Radio - Sunday, April 3rd, 2016

The show starts out with some original first wave and older sounding punk. Download the entire show here.

SLOBODANS UNDERGANG - Hög Standard (Sista Bussen)

BUZZARDS - Can't Get Used To Losing You
STARSHOOTER - Get Baque (Pathe)
MARK MALIBU AND THE WASAGAS - First Time Out (Self-Released)
THE FOX SISTERS - Right Hip Pocket (Reel Time)
THE TELEVISIONARIES - The Sun and You (Reel Time)
SLEEPY SLEEPERS – Väinö (EMI)
SOT HAEVN – Latterkick (Sot)
THE RUDE KIDS - Next Time I'll Beat Björn Borg (Sonet)

The offensive and noisey set.
THE DIRTIEST – It’s All Coming Back (Slovenly)
THE CHILD MOLESTERS – You Make Me Sick (Ace & Duce)
KILLDOZER – Farmer Johnson (Touch n Go)
NIG-HEIST – Balls of Fire (Thermidor)
FANG – Everybody Makes me Barph (Boner)

Rip it out and wake us up set
ANIMAL CRIMES - Lock Down (Self-Released)
AGGRESSION PACT - I’d Feel Nothing (Painkiller)
2 x 4 - Survive This Mess (Twerp)
ARMS RACE - Kill the Bill (Quality Control HQ)
BLOOD PRESSURE - Chronic Abuse (Even Worse / Way Back When)
CAUSTIC DEFIANCE - Who Are You? (Way Back When)
NEW BRIGADE - Ups and Downs (Six Feet Under)

TINA PEEL - Punk Rock Janitor (Sin)
THE METROS - Lay It On Me (Rip Off)
THE PUNKS - Quick One (Rave Up)
THE FALL-OUTS - About You (Super Electro)
THE LOVEDOLLS - Beer & Ludes (SST)

Runners Up to March 2016 Top 10
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - 13427 Cascade Ct., Corona, CA, 92880 (Self-Released)
TERMINAL NATION – Waste (Deep Six)
FRENOPATICSS - No al Servicio Militar (Vomitopunkrock)
THE UGLY - Screw the System (Ugly Pop)
THE TERMINAL FIVE - Against A Wall (Feel It)
GAUCHO - Desplacados (Iron Lung)
THE BLOW INS - Nieodebrane Polaczenia (Self-Released)
DOGTEETH – Possession (Self-Released)
TENEMENT – Vicious ( Cowabunga)

Top 10 - March 2016
10. ZEN LUNATICS - H.Y.U (Divs and Mason)
9. SILENT ORDER - Distraction (Konton Crasher)
8. BLOOD RUST - Sincerity for Sale (SPHC)
7. KOSZMAR - Nuklearna Supremacja (Konton Crasher)
6. MODERN PROBLEMS - Foolish Times (Not Like You)
5. KOHTI TUHOA - Voittojen Maksimointi (Svart)
4. DISSEKERAD - Ingen Väg Ut (Phobia)
3. CLOACA - Pig (Self-Released)
2. HARD SKIN - The Bovver Boys Don't Bother Anymore (JT Classics)
1. TORSO - No Commonality (Sorry State)

New band from Montreal that takes some cues from S.H.I.T. You can find their demo on Run State's bandcamp page.

DRIP - Death Dealers (Run State)
DRIP - Unleash (Run State)
DRIP - Coaxers (Run State)
DRIP - Heavy Feet, Sunken Eyes (Run State)
DRIP - Egghead (Run State)

Katatonix Studio 3 session

When we did the SAGO session, Alex the singer said to me you should really have the Katatonnix in. I didn't know who the Katatonix were. Alex explained the Sofistifucks connection. Alex is the drummer in the Sofistifucks and Jakob who sings in Katatonix plays bass in the Sofistifucks. Paul plays guitar in both bands. So that is the connection. They all play in the Sofistifucks and the Sofistifucks are still together however they are taking a break while Downey is doing school. I think it might be graduate work. But this band also came together because Vince from Make No Gains wanted to be in a band with Paul and Jakob. Jakob and Vince are both from the east coast and there is something to that which helps create a chemistry in this band. Curtis is the drummer in School Damage and he wanted to play in another kind of punk band that is meaner and angrier. The seem to have accomplished that with Katatonix. In the interview the recurring theme about Katatonix songs are misanthropic in nature. We recorded the following songs in this session:

1. Race to the End
2. Pharma Lobotomy / Drowning
3. No Hope
4. Rust
5. Rip Off
6. Deep Stench
7. Discomfort / Disconnect

The band also did an ID for the show.

This session was recorded in Studio 3 by Ian Wilkinson. This is the last session recorded in the broadcast studio. Since this session an engineer has given the opinion that these live sessions have been effecting the wiring of the broadcast board and so we no longer are able to use this studio, which effects the sound.

This session was also video recorded by Aldo and Candy of Punks and Rockers.

Radio - Sunday, March 6th, 2016

Nancy Reagan died today. Here is what we think of the Reagan legacy. Download the show here.

FINAL CONFLICT - Burial Service (Pusmort)

DEAD KENNEDYS – We’ve Got a Bigger problem Now (Alternative Tentacles)

VAN DAMAGED – Nancy (Self-Released)

REAGAN SS - Taste the Rich Flavour (Gloom)

DRI – Reagonomics (Death)

FINAL CONFLICT - Private War (Pusmort)

THE DISASTERBATERS – Searchin’ (Self-Released)

OUTTACONTROLLER – Hit the Streets (P-Trash)

PINK WINE – Wasted Breath (Young Modern)

BRAT KINGS – Girl Quit the Cocaine (Yeah Right)

NO BUNNY – Motorhead with Me (Goner)

THE DEACONS - Liquor Store (Self-Released)

GAUCHO - Guerpos Mutilados (Iron Lung)

SYNDROME 81 – Traitre (Destructure)

VANILLA POPPERS - Rock Bottom (Blow Blood)

USELESS EATERS - Car Accident Face (Slovenly)

VLASTA POPIC - Slijepa naša (Mržnja) (Moonlee)

VERTIGO - Bajo la sombra del castigo (Self-Released)

FINGERPRINTZ - Ringing Tone (Virgin)

THE STIFFS - Volume Control (Zonophone)

ART ATTACKS - Arabs In 'Arrads (Overground)

A-HEADS - Minute Man (Self-Released)

999- Jam Me Up (With Something Nice) (Get Back)

LES ABLETTES - Spontanéité……Zéro!!! (Self-Released)

SUBWAY - Squeeze Me (Universe Productions)

PROTEX - I Can Only Dream (Polydor)

SWEATSHOP BOYS - Special Mood (Twintoe)

QUITTER – Bodyworm (More Power)

SCIENCE PROJECT - Oh Boy (Self-Released)

GOTH GIRL – Wyrm (Self-Released)

TRAUMA HARNESS - Site B (Self-Released)

SEEIN’ RED - D.O.M. (Way Back)

BLOOD PRESSURE - Bleak (Beach Impediment)

CARDIAC ARREST - Frustrate Me (Way Back)

FUCK YOU PAY ME – Jesus Loves You (Everyone Else Thinks You’re an Asshole) (Deep Six)

TILAMNE PAALIA - Nimetön

THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Hostage Situation (Self-Released)

NEW REGRETS - Ripper (Clearview)

THE PLAIN DEALERS - Terminal Darkness on Public Square (Public Square)

SICK OF TALK – Go/Gunned Down (Self-Released)

WORTHY VICTIMS - First Impression (Self-Released)

WITNESS PROTECTION - Going, Gone (Self-Released)

We played only a small bit of a new D-Beat band from Montreal called Cloaca. 

CLOACA – Social Cloaca (Self-Released)

CLOACA – Ideals vs. Paycheck (Self-Released)

CLOACA – Pig (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, January 17th, 2016

On tonight's show we played all music, no interviews to feature some new material coming out and some things we have missed in the past. But we started off with some bands coming to town. You can hear the show on the player above or download an MP3 here.

MOTHERFUCKERS - Old Enough to Know Better (Handsome Dan)

POISON IDEA - This Thing Called Progress (American Leather)
LONG KNIFE - Weekend At Bartek's (Long Knife)
AAS - No Interaction (Self-Released)
FUCK YOU PAY ME - Ammosexual
GORDON SOLIE MOTHERFUCKERS - Open Letter To The Cleveland Police (625 Thrash)
PRESSING ON - What We Believe (Self-Released)
MUCOPUS – Asturias (Self-Released)

GINO AND THE GOONS – Let’s Go (Slovenly)
THE COUNT BISHOPS – Teenage Letter (Chiswick)
SATANS RATS – Louise (DJM)
THE EXITS – This Toytown World (Rev-Ola)
USELESS EATERS – Poison Darts (Slovenly)

ANCIENT FILTH – Commodity (Self-Released)
SMILING - Mellow Out (Self-Released)
PARANOID - Kenzennaru Seishin Houkai (D-Takt ja Rapunk)
PARASYTES – Melting Brain (Self-Released)
QUARTER TANK - We Brought the Fire (Self-Released)

CHEETAH CHROME – Take Me Home (Numero)
THE CIGARETTES – Surrender (Detour)
FLOWERS OF EVIL – Kick the Sky (Deranged)
SCRAPER – Trash Can (Slovenly)
OAF – Consume (Deranged)

CONSTANT INSULT - No Beginning (Let’s Pretend)
LA MISMA - Ta Rabida Sin Es Ta Bira L Na Bo (La Vida Es Un Mus)
LATEX - Nothing to Say (World Gone Mad / Sensual World)
VCR - Scream Again (Self-Released)
TOTAL DICKS - Grocery Store Mutant (Self-Released)
PRETTY BOYS - Gorm Shelves (Self-Released)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Believe Me Alone (Self-Released)

DRONEZ - Domestic Blacksite (Ryvvolte)
BLIND DOG - Hunger Pains (Self-Released)
OFF! – Void You Out (Vice)
PATSY - Tuley Tude High (Self-Released)
BLOODSUCKERS - Замкнутый круг (Vicious Circle) (Self-Released)

OUTREAU - No Justice (Une Vie Pour Riens)
VIAL - No One Understands (Cut Rate)
CASCARABIAS - El Despertar (Self-Released)
NIGHT SCHOOL – Synanon (Self-Released)
THE GIFT - Bound for nothing (Self-Released)
ROTTEN MIND – Damaged State of Mind (Lovely)

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES – Part-Time Punks (NB)
DEAD HERO – Antisocial (Discos MMM)
FLQ – Crime (Bad Vibrations)
63 MONROE – Bloodstains on the Carpet (Speed City)
TV FREAKS – Glue (Deranged)
THE MAHONES – Fuck You (Wolverine)
DOA – You've Gone Too Far (Sudden Death)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band local band featuring Patty from Brutal Youth on vocals, two guys who were in End Program and Dave and Martin from Dead Mouth. You can find this at their bandcamp page.

DRAGGED IN – August (Self-Released)
DRAGGED IN – Safe Together (Self-Released)
DRAGGED IN – Breathe (Self-Released)
DRAGGED IN – Dragged In (Self-Released)
DRAGGED IN – Empty Glasses (Self-Released)

SAGO Studio 3 session

SAGO are a new hardcore band started out of a need to start a fast hardcore band. The band features Alex from the Sofistifucks on vocals, which is odd because he plays drums in the Sofistifucks. In fact all these band members played drums in other bands so they are a band of drummers, but they also play pother instruments in other bands. Marty plays guitar in SAGO and Dragged In. Chad is the other guitarist who also has talents doing video editing for "The Scene id Dead...Long Live the Scene". Mike plays bass and Piers plays drums. The band has good chemistry. Their experience in other bands doesn't make them afraid to edit their material. There are a lot of crazy parts  that create layered structures all from a hardcore tradition which makes the music fierce and amazing. The session was a lot of fun and Ian Wilkinson was able to record the following songs which are on the "City Wide Garbage Strike" demo, a few new songs and a DS-13 cover.

1. Ignorant Shit
2. Capital Punishment
3. Throwaway
4. Squeeler
5. In Harm's Way
6. Accusations
7. Antipathy
8. Faceless Criminals
9. Fukk the Cops

DS-13 is one of the band's influences and they get to play with them on May 17th. How often does that happen?

This session was videotaped by Aldo and Punks 'n Rockers. Here is a clip from that session.

Flyer - Tuesday, October 20th to Thursday October 22nd, 2015

Radio - Sunday August 30th, 2015

Tonight's show is the latest installment of Notes from Behind the Iron Curtain with a focus on Hungary. Tonight's guest host is Dini Lazslo who grew up in Hungary and has been an avid collector of Hungarian punk all his life. you can download an MP3 of tonight's show or listen on the player above.

WYX – Association (Start)

SPIONS – Russian Way of Life (Egg)

BEATRICE - Nagyvarosi Farkas (Collective Art)

CPG - Báb vagy (Self-Released)
AGYDAGANAT - Tanítonéni (Live)
ETA - Telefonszámok (Live)

MODELLS – Vak Vagyok (Self-Released)
BIKINI – Ki Csinal Szodat 1 (Start)

QSS - hazám (Ragaly)
LENIN KÖRÚT - A munka himnusza

KRETENS - Bürokraták
MARINA REVUE - én vagyok az a srác

AURÓRA CIRKÁLÓ – Robotok (Self-Released)
FEGYELEM - Minden ki van találva (Self-Released)
TIZEDES MEG A TÖBBIEK - Zuhanj te bombázó (Self-Released)

A.M.D. - Bombázás (Self-Released)
VÁGTÁZÓ HALOTTKÉMEK - Ki vele az istenért (Alternative Tentacles)

MALOKIO – Home (Self-Released)
UNFUN - All The Secrets Of The World
THE SOFISTIFUCKS – Believe Me Alone (Self-Released)
WITHOUT – Human Cull / Drones (Self-Released)
SKINGRAFT – Coagulate (Self-Released)
DRY HEAVE – Libel! Slander! Libel! (Self-Released)
UNCLE RAY – Tough Guy (Self-Released)
POISON SPUR – Plague Fields (Self-Released)
THE BLIND SURGEONS OPERATION – Sleep Terror (Self-Released)

Tonight's demo feature is a new local band from Toronto called Grin. You can find their demo on their bandcamp page.

GRIN – Initiation Rites (Self-Released)
GRIN – Empty Every Night (Self-Released)
GRIN – Waiting (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday, August 28th, 2015

Radio - Sunday, October 12, 2014

Here is the broadcast for tonight's show. I started out with my number 1 pick for last month which I didn't get to play last week. Demands from DC.

DEMANDS - No Lifeboats (Self-Released)

First up is an elections set to mark upcoming municipal election on Monday, October 27th but the advance polling starts this Tuesday so to motivate people to vote out the current administration here is a set about voting and Toronto.

THE ADOLESCENTS - Democracy (Frontier)
EFFIGIES - Guns or Ballots (Live Broadcast on Sunday Morning Nightmare, WZRD 1981)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Civil Disobedience (Self-Released)
URBAN BLIGHT - Cutback (CIUT)
WASTOIDS - My Toronto (Deranged)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Memento Mori (Rust and Machine)
HASSLER - Pig Pen II - Fed, Worked and Watered (Deranged)

I found a bunch of great demo recordings by Canadian artists on Melonville Hardcore that I wanted to share. There is loads more great stuff to be found some of which is in the second set below like Cat's Game and the Dole.. 

DEATH SENTENCE - R.C.M.P. (Self-Released)
UNWANTED - Dead End (BY0)
PERSONALITY CRISIS - People In Glass (1983 Demo)
WHITE NOISE - Whats a Matter (Dead and alive demo)
FRATRICIDE - Beaten Senseless (CFRO Co-op Radio, Jan 2nd 1987)

THE REBEL SPELL - All this costs (Rebel Time)
THE SKULLIANS - Jail Bird (Self-Released)
CAT'S GAME - Home Sweet Home (Self-Released)
THE D0LE - Working Poor (Self-Released)
FUCK ME DEAD - Closer To The End (Self-Released)
BILL OF RIGHTS - Pipeline (Surf, Skate, Ski & Skank demo)

A continuation of the Mexico City scene report printed in this month's issue of MRR. The reporter refers to the scene as Chilango Punk. D'Arcy played some of the material two weeks ago. Here is part two of some of the bands written about in the report. 

MUERTE - Nadie (Self-Released)
ZOTZ - Sangre (Self-Released)
DIA FINAL - El porvenir es largo (Self-Released)
VITTORIA DELLA SCONFITTA - Mierdas (Self-Released)

Here is a set of bands that sing in Spanish from other parts of the world like San Francisco, L.A., Oakland, Bogoto and Toronto. 

RULETA RUSA - Curriqui De Barrio - Gritos Para Desahogar (Aqui No Es)
GENERACION SUICIDA - Soldados (MM Discos) 
SUICIDAS - Vertigo (Self-Released)
SECTA SUICIDA - Ya Nada Importa (Self-Released)
SKUNX - Dose Brutal (CIUT)

This is a set of bands that will be playing in town in the next little while. See the show listings section.

THE REZENTMENTS - Try (CIUT)
VACANT STATE - No (Deranged)
NEGATIVE APPROACH - Hypocrite (Touch 'n Go)
GLUE - Close But No Cigar (Self-Released)
WILD SIDE - All Bark, No Bite / The Strength (Self-Released)

BELGRAD0 - Koszmar - Barcelona 
K0SZMAR - I Na Co (Poslka Dupa Demo 2012)
UPTOWN LEISURE BOYS - Scraping Bottom (MM Discos) 
SOCIALITE - Socialite (Self-Released)
STOIC VIOLENCE - Abused (Deranged / Video Disease)
SOCIAL DAMAGE - Tied (Straight and Alert)
ANCIENT HEADS - For My Brothers (Self-Released)

Tonight's demo feature is a brand new power violence band from Buffalo. The band features Corey from Inerds on vocals, Eric from Not Time Left / They Live on guitar, Chelsea from Human Touch / The Mallwalkers on bass, and Steve from Done Deal on drums. This recording was done on October 1st so this might be the first time you are hearing it. Healer will be making this available on a cassette and CD format and Nerve Alter will release a 7" from this material. Healer is also working on new material for a split with Cloud Rat. 

HEALER - Fundamentalists (Self-Released)
HEALER - H.O.T.E.O.F. Part II (Self-Released)
HEALER - Paid Vacation (Self-Released)
HEALER - Take a Number (Self-Released)
HEALER - Just us Peanuts in Here (Self-Released)
HEALER - Parasites (Self-Released)
HEALER - Dead Grandma Watching You (Self-Released)
HEALER - Day Pass to Assholeville (Self-Released)
HEALER - And You Will Probably Die Alone (Self-Released)
HEALER - Mom is Drunk and Talking Shit (Self-Released)
HEALER - You Can't Win (Self-Released)
HEALER - Shit Existance (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, August 17th, 2014

The opening song is dedicated to the people of Ferguson who have to endure attacks at the hands of those who are sworn to protect them. Police violence becomes a running theme throughout the show as the situation continues to get worse. You can download the show as an MP3 or listen on the player above.

WILD MOHICANS - Police Violence (Self-Released)

BETERCORE - Punk Is Verzet! (Sxetan Collective)
R.A.M.B.O. - If Our Leaders Are Impotent Only The People Can Rise (Havoc)
REGLATIONS - Baghdad Beach Party (P Trash / Ny Vag)
CAREER SUICIDE - Cherry Beach (Sewercide)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Blue Stain (Fringe)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Cops Ain't Tops (NRK)

This set is inspired by a number of things. One is G.I.S.M. 's nspiration on the Toronto sound. The second is the amazing Sofistifucks video which has just been released. A third is a new recording by Absolut. Lots of great music coming from Toronto at the moment. Here is the Sofistifucks video. 


G.I.S.M. - Endless Blockades for the Pussyfooter (Dogma)
S.H.I.T. - The Stimulator (Iron Lung)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Vincible (Rust and Machine)
ABSOLUT - Fucking Pain (Self-Released)
UNCURBED - Framtids Visioner (Sound Pollution)

EPPU NORMAALI - Kekkonen rock (Poko)
NEGATIVE GAIN - Sitation All Fucked Up (Pusmort)
NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE - Heute backen wir Brot
TOY DOLLS - Livin the Vida Loca (Receiver / Captain Oi!)
POISON GIRLS - Pretty Polly (CRASS)

NO PROBLEM - The Controller (Deranged)
BISHOPS GREEN - Tumbling Down (Rebellion)
EMERGENCY - Johnny's coming home (Self-Released)
KNUCKLEHEAD - Shotdown in 1989 (Longshot)
SKUNX - Law and Order (CIUT)

FALSE PROPHETS - Good Clean Fun (Worn Out Brothers)
DESTRUCKTIONS - Piiritys (Rock-O-Rama)
AGRESSION - Calling For You (Mystic)
SNOB - 1,2 Sniff Glue (Hardware)
CONUNDRUM - Drained (Self-Released)
MAD MEN - The Neighbourhood (Self-Released)

THE FANS - Givin' me that look (Fried Egg)
IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS - Billericay Dickie (Stiff)
THE NOW - The Shape of things to come (Raw)
THE ZIPS - Take Me Down (Sing Sing)
STRIKE - Teenage Rebel (Sing Sing)
WASTELAND - Bombsite Baby (Ellie Jay)

BAD INFLUENCE - War's No Fun (Self-Released)
STATE - No Illusions (Self-Released)
THE DISAPPOINTMENTS - Trash Fever (Ice PIck Production)
ADRENALIN O.D. - Old People Talk Loud (Buy Our)
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Citizen (No Core)
ANTI CIMEX - Krossa N.R.P.

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Hamilton called SYSTEM SYSTEM. The band features Grant and Nathan from Gunnar Hansen, and Jon of Black Eyes Club and Never Trust. Self-described for influences from the Wipers and Husker Du the demo is available through bandcamp at http://systemsystem.bandcamp.com/.

SYSTEM SYSTEM - Storyteller (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Brain Damage (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Spectre (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Apparition (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Etinction Event (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Oblivious (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Derd (Self-Released)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Urge to Kill Rising (Self-Released)

WEAK LINK - Kill / Control (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, August 10th, 2014

Here is last night's show. All music. Very little talk. Good mixed tape fodder. Listen above or take it with you in an MP3 download.

BOOGIE NAZIS - Wild Summer Fun (Self-Released)

GENERACION SUICIDA - Mil Amores (Self-Released)
ACCIDENTE - Las victorias más bellas (Self-Released)
UNBELIEVERS - Wish I Was That Girl (Self-Released)
THE BAYONETTES - Stuck In This Rut (Deranged)
X-RAY SPEX - Plastic Bag (EMI / Virgin)

POINTED STICKS - True Lve (Sudden Death)
SHOCKS - Havin' Party (Dirty Faces)
RIOTSTAR - Born Wrong (Self-Released)
SLöA KNIVAR - Stay dirty (Self-Released)
SS-KALIERT - Sucht (Maniac Attack)
THIRD WORLD CHAOS - You (Pinatubo)

CAREERS IN SCIENCE - Pity the Artist (Self-Released)
BOMBSITE - Convenient Face (Slumptown Printers)
SOULSIDE - Bad Show (Dischord)
MINUTEMEN - My heart and the real world (SST)
OPERATION IVY - Bankshot (Lookout)

SKEEZICKS - We are the Skeezicks (X-Mist)
SIEKIERA - Krwawy Front (Self-Released)
GENETIC CONTROL - Suburban Life (Genetic)
U.X.VILEHEADS - Catch 22 (Sorry State / Adult Crash)
JFA - Cokes And Snickers (Placebo)
THE NECKTIES - Tech Is Over (Self-Released)

THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Planting Seeds And Digging Graves (Rust and Machine)
KOMPLOTT - Casa Lavoro Cimitero (Complotto Autoproduzioni)
ABSOLUT - No Single Tear (CIUT)
S.H.I.T. - Human Kindness (Self-Released)
THE SENTENCED - Society (Self-Released)
BASTARDS - Harhaa (Propaganda)
HARHAA - Forced Insulation (Self-Released)
HANGIN' TUFF - Club Rat (Self-Released)

PENETRATION - Don't Dictate (Virgin)
THE LURKERS - Ain't got a clue
SOFT BOYS - (I want to be an) Anglepoise Lamp (Radar)
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - Alternative Ulster (Rough Trade)
BUZZCOCKS - Love you More (United Artists)

BRAINIACS - Suzie's so unsure (Mental Health)
THE DAMNED - so Messed Up (Stiff)
HEARTBREAKERS - Let Go (Track)
REAL KIDS - Rave On (Red Star)

GBH - Kids Get Down (Hellcat)
LEPERS - Can't Get there from here (Unclean)
BLITZKRIEG - Future must be ours (Retch)
BREAD AND WATER - Beyond this Moment (Burrito)
INFEZIONE - Gazzo per corvello (Agipunk)
F.U.G. - Hate the Cops (Buffalo '66)
FIGHT BACK - Punk Punkerima (Mamma)

DEAD KENNEDYS - Kidnap (Unreleased)

Radio - Sunday, May 25th, 2014

Tonight's show featured a studio 3 session and interview with the Sofistifucks who I learned was an idea for Sick Error and their guitarist Paul, who plays in the Sofistifucks. The Sofistifucks have been around since 2011 when they recorded a 7 song demo, have toured out West, and have released a full length titled "...And then they came for me" that you can hear a sample of on bandcamp. Tuesday was our third attempt to record the band and we conducted an interview afterwards. which you can hear above of download an MP3 file here. 

THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Guts (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Memento Mori (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Nuclear Serenade (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Police Malfeasance (Self-Released)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - CC AE 217 (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Chuc Mung Sing Nghat / Loved (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Hostage Situation (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Vincible (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Interview (CIUT)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Self Discharge / Terrible (CIUT)

Here is a Top 10 list for May 2014.

BOIDS - P.B.M.F. (Stomp)
ACOUSMA - Nothing of Everything (High Fashion Industries)
KAOS URBANO - Sexo, drogas streetpunk (Potencial Hardcore)
SUICIDAS - Perdido (No Nostalgia)
CONQUEST FOR DEATH - Accursed Battalions (Tank Crimes)
WARTHOG - Exterminate Me (Katroga Works)
HAYMAKER - Let Them Rot (a389)
KOMPLOTT - Oppressione (Complotto Autoproduzioni)
THE INSTIGATION - No Rules (Self-Released)
COKE BUST - Red Line (Grave Mistake)

Grump has been around for just over a year now and have recorded their third demo titled "Back to being normal". They are from Halifax and as the name suggests features some scene vets.

GRUMP - Supplication (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Texas Sharpshooter (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Future Cult Leader (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Cognitive Distortion (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Coherence (Self-Released)
GRUMP - Talking Property Blues (Self-Released)

The Sofistifucks studio 3 session

We have been trying to schedule the Sofistifucks for a session a few times. This was the third and final attempt. Alex, the drummer, had been my contact so we had been corresponding back and forth with proposals and cancellations and re-schedulings and finally a session happened. The Sofistifucks have been around for a while. My first introduction to Alex was at a NXNE show at Dundas Square. I think Devo was playing. He was handing out flyers for a Sofistifucks show and had only a few. I reached out to get one and he wouldn't let me have one. Maybe because I had a Toronto FC jacket on. To be fair I didn't look very punk. It was that snub that made me reluctant to get in touch with them again. But I read about a full length in MRR called “...And then they came for me” which came out in the fall. You can hear some of it at http://thesofistifucks1.bandcamp.com/album/then-they-came-for-me. Listening to that release peaked my interest and the band was also interested given they had a studio recording, which was technically their second.

Paul, the guitarist, reminded me that we had met before during a studio 3 session for Sick Error which was recorded at the other CIUT location on St. George Street. I started remembering more and more as we recorded and then spoke in the interview. In the interview he also talks about how he and Alex came to meet which was through some opposition work to Rob Ford so I guess something good came out of Ford's term of office.

The other half of this band is made up of some Halogonian imports. Downey (the singer) and Jakob (the bass player) are both originally from Halifax. They didn't move here together, but something about a past shared scene in a strange big city can bring people together. Downey's lyrics are pretty deep and everytime I ask him about a song he has to take a moment to figure out how to frame the background or context so as to get the meaning. You really should listen to the interview. I got a lot out of it. The songs are deep and intense and really match the band's sound. We recorded the following songs in tonight's session:

1. Chuc Mung Sing Nghat / Loved / Vincible
2. Hostage Situation
3. Guts
4. Momento Mori
5. Vincible
6. Nuclear Serenade
7. Terrible
8. CC AE 217
9. Self Discharge

The band also did some IDS for the station and the radio show.

1. Turn the Dial ID
2. You put the I back in CIUT ID
3. You put the I back in CIUT, part 2

Aldo and Candy were on hand to film the session and here is some of what they caught for Punks and Rockers.




A full set of photos from the night lives up at https://www.universallibrary.org/details/SofistifucksStudio3Session.

Radio - Sunday, May 18th, 2014

NASH THE SLASH passed away last week. I found out about his passing in an editorial piece on Q. Here and Now also did a look back at Nash following it with the FM hit 'Phasors on Stun'. That was a song I knew very well having heard it many times on FM Radio. It was also a song that took me back to summer camp. A counsellor there had turned me onto FM. I would soon find out about NASH THE SLASH on after school video shows with the video for "Dead Man's Curve" and "Dopes on the Water". I went to the first Police Picnic where NASH THE SLASH unceremoniously had the plug pulled on him. The only Canadian act to get yanked from the stage in some Gong show fashion like he was some kind of a novelty act, which he was sort of. A mummy impersonator in top hat and white tails that played the electric violin and a few other instruments that includes a glockenspiel. But he was more than that. He was a guy who inspired Gary Numan, one of the first to start an independent label known as Cut Throat records and who sued Pepsi and won. I got to meet NASH THE SLASH on the air once. Jonzo from Mods 'n Rockers arranged for him to come in and we did a full on interview. It was an honour to meet this pioneer of the Toronto punk scene. I learned of his soundscaping to silent films like Nosferatu at places like the Roxy Theatre. He was doing a regular Halloween gig at a club on Yonge Street. Someone posted up a flyer for a Valentine's week massacre set of shows at the Edge. He was into gimmicks but there is no denying that he was a groundbreaker when it comes to punk in this city.  So we started off the show with some NASH THE SLASH material mixed together. 

Here is an MP3 for the show.

NASH THE SLASH - The Chase (Cut Throat)
NASH THE SLASH - FM Introductions (Cut Throat)
NASH THE SLASH - Phasors on Stun (Cut Throat)

SKUNX - Corporate Death (Chronic Disease / Skull Crasher)
GRUMP - Coherence (Self-Released)
THE PITY - Leather Jacket Separation Anxiety (Self-Released)
SNOB - Stay at home (Hardware)
NOT FRIENDS - Endless Delay (Self-Released)
ALL OUT PANIC - Panic Attack (Self-Released)
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Self Discharge (Unknown)

DEAD BOYS - Flamethrower love (Sire)
BLACK KEYS - have love will travel (Bomp)
GUITAR WOLF - Wild Zero (Matador)
NEW BOMB TURKS - Drag Strip Riot (Crypt)
HUNCHES - Frustration Rocket (In the Red)

NUEVA AUTORIDAD DEMOCRATICA - Gente Mierda (Solo Para Punks)
BOILING POINT - Thrash the Railroads (Self-Released)
COKSKAR - Cokroachskar(Self-Released)
SLEIGHT - The Sickness (Self-Released)
KENNY KENNY OH OH - the Beauty of Absenteeism (Kontraszt! / Emancypunx)
LIFE CHAIN - Media frozen (Imminent Destruction)

CRIMPSHRINE - Sleep. what's that? (Lookout)
AVAIL - On the Nod (Lookout)
SURF TRIO - Almost Summer (Bomp)
BAD BRAINS - The Big Takeover (Roir)
THE CRAMPS - The Crusher (IRS)

FIT FOR ABUSE - Power Currupts
UPPERCUTS - First Thing's First
MASSHYSTERI - Tvivel
THE TAKE - Tonight
DEAD STOP - Bend and Break
MINORITY UNIT - Minority Threat

BURNING LOVE - No Love
DISCO VOLANTE - Burn In Hell
BROTHER INFERIOR - Who Want's To Live Forever?
BENUMB - Mesmerized by the Insignificant
LAST LIGHTS - U.S. Out of New England
INFERNOH - De Galm Och De Blinda

The Brass are from Vancouver and this is their demo titled "Psychopath". Hardware Records out of Germany has made the cassette available again and you can hear the recording at http://thebrassvan.bandcamp.com/track/psychopath.

THE BRASS - Don't look at me (Hardware)
THE BRASS - Can't (Hardware)
THE BRASS - Damaged goods (Hardware)
THE BRASS - 40 Laces (Hardware)
THE BRASS - Psychopath (Hardware)

COLUMN OF HEAVEN - Such Fragile Bodies (Flesh prison part II) (Absurd Exposition)

Radio - Sunday, April 13th, 2014

CIUT's transmitter stopped working last week. We have been operating off a temporary transmitter. The funding drive is all about raising twice as much money so that we can buy a new transmitter and have it installed. The theme for the campaign continues with "Sound of the City" but I reinterpreted it to be "Sound in our city" so that we could focus on some of the upcoming shows coming to town one of whic is the Stage Bottles next Saturday. This anti-fascist oi band has a great song called "Work Together" that rallies people together for a common cause and right now that is with getting CIUT back on air. You can donate by going to http://www.ciut.fm/about/donate-today/.

STAGE BOTTLES - Work Together (Insurgence)

Ewan at Embrace Productions programmed a punk show with us when we were back at CHRY. He knows the important roles that campus community radio plays. He also knows the challenges of fundraising and has offered up five pair of tickets for the Reagan Youth / Dayglos show on May 16th of the Upstarts show on May 31st. We still have some tickets to give away for this so if you make a donation to CIUT and want a pair of tickets to one of these two shows send me an e-mail at equalizingxdistort@gmail.com.

ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Kids On The Street (Dojo)
REAGAN YOUTH - usa (New Red Archives)

DAYGLO ABORTIONS - Kill the Hosers / Religious Bumfucks (Fringe)

Lots of people have helped out with this current drive. Alex, the drummer from the Sofistifucks, and his friend Nick came in last night to helop answer phones and come in on-air with updates on the phone room activity. We played something new from the Sofistifucks.

THE SOFISTIFUCKS - Memento Mori (Self-Released)
THE BUREAUCRATS - Grown Up Age (Ugly Pop)

Aldo from Punks and Rockers films all of the studio 3 sessions. He also edits them together and has started putting together limited edition DVDs of these sessions. For this drive he has put together a 2012 DVD which features footage of Pick Your Side, Hassler, Direct Approach, The Groggies, Careers In Science, TV Freaks, Wrong Generation, Born Wrong, Demolition, Violent Future, Kremlin, Suicide Dates, and Sids Kids which had Chris Hate from the Viletones, Mickey Skin from the Curse, Barrie Farrel from the Existers, Zero from ZRo4, and Fergus Hamilton from the Basics. He also created a 2013 DVD with footage from Abyss, Valley Boys, Anti-Vibes, Wastoids, Snake Charmer, Sluts On 45, Dead Mouth, Smooth Brain, Purity Control, Absolut, and S.H.I.T. if you make a $25 donation to CIUT you can have one of these or both for $50. E-mail me at equalizingxdistort@gmail.com with your name and address once you have made a donation. Then we played some bands on those DVDs. 

BORN WRONG - Destroying The Family (Schizoprhenic)
S.H.I.T. - Mind Fuck (Self-Released)
NERVOUS TALK - Introductions (Mammoth Cave)

Greg Dick, a long time advocate of the show, donated to our show and to Real Cool Time radio and we pointed out that you could ledge to more than one show as a way of demonstrating support for more than one show. This drive is fundamentally different in that we are raising money together to pay for a transmitter. We are all in this dire senario of having a compromised transmission until we can get that fixed. Help us be heard by donating at http://www.ciut.fm/about/donate-today/.

CAREER SUICIDE - Brought to the Brink (Deranged)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Litty oh Litty (Red Lounge)

CIUT is one of few independent voices left on air. Many media outlets have found themselves muzzled or compromised with what they can say about the lawyer. We express the frustration of what it is like to a Mayor that can't make it in to work most days creating dysfunction from the top down. Ugly Pop is throwing a This ain't the Ford fest with this song by Shit From Hell being released. Support independent voices on the radio.

SHIT FROM HELL - Mayor on Crack (Ugly Pop)
STIV BATORS DEAD BOYS - Son of Sam (Ugly Pop)

TV FREAKS played a benefit show organzied by the Suicide Dates  a few drives back. They have a new album. The show has the unique ability to record bands live in a Peel Sessions like setting. Please support these cool forms of documentation of the local scene by giving to CIUT so we can broadcast again.

TV FREAKS - Phone / Salvation (Schizophrenic)
VALLEY BOYS - Feel Like Shit (Self-Released)
VCR - One Trick Dog (CIUT)

The federal government has gutted the Ministry of Environment to bury the evidence of climate change. Meanwhile punk tells the story on things like air quality. Recently the feds have cut funding to the CBC as a way of getting rid of more adverse coverage of their resource extration policies. Stay informed by keeping CIUT on the air.

NO PROBLEM - Suffocate City (Deranged)
SNAKEPIT - Hogtown Blues (Self-Released)
URBAN BLIGHT - Toxic City (Slasher)

AVERAGE TIMES - Kraken (Hosehead / P Trash)
THE REZENTMENTS - Yer Whats Wrong (CIUT)

LIME SPIDERS - Slave Girl (Citadel)
KING KHAN AND THE BBQ SHOW - Tastebuds (In the Red)

THE FIRST STEPS - Airplay (English Gose)
THE DIODES - Tired of Waking Up tired (CBS)

Each week we feature a demo on the show. Kremlin's last demo and Snob from Vancouver were two great examples to be featured on the show. Keep this ear to the ground programming on the FM band by donating at http://www.ciut.fm/about/donate-today/. Our show is over but the drive for a transmitter continues.

KREMLIN - Sun Never Sets (Self-Released)
SNOB - Nature (Self-Released)

ADOLESCENTS - Amoeba (Frontier)

Thank you so far to Ed at FTFC clothing, Jamie from the Rezentments / Artificial Dissemination, Chris, Dave, Lisa, Rubber Factory Records, Greg, Nicole, Amon, Yuki, Daragh, Aldo, and Leah for donating so far.

For any band making a donation of $25 or more Noxious Art has offered t do a design for a flyer. We have put up some artwork of his in the past. Find the tag on the right hand side to filter his artwok for an idea of his style.