Radio - Sunday, April 25th, 2021

Buzzcock bookends. New wave that sounds like the old wave. Podcast inspirations. NYC tangent tales. And a demo feature by a Barrie pheonix. Download the show here.

BUZZCOCKS - Sitting Round at Home (United Artists)

SAINTS AND SINNERS - Soundtrack of your Life (KB)
PASTORATET - Äckel (Second Class Kids)
BLOCK PARENT - Helluva Bad Dip (Glue Gun)
JEFFIE GENETIC AND THE CLONES - Need A Wave (Dirtnap)
CELIA AND THE MUTATIONS - You Better Believe Me (United Artists)

ZODIAC PANTHERS - Nothing Lasts Forever (Angies Records and Hair)
THE CITY LIMITS - I Just Can’t Say Goodbye
SPASMS - Monday Mourning
ROTZKOTZ - Hurling (SPV / Sireena)
THE SKUNKS - Can’t Get Loose (Last Laugh)

DESTROYED IN SECONDS - Disarm (Deep Six)
HAZARD - Scab (Bloodsucker)
GERM ATTAK - North Korea (Desolate Legacy)
THE BANNED - Only Die Once
THE WOPS - Factory of Cancer (Self-Released)

MIDNITE SNAXXX - Contact Contamination (Slovenly)

THE SOFTIES - Mister Tonight (Charly)

SKULLNBONE - Ride with the Devil (Muerte Negra)

BRASS - Strut Punchin’ (Self-Released)

ZABOGART - Petugas ASN Catatan Sipil Ng***ot!!! 

 

“We Gotta Know” podcast just released an interview with Kim Kinakin who was in many bands and was a show promoter and also did a zine. Kind of a punk rock force of nature in Burnaby / Vancouver. You may know him from some of his bands like SPARKMARKER, STRAIN, SAMSARA SEVIN, SKINJOBS, and SAN ANGELUS. It is a 2 plus hours interview but I was pretty riveted in listening.

SPARKMARKER - Kansas (No Idea)
STRAIN - Cataract (Heart First)
SAMSARASEVIN - Champagne and OJ (Self-Released)
SKINJOBS - Burn Your Rainbow (Spitshine / Bongobeat)
SAN ANGELUS - Waiting for Accidents to Happen (Amber and Wool / Arctic Rodeo)

If your into the Dischord back catalogue check in out the End to End podcast. I just listened to the one on Teen Idles. 

TEEN IDLES - Getting in My Way (Dischord)
THE FAITH - You're X'd (Dischord)
BORN AGAINST - Born Against are Fucking Dead (Vermiform / Prank)
AGNOSTIC FRONT - Traitor (Last Warning / Bridge Nine)
NAUSEA - Godless (Profane Existence)
PARASYTES - Melting Brain (Runstate)
PHANE - Blind (Phobia)

Demo Feature
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT is a band from Barrie that started up a few years ago. They played three shows and then personal tragedy struck the band. But they have recovered and the drummer shared this recording. You can write the band through their bandcamp.
 

SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - Beer Diary
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - Epidemic
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - Means to Me
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - Radio
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - S.I.N
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - Self Will Runs Riot
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - The Battle Begins
SELF WILL RUNS RIOT - United Struggle

GORILLA BISCUITS - Sittin' Round at Home (Revelation)

MRR Interview - Skinjobs

Here is an interview with a 3-piece homo-core band from Vancouver. Mitch Fury used to play in Sparkmarker. This interview appeared in issue #226 of MRR which is the May 2002. Click the image above to get a PDF of the interview.

Flyer - Sunday August 13, 1995

Sparkmarker "Atomos" ep

This record was the third in a series exposing Canadian artists. This record was dedicated to the art of Mark "Atomos" Pilon who did some layout for Discorder magazine and coincidentally did the layout on a piece on Saprkmarker that the band didn't find out about until after the fact. The recordings for all three records were done at the same time in new York with Don Fury from July 5th through 7th in 1993. This record came out on No idea and contained the songs:

1. So Long

2. The Way She Moved

3. Kansas

Sparkmarker

Sparkmarker were from Vancouver. Kim Kinakin used to be in Fratricide and started up this emo inspired straight edge band. Shawn Scallen did the cover photo hence the name of the ep. There is a very Dischord house a la "Salad Days" looking photo on the back cover. Heart First released the ep. The songs on here are:

1. Character 1

2. Speaking of Heroes

3. Instrumental

Sparkmarker "Gerberick" ep

This record was named after an artist named Ken Gerberick. Ken had a studio across the street from Sparkmarker. The cover is one of Ken's pieces. Ken creates art out of years of odds and sods form somewhere else. Just incredible stuff. This 7" was the first in a series of three 7" that worked at exposing Canadian artists. The songs on here are:

1. Levi's Deklein
2. Sleeping with the TV on
3. Memorenda