Top 10 - June 2014
1. RIPCORD "Fast 'n Furious - the complete demos" CD (Boss Tuneage)
2. BACK TO BACK "Narcissist" ep (540)
3. NUCLEAR AGE Demo (Self-Released)
4. ACCIDENTE "Amistad y Rebelion" LP (Self-Released)
5. V/A "Berlin Tristesse" ep (Heart First)
6. CRUTCHES "Lurad" LP (Phobia)
7. DREAMBOAT Demo (Self-Released)
8. NEVER HUMAN Demo (Self-Released)
9. RAPTUROUS GRIEF "Ficcion Corporativa" ep (Self-Released)
10. HALDOL Demo 2014 (Self-Released)
Labels:
* BOSS TUNEAGE - http://www.bosstuneage.com
* 540 - http://www.chaosintejas.com/540/
* NUCLEAR AGE - http://nuclearage.bandcamp.com/
* ACCIDENTE - http://accidente.bandcamp.com/album/amistad-y-rebeli-n
* HEART FIRST - http://www.heartfirst.net
* PHOBIA - http://www.phobiarecords.net
* DREAMBOAT - http://dreamboatpunx.bandcamp.com/
* NEVER HUMAN - https://neverhuman.bandcamp.com/
* RAPTUROUS GRIEF - http://rapturousgrief.bandcamp.com/album/ficcion-corporativa
* HALDOL - http://haldol.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2014
Monday, June 30, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Radio - Sunday July 29, 2014
Resist Control are a great hardcore band from Buffalo. The band features Rob on vocals, Mike on guitar, Matto on bass, and Matt on drums. They came up on Tuesday June 17th, to record in studio 3. That was the same day as the tornado touching down in Angus. We conducted an interview after the session and we started off talking about this song "Past Results". You can listen to the entire show above or download the MP3 to listen on your own.
RESIST CONTROL - Past Results (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Traditions (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Nostalgia (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Nothing New (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Modern Times (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Can't Compete (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Lost Weekend (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Nothing to Hide / Words (Warm Bath)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Liberty in America (Peterwaulkee)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - American Citizen (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Short Leash (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Thought in the Head (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Kleptocracy (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
RESIST CONTROL - Submission Accomplished / Dissipation (CIUT)
MENTAL DISTRESS - I'd rather die than listen to NOFX (Self-Released)
NERV - I don't want to talk about it
BARGE - Keep your money (Self-Released)
SNOB - I'm Ashamed (Hardware)
GRUMP - Coherence (Self-Released)
REPLICA - Strings (Cut the Cord)
SPINE - The Kids don't care (Bad Teeth)
LESION - Crack the Whip (Self-Released)
CREPEHANGER - Zero Hour (Self-Released)
xINQUISITIONx - War Without an End (Wear your bandana)
CAVE STATE - Carving on the Wall (Self-Released)
LIFE FORM - Idiot (Distort Reality)
THE BRASS - Don't look at me (Hardware)
FUGITIVE - Heads in the guillotine (Twerp)
HARD STRIPES - Pollution (Grave Mistake)
IRON YOUTH - Disconnect (Video Disease)
NEVER HUMAN - Deny (Self-Released)
EFFLUXUS - Darkness (Rust and Machine)
COKSKAR - Repetitive Stress (Eternl Warfrost)
GOMS - GOMS (Self-Released)
BETA BOYS - Roaches (Self-Released)
D-BEATLES - Paivi (Self-Released)
CIVILZED - Downcast (Youth Attack)
Q - Want (Self-Released)
MOTIVATION - Free (Wear your bandana)
STRAIGHT IN YOUR FACE - Straight in your face (Wear your bandana)
SLAUGHTER IN THE VATICAN - Polvere (Wear your bandana)
REXIW - No more rock n roll (Iron Curtain)
Flyer - Sunday, June 29th, 2014
PANSY DIVISION
LYDIA LUNCH
GINGER COYOTE
PANTYCHRIST
JUDY VIRAGO AND IGBY LIZZARD TRASH CABARET
NO PANTS SOCIETY
ZOO OWL
SISTER HYDE
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
HERVANA
DJ STEVE ROCK
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Flyer - Saturday, June 28th, 2014
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2014
LIFE & DEATH IN TORONTO
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Flyer - Wednesday June 25th, 2014
Show Review – The City's in Flames
Toronto Public Library, Fort York
Branch
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
This was an event put together because
of World Pride with films by punks in the LGBT community or films about
people in the LGBT community. The line up of shorts was put together
by Don Pyle in what he described as a loose knit fabric of punk and
LGBT and art worlds colliding.
Troublemakers (1990)
The first film was by GB Jones of Fifth
Column who wasn't able to make it. But Caroline Azur of Fifth Column
did say some words about the film on her behalf which included that
the actors in the film did all the things that happened and were even
arrested for some of it. She also said that they were inspired
Suzanne Naughton's film on the Viletones that is shown later in the
program because that was the first time they saw punk and Toronto in
the same film. This inspired Fifth Column to make their own films.
John Porter, also on the program spoke about how Fifth Column made
their own films and showed them at a place called the Funnel. GB
Jones' film is a serious of scenes that show young punk kids played
by Fifth Column and Bruce La Bruce and their friends getting up to
all kinds of mischief. The scene opens with some shoplifting which is
particularly funny if only for them standing below the Shoplifters
will be proecusted sign. The death star like security camera is
particularly a period piece and is equally amusing. Bruce La Bruce
has one of his nipples pierced which is sure to get a reaction. And
there is some raccoons who make an appearance at the end which is in
the house that Fifth column lived in at the time and as we learn from
Caroline was the old New Rose store, which is the punk store that
Margarita Passion ran and was refered to as the Viletones clubhouse.
How Many Fingers? (1981)
This is a music like video for one of
the Government songs. Andrew Paterson the band's guitarist and singer
and creative mind behind the band was at the screening to explain the
videoand he is one of the best speakers deeply immersed in theory
behind the art. He called this a musical video as opposed to a msuic
video because the band saw it as a critique of the music video
format. At the time the music video format was coming into popular
use and shows were popping up for teenagers of band's songs which was
around the tiome that Much Music was coming into being. Andrew points
out that the space that Much Music would occupy housed some great
affordable production houses for students at OCA like Trinity Video.
Ironically, Much Music would kick those people out. Lots of Toronto's
hardcore scene was recorded at the studio space on this building. But
the song itself was inspired by George Orwell's “Nineteen Eighty
Four”. How many Fingers has a reference in the book and is a space
where liberalism meets fascism which is an argument I hear being made
about the original punk scene in which the idea was to push
liberalism as far as it could go until that fascist underbelly struck
back. Well Paterson plays a game show host or contestant that doesn't
repeat the correct number of fingers that the host is suggesting he
is holding up and in a way tests the power of suggestion. Later
Paterson plays a fascist like priest who orders a teacher to burn a
book in front of a student while laughing maniacally. Book burning
certainly suggests the facsist era practises. The film has
institutional settings and is very sophisticated for a piece of this
medium. I was glad to have seen it even if we missed part of it. And
the song itself incorporated some dub in it which harkend back to
Gang of Four and Public Image types of experimentation.
I'm Not in Love (2011)
This short takes two guys dressed in
drag doing some very homo erotic things to a song by 10CC in a way
that is contrary to the pessimistic message of this hit from the
70's. And they use elements of karaoke by way of performance.
Beyond the Screams (1999)
This is a film I am very familiar with
as I own a copy of it. I bought it at a Chicago Fest when it forst
came out and have watched it several times. But Martin's setting of
the tone of the film helped me understand much more about the film.
In the late 90's bands started popping up all over the United States
that sang in Spanish. These were punk rockers who were sons and
daughers of people who immigrated to the US who spoke Spanish as
their mother tongue. These bands were partially reacting to the anti
immigration policies of the time and one of the participants in the
film, Jose Palafox who played rums in Bread and Circuses. He made a
film called “New World Border” which cpatured some of that
anti-Latino sentiment in 2001. He was in Beyond the Screams and I had
forgotten how bad things were. The idea of the film came to Martin
when he had to put together a thesis project for his Photography
Discipline at the University of Chicago. He decided to do a film.
Martin also sang in Los Crudos prior to this and they had been
touring and seeing these bands starting up throughout America. In
Chicao there was band's like Youth Against and Sin Orden who
represent the new wave at the end of the film. In New York there was
Huasipungo. In L.A. there was Life's Halt. Arma Contra Arma, Kntra
Attaque, Subsistencia, Sbitch, Logical Nonsense and Michelle who was
the drummer in Spitboy. Didn't they do a split with Crudos? Martin
looks back at some of the scenes in South America referencing Ohlo
Seco and Colera which harken back to the early days in punk. But he
also looks at what America had to offer and discovers a scene that
comes out of East L.A. Which is refered to as the East Side
Rennaisance and including bands like the Zeros, the Bags, the Plugz
(Repo Man soundtrack), and the Brat. The film starts out with one of
the most jaw dropping scenes of a Los Crudos show in Mexico City that
as the songs starts the camera pans back and as far as the eye can
see are punk rockers at an outdoor show losing their shit to the
Crudos song just launched into. The scene ends with Martin explaining
the meaning behind “We're that Spic band”. It was as inpiring
today as it was when it came out.
Will Munro's Dirty Load (2007)
This is a short that I didn't know
existed. Matt interviews Will Munro at the end trying to get at some
of his inspired activities. Will describes his underwear art. There
are scenes of Will Djing and some vids at Vaseline. But there is so
much more to Will story and I strongly recommend that people read
Sarah Liss's book “Army of Lovers” for a more full account. That
shouldn't take away from the fact that this is a touching tribute to
a out queer punk who changed our scene for the better.
An Afternoon at New Rose with the
Viletones
I have seen bits of Suzanne Naughton's
film in Colin Brunton's latest “The Last Pogo Jumps Again”. The
bits are stunning. Suzanne explained that she was a film student at
Ryerson making a film called “Mondo Punk”. The film shot at the
New Rose was supposed to be supplemental footgae to this film. She
instructed the cameraman to shot cut aways so that she could edit it
into the “Mondo Punk”. It was 800 feet of raw vintage toom
follery at the New Rose in black and white, which looks like a punk
rock house party with large sized posters from the time decorating
the walls, all kinds of punk gear on display and an outline of a dead
person on the floor that Leckie lies in. Leckie hams it up for the
camera, Freddie Pompeii says a few things. Margaritta Passion is in
the film along with Tank who plays some pinball whiule drinking Black
Label. It is a precious time capsule for sure.
The Dishes at U of T (1977)
TV Ontario is a public broadcaster and
back in the 70's they filmed live bands as part of their mandate to
capture local artists. One of those bands was the Dishes who could be
one of Toronto's first punk bands. They played the 3D show at OCA
which is often refered to as the first local punk show in Toronto.
They wrote “Rebel (Unorthodox)” for the Viletones. They released
two singles and created that missing link betwen the glam and the
punk scene. Don Pyle described their Roxy Music style which is seen
in this live show outdoors at the University of Toronto. Don said
this must have played at least 60 times on TVO and was able to get a
DVD of the video from Steven Davies just before he passed away.
John Porter also had some footage on
8mm of the Dishes. He also had some footage of a show that Fifth
Column performed at making up a sound track to his films he projected
at the Funnel. Reportedly the songs are unreleased.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Flyer - Monday, June 23rd, 2014
Sorrondeguy and Pyle will project a selection of their photographs and talk about particular aspects of the images that contain – either overtly or implicitly – something inherently homosexual. A curve of the hip, a flouncy haircut – there is more going on in the picture than what we first see.
Martin’s photos – some of which will be drawn from his 2nd book Get Shot (Make-A-Mess Records) – focus on post-1985 hardcore and the scenes surrounding it, while Don’s - some featured in his book Trouble In The Camera Club (ECW Press) - begin in the late 1970s punk scene and onward.
In addition to this event, Pyle curates a program of film and video for Pride at the Fort York branch of the Toronto Public Library, on Wednesday June 25th, which features Sorrondeguy’s documentary video of Latino hardcore, Beyond The Screams. Pyle will speak with each of the filmmakers present for this program, including Sorrondeguy.
Free.
Monday, June 23 at 7:00 p.m.
Don Pyle is a Toronto musician, producer and artist. He's released thirteen albums and dozens of singles with the various groups he has been a member of, including Black Heel Marks, The Filthy Gaze of Europe, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Phono-Comb, Greek Buck, Fifth Column and King Cobb Steelie. As producer and/or engineer, his credits include releases by The Sadies, Andre Williams, John Doe, Tied To The Branches, Soupcans and forthcoming records by Toronto Homicide Squad and Cellphone. Collaboratively or solo, film scores include six for Wrik Mead, two feature films and shorts for John Greyson, Derek von Essen - and with Shadowy Men, the TV series Kids in the Hall. He created sound designs for Caroline Azar and GB Jones's installation The Bruised Garden, Simone Jones's Projektor and Kevin Hegge's feature documentary She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column, which he also mixed. His book Trouble In The Camera Club, published by ECW Press in 2011, documents his photographs and experiences of the birth of punk in Toronto from 1976 - 1980. His photos have appeared in numerous publications, including the covers of Liz Worth's oral history of Toronto punk, Treat Me Like Dirt (ECW Press), and Geoff Pevere's about-to-be-released meditation on Teenage Head, Gods of The Hammer (Coach House).
Martín Sorrondeguy was born in Montevideo, Uruguay; raised in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and has called San Francisco home for the last ten years. He is a visual artist, photographer, and musician. Sorrondeguy completed his second photography book, Get Shot: A Visual Diary 1985-2012 (Make-A-Mess, Los Angeles), in late-2012. The core of Sorrondeguy's work is about addressing inequities through the creation of physical and artistic space-first as the singer for the internationally renowned politically charged punk en Español hardcore band Los Crudos. For the last fifteen years Sorrondeguy has been the singer for the beloved hardcore radically and openly queer punk band, Limp Wrist. He continues to work on various projects in the punk scene, both as a musician and documentarian. In the late 90s' Sorrondeguy produced, shot, and edited a documentary titled Mas Alla De Los Gritos/Beyond the Screams (1999). Some of the documentary footage came from his travels abroad to Mexico and South America while on tour with Los Crudos. These tours informed and expanded the scope of what it meant to be a punk in the U.S. as well as in Latin America. Sorrondeguy's documentary hones in on young Chicano and Latino migrant punk rockers surviving the era brought in by the xenophobic Proposition 187 in California and a general anti-Latino immigrant sentiment sweeping the U.S.
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Generations of Queer
Robert Flack / John Greyson / Elisha Lim / Kiley May
March 12 to June 28, 2014
Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith
Generations of Queer is an exhibition centred on storytelling, creating a dialogue between the works of two senior artists and two younger artists who have come into queer discourses as beneficiaries of the activism of their predecessors.
[Bios]
Robert Flack (1957-1993) was bron in Guelph, ON, and moved to Toronto to study at York University (BFA 1980). He began employment at Art Metropole in 1980 and assisted on General Idea projects. From 1981 his work was shown nationally and then internationally. Public collections include the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photograph. Paul Petro Contemporary Art represents the Estate of Robert Flack. www.paulpetro.com
John Greyson is a Toronto based film and video maker who has been politically active in the Toronto queer community for the past 33 years. With short videos and feature films he explores topics ranging from anti-censorship battles, AIDS discrimination, same sex marriage, militarism, the tar sands, Israelie apartheid and the fight for AIDS treatment drugs in Africa and the world. He is recognized for his documentary interviews, historical narratives, opera, found footage and camp. His work reflects many of the legal and politically struggles for queers in the 1980s as well as world politics with a strong queer voice.
Elisha Lim exhibits illustrations and animated shorts internationally, and has advocated against transphobia and racism on United Nations panels and as a director of Montreal's first Racialized Pride Week. Their comic strops Favourite Dating Tales, Sissy, The Illustrated Gentleman and 100 Butches are acclaimed by Autostraddle, Bitch Magazine and New York Times bestselling author Alison Bechdel, and their debut graphic novel 100 Crushes will be published in June 2014 by Koyama Press and launched at Onsite [at] OCAD U. www.elishalim.com
Kiley May is a young Mohawk storyteller, artist, creator and shaman. Kiley is also a two-spirit, trans, queer and genderqueer human being. Their gender pronouns are they/their/them. They work in film, photography, writing, journalism, fashion, dance and performance art.
Lisa Deanne Smith is engaged in a cultural practice that moves between mediums - art, curating, writing and community events - exploring issues of voice, experience and power. She has exhibited internationally including White Columns, The New Museum and Mercer Union. Currently, she is Acting Curator at Onsite [at] OCAD University. Recent curatorial projects include Biological Urbanism: Terreform ONE; No Dull Affairs; Karen Lofgren, Vanessa Maltese and Jillian McDonald; and I Wonder: Marian Bantjes.
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The blog:
The Pride Chronicles http://blog.ocad.ca/
The Queer Pride Chronicles is a forum for LGBTTIQQ2SA* communities to add thoughtful content to Pride.
* Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, 2 Spirited, Allies
Share your story, pictures and/or videos here!
Possible topics to get you writing:
What is Pride?
What was the first Pride celebration you attended?
What is your coming out story?
Have you had a romance, fling or crush that developed at a Pride celebration?
How has queer changed for you over the past 40 years?
What have you learned from a queer family member or close friend?
Why are you proud?
Our stories are important, they are full of power. Please tell us yours!
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MORE EVENTS:
• Wednesday, June 25, 8 P.M.: DUORAMA, a performance by Paul Couillard + Ed Johnson co-presented by Fado Performance Art Centre
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Radio - Sunday, June 22nd, 2014
World Pride launched in our city earlier this week. In order to get in the spirit of the festivities around the city we put together a punk rock jukebox of LGBT positive songs over the years starting off with Limp Wrist's "The Ode". The first set is bands mentioned in that song. You can hear tonight's show above or download the show here.
LIMP WRIST - the Ode (CIUT)
WAYNE COUNTY AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS - Toilet Love (Safari)
BUZZCOCKS - Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with (United Artists)
THE DICKS - Kill from the Heart (Alternative Tentacles)
BIG BOYS - Mutant Rock (Touch and Go)
GO - Holy Roller
MUKILTEO FAIRIES - Strangulated Boy
THE DISHES - Summer Reaction (Crash and Burn)
Interview with Don Pyle (CIUT)
LOS CRUDOS - Identidad perdida (Lengua Armada)
NINA HAGEN - Pank (CBS)
SNFU - She's Not On the Menu (BYO)
MDC - Dead Cops-America's So Straight (R Radical)
7 SECONDS - Walk Tgether, Rock Together (Positive Force)
GAYRILLA BISCUITS - Gay til death (Slow Gun)
CLITBOYS - Gay's ok (Ultrawaste)
Rob found this clip on-line from a legendary show in Hamilton at the Rockpile,. Skinheads tried to shut down the show but the scene banded together to kick them out. This was the tour that "Walk Together, Rock Together" had come out and I seem to remember that Ray Cappo joined in on "Colourblind". The rap part being sung by a New Yorker was special.
ANTI-SCRUNTI FACTION - Slave to my estrgen (Unclean / Flipside)
FIFTH COLUMN - I Love You, but I ain't gonna ....
TRIBE 8 - Oversize Ego (Outpunk)
YEASTIE GIRLS - Fuck Yerself (Lookout)
SKINJOBS - Hands in the Air (BongoBeat)
PANTYCHRIST - Say you'rebeautiful (CIUT)
ANTI VIBES - Amateur Eye Surgery (CIUT)
THE GERMS - Lexicon Devil (Munster)
HUSKER DU - Pride (SST)
SUBMISSIVES - Modern Girlz (Honest Don's)
POISON IDEA - Ballad of Pre-op (self-Released)
DEISEL QUEENS - Wanderer (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
PANSY DIVISION - Bill and Ted's Homoseual Adventure (Rugger Bugger)
SCREECHING WEASEL - I wanna be a Homosexual (Lookout)
ELTON MOTELLO - Jet Boy Jet Girl (Pogo Pogo)
DEAD MILKMEN - Bitchin' Camaro (Restless)
Tonight's demo feature is a band from Halifax called Eekum Seekum. The demo is called "Glitter Bomb" and it is found at their bandcamp page along with other information about the band's inspirations. They do site Limp Wrist and Raised Fists as influences.
EEKUM SEEKUM - Brutality (Self-Released)
EEKUM SEEKUM - Pink Dollar$ (Self-Released)
EEKUM SEEKUM - F.U.N. (Self-Released)
EEKUM SEEKUM - Take Care (Self-Released)
EEKUM SEEKUM - Watch Out (Self-Released)
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Resist Control studio 3 session
Members of Resist Control have some history with the show. History I respect given how many great bands these guys were in and history that I learned about in the interview that took place afterwards. I knew about Mike playing guitar in Slave State. I was telling him about how they wowed me back in the day drawing influences from Infest and No Comment. Over a decade later Mike would start another band a decade later called Running for Cover which was equally great and drew on those early power violence greats. They recorded a studio 3 session with us before dissolving and them becoming Gas Chamber. But Mike had a band before all of these bands with Rob the singer and they initially wanted to call the band Resist Control. they were talked out of it, but when this second chance came to start a new band they went back to the original idea.
The other piece to this puzzle is Matto LaQue who is from Albany and played in many bands which included John Browns Army and Devoid of Faith to name but a few. There is a proper listing of the bands they all played in on the interview. I know Matto from his label Peterwaulkee Records which has put out a number of great bands from Albany and Buffalo and other places. Matto moved to Buffalo in more recent times and transitioned from a guitar player to a bass player, which he explains as part of the reason for the meandering way he plays. As I listened to his sound I could;t help but think of Eric Wood's earlier projects like Pissed Happy Children.
One interesting coincidence to me was the name of the band. Matto is from Albany. The song "Resist Control was written by a band from Albany called Life's Blood. The song would get recorded in the next band that these members would play in called Born Against. It is a tidy explanation for the band name but not one grounded in fact I am afraid.
As for sound, the band does get compared to No Comment an awful lot and it is not entirely inaccurate. Rob has a singing style that is enunciated and reminds me of early MDC. In fact his delivery on "Traditions" sounded like the genius heard on "Business on Parade". There is also a lot of dissonance noise contributed by both Mike and Matto out of the feedback that they can coax out of their guitars. Something heard on more contemporary power violence bands like Column of Heaven or Vilent Intent. I have heard it on Gas Chamber's recordings as well and I learned that Mike played in this band for a while so it all makes sense.
There weren't many do overs on the songs recorded but here is what did get committed to tape (so to speak):
1. Can't compete
2. Can't compete / Liberty in America
3. Past Results
4. American citizen
5. Traditions
6. Lost weekend
7. Nostalgia
8. Nothing new
9. Kleptocracy
10. Thought in the head
11. Modern times
12. Short Leash
13. Submission accomplished / Dissipation
The band also makes some IDs for the show and the station.
1. Can't compete CIUT ID
2. Traditions CIUT ID
3. Resist Control CIUT ID
4. Past Results EXD ID
The session was video recorded by Aldo at Punks and Rockers and a clip is here to see.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
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)
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Radio - Sunday, June 8th, 2014
Here is the player for tonight's show which featured a mixed version of Tuesday night's studio 3 session with Artificial Dissemination. You can download the whole show here.
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - I liked you better when you were dead (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Fight (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Glare (Seminal)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - GMO (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Blow Up (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - She's got my fuckin' guitar (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Hated (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - The paparazzi stole my soul (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Don't Care (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Dirty Glass (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - To Sir Up Yers (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Hidden Charms (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Interview (CIUT)
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Implant (CIUT)
Guest host, Daragh, programmed this set of Hamilton bands and the next set of new London bands.
AT WHAT COST - Nothing's Resolved (Schizophrenic)
BORN WRONG - Heretic (Schizophrenic)
LEFT FOR DEAD - Cop Trap (Murder Contest)
HAYMAKER - Tax Attack (Schizophrenic)
HAYMAKER - Let them Rot (a389)
ROACH BANK - WWJJD (Schizophrenic)
WASTED POTENTIAL - Pabst Smear (Get Party)
CAPTAIN BRINGDOWN AND THE BUZZKILLERS - Cellophone (Speed City)
BATH SALTS - Make the press rewind (It's Trash)
DISLEKSICK - Nuke the Bruce (It's Trash)
LAPSARIA - Swarm (Self-Released)
THE SYNDROME - At my age (Self-Released)
HIRED GOONS - Intro / Hire Power (Self-Released)
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Artificial Dissemination studio 3 session
The band features Shawna Heist who you may know as the guitarist of Sluts on 45 and has played in so many punk bands in Toronto over the last few decades.
1. Blow Up
2. I like you better when you were dead
3. Dirty Glass
4. Implant
5. Don't Care
6. GMO
7. The paparazzi stole my soul
8. Hated
9. Fight
10. Up Yers
11. She's got my fuckin' guitar
12. Hidden charms (Willie Dixon cover)
The band also recorded some IDs for the show and the station.
Aldo video taped the whole thing.
Lenora and Mike videotaped the interview afterwards.
The band has an ep out called "Glare" which you can hear at Reverb Nation.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
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)
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