Radio - Sunday, February 8th, 2015

Here is the show for Sunday, February 8th, 2015. We start out with an ode to the weather by Boston's Baja Blitz which sums how we feel about the non-stop snowstorms as of late. We start out with ripping new hardcore. Download the show here.

BAJA BLITZ - (Intro) Hibernation (Self-Released)

GAS RAG - On The Beach (Even Worse)
AJAX - Escape (Katorga Works)
HASSLER - Identity theft (Deranged)
BOSTON STRANGLER - Fire (Self-Released)
SLUMS OF THE FUTURE - Space prison (Compressed Thought)

Tonight's show also sees Rob returning to the co-host deck with material that reflects his recent trip to L.A.

X - Riding with Mary (Elektra)
WEIRDOS - Solitary Confinement (Frontier)
TEENGENERATE - Six and Change (Crypt)
THEE MILKSHAKES - Don't Destroy Me (Pink Dust)
THE NERVES - Walking Out on Love (Alive / Bomp)

AMERICAN HATE - Social Exposure (Not Normal Tapes)
CULTURE SHOCK - Lone Wolves (Self-Released)
DIRTY WORK - Stepped In It (Self-Released)
FARANG - Ear of the Bull (Self-Released)
FAMILY OUTING - Psychic Leech (Self-Released)
BIG CRUX - Warship (Self-Released)

CIRCLE JERKS - Behind the Door (Frontier)
CHEIFS - Eddie's Revenge (Hate)
THE CRAMPS - I can't find my mind (IRS)
THE PULSATING HEARTBEATS - Talkin' about you (Crypt)

WOUNDED KNEE - DIY (Spook)
GROSS - My Cool Friends (Self-Released)
GOMS - Frost Bite (Self-Released)
CAVE STATE - Self Extinct (To Live a Lie)
IRON LUNG - Strap (Iron Lung)
GETS WORSE - Boring Legend (Dead Heroes)
COLUMN OF HEAVEN - A Modern Day Sodom (SPHC)

IMPALERS - Acousmetre (Can O' Bees)
ABSOLUT - Noose (D'takt & Rapunk)
ASESINATO DEL PODER - Tortura y Crimenes de Guerra (Infeccion Sonnica)
USELESS CUNTS - Uhrit (Rapina / Hakaniemi / Bad Hair for Life)
BATTESCARD - Zeke (Self-Released)
JACKALS - No Solution (Hardware)
SUBSISTENCH - Blvd. Rene Levesque (Swollen City)

BÖRN - Þú skuldar mér að vera sexý (Self-Released)
COSMIC TOILET - Star Stuff (Low Earth Orbit)
FACE THE RAIL - Live & Try (Katorga Works)
PURA MANIA - Tus ojos (CV)
PORKERIA - Sudor (540)

FRAU - High Heels (Self-Released)
GLAMOUR GIRLS - Unhealthy (More Power Tapes)
GENERACION SUICIDA - Rechazados Por (Going Underground)
DESPERFECTO - Fracaso (Polze de la Mort)
FASTIC - Facebook Addict (Polze de la Mort)

SPINE - Hall of Death (Self-Released)
PRESKOOL DROPOUTS - Dropout (Twerp)
2X4 - The Law is Theirs (Self-Released)
INMATES - Sushi 39.6 (Painkiller)
BLACKHOLE - Wolves in Pig's Clothing (Or Block)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Toronto that will be recording in Studio 3 on Tuesday. here is their first demo which you can download at http://brauer.bandcamp.com/album/five-songs.

BRAUER - Lesley Gore (Self-Released)
BRAUER - New Disguise (Self-Released)
BRAUER - Prison Sushi (Self-Released)
BRAUER - Castlerock (Self-Released)
BRAUER - Hot Seat (Empire) (Self-Released)
BRAUER - Iron-On (Self-Released)

Flyer - Thursday, November 20th, 2014

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20th @ Sneaky Dee's
IRON LUNG
ANASAZI
GLUE
COLUMN OF HEAVEN
ANIMAL MOTHER
FARANG

this show might be followed by a Karaoke after party

Radio - Sunday, November 16th, 2014

Tonight's show was guest hosted by Greg Benedetto, the promoter behind Not Dead Yet. Not Dead Yet is an annual punk fest organized in Toronto over the better part of a week and this is the fourth year if you don't take into consideration the Fucked Up Hallowe'en weekends. Because the line up has been fluid and in order to get a flavour for the line up Greg came in to play music from bands at this year's fest. Not Dead Yet unofficially starts this Tuesday with an art show at S.H.I.B.G.B.'S (See the show listings on the side) but for the full details of the fest go to http://notdeadyettoronto.tumblr.com/.


FORWARD - What is the Meaning of Love

FARANG - You tore your shirt off / Gumboots (Bad Vibrations)
ANASAZI - Bone Collector (Toxic State)
COLUMN OF HEAVEN - Holy things are for the holy (Iron Lung)
GLUE - Enemy / Backward Society (Video Disease)
IRON LUNG - Shovel (Iron Lung)

S.H.I.T. - Feeding Time (Static Shock)
WARCRY - White flag (Feral Ward)
LIFE CHAIN - Recipe for Disaster (Imminent Destruction)
TERCER MUNDO - Intro / Depression / No Importan (Cintas Pepe)
PLEASURE LEFTISTS - Elephant Man (Ktorga Works)
INSTITUTE - Giddy Boys (Katorga Works)

ANCIENT HEADS - Intro / Waste of Life / Identity Shift (Climbin' Aboard)
VACANT STATE - Dying World (Deranged)
COKE BUST - Iron Spiral (Grve Mistake)
HASSLER - Amoral / Trinwreck (Beach Impediment)
MINDSET - Be the Spark (React!)
COLD WORLD - Cold World (Wank all night)

EARTH GIRLS - We've Never Met (Grave Mistake)
DIE - Ready to Rot (Sonic terror Discs)
CAREER SUICIDE - Ply the Part (Deranged)
HOAX - Down (Youth Attack)
VCR - Fake Freaks (Barfbag)
LA MISMA - Guerras Slenciosas (Toxic State)
PROXY - Police Car (Discos MM)

DEMOLITION - Big John's Mosh (Triple B)
POWER TRIP - Crossbreaker (Southern Lord)
MINUS - Shackled (Closed Casket Activities)
SOUL SEARCH - Damaged to be (Closed Casket Activities)
TENEMENT - Freak cast in iron (Cowabunga)
MARKED MEN - Fix my brain (Dirtnap)

Tercer Mundo from Mexico City will be playing the fest. They represent the first band from Mexico to play here. Some of the members have another band called Muerte so we featured them in our demo feature. You can download the demo at bandcamp.

MUERTE - Tortura (Self-Released)
MUERTE - Me Urge (Self-Released)
MUERTE - Guera sante (Self-Released)
MUERTE - A la Verga (Self-Released)
MUERTE - Nada (Self-Released)

You can download an MP3 file of this show here.

Radio - Sunday, August 31st, 2014

Tonight's show featured loads of new music. You can download an MP3 of the show here.

PISSING MATCH - Patches (Self-Released)

PREGNANCY SCARE - Rattus Rattus (Self-Released)
NAAHMAK - Nec Hodie Morir (Self-Released)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR - So pissed off (FDH)
NERVOUS TALK - Hit the Town (Mammoth Cave)
B-LINES - Dryer Fire (Self-Released)
THE CRUCIFUCKS - Marching for Trash (Alternative Tentacles)
INSTITUTE - Dead Sea (Deranged)
HUSKER DU - Do You Remember (Unreleased)

GAS CHAMBER - Septillion (Iron Lung)
RUNNING FOR COVER - Luke (Painkiller)
BURIAL PERMIT - Wilful (CIUT)
SPERM - Atomized, Automatized, Homicide (Self-Released)
COLUMN OF HEAVEN - Buried Secrets (SPHC)

This is a set of bands with the name AK-47. The first is from Texas, the second from Croatia and the third from Victoria. 

AK-47 - The Badge Means You Suck (Pineapple)
AK-47 - Crno crvene brigade (DHPak47)
AK-47 - Free Palestine - Victoria (Self-Released)

This is a set of blaring Steve Jones like guitar songs. 

HARD SKIN - Council Estate (JT Classics)
SEX PISTOLS - Liar (Warner Brothers)
X ______ X - You're Full of Shit (Drome)
ARABENS ANUS - Hjältar går först (Skvaller)
ARSON - Pretty Girls (CIUT)
KNUCKLEHEAD - Restless Heart (Stumble)

NON SERVIUM - Canción de Amor (Parabellum)
TOY DOLLS - Stay Mellw (Sanctuary / Captain Oi!)
TEMPLE TUTOR - Throwin the baby out with the bathwater (Stiff)
BERURIER NOIR - L'Empereur Tomato-Ketchup II (Bondage)
SNUFF - EFL (Fat)
TRANZMITORS - Jimmy's at the mod shop (Longshot / No Front Teeth)

CHARLES HåRFAGER - De Andras Sorg (Kamel)
BRUSET - Rik och Lycklig (Self-Released)
THE SECRETS - Rock Music (Bomb)
ACTION SEDITION - Nous Ne Reculerons Pas (Rebel Time)
GRUMP - Talking Property Blues (Self-Released)

HASSLER - Love this Job / Imprisoned / Affluenza / Never Gonna Stop (Deranged)
HAG FACE - Worst Nightmare (Self-Released)
WORST GIFT - Hand Washing as a Fpormality (Self-Released)
NO PROBLEM - Talking to myself / We got Secrets (Deranged)

Flyer - Sunday, August 31st, 2014

Radio - Sunday, August 3rd, 2014

Tonight's show featured a mix of new and old punk starting off with this odd band from Tokyo with the broken scratch noises of guitar. You can listen to the show on the player above or download the show as an MP3 here.

VEKTOR - Track 1 (MCR)

Here are my top 10 releases for the month of July 2014 in reverse order.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST - Pus Ride (Rorschach)
DETROIT - Arizona (Give Praise)
F.U.B.A.R. - The Sting Of Our Collective Conscience (Give Praise /Power it up)
NAUGHTY GIRLS - Cheap Leather (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Down the Hole (Ugly Pop)
BITCHMOUTH - Red Fingers (Self-Released)
PROXY - Slow Suicide (Ugly Pop)
WARTHOG - Feral (Iron Lung)
BLOOD PRESSURE - Screaming and Laughing (Self-Released)
GAS RAG - It's A Gift! (Beach Impediment / Even Worse)

VICTIM PARTY - Weekend at Kyle's (Self-Released)
MISSION OF BURMA - That's when I reach for my revolver (Rhino)
THE SPITS - She don't Kare (Thrift store)
PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES - Banned from the Pubs (Abstract)
MISFITS - Devil's Whorehouse (Caroline)

PAZAHORA - Beneath the daily gridlock of W.O.R.K. (MCR)
REPLICA - Pitchforks and torches (Prank)
ENSLAVE - Rootless Wanderer (MCR)
OLD MAN STRENGTH - Woke up swinging (Pankratium)
NIE-ZETT - I'm Back (MCR)

GARAGE BABY - I got the girl (Self-Released)
THE MODS - the Other Side (Other Peoples Music)
SOLEDAD BROTHERS - Gimmie back my wig (Estrus)
HICKEY - Make sure there aren't any squares at my funeral (1234 Go)
JOHNNY THUNDERS - All by myself (Omnivore)

TWO CROSSES - In the woods (Self-Released)
JACK - Az Igéret Földje
INFEST - Three Or Nothing (Draw Blanks)
SKULL SERVANT - Listening (Servant Music)
COLUMN OF HEAVEN - Altars / Binge / Purge (Regurgitated Semen)

THE WEIRDOS - We got the neutron bomb (Rhino)
X - We're Desperate (Dangerhouse)
THE SAINTS - Know your product (Raven)
THE FANS - Givin' me the look (Fried Egg)
THE FORGOTTEN REBELS - The punks are alright (Star)
IAN DURY ND THE BLOCKHEADS - Blockheads (Stiff)
DEVO - Blockhead (Warner Brothers)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Hamilton brought to our attention through Jon from the Black Eyes Club and currently in Skull Servant.
The band features Grant and Nate frm Gunnar Hansen, Bolo from Ripped to Shit, and Scott from Dismantle. You can write the band at facebook.com/soniCRIME

SONICRIME - Crowd Control (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - Gasmask (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - Burn (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - 411 (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - Policy # 666 (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - Chaos Destruction (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - Kill the Peace (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - Shit and Blood (Self-Released)
SONICRIME - Boiling Point (Self-Released)

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)

Flyer - Saturday, May 3rd, 2014

 

Flyer - Tuesday, March 18th, 2014

PERMANENT RUIN

(features the lates zine co-ordinator from MRR on vocals)
(New 7" "Mas alla de la muerte" is out)
http://permanentruin.tumblr.com/

COLUMN OF HEAVEN
(The Endless Blockade's noise campaign continues)
 https://survivalistdeathcult.bandcamp.com/

GAUCHO
 http://gauchogaucho.bandcamp.com/

ANXIETY
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_wPDwxYRXw

 All Ages!

MRR Review - Column of Heaven "Failures" demo

Column of Heaven's latest release in the demo review section of the February 2014 issue of MRR (#369).

Flyer - Sunday, November 17th, 2013

 

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17th @ Sneaky Dee's
LEFT FOR DEAD
IMPALERS (Texas)
COLUMN OF HEAVEN
CONDITION (Bay Area)
SNAKECHARMER
CUNT PUNT

For full details on the fest you can check the Not Dead Yet blog at http://notdeadyettoronto.tumblr.com/NDY2013. To order tickets on-line go to http://notdeadyet.bigcartel.com.

Flyer - Thursday - Sunday, November 14 - 17th, 2013

 

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14th @ Sneaky Dee's, All Ages
KREMLIN (last show)
CRIATURAS (Texas)
LIFE FORM
CONCRETE ASYLUM (Halifax)
VIOLENT FUTURE
BORN WRONG

***
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15th @ Nocturne (550 Queen St W), 4:00pm
GAS RAG (Chicago)
WASTOIDS
ZERO PROGRESS (Bay Area)
NUKE CULT (Kansas City)
BAD SIDE (Philadelphia)
DIRECT EFFECT (Florida)

***
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15th @ Hard Luck Bar, All Ages
MIND ERASER
MAMMOTH GRINDER (Texas)
NEEDLES
VIOLENT END (Chicago)
WARTHOG (NYC)
ABSOLUT
ABYSS

***
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15th @ Sneaky Dee's, All Ages
CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE
LORD SNOW (Chicago)
FUCKING INVINCIBLES (Providence)
LA LUNA (Calgary)
FOXMOULDER
MIGHTY ATOM

***
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15th @ Charlie's (Brantford)
GAG ORDER
POLITIKILL INCORECT
A LINE DRAWN
HATE CRIMES

***
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15th @ Soybomb (156 Bathurst St), Midnight
GREEN BERET
CONDITION
COMPLICATIONS
NAPALM RAID
S.H.I.T.
LIFE CHAIN (Halifax)

***
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16th @ Nocturne (550 Queen St W), 1:00pm
NOT DEAD YET record swap
WASTE MANAGEMENT
STICK TOGETHER
PEACEBREAKERS
DEMOLITION
SPINE

***
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16th @ Wrongbar
LIMP WRIST
OMEGAS (Montreal)
NO TOLERANCE (Boston)
GAS RAG
VIXENS (Halifax)
ANCIENT HEADS
ANTI-VIBES

***
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16th @ Hard Luck Bar
IRON AGE (Texas)
BOSTON STRANGLER
THE REPOS (Chicago)
WEEKEND NACHOS
GAG
ABJECT PAX (Halifax)
WRONG GENERATION

***
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16th @ Soy Bomb (156 Bathurst Street), midnight
VAASKA
ASILE
BLOTTER
HERPES
SPEARHEAD

***
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17th @ Nocturne (550 Queen St W), 1:00pm
DEAD END PATH
HOUNDS OF HATE
DISENGAGE
INTENT
SABOTAGE

***
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17th @ Sneaky Dee's
LEFT FOR DEAD
IMPALERS (Texas)
COLUMN OF HEAVEN
CONDITION (Bay Area)
SNAKECHARMER
CUNT PUNT

To order tickets go to http://notdeadyet.bigcartel.com/.

Flyer - Friday August 2nd - Sunday August 4th, 2013

Flyer - Saturday, April 6th, 2013

Radio - Sunday, February 10th, 2013

Download the show

ABYSS - Coven of the Blood Stalker (Dark Descent)

This first set starts out with this great new power violence/fastcore band from Dortmund, Germany. Asta Kask's 12" was just re-issued by Prank and is the most sold release, but the cover of the band knee deep in snow struck me as Toronto is knee deep in snow. CITIZENS PATROL do a SEEIN' RED cover, which is one of their few songs in Dutch. The SNIFFIN' GLUE song is inspired by the Carnival parades and a story I saw in the news about an injury today in Rio. And I bookened the set with another cover this time by GOVERNMENT FLU doing a cover of an old Polish band named ABBADON who just had an LP re-released by Warsaw Pact.

DIE EULE IM BART DES JUDAS - Asphalt Affe (Spastic Fantastic)
ASTA KASK - Den Enes Brod (Prank)
CITIZENS PATROL -Diktatuur van de wekker (Way Back When / Spastic Fantastic / Too Circle) - Seein Red cover
SNIFFING GLUE - Masquerade (Searching for Fame)
GOVERNMENT FLU - Walcz O Siebie (DIY)

Studio 3 session
I saw ABYSS two years ago opening up for BASTARD NOISE. I have been talking to Rob about trying to get them in to record a set. ABYSS feature members of COLUMN OF HEAVEN and PURITY CONTROL and a former member of LEGION666. ABYSS are a five piece grind band that take themes of splatter-core and apply it to evolutionary theory. This is what they are working on as a follow up to "Accursed Followers and "The Reins of Horror". The devolution has begun. Here is the set during the Abyss interview.
 
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Die Burning (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Purity Negation (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Napalm Death (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - The Final Blood Bath (Self-Released)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Sickening Prophecies (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - When death mates with life (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Heretical Anatomy (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Splatterhouse (Dark Descent)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Rotting from without (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Blood Urges (CIUT)
ABYSS - Interview (CIUT)
ABYSS - Flesh cult (CIUT)

LAMA - Paskaa (Johanna)
MECHT MENSCH - Land of the Brave (Bone Air)
NIHILISTICS - You're to Blame (Brain Eater)
THE SCROUNGERS - Fuck Right Off (Self-Released)

DESECRATION - N.I.A. (TPC)
DIE HARD - Waiting (Self-Released)
CHAIN REACTION - No Way Out (Belfogor)

BASTARDS - Kapiaiset (Propaganda)
YLIVULLAN ORJAT - Ylivalloi Orja (Self-Released)
BED BOYS - Violanzano (Suomi di pace)
ATTENTAT - Ge Fan I Mej (Rykkran)

It has been 9 years since FORWARD's last full length and this one seems particularly inspired by the events in Fukushima. There was a recent interview in MRR with FORWARD that also makes sense out of the Japanese scene in its heyday. That was followed up by North America's answer to a burning spirits band NIGHTBRINGER. We played the song with a French title. That was followed up by two Japanese bands that were just in North America D-CLONE and ZYANOSE.

FORWARD - Resist (Prank)
NIGHTBRINGER - Au Revoir (High Anxiety)
D-CLONE - Living in Chaos (540)
ZYANOSE - Slack Time (540)

The demo feature is a new straight edge band from Glasgow with a sense of humour in the spirit of Nation of Finks. The band features former members of ATOMGEVITTER. Some of the highlights for me are the four second tribute to COCKNEY REJECTS' "East End" in "Crouchy" and the same sort of tribute to GO! with "G.G.G.G." One letter short from a cover. The rest are originals and can be found at xsaxonx.bandcamp.com.

xSAXONx - In the Night (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Fair Trade (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Religious Fraud (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Diamonds and Crust (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Breaking the Edge (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Crouchy (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Take it Back (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - G.G.G.G. (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Screaming for Breakfast (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Defenders of the Faith (Self-Released)
xSAXONx - Power and the Glory (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday, January 25th, 2013

Radio - Sunday November 11th, 2012

This is the Rembrance day show on Equalizing-X-Distort so we started out with a Sudden Impact song that is taken from the World War memorial statues in Toronto. We started off with a set of songs that look at the subject of war with Crass, Discharge, and DRI. Then the first of two tributes to Not Dead Yet fest with commentary on things that happened at the Negative Approach show on the first night and the power violence show on teh saturday night. There was a set of new Finnish hardcore. And there was loads of classics from Devo to Black Flag to Anti-Schism. Truncheons from Montreal were featured in our demo feature. Click here to listen to the show.

SUDDEN IMPACT - To Our Glorious Dead (Diabolic Force / Marquee)

CRASS - Major General Despair (Crass)
DISCHARGE - The Realities of War (Clay / Captain OI!)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Headline Hunters (Fringe)
NEGATIVE GAIN - Life's Uncertain (Pusmort)
DRI - Argument then War (Death) (Death)

URBAN BLIGHT - False Truths (CIUT)
TOTAL TRASH - Josef K (Deranged)
NEGATIVE APPROACH - Chaos (Reptilian)
SOUTH END - Boycott (Unreleased)
PUNK LOREX - Neiti C (Kamaset Levtt)

RIPTIDES - Punk Girl Punk Boy (Goblin)
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT - Don't Darlene (Cargo)
FOLK FESTIVAL MASSACRE - Information (High School Champiion)
VAPIDS - Lucy Potato (Double Hell)
WESTON - Just like Kurt (Gern Bladsten)

VACCINE - Constant War (Cut the Cord that ...)
COLUMN OF HEAVEN - After the Mission (SPHC)
VILE INTENT - Brace (Diseased Audio)
PURITY CONTROL - Insect Politics
GAS CHAMBER - Comfort Food (Warm Bath)
IRON LUNG - Prison Medical Officer (625 Productions / Out of Limits)

DEVO - Mongoloid (Warner)
HEARTBREAKERS - Pirate Love (Bomp)
BLACK FLAG - TV Party (SST)
FEAR - I don't care about you (Slash)
BAD BRAINS - Fearless Vampire Killers (Roir)

BAD JESUS EXPERIENCE - Kaksi Kaupinkia (Kamaset Levtt)
TERVEET KADET - Rajatila (Kamaset Levtt)
BACKLASH - Hope of Soul (Kamaset Levtt / Tampere Hardcore Coalition)
MAAILMANLOPPU - L.O.P.P.U. (Kamaset Levtt)
LAPINPOLTHAJAT - Eheytsterapiaa (Kamaset Levtt)

REAGAN YOUTH - Degenerated (New Red Archives)
ANTI-SCHISM -Greedy Bastard (Allied)
DAYGLO ABORTIONS - Proud to be Canadian (Fringe)
WHITE FLAG - Don't give it away (Bomp)
PINHEAD GUNPOWDER - Reach for the bottle (Too Many)

Demo Feature
TRUNCHEONS - Onslaught of War (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - Cashing in on Freedom (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - Dark Age (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - Killing Fields (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - New #2 (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - Holy War (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - No Silence (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - Blow it all to hell (Self-Released)
TRUNCHEONS - Mind control (Self-Released)

Flyer - Saturday, November 10th, 2012

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10th @ Hard Luck (772A Dundas St W)
MAGRUDERGRIND
IRON LUNG
GAS CHAMBER
VACCINE
COLUMN OF HEAVEN
VILE INTENT
PURITY CONTROL
SNAKE CHARMER

For more details about the fest visit the Not Dead Yet site.

Radio - Sunday, October 28, 2012

This program started out with a set of Hallowe'en songs written or performed by Canadian hardcore bands. That was followed up by a set up power violence and noise rock inspired bands which included the new Column of Heaven LP and the Veuve SS 12". We followed that up with a set of bands featuring women in the line up and included Sick Fix from Baltimore, and Criaturas among others. The next set featured a rare Polish band called Abaddon and a request from last week for Personality Crisis. We did a Black Flag inspired set with the new School Jerks and new Off! because they were in town last week. We finished up with a get up and go set that featured this incredible Japanese hardcore band named Think Again, after the Minor Threat song. Tonight's demo feature was a new Toronto group called Spearhead which features members of Total Trash, Snakepit, and Foxmoulder. Here is the playlist and you can also download the show.

TEENAGE HEAD - Disgusteen (Attic)

SNFU - Cannibal Cafe (BYO)
STRETCH MNARKS - Bad Moon (Headbutt)
BLACK DONNELLYS - Freddie's Revenge (Audio Fellatio)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Hallowe'en Party (Sell-Out Activities)
THE SWARM - November First (No Idea)

COLUMN OF HEAVEN - Buried Secrets / Barghest Jugend (SPHC)
EYEHATEGOD - New Orleans is the New Vietnam (A389)
BURNING LOVE - Tremors (Southern Lord)
DISABILITY - Tooth (Self-Released)
VEUVE SS - Discipline (Self-Released)
MAKABERT FYND - Ett Kok Stryk (Sorry State)

SICK FIX - The Toll (A389)
CRIATURAS - Los Elijidos (Lengua Armada)
RAD - Geekonomics/ So say we all
THE TANGLED LINES - Battle (Refuse)
THE WARD - the New Dykes (Self-Released)
UTAH JAZZ - Contact Low (Feral Kid)
RACKULA - G20 (Schizophrenic)

ABADDON - Rewolucja (Warsaw Pact)
PERSONALITY CRISIS - The Advocate (Workers Co-operative)
DOA - Bring out your dead (Sudden Death)
UNRULED - Screams of Fear (Schizophrenic)
BOOK OF BLACK EARTH - Road dogs from hell / See demons (Inimical)

GOVERNMENT FLU - Role Model (Refuse)
SCHOOL JERKS - Crux (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)
BLACK FLAG - I've Heard it before (SST)
OFF! - I got news for you (Vice)
NOOSE - Lex Talionis (React)
THE FORUM - Mercy for Now (Harsh Pizza)

BRAIN KILLER - Re-educated / Trying to remember (Vinyl Rites)
JOINT DAMAGE - Poison II / Damp (Sorry State)
THINK AGAIN - My War (Even Worse / Way Back When)
CITIZENS PATROL - Sick (Way Back When / Too Circle / Spastic Fantastic)
UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Sleep (Way Back When)

Demo Feature
SPEARHEAD - Contra (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - More World Wars (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Pet Shop (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Sword and Sorcery (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Gas the Dancefloors (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - A Raid (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Acid Burn (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Apocryphal Scum (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Knocked Out (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday, September 7th, 2012