This is Urban Blight's second ep and the follow up to the "More Reality" 12". The recording is totally overmodulated and fuzzy sounding in a way that makes you think these guys are trying to blow your speakers. The sleeve comes with a fold out poster of a mushroom cloud nuking the inner city kind of thing. They still sound like SSD but with a crust-ish distortion layered over top. Youth crust lives again. You can pick this up on Static Shock records out of Berlin. An e-mail address is staticshockrecords@googlemail.com.
THE BRISTLES – Porn Drugs Arms (Genocide) (Switch Blade)
ALTERNATE ACTION – Dead End Street (Longshot)
EMERGENCY – I Ain’t Listening (Step 1)
DOA – Don’t Let Your Life (Sudden Death)
REAL KIDS – Down to You (TKO)
CRIMPSHRINE – Butterflies (Lookout)
PINHEAD GUNPOWDER – Losers of the Year (Lookout)
THE RIPTIDES – Dragstrip Girl (Goblin)
THE LAST – Every Summer Day (Bomp)
9 SHOCKS TERROR – Screw this Town (River on Fire)
GAS CHAMBER – The Nineteenth Hole (Warm Bath)
LEFT FOR DEAD – Nothing there (No idea)
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE – Fed up (Schizophrenic)
HAYMAKER – Cameras in the Streets (Deranged)
ACRID – Panic (Dirty Kidz)
BLACK FLAG – What I See (SST)
CIRCLE JERKS – behind the Door (Frontier)
MINUTEMEN – Joe McCarthy’s Ghost (SST)
DRI – I Don’t Need Society (Death)
SOCIAL SUICIDE – Lokel Yokel (Self-Released)
NEGATIVE GAIN – My Old Man’s An Asshole (Pusmort)
DISCO LEPERS – Little Crackhouse on the Prairie (Shattered Debauchery)
THE HICKOIDS – Corn Foo Fighting (Saustex)
DIRTY SHEETS – Over the Thrill
EVIL GRIMACE – Give It Back (Dead Nuns)
THE GERMS – Manimal (Rhino)
MUSTANGS – Fergin (Dead Nuns)
POOR CHOICE – No Hope for Humanity (Self-Released)
SCHOOL JERKS – Passed Out (Deranged)
SHOCKIN’ TV – Kill for Sex (Milano)
SURROGATE ACTIVITY – Breakfast (Self-Released)
THE ROTTEN – Enemy of the State (Rebel Time)
SHOTMAKER – Public Eye Opinion (Vinyl Communications)
WHITE WIRES – Pogo ‘til I Puke Tonight (Ugly Pop)
ART VADUTILOY – Can’t Stand Ya (Self-Released)
ART VADUTILOY – Jerk Store (Self-Released)
ART VADUTILOY – Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That (Self-Released)
ART VADUTILOY – I.Q. Test (Self-Released)
ART VADUTILOY – Dammit, Newman! (Self-Released)
ART VADUTILOY – These Pretzels are Making Me Thirsty (Self-Released)
ART VADUTILOY – Goofball Blowhole (Self-Released)
MOLESTED YOUTH are part of Toronto’s newest wave of hardcore bands. They have been around for a couple of years in a different line up. Warren’s brother has replaced Sean on vocals giving them more of an early L.A. punk sound. Or at least it reminds me of how hardcore band’s today are looking back trying to recapture that essential anger that spawned bands like BLACK FLAG. And I mean pre-Rollins Flag. Like the way TERMINALSTATE were able to channel the Dangerhouse sound. Well Side B of this ep has the band developing more of their own sound. Songs like “Reparations” really demonstrate a coming into their own. A blending of hardcore speed with punk sounding accents has them straddling both worlds. They demonstrate a knowledge of the generations that make up punk without the baggage of having lived it. The sound really borrows and develops a sonic soundscape that is virgin territory while still sounding vaguely familiar. This is what you want to hear in a new record. A band developing the punk sound. I’m sure the band is happy to hear comparisons to SEX/VID and DEEP WOUND, but really it is somewhere more like trying to be like CAREER SUICIDE exploring early FLAG, STOOGES, ABURADAKO and GANG OF FOUR territory. (Deranged Records - 2700 Lower Road / Roberts Creek, BC / V0N 2W4 / Canada / www.derangedrecords.com)
Tonight at 8:00pm a launch party will be happening for Hamilton's newest record store. The place will be known as Hammer City Records and will be run by the folks at Schizophrenic Records and some of the dudes in Gunnar Hansen. The location of the store is 228 James St North in the Ricca Building. Refreshments and records will be served. The shop will focus on Punk & Metal vinyl but will stock select other genres and sub genres as well as sell some CDs and tapes and horror related books, DVDs, t-shirts, patches, and other accessories will also be sold direct or on consignment. Please note that the shop is located at the back of the Ricca Building and it's entrance outside of the Art Crawl launch will be from the alley off Robert Street. Opening hours coming soon! For More info please contact Craig or Leah hammercityrecords@gmail.com and 905-387-2471. Hail the new Reigning Sound.
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