Radio - Sunday, March 31st, 2019

Tomorrow is April 1st, but this is no joke. Pot will be legal and Discarded have a song about it. Download the show here.

THE DISCARDED - I Like To Get High (Rock Bottom)

Generation Annhilation reported the passing of Bill “Zippy Pinhead” Chobator on March 13th. He played drums in the STIFFS and VICTORIAN PORK who were the Vancouver band that wrote and recorded “Fuck You” later known as a SUBHUMANS and DOA song. They also wrote “Oh Canaduh”. Both songs can be heard on their post humous release on Supreme Echo.

THE STIFFS – Homesick (Supreme Echo)
VICTORIAN PORK - I Don't Give A Shit
NOMEANSNO – Victoria (Wrong)
RUBY KARINTO - Fox's Wedding (Self-Released)

On Tuesday Rankin’ Roger passed away/ the English Beat were my favourite of the ska revival bands. Saw them every chance i could. There was no one like them and in recent years Roger had gotten the band back together and they just released their second album called “Public Confidential” which is a real return to form but sadly Roger’s swan song. Here are some songs to remember him by.

THE ENGLISH BEAT – Jackpot (Go Feet)
THE ENGLISH BEAT – Rankin’ Full Stop (Go Feet)
THE ENGLISH BEAT – Spar Wid Me(Go Feet)
THE ENGLISH BEAT –Twist and Crawl (Go Feet)
THE ENGLISH BEAT – Rough Rider (Go Feet)
THE BEAT FEATURING RANKING ROGER –Side to Side (DMF)
THE BEAT FEATURING RANKING –Who’s Dat Looking (DMF)

Check out the feature on last week’s Bassment Sessions for some other not released material.

CYBERPLASM - United in Terror (Fuckers Will Pay)
PISSE - Heiratsschwindler (Phantom)
ALIEN BOYS - A Minute of your Time (Desolate)
LOW EBB - I Hate Cake (Kids of the Lunghole)
SCRAP BRAIN – Machine War (Self-Released)

TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET – Stupid Song (Fat Wreck Chords)
SUICIDE GENERATION – Trash Talk (Dirty Water)
WIREHEAD - Lower Your Gaze (Slow Death)
SPANNER – Impossible (Maloka / Rebel Time / Blind Destruction / La France Pue / Mass Productions)
LES FRAPPES - En France (Self-Released)

PROTEIN - Give it up (Refuse) 
PAIN STRIKES - Blizzard of '06 (Safe Inside)
KIND! – Kind! (Wide Eyed Noise)
SLAPSHOT - Edge Break Your Face (Bridge Nine)
PRESSURE PACT - No Hope (Humanimal / Barnyard Boogie)

SNAKE TONGUE – Derailed (Self-Released)
MINORITY THREAT - Old Glory (The Fah-Q Catalogue)
DEADWITCH – Void (Lost State)
WASTE - Last One Standing (Moral Panic)
YURI - Wonder #9 (Adomo)

DIRTY WOMBS - Accursed to Overcome (SPHC)
SINISTER PURPOSE - Fire in the Hole (Vinyl Conflict)
THE COMPLICATORS - Big Problems (Pirates Press)
EMPIRE DOWN - Always Down, Never Out (Pirates Press)
BAD RELIGION - The Kids are Alt-Right (Epitaph)

LOESCHEN – Knecht (Rinderherz / Abfall)
PERSONALITY CULT – Motivation (Drunken Sailor)
DEATH LOTTERY - Wolf's Bud (Freetime Boyz Entertainment Worldwide)
STREET DOGS - We All Fall Apart (Pirates Press)
TERRITORIES - Numb Somehow (Pirates Press)

Tonight`s demo feature was a tour tape that Cell released last year. you can find this on their bandcamp page. 

CELL – Limit (Self-Released)
CELL – Crawl (Self-Released)
CELL – Disgust (Self-Released)

Flyer - Sunday, March 31st, 2019

Flyer - Saturday, March 30th, 2019

Radio - Sunday, March 24th, 2019

Pandemix are from Boston and will be playing here in April so we started off with them. Tonight's show is a return to form for the show in that thee is very little by way of themes except for a Top 10 for February and a compilation set. We also have a demo feature with a band from Ottawa called No Borders. Download the show here. 

PANDEMIX - Second Opinion (Dirt Cult)

PIPER MARU - MPDG (Sam) (Self-Released)
DAVE SMALLEY AND THE BANDOLEROS - Join the Outsiders (Little Rocket)
SUEDEHEAD - New Traditions (Mad Butcher)
FASHIONISM - Nun of That (Dirt Cult / Drunken Sailor)

THE COLA HEADS – Coffee Shopzzz (Self-Released)
BLACK MARKET BABY – Potential Suicide (Limp / Y and T / Dr. Strange)
PINHEAD GUNPOWDER – Losers of the Year (Lookout)
PUP – D.V.P. (SideOneDummy / Royal Mountain)
SCHOOL DAMAGE – Stranger Fruit (Self-Released)

BRING THE WAR HOME - People's War (Self-Released)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION  – World of Change (Schizophrenic)
THE GRINNING BARRETTS - Riot Crew (Self-Released)
NO-HEADS – Battle Plan (Six Feet Under / Refuse)

SO TIRED – Chemistry (Self-Released)
BOOTS FOR DANCING – Boots for Dancing (Cherry Red)
THE WASPS – Teenage Treats (Cherry Red)
ENGLISH DOGS – Psycho Killer (Cherry Red)
THE VECTORS – Hey Kirby (Cherry Red)

Top 10 - February 2019
10. KAKAFONI “Kralar I Stfotet” - Krälar I Stoftet (Phobia)
9. BOOZE AND GLORY “Chapter IV” LP – Simple (Pirate Press)
8. BYSTANDER “Bystander” ep - How Far Have We Come (Goodwill / Safe Inside / World's Appreciated Kitsch / Ugly and Proud)
7. VANILLA POPPERS “I Like Your Band” ep - Get Away From Me (Feel It)
6. U-NIX “Nuke Portland” LP – Landlord (Feel It)

5. RUIN IT “Locked Up Dead” - The Bar (Armageddon Label)
4. DESTRIPADOS “Gutless” - Planeta Karcel (Black Water)
3. BOOTLICKER “6 Track ep”- Partisan (Slow Death)
2. CHEAP APPEAL “You Lose” ep - Spite (Neon Taste)
1. MAKABERT FYND “Systemkollaps”- Fienden Ibland Oss (Phobia / Anomie / Romantic Disasters / Dark Elk / Mangel Wax / Up the Punx)

LIE - Ethics
DENIM AND LEATHER – Organ Donor
ANTITODO - Romper España
BOOJI BOYS - New Personnel
PLASTIC HEADS – Manikins
SINISTER PURPOSE - Fire in the Hole
FLESH RAG - Nighthawk (Schizophrenic)

Tonight's demo feature is a cassette called “The Walls They Build ... The Walls We Break” from this band from Ottawa. You can download the recording from here

NO BORDERS – We Rise (Self-Released)
NO BORDERS – No Human is illegal
NO BORDERS – Juvenile Crime (Self-Released)
NO BORDERS – Thick as Thieves (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday, March 22nd, 2019

Flyer - Friday, March 22nd, 2019

Radio - Sunday, March 17th, 2019

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone. It is a day to celebrate everything Irish. The first half of the show will be on the origins of the Irish punk scene. The second half will look at the development of Celtic Punk also referred to as folk punk. But we get things started with the POGUES as they inspired this Irish sound and identity within the scene. Download the show here.

THE POGUIES - Waxie's Dargle (Stiff)

Shane McGowan the singer form the POGUES started out in a band called the NIPPLE ERECTORS who formed in London in 1976. They were also known as the NIPs and they released a single in 1978 called “King of the Bop”. It had a slight rockabilly feel to it. We are going to start out the show with the B-Side.

THE NIPPLE ERECTORS - Nervous Wreck (SOHO)
THE BOOMTOWN RATS - Lookin after Number One (Ensign)
THE DUGGIE BRIGGS BAND - Punk-Rockin' Granny! (IT Record Co)
RUDI - Yummy Yummy Yummy (Last Year’s Youth)
THE RADIATORS FROM SPACE - Roxy Girl (Chiswick)

In 1977 a band from Dun Laoghaire released a single called “Lookin’ After No. 1”. The BOOMTOWN RATS was a slang for Belfast  with bombs going off during the troubles and the punks in Belfast didn’t appreciate them using that name.

RUDI often credited as being SLF’s major influence had this awesome Archies cover on this compilation called “Made in Ulster”.

SHOCK TREATMENT - (This Weeks) Manchester (Spit)
BIG SELF - Snakes and Ladders (Good Vibrations)
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - State of Emergency (Bitter Fruit)
NO SWEAT- You Should Be So Lucky (Rip Off)
PROTEX - Look Out Johnny (Sing Sing)

ACME - Beer Hall in Munich (Spit)
THE SKIDS - The Saints are Coming (Bitter Fruit)
THE DOUBT - Contrast Disorder (Solo / Incognito / Spit)
THE STARJETS - Watch Out (Captain Oi)
THE UNDERTONES - Emergency Cases (Good Vibrations)

RUEFREX - Capital Letters (Kabuki)
THE RIP-OFFS- Stuff the USA
THE DEFECTS – Bitch (WXYZ) 
THE ANDROIDS - Nine to Five (Spit / Radio Raheem / Punkarama)
THE OUTCASTS - The Cops are Coming (Good Vibrations / Captain Oi!) 
NO SWEAT - You Should Be So Lucky (Rip Off)

Such a small island with so many great punk bands. But a genre that I feel was spawned out of the POGUES is Celtic Punk. Many Irish spread across the world and in places that had concentrations like Boston we start to see bands like the DROPKICK MURPHYS start up. One of the first was in Kingston with the MAHONES which is where we get started. 

THE MAHONES - Take Me Back (EMG / True North)
DROPKICK MURPHYS - Curse of a Fallen Soul (TKO / Hellcat / Knock Out) 
FLOGGING MOLLY - The Seven Deadly Sins (Side One Dummy)
SAINT BUSHMILL's CHOIR - Molly Maguires (Profane Existence) 
THE KILLIGANS - Santy Anno (Self-Released) 

BLOOD OR WHISKEY - Poxy Pub (Punkcore)
VEGA'S LOFT - Irish Rover (Self-Released) 
MICKEY RICKSHAW - Raining Again (Self-Released)
ARSE CRAIC - Earlie In The Mornin' (Self-Released) 
MATILDA'S SCOUNDRELS - Folk Shit Up! (Self-Released) 

All these bands are from Spain, which seems like a stretch for this sound. But the jig is based on similar time structures as some Spanish music making it a fit. 

13 KRAUS - Little Timmy (Self-Released)
SIGELPA – Necroguateke (Self-Released)
SKONTRA - Sal a la cai (Self-Released)
X-FANEKAES - Corbella en mà (Self-Released)

HOLD FAST - My Girl is a Singer in a Punk Rock Band (Self-Released) 
IRISH MOUTARDE - The Bear and the Maiden Fair (Self-Released)