Radio - Sunday, October 11th, 2020

Tonight's show starts out with a shot at Canadian Thanksgiving. Crate digging focuses on women in early punk. We play a band from Bali (The Boldness) for the first time on the show. Some great new material from down under (Gaffer), and home (TV Freaks and UIC). Reissues from Denmark (Kalashnikov) and Japan (Grave New World). And a feature interview with Al  Nolan about his new label (Cursed Blessings) which features a song from the first all First Nations band we have ever played No More Moments. And tonight's demo feature is Punitive Damages from Vancouver. Download the show here.

MDC - Real Food Real People Real Bullets (We Bite) 

X - Year 1 (Slash)
THE BAGS - We Don't Need the English (Dangerhouse)
THE AVENGERS - I Believe in Me (Dangerhouse)
INVADERS - Under Submission (Polyester)
B-GIRLS - Savage Fever (Bomp)

THE LURKERS - High Velocity (Damaged Goods)
THE BOLDNESS - Story of Bootboys (Self-Released) 
CLOSE AIR SUPPORT - Time For A Change (Pretty Shitty Town)
EAST END RADICALS - Border Disorder (Stomp)

KALASHNIKOV - Schlüters Kabinet (HUB / Adult Crash)
GAFFER - Stuck (Helta Skelta)
KAOS - Cone of Silence (Artifix)
TV FREAKS - Souvenir (Schizophrenic)
FOXYCONTIN - Little Willie (Sister Raygun)

INVALID FORMAT - I can see the future!... and its doom and gloom… (Secret)
UIC - Richard (Dead Dog) 
UIC are doing a live streaming event from the Horseshoe Tavern on Saturday October 24th.
PARANOID VISIONS - Ignostic Front (Louder Than War / FOAD)
G.U.N.N. - Brain on Gunn (Self-Released)
SKUNK - Corporate Death (Scull Crasher / Chronic Disease)
GRAVE NEW WORLD - God breathed his last in agony (Bitter Lake)

Interview with Al Nolan about Cursed Blessing Records

THE ALMIGHTY TRIGGER HAPPY - My brain won't leave me alone (Bad Taste)
CHOICES MADE - Don’t Turn Back (Self-Released)
SEIZED UP - Manic Decompression (Pirates Press)
DRAGGED IN - Hear Me Out (Cursed Blessing)
FULLY CRAZED - Vic Goof (Self-Released)
NO MORE MOMENTS - Burn It All (Transistor 66)
MALHAVOC - Masque of the Red Death (Epidemic)

Demo Feature
Punitive Damage are from the Pacific Northwest featuring folks from Seattle and Vancouver. They have just released an ep titled “We Don’t Forget”. In a recent review they were likened to No Justice, Life’s Blood and Limp Wrist. Here is a demo that came out a year earlier. You can find the demo on bandcamp.

PUNITIVE DAMAGE - Nothing (Self-Released)
PUNITIVE DAMAGE - No Compromise (Self-Released)
PUNITIVE DAMAGE - Enough (Self-Released)

Flyer - Saturday, June 22nd, 2019

Radio - Sunday, June 2nd, 2019

Part two of the Tomorrow is Too Late series is More Stupid Initials, more commonly known as M.S.I. This is a band that was very close to me and by that I mean they were a group of kids that I got to hang out with. They were group of friends in the scene, so they mean a lot to me. But they also played an important part of the Toronto Hardcore scene. They were Toronto's first straight edge band, but they didn't sound like a typical straight edge band. As a result they caught a lot of people off guard. So we try and get at the essence of this band decades later. Tim, Paul, Derek and Glen were in on the interview. John couldn't make it. And this interview was editted and produced by Rob Ferraz for radio. Photos by Kim Glaholm. If you listen to these on an MP3 player here is a download for an MP3 file of the show. 

MORE STUPID INITIALS - You (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Forced Beliefs (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Army Mentality (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Back in Control (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Choke / Fighting for Nothing (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Choice (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Generic Straightedge Song (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)

MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)

MORE STUPID INITIALS - Generic Straightedge Song (Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Addict (Bring Your Own Bands / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Infection (Still Thinking / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)

MORE STUPID INITIALS - The Border Song (Bucko-5 / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)
MORE STUPID INITIALS -Rear View Mirror (Bucko-5 / Schizophrenic)
MORE STUPID INITIALS - Interview (CIUT)

Flyer - Saturday, December 9th, 1995

Flyer - Saturday October 6, 1990

Zine - Drastic Solutions, Issue 3

Click on the image to open or save a PDf of this zine.

Issue 3 of Drastic Solutions features interviews with Friends of Music, Brotherhood, Malhavoc, and Sons of Ishmael.

Flyer - Sunday November 6, 1988

Flyer - Saturday December 19, 1987

Flyer - Thursday August 27, 1987

Zine - Still Thinking #2

The second issue of Still Thinking starts out with an interview with Alice from CHUMBAWAMBA (pre-Tub Thumbing days). Alice provides into Chumba`s approach as punks and asks the important question `Where are the women at in the punk scene?"

MALHAVOC are interviewed in their horror metal phase. James talks about influences which includes Flemish painters and industrial music. So this is insight into what the direction they would start going. And at the time they were working on a release with Diabolic force, which never came out. 

DEATH OF GODS were a hardcore band from Mississauga, also known as D.O.G. The band split right when their cassette came out and half the band left to form M.S.I. The group that stayed recruited new members  and would go on to self release an ep. They had a New York hardcore sound at a time when that sound was being carved out by Straight Ahead and Youth of Today. Locals liked them for that. But this interview has them not taking the interview too seriously and you miss the appeal of the band. Nonetheless one of the few interviews they would do before calling it quits. 

There is a scene report from Arizona on the Pheonix scene. The report is written by the drummer of YOUTH UNDER CONTROL. He writes about the bands at the time which included DESECRATION and LAST OPTION. And he writes about some of the zines, but Hippycore, which was the most well known zine to come from Pheonix, was not in that list. Odd because Jack from Desecration was a big part of the zine and Joel would go on to work for Profane Existence. 

ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE SYSTEM, from L.A., get interviewed. This anarchist band were in the process of releasing a 12" on Mortarhate. They talked about how direct action can work and were advocating for an anti ripoff promotion collective which targeted Goldenvoice. 

DESPERATE MINDS from Kamloops played in Toronto and had just released an ep. Sean, the singer was interviewed and talked about an organizing collective called K.I.D.S. which sounds like it was inspired by B.Y.O. and Positive Force.

There is an interview with an industrial band called VAROSHI FAME. And that was followed by an interview with DARREN COPELAND, a teen from Mississauga who did experimental music. This started reflecting the DIY alternative scenes and the influences of the zine contributors at the time. Even industrial reviews started showing up in the review section. 


One of the only interviews I read with DEAD MILKMEN and one of the funniest. The jokes about the Philly scene are hilarious. DEAD MILKMEN have great insight into politics. This was at the time when they were working on their second album. And they didn't do well on their Canadian punk trivia. 

There is a few fun pieces too like the "Radio Moscow" piece which is a made up story of spins and conspiracies reflecting Cold War mentalities at the time. There is a mock interview with DURAN DURAN which is also pretty funny. 

More humour and more industrial coverage.

Flyer - Sunday February 8, 1987