Radio - Sunday, December 27th, 2020

The Pandemic defined 2020 and the first recording inspired by the pandemic was Jimmy Vapid's release "Short Songs about a Virus" so I wanted to start off a Year in Review show off with this release. tonight's show features the first in a series of top 10's meant to take a look at the year that was, starting out with my top 10 Canadian releases. Download the show here.

JIMMY VAPID AND FRIENDS - Nothing Like a Pandemic (Self-Released)

Stephe’s Top 10 Canadian releases 

10. DOA - All the President's Men (Sudden Death)
9. REIFER MADNESS - Punk Rock is Life (M.S.A.)
8. SUBSISTANCE- Get Off My Case (Self-Released)
7. TERMINAL CITY RATS - Wants and Needs (Self-Released)
6. BOOTLICKER - It's Beautiful (Neon Taste)
5. S.H.I.T. - Hidden in Eternity (La Vida us Un Mus)
4. DRAGGED IN - No Surrender (Cursed Blessing)
3. THE FALLOUT - One Last Struggle (Rebel Time)
2. TOMMY AND THE COMMIES - Impulse Action (Slovenly) 

1. THE PAGANS OF NORTHUMBERLAND - Pickpockets & Thieves (Self-Released)

Dave’s Top 10 Albums (In no particular order except for one that sounds good)
LOUD NIGHT - Holy Hell (Vinyl Conflict)
PARANOID - Mada Minu Yuutopia (D-Takt ja Råpunk Records / Konton Crasher)
GELD - Trench (Iron Lung / Static Shock)
INTERNAL ROT - Sensitive Cop (Iron Lung / 625)
MURO - No Hay Lugar (Beach Impediment / Adult Crash)
SPECIAL INTEREST - Disco III (Thrilling Living)
THE WAR GOES ON - Voice of the Condemned (Adult Crash)
IMPOTENTIE - Stille Rebellen (Roachleg)
SIAL - Bencana (La Vida Es Un Mus)
PERMISSION - Stimulation (La Vida Es Un Mus)

Rob's International Top 10
10. THE CAVEMEN - Euthanize Me (Slovenly)

9. SMALLTOWN TIGERS - Just Friends (Area Pirata)

8. SHITKID - Fat Mad-n-Gone (PNKSLM)

7. CHUBBY & THE GANG - All Along the Uxbridge Road (Static Shock)

6. KARKKI & THE CAR KEYS - Last Line (Lempi and Sylvi)

5. THEE DIRTY RATS - Let’s Fight (Mandinga)

4. IDLES - Mr. Motivator (Partisan)

3. S.I.G. - Take What You Get (SBAM)

2. THE TELEFONES - Shake n' Plasticate (Self-Released)

1. ZERO ZEROES - Mouth Full of Snakes (Drunken Sailor / Bachelor)

Cat's Top 10

MUCK AND THE MIRES - Messed Up Mary (Dirty Water)

THE HECK - I Hate It Here (Sour Bomb)

THE SPACK VOID - Thought Crimes (Self-Released)
MFC CHICKEN - Spontaneous Combust (Dirty Water)

THE FUCKIN'ASTRONAUTS - Dirtbike (It's Trash!)

REAL(s) - Stop freaking Out (Music as Insurgent Art)

THE VERSIONS - It's Not Enough (Also)

SHELTER - Why Can't I Just Get Through To You (End Hits)
THE SANITIZERS - Sa-ni-ti-zin' (Folc)

CRO-MAGS - Age of Quarantine (Arising Empire / At the Beginning)

Radio - Sunday, September 6th, 2020

 

Tonight's show features new material by Long Knife, Krigshoder, Orlando Furioso HC, and Barcelona. We feature some Canadian bands like the Vicious Cycles (Vancouver), Nerve Button (Moncton), Hard Charger (Fredericton), and Bootlicker (BC). We dig out some classics by Extroverts, Shag Nasty, Beluga and Human Ashtrays, and Snots. And tonight's demo feature is Subsistence out of Montreal. Listen to the show on the player above or download the show here. 

CACTUS VELLA - I Hear Them All (Cactus Vella Music)

EXTROVERTS - Brain Damage (Supreme Echo)
F.U.K. - Road Kill (HoZac)

BELUGA AND HUMAN ASHTRAYS - High 'n' Tight (Howard Peluso Productions)

SNOTS - New York Love Letter

SHAG NASTY - Stranger in the City (Retro)

KRIGSHODER - Kalda Kroper (Suck Blood)  

SNARLER - Pain And Time (Sordid Bin)  

LAI - Talak Tiga (Ruin Nation / D-Tak & Rapunk) 

BOOTLICKER - Calm Mind (Neon Taste)  

SWEEPING PROMISES - Hunger For A Way Out - Hunger For A Way Out (Feel It)  

KILLROY AD - My Design 

THE IDOLIZERS - Stranded (Again) (Rum Bar)

ENCHANTERS - Firetruck (Trophy)

THE RAWS - Yedi Kuru Dal (Mondo Mongo)

KILLROY AD - Spiders Hardcore 

ORLANDO FURIOSO HC - Dead Cities (Self-Released)

MANIC RIDE - Roll with the Punches (Refuse)

YUGULAR - Gritar Y Gritar (Maldito)

TOWER 7 - Theory of Disease (D4MT Labs) 

MÖRT - Sataan (Self-Released)

CADENAXO - Fachos A La Verga (11 PM) 

DENIGRANTE - Delirio (Self-Released) 

IRON DEFICIENCY - Anxiety (Youth Authority)  

SPY - Service Weapon (To Live A Lie) 

ANIMA NEGRA - Plegaria (Junko)    

THE AUTOMATIX - City Terror (Demo Version) 

LONG KNIFE - Night of the Hunter (Beach Impediment)

HARDCHARGER - Snow Axe (Wasted Time / Vleesklak)

ABORTED TORTOISE - Violent Consumers/Plastic Orgasm (Goodbye Boozy)

BARCELONA - Salvajes (La Vida Es Un Mus)

KOBRA - Incubo (La Vida Es Un Mus)

NERVE BUTTON - Monctonapolean 

NEON MANIACS - Electroshock (Puke 'n' Vomit)

SECRET HATE - Hamwater (Cornerstone R.A.S.)

 

THE IDORU - Unacceptable (Black Star Foundation)

THE VICIOUS CYCLES - Problem Officer (Pirates Press)

EMILY AND THE BLACKOUTS - Nice Girls (Self-Released)

TURNSTYLES - Cut You Off (Black and Wyatt)

Demo Feature 

SUBSISTANCE from Montreal. This recording can be found up on bandcamp.

SUBSISTANCE - Take the Pill (Self-Released)
SUBSISTANCE - Re-Educating the Rich (Self-Released) 

SUBSISTANCE - Get Off My Case (Self-Released) 

SUBSISTANCE - How Many Days (Self-Released) 

SUBSISTANCE - Unstoppable (Self-Released) 

POLVORA SOXIAL - Ruido En El Sistema (Self-Released)

HEKATE - Καλοκαίρι 2018 (La Vida Es Un Mus)

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)

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