Radio - Sunday, July 26th, 2020

This Artificial Dissemination song summarizes our first feature on the music of Portland. Portland is under siege from federal agents with reports of kidnapping, tear gas and other methods of trying to make protestors disappear which would be heavily criticized coming from other countries. So we start out with a spotlight on music coming out of the PDX scene on the frontlines at the moment. We also have a celebration of Chi Pig's life. And we finish up with a new demo feature from Toronto - Miss Thing. You can download the show here.

ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - F.S.U. (Seminal Recordz)

Portland - At the time of taping federal troops have moved into Portland and protests have escalated as this unwanted occupying force kidnaps protesters, attacks US citizens with tear gas, and the battle of the streets rages as part of Donald Trump’s political theatre to impress a re-election audience that he is the law and order candidate. In other countries when they make protesters disappear the government is characterized as an authoritarian police state. In honour of of the resistance movement standing up against police violence I put together a set of PDX punk.

CHARTBUSTERS - Portland Belongs To Us (Self-Released) 
DEATH RIDGE BOYS - Leaders Don't Speak (Black Water)
CRIMINAL DAMAGE - No Peace (Feral Ward)
RETIREMENT - Priced Out (Iron Lung)
PRESSING ON - Blocked By A Wall (Self-Released)
GENOGEIST - Cosmic Vortex (Self-Released)
TRAGEDY - Deaf and Disbelieving (Tragedy)
POISON IDEA - Beautiful Disaster (Southern Lord)
RAW NERVES - Weapons of the State (Man in Decline)
MONGOLOID - Mongoloid Part 3 (Deranged)
INTERCISION - Their Names (Self-Released)
CLITERATI - Alt-Wrong (Tankcrimes)
ERA BLEAK - Tinderbox (Dirt Cult)

SUBSISTANCE - Get Off My Case (Self-Released)
CHRONIC ABUSE - Civil Society (Amok / SFR Hardcore)
COLONY DROP - Master of Space Combat (Self-Released)
KTO UKRADŁ CIASTKA - Butapren (Refuse)

Krzysztof Siasiek Szymański from KTO UKRADŁ CIASTKA passed away this week. First band to be released on Refuse Records. Refuse is working on a collection of their material. This is a song from a live recording from 1993.

BULLSHIT DETECTOR - Shit-Sandwich (Clockwork Punk / HoM)
ALL HITS - Easy Killer (Iron Lung) 
ISS - Too Punk For Heavy Metal (Total Punk)
JIM BOB AND THE LEISURE SUITS - White Trash Rock (Polyester)
THE TELEFONES - Stop Rudy Stop (VVV)

13 BATS - Virus 187 (Potencial Hardcore)
CIOS - Один спільний голос - One Common Voice (83 Records)
NOT FOR SALE - You Own Nothing 
SILVERSTEIN - Smashed Into Pieces 
WEINS NO. 1 - Mein Herz Für Austria Wien

REIFER MADNESS - Never Stop the Riot (Self-Released)
NO TIME TO WASTE - Mister President (People of Punk Rock)
NO PAROLE - No Right of Way (Self-Released)
OFFSIDE REIDARS - I Can't Play (Hiljaiset Levyt / Roku)

Tribute to Chi Pig
I did an interview with Chi Pig from September 11th, 1987 which has been transcribed and posted up on the blog. On July 16th Ken Chinn passed away. I will forever know him as the singer with the huge leap, the colourful costumes, and prankster stage antics. To honour Chi Pig’s passing with thought we would put together a set of material by SNFU starting off with “She’s Not on the Menu”, one of the best known songs in punk addressing sexism.

SNFU - She's Not on the Menu (BYO)
SNFU - Visiting the Bad Again (Cargo)
SNFU - Time To Buy A Futon (Cargo)
SNFU - Costume Trunk (Epitaph)
SNFU - A Better Place (Epitaph)
SNFU - Bobbitt (Epitaph)
SNFU - Cockatoo Quill (Rake)
SNFU - Ashes (Cruzar Media)

Photo by Trent Nelson

"She's Not on the Menu" is one of the many anthems off of “...And No One Else Wanted To Play”. It was one of the first and best known songs addressing sexism. Up there with "Not Just Boys Fun" and put the listener in women’s shoes from an experiential standpoint. It was later re-recorded and they made a Dance Mix called “Dunce Mix” which they self-released as a single.

Chi Pig, 1986, University of Windsor, photo by Trent Nelson

"Time to Buy a Futon" is one of the better known songs from "Better than a Stick in the Eye" (1988). The song was partially made more popular by it’s inclusion on the fifth Thrasher comp that came out a year earlier called “Born to Skate”. So the song had a pre-release. The song is a clever jab at consumerism penned in two minutes.

"Costume Trunk" off of "Something Green And Leafy This Way Comes" (1993) was about the trunk Chi used to do costume changes on stage. But the song was also a metaphor for his sexual orientation which he would become more comfortable with being out. So in that way the song was autobiographical.

The song "A Better Place" depicts an old women who’s life has run its course. A reminder that life is short. I am putting that up as a pick for "The One Voted Most Likely To Succeed" (1995).

"FYULABA" (1996), but I thought "Bobbitt" was a good choice because it showcased Chi's sense of humour which often focused on weird observations. This song features Simon Head on keyboards.

"Cockatoo Quill" was another song written in two minutes with a cockatoo quill feather duster bought at a dollar store.

Lots of the information about Chi Pig came from Chris Walters' book "What No One Wanted to Say". You can find a copy here.

Demo Feature 
MISS THING from Toronto in our demo feature tonight. This came out in March of this year and is another project of Scooter’s. You can find the demo on bandcamp.

MISS THING - Ghost (Self-Released)
MISS THING - Barf (Self-Released)
MISS THING - Black Words (Self-Released)
MISS THING - Therapy (Self-Released)
MISS THING - Laughter is Life (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, July 19th, 2020

Tonight's show is hosted by Rob and Jose. Rob starts out with some garage and early punk with originals followed by covers. There is also a lot of early New Zealand punk in the opening sets, which includes a post Split Enz band called the Swingers formed out of the Suburban Reptiles. There is a set of Canadian punk followed by a set of punk featuring bands with women and references to some cool DIY comps that inspired the sets. Jose brings some raging punk sung in Spanish. And then another raging set of new hardcore. Download the show here. 

THE KIDS - Do You Love the Nazis? (Philips / Havoc / Sonik's Chicken Shrimp / Burger / Radiation Reissues)

THE MODS - Empty Heart (Eva)
THE HELLACOPTERS - Empty Heart (Self-Released)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - Here She Comes Now (Verve)
NIRVANA - Here She Comes Now (Communion)
THE BROOD - I Can't Believe (Dionysus)

SUBURBAN REPTILES - Megaton (Vertigo)
SWINGERS - Certain Sound (Descabezados En  Acapulco)
THE BEARS - Insane (Good Vibration)
F-X - You're Gonna Kill the Girl (Only Fit for the Bin)
DAS SCHINTZ - Getting Nowhere (Eliie Jay / Different Class)

DOA - My My, Hey Hey (Sudden Death)
THE FALLOUT - Failure of Character (Rebel Time)
OUTTACONTROLLER - Flashpoint (Alien Snatch)
SPECTRES - The Head and the Heart (Artoffact)
TEENANGER - Touching Glass (Telephone Explosion)

PHONE JERKS - 3rd Wheel (Self-Released)
NJF - Sitting!! Pretty (Green Fuse)
RUGGEDY ANNES - Hollow Heroes (Tabb)
SEPTEMBER GIRLS - Black Oil (Kanine / Fortuna Pop)
LILIM - Apathetic Dog (Self-Released)

FUTURO TERROR - Sangre (Discos Humeantes)
ACCIDENTE - La Mataron - Canibal (Self Released)
BAIT - No Sense (83 Records)
VEJAMEN - Aquel Que Creian Muerto (Self Released)
INSOLENCIA - Condena Inmunda (Self-Released)

Futuro Terror are from Spain and they released this self titled ep a couple of months ago. After that a new release by the well known Spanish punk rockers Accidente. They have a new album called "Canibal" and we heard the song La Mataron. Bait from Barcelona were next with their song called: No Sense, they released an Ep this month called Another End Of The World Is Possible. Another new band from Peru called Vejamen and a song called Aquel Que Creian Muerto. The set finished with a new band from Mexico City, called Insolencia and a song called Condena Inmunda. Thanks to my friend Ukre from Mexico for sending me this. Ukre is the organizer of a yearly international festival called "Destruxiones" and he also runs a youtube channel called "Mexikaaos" where he is constantly uploading new bands and doing compilations with such bands. 

SUBDUED - Sanctuary is Nowhere (La Vida Es Un Mus)
THE ANNIHILATED - Push Me Around (Brainrotter / Roachleg / Voice from Inside / Black Dust / Unstuck)
TOWER 7 - Zero Zum (D4MT Labs)
S.H.I.T - Bullyng/Integration (Self-Released)
LIFE - The End Of Mother Nature (Not Enough)

Subdued started it out with a song called Sanctuary is Nowhere from their debut album "Over The Hills And Far Away". Right after that we heard another bad ass band called The Annihilated with a song called Push Me Around/Abuse Of Power, The Annihilated features Mr Ryan Tong on bass. Ryan is better known for being vocals on my favorite Toronto band S.H.I.T and even though Ryan moved to the UK S.H.I.T is Not Dead Yet, (No Pun Intended). They are still playing and they also just released a sick ass live recording of their pre pandemic performance at IDRIMA a squat in the middle of Athens Greece, and we heard a song of this recording called "Ekfosvismos/Ensomátosi". Right after that we heard a new band from New York called Tower 7 with a song called Zero Zum. They released this tape last May. 
The set ended with Tokyo crasher crusties, L.I.F.E. They just released their third album called "Ossification of Coral" and it fucking rips. The name of the song was The End of Mother Nature, and as the title of the record implies, this is also a record to raise awareness of the importance of the ecosystem and the exploitation of coral reefs. We got to see Life at Varning Fest in 2016 lets hope they come back with this release.

THE CAVEMEN - Night After Night (Slovenly)
GREEN/BLUE - Police Street (Slovenly)
GUTTER DEMONS - Gutterkings (Falsetto)
LIME SPIDERS - Weirdo Libido (Virgin)
SEPTIC DEATH - Gore Story (Pusmort)

Radio - Sunday, July 12th, 2020

Tonight's show starts out with new Antibodies released on Canada Day because in the words of Dave Brown exploitation and genocide should not be celebrated. Also on tonight's show a tribute to Demo and a tribute to Rosie Davis. Tonight's demo feature is Shopvac. You can download the show here.

ANTIBODIES - Petrostate (Self-Released)

TOMMY AND THE COMMIES - Power on Standby (Slovenly)
DARK THOUGHTS - Must Be Nice (Drunken Sailor / Stupid Bag)
THE PLUGZ - Beserktown (Plugz / Restless)
MFC CHICKEN - Tipi Tapa (Dirty Water / FOLC)
THE WAITRESSES - I Know What Boys Like (Antilles / Polydor)

Up next is a band from San Diego called No Mistake. This band features Mikey Bullshit from SFA / GO! Fame. He started up ABC No Rio. Was a member of Act Up NYC. Moved to San diego and started up this band and we are going to hear a song from a 2014 release called “Not Just Solitary Beings”. This is a song called “Adapting to the New World”.

NO MISTAKE - Adapting to the New World (Sub-Zine / Guerilla Vinyl / Crapoulet)
THE GAY AGENDA - Hid the Truth (Self-Released)
ABSURD SS - Absurd Society System (Self-Released)
INTIMIDATION - Isolation (Self-Released) 
BENT OUT OF SHAPE - Divide and Conquer (Self-Released)

That was BENT OF SHAPE from the NETHERLANDS. They are an oi band featuring former members of Icepick, Spirit ‘84, N Denial, DSS and a few others.
We started of with NO MISTAKE and a song for our time written in 2014 called “Adapting to a New World”. That was followed up by another band from San Diego called THE GAY AGENDA. Played that in honour of Pride which is on-line this year and most of the celebrations have been this weekend. The LGBTQ community continues to be the most active against police racism in this city. ABSURD SS were next with a brand new release and we heard a song called “Absurd Society System”. And that was followed up by a tri state oi band called INTIMIDATION and we heard another song about our time called “Isolation” off a brand new demo of theirs. And again we finished up with Bent out of Shape and a song called “Divide and Conquer”.

THE DIRTIEST - Dai Gas e Spilla (Slovenly / Mondo Mongo)
THE SHADES - Beaverworld (Ray Gun)
HUMAN HANDS - I Got Mad (Independent Project)
USELESS EATERS - Breathing Smear (Slovenly)
THE STRIPES - Weekend Love (CBS / Columbia)

Found this live recording of Devo from San Francisco back in 1977. So I want to start off the next set with a song from that recording called “Sloppy”.

DEVO - Sloppy (Bootleg)
BOOJI BOYS - Booji Boys (Drunken Sailor) 
VCR - Dirty Girl-City Boy (Self-Released)
HAKAN - Mr. DNA (Drunk Dial) 
ECONOCHRIST - Uncontrollable Urge (Insurrection)
THE URGENT KICKS - Slap Your Mammy (FOLC / Common People / No Thanks! / Old Kids Brigade) 
D.I. - Girl U Want (Cleopatra)

CHRON GEN - You’ll Never Change Me (Secret / Captain Oi!)
YOUTH BRIGADE - Where Are All The Old Man Bars (BYO)
SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS - White Light, White Heat (Link)
MOTORHEAD - Eat the Rich (GWR)
MSS FRNCE - Enterre-moi (Self-Released)

Tribute to Rosie Davis
Rosie Davis passed away earlier this week and it has had a big impact on our community. I knew her as the singer in OUTCRY, an anarchist band from Halifax that played our show, but I was first introduced to Rosie as a host on SHEXD. In an interview with OUTCRY I would come to understand that she played in many bands and different instruments. Guitar in VIXENS, vocals in OUTCRY, bass in ZYGOME. Many punk scenes are reeling this week because she became members of many of these scenes in Halifax, Toronto, and Montreal. Mostly in Halifax where she was from, but in 2014 she went to school in Toronto and was in this all star band called CONUNDRUM. In 2008 Rosie was in a band called RULE OF THUMB that released a CD titled “Infelicitas” on Rot Records. In 2011 she played guitar in VIXENS an all women hardcore band with a tape and a 12” that came out on La Vida Es Un Mus. We are going to start a set of music featuring bands that Rosie Davis was in with VIXENS and a song called “Broken Scenes”.

VIXENS - Broken Scenes (La Vida Es Un Mus)
ABJECT PAX - Ratzinger (Self-Released)
CONUNDRUM - Confined (Self-Released)
OUTCRY interview explaining “Chatter”
OUTCRY - Chatter (CIUT)
IMBOLIX - No Spring (Self-Released)
ZYGOME - Mental Murder (Self-Released)

Rosie played bass and sang in ZYGOME. This came from a demo that came out in 2018. She played guitar in Abject Pax. The band released a demo in 2012 and an ep on Sewercide in 2013. Ratzinger appeared on both. We heard the demo version. Rosie lived in Toronto in 2014 and played in a band called CONUNDRUM that featured members of Weak Link, Mighty Atom, Vixens, New Armour, Abject Pax, Concrete Asylum, and Severe. OUTCRY were an anarcho punk band around between 2016 and 2017. After much follow up we were able to record them in the hallway at the station and here is a song from that. IMBOLIX were an all women punk band from Halifax in 2017. SHEXD will be doing a show in August where they will pay a greater tribute to Rosie by dedicating the show to her. Rosie had an impact on many people and will be missed. If you are able to contribute to a gofundme campaign called Rosie Forever to pay for a memorial tribute for Rosie. 

THE GO-GO’S - The Whole World Lost Its Head (Sire)
NIGHT BIRDS - Roll Credits (Fat Wreck Chords)
AGAINST ME! - Trash Unreal (Sire)
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA - Run Man Run (No List)

Demo Feature 
Tonight’s demo feature is a local band called SHOPVAC that have a mix of indie rock, MidWest Husker sound and mid tempo punk. This came out in January of this year and since then they have come out with three more releases. You can hear their full demo on bandcamp. 

SHOPVAC - Disappointed Skeptic (Self-Released)
SHOPVAC - Fugue State (Self-Released)
SHOPVAC - Last Trip (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, July 5th, 2020

Tonight's show features a lot of new material, a set inspired by the new film "White Riot", a lot of oi, and a demo feature out of Denver by Cease Fire. But we start out with a parody band from Austin that lampoons Trump. Listen to the show on the player above or download here. 

TRUMP CARD - White Powder (Self-Released)




White Riot set
A film by Rubika Shah about the Rock Against Racism movement in the UK. A look at the people who started the underground movement and the bands that supported it. The film will be available for screening on July 9th and you can see a preview of the film above. Here are some of those bands…….

THE CLASH - White Riot (CBS)
SHAM 69 - Borstal Breakout (Polydor)
X-RAY SPEX - Oh Bondage Up Yours (Virgin)
ALIEN KULTURE - Culture Crossover (RARecords)
YOUNG LIONS - Freedom Fighter (Schizophrenic)
L’ETRANGER - One People (Ground Zero)

That was L’ETRANGER with a song called “One People” which came off their second release “Running out of Funtown”. We started out with “White Riot” by the CLASH which is the name of a new film about the underground Rock Against Racism movement in the UK that started as a reaction to the rise of the National front and some racist sentiments that Eric Clapton was expressing. A music journalist wrote a letter daring musicians to be the agent of change and they responded. The Clash were big supporters of the movement in word and deed. SHAM 69, X Ray Spex, and Alien Kulture were part of the movement in the UK and Young Lions and L'Etranger were part of the Toronto counterpart. 

SCRAPER - Rats in the House (Slovenly)
TY SEGALL AND MIKAL CRONIN - So, I Went To Beach, Melody (Goodbye Boozy)
BRAD MANNERS AND HIS ISSUES - Chelsea Embankment (Self-Released)
THE PEEWEES - Bleeding For You (Rum Bar)
THE ANOMALYS - My Own Way (Slovenly)

FARMACO - Todo Muere (Self-Released)
LOS DISSCIPULOSS – Insulto (Self-Released)
DEAD HERO - Ocultando la Realidad (Primator Crew)
LETHARGIE – Materialschlch (Subcult / SM Musik / Trüemmer Pogo)
COLONY·DROP - Battle of Odessa (Self-Released)
ZYFILIS - Dom överför (Adult Crash)

Up next is a band out of France that I have been seeing everywhere. A band called Lion’s Law. They are an oi band from Paris and this song is from a new release called “The Pain, The Blood, and The Sword”. Here is the song “Sablier”.

LION'S LAW – Sablier (Pirates Press)
BISHOPS GREEN - Dead and Gone (Rebellion)
THE STICK UPS – Nowhere (Self-Released)
TCHERNOBYL - Consumé par le feu (Une Vie pour Rien ?)
ROADSCUM - Quantum Rebel (Self-Released)

ROUGH CUTS - Same Old Story (Self-Released)
BIZNAGA - Motores de Búsqueda Avanzada (Slovenly)
ABORTED TORTOISE - Making a Mint/Factory (Goodbye Boozy)
CHOICES MADE - Irrational Reality (Self-Released)
JELLICOE AND WOODBURY - Fear (Quality Control HQ)

CUERO – Destruir (Mendeku Diskak)
REPEAT OFFENDER - Con Job (Mendeku Diskak)
CONTEMPT – Sentenciado (Mendeku Diskak)
PURO ODIO – Condena (Mendeku Diskak)
REVERTT - Kantsata Gauz (Mendeku Diskak)

Demo feature
CEASE FIRE are a punk band out of Denver. They are a five piece and this was released in March of 2019 and it rages. Not sure how this came across our paths but it has been sadly overlooked and you can listen to it here.

CEASE FIRE - Burn the Bridge (Self-Released)
CEASE FIRE - Never Fall (Self-Released)
CEASE FIRE - Bombs Drop (Self-Released)
CEASE FIRE - Through the Night (Self-Released)
CEASE FIRE - No Future (Self-Released)
CEASE FIRE - All of the Lies (Self-Released)