Radio - Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

July 22nd's edition of Equalizing-X-Distort. We started tonight's show with a Top 10 audio playlist for the month of June in the world of hardcore punk. D'Arcy programmed sets around punks who had died in July. Rob programmed sets around Canadian bands with one set from the early scene. The demo feature is a band from Athens, Georgia that has definite C.O.C. and Bad Brains influences. Listen to the show here.


OSK – Crush Your Canadian Idol (To live a lie)

Top 10 - June 2012NO MORE ART – The young king (Kink)

GUITAR GANGSTERS – Never be fooled (Ril Rec)
SHIPWRECKED – Your flag (Crucial Response)
WEAK LINK – Can’t Let it go (Self-Released)
STEP ASIDE – Nothing’s gotta give (Life to Live)
BOSTON STRANGLER – Disconnect Me (Fun with Smack)
FACE UP TO IT – Nuclear accidents for dummies (Stonehenge)
SICKOIDS – Dive (Hardware / Residue)
SECTARIAN VIOLENCE – Dig your grave (Grave Mistake)
MANLIFTINGBANNER – I dream a world (Crucial Response)


RED SQUARES - Ottawa Today (No Exit)
ROCK AND ROLL BITCHES - Wild West (Ugly Pop)
BUREAUCRATS Grown up age (No Exit)
THE SPYS - Machine Shop (Ugly Pop)
POINTED STICKS - Apologies (Bomb)


THE EXPLODING HEARTS - Thorn and Roses (Dirtnap)
THE SLITS - Boring Life (Y)
JOHNNY THUNDERS - born to Lose (Fack)
DISFEAR - Dead Weight (Relapse)
EXPLODING HEARTS - Pretender (Dirtnap)
PAPER BAGS – See you fucks at the bar (No Front Teeth)


HAUTE COUTURE – Serious Shame (Shogun)
MINEFIELD Demo 2012 – Track 6 (Self-Released)
NOOSE - Regulate
HUNTING PARTY – Pleasure Island (Hesitation Wound)
KONTAMINAT demo – Costume (Self-Released)


SNFU - Seeing life through the bottom of a bottle (BYO)
MINUTEMEN - Shit you hear at parties (New underground)
OCTOBER CRISIS - Every Day (Psyche)
MENTORS - Police Hotel (Mystic)
WHITE FLAG - Cleocin (Gastanka)


EXTREME NOISE TERROR - Murder (Head eruption)
REAGAN YOUTH - Degenerated (R Radical)
GITS - While you're twisting, I'm still breathing (CZ)
DEMICS - New York City (Ready)
EXPLODING HEARTS - Your shadow


OILTANKER – The end of the rope (Profane Existence)
DRESDEN – Shallow Grave (Profane Existence)
GOURIDE - La finka has been destroyed (Self-Released)


Demo Feature
SHAVED CHRIST – Ages of man (Self-Released)
SHAVED CHRIST – Bury it (Self-Released)
SHAVED CHRIST – No crux (Self-Released)
SHAVED CHRIST – React (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, July 3, 2005

BOOMTOWN RATS - The Elephant's Graveyard (Polygram)

June 2005 Top 10
LORDS OF LIGHT - UFC (625 Productions)
ANFO - Odio al Sistema (Odios Los Discos)
PAINT IT BLACK - Labor Day (Jade Tree)
DROP IT - Counting Sheep (Western Front)
SAY GOODBYE - Misanthropy (Western Front)
KIROTTU - Uusi Vietnam (Panikkia)
VOORHEES - Drag Racist (Hermit)
BROKEN BONES - Advertisements from Hell (Dr. Strange)
TO WHAT END ? - Kasserad (Crimes Against Humanity)
MIGRA VIOLENTA - Otra Derrota (I Deal)

HYPE - O Canada (Reuben Kincade)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Kill the Press / Pantyhose / Plastic Punk / Streetcar Windows / Baby Killer (Self-Released)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Domination (Fringe)
DIRECT ACTION - Liberty (Bitzcore)
SUDDEN IMPACT - Caught Up (Self-Released)
TERMINAL STATE - Gun To My Head (Self-Released)
OCTOBER CRISIS - Everyday (Psyche Industries)
GENETIC CONTROL - Suburban Life (Psyche Industries)
FAIR WARNING - You Are the Scene (Self-Released)
ASEXUALS - Be What You Want (Psyche Industries)
DOA - I Don't Give a Shit (Sudden Death)
SUBHUMANS - Death to the Sickoids (Sudden Death)
STRETCH MARKS - Foreign Policies (BYO)
SNFU - Get Off Your Ass (BYO)
PROBLEM CHILDREN - Thrashing With Your Parents (Psyche Industries)

REAL SHIT - Myour enji Bokujinkea (Kangaroo)
RUINATION - Got Myself a System (DeadAlive)
THE CLOROX GIRLS - Don't Take Your Life (Smart Guy)
THE STOCKYARD STOICS - USA / Adolescent Chemistry (RRRR)
PAINTBOX - Koku (Ugly Pop)
HOMO MILITIA - Nict Nie Jet Peffekcyyy (Nowy Targ)
THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB - Imperfection (Troy)
FUCKED UP - Dance of Death (Deranged)

MISERY - Almighty Dollar (Profane Existence)
BALLAST - But After the Gig (Reprise) (Profane Existence)
HIRETSUKAN - Wellwisher (G7 Welcoming Committee)
RYTMIHAIRIO - Ison Gin armoilla (unknown)
ACCUSED - Life Kills On (Condar)

Demo Feature
CARDIAC ARREST - Cliche (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Last One Standing (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Love for Life (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Res Dig Mot Overhotem (MOB 47) (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - I'm Paranoid (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Vegetarian Garden Party (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Automatic Middle-Finger Erection (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Cardiac Arrest Anthem (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Symptoms (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Fortress Home (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Not a Man (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - A-Z and Back (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Abolition of Work (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - I've Had it With Authorities (Self Released)

REGULATIONS - We Know What To Do (Havoc)

Zine - Pirates of Doom #2

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This is the second issue of this Mississauga zine. This issue starts out with an interview with Steve Goof from BFG. There was an interview with Sons of Ishmael. There is an interview with Don of Reuben Kincade who managed Hype. There is an interview with the singer and drummer from October Crisis. Hype gets interviewed, which makes sense given john was playing guitar in the band at the time. There is an interview with Charlie Brown's Wang who would become Missing Link. One of the few interviews with the amazing Social Suicide from Brantford. There are interviews with Samhain and 7 Seconds when they were through Toronto. There are some explanatory pictures of skateboard tricks and some pictures of Gang Green and SCUM.

MRR Scene Report - London, December 1986

A scene report for London Ontario appears in MRR issue #43, which came out in December 1986. This scene report writes about October Crisis, Black Donnellys, 63 Monroe, Condo Christ, and a few others. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Scene report - Flipside 49

Issue 49 of Flip Side Magazine had a scene report on Canada. Loads of pictures of bands from late 1985 early 1986. the section was pulled together by Ugly Parasite fanzine and features photos of Death Sentence, Hype, Sudden Impact, October Crisis, Fair Warning, Trapt, Bill of Rights, Direct Action, BFG, DOA, House of Commons, Sons of Ishmael, No Mind, SNFU, and Nomeansno.

V/A " It Came from the Pit" LP

Psyche Industries followed up the "Primitive Air Raid" comp with a comp that featured bands from across Canada.  Psyche Industry was done by a guy named Randy Boyd who was a guy from Edmonton that re-located to Montreal to start up this label.  This comp was done in the spirit of the "Something to Believe in" comp. Randy approached SNFU about being on the comp when SNFU played a show in Montreal. The Belke Brothers knew Randy Obsure Alternatives, which was a punk record store that Randy had back in Edmonton. When SNFU got back from their tour in the fall of 1985, Chi's roomate David Mockford had just finished a course in sound engineering. His teachers encouraged him to take on this project as a course project which he did. Rather than use material from the next album SNFU decided to cover Warren Zevon's "Poor Pitiful Me". Chris Walter notes that "this was an unusual choice of covers for a punk compilation." SNFU chose the song because they just wanted to have some fun. The rest of the songs on "It Came from the Pit" are :

1. S.C.U.M. - Exit Death

2. My Dog Popper - Rock Stars are Assholes

3. My Dog Popper - Equal Time

4. Enigmas - Teenage Barnacle

5. Sudden Impact - To Our Glorious Dead

6. Sudden Impact - Drunk Driving

7. Entirely distorted - Abstinence

8. Count Down Zero - Count Down Zero

9. Ruggedy Annes - Casual Design

10. S.N.F.U. - Poor Pitiful Me

11. Problem Children - Thrashing with your Parents

12. League of Dead Politicians - Mr. Profylactic Man

13. Gassenhauer - Local Youths

14. October Crisis - Everyday

15. Stretch Marks - Old Man Understand

16. Nomeansno - No Sex

Flyer - Thursday April 18, 1985

Another big Jill show. Articles of Faith come in from Chicago. I think this show may have got Jill to start a label called Lone Wolf Records because one of the first releases was to be an Articles of Faith LP. Dead End opened up this show and October Crisis came in from London to play.

MRR Review - October Crisis cassette

Tim Yohannon wrote this review for MRR of the October Crisis cassette. This appeared in issue #23, which came out in March 1985. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.