Radio : EXD 1241 - Sunday February 26th, 2023

On tonight’s show we have lots of new sets, including a feature on a comp called Guitars4Grrls. We have a Black History Month segment on Jon McClain - drummer of Ugly Americans among others. And the third installment of Chris Murdoch's scene report which take a look at the Maritimes. Download the show here. 

THE SPORES - Subversive (Sudden Death) 

Scene report (Chris Murdoch, segment 3) 

Bands from the Maritimes 

CELL DETH - Eat Pray Fuck You (Sewercide) 

THE CHITZ - Reactionary (Subprofit) 

THE HOLD - Disease (Divorce) 

SCHIZOID - Death Deliverer (D.U.P.P.) 

CHILLER - Agony (Dirt Cult) 

New Releases (Chris) 

PUTRID FUTURE - Two Tier Economy (Razored Raw / Feral Dog) 

SZKŁO - Dogs Aren’t Pigs (Razored Raw / Feral Dog) 

MONONEGATIVES - North Carolina Atomic Bomb (Self Released / No Front Teeth / Dowd)

SALVAJE PUNK - Salvaje (Toxic State / Burning Paradise Productions)  

DEADACHE - Why (Self released) 

SKROT - Edsbrytare (Self released) 

ORRENDO SUBOTNIK - Gaetano (Self-released)  

KLINT - Mad at Myself (GI) (Self-released) 

Highlight of compilation called Guitars4grrrls (Rob) 

BYOCTOPI - Fingernails (Put Out Your Own Records) 

MISS CONDUCT - Hangman (Put Out Your Own Records) 

MVLL CRIMES - Foods I Don’t Eat (Put Out Your Own Records) 

HEAVY PETTER - Professionally Pathetic (Tarantula Tapes) 

THE HOLDOUTS - Supernova (Cursed Blessings) 

Pigs(z)/No Funeral (Andre)

WHITE PIGS - Early Grave (Swinch Kwilsen) 

WHITE PIGS - FukFukFuk (Swinch Kwilsen) 

VIOLENT PIGZ - Why Don’t You Ready To Die (No Solution Ltd.)

VIOLENT PIGZ - Neighborhood Kills (No Solution Ltd.) 

PEOPLE’S TEMPLE - Think For Me (RoachLeg) 

BOTFLY - Reflect // Reject (No Funeral)

WEDGE - Barbarism (No Funeral) 

VOTIVE - Marked By All Those Passing (No Funeral) 

YEARNING - VI (No Funeral) 

BHM (Stephe)
Jon McClain is the drummer for UGLY AMERICANS. Jon also played in many bands. 1982 - No Rock Stars would have been one of the first bands who contribute to the “No Core” cassette compilation -  

1983 - Stillborn Christians contribute to a compilation called “Why Are We Here”. https://www.discogs.com/master/1352507-Various-Why-Are-We-Here- 

1983 - Ugly Americans start up and Jon McClain joins to record on the “Who’s been Sleeping in my bed” LP that gets released in 1985 

1994 - Picasso Trigger records on Fire in the Hole 

1995 - Leadfoot - stoner rock band started by someone in COC 

BAD CHECKS - I'm Paranoid (Loretta) 

NO ROCK STARS - Thrash (No Core) 

UGLY AMERICANS - Contest (Death / Armageddon)

RADICAL DANCE FACTION - Working Class Hero (Earth Zone) 

THE JAM - Move On Up (Polydor) 

 

Oldies (Stephe)

IVY GREEN - Another Sub-Culture Going Bad (Pogo) 

JIMMY AND THE BOYS - Vampire Love (Avenue) 

RED ROCKERS - Teenage Underground (Vinyl Solution) 

RESISTANCE 77 - Nottingham Problem (Riot City)

NO FUN - Now I Ain't Got No Face (Werewolf T-Shirts)

TEENAGE HEAD - Picture my face (Epic / Bellaphon)

Radio : EXD 1240 - Sunday February 19th, 2023

Who is Cherl Boyze and what is her connection to Tribe Called Quest. Tune in to tonight’s EXD. We also feature part 2 of a scene report feature with Chris Murdoch in which we explore bands that Chris was in. There’s a review of the Gel show last week. A new release showcase. A power violence set. And we feature a new D-Beat band from Calgary called Closetalkers. Download the show here.

DEAD KENNEDYS - Soup is good food (Alternative Tentacles)

Scene report - Chris Murdoch (Part 2) 
MEAN STREETS - Problems (Self-Released) 
NEGATIVE RAGE - Snot Nose (Self-Released)
WORD ON THE STREET - Word To The Wise (REACT!)
OUTTACONTROLLER - Partner In Crime (P-Trash)
SOUVENIR - Circles (Self-Released) 

 

New Releases (Chris Overall) 
SHARIZZA - Oma (Turbo Discos) 
SPLIT TONGUE - Class War (Hardcore Victim) 
SIAL - Sangkar (LVEUM) 
PHYSIQUE - Unreal Cruelty (Iron Lung) 
PEST CONTROL - Judgement Time (Hardcore Victim)
HIATUS - End is Near (Ruin Nation) 

BHM 
So Anthony Reid is a long standing guy in the scene. He has been going to shows long before I was in the scene and we were brainstorming punk bands with members with black musicians in the band and here are some that I have never played on the show before.
NASTY FACTS - Drive My Car (Jimboco / 5th Column / Left for Dead)
SCREAMING SNEAKERS - Grin and Bear (Revoltation / Generation)
CULT HEROES - Amerikan Story (Rave Up)
ANTI-FLAG - Mumia's Song (A-F)
LEFTOVER CRACK - Operation M.O.V.E. (Alternative Tentacles)

MOVE is a radical Black Liberation movement based out of Philadelphia. Founded by the self-named “John Africa”, MOVE has an aggressively anti-capitalist, anti-technology, and anti-government agenda which led first to conflicts with their neighbors and then with the Philadelphia police. The conflict between MOVE and the Philadelphia PD exploded into violence on two occasions, finally culminating in a standoff in 1985 which ended with the police dropping a two pound bomb on the roof of the MOVE compound, starting a fire that destroyed 65 homes and killed 11 MOVE members, including several children. Check this podcast on the bombing of MOVE https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1350-the-africas-vs-america

Show Review of GEL @ 1978, Demo Feature, and Some More New Stuff
HATE STILL BURNS - Down To Earth (DAZE)
HATE STILL BURNS - Killer (DAZE)
HATE STILL BURNS - Weakness (DAZE)
GEL - Attainable (Convulse)
LIFE IN VACUUM - Lost (Born Losers)
FINAL STRUGGLE - Egocide (Self-Released) 
FEVER STRIKE - Grinner (Self-Released)
FEVER STRIKE - Eleven44 (Self-Released)

Power Violence
RECENSION - Xtakexaxlittlexoffxthexedgex (Self-Released)
WOUND MAN - Hollowed (Iron Lung) 
BRAIN TOURNIQUET - Deny (Iron Lung)
DROP DEAD - Pliers (Armageddon)
BLACK FLAG - No More (SST)
UNCLE RAY - Delusion (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
Closetalkers is a hardcore punk band from Calgary featuring members of DEATHKNELL, and PMMA, Demonstration ‘23 was self released in January, and Closetalkers will be hitting the west coast for a string of shows in June, then out in late summer/early fall to eastern Canada as well. Next show is in Calgary on March 18th with DESGRACIADOS from Deranged Records. Tagged as a D-Beat hardcore band, there is a barreling bass sound matched with some haunting vocals and a buzzsaw guitar. 

CLOSETALKERS - Disparity (Self-Released)
CLOSETALKERS - Cursed (Self-Released)
CLOSETALKERS - Mess (Self-Released)
CLOSETALKERS - Decapitated (Self-Released) . 

Radio : EXD 1239 - Sunday February 12th, 2023

 

ENVISION - Best of Times (Self-Released)

Chris Murdoch has been working on a scene report segment for our show for a few weeks now and we got together and recorded it last weekend. But the segments are so long that we are going to air it on three consecutive shows. Tonight we will be airing the feature which looks at his Black Dots presentation which started out as a social media project. But I will leave that for Chris to explain. 

Also on tonight’s show Chris Overall does a Black History Month feature that looks at rock and roll and some early covers by punk bands in a feature called The Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Andre highlights a New York label - Nerve Altar. Rob has some great Canadian material which includes a Direct Action cover. And a new releases feature to round things out. 

Download the show here.

Scene report - Chris Murdoch (Part 1) 

Highlights from Black Dots presentation 

Chris Murdoch is our scene report feature for the next three weeks. Chris is from Halifax and has played in a lot of bands which include Mean Streets and Word on the Street to Outtacontroller and Souvenir. A few weeks back I pitched him this idea of doing a scene report feature for the show and he was all in. This piece that we are about to air was the third segment in his scene report and relates to a presentation that Chris has put together on celebrating Black punks. He gets into how this came about which initially started as a social media project. We are airing the piece tonight because Chris is giving this presentation at a College in Dartmouth for the first time since the pandemic. So because of timing I wanted to get this to air. 

SWIZ - Lie (Sammich) 

X-RAY SPEX - I Can’t Do Anything (EMI) 

MCRAD - Sundial (Red Music) 

FIRE PARTY - Pilate (Dischord) 

BAD BRAINS - Don’t Need It (Caroline) 

The Great Rock n Roll Swindle (Chris) 

MOTÖRHEAD - Nadine (Castle Sanctuary) 

TRA (テラ) - Final B-beat Attack (Harimasu Asia) 

THE RAMONES - Do You Wanna Dance (Sire)

VOODOO GLOW SKULLS - Charlie Brown (Epitaph) 

SEX PISTOLS - Johnny B. Goode (Virgin) 

Nerve Altar spotlight (André)

RESENT - Wallowing In FIlth (Nerve Altar)

CHEPANG - Auda (Nerve Altar) 

OVERVIOLENCE - Pass The Crown (Nerve Altar) 

WATER TORTURE - Fourth Stage (Nerve Altar) 

HAAPOJA - Takauma (Nerve Altar) 

All Canadian Punk

AVERAGE TIMES - Out of This World (Self-Released)

BISHOPS GREEN - Working Poor (Pirates Press)

ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Hate Generation (En Garde) 

PHONE JERKS - Three Jobs (Alien Snatch) 

SCHOOL JERKS - Ugly Minds, Ugly Faces (Grave Mistake) 

New releases (Chris) 

RIVAL - Cazadores De La Noche (Self-released) 

CLASS - Inspect the Receipt (Feel It)

PRIMITIVE FUCKING BALLERS - COVID PUNKS IS HIPPIES (Earth Girl Tapes / Richter Scale)

JUDY AND THE JERKS - Criminal (Earth Girl Tapes / Richter Scale) 

FERAL - Genocide (Earth Girl Tapes / Richter Scale)

Radio : EXD 1238 - Sunday February 5th, 2023

On tonight’s show, we have new releases sets (Gaffer, Stalinstadt), some classic punk (Stiphnoyds) and a set framing an upcoming show (Buried Alive). We have a synth inspired set (The Reds, Active Ingredients). We explore the UK Rock Against Racism movement in music (CLASH, RUTS, SLF) and showcase more contemporary ska, reggae, dub, punk fusion bands. Download the show here. 

RUSSKAJA - No Borders (Napalm)

Rock Against Racism

In 1976 Rock Against Racism was founded in response to rising racist attacks in the UK. The far-right national front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. The catalyst was a series of racist statements made by Eric Clapton in August of 1976. The anti-fascist campaign fought the national front with mass action to take public platforms out of the hands of the party. The fest aimed to unite people through music. As one of their slogans stated “Reggae, Soul, Rock n Roll, Jazz, Funk and Punk” artists were going to come together in defiance of racism. That being said, the fest is widely known for reggae and punk bands playing alongside one another. This is one of the ways reggae influenced punk and the emerging 2 tone ska scene. The original movement spanned from 1976 to 1982 and helped spawn like minded collectives and concerts internationally in the following years. It was also the topic of Bob Marley’s “Punky Reggae Party”. Tonight we’ll hear a set from some of the punk bands that participated. 

THE CLASH - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (CBS)  

THE RUTS - Babylon’s Burning (Virgin)  

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - Suspect Device (Rough Trade)  

ELVIS COSTELLO - Less Than Zero (Stiff)  

X-RAY SPEX - Identity (EMI International) 

Ska / Reggae / Dub / punk fusions 

BOBBY RAMONE - I Don't Wanna Stand Up (Guerilla Asso) 

PAIN - Jibes and Gestures (Self-Released)

INNER TERRESTRIALS - Human Sheep (Self-Released)

CULTURE SHOCK - Mindwash (Alternative Tentacles) 

THE DUBTONES - Against The World (Self-Released)

Synth-inspired set (Rob)
THE REDS - Whatcha' Doin' To Me? (A&M) 

THE TUNES - She’s My Girl (Pacamac Bonsai Ent.) 

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS - Laundramat Loverboy (Ancient Monument) 

BOY HARSHER - Fate (Nude Club) 

PETER DAYTON - Last Supper (Planet)

Corktown Irish Pub Set + 1 (Andre)

BURIED ALIVE - Worthless (Victory) 

CHOKEHOLD - Not A Solution (CTW) 

FINAL DECLARATION - Stockpile (Self-Released) 

RUST - Dying Breed (Self-Released)  

SEA OF SHIT - Dormancy (Nerve Altar) 

New Releases (Chris) 

INTENTION - Mad City And Control (Break the Records) 

CLOSETALKERS - Mess (Self-released) 

STALINSTADT - I HATE IT (Burning Anger / Rawmantic Disasters) 

LÜGER - Combat Shock (Burning Anger / Rawmantic Disasters)

BURNING QUESTION - 1 Trillion Gallons of Gasoline (Self-Released) 

Newbies (Stephe) 

HEIHAIZI - Drop (Turbo Discos) 

GAFFER - Skin of your Teeth (Drunken Sailor / Helta Skelta) 

BLACK DOGS - Farewell to the 70's (Self-Released)   

COP-OUT - Kill Capitalists 

ASPIRINA INFANTIL - Violencia (Beat Generation / Metadona / Muerte A Tipo) 

Oldies (Stephe)

DIVISION AUTISTA - Straight Edge (Nausea / Sub Discos / Discos Mugrientos) 

PARALISIS INFANTIL - Sin Alternativas (Nausea / Sub Discos / Discos Mugrientos)  

SENTIDO COMUN - La Otra (B-Core) 

RENDER USELESS - The Weave (Self-Released) 

THE STIPHNOYDS - Radiation (Trap)

STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Good Boy Bad Boy (Drunken Sailor / Celluloid Lunch / Discos de Muerte)   

STAND AGAINST FEAR - Zombie Apocalypse (Self-Released)

PRIOR CONVICTIONS - Glasgow Handshake (Self-Released) 

BRKOVI - Necu Da Idem U Disko Skup (Self-Released) 

MPA - You One More Time (Ragamuffin Soldier)