Radio: EXD 1386 - Sunday May 3, 2026

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This is episode 1386 of EXD and was put together by Andre Zadorozny, Bee Traverse, Christian Overall, Rob Ferraz, and Stephen Perry. On this episode:

• No Wave set featuring Ludus, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Friction 
• Show review of the Straight Ahead reunion in Brooklyn 
• Interview with the filmmakers from Nash the Slash Rises Again 
• New releases by Ain’t Right, Ultra Razzia, Amas, Cress, Cell Deth, and Mock Execution And our demo feature by Inhumane who are brand new out of Hamilton 

SYSTEMATIC DEATH - Liar (Selfish) 

No-Wave (Bee) 

LUDUS - I can’t Swim I have Nightmares (New Hormones) 

PUPPET WIPES - Athletic Table and What (Siltbreeze) 

AKA - Mental Timebombs (Seouldog)

TEENAGE JESUS & THE JERKS - The Closet Live at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto August 3-4 1978 (Other People) 

FRICTION - I Can Tell (Pass Records) 

Straight Ahead Show Review Set (Andre)

STRAIGHT AHEAD - Spirit of Youth/Straight Ahead (Think Right / I Risk Records) 

GORILLA BISCUITS - Two Sides (Revelation)  

BREAKDOWN - Vengeance (Self-Released) 

TOKEN ENTRY - Over You (Mad At The World) 

BURNING LORD - Warlock’s Revenge (Self-Released) 

FRÖTHING MAD - Your Life Against Mine (Self-Released)  

New releases and Teasers (Chris) 

AIN’T RIGHT - Lame Dans La Tête (Pils / Primator Crew) 

ULTRA RAZZIA - Ode À La Nuit (Pils / Primator Crew) 

CRIPPLED FOX - You Dance As They Whistle (Drinkin’ Beer In Bandanas) 

AMAS - From South America to South Helton (GYO)

CRESS - You Can’t Park There (GYO)

CELL DETH - I Don’t Belong Here (Broken Skull) 

MOCK EXECUTION - Anti-Climax (Unlawful Assembly) 

Show Listings segment (Stephen) 

EYE BALL - Making Babies Smile at Me (Self-released) 

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Nash the Slash rises Again (Stephen) 

Interview with Tim Kowalsky, Kevan, and Colin Brunton about their film Nash the Slash Rides Again which is screening at the Hot Docs on Saturday May 9th at 4:00pm. 

NASH THE SLASH - The Million-Year Picnic (Ralph)

Interview with Tim, Kevan, and Colin (CIUT)

NASH THE SLASH - Children of the Night (Dindisc / Cut Throat)

Tickets

80s UK (Chris) 

INSTIGATORS - Dine On The Dead (Bluurg)  

DISRUPTERS - Windscale Cheeseburger (Radical Change)

DESTRUCTORS - Class War (Illuminated) 

FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN - The Reason Why (Mortarhate) 

SUBHUMANS - Dying World (Spiderleg) 

Demo Feature - Inhumane - Demo 2026 (Chris) 

Just released April 30th which I believe was also the date of their demo release show. The band features Kev, Grant and Hugo from Wasted Age.

INHUMANE - Mass Starvation is Mass Murder (Self-released) 

INHUMANE - This Place I Crawl (Self-released) 

INHUMANE - No Dream (Self-released) 

INHUMANE - Overdose (Self-released) 

INHUMANE - Rotting Under The Boot (Self-released) 

INHUMANE - Orchids (Self-released) 

INHUMANE - New Gestapo (Self-released) 

INHUMANE - Worthless Mouths (Self-released) 

Ska outro 

A-100s - Too Rad To Be Sad (Pirates Press) 

Radio : EXD 1245 - Sunday March 26, 2023

 

On this episode, a few new releases sets, a show focused sets, a UK82 set of classics, a grunge set, and a feature on Batcave.

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EMERGENCY - Cracking Up (Longshot) 

New Releases Pt 1 (Chris) 
VISIONS OF WAR - Bulldozer (Phobia / Loner Cult / Not Enough / Scream / Deviance / Breeding For Extinction / Up the Punx / Missing the Point / Profane Existence) 
SIMBIOSE - Blind Lead the Blind (Phobia / Loner Cult / Not Enough / Scream / Deviance / Breeding For Extinction / Up the Punx / Missing the Point / Profane Existence) 
DISPYT - Deras mörker (Elitbolaget / Hidden Beauty / Helldog / Throne of Lies / Deviance) 
SONDRA - Vår tid är förbi (Self-Released)  
CONCEALED BLADE - Destined to Suffer (Self-Released) 

SHOW ME THE BODY show review @ Opera House, NOSEBLEED break up, and new stuff (André) 
ZULU - From The Gods To The Earth (Flatspot) 
JESUS PIECE - Gates of Horn (Century Media)
NOSEBLEED - No Bite (Triple B)
KONTAMINATE - Crack Of Dawn (11PM)
BLACK DOG - Life Is A Lock (RoachLeg)
BAD BLOOD - Apology Denied (Flatspot)
3D & THE HOLOGRAMS - C4 (RoachLeg)
11PM ETERNAL FEST
- Tickets Day 1
- Tickets Day 2 
-  Day show at See Scape is at the door. 

Grunge inspired by the new Mudhoney release (Rob)
MUDHONEY - Move Under (Sub Pop)
TAD - Daisy (Sub Pop)
BOSS HAG - Sam (Geffen)
THE MONO MEN - Jack the Ripper (Estrus / KOTJ / Ghost Highway)
ERIC'S TRIP - Sunlight (Self-Released)

New Releases Pt 2 (Chris)
ULTRA RAZZIA - Six Pieds Sous Terre (Primator Crew / Warthog Speak)  
UNWANTED NOISE - Roll the Dice (Unreleased) 
RANDOM KILLING - What is the Point (Cursed Blessings)
CROSSHAIRS - Panopticon (Mendeku Diskak) 
MURDERSQUAD T.O. - Barstool Patriot (Self-released)  

Batcave scene (Rob / Stephe) 
What is Batcave when it comes to goth? Well it was a club night in London that started up in 1982 and is often considered the birthplace of Southern English goth. The name became associated with a goth sound and the term Batcaver was used to describe fans who would adorn themselves in batwing coffin necklaces to distinguish themselves from other punk clubs. And what was the sound exactly? So it wasn’t exactly anything other than goth but there were elements of electronic music, glam rock, gothic rock, dark cabaret, and death rock. Some bands that I think had an early influence include bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Killing Joke
BAUHAUS - Bela Logosis’ Dead (Small Wonder)
KILLING JOKE - Requiem (Malicious Damage) 
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - Christine (Polydor)

The Batcave night was run by two members of the Specimen who were considered the house band. Lead singer, Olli Wisdom ran the night and guitarist Jon Klein was the art director. Initially it started out as a new wave and glam rock night, but it grew to focus on the goth scene. So this next set will be bands that were part of that specific scene, starting out with Specimen and what I think is their most popular song.

SPECIMEN - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Sire)
ALIEN SEX FIEND - Outta Control (Crypt Music)
SEX GANG CHILDREN - Oh Funny Man (Kamera)
TEST DEPT. - Shockwork (London)

We’re gonna go out with some local expressions of punk in this realm. Nash's first solo performance and live presentation of music to film occurred when he played his soundtrack to Luis Buñuel's silent film Un chien andalou (1929) at The Original 99 Cent Roxy Theatre in Toronto on March 17, 1975. I thought I heard someone talking about Nash performing the soundtrack that he composed to Nosferatu live at the Bloor Cinema. He composed and recorded the soundtrack in 2001 ad Rue Morgue wrote about this release “Nash's soundtrack to the 1922 silent film. Nash shadows Murnau's plot from the sunny opening, through the Borgo Pass to the scuttling darkness of Shreck's vampire. Added to his original score are interpretations of Fauré's Requiem and Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre, a nod to the tradition of scoring Nosferatu with dark classical music. A formidable stage presence, this one-man symphony of terror has brought new light -- and shadows -- to one of the genre's earliest cinematic triumphs.” Rue Morgue But what I want to say is that I feel like Nash the Slash is a proto version of this style of music where mood and feeling played a more dominant role in the sound.

NASH THE SLASH - Dracula Unpacks (Cut Throat)
NORDA - West Over Seas (Smash)

UK82 (Chris)
BLITZ - Propaganda (No Future)
MAU MAUS - Clampdown (Pax)
G.B.H. - Passenger On The Menu (Clay)
RABID - Axeman’s Knell (Fallout)
BLITZKRIEG - Destruction (No Future)

Radio : EXD 1224 - Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Welcome to Equalizing-X-Distort for the night before Hallowe’en, so most if not all of tonight’s show has a tie in to tomorrow. Near the end Andre does a beatdown feature. And a Kamloops band named HEADCHEESE will be tonight's demo feature. Download the show here. 

THE FERTILIZED EGGS - Trick Or Treat Smell My Feet (Dirtbag Distro)  

Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights (Chris)

HAZMAT & THE TOXIC WASTERS - Graveyard Shift 

SKOTOS - Concealed Carry 

PARADISE TAX - Sneaker Wave  

STEREO JOY - Dionysus  

ORRENDO SUBOTNIK - Peso Morto 

 

Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights Part 2 

TOTAL SHAM - Bloodsucker  

BILLIAM - It’s Spooky 3  

GHOST BEEF - Mutants Run This Town  

DUMPSTER RATS - Monster Mash  

SILICONE HEARTBEAT - Slime City 

Emissions Hallowe'en (Dave Stevenson) 

LONG KNIFE - Scum (Black Water / Beach Impediment) 

YDI - Haunted House (Southern Lord) 

THE PROWL - Wicked Annabella (Self-Released) 

CRUCIFUCKS - You Give Me The Creeps (Alternative Tentacles) 

GHOUL - Proud To Be Creepsylvanian (Tank Crimes) 

DIE KREUZEN - Halloween (Touch and Go) 

PART 1 - Black Mass (Pusmort) 

BATTALION OF SAINTS - I Wanna Make You Scream (Taang) 

M.O.D. - Man of Your Dreams (Caroline) 

POISON IDEA - Getting The Fear (American Leather) 

Toronto post punk (Stephe) 

NASH THE SLASH - Blind Windows (Cut Throat)

TBA - Through My Fingers (Smash) 

JOLLY TAMBOURINE MAN - Sweater in Sri Lanka (Assembly Language) 

MARK MALIBU AND THE WASAGAS - Wasaga Showdown (Boppa Do Down) 

NEON ROME - The Magical Summer of 85 (New Rose)

Rob’s set 

THE SOFT BOYS - Wading Through A Ventilator (Delorean)

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Release the Bats (4AD / Missing Link)

UNWOUND - Murder Movies (Kill Rock Stars)

BORN AGAINST - Well Fed Fuck (Vermiform)

SHOTMAKER - Drown (GAS Religion)

Vancouver new wave (Stephe) 

THE BRAINEATERS - I, Braineater (Wrong World)

ZELLOTS - Vampire Love (Supreme Echo) 

FEMALE HANDS - Stop All Biology (Quintessence) 

UJ3RK5 - Booty Dread (Quintessence) 

SI MONKEY - Get Rigid (Friends) 

Beatdown set (Andre) 

BULLDOZE - The Truth (Self-Released) 

NEXT STEP UP - Karma (Gain Ground) 

IRATE - Awakenings (Self-Released) 

WORLD DEMISE - Can’t Relate (Flatspot) 

SWEAR TO GOD - Six Feet Deep (Self-Released) 

SUNAMI - Feds Watchin’ (Creator-Destructor) 

Demo Feature 

Headcheese are a band from Kamloops that we heard a few weeks back in one of Chris’ sets. They have a full length out on Neon Taste. On the label’s site they have tagged their release with comparisons to White Pigs and Brutal Knights.

HEADCHEESE - I Can’t Win (Slow Death) 

HEADCHEESE - Loss Prevention (Slow Death) 

HEADCHEESE - I Wanna Be Special (Forces) (Slow Death)

Radio - Sunday, October 31st, 2021

On tonight's EXD, we have two celebrations of life in the local scene – Adam Wood (Sick of Shit, At What Cost, and Life Imprisonment) and Jordan Prokopick (Tight Nuns). And a number of spooky punk tunes to keep Hallow’s Eve going right up to the witching hour. You can download the show here. 

THE DAMNED - Torture Me (Bronze)

Adam Wood, was the singer from SICK OF SHIT. He passed away earlier this week. Grant and Keith from Sick of Shit share their memories about Adam. 
SICK OF SHIT - State of Grace (Schizophrenic)
Jamie Problem shared his memories about Adam Wood.
AT WHAT COST - Everyday’s a Tragedy (Self-Released)

There is a gofundme campaign to help raise money for Adam's funeral costs. 

TIGHT NUNS - Tyler the Creationist (Self-Released)
Jordan Prokopick from TIGHT NUNS passed away. Cory played with him in the band and he shared his memories of Jordan with us.

TIGHT NUNS - I Went To Church Once (Self-Released)

Punx are fucking seeing fucking ghosts
DESTRUCTORS - Son of Sam (Illuminated)
ENGLISH DOGS - Nosferatu (Rot / LM / Combat)
MAU MAUS - The Kill (Pax)
ATTAK - Murder in the Subway (No Future)
RUDIMENTARY PENI - Bloody Jellies (CRASS)

ISAAC ROTHER AND THE PHANTOMS - Witches Brew (Self-Released)
THE MYSTRYS - Witch Girl (Orbit)
LES HELLCATS - Go-Go's Monsters go! (Fans of Bad Productions)
THE REVILLOS - (She's Fallen In Love With A) Monster Man (John Peel Session, 13/05/1981)
KILLROY AD - Giant Spiders Attack (Self-Released)

All crusties screaming loud nights
G.I.S.M. - Death Agonies Screams (Dogma / Beast Arts / Relapse)
DEVIATED INSTINCT - Open Wound (Prophecy / Black Konflik)
TERRORIZER - Dead Shall Rise (Earache)
ZIG ZAGS - Afraid of the Dark (Castle Face)

BAD MANNERS - Monster Mash (Magnet)
45 GRAVE - Evil (Bemisbrain)
TALL BOYS - Take A Walk (Big Beat)
THE MAKERS - Death of Mr. Monster (Estrus)
SAMHAIN - Horror Biz (Plan 9)

Gruesome punk hits
RAMONES - Chain Saw (Sire)
THE REZILLOS - Flying Saucer Attack (Sire)
SCREAMING DEAD - 20th Century Vampire (No Future)
ATTAK - Demon (No Future)
DESTRUCTORS - Northern Ripper (Illuminated)

Toronto new wave
NASH THE SLASH - Dead Man's Curve (Cut-Throat / Dindisc)
BLUE PETER - Do The Robot (Ready) 
THE GOVERNMENT - Get You Sleepin' (The Modern World Incorporated)
CRASH KILLS FIVE - What Do You Do At Night (Ugly Pop) 
NEGRO JAZZ FUNERAL - Happy Sad (Green Fuse)

PURA MANIA - La Aburrida Historia De Una Banda Cualquiera (Sabotage / Incendia)

Radio - Sunday, September 29th, 2019

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STIFF LITTLE FINGERS – At the Edge

NICK SMASH, one of Toronto's earliest documentarians on the punk scene,is back with a look at the Club called The Edge. 40 years earlier, The Edge started booking shows thanks to the Garys. Nick has put together an issue of Smash It Up to collect stories and unseen photos on the shows that took place there. Nick presented on the edge in recent appearance in his Library series and he agreed to come in and do a supplementary piece for his Alone and Gone series on EXD.  You can get a copy of Smash It Up #40 through Nick Smash on facebook for $10.00 ppd.  Here is the playlist that we used in the airing of this interview.

NICK SMASH – The Edge
MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS – Echo Beach (Dindisc)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
BB GABOR – Soviet Jewellery (Anthem)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
CHELSEA – Right to Work (Step Forward)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
PENETRATION – Don’t Dictate (Virgin)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
THE SLITS - Difficult Fun (CBS)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
ULTRAVOX – He’s a Liquid (Live in Philadelphia)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
THE MODS – Reactions (Ugly Pop)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
XTC - Life Begins At The Hop (Virgin)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
BLUE PETER – Do The Robot (Ready)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
KINETIC IDEALS - Life in Shadow (Mannequin)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
PROTEX - I Can't Cope (Polydor)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
THE GOVERNMENT - Flat Tire (The Modern World Incorporated)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
NASH THE SLASH–Dead Man's Curve (Cut Throat / Dindisc)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
BATTERED WIVES - Angry Young Man (Bomb)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
THE SPOONS – Nova Heart (Ready)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
DOA – Nazi Training Camp (Friends)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
999 - Feeling Alright with the Crew (PVC)
NICK SMASH – The Edge
TYRANNA - Back Off Baby (Rave Up)

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)

Zine - Smash It Up, February 1981

Smash It Up is a Toronto punk fanzine. Despite the 1980 date on the cover, the part 3 of the Bangkok interview situates the release of this at February 1981. The issues starts out with a page and a half of reviews for recent releases like Nash the Slash's "Deadman's Curve" and the Clash's "Hitsville UK". Other reviews included Spandau Ballet's "the Freeze" and the Au Pairs "Diet". An odd review is Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight". There is also a Stranglers ep that I don't know about but most have come out after "Raven" which came out in 1979.

Interestingly this issue tucks in an interview with Sector 27 which was Tom Robinson's band who is most well known for the "Glad to be Gay" anthem.

There is another interview with Jean Jacques Burnell of the Stranglers. JJ tells the back story to a riot at a gig of theirs at a University in France, which they were about to go to court for. There was a slso a riot at a gig in Queensland Australia,which has even mre nefarious undertones associated to a local politician who was carrying out a campaign against punks and punk clubs. The song "Nuclear Device" was written about said politician.

There is an interview with Fred Frith about his record contract and had an appeal to punks for his Zappa meets Cage approach to guitar.

A reggae band by the name of One Love is interviewed. This band was a band made up of Ishan People (who were in the Last Pogo) and Mystics.

There is an interview with L'Etranger when they were a four piece. I found it intersting to learn about their appreciation of the Mods and that scene.

There is an interview with Drastic Measures who I remember seeing on the video shows and getting some radio airplay back in the day. I didn't realize that one of the members was in the Dishes.

There is a hilarious write up on the U-Knows which was an award show for alternative bands used to make a statement about the Junos. Sounds like it was just as bad as the ceremony it set about parodying.

Part 3 of the Bangkok interview appears here but it looses something from the absense of the other two parts.

 

This issue is here thanks to the archives of Dhaibid James, host of Moondog Ballroom on CIUT.

Flyer - Monday, February 11th - Saturday, February 16th, 1980

St. Valentine's Week Massacre

Flyer - Sunday September 1 - Saturday September 9, 1978

Another huge line up with a week and a half full of punk shows at the Shoe. The new line up of the Viletones culminating with the Heartbreakers coming into to town.

Flyer - Monday July 17 - Saturday July 29, 1978

This was a flyer for the Horseshoe done done by Colin Brunton, who would later go on to make the Last Pogo film.