clothing, Jamie from the Rezentments / Artificial Dissemination, Chris, Dave, Lisa, Rubber Factory Records, Greg, Nicole, Amon, Yuki, Daragh, Aldo, and Leah for donating so far.

For any band making a donation of $25 or more Noxious Art has offered t do a design for a flyer. We have put up some artwork of his in the past. Find the tag on the right hand side to filter his artwok for an idea of his style.

Radio - Sunday, December 15th, 2013

A big snowstorm hit Toronto this weekend and after much snow shovelling this NoMeansNo song "'Til I Die" soke to me with the opening lyric "I'm gonna Shovel snow til I die".

We started off the show with a dedication to Greg Dick for the loss of his father, Martin, who passed away last week. He was from Hamilton and "Picture my face" was a song that Martin knew. We had to keep it Hamilton. The rest of the set was by bands from Belfast because Greg let us know about this film on Belfast called "Good Vibrations". This Friday "Good Vibrations" will be showing the film for a week at the TIFF Lightbox. You should try and see it.

After that I played a set based on my top 10 picks for October and a set of runners up.

There was a set of new material mostly of the grind / power violence nature.

Then a set of galloping hardcore inspired by Discharge, Japacore, and kang.

D'Arcy finished up the show with a preview of the top 10 for 2013. We wil be going through it in two weeks. You can listen to the show on the player above or download it here. Here is what was played.

NOMEANSNO - 'Til I Die (AntAcidAudio)

TEENAGE HEAD - Picture my Face (Teenage Head)
VICTIM - The Teen Age (Good Vibrations / Overground)
THE XDRERAMYSTS - The Heat is on (Polydor)
STRIKE - Running past (Good Vibrations)
the OUTCASTS - Magnum Force (Cherry Red)
THE YOUNG LIONS - Goodnight Belfast (Schizophrenic)

SICK/TIRED - Warm Beer (Self-Released)
HELVETIN VIEMARIT - Vihaan Työtä (Terrortten)
GREY NURSE - Asleep (Self-Released)
DEALBREAKER - Here lies... (Cricket Cemetary)
HERO DISHONEST - Systeemi ei lepää (Peterwaulkee)
CHRISTER PETTERSSEN - For those about to thrash (Self-Released)
NEIGHBOURHOOD BRATS - Break Down The Walls (Deranged)
GOVERNMENT FLU - Random Acts (Refuse)
POISON PLANET - Death Of Ideas (Refuse)
CRIMINAL DAMAGE - Anxiety (Feral Ward)
VENGEANCE - Buy the record (Search for Fame)

CHEAP ART - Hate this Party (Fastercore)
HIGGS BOSON - 6 6 Sick (Self-Released)
THE FLEX - Repressed (Video Disease)
WASTOIDS - Brown Sugar, Brown Liquor (Deranged)

NO QUALMS - Squander / Follow Me (Give Praise)
BASTARD SWINE - Pigs Eating Pigs (Give Praise)
CAGEDGRAVE - Filthy Streets (Self-Released)
ALTERED BOYS - Choosing Sides (Give Praise)
STOIC VIOLENCE - Waste of Life (Katorga Works)
ANCIENT HEADS - Fight Back (Give Praise)

DEVIL'S HAND - World Gone to Shit (Grave Mistake)
BATTLESCARD - Speed chaos (Self-Released)
LAUTSTURMER - Bedtime for Humanity (Unrest)
UHRIT - Rantojen Miehet (Tuska ja Ahdistus)
CRIATURAS - Anti Autoridad (Residue)
INEPSY - Fast Way To Die (Feral Ward / Ineptik Records)

HARD SKIN - You Still here? (JT Classics)
LIFE - Enduring freedom (Punk Bastard)
SLANG - Glory outshines doom (Pizza of Death)
INSTITUTION - Vansine (D-Takt and Raw Punk)
TV FREAKS - Salvation / Nothing (Schizophrenic)
VALLEY BOYS - Autopilot / Feel like shit (Beach Impediment)
HASSLER - Apathy (Beach Impediment)
FUCK YOU PAY ME - Fuck You Pay Me (Self-Released)
BIRD DEATH - cHEST pAIN bLUES (Self-Released)
BURIAL - More to Come (Hardware)
RAD - You're Next /Strike the Spine / Simple (Sac)

LEATHERFACE - Not a day goes by (Roughneck)

Zine - EXD - Volume 13, Issue 01

The new issue of the zine is out. This issue features D'Arcy's on-air interview with the TV Freaks back a few years. there was some great stuff in their. TV Freaks have just released their second album so the release of this issue is somewhat timely. Tere is also lots of reviews to be find inside and a complete listing of Not Dead Yet on the back cover. Feel free to download the issue as a PDF.

Radio - Sunday, September 8, 2013

Tonight's show featured lots of music and an interview with Pretty Mouth who are an intense power violence inspired band from Toronto with an ep and an LP called "Fears" which is about to come out. Listen to the show on the player above or download it here.

PRETTY MOUTH - Working Class Bastards (Self-Released)

INFEST - Three or Nothing (Deep Six)

MELVINS - Oven (Boner)

HICKEY - Treadle of the Loom (1234 Go)

IRON CROSS - You're a Rebel (GMM)

JFA - Kick You (Alternative Tentacles)

DEVIL DOGS - Stay out all night (Crypt)

JOHNNY THUNDERS AND THE HEARTBREAKERS - I Love You (Freud)

NIP DRIVERS - Fox on the Run (Taang)

NEW YORK DOLLS - Personality Crisis (Reachout International)

BUREAUCRATS - Feel the Pain (Ugly Pop)

PRETTY MOUTH - Bastards (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - Men of the Lie (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - Men of the Tie (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Men of the Clothe (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - Choose Hate (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - Tabula Rasa (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - The Joke (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - Ghosts (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - Crowns (Self-Released)

PRETTY MOUTH - Interview (CIUT)

PRETTY MOUTH - Apotheoesis (Self-Released)

BURNING LOVE - No Love (Southern Lord)

E-150 - No como tu (Thought Crime)

JUDGEMENT - Kick Them Over (HG Fact)

LIE STILL - Compelled (Self-Released)

LAST LAUGH - Movin' On (Self-Released)

BROKEN PATTERNS - Life of Waste

BAKFIETSBOYS - D-Beat (Attack)

VALLEY BOYS - Fired (Cut the Cord)

INFEST - What's Your Claim? (Deep Six)

CRIMINAL DAMAGE - Power of Fools (Feral Ward)

HASSLER - Retaliation (Beach Impediment)

ZEROS - Don't push me around (Bomp)

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)

Radio - Sunday, April 28th, 2013

Listen through the player above or download the show here.

EXTORTION - Buildings Collapse (Regurgitated Semen Records)

Here is a top 10 for April releases in reverse order.
MESSIAHLATOR - Righteous Man (Self-Released)
FLACCID – Untitled (Self-Released)
THE SHORTS – Quick we need another bogeyman this one’s full of holes (Suspect Device)
DAS KAPITAL - Oh Well (Johanns Face)
CAREERS IN SCIENCE – Rockets (Self-Released)
CRYSTAL MESS – Walking Corpse Sydrome (Self-Released)
RAPTUROUS GRIEF – Tormento (Self-Released)
CHANNEL 3 - A Life Remembered (Hostage)
HERATYS – Musta ja Valkoista (La Familia)
GAS RAG – Market Crash (Self-Released)

PERMANENT RUIN - Sad History (Adelante Discos)
HASSLER - Escape (Beach Impediment Records)
PORKERIA - No Te Preocupes (Adelante Discos)
THE ALTARS - Night Terrors (Adelante Discos)
SALTED CITY - Hell on Earth (Adelante Discos)

Finnish and Swedish hardcore set.
KIELTOLAKI - Sikapaskahuora (Moo Cow)
RIISTETYT - Rajoitukset (Hohnie)
KREMLIN - Doomed Youth - (Bad Vibrations / Beach Impediment / Hardware)
ABSOLUT - Lowest Denominator (CIUT)
PROTES BENGT - Ett sex-pack agg (625 Thrash)

CHANNEL 3 - This calls for a drink
WASTED POTENTIAL - KWYJIBO (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Side Effects (Cut the Cord)
RHUBARBS - After All (Wasted Wax)
DAS KAPITAL - Ghost Bikes Ride (Johanns Face)
UNBELIEVERS - I Don't Like You (Stumble)
SNUFF - There goes the Waltzinblack (Fat Wreck)
THE STRANGLERS - Lowlands (Absolute / Ear Music)

RAD - Corporate Drugs (Sacromento)
51-50 - Slaughterhouse (Self-Released)
VENGEANCE - Silence (Reagan Era tapes)

RATOS DE PORAO - Morre (Alternative Tentacles)
INZEST - Endless (Self-Released)
DESTRUCTION UNIT - In the End (Empty)

X-CETRAS - Take your politics somewhere else
TRANSISTORS - Change your ways (DPM Circuit)
DEATH ZOPTE - 3rd World War (Self-Released)
HEAVY DISCIPLINE - Symbol of capitalism (Contraband)
CHARGE - Advanced State (Anagram)
EATING GLASS - Amongst the Wolves (High Anxiety)

RIZBY - Fuck Me (Vinehell)
NECROS - IQ 32 (Touch n Go)
MCDONALDS - Miniature Golf (Touch n Go)
JERRY'S KIDS - Straight Jacket (Modern Method)
CHOKEHOLD - True to Say (Self-Released)

CAREER SUICIDE - Things take a turn (Sewercide)
IN DEFENCE - F.Y.B.(Good Times)
LUNG MATTER - Wrong Turn (Self-Released)
MONEY DOGS - Count your friends (Self-Released)
JANITOR - Suffocation (Agro Wax)

Crossover set.
BEYOND POSSESSION - Life Force (Self-Released)
CRYSTAL MESS - Outta Bounds (Daylight Slayings)
ACCUSED - Martha Splatterhead (Combat)
DFA - Useless (Unrest)
PICK YOUR SIDE - This is not a test (Regurgitated Semen)

Tonight's demo feature is a band from London, Ontario, also known as Forest City. The demo has pace and melody and can be downloaded at http://wastedpotential.bandcamp.com/album/demo.

WASTED POTENTIAL - Here's Your Exit Letter (Self-Released)
WASTED POTENTIAL - Douche Chills (Self-Released)
WASTED POTENTIAL - How Young Is Too Young (Self-Released)
WASTED POTENTIAL - Premature Ejaculation (Self-Released)
WASTED POTENTIAL - Visual A.I.D.S. (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 10th, 2013

You can hear the show by using the player above or downloading the file here. We started off tonight's show with a tribute to Stompin' Tom.
HANSON BROTHERS - The Hockey Song (Wrong)

The Valley Boys are a new band from Toronto featuring former members of the School Jerks, Brutal Knights and the Vapids. They are a power house line up with great hardcore inspired garage punk songs. You can hear more at http://vboys666.bandcamp.com/, which is a sneak preview of the band's new 12" on Cut the Cord Records. Here is the songs and the story behind the band.
VALLEY BOYS - Modern World (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Drone Attack (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Rich Kids (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Cherub Face (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Side Effects (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Pills (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Feel Like Shit (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Auto Pilot (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Feeding Time (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Copsucker Blues (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Shooting Politicians (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Fired (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Interview (CIUT)
VALLEY BOYS - Eyes on Fire (CIUT)

A tribute to International Womens Day last week
CRASS - First Woman (CRASS)
IN DEFENCE - Call more dudes, Part 3 (Profane Existence)
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT - Enslaved (Profane Existence)
NAUSEA - Godless (Black Noise)
NO STATIK - Clean Swift Sunshine (Prank)

SKITLICKERS - Sprackta Snutskallar (Malign Massacre)
REALITY CRISIS - Hateful Wall (MCR / Prank)
KSM40 - A Link to the Past (Reitiez / Sengaja)
CRUCIAL SECTION - Attitude of the Surface (Crew for Life)
TOTAL TRASH - Freedom (Buzz / A Mountain Far)

BACK OFF - Back Off (Self-Released)
BLOOD MOBILE - Little Boy Blue (No Care)
COLERA - Plight (Driftwood)
FREAKS - Voice (Mangrove)

MUD CITY MANGLERS - Shit you talk (Stolen)
RUINED FAMILIES - Pedestal (Adagro)
SS KIDS - Why Not? (Self-Released)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Houston described with a likeness to Holy Shit. The demo is titlesd "Topical Depresssion" and can be found at guiltparty.bandcamp.com/.
GUILT PARTY - Double Standards (Self-Released)
GUILT PARTY - Justified (Self-Released)
GUILT PARTY - Topical Depression (Self-Released)
GUILT PARTY - A Bit Irate (Self-Released)
GUILT PARTY - Guilt Party (Self-Released)
GUILT PARTY - Clergy of Disgust (Self-Released)

The Valley Boys studio 3 session

Matt Hitch was just on the show, guest hosting. Matt sings and plays guitar in the Valley Boys. This is his band. He is the only constant that has followed this band through their earlier incarnations. You may also know Matt as the original bassist in the School Jerks. He has pulled together a solid line up of stand up musicians in the punk scene which include Jon Sharron of Hassler and Jimmy Vapid of the Vapids. Kalle Malloy is a long time friend of Jon and this was the first time I have seen him in a band, but he is a good drummer and a good guy.

It was a bit of a catch up session with each other as we swapped releases and talked recordings and releases and other things that music nerds wrap themselves up into. It took a while to get the session started but we were able to record 13 songs which included a cover of the pre Poison Idea band Imperialist Pigs and a punker versions of a Modern Lovers song. The subject of the songs look at a variety of issues which demonstrate causes for concern and make for great punk songs. In addition the band wrote a couple of IDs for the station and the show in the studio. We also recorded an interview after the session. The session was recorded and mastered by Jon Hawkes and the songs are:

1. Drone Attack
2. Shooting Politicians
3. Side Effects
4. Copsucker Blues
5. Rich Kids
6. Modern World (Modern Lovers)
7. Auto Pilot
8. Feeding Time
9. Feel Like Shit
10. Cherub Face (Imperialist Pigs)
11. Pills
12. Fired
13. Eyes of Fire
14. CIUT ID
15. EXD ID

This session was also caught on video tape by Aldo Erdic for Punks and Rockers. Here are a few of the songs above made into a medley...

Review - Valley Boys demo

The Valley Boys demo was reviewed in the March 2013 issue of MRR (#358). been mastered and released as a 12" on Cut the Cord Records.

Flyer - Saturday, February 26th, 2013

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)

Flyer - Saturday, December 15th, 2012

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).