Radio - Sunday August 7, 2011

Click for download

THE SECRETS - Suzie Peroxide (Bomb)
URBAN BLIGHT - Toxic City (Slasher)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Explanations (Schizophrenic)
CAREER SUICIDE - Brought to the Brink (Deranged / Kangaroo)
UNRULED - Government Games (Schizophrenic)

THE MUMMIES - You Must Fight to Live on the Planet of the Apes (Estrus)

THE GERMS - What We Do Is Secret (Slash)
THE AVENGERS - Teenage Rebel (Lookout)
THE RYE COALITION - Cigarette for a drag queen (Gern Blandsten)

SOB - Moral
PERDITION - Corpse of Life (Toxic State)
MOLESTED YOUTH - Dead World (Deranged)
TOTAL TRASH - Opiates

MATURE SITUATIONS - These Old Hands (Deranged)
DEAF MUTATIONS - My Feces, Part I (Static Shock)
MAD MEN - The Myth (Slasher)
CASTEVETS - Good Riddance (High Anxiety)

SUBWAY SECT - We Oppose All Rock And Roll (Overground Records)
THE FACTION - Skate and Destroy (Session 5)
CHANNEL 3 - I Got A Gun (Posh Boy)
JOHNNY THUNDERS AND THE HEARTBREAKERS - Born To Lose (Jungle)

CORGASM - Fight (Self-Released)
SOCIAL UNREST - Making Room For Youth
LOW THREAT PROFILE - Nobody Fears You (Deep Six)
BLACK FAXES - Upon The Vine
HOAX - Fagget
THE ABORTED - I Need Pills (Puke and Vomit)
AVON LADIES - Power Failure (Katorga)
CRAZY SPIRIT - I'm Dead (Mata La Musica)

ILEGAL - Krisis de Conciencia (Lengua Armada)
DUMBSTRUCK - Jehovah's Bastards (625 Productions)
LARM - Don't Wanna Pay Their Debts (Way Back When)
RESIST CONTROL - In Time of Actual War (Feral Kid // Shock to the System)

RED C - Pressure's On (Dischord)
OMEGAS - You Ain't Nuthin' (Deranged)
CREEM - I Hate You (Katorga)
DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 - Turn It Out (Last Gang)

SKINNED ALIVE - Confused by Funk (Self-Released)
SKINNED ALIVE - Bear Grylls (Self-Released)
SKINNED ALIVE - Funny for a While (Self-Released)

Kremlin demo

KREMLIN are a new band from Toronto. They are a three piece featuring ex-members of MOLESTED YOUTH and the drummer from the SCHOOL JERKS. The band plays mean sounding repetitive riffage a la BLACK FLAG meets the ADOLESCENTS. The emphasis is on scrappy in terms of keeping it together but this wreckless factor gives a little of the early California hardcore sound a la CIRCLE JERKS. The distinguishing factor about this band is the distant and echo sounding vocals, which bring a TERVEET KADET flavour to the mix. It is haunting and gives the band an x-factor with regards to their punk beat. This is my favourite band to come out of the city since the REPROBATES. For copies of the demo go to their bandcamp page. The songs on here are:

1. Inhuman
2. Duped
3. No Work
4. Kremlin

Flyer - Friday, August 5th, 2011

Review - “Songs from Nowhere” by Nico Taus

“Songs from Nowhere” are the reflections of the Sudbury hardcore scene that these kids helped build. The book is written by Nico who was the singer of VICIOUS CYCLE. VICIOUS CYCLE were one of my favourite band’s from Sudbury and they were around between 2005 – 2010. But Sudbury has it’s challenges. It is a bit of a shithole. The city is remote and north and is best known as a mining town. The big mine is nickel making the place better known as the Big Nickel. It is the kind of town you escape from. But it is a university town and as a result there is a small punk scene there that has been particularly great over the last few years and has included bands like the STATUES and UV RAYS. This book of Nico’s tries to chronicle the events of the scene over the last few years using VICIOUS CYCLE as the narration point. He starts with the band’s prior band PROVEN and gets into how the band changed members, recorded their different releases and got out on the road. Some of the story line has gaping holes. Some of his writing can be characterized as rapid fire recollections. The book is full of highlights but falls down with providing the back story. I would have loved to know more about how bands came about. The fights and conflicts. More of the stories behind some of the bigger shows. I hoped that “Songs from Nowhere” was going to be more like “Banned in DC”, which is the ultimate book for telling a scene’s stories. I feel the history of this era could have benefitted from other perspectives. If Nico had done some interviews and included those in here this book would have had a more well rounded perspective. It is the diary style that fails in telling Sudbury’s story I have done interviews with a few of these, so I know first hand that they have great stories to tell. Regardless, “Songs form Nowhere” is a book worthy of your attention just to learn about how these bands know each other and interacted. There are great photos and loads of flyers that I have never seen before. And indirectly the book makes the argument that smaller towns produce great bands and incredible scenes. Over the years I have seen this to be true. Think of the scenes in Hamilton, Victoria or St. John’s to prove this point. (http://songsfromnowhere.com/)

Deaf Mutations ep

Static Shock, the same label that did the recent Urban Blight ep, has put out the Deaf Mutations demo as a single. Originally this was a cassette only release recorded back in 2008. This is a side project with Dave Brown from Capital Death / Career Suicide fame doing the drums and vocals. Jonah Falco of Career Suicide / Fucked Up / Mad Men fame does the guitar work.  It was a one off project, but it sounds like classic early American hardcore. There is a great review up at the Static Shock blog written by Terminal Boredom.

MRR - Imants Krumins

Radio - Sunday, July 31, 2011

Click for download


TROUBLE IN THE CAMERA CLUB – Side A (Vile)
THE VILETONES – Screaming Fist (Montreco)
THE NAZI DOGS – Mongoloid (Zurich Chainsaw Massacre)
USERS - Kicks in Style (Rave Up)
REGISRATORS - No Situation (Rip Off)
STRAW MEN - Jack rabbit (Foul and Fair)
SCHOOL JERKS - Guest List (Cowabunga)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Jimmy Swaggart stuck his pee pee in my poo poo (Sell Out Activities)

VICTIMS - We're Fucked (Havoc / Combat Rock)
AVART 33 – Punkhierarki (Aborted Society)
FINAL EXIT – Punk Enough (Monument)
SMALLTOWN – Implosion (Deranged / Combat Rock Industries)

AGENT ORANGE - Living in Darkness (Posh Boy)
BLUNDERMEN - Don't Wanna Hear (Ragamuffin Soldier)
CIRCLE JERKS - Coup D'etat (Allegiance)
CRIMINALS - Parlez Vous Fuk You (Lookout)
DAG NASTY - One to Two (Dischord)

LAMA – Tavastia (Svart)
BASTARDS – Hallelujah! (Hohnie)
RIISTETYT – Painu Helvettiin Natsiapara (Hohnie)
MELLAKKA – Ei Oi Keutta (Hataapu)
RYTMIHAIRIO – Olympiadi (Svart)

RESIST CONTROL – Nothing to Hide / Words (Warm Bath)
LIEUTENANT – Work is Great (Warm Bath / Peterwalkee / Art of the Underground)
INERDS - Erector Set / DMV (Warm Bath)
GAS CHAMBER – Teacher with Imperfection (Warm Bath)
PLATES – Marching (Feral Kid)
BROWN SUGAR – Cocksmoker (Feral Kid)
DEATH TRAP – No Majority (Warm Bath / Feral Kid)
MAYDAY – In It to Win It (Feral Kid)
SCHIESSE KRIEG - Death is Nothing to us (Warm Bath)
ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN - Sin City (Warm Bath)

SLIGHT SLAPPERS – I Won’t Belong to Your Side (No Idea)
NUCLEAR CULT – Angst (Warm Bath)
WHOLE IN THE HEAD – Fight Prejudice (Warm Bath)
ABDUKTIO – Maa en Tahdo Olla Punk / Banned in Ylojarvi (Combat Rock Industries)
ASSHOLE PARADE – Conformist Brands / Unclean / Portalsportalsportalsportals / Gurgle Forth / Skateparks / As Nails Rust / This will sow the seeds of destruction (No Idea)
FUK - Sick of Having Fun (HG Fact)

BOMBAY OF PIGS – Useless (High Art for the Low Down)
BOMBAY OF PIGS – Still Getting Sick (High Art for the Low Down)
BOMBAY OF PIGS – Fail + Fail (High Art for the Low Down)
BOMBAY OF PIGS – All Came True (High Art for the Low Down)