Radio - Sunday March 25th, 2018

Here is last night's playlist. You can download the show here.

POWERBOMB - Sycho Sid (Self-Released)

THE COWBOYS – Sittin’ Pretty (Feel It)
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS – Balaclave Lover Boogie (Self-Released)
DANKO JONES – Samuel Sin (Sonic Unyon)
NEO NEOS – Tanya the Evil (Another Label)
I.S.S. - My Miata (Sorry State)

ANIMAL CRIMES - V.O.T.D. (Self-Released)
SUDDEN IMPACT - To Our Glorious Dead (Diabolic Force)
DRI – Slit My Wrist (Death / Enigma)
MICRO EDGE - Attitudes, Feelings and Ideas (Self-Released)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Urban Violence (NRK)

TRUTH ASSASSIN - No Deal (Self-Released)
ARMS RACE – Zealot (La Vida Es Un Mus)
VILE GASH - Obedient (Youth Attack)
DROPDEAD - At the Cost of an Animal (Crust / Armageddon)
WORLD PEACE - Ascending the Bridge with Resolute Intent (Self-Released)
CANDY - Burning Towers (Self-Released)
ULTRARAT - Avanie (War Cloud Lathe Cuts)

HAIBOKU – Vegan Lunch (Estaria Chido Poder Volar / Rock SVB Discos / Cintas Robachicos)
G.I.S.M. – Anthem (Dogma)
AMENAZAS - Parque Nacional (Byllepest Distro)
SYSTEMIK VIOLENCE - Destroy the Future (Raw 'n Roll Rex)
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Haymaker vs. Manowar (SuperFi)

THE ORDER OF FLAGELLANTS – Stomp Out (Peer Pressure Productions)
CHROME SKULLS – Crushed (Self-Released) 
WALL BREAKER – Go Start Your Own Band (Self-Released) 
BIG BOSS - Two-Faced (Self-Released)
HEAT – In a Mine (Deranged) 

BEE-B-B – Undercover Sexist (Verdicard)
RUNT – DWP (La Vida Es Un Mus)
DIRTY AND HIS FISTS - Whistleblower (Feel It)
BOOJI BOYS - Locked Up in the City (Drunken Sailor)
OBEDIENCIA - Tabula Rasa (La Vida Es Un Mus)
MEAT WHEAT – I Hate Keyboard Punk (Verdicard)
JOE BIDEN – Downfall (Self-Released)

RIXE - La Clé (La Vida Es Un Mus)
SLOW FACTION - The Definition of Madness (Self-Released)
BARBED WIRE BRACES - Urban Violence (Self-Released)
FLQ - Tied Up (Bad Vibrations)

Bands from Chicago
FUERZA BRUTA – Cerdos Fascistas (Foreign Legion)
LOS CRUDOS – Asesinos (Lengua Armada)
CULO - Wasted on Wine (Deranged)
GAS RAG – Hebron (Beach Impediment)
PILLAGE - Their World (Self-Released)

POLLUTED BRAIN - Nothing to Hide (Self-Released)
SHITNECK – Waiting for Death (Self-Released)
DIRECT ACTION - Angels of Death (Bitzcore)
DISCHARGE - Dooms Day (Clay)
OBSTRUCTION - Detached Resolve (Pissed Off)

THE ODELEGGERS - Rett til å slå (Lukket Avdeling / Svindel / Byllepest Distro / Ute Av Balanse Plater)
THE PENSKE FILE – Last Chance
PIFFBREAK ARCADE – 27 Club (Self-Released)
REY EN RUINAS – Elefantes (Self-Released)
THE WRETCHED SIGHTS - Dhaka Deathcamp (Self-Released)

Tonight's demo features is Antibodies from Charlottetown, Prince Edward island (PEI). There isn't many bands from PEI so when we find out about one we like to feature them on the show. You can find their demo on bandcamp.

ANTIBODIES –Jock Violence (Self-Released)
ANTIBODIES – C.R.E.A.M.M. (Self-Released)

ANTIBODIES – F.I.L.R. (Self-Released)

ANTIBODIES – Failed Attempt (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, April 3rd, 2016

The show starts out with some original first wave and older sounding punk. Download the entire show here.

SLOBODANS UNDERGANG - Hög Standard (Sista Bussen)

BUZZARDS - Can't Get Used To Losing You
STARSHOOTER - Get Baque (Pathe)
MARK MALIBU AND THE WASAGAS - First Time Out (Self-Released)
THE FOX SISTERS - Right Hip Pocket (Reel Time)
THE TELEVISIONARIES - The Sun and You (Reel Time)
SLEEPY SLEEPERS – Väinö (EMI)
SOT HAEVN – Latterkick (Sot)
THE RUDE KIDS - Next Time I'll Beat Björn Borg (Sonet)

The offensive and noisey set.
THE DIRTIEST – It’s All Coming Back (Slovenly)
THE CHILD MOLESTERS – You Make Me Sick (Ace & Duce)
KILLDOZER – Farmer Johnson (Touch n Go)
NIG-HEIST – Balls of Fire (Thermidor)
FANG – Everybody Makes me Barph (Boner)

Rip it out and wake us up set
ANIMAL CRIMES - Lock Down (Self-Released)
AGGRESSION PACT - I’d Feel Nothing (Painkiller)
2 x 4 - Survive This Mess (Twerp)
ARMS RACE - Kill the Bill (Quality Control HQ)
BLOOD PRESSURE - Chronic Abuse (Even Worse / Way Back When)
CAUSTIC DEFIANCE - Who Are You? (Way Back When)
NEW BRIGADE - Ups and Downs (Six Feet Under)

TINA PEEL - Punk Rock Janitor (Sin)
THE METROS - Lay It On Me (Rip Off)
THE PUNKS - Quick One (Rave Up)
THE FALL-OUTS - About You (Super Electro)
THE LOVEDOLLS - Beer & Ludes (SST)

Runners Up to March 2016 Top 10
THE SOFISTIFUCKS - 13427 Cascade Ct., Corona, CA, 92880 (Self-Released)
TERMINAL NATION – Waste (Deep Six)
FRENOPATICSS - No al Servicio Militar (Vomitopunkrock)
THE UGLY - Screw the System (Ugly Pop)
THE TERMINAL FIVE - Against A Wall (Feel It)
GAUCHO - Desplacados (Iron Lung)
THE BLOW INS - Nieodebrane Polaczenia (Self-Released)
DOGTEETH – Possession (Self-Released)
TENEMENT – Vicious ( Cowabunga)

Top 10 - March 2016
10. ZEN LUNATICS - H.Y.U (Divs and Mason)
9. SILENT ORDER - Distraction (Konton Crasher)
8. BLOOD RUST - Sincerity for Sale (SPHC)
7. KOSZMAR - Nuklearna Supremacja (Konton Crasher)
6. MODERN PROBLEMS - Foolish Times (Not Like You)
5. KOHTI TUHOA - Voittojen Maksimointi (Svart)
4. DISSEKERAD - Ingen Väg Ut (Phobia)
3. CLOACA - Pig (Self-Released)
2. HARD SKIN - The Bovver Boys Don't Bother Anymore (JT Classics)
1. TORSO - No Commonality (Sorry State)

New band from Montreal that takes some cues from S.H.I.T. You can find their demo on Run State's bandcamp page.

DRIP - Death Dealers (Run State)
DRIP - Unleash (Run State)
DRIP - Coaxers (Run State)
DRIP - Heavy Feet, Sunken Eyes (Run State)
DRIP - Egghead (Run State)

Radio - Sunday, December 27th, 2015

As in keeping with the last show of the year this is the Year in review looking at the highlights in punk in 2015. Listen to the show on the player above or download and MP3 here. 

DISGUSTI - A Thousand Prickly Needles (High Fashion Industries)

Top 10 Canadian releases
10. ALIENATION - Election Fraud (Self-Released)
9. NO PROBLEM - Eyes of ISIS (Deranged)
8. ABSOLUT – Hysterias Window (D-Takt ja Rapunk)
7. CAUSTIX - Fucking Nightmare (Self-Released)
6. BISHOPS GREEN – Lost Generation (Rebellion)
5. ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION – Politix of Violence (Seminal)
4. THE PAGANS OF NORTHUMBERLAND – 20 Years (Self-Released)
3. ANIMAL CRIMES - V.O.T.D. (Self-Released)
2. THE CHAIN – Your Mistake (Self-Released)
1. BRUTE FORCE Demo – White Middle Class (Self-Released)

Top 10 7” eps
10. RIXE “Coups & Blessures” ep - Coups & Blessures
9. PISSING MATCH – No Regard (Self-Released)
8. FAST ASLEEP – Automaul (Deep Six)
7. URBAN SAVAGE – The End – (Savage)
6. PURE DISGUST “Chained” ep - Race War – (Katorga Works / Quality Control HQ)
5. DIRECT YOUTH - Get Away (Halshugga)
4. 2 X 4 – Mental Shock (Twerp)
3. PILLAGE - Cycle of Hate (Residue)
2. AJAX - Priced (Static Shock)
1. NIGHT PROWLER - Fight Back (Kram)

Top 10 LPs
10. TERVEET KADET - Lapin Helvetti (Svart)
9. BARCELONA – Pasión (La Vida Es Un Mus)
8. ANTI-CORPOS – Policia Genocida (No Gods No Masters / Emancypunx)
7. NO TOLERANCE - Not For Me (Painkiller)
6. DEAD HERO – Ladrones (Discos MMM)
5. RED DEATH – Perpetrator (Grave Mistake / Hardware)
4. LONG KNIFE - Burning Will (Long Knife)
3. CRUTCHES – Avbruten (Not Enough)
2. CHAIN RANK - Time For You To Leave (Self-Released)
1. PARANOID - Nangijala (Shigo No Sekai) (D-Takt ja Rapunk)

Top 10 Demos
10. BLANK BODIES - Broadcast Carnage (Self-Released)
9. BREAKOUT - In Our Hands-Recruiter (Self-Released)
8. STRUTTER - Lunch Lady (Self-Released)
7. PRESSING ON - There Is A Way (Self-Released)
6. JAVLA - Creature Comforts (Self-Released)
5. LOS CAIDOS – Cicatrices (Self-Released)
4. C.I.B. – Hallelujah (Self-Released)
3. AGGRESSION PACT - Feeble Mind Fucked Life (Self-Released)
2. CONCEALED BLADE - False Gods (Self-Released)
1. G.L.O.S.S. (We're From The Future) (Self-Released)

Rob’s Top 10
10. THE ATOM AGE - It's a Mess (Self-Released)
9. DIRTY FENCES - These Freaks (Slovenly)
8. LONG KNIFE - Sharpened Bone (Long Knife Records)
7. CHROME CRANKS - Driving Bad (HoZac)
6. THE PAGANS - I Juvenile (Soul Jazz)
5. NIGHT BIRDS - In The Red/In The Black (Fat Wreck)
4. MAGISTER LUDI - We're Loud (Slovenly)
3. ROYAL HEADACHE - Need You (What's Your Rupture?)
2. G.L.O.S.S - Outcast Stomp (Self-Released)
1. WHITE REAPER - Make Me Wanna Die (Polyvinyl)

Tonight’s demo feature is from Halifax and features a Dark Wave / Goth inspired punk band called Unreal Thought. You can download their demo at their bandcamp page.

UNREAL THOUGHT – Minds at Work (Self-Released)
UNREAL THOUGHT – Meaningless Stare (Self-Released)
UNREAL THOUGHT – Ugly Creatures (Self-Released)
UNREAL THOUGHT – Done Trying (Self-Released)
UNREAL THOUGHT – Visions of Hate (Self-Released)
UNREAL THOUGHT – Amateur Comfort (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, November 29, 2015

This is tonight's show which starts off with a feature on punk in the DDR. You can download the show here.

AUSSCHLAG - Kack Zukunft (Ostklotz Musikverlag)

We started off with AuSSchlag who are from Bitterfield which was an industrial town known for its chemical production. From the arts standpoint, in 1959 there was a conference that sought to connect the working class with the artists of the day. But punk was outlawed in East German in 1981 and punks were branded enemies of the state. AuSSchlag were one of the first recorded bands from East Germany. They started in 1983 and this recording is from 1984. The song translates to mean “Shit Future”.

According to an article titled “Did Punk rock have an impact on the wall coming down”

In the late 1970s, there were only about two dozen punks in all of East Germany. A handful of teenagers in East Berlin picked up on the sound via John Peel’s show, broadcast on British forces' radio in West Berlin. The first self-styled punks ripped their clothes and crafted homemade patches with slogans on them—often just band names like Sex Pistols or the Clash, but also critiques such as “destroy what’s destroying you” and the logo of Poland’s Solidarity movement. Though punks ran into constant trouble with the police, they initially had few aspirations beyond drinking heavily and wishing they were in London.

The first-ever East German punk concert took place in March 1981, inside the Yugoslavian embassy—something of a liberal oasis within the police state. (Two sons of Yugoslavian diplomats were in the band.) One hundred punks attended. A wave of bands sprung up in East Berlin later that year, including Planlos and Namenlos, and in the coming year they began to play illegal shows in artist studios, attics, and basements, and in their makeshift rehearsal spaces.

An East German government report from 1981 pegged the number of punks nationwide at 1,000 with 10,000 more “sympathizers”—this in a country of 15 million. Authorities began to worry and the state bore down hard: Punks experienced arbitrary detainment, brutal police beatings, and invasive searches of apartments and other spaces where they congregated. The police also began to recruit informants—often by extreme coercion. Finally, before the end of 1981, the “punk problem” was eventually passed over to the dreaded Stasi, taken up by the division charged with fighting political opposition.

“1981 and 1982 were like 1976 in England,” says Henryk Gericke, who sang in punk bands back then and in recent years curated a museum exhibition on Eastern punk. “You would go to these illegal parties in tiny spaces with 20 or 30 people pogoing around—your heart was in your throat when you got ready to go into one of those parties. It wasn’t intellectuals who would go on to join the literary scene or whatever. These were really hard kids, a lot of whom ended up in prison and were then ‘bought’ out of jail by West Germany.”

Reacting to the violence and harassment inflicted on local punks, a few protestant churches in Berlin stepped in to offer shelter, legal aid—and free beer. The church’s umbrella soon opened over punks in other cites as well. B

This next band is called Namenlos which translated to mean Nameless. Namenlos are credited with playing the first punk show in East Germany which was called “Punkfestival der DDR” and took place on April 30, 1983 in Halle. The band was arrested and sent to prison by the Ministry of State Security which attracted a lot of attention within the punk scene and within church groups. The band was released in September 1984 and reformed and then detained again a year later. Members left the DDR and the band went back and forth with various projects. The song we are going to hear is called “DDR Staatsgrenze“ which means East German border. We all know that the Berlin Wall was the main representation between the east and the West and Namenlos were from East Berlin. This comes from a collection of recordings between 1983 and 1989.

NAMENLOS - DDR Staatsgrenze (Nasty Vinyl)
PLANLOS - Moderne Zeiten (Self-Released)
NINA HAGEN AND AUTOMOBIL - Das, well ich so schon bin (Amiga)



Nina Hagen was the first German punk artists I ever learned about. I didn’t realize she was from East Berlin originally. At the age of four she began studying ballet and was considered an opera prodigy. Her father was a filmmaker and her mother was an actress. Her step father was an anti-establishment singer/songwriter. She went to Poland and upon her return to East Germany she joined a few bands eventually teaming up with Automobil which would become the band that she wrote the most memorable songs. The song I know her most for is a song called “TV Glotzer” which is a cover of the Tubes song “White Punks on Dope”. If you have never heard that song you should dig it up. The song I want to play for you is from her first recording which was released in 1974. Given how early this recording is the recording has earned Nina Hagen the moniker “Godmother of punk”. The song we are going to hear comes off of an album titled “Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen” which translates to mean “You forgot the colour film” and is a subtle dig at the sterile gray communist state. I chose a song off this because it is lesser known but you can see the transition in this proto punk era and East Berlin had a band that played that kind of material. Here is a song from that release called “Das, well ich so schon bin” and demonstrates the theatrical hard rock compositions that Nina Hagen was known for on her first three releases. You can see a video of Nina Hagen performing the title track of this record and they shot it in black and white to go along with the meaning of the song.

SCHLEIM-KEIM were a punk band from Eufrat, which is near Leipizig. They formed in 1981 and played their first show on December 11, 1981 at the Erfurt Joahnnes Langue House, which was the first punk show Erfurt. They mostly played ecclesisatical workshops hosted by the churches. The band built their own instruments which will help explain how the sound is rough. The guitar was built with cables from a bicycle used as strings on the guitar. The drummer was able to buy a kit by selling brass knuckles to hooligans and was able to get enough money to buy pieces of the kit. Aggressive Producktions releases a split by the band which is known as the first punk record from East Germany. The split was called “DDR von unten/eNDe “ which means “DDR from below”. Otze and Klaus were brothers and lived on a farm. When the record came out the Stasi rounded them up and detained them in solitary confinement for a number of months. Otze the songer was questioned for 13 hours straight. The crime they committed was illegal contact with enemy forces and anti national agitation, which were trumped up charge because the person who smuggled the tapes out was Sascha Andersen from the band Zwitschermaschine. A great history of the band lives at http://www.killfromtheheart.com/bands.php?id=1796 . We are going to play a song from that called

SCHLEIM KEIM – Untergrund und Arachie (Aggressive Producktions)
ZWITSCHERMASCHINE – Untergrund Ist Strategie (Aggressive Producktions)

So Zwitschermaschine were on the split with Schleim-Keim. They were instrumental in pulling this together. Sascha Anderson from the band was later revealed that he was working for the Stasi, the East German secret police and was put in to infiltrate the East German punk scene.

Rosa Beton were from East Berlin. They were considered for one of the first punk releases. This recording comes from a live show that became a demo.

ROSA BETON – Berlin (Self-Released)
PARANOIA – Kidpunx Verpiist Euch (Robin Hood)

In 1982 a band from Dresden formed called Paranoia. They played East Berlin, Karl Marx Stadt, and Leipzig. In December 1984 they recorded a cassette called “Here We are for everyone who needs a cult band”. The demo got out to Bremen and to a label called Weird System, but the sound quality was too rough so they didn’t release it. However word got back to the Stasi that this recording was in the West and so the band was penalized and needed permission to play shows. Sascha Anderson got them a regular rehearsal space to practice in, but the band wound up breaking up in 1985.

In 1979 a band called Die Deutschen Kinder (The German Children) started up in Eisenberg. The band started writing songs in 1981. Most of these are rehearsal recordings. But they are pretty good. In this collection they do a punk cover of “Forever Young”, but they call it “Forever Punk” which breaks into “If the Punks are United”. It’s a clever medley.

DIE DEUTSCHEN KINDER - Für Immer Punk

L’Attentat were a band from Leipzig. They formed out of an earlier band known as HAU which was an acronym that stood for Half Milled Anarchist Underground. HAU started in 1982, the bassist was arrested. The band re-built from other bands at the time and then the singer was turned into the Stasi by the guitarist who was a paid informant, but this was only found out later. The band became L’Attentat and did this recording which was smuggled out to X-Mist who released it in 1987. The release was called “Made in the DDR”.

L’ATTENTAT – Bürgerkrieg (X-Mist)
WUTANFALL - Wann ist es denn soweit (Self-Released)

“Burgerkrieg” translates to mean “Civil War”. That was followed up by a band that was one of their predecessors and actually wrote that song. The band is called Wutanfall which translates to mean “Tantrum”. We played a live track called “Wann ist es denn soweit” which gives you also an idea of the crowd and the scene. They existed between 1981 and 1985.

In 1986, a band named Die Skeptiker formed. They were from East Berlin and they were part of a group of bands that criticized life in the GDR. The band is still actove today. This is from their first Studio recording called “Schreie”.

DIE SKEPTIKER - Verkannte Welt (Self-Released)
BUNTE TRUEMMER – Quit Holding Out (Self-Released)

BUNTE TRUEMMER are a punk band from Bad Liebenwerda which is a spa town near Dresden. This is a demo they recorded in 1988. Some of the lyrics for this song come straight out of “London Calling”. This is a song titled “Quit Holding Out”.

In 1988 a band called K.V.D. released their first recording called “H..I.V. Positiv” They are from Halle Germany which was the first city to hold an illegal punk festival in the GDR which took place in 1983 at the Altar of the Christ Church. KVD were a band that came out of this scene.

KVD - Wir lieben das Bier (Schlemihi)
ABFALLSOZIALPRODUKT - Krieg In Leipzig (Self-Released)

This comes off a compilation of bands from East Germany called “No Future” that came out in 1992. The band is from Leipzig. They started up in 1989 and existed for a decade. They are referred to as punk legends.

UMSTURZ IM KINDERZIMMER from Freiburg that existed between 1990 and 1994. This was taken from a collection of the band’s first two years of work found at http://hc-punx.blogspot.ca/2013/12/umsturz-im-kinderzimmer-demo-90-91-tape.html.


UMSTURZ IM KINDERZIMMER - Wir sind das Volk (Self-Released)
UNITED ATTENTAETER – Verräter (Self-Released)

An East German band named Die Anderen were playing a gig in Berlin the night the wall came down.

In the Soviet Union and Hungary and Poland, change came from the top down and represented the triumph of a reform-from-within-the-system mentality. Only in hard-line East Germany did change come from outside and below, catalyzed by grassroots protests. At the end of the day, East German intellectuals sought incremental change designed to create a society that, at base, shared a utopian vision with the dictatorship. Perfect the system, reform the system. Punk ideology, such as it was, rejected utopianism and maintained the simple, practical goal of casting off the shackles imposed by dictatorial institutions: Destroy what’s destroying you.

And that’s what happened, as the scale of street protests ramped up through the fall of 1989, forcing first the ouster of longtime head of state Erich Honecker and then the lifting of travel restrictions on citizens of the GDR. The importance of the youth-oriented church-based underground in causing these changes was emphasized by recent evidence showing the East German government planned to open the wall even before the massive, million-person demonstration on Alexanderplatz on November 4, 1989.

When at the end of an evening press conference on November 9, East German official Guenter Schabowski casually announced that travel directly from East Germany to the West would be permitted immediately, East Berliners swarmed to the city’s checkpoints. By 11:30 p.m. that cold Thursday night, the gates have been opened at Bornholmer Strasse and Checkpoint Charlie. Other checkpoints follow.

As November 9 turned to November 10, the streets began to fill with revelers.
“We partied all night there,” says Toster. “The club was right near the checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse, and we stood there—Easterners greeting other Easterners entering the West.”

“We drank with friends and wandered the streets,” says Dafty. “I went back home to bed in the morning, green in the face after what seemed like 20 joints and 700 beers.”
Toster and Dafty also made a decision there and then. Die Anderen was breaking up. The wall was done and so was the band.

DIE ANDEREN – Berlin (Self-Released)

Runners up to last week's best of November set
LEATHER – Coffee Drinkers (Self-Released)
WOUNDED KNEE - Tanec duchů
VACATION – Decaying (Self-Released)
AUSMUTEANTS - Echo Beach (Hozac)
GATTACA - Dej všem co chtějí (Contraszt! / Halo of Flies / MFL)
HALDOL – Time is not on our side (Self-Released)
FZ-10 – Hixteria (Self-Released)

NO NEGATIVE - Feelin' the Heat (Self-Released)
CENTURY PALM - White Light (Deranged)
UNREAL THOUGHTS - Minds at Work (Self-Released)
FOXMOULDER - Needless-Anxious (Zageme Beach)
MOLLOT - Black Boots (Self-Released)

Tonight’s demo feature is from St. John’s, Newfoundland. In a review in the October issue of MRR the reviewer says the tape opens skewing towards the S.H.I.T. of current hardcore, with pogoable 1-2 drums over some dynamic guitars and reverbed vocals, tough but not thickheaded. The latter half slips comfortably into the charms of an earlier time with a more straight forward thrashing style that reminds me of Jerry’s Kids and Urban Waste in parts. The tape closes with a Rudimentary Peni cover so there’s that too. You can download the demo at their bandcamp page.

ANIMAL CRIMES – Who Lied (Self-released)
ANIMAL CRIMES – Aggro Culture (Self-released)
ANIMAL CRIMES – Lock Down (Self-released)
ANIMAL CRIMES – V.O.T.D. (Self-released)
ANIMAL CRIMES – God’s Speed (Self-released)
ANIMAL CRIMES – Teenage Time Killer (Self-released)


New unreleased Career Suicide song
CAREER SUICIDE – Cut and Run (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, November 8th, 2015

Busy show tonight starting with a studio 3 session from October 6th with the Lightmares form Sudbury. You can hear the entire show above or here.

LIGHTMARES – Money Woe (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Aquarian Eyes (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Like Dreamers Do (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Everything Avenue (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Soup (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Hearsay (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – These Trying Times (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Paint a Dirty Picture (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Sweat of a Hero (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – So Free (CIUT)

Interview with Freddy Pompeii of the Secrets
THE SECRETS - Shout (Other People's Music)
FUCK FIGHT OR DANCE – Pakistan (Self-Released)
THE UGLY – Screw the System (Ugly Pop)
ROYAL HEADACHE – Electric Shock

Myanmar holds the first election in years that may get them out of this military dictatorship they have been living under. So we started with some bands from the "Anthology on Myanmar Punk". 

GHOST RIDER – (Tian An Men '89)
THE ANTS – (Tian An Men '89)
SUKARAME – Grin
UNITED BLOOD - We Always Remember You
MILLIISI KECOA - Ini Bukan Arab, Bung!
The last three bands are from Indonesia as the world's largest ecological disaster is a manmade fire used to clear the forests to make way for a Palm Industry.

Top 10 – October 2015
10. SPM - Washed Up At 18 (Floorpunch)
9. ANIMAL CRIMES – TAPE II - V.O.T.D.
8. THE VAPIDS “Punitive Damage” ep - Thin Skin
7. SEEIN’ RED “Riot” ep - D.O.M. (Way Back When)
6. NO PROBLEM “Kid Killer” ep - Never See the Sun (Deranged)
5. DERBE LEBOWSKI “Broken Glass” LP - Home Coming
4. NIGHT PROWLER “Stalin’s Boots” - Nam
3. ANINOKO “Aircon” ep – Aircon (Aklasan)
2. MUSCLES PLANT – Regret
1. AJAX – Priced ep – Nothing (Static Shock)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Chicago reviewed in the October issue of MRR. You can download the demo at their bandcamp page. We didn't have time to squeeze in the last song.

BITCHIN’ REALITY - Buzz Off (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - W4W (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - What Reality? (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - $cam (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - JungleJuice (Self-Released)

Top 10 – October 2015

Top 10 – October 2015

1. AJAX – Priced ep (Static Shock)

2. MUSCLES PLANT demo(Eat the Life)

3. ANINOKO “Aircon” ep (Aklasan)

4. NIGHT PROWLER “Stalin’s Boots” demo

5. DERBE LEBOWSKI “Broken Glass” LP (Spastic Fantastic)

6. NO PROBLEM “Kid Killer” ep (Deranged)

7. SEEIN’ RED “Riot” ep (Way Back When)

8. THE VAPIDS “Punitive Damage” ep (Surfin’ Ki)

9. ANIMAL CRIMES – TAPE II (Self-Released)

10. SPM demo (Floorpunch) (Knochen Tapes)

Labels

* STATIC SHOCK - staticshockrecords.blogspot.ca/

* EAT THE LIFE - 1719 W. Albion Avenue / Chicago, IL / 60626 / USA / eatthelife.bigcartel.com

* AKLASAN - aklasanrecords.bigcartel.com/

* NIGHT PROWLER - nightprowlerhardcore.bandcamp.com

* SPASTIC FANTASTIC - spasticfantastic.de

* DERANGED - 2700 Lower Road / Roberts Creek, BC / V0N 2W4 / Canada / derangedrecords.com

* WAY BACK WHEN - Taskinlaan 9 / 2361XM Warmond / The Netherlands / waybackwhenrecords.com

* SURFIN’ KI - surfinkirecords.bigcartel.com/

* ANIMAL CRIMES – 48 Franklin Avenue / St. John’s, NL / A1C 4L1 / Canada / animalcrimes.bandcamp.com

* KNOCHEN TAPES - knochentapes.bandcamp.com / SPM - suicidepactmusic.bandcamp.com/

Radio - Sunday, May 10th, 2015

Tonight's show starts out with an ode to the weather and how it went from winter to summer skipping spring all together.

TOTAL LOVE - Gimme Summertime (Self-Released)

We started out tonight with a Top 10 for April 2015.

KELLERASSELN - Selbstverwirklichung
IDNS - Global Abuse (Self-Released)
MALOKIO - Selvaggio (Self-Released)
DRUGS OF FAITH - Placing Bets (Malokai)
WASTOIDS - Nailbiter (High Anxiety)
DEFORMITY - Mannequin (Katorga Works / Toxic State)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Works For Me (Self-Released)
BAD JESUS EXPERIENCE - Ilta elämän keskipisteessä (nuncahkupunk / Popo’s Bistro)
AJAX - Escape (Katorga Works)
GAS RAG - On The Beach (Lengua Armada)

FASHIONISM - Where have all the rock n roll girls gone? (Hosehead)
NERVOUS TALK - Hit the Town (Mammoth Cave)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Just Looking (FDH)
TEENGENERATE - She's Alright (Crypt)
DOGS - No Quarter Asked (Rubber Factory)

NEW GODS - American Pleather (Painter Man)
RESTARTS - Painter Man (Self-Released)
THE NEW ENEMY - Benevolent One (Self-Released)
BARRICADED SUSPECTS - Inside Job (Self-Released)
ANIMAL CRIMES - You're Your Own (Self-Released)

CHROME CRANKS - Backdoor Maniac (Hozac)
LAUGHING HYENAS - Desolate Son (Touch 'n Go)
HAMMERHEAD - Anvil (Amphetamie Reptile)
STIKKY - Tim Yohannon's Christmas (Pintonium AG)
RORSCHACH - My War (Chainsaw Safety)

THURNEMAN - De ra_knar mina dagar (Gaphals)
LIE - Seams (That's Cool)
SYNDICATE - Commune (Self-Released)
T.V.C. - Wash Your Brain (Vertigo / Polygram)
SIERPIEN - Radioactive Ash (Same Day)

VICE SQUAD - Last Rockers (Anagram)
BLITZ - New Age (Cleopatra)
RUTS - Babylon's Burning (Strange Fruit)
TUFF DARTS - Here Comes Trouble (Sire)
EFFIGIES - Haunted Town (Autumn)

WIRED SHUT - Distorted Head (Self-Released)
KILL ORDER - Constant War (Self-Released)
HOWITZER - Concelaed Violence (Self-Released) Niagara Falls
DESGRACIADOS - Systema de opresión (Self-Released)
CHLORINE - Retribution (Self-Released)

Blockhead demo feature
BLOCKHEAD - Intro / Blockhead (Self-Released)
BLOCKHEAD - Bored (Self-Released)
BLOCKHEAD - Under the Boot (Self-Released)
BLOCKHEAD - Quarantine Me (Self-Released)
BLOCKHEAD - Death Shake (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, April 26th, 2015

This show features the third installment of Notes from Behind the Iron Curtain with a focus on Croatia. Beri Sabolic, who grew up as a punk in Croatia, hosted this hour and a half feature beginning with Paraf. Beri's credentials include hosting a punk radio show in Croatia called "Ispod zemlje" which means "Under the Ground". Beri also did a zine and record label called "Ill in the Head" which goes without saying that Beri is also a big record collector. When Beri moved to Canada he moved to Montreal and did two radio shows at Concordia (CJLO), one called "Foreign Accent" and the other called "Night Porter". 

PARAF - T Kao Krava (RTV Ljubljana)

PARAF - Narodna Pjesma (Založba kaset in plošc RTV Ljubljana)
PRLJAVO KAZALISIE - Some Boys (Suzy)
PROBLEMI - Sranje / Grad Izoilja

KAOS - Kaos (NE!)
TERMITI - Vjeran Pas (Založba kaset in plošc RTV Ljubljana)

KUD IDIJOTI - O Bella Ciao
GOLA JAJA - Pjesna Rada (NE!)

SEXA - Jeane! Jones! (FV Založba / Idle Valley)

BUKA - Ja Bi Jebo (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Disco HC (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Rupa (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - (Pts. 1,2,3) (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Stavljaju Mrtvu Decu U Bureke (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Tigar (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Nije Nego (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Najduza Stvac (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Paraziti (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Pasta-Suta (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Osjeti Se (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)
BUKA - Ona Pobriguse (Falšanja Kol'ko'š)

MAJKE - Zrunjen, Ojamuren (Slušaj Najglasnije!)
BESPOSLI CARI - Ja Sam

MOTUS - Vikend Ratnici
SATAN PANONSKI - Iza Zida (Slušaj Najglasnije!)

OVERFLOW - Isolation (Slušaj Najglasnije!)
HLADNO PIVO - Fur Immer Punk

We filled out the show with some new Canadian hardcore releases.

THE PROWLERS - My Vote (Aggrobeat) 
ANIMAL CRIMES - Fear (Self-Released) 
FLESH RAG - You Fucked Me Up, You Put Me Down (Self-Released)
PURA MANIA - La estafa musical (Self-Released) 
FASHIONISM - Breaking Out (Self-Released) 
GOMS - Goms Squad  (Self-Released) 

CONCRETE ASYLUM - Memories Trapped (Self-Released) 
BEGGIN FOR OXYS - Humiliation (Self-Released) 
LOWEST POINT - Bad at Hugs (Self-Released) 
BLOCKHEAD - Intro / Blockhead  (Self-Released) 
NANETTE - Esprit de Corps (Self-Released) 

Tonight's demo feature is the newest recording by St. John's Weak Link. I read about this review in MRR from this review and knew we had to get it on air. 

WEAK LINK - Bend then Break (Self-Released)
WEAK LINK - Hold Out (Self-Released)
WEAK LINK - No Mind (Self-Released)

You can download the show here.

Radio - Sunday, April 5th, 2015

Vassil Mester, who has been on the show twice (once with City Sweethearts and once with Absolut), passed away on Wednesday April 1st. His band mate, Travis, from Terminal Licks programmed the first hour of bands with Vassil and bands he liked. We mixed in some interview clips with Vassil talking about bands he was in and his influences. Exclaim has a memorial write up on him and there is a memorial fund you can contribute to.

RIOT99 - Destroy the City (Riot)

ABSOLUT - Tiring Planet (Electric Assault)
THE RIFFS - Kamikaze (TKO)
DISCHARGE - Why (Clay)
THE KIDS - Do you love the Nazis (Phillips)
RAMONES - Commando (Sire)
CITY SWEETHEARTS - Boys with guitars (P-Trash)
THE BRIEFS - Ephedrine Blues (BYO)
THE CARBONAS - Telephone Booth (Goner)

INCREDIBLE KIDDA BAND - Bitch (Detour)
THE EXPLODING HEARTS - Making Teenage Faces (Dirtnap)
PROTEX - Look out Johnny (Sing Sing)
THE ZEROS - Beat your heart out (Bomp)
THE BOYS - Classified Suzie (Vinyl Japan)
THE UNDERTONES - Teenage Kicks (Sire)
TERMINAL LICKS - Not Today (It's Trash)
STIV BATORS - Not that way anymore (Bomp)
SCIENTISTS - Last Night (White Rider)

Teenage Head are playing their 40th anniversary show as a band on Saturday at the Phoenix. We pulled together a set of the artists making up this bill which will be backed by Sid`s Kids. We played a song from Teenage Head's performance at Heatwave becuase I was just reading a book about John Brower's experience with organizing Canada's first punk festival.

TEENAGE HEAD - Everybody's Growing Old (Live)
STARK NAKED AND THE FESHTONES - Surfin Simcoe Stye (Live)
ARSON - Satori (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Shoeshine Boy (CIUT)
SID'S KIDS - Last Pogo (Screwed)

This week Canada has declared war on ISIS and will begin air strikes in Syria. Day 6 debated the declaration that this a moral war. The Sunday Edition breaks down the bigger picture of the politics of fear behind the war. These were some os the opinions I was hearing this week that lead me to program a set about war and Harper`s culture of fear. 

REALLY RED - Teaching you the fear (C.I.A.)
SOLUNSKI FRONT - Hirosima (No Profit)
WAR EMBLEM - Hard to Swallow (Narshardaa)
GOMS - Mad World (Slow Death)
IDNS - Unconscionable (CIUT)
VIOLENT END - Public Fear (Beach Impediment)
AJAX - Gunman (Katroga Works)
BLOTTER - No Country For Old Kids(Katroga Works)

This weekend is one of the holiest on the calendar with passover and easter lining up on the same weekend. Here are some contemporary critiques of religion ending with Cursed's "Guilt Parade" which is an ode to the big Good Friday parade that takes place in Little Italy. 

NOXIOUS - Sunday Fools (Rock Against Records)
IN SCHOOL - Acid Burn (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Holy Tears (Self-Released)
PISS TEST - Necrophilia (It's Halal) (Johnnycat)
GROSS - There Is So Much Celebration (Self-Released)
CURSED - Guilt Parade (Deathwish)

This week's demo feature is a new band from, Newfoundland called Animal Crimes. Their recent review in MRR caught my eye enough to have me searching for this recording which has a Vacant State feel in that SSD meets DYS sort of way. We ran out of time so the last song got cut but this should give you an idea of what you are missing. 

ANIMAL CRIMES - Criminal Realm
ANIMAL CRIMES - Dearnged Mental State
ANIMAL CRIMES - Fear
ANIMAL CRIMES - Lords of the Land