Top 10 - June 2013

1. NO MISTAKE “Connect the Dots…complete the Puzzle” ep (Refuse)
2. KLAXON “1984” LP (Sydney Town)
3. COKE BUST / VACCINE split ep (Refuse)
4. BORN WRONG “Torch the Place” ep (Schizophrenic)
5. RAD “Loud and Fast” LP (Phono Select / Sacramento)
6. BLOOD RED “Serpent” ep (Voice of a Generation)
7. MASSACRE DIVINE “Beijando A Morte” ep (Blindead Productions)
8. CHRIS HOUSTON AND THE EVELIN DICKS / DESADIST AU GO GO – “Einstein’s Brain / Shit for Brains” ep (Schizophrenic)
9. THE NEW ENEMY “Darkness, She was the Universe” CD (Self-Released)
10. COPSICKLE “Too many cops, Not enough punk” CD (Self-Released)

Labels:
* REFUSE – P.O. Box 7 / 02-792 Warzsawa 78 / Poland / www.refuserecords.prv.pl
* SYDNEY TOWN – www.sydneytown.bigcartel.com
* SCHIZOPHRENIC – 17 W 4th Street / Hamilton, ON / L9C 3M2 / Canada / www.schizophrenicrex.com
* SACRAMENTO RECORDS – www.sacramaniacs.com
* VOICE OF A GENERATION – Van-der-Mark Str 31 / 47137 Duisburg / Germany
* BLINDEAD PRODUCTIONS – Matias Krogh / Kallgatan 24 B / 67130 Arvika / Sweden / www.blindeadproductions.com
* THE NEW ENEMY – www.thenewenemy.bandcamp.com

Flyer - Sunday, June 30th, 2013

Flyer - Thursday, June 27th, 2013

Radio - Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

This is the broadcast for Equalizing-X-Distort on Sunday, June 23rd, 2013. Summer has arrived in Toronto so we had two sets inspired by the first of the season's hot weather. We got to feature unreleased Left for Dead, new Infest and No Mistake and play a new release that Greg Ginn appears on. You can hear the show using the player above or download an MP3 of the EXD from Sunday, June 23rd, 2013.

URBAN REJECTS - Intro / the Blame (Steeltown Records)

CEASE AND RESIST - Bangers (Self-Released)
LOUDMOUTH - 10% (Steeltown Records)
THE CLASH - The Guns of Brixton (Epic)
BATTERED WIVES - Uganda Stomp (Bomb)
RESTARTS - Painterman (No Label)

BURIAL PERMIT - Writhe (Self-Released)
LEFT FOR DEAD - Track 8 (Unreleased)
INFEST - Why be something that you're not (Draw Blank)
NO MISTAKE - copied, Folded and Stapled (Self-Released)
REAL SHIT - Mad Garlic (Mickeyroom)

GAS CHAMBER - Pidgeon (Warm Bath)
THE FILTHY GAZE OF EUROPE - Domestic Accidents (Ugly Pop)
ALBION GOLD - Unforgiving Eyes (Self-Released)
VCR - I don't wanna cry (Self-Released)
LIBYAN HIT SQUAD - Full Circle

MADMEN - Too Hot (Slasher)
GEORGE HARRISON - We Love Summer (Self-Released)
GO! - Long Hot Summer (Forefront)
VOID -Summer Sucks (Weekend Pass)
THE UNDERTONES - Here comes the summer (Sire)

DISCO VOLANTE - Hellraising is my business (Einstein)
ACID - Free Speech (Selfish)

INSOLENTS - Phone Call Love (Mystic)
REVENGE - Pornography (Loony)
HAPPY TOONS - Today's Army (Landmind)
PREMATURE BABY'S - Who Died for you (Depression)
N.O.T.A. - Frustration (Rabid Cat)

CRASH THE POSE - 10 Year Celebration (Keep Screaming)
THE SINS - Fighting in the USA (Black Noise)
UG MAN - ? (625 Productions)
EVIL GRIMACE - Out of Breathe (with the world)
AVFALL - Endless circulation (Don Don)

SPIKE HAYTRID - Death to Preppies (Chainsaw)
BIG TAKEOVER - Poster Boy
MISGUIDED - State of War (Reality)
MALIGNUS - Powertrip (Youth)
DAYGLO ABORTIONS - I used to be in love (God)
CRUDDY - Berlin Wall (Basement Scream)
MY DOG'S A CAT - Necrology (Unsilent)
BRAIN SLUG - Distort New York (Hardware)

UPFRONT - How flies get fat
DISGUST - Destroy Fascism (Limbabwe)
CELEBRITY MURDERS - Victim Culture (Reptilim)
SCAPEGOATS - Du Selbst (Dissonance)
INTEGRITY - Sanctuary (Victory)

Tonight's demo feature comes recommended by Proxy with a band from Montreal called Thee Nodes. You can download this demo at their bandcamp site.

THEE NODES - Future Car (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - We are the Nodes (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - Shut Up (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - My Mask (Self-Released)
THEE NODES - Living like a corpse (Self-Released)

Flyer - Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

Flyer - Friday, June 21st, 2013

Book Review - Photo and Destroy

This feels like a book that is part of a series. In 2003, MCR published Inferno Punx, which was a photo book capturing the Japanese scene. Inferno Punx captured bands from 1989 to 2003 and it was pretty incredible. Ten years on MCR is publishing this new book. This book contains photos by Fuyuki Kataoka. This book has no photo captions, no explanations, nor any diary outtakes. It is just photos. This has me looking at the pictures extra carefully looking for clues on who is in the photo. There is an index at the back of the book but I didn’t find this on the first few leaf throughs. Most of the photos are black and white shots, which adds a starkness to the shots that is well suited for punk. Some of these photos date back to 1999 at the earliest. Some of the bands captured in this book are FRAMTID, WARHEAD, PERSEVERE, LAUKAUS, REALITY CRISIS, FUCK GEEZ, POIKKEU, and countless others. There are a lot of close ups of singers in mid action so Fuyuki must have been in the pit when he was trying to capture these moments. They are incredibly animated. There are also lots of pictures that look like they are set up shots with bands and punks in street scapes that remind me of the classic shots of the SEX PISTOLS and the CLASH and the BUZZCOCKS in those professional glossy punk magazines that you find out before you find out about fanzines. What I am trying to say is that these look like classic shots of a more recent scene proving punk’s not dead. But we didn’t need the EXPLOITED to tell us that. Photo and Destroy is unrefutable evidence. (MCR Company – 157 Kamiago Maizuri / Kyoto 624-0913 / Japan / www.dance.ne.jp/~mcr/‎)