Radio : EXD 1377 - Sunday March 1, 2026

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This is episode 1377 of EXD and was put together by Andre Zadorozny, Bee Traverse, Christian Overall, Rob Ferraz, and Stephen Perry. On this episode: 

• A feature length interview with Matt Dangerfield from the Boys, the band from the ‘77 punk scene in England. They are playing shows here on March 13th and 14th at the Horseshoe and Corktown. We wanted to talk to them before the arrived to get some insight into their first Toronto appearance. 
• Japanese set featuring Nightmare and Mut 
• New releases by Live Munition, Fatal Peace, Morbo, Solution A, and Unarmed 
• Some musings on war 
• Human form, a band out of Toronto, in our demo feature

SIYAHKAL - Freedom (Static Shock) 

Japan set (Andre) 

NIGHTMARE - Find Your Way (MCR Company) 

CREEPOUT - 8 Second Bite (Dead Sky)  

PAYBACK BOYS - Changes (Self-Released) 

GUT EXPLOSION - Crazy Diahhrea (Self-Released) 

KLONNS - Horde (Discipline Productions) 

MUT - Can Kicker (Self-Released) 

(Bee) 

LIVE MUNITION - Ritual (self released)

FATAL PEACE - Head on a Swivel (self released)  

SKITKRIMES - Noise Speed Aggression (Razored Raw)  

UNIDAD IDEOLOGICA - Posthumanista (LVEUM) 

SYNAPTIC ISOLATION SYNDROME - Catastrophic Violence (self-released) 

New Releases and a teaser (Chris) 

MØRBØ - Sucio Cabrón (Cintas Pepe) 

SOLUTION A - Perm

UNARMED - Den Sista Fåken (Phobia)  

SEQUERA - Paraules Buides (Plastic Wound) 

FAUNA - Corda Fluixa (Plastic Wound) 

War 

As America makes their recent imperialist flex in Iran, I started thinking about what Canadian punks think about war 

YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Fire In The Rain (Fringe) 

DIRECT ACTION - Fire in the sky (Irate Faction) 

TRENCHRAID - Endless War (Self-Released)

FRACTURED - Morality of War (Phobia)

BOOTLICKER - False Power (Neon Taste) 

OLD - War (Not Dead Yet) 

STRETCH MARKS - Foreign Policy (BYO / Sound Escaping)

STAND AGAINST FEAR - Sky Is Falling (Self-Released)

ASEXUALS - Iraq - Iran (Psyche)

S.C.U.M. - Go to war (Psyche)

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The Boys interview (Stephen) 

We had a chance to speak with Matt Dangerfield a few weeks back. Matt is the singer from the Boys. The Boys were around in 1977 and were the first punk band with an album deal with a major label. The Boys also did that x-mas band the Yobs which was Boys spelled backwards. We talk to Matt about all these things and their upcoming show at the Horseshoe on the 13th of March. But we start with the band’s first single - I Don’t Care.

THE BOYS - I Don’t Care (NEMS)

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

THE BOYS - I Need You (Wolverine / Action)

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

HOLLYWOOD BRATS - Chez Maxines 

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

THE BOYS - Cop Cars (NEMS)

THE BOYS - Keep Running (NEMS)

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

THE BOYS - Contract Hustle (NEMS)

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

THE YOBS - Worm Song (NEMS)

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT)  

THE YOBS - Run Rudolph (NEMS)

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

THE YOBS - Silent Night (NEMS)

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

THE BOYS - First Time (Bitter Fruit) 

Interview with Matt Dangerfield of the Boys (CIUT) 

THE BOYS - Tenement Kids (NEMS)

Tickets for Toronto (March 13th) show available at showclix

Demo Feature 

HUMAN FORM are from Toronto and are playing a show in Hamilton on April 3rd at Doors Pub with Senseless Strife, Inhumane and Weakness. Here is a demo from 2023 

HUMAN FORM - Lose everything (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Society is fucking yucky (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Restful (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Massacre girl (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Buried (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Judge Judy and Executioner (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Shitty script (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - We are happy people (Self-Released) 

SKATHARINES - Under the sink (Self-Released) 

Radio : EXD 1361 - Sunday November 9, 2025

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This is episode 1361 of EXD and was put together by Andre Zadorozny, Bee Traverse, Christian Overall, Rob Ferraz, and Stephen Perry. On this edition of EXD: 

• Mixed bags with Attention Deficit, RKL, Gastunk 
• New Releases by Black Budget, Flashhorn, Radioactivity, Pill Mill, Beton Arme, Ta2reeban, Cootie Cuties, Refugiadas, Stand Against Fear, No Peeling 
• continued theme on TOHC which includes Youth Youth Youth, Endless Blockade, Direct Action 
• An in depth exploration of the Never Going Away showcase with Gonzalo who is putting the show on 
• Classics with some new releases by the Pre Dayglos band Sikphuxz, Suburban Slag, Max and the Makeups, and the first hardcore band out of Iowa Abscess 
• And a demo feature by Euology out of Montreal featuring former members of Another Oppressive System, Sexface, Warkrusher, Ballast among too many others 

CRUSTY HI CHARGE - 生存 (F.O.A.D.)

Hardcore to check out (Bee) 

ATTENTION DEFICIT - Attention Deficit (Self-released)   

SUDDEN IMPACT - Caught Up (Supreme Echo)  

LIVING DEAD - Burnout (Sex Fiend Abomination) 

RKL - Feelings of Hate (Mystic) 

GASTUNK - Warbird (Dogma) 

New stuff (Rob) 

BLACK BUDGET - Grump (Self-released) 

HEXOFFENDER - I Want Sleaze (Self-released)  

FLESHHORN - Unclean (Self-released) 

RADIOACTIVITY - Why (Secret Mission)

THE RIPTIDES - Hung Up (Self-released) 

Never Going Away showcase (Gonzalo) 

COMMITMENT - Pluto in Aquarius (Self-Released)

Interview with Gonzalo (CIUT)

VERIFY - No Cabal (Self-Released)

TORPOR - Way Out (Self-Released) 

UNREAL - Feeble Mind (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Lose everything (Self-Released) 

SMUTHER - Broke (Self-Released) 

REGALIA - Black Box (Self-Released)  

DEADBOLT - Pulling Strings (Self-Released) 

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TOHC - Background (Andre) 

YYY - Headline Hunters (TOHC’83) 

ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Clean and Prone/Thick Skin, Transparent Blood/Death To Spies/Pig Life (Survivalist) 

FUCKED UP - Circling The Drain/Generations (Self-Released)

URBAN BLIGHT - Total War (Static Shock)  

SUDDEN IMPACT - Sudden Impact (Supreme Echo) 

DIRECT ACTION - Eat The Rich (TOHC83) 

New Releases and a Teaser (Chris) 

PILL MILL - Limbo (Slow Death / Neon Taste) 

BÉTON ARMÉ - Coup de Foudre (feat. Fizzy), (Self-released)  

RIVAL - Última Trinchera (Self-released) 

TA2REEBAN - اكيد خسران (AWD) 

WICCANS - Veriform (In A Perfect World), (Unlawful Assembly / Drunken Sailor / Stucco)

New Releases (Stephen)  

COOTIE CUTIES - Breakdown Hair Dye Party (Self-Released)

STAND AGAINST FEAR - Parents (Self-Released)

REFUGIADAS - A quem serve a ignorância? (Self-Released) 

NO PEELING - Swift Half (Feel It) 

CLOSED RANKS - Evil Corporate Overlords (Apostate) 

DECADE - More Dumb Born (Phobia) 

Oldies (Stephen) 

SIKPHUXZ - P.O.W. (Supreme Echo)

SUBURBAN SLAG - Look At Yourself (Supreme Echo) 

ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCS - Rat Race (Roach)

MAX AND THE MAKEUPS - Poland (Puke ‘n Vomit) 

ABSCESS - This Town (Remix) (Hard Art) 

Demo Feature 

Eulogy out of Montreal in tonight’s demo feature. Chris played them last week. Described on a Varning fest benefit show as Newest king of the Swedish style punk? feat. ex-member of Another Oppressive System, Sexface, Warkrusher, Fatal Flow, After the Bombs, Ballast, Preying Hands, Parasytes, Skull and Bone, Truncheons, Young Blades, Pied-de-Biche  

EULOGY - Torment (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Erroding (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Onslaught (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Parasites (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Ruins (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Buried (Self-Released) 

Ska outro 

THE FILTHY RADICALS - Scavenger (Self-Released) 

Radio : EXD 1311 - Sunday November 24, 2024

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On this edition of EXD, an all covers show

• Covers by Poison Idea, Sin 34, The Slits, DOA, F.U.’s. Murder Squad T.O., Final Bombs, The Swarm, Clock Out, Direct Action, The Routes, Artificial Dissemination, Dogma, Tenement, M.I.A., Battalion of Saints, Brutalize, Kontimate, The Doomed, Perception Check, Screeching Weasel, The Vandals, and Dead Milkmen
• Covers of G.I.S.M., Devo, Marvi Gaye, CCR, Grand Funk Railroad, Sketpix, Discharge, Black Flag, Ramones, Covan, Joy Division, Direct Action, Witch Hunt, DYS, The Damned, Motorhead, Driller Killer, Ultra Violent, Go-Go’s, Elton Motello, Nomeansno, Subhumans, Olivia Newton John, and The Specials
• Testimonials from Max (Tomb Mold), Bowser (Trash Panda), Murder Mike, Krista Lynne, Ashley (High Anxiety), Prince Batrick (11pm), Bobby Cole (Annihilated), Don and Cordie (Brutalize), Zach (Hogtied), and Scott (Barb Wire Braces)

POISON IDEA - Endless Blockades For The Pussyfooter (G.I.S.M.) (TKO / American Leather) 

Testimonial from Max Klebanoff (Tomb Mold) 

RUNNING FOR COVER - Usa La Tua Rabbia (WRETCHED)

Punk bands covering songs that aren’t punk (Bee) 

TEENAGE HEAD - Wild One (Johnny O’Keefe) 

SIN 34 - Uncontrollable Urge (Devo) 

THE SLITS - Heard it through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye/CCR) 

DOA - Fortunate Son (CCR) 

F.U.s - American Band (Grand Funk Railroad) 

Testimonial - Bowser (Trash Panda Productions) 

OUT OF ORDER - Hang Up Your Boots (Slapshot) (Vinyl 4 Bootboys Records) 

THE MURDERSQUAD T.O. - Killing Machine (Skeptix) (Wounded Paw)  

Testimonial - Gav (Decade) 

FINAL BOMBS - Anger Burning (Discharge) (MCR) 

Testimonial Christina (Fan) 

THE SWARM - Revenge (Spiritfall / Electric Human Project)

CLOCK OUT - Blitzkrieg Bop

Testimonial - Murder Mike (The Murdersquad TO / Sod Cutter / Abalienation) 

SHEER TERROR - I Need Lunch (Dead Boys) (Suburban Voice / Blackout!)   

BLESS - Spräckta Snutskallar (Shitlickers) (Self-released)   

Testimonial - Krista Lynne (The Wormwood Goodness Foundation) 

DIRECT ACTION - One Tin Soldier (Covan) (Irate Faction / World Records)  

Rob (Surf Set) 

AGENT ORANGE - Pipeline (Posh Boy)

JFA - Walk, Don’t Run (Placebo / Alternative Tentacles)

THE ROUTES - She’s Lost Control (Topsy Turvy)

Testimonial - Ashley (High Anxiety) 

ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Hate Generation (Direct Action) (EnGarde)   

CISMA - Antimilitar (B.O.2.) (Ultraviolencia Distro)  

DOGMA - Witch Hunt (The Mob) (GYO)   

11pm testimonial from Prince Patrick 

TENEMENT - Glue 

Bobby Cole from the Annihilated 

M.I.A. - Machine Gun Etiquette (Alternative Tentacles)

BATTALION OF SAINTS - Ace of Spades (Enigma)

Testimonial - Don (Brutalize / HAGL) and Cordie (Phane / Brutalize / HAGL) 

KRASH - Warsystem (Shitlickers) (Self-released)   

KRASH - They Declare It (Discharge) (Self-released) 

BRUTALIZE - Alcoholocaust (Driller Killer) (Self-released)   

Zach from Hogtied testimonial 

KONTAMINATE - Crime For Revenge (11pm)

Testimonial - Ska Jeff (Crisis Party / Blaster Caps on CKCU 93.1FM) 

D.O.A. - War (Edwin Starr) (Alternative Tentacles)  

POISON IDEA - We Got The Beat (The GoGos) (Vinyl Solution) 

THE DOOMED - Jet Boy Jet Girl (Elton Motello) (Not on label) 

Scott Maxton from BARB WIRE BRACES 

SONS OF ISHMAEL - Ohio (Manic Ears / Schizoprhenic)

THE ACCUSED - Neat Neat Neat (The Damned) (Transparent)

PERCEPTION CHECK - Big Dick (NoMeansNo) 

HANSON BROTHERS - The Enemy (D.O.A.) (Essential Noise)

SCREECHING WEASEL - Fuck You (Subhumans) (Probe)

Outro

WILLIAM SHATNER AND HENRY ROLLINS - Jingle Bells (Cleopatra) 

THE VANDALS - Summer Lovin' (Triple X)

THE DEAD MILKMEN - A Message to You Rudy (Specials) (Restless)

Radio : EXD 1298 - Sunday August 25, 2024

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BLACK AND FLAG - Thirsty and Miserable (SST)

New Releases (Stephen) 

SHIT - KTF (Iron Lung / LVEUM) 

ARMOR - Proper Treatment (11PM) 

ROLEX - Destination Moon (Under the Gun) 

MORON’S MORON - I'm Afraid You Will Die (Sweet Time) 

EMPIRE DOWN - La Tierra De Nunca Jamas (31) 

Bands & the 80s bands they want to sound like (Bee) 

WORD ON THE STREET - Controlled (Sewercide) 

STRAIGHT AHEAD - Not Afraid (I Risk) 

GENETIC ANGRY - Thoughts (Sewercide) 

BLACK FLAG - Paralyzed (SST) 

DEODORANT - Boast (Not Normal) 

MINUTEMEN - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs (SST) 

Noisy & Weird set (Rob) 

FEEDERZ - Bionic Girl (Flaming Banker) 

KILSLUG - Into A Hole (Taang) 

THE SHRIEK - Fuck Up (Rude)  

NO TREND - Too Many Humans (No Trend/Drag City)  

EXXTONE - Sideways (Pinned) 

New Releases (Chris) 

BLESS - Blood Moon (Self-released)   

ABSOLUT - Noose (Live) (Prescription)   

W.M.D.s - Toy (Quality Control HQ)   

SHIT TAX - Heeby Jeebus (Self-released)  

HOMEMADE SPEED - Happy Meal (Not For The Weak)  

鏡 KAGAMI - You Found Liberty (A-Z / Brainrotter / Rising Voltage / Advanced Perspective) 

New Released (Andre) 

GEL - Persona (Self-Released) 

SQUINT - Pack Rat (Sunday Drive)  

BURNING KROSS - Skulls (Autotraverse)  

FOIL - Screwball (Dirtbag Distro)  

FUSE - War (Self-Released)  

BRAVE OUT - Brave It Out (Fired Stomp) 

CONTACT - Dance of Death (Self-Released) 

THE SNATCHERS - Flake (Self-Released) 

FLYING FORTRESS - Bastards Keep Bleeding (Self-Released)  

ONE TRACK MIND - Can I Say (Self-Released)  

BAD BET - Chained (Self Released) 

Songs from a mixtape I made for my buddy in 2001 (Chris) 

AKUTT INNLEGGELSE - Søpel (Snack Ohm) 

RATOS DE PORÃO - Guerra Desumana (Punk Rock Discos)  

KAAOS - Natsit ja kommunistit (Self-released / Lost and Found) 

ICONOCLAST - The End (Self-released) 

RÖVSVETT - Världskrig 3 (Self-released) 

Oldies (Stephen) 

DR. KNOW - Citizens of the World (Mystic)  

DIRECT ACTION - Repression (Self-Released) 

LEUKAEMIA - Reactor Disaster (Self-Released) 

PRIME MINISTERS - Blind (Self-Released) 

THE RESISTANCE - Raw Deal (Resistance) 

Demo Feature - Recall 

RECALL are 7 piece from Montreal. The band features members of Spacers, Total Nada, Peeve, and Deadbolt. They have played a few shows in Montreal with Acid Children, Flower, Phantom, Hez, and Mirage. Bee played them in our July 21st show. This was record in June 

RECALL - Society (Self-Released) 

RECALL - Power Landscapes (Self-Released) 

RECALL - Fuckers at the top (Self-Released) 

RECALL - Recoil (Self-Released) 

RECALL - Coffins (Self-Released) 

Ska Outro 

THE FILAMENTS - DUB (Household Names) 

Radio - Sunday, April 4th, 2021

Back in the summer of 2018, Quatro reached out to see if we would be interested in their book on the Clash. The Clash were one of my gateway bands into punk so I responded. A few days later this beautiful hard cover book on the Clash showed up and I started leafing through it. Beautiful photos. So then I set out to start reading it. But I was so into the subject matter that I wanted to read everything and not just the skim reading that most of us have resorted to in a social media era. A year later, Nick Smash was releasing his book on the Clash in Toronto so I thought it would be a good way to reach out to the author, Martin Popoff. He agreed and we met at the Rivoli. At the event I asked Martin if he would be interested in doing an interview and the book had already sold out so he thought it would be misleading to talk about a book that people couldn't get. A year later I thought, this book is so good and people should know that an author from Toronto wrote it and so I reached out again. He agreed after some convincing. So a few weeks back I spoke with Martin with a list of questions that I wrote up over the year of reading his book. I was lucky to get to ask them. To listen to this episode of Clash appreciation download here.

THE CLASH – If Music Could Talk (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Janie Jones (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Remote Control (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS – Watching the Detectives (Warner Bros.)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Police & Thieves (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Stay Free (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Train in Vain (CBS / Epic)
 MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Police on My Back (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Somebody Got Murdered (CBS / Epic)
THE CLASH – The Sound of Sinners (CBS / Epic)
THE CLASH – Lose this Skin (CBS / Epic)
THE CLASH – Rebel Waltz (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Should I Stay or Should I Go (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Atom Tan (CBS / Epic)
THE CLASH – Know Your Rights (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE CLASH – Dirty Punk (CBS / Epic)
MARTIN POPOFF – Interview
THE DISHRAGS – London’s Burning (Supreme Echo)
DIRECT ACTION – Should I Stay or Should I Go (Schizophrenic)
SINISTERS – Clampdown (Dwell)
AKA – Career Opportunities
DEAD ENDING – Complete Control (Alternative Tentacles)

Please check out Martin's available writings at his website, like his new book on SWEET that he talked about in the interview. 

Radio - Sunday, September 13th, 2020

The riddle posted on Facebook about tonight's show was

Do you remember one of the best bands from the Repo-Man soundtrack (Plugz)? Ever wonder what Soulside are up to today? Do you want to hear new Hard Skin? Have you ever heard a punk band covering Pink Floyd? What's your favourite song from the P.E.A.C.E. comp? Did you enjoy the Snarler song from a couple of weeks back? See playlist below for answers. But tonight's show starts out with new Alien Nosejob. You can download the show here.

ALIEN NOSEJOB - Air Raid on NT (Iron Lung)

Diggin in the crates set

THE PLUGZ - Let Go (Slash)

PLASTIC SANDWICHES - Parties at War (Ellie Jay)

SWINDLED - Who Wants Guns (Swindled)

BASTARDS - Harhaa (Propaganda)

BAD INFLUENCE - War's No Fun (Who Cares)

E.A.T.E.R. - Religion (Loud Punk)

Early T.O.H.C. 

YOUNG LIONS - Young Amerika (Schizophrenic)

DIRECT ACTION - I Like Speed (Schizophrenic)

CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Four Points (Schizophrenic)

MICRO EDGE - Take A Look Around (UXB Press) 

M.S.I. - Back in Control (Schizophrenic)

BOB MOULD - American Crisis (Merge)

DEAD ENDING - American Virus (Self-Released) 

MIKE WATT AND THE MISSINGMEN - Spillage (!Angrr!)

SOULSIDE - This Ship (Dischord)

BONECRUSHER - Tomorrow Is Too Late (Knock Out)

MOB RULE - Stay Dangerous (Last Punkrockers)

HARD SKIN - We Don't Want It (JT Classics)

FINNEGAN'S HELL - Work is the Curse of the Drinking Class (Wild Kingdom)

LOST IN SOCIETY - Police on my Back (Self-Released)

AGRICULTURE CLUB - Jackknife (Sudden Death)

HERD OF WASTERS - I Can't Remember (Wasted Wax)  

PIGMENT VEHICLE - Dig (Incentive)

TOTAL WOLF - I'm Sick (Self-Released)

THE SPORES - Meat Biproduct (Criminal)

THE GENERICS - Cost Cutter (Feel It) 

THE ZITS - Can't Get Over You (Feel It)

INFERNO - K.K.K. (Self-Released)

KILLING CHILDREN - Happy Mutants (For Nuclear Energy) (Gravelvoice)

CIRCLE JERKS - World Up My Ass (Frontier)

DRAKULAS - Electric Eliminators (Dine Alone)

MEANBIRDS - Off the Leash (Concrete Jungle)

THE PINK TORPEDOES - Blue Spark (Self-Released)

THE DAMAGED - Fitshaced (Hell Brigade)

BITE BACK - She's A Rebel (Antipop)

GARGOYLES - Michigan (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

GERM BOMB - Endless Night (Insane Society / Inverted Inhumantion)

H.I.C. SYSTEEMI - Ei Sotaa (Hohnie)

DECLINO - Inutile Trionfo (R Radical)

SCRAPS - The Wall (Strive / X-Mist / Never Ending Greed / Refuse)

ANTI-SCRUNTI FACTION - Daddy's Little Girl (Unclean)

MAID OF ACE - Let's Go (Self-Released)

MENSTRUAL TRAMPS - Punk Rock Nation (Self-Released)

POLITKILL INCORECT - God Bless You Jimmy Bakker (T.O. Mohawk)

THE RITES - Demirep (Bikini Kill) (Six Feet Under)

 

Demo Feature 

Snarler are a self described grindcore band from Halifax. Jose played them on the show a week ago. Tonight we are featuring that release in our demo feature. You can find this on bandcamp.

SNARLER - Let Them Choke (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Fucked Up Society (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Pain and Time (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Wraith (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Stubborn (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Work (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Destroyed (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Wasting (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Why? (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Disagreement (Self-Released)

SNARLER - Finale (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, May 10th, 2020

DIRECT ACTION were one of the most important hardcore bands to come out of Toronto. They inspired almost everybody in that early scene. Everyone we spoke to had a story about DIRECT ACTION. People talked about how loud they were, how heavy they were and how righteous they were from a political standpoint. They encompassed everything from sound to lyrics to looks. They were everything. DIRECT ACTION were Toronto's answer to DISCHARGE except they wrote songs that expressed themselves in songs longer than a haiku. DIRECT ACTION released a demo and an LP. Their tape was booted after they broke up and has been officially released by Schizophrenic Records. We spoke to Dave, Buzz and Mike (Three guys on the right in the picture above) three years back for the making of the book, "Tomorrow is Too Late". You can listen to this interview on the player above or download the show to listen on a device here. 

DIRECT ACTION - Direct Action (Schizophrenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
THE UNKNOWNS - Teenage Terrorist (Punk History Canada / Stumble)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
DIRECT ACTION - P.C.P. (Schizophrenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
DIRECT ACTION - I Like Speed (Schizophrenic)

DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)

DIRECT ACTION - U.X.B. (NRK)

DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)

DIRECT ACTION - Angels of Death (Schizophrenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)

DIRECT ACTION - 19 A.D. 4 (Schizophrenic)

DIRECT ACTION - Liberty (Schizophrenic)

DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
DIRECT ACTION - Living Dead (Schizophrenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
DIRECT ACTION - Hate Generation (Schizophrenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
DIRECT ACTION - Trapped in a World (Schizoprhenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
DIRECT ACTION - One Tin Soldier (Schizophrenic)
DIRECT ACTION - Interview (CIUT)
DIRECT ACTION - Tomorrow is Too Late (Schizoprhenic)

Thanks to Derek Emerson for helping with the coordination and interjecting with important questions that were getting skipped over AND Shawn Chirrey for the sound engineering and real time fact checking while the interview was in progress. And then the hours of de-briefs while we tried to make sense out of what we just learned. Thanks to Darrin for sharing the photo above. 

References:

• A Number of flyers and reviews used for this interview have been posted on our facebook acount under a photo album called "Direct Action";
• Direct Action "Tomorrow is Too Late - 1984 Tape" LP.

Radio - Sunday, November 18th, 2018

This week was our bi-annual fundraising show. Thanks to everyone who pitched in with coming in to the station, answering phone, donating prizes and donating cash to CIUT. You can still donate on-line and thanks to so many who have been doing that after the fact through www.ciut.fm. We start out the last few drives with a game of name that tune of punk bands doing ska-ish covers. James St. Bass knew it and stayed mum, but James Brown got stumped again. Download the show here or listen on the player above.

HUDSON MACK – So Lonely

So the next song is for Steve Kurzell who passed away last week. Steve Milo from Sudden Impact wrote us about Steve's passing and asked for us to play "Guns and Children" because the song sticks in your head and is super relevant with the gun climate in the U.S. Sadly still relevant. 

THE YOUNG LIONS – Guns and Children (Schizophrenic)

URBAN WASTE - Wasted Life 

ADOLESCENTS - Word Attack (Frontier)

Lots of people from the golden generation of hardcore are passing away. And recently a book about our first wave of Toronto hardcore came out called “Tomorrow is Too Late”. Derek Emerson and Fran Grasso came in to talk to us about the book and how it came together? Here is a set of bands that are in the book.

MICROEDGE - United We Skate (Self-Released)

YOUITH YOUTH YOUTH - Civil Disobedience (Self-Released)

DIRECT ACTION - 19 A.D. 4 (Self-Released)

So a good friend of mine, Spencer Mack, made these Fratricide shirts and he gave me a whack of them to give away for fundraising. Spencer used to do a radio show up at CHRY called Apocalypse Now so he knows what it is like for fundraising. Here is what Fratricide sound like starting with the song that inspired the shirt design.

FRATRICIDE – Rip Wide the Sky (Schizophrenic / Ugly Pop)

HONG KONG BLONDE - Blind Faith (Self-Released)

CHRIST AIR – Faceplant (Self-Released)

JIMMY VAPID, a long time listener and all round great dude who is known for playing in a load of bands principally the VAPIDS and has recorded countless bands and sent many of them our way to do things for the station (from the ROCKET REDUCERS to TV FREAKS to FLESH RAG, he has pledged and ponied up two copies of his latest release called “Night Moves”.

JIMMY VAPID - Night Moves (Self-Released)

THE VAPIDS – Lucy Potato (recorded at CIUT on Nov 22^nd, 2005) 

THE VAPIDS - Buzzard Luck (Self-Released)

Shawna and Jamie from Artificial Dissemination came in to help answer phones, but we're not going to leave them out there so we had them come in and talk about what has been happening with the band and to give away copies of their latest ep "Big Brother and the Dick Heads".

ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - U.R.R. Superheroes (Self-Released)

SICK OF SHIT – Parasites (Schizophrenic)

WRETCHED FOOLS – Greed (Self-Released)

Oi Polloi are playing this coming Friday at the Velvet Underground. Here is a song from one of their latest eps. Title track actually. 

OI POLLOI – Donald Trump - Fuck You (Urinal Vinyl)

Radio - Sunday November 11th, 2018

You can download the show here.

The first hour of the show is punk dealing with issues of war and peace to add to the discussion on Remembrance Day.....

CREATIVE ZERO - White Crosses (Unreleased)

DIRECT ACTION – Fire in the Sky (Bitzcore)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Fire in the Rain (Fringe)
NEGATIVE GAIN - No Life At All (Pusmort)
SUDDEN IMPACT - To Our Glorious Dead (Diabolic Force)
MSI - Army Mentality (B.Y.O.B. / Schizophrenic)

UNRULED - Time is Running Out (Schizophrenic)
S.C.U.M. - Go To War (Psyche Industries)
BORN DEAD ICONS – Monuments (Deranged)
INEPSY - Conspiracy WWIII (Feral Ward)
PROXY - Nurenburg Nightmare (Inflammable Material / Imminent Destruction)

CRASS - Fight War Not Wars - They've Got A Bomb (Crass)
CRISIS – Holocaust (Action Group / Ardkor)
KILLING JOKE – Wardance (Malicious Damage)
CHRON GEN - Puppets of War (Gargoyle / Fresh) 
DISCHARGE - Realities of War (Clay)
ABRASIVE WHEELS - Army Song (Abrasive)

UPRIGHT CITIZENS - Bombs of Peace (H’art Musik)
INFERNO - Life at War (Mulleimer)
TOXOPLASMA - Bunker Party (Weird System)
KGB – Napalm (Hard Way)
BURIAL - Abyss of Hate (Deranged)

The rest of the show programs a ton of new punk to check out. 

U-NIX – Landlord (Feel It)
AMENACA – Uniformització (Discos Enfermos)
BLOOD PRESSURE – Expectations (Beach Impediment)
MASS ARREST - White World (Self-Released)
BULLSHIT HARDCORE BAND - Let Them Eat Credit Default Swaps (Self-Released)

MURO – Desahuciados (Fuerza Ingobernable / Byllepest Distro)
TASHME - Where You Fall (Self-Released)
APOCALYPSE TRIBE - The Detention Camps (Self-Released)
CEMENT SHOES - Vile Facist Future (Loki Label)
OI POLLOI – Soil Yourself (Beluga Music)

PUPPY AND THE HANDJOBS - Fuck the World (Slovenly)
INTENT OPPGJOR - Turn Off E-Z Listen (Byllepest Distro)
ULTIMO IMPERIO – 1940 (Discos Enfermos / Oscuridad en mi Vida)
STIFF LOVE – Attitudes (Feel It)
ROTTEN COLUMN - Watching the Wall (Self-Released)

CRUMB - Future Leash (Self-Released)
STIGMATISM - End Is Near (Beach Impediment)
CLITERATI - Hard Times (Self-Released)
OVERSIGHT - Into the Void (Running in Place)
PAYDAY - Dead on your Feet (Quality Control HQ)
xSERVITUDEx – Stained (Life Liar Regret / Bound by Modern Age / Rage)
ANTAGONIZE - Land of Dreams (Triple B)
BRASSKNUCKLE - Another Tory

Tonight's demo feature is this oi band from Calgary called the Enforcers who have a four song recording available on bandcamp. 

THE ENFORCERS – Anti-Social (Self-Released)
THE ENFORCERS – Alt-Right Nightmare (Self-Released)
THE ENFORCERS – Chaos (Self-Released)
THE ENFORCERS – Ultraviolence (Self-Released)