Radio - Sunday, January 16th, 2022

Tonight we look more at 2021 looking at best cassettes (PAPRIKA, MILITARY MIND, VALTATYHJIÖ, and DEATH GASP), best Canadian releases (CHAIN WHIP, PINK LEATHER JACKETS, FILTHY RADICALS, and ANXIOUS PLEASERS) and best re-issues (BAD BRAINS, NEOs, ZOUO, and VISUAL DISCRIMINATION). Think of tonight’s show like another mixed tape collecting some of the best releases from 2021. And in tonight’s demo feature is a band from Meaford from 1986 called FLECKS of DROOL – “We’re not the Meatmen…and they Suck”. Download the show here.

OUT COLD - This Virus Kills Time (Acme) 

 

Stephe’s Top 10 cassettes 

10. REAL PEOPLE - Augmented (Slovenly)

9. ASBESTOS - Le Fardeau Des Années (Rebel Time / Kale Borroka / Dure Realite)

8. ILUSION - La Sangre en Tus Manos (A World Divided Tapes)

7. DIRECT THREAT - Blood Pact (Iron Lung / Quality Control HQ) 

6. PAPRIKA - Insane Machine (Iron Lung) 

5. YUGO - Corrupción (Polze de la Mort / Calle Lubchenko)

4. SEMTEX 87 - Robbed You (Self-Released) 

3. ANXIOUS PLEASERS - Suck (Neon Taste)

2. DMT - Into Emptiness (Self-Released)

1. MILITARY MIND - Order (Self-Released)

Chris Top 10 cassettes 

BACARA - 盲と愛 (Break the Records) 

DEATH GASP - Executioner (Audacious Madness) 

OGRO - Caverna (Mendeku Diskak) 

PERVITIN - Kuoleman Juhla (Self-Released) 

RAMPAGE - The 80s Made Me Do It (Extreme Earslaughter) 

ROCKY AND THE SWEDEN - Up In Smoke (Self-Released) 

BORIS/ 形骸化イマジネーション - Ghostly Imagination (Self-Released) 

TERMINAL ADDICTION - Trauma of Generation (Headnoise / Enrage / Makima) 

VALTATYHJIÖ - Lukka (Self-Released) 

X2000 - Centro Demoniaco (Oscuridad En Mi Vida / Ruido Total Discos) 

DAUÐYFLIN - Munnræpa (Oscuridad En Mi Vida / Ruido Total Discos) 

YAKUZA極道 - ΑΦΕΝΤΗΣ (Extreme Earslaughter) 

Rob’s Top 10 Canadian releases 

10. BAD WAITRESS - Yeah Yeah Yeah (Royal Mountain) 

9. REAL SICKIES - Jeepster (Stomp) 

8. DRAGGED IN - The Great Divide (Cursed Blessings) 

7. STRANGE COLOURS - The Phantom (Slovenly) 

6. THE FILTHY RADICALS - Freedom 45 (Cursed Blessings) 

5. WINE LIPS - Choke (Stomp) 

4. ANXIOUS PLEASERS - You Talk Too Much (Neon Taste) 

3. CHAIN WHIP - Two Step To Hell (Neon Taste) 

2. IMPLODERS - Rip Em Off (Neon Taste) 

1. PINK LEATHER JACKETS - Downtown Livin' (Self-Released) 

Dave Stephenson's Reissues
VISUAL DISCRIMINATION - Crawling (It's Alive / Nemesis)
PILLSBURY HARDCORE - I Love Pomona (Black Claw)
NEOs - Fascist Rule (Supreme Echo)
ASSAULT & BATTERY - Danger U.X.B. (Alona's Dream)
BAD BRAINS - Sailin' On (ORG Music / Bad Brains)
REST IN PIECES - My Rage (Pipebomb Music)
NEOs - Opposition To All Violence, Even If Committed In Self Defense (Supreme Echo)
NEGATIVE APPROACH - Your Mistake (Taang!) 

KRIEG KOPF - Nuclear Test (Radio Raheem)
ZOUO - No Power (Relapse)

Demo Feature
Tonight's demo feature is a band from Meaford called Flecks of Drool. In 1986 they released a demo called "We're not the Meatmen and they suck". They released a split with BSL in which they were described by Walter Glaser in MRR as "suffering from a rather noisy sound quality, but their thrash (with good words) is pretty good. Overall not bad."

FLECKS OF DROOL - Anti-Drunk Propaganda (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - Spreading the Disease (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - I Wanted to See Him Die (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - Waste of Breath (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - Means One Thing (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - F.O.D. Rap (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - End It, Now!! (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - What Goes Around Comes Back Again (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - Why (Self-Released) 

FLECKS OF DROOL - The Others (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, June 13th, 2021

Tonight's show features the first episode of "Speed Kills" which is a feature on power violence inspired by the West Coast Power Violence project. There is also some new releases, some classics and a demo feature by a band out of Quebec named after a mining town. Download the show here.

RUDIMENTARY PENI - Path of Glory (Sealed)

SWELL MAPS - Ripped and Torn (Rather) THE STUKAS - Klean Livin Kids (Chiswick) PUNKETTES - Going Out Wiva Punk (Response)  RADIO STARS - Johnny Mekon (Chiswick)  DAZZLER - Phonies 
SPEED KILLS - INFEST

Infest is an American hardcore punk band, formed in Valencia, California in September 1986 by Joe Denunzio, Matt Domino, Dave Ring and Chris Clift. The band's album covers contained imagery of a political nature, depicting the reality of war and poverty. The group unofficially broke up in 1991, having played only a handful of shows outside California. Since 1991 they’ve been active on-and-off with recording and new shows. Scene reports from the time show that locals instantly recognized the brutal power of the band, but demo reviews weren’t as enthusiastic. INFEST - Where’s The Unity (Self-Released) INFEST - Snooze-U-Lose (Self-Released) INFEST - Screwed (Self-Released) INFEST - Dirty Dope Dealer (Self-Released)

Infest predated the term power violence but their sound and members were undoubtedly the pillar that power violence was built upon, with additional foundations coming from their regional bands/friends like Eric Wood and Pissed Happy Children, Pillsbury Hardcore, Cyclops, and Plutocracy. Matt Domino of Infest coined the term “power violence” at a Neanderthal (1990 - 1991) band practice, a band that featured his Infest bandmate Joe Denunzio and Eric Wood from Cyclops and Pissed Happy Children. The Infest / Pissed Happy Children flexi was Slap-A-Ham Records first ever release in 1991. Recorded live at Gilman, Feb 10, 1989.

INFEST - Voice Your Opinion (Slap-a-Ham) INFEST - Sick and Tired (Slap-a-Ham) INFEST - Mankind (Draw Blank / Deep Six)

Infest recorded 18 songs in the spring of 1988. 10 of these songs became the first self-titled and self-released 7”, also referred to as “Machismo”. These songs and the rest of the recording session were released later in 1988 as the Slave LP on Off The Disk. Some Off The Disk records are considered unofficial, including a later repress of Slave. Infest seem to have a bad experience like some of the other bands with records on Off The Disk, so Slave was later later repressed on Draw Blank/Deep Six with a sarcastic runout etching reading “DEDICATED TO THOMAS AND ERICH”, the guys who ran Off The Disk.

INFEST - Sick-O (Deep Six / Draw Blank) INFEST - Life’s Halt (Deep Six / Draw Blank) INFEST - Mindless (Deep Six / Draw Blank) INFEST - Machismo (Deep Six / Draw Blank) Before Infest unofficially broke up in 1991, Matt and Joe did Neanderthal with Eric Wood (MITB). Manpig started around this time with Matt Domino and Infest’s second drummer, RD Davies. Manpig recorded in 1992 but didn’t complete recording and mixing until 2010. Infest were rumoured to have unreleased or incomplete recordings. Some comp songs were released during an inactive period, 1991 - 1999 on Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh! (Slap-A-Ham), Apocalyptic Convulsions (Ax/tion), Fear of Smell (Vermiform), Dangerously Unstable (with Suburban Voice zine issue 43), Reality Part #2 (Deep Six), and Reality Part #3 (Deep Six). The Infest related band, Low Threat Profile, were debuted on Reality Part #4 with an untitled track. INFEST - Nothing Left Inside (Ax/ction) INFEST - The World Is Dead (Ax/ction) INFEST - Big Mouth (Slap a Ham) INFEST - Three Or Nothing (Vermiform) INFEST - Dead at Birth (Deep Six)

These songs were thought to be some or all of the rumoured unreleased/unfinished recording session. Infest took a similar path as Manpig, recording most of what became No Man’s Slave in 1995, but added vocals in 2000 and finally released in 2002. Some of the comp songs were on No Man’s Slave, and others were rereleased with different names on the 10” repress of Mankind. INFEST - Cold Inside (Deep Six / Draw Blank) INFEST - Upright Mass (Deep Six / Draw Blank) INFEST - My World My Way (Deep Six / Draw Blank)

While Joe Denunzio was imprisoned, the first Low Threat Profile records started coming out with a line-up including Matt Domino, Chris Dodge (Spazz, Slap-A-Ham Records), Bob Kasitz (Lack Of Interest), and on vocals was Andrew Beattie (No Comment). After Joe Denunzio was released from prison, he joined this line-up (replacing Andrew Beattie) as the 2012 line-up of Infest. While this band was playing a series of shows/festivals around the world, a 7” of NMS outtakes was released called Days Turn Black. One of these songs was intended for a compilation tribute to Negative Approach. Infest’s version of Why Be Something You’re Not was recorded many years later. INFEST - Why Be Something That You’re Not (Draw Blank)

The 2012 reunion line-up that evolved from Low Threat Profile, continued to evolve into Exit Unit with Domino recording both the guitar and bass parts. Instruments were recorded in 2011 and Denunzio’s vocals added in 2015, and later quietly released in 2017. The Infest live lineup has evolved more since then, replacing Kasitz and Dodge with members of ACxDC and Trap Them, but Exit Unit remains as the most recent release (and most recent known recordings) of a band that most closely resembles an Infest line-up. Unless there are more unreleased/unfinished recordings, the Exit Unit 7” could be the closest we get to an Infest swan song. Exit Unit - Blue Turns Red (Deep Six / Draw Blank) Exit Unit - As Statues Fall (Deep Six / Draw Blank) BLOCK PARENT - Landry's Video Kingdom (Glue Gun) N.V.S. - She Looks (Self-Released) TEENAGE HEARTS - Certainly Not (Primator Crew / Tough Ain't Enough) JIMMY VAPID - Nine Lives (Self-Released) NEEDLES // PINS - Baleful (Dirt Cult) PHANE - What a Fucking Mess (Phobia) THE AUTHORITIES - Talk To Me (Self-Released) NOFX - Fuck Euphemism (Fat Wreck) THE CHISEL - Criminal Crew (La Vida Es Un Mus) ZERO TOLERANCE - When We Were Young (

Demo Feature Used to be a band called RED SIDE BURNS, UNION THUGS, ACTION SEDITION. The band named themselves after the mining town Asbestos which recently just renamed themselves Val des Sources. There is an interview with them posted up on Rebel Time's site. You can find the Asbestos demo here. ASBESTOS - Mon Heroine (Rebel Time) ASBESTOS - La Ballade Des Vauriens (Rebel Time) ASBESTOS - Esprit D'Bande (Pom Pom Beretta) (Rebel Time) ASBESTOS - Des Royaux (Rebel Time)

Radio - Sunday, March 21st, 2021

As part of an ongoing look at punk from Latin America (LatinoAmerica Resiste), tonight’s feature has been pulled together by Porfiado and Ayacucho from the band PUS, a band we will finish the show off with. But we start with a contender for the first punk band ever. Download the show here.

LOS SAICOS - Demolicion (DisPeru)

Rock Subterraneo (Underground Rock - Peruvian punk in the '80's)

LEUSEMIA - Vida Callejera (OHM / Lengua Armada)

NARCOSIS - Triste Final (Contra Orden / Odios Los Discos / GJ) 

VOZ PROPIA - Ellos (Self-Released)
KAOZ - Reglas de Normas (Sin Temores / Odio Los Discos / Discos Huayno Amargo) 

EUTANASIA - Ratas Callejeras (El Topo / Cuaderno Roto Producciones) 

Peruvian Punk in the 90’s 

MANGANZOIDES - Sudando Frio (Komodo Producciones) 

DIOS HASTIO - Lealtad Al Alcohol (Bakteria)

METADONA - Privilegio (Self-Released) 

AEROPAJITAS - El Golpe (Yerbamala / Cochebomba) 

PTK - Siente Anarquía () 

Peruvian Punk in the 00’s - 10s 

ANFO - Latino America Resiste (Nosotros Mismos) 

LA IRA DE DIOS - Atravesaré (World in Sound) 

3 AL HILO - Reventando (Komodo Producciones)

MORBO - Si Maduro Me Pudro (Pichula / Cosmica! / Rock SVB / Cintas Pepe)

GENERACION PERDIDA - Atentando y Propagando (Noseke / Les Nains Aussi / Filth-Ear / Depraved and Devillish / Cryptas / Azko Social / Fight Your Mind)
HEROE INOCENTE - Barrios Altos (Self-Released)
DHK - Escuchar punk en el viejo tocadiscos (La Vida Es Un Mus)

Some bands from the current Peruvian punk scene

PODRIDO - Traidores (Self-Released) 

PUNK TERRORIST - Punk terrorist (Nuestra Rabia No Cesara) 

THE MOCOS - Mi Vicio, mi adiccion (Atake Wanka)

RATAS RABIOSAS - Ruido para una ciudad muerta (Cabeza de Vaca) 

PUS - Aniquila (Self-Released) 

Here are some new-ish Canadian releases that we have gotten in

DEFORESTERS - Municipal Geography Lesson (Self-Released)

RUSTY FEATHER - Pirates and Gold (Self-Released)

THE NAILHEADS - Suburban Punk Rock Kid (Self-Released)

ASBESTOS - Le Fardeau Des Années (Dure Réalité / Rebel Time / Kale Borroka)

WIRED WRONG - If Life's So Short (Self-Released)

THE LUCKY ONES - Stupid Song (Stumble) 

NO MORE MOMENTS - Let's Go! (Self-Released)
NO BRAINER - Lesser Beings (Self-Released)
CAPABLE - Barbares Du Nord (Les Etiquettes Mega Fiable)
WESTERN FRONTLINE - Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark (Self-Released)
THE SLIME - The Day the Earth Stood Still (Self-Released)
USURPER - Sacrifice (Self-Released)

Demo Feature 
MILITARY MIND are from Kamloops. They released a recording titled "Hardcore '21" in like a tribute to DOA. You can find this demo on bandcamp.

MILITARY MIND - Don’t Think (Self-Released)
MILITARY MIND - Order (Self-Released)
MILITARY MIND - Bled Dry (Self-Released)
MILITARY MIND - Insurgence (Self-Released)
MILITARY MIND - Perfect Family (Self-Released)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Headline Hunters (Fringe / TOHC83)
JELLO BAFRA AND NOMEANSNO - Ride the Flume (Alternative Tentacles)