No Warning CD

A collection of the band's demo and an ep, that came out earlier on Martyr, with some work done to the production. NO WARNING have slowed their sound from the AS WE ONCE WERE days, sacrificing speed and energy for heavy moshability. I am less inspired to write about this band given some of the grade 2 homophobic comments that have been coming out on their message board as well as at their live shows. On top of this, I have heard about a white power band that these guys have started. Add this to their actions at an AGNOSTIC FRONT show where they singled out this Asian kid who was trying to help their band and you start getting some ugly shit. It's a sad reflection on the scene, where kids have jumped on an old anti PC, backlash for a quick fix at some scene cred. Bigotry, in gest and especially on a serious level, has never been part of a hardcore scene that I have known. It is even more disheartening to me as I have interviewed these kids for MRR, written about their releases, and I have played them on the radio show, to find that they have grown into radical versions of the establishment.

Haymaker / Oxbaker split ep

A Split between Hamilton's Haymaker and St. Thomas' Oxbaker. Deep Six from California releases the split. The songs on here are:

1. Commodity 182

2. Dream No More

3. Can't Believe

4. Misery for a Living

5. It Only Gets Worse

6. The Wheels of justice are Clogged with Shit....

7. Problem Solved as Many Start

8. Blanket of Scrutiny

Gojira "Don't Fear the Cookie Monster" ep

Gojira were a power violence band that took their inspiration from Spazz and Infest and the like. Noah, the original bass player in Career Suicide had this band with his younger brother Simon and they lived in the Davisville and Mount Pleasant area. Noah self-released this ep on his own label Soap Dodger Productions. Songs on the ep are:

1. You're Dead

2. Hey Ewin/Simon - Look what record I got!" "Yeah, that's a good record, but it sucks compared to their earlier stuff!"

3. Strife are Dead

4. Interracial Vampire Catfight
5. Mousemate
6. Snortin' Blow
7. Press Conference at the All Star Cafe
8. Dark Lord
9. Too Extreme
10. I Love Balloons

11. Fighting Violence with Violence (blood stains the ice)

Sunday, October 7, 2001

Studio 3 Session

FUCKED UP - The Lurking Fear / Circling the Drain / Bag of Dirt (CIUT)

FUCKED UP - Following / Nervous Breakdown / Sleep Tight (CIUT)

FUCKED UP - Quick / The Land of Nod (CIUT)

FUCKED UP - Piece by Piece / Sirens / The Achilles List (CIUT)

Zine - EXD, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

This is the very first issue of the radio zine. It was one of the first interviews we did on the show and it was connected to the band playing live in the basement studio at the station known as Studio 3 because it is CIUT's third studio. The live idea came from an old show on About Town, but was also borrowed from John Peel and the sessions he would record with the early punk scene. Interviews often accompanied the live sessions because if you have the band at the station you might as well talk to them. And I wanted more people to find out about these great bands coming out from our city so the zine was born. They were really supposed to be small newsletters as is reflected in the first few issues. This was has just an interview and a few reviews and some other odds and sods.

Flyer - Tuesday, September 27th, 2001

Zine - Mosh Yankee #1

Mosh Yankee was a zine put out by Mat Bickle. Matt would go on to sing in a band called Sinkin' Ships and would start up a record label called Slasher Records.

Matt initially had a zine called Taint, but he switched the name to Mosh Yankee. This was his first issue and juding by the interviews this had to come out in the Fall of 2001.

Matt liked to take pictures and he liked to print them large. He used a half 8-1/2" x 11" format but flipped the size on it's side so that it resembled a coffee table style of book. This worked well with the large sized photos.

The zine opens up with some shots of No Justice at Chicago-Fest, which had to have been one of the best sets I have seen in a decade.

A brief piece on Bright Calm Blue. They had a split out and I got the sense they were from Quebec. They played with To Dream of Autumn and there is some full sized shots of them. I believe they were from Oakville.

There is some full page shots of the pit at Pointless Fest when Tragedy was on.

Matt interviews At the Mercy of Inspiration who were from Mississauga. This might be the only interview I have seen of the band. They were a metal-core type of band.

Matt talks to R.A.M.B.O. about Manowar, which seems to be his favourite topic.

Matt does a serious interview with No Time Left (from Buffalo) and Splitting Teeth (from Washington State).

The back page has Al Barile's poem on Straight edge called "The Choice" which originally appeared in Glen Friedman's first photo book.