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Tonight's show we start off with a set about a show calendar for Toronto featuring bands playing Toronto in the next little bit. This includes an interview with Muro that we did last October. This airs with a new unreleased song. The SUBHUMANS UK song is brand new as well. A few debut features. We also feature a new band from London, Ontario called JOCK in our demo feature. Download the show here.
VAASKA - Poder Absoluto (Beach Impediment)
KREIGSHOG – Temptation (La Vida Es Un Mus / HG Fact) – playing August 16th at the Velvet Underground
THE ADICTS – Straight Jacket (Dining Out) – playing August 18th at Mod Club
SOCIAL DISTORTION – 1945 (13th Floor) – playing September 3rd at Echo Beach
SUBHUMANS UK – Thought is Free (Pirates Press) – playing September 5th at Lee's
RANCID - Where I'm Going (Epitaph) - playing September 17th at Lee's
MURO Interview
Jose and I interviewed MURO in the back alley of Faith/Void when they were in town last, which was October 28th, 2018. They are going to be back in town for the Our Latin Thing Punk fest on Saturday August 31st at the baby G. We are going to start off the interview with the song “El Futuro”.
MURO – El Futuro (Byllepest / Beach Impediment / Junko / Pissed Off / Chain)
MURO – Interview
MURO – La Verdad (Byllepest / Beach Impediment / Junko / Pissed Off / Chain)
MURO – Interview
MURO – No Hay Lugar (Unreleased)
FINAL - Que Hago Aqui (Discos MMM)
ATRASO – Acumula (Byllepest)
AMENAZAS - Parque Nacional (Byllepest)
COMMEMIERDAS - El negocio musical (Byllepest)
VICTIMAS – No Puedes Dejar el Punk (Self-Released) - playing August 31st at Baby G
WARCYCLE - Frenzied Media (Televised Suicide / Skull Crasher)
CIVIC - Selling Sucking Blackmail Bribes (Total Punk)
ASID - Riastrad (La Vida Es Un Mus)
PEEDOH - Calladita no estas mas guapa (Overdose)
GAME – Oczarowanie (Beach Impediment) – playing August 16th at Velvet Underground
BYSTANDER - Where Did We Go Wrong (Goodwill / Safe Inside)
RECKONING FORCE - Focus (Not for the Weak)
CONDOR – Condor (Beach Impediment)
PROTRUDERS – Tax 101 (Feel It)
CURLEY'S – Bragging (Total Punk)
KNOWSO - Like a Buzz (Total Punk)
TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET - Anti-Social Media (Fat Wreck)
RAMOMS – Boogie Not Snot (Pirates Press)
Tonight's demo feature is a band that Andre played a couple of weeks ago. They are from London, Ontario and you can find their demo on bandcamp.
JOCK – Everyone Everywhere (Self-Released)
JOCK – Do Something (Self-Released)
JOCK – Games (Self-Released)
JOCK – Underfoot (Self-Released)
JOCK – Mind (Self-Released)
THE RE-VOLTS – Leeches
MILLENCOLIN - Trumpets and Poutine
STRATOCASTORS – Charles
About a month ago we recorded the Protruders in CIUT's hallway. Half the band was moving to Mexico for a period of time and we weren't sure the band would get back together so this felt like our only chance to get a live session and interview with the band, similar to the last session with Pure Pressure. You can hear the interview and live recording in the first three quarters of tonight's show. You can download the show here.
THE PROTRUDERS - Subway Crash (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Interview (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Controller Controller (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Interview (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Hot Glue (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Interview (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Ugly (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Interview (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Tax Evasion 101 (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Interview (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Poison Future (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Interview (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Hydro-Phytol-Oxy-Plastick (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Interview (CIUT)
THE PROTRUDERS - Principal John (CIUT)
Here is some new music that we haven't been able to play yet.
PROM NITE - Masculine Side (Barfbag)
LION SLICER - Cops For Fertilizer (Self-Released)
BOOJI BOYS - Booji Boys (Drunken Sailor)
PRISION POSTUMO - Palabra de Dios (Discos MMM / Verdugo Discos)
ISS - penISS envy (The Loki Label)
SYSTEM SYSTEM - Home Sweet Home (Schizophrenic)
SOCIAL DIVORCE - A Message to you Rudy (Giuliani) (Self-Released)
NBX - Grain of Salt (MA Glory)
HOTHEADS - Wasting My Life Away (Self-Released)
WE SLEEP - We Sleep (Self-Released)
PIG CITY - Red Hats-White Hoods (Self-Released)
Dream Probe from Champaign, Illinois, were up here for the recent Not Dead Yet fest. This is their second demo. You can find this on their bandcamp page.
DREAM PROBE - Acuchilla Rosello (Self-Released)
DREAM PROBE - Puerco (Self-Released)
DREAM PROBE - Demenios (Self-Released)
DREAM PROBE - Romperme los Huevos (Self-Released)
DREAM PROBE - Maldito Soy (Self-Released)
PURE PRESSURE - Tides (Self-Released)
OVER THE TOP - We Hate your Band (Spastic Fantastic)
SWHAT - Tasty Wasty
RADIATION RISKS - Help! by the Beatles (Lumpy)
This is our fall fundraising show and as usual we started out with name that tune with Mr. Brown from the Prophesy from which for the first time since we have been doing this he guessed correctly. I played some more Specials related things because James was a ska DJ before getting into jungle. You can download the show here. You can pledge on line at www.ciut.fm.
ANTI- NOWHERE LEAGUE – Long shot Kick de Bucket by the Pioneers (Cleopatra)
SPECIALS – Long Shot Kick de Bucket (Live)
THE CONVENTRY AUTOMATICS - Wake Up (Receiver)
Many times on the shows we are doing tributes to punks who have passed away, but tonight we are going to play some hasher rock for Malcolm Young who passed away yesterday from dementia. There is no disputing that AC DC were a rock band, but they rocked like punks, so this is “Whole Lotta Rosie” because the only punk band that I ever saw do an AC DC cover was No SYSTEM from Boston and this is the song they covered.
AC DC - Whole Lotta Rosie (Albert)
NO SYSTEM - Coming Back (No Way)
CREATIVE ZERO - Rest in Peace (Unreleased)
Here are some songs about the love for radio
THE CLASH – This is Radio Clash (CBS)
B-SIDES – Underground Radio Stars (Radioactive)
BULLET PROOF LOVERS – I am my Radio (Rum Bar/Ghost Highway)
The live recordings remain a staple on Equalizing-X-Distort. Tuesday nights we load in at the broadcast studio. Record as much as we can in about an hour and a half. Load out and then come back and do an interview, which all gets mixed and then mixed live on Sunday night as a feature of a local band usually. A lot of work goes into those sessions from all involved from the bands, to the volunteers to the broadcast. Rob, from Pure Pressure / the Protruders, who was in over the last six months talks about what it was like to come in and what it means for bands. We also recorded sessions with OUTCRY from Halifax, ALIEN BOYS from Vancouver, SICK OF SHIT from Hamilton, BLANK STARES, and DRAGGED IN from here
PURE PRESSURE - Same Old Act (CIUT)
PURE PRESSURE - CIUT ID (CIUT)
PROTRUDERS - Principal John (CIUT)
PROTRUDERS ID – CIUT ID (CIUT)
Alex from SAGO / Sofistifucks and Chad also from Sago came in to answer phones. Alex has had a big influence on the show in terms of turning us on to programming ideas from live bands to interviews to checking out CIUT programs. Chad talks about recording here and about doing a show a Brock. They let us play a new song by SAGO
SAGO – Los Ojos (Unreleased)
PATTI SMITH GROUP – So You Wanna Be (A Rock n Roll Star)
THE MONSIEURS – Suburban Girls (Slovenly)
GUTARA KYO – Romantic (Slovenly)
JEAN DADDY – Let’s Ride Boys (Self-Released)
THE RIPTIDES – Goodbye Hawaii (Self-Released)
Every month we pick a Top 10 of latest releases and here are some of my favourite releases in the last six months.
LONG KNIFE- - Bastards of Bedlam (Beach Impediment)
PISSING MATCH – November Brain (Feral Kid)
RAT CAGE – No Consolation (La Vida Es Un Mus)
ESCORT – Fuck Me Hard (Self-Released)
FIRING SQUAD – Waiting For Death (Agitate)
Equalizing-X-Distort features a demo every week, which is an early recording and usually a band’s most exciting recording. In the last six months we featured demos by RASHOMON (DC), PLASTIC HEADS (Toronto), PROM NITE (Toronto),
NINOS RATA (Montreal), BOOTLICKER (Kamloops), QUE LASTIMA (Toronto), CHARGED SS (Mexico), IRON EYE (PEI), and LION’s SHARE (St. John’s).
Tonight we are featuring a new band called KORYDOR featuring members of SIYAHKAL, FAKE PALMS, Alex Kress, the photographer behind “Feeding Time: Split Seconds in Toronto Punk. You can download the demo from their bandcamp page.
KORYDOR - Intro (Descent)
KORYDOR - Lie to Her (Self-Released)
KORYDOR - Impulse (Self-Released)
I have heard people talking about the Protruders and guest hosts have played some Protruders on the show in the past. In the Pure Pressure interview I learned that Rob, the guitarist, played in the Protruders. I learned after the session that Joe and Isle were travelling down to Mexico for an indefinite amount of time and that we should try and record and interview them before they make their move so we set to getting them in here. So Rob set up about making this happen on the band's end and I worked out the station's end and we met on this day. The band features Joe on guitar and vocals and Isle on drums and vocals. They were in a band called Kappa Chow from Sackville, New Brunswick. Jarrett, is from Vancouver and met Joe and Isla in Calgary and approached them about being in a band. When they all moved to Toronto they ran into Rob and the line up was formed but both Jarrett and Rob were playing bass. Eventually they worked it out so Jarrett played bass and Rob played second guitar. But Isle plays stand up drums which is different than most drummers and adds to their unique sound. Joe's vocals remind me of Doc Dart from the Crucuficks. The band has quite a few recordings together with some more coming out which can be found on their bandcamp page. Tonight we recorded the following songs:
1. Subway Crash
2. Controller Controller
3. Hot Glue
4. Ugly
5. Tax Evasion 101
6. Hydro-Phytol-Oxy-Plastick
7. Poison Future
8. Principal John
The band also recorded multiple IDs:
ID 1
ID 2
ID 3
ID 4
We interviewed the band after the session.
All audio was recorded by Ian Wilkinson. Aldo, from Punks and Rockers recorded the video and this was the first time he did a love stream of the session so the video below is missing some audio until someone uses a mic.
Pure Pressure is a hardcore band from Toronto that takes their inspirations form the straight edge sound. I first found out about them from the SHEXD crew and we featured their demo in July 2016, which was a couple of months after they released their demo. Karla was on the last episode of SHEXD and she told us that she was moving away after Not Dead Yet so we worked to try and get a a studio 3 session scheduled with the band before they broke up. It is unsure if the band is breaking up or not but they have a studio recording to release so there is more to happen with this band. The band features Karla on vocals, Rob on guitar, Greg on bass, and Nolan on drums. Rob played in Severe and currently plays in the Protruders. Greg played in Violent Future and currently plays in S.H.I.T. Nolan is from Calgary and played in Desgraciados and currently plays in Siyahkal. So the members in this band are busy, but who isn't these days? The band recorded the following songs:
1. Intro / Negative Peace
2. Searching
3. I'm Not
4. Witness
5. Open Case
6. No Conscience
7. Same Old Act
8. Delusional
9. 10.28
10. Tides
Pure Presssure recorded an ID for CIUT and an ID for the show. We also did an interview.
Ian Wilkinson recorded this session in our hallway outside of studio 3. Aldo Erdic recorded the session by video.
A few weeks back, on SHEXD #11, Christina was one of the guest hosts who was participating in the show for her last time because she is moving back to her native Australia. Sarde mentioned that it might be a good idea to have Christina come in a guest host a show and tonight's show was the first time we could get her in. Christina has been involved in the Toronto scene in a lot of amazing ways, but she approached the show by looking at bands from here, bands from Cleveland and bands from Australia. You can download an MP3 of the show here.
THE UGLIES – Make Punk Great Again (No Patience)
I mentioned that we had done a show on the early scene in Sydney related to a film and that MRR had done a show recently on weirdo punk from the early scene but Christina wanted to shine a focus on the contemporary scene as there are many scenes putting out a lot of great bands in various styles of punk. Here is the first of two sets on contemporary Aussie punk.
THE SKIDS – Deepest Grave (Shipping Steel)
DRUG SWEAT – Hectic Whipper (Aarght)
LOW LIFE - Dogging (RIP Society)
STRAIGHTJACKET NATION – Power It Up (Cool Death / La Vida Es Un Mus)
UBIK – Touch Off (Lost In Fog)
TYRANNAMEN - I Don’t Want to go to Jail (Cool Death / Static Shock)
Second set on Australian punk
BRANDO’S ISLAND - Duplicaat (Altered State)
58008 - Devolve (No Patience)
DEATH CHURCH – Jaw Crusher (No Patience)
MASSES - Crosses (Lost In Fog/Mass Media)
SPOTTING – Wait Your Turn (No Patience)
Christina had mad a number of trips to Cleveland when she was living in Melbourne. She explained how Cleveland has always had interesting bands, but again wanted to focus on the contemporary scene, which is partially what she has done with her label Blow Blood Records. Here is the first of two sets on Cleveland punk.
LACERATE – Despair (Konton Krasher)
THE COWBOY – The Cowboy (Fashionable Idiots / Blow Blood Records / Drunken Sailor)
MAGIC CITY – Free (Blow Blood)
PERVERTS AGAIN – Figgy Pudding (Non Commercial)
BRAINWASHED CALIFORNIA – Initials (Blow Blood)
THE SIGHT – Time Lapse (Blow Blood)
Second set on Cleveland
THE MISSED – Just Like Cellophane (Quality Time Records)
VANILLA POPPERS – Where You Told Me I Belong (Lumpy)
BULSCH – Innee Innee Outbawl (Blow Blood)
CRUELSTER – Terminal Windmill (Turbine Piss)
BAD NOIDS – Into the Future (Feel It)
KILL THE HIPPIES – Dig Your Own Grave (Phoenician MicroSystems)
INMATES – Skummy / Public Education (Human Stench)
Christina has lived in Toronto for the past couple of years. In that time she has gained an appreciation for punk from Canada, but the list of bands was a lot longer than what made it to air......
F.I.T.S. – Stupid Garbage Society (Blow Blood)
PROM NITE – No Motivation (Barfbag)
PROTRUDERS – Cold Energy (Self Released)
S.H.I.T. – Incorporation (La Vida Es Un Mus)
NO NEGATIVE – Cellophane (Swollen City)
FAZE – No Loss (Runstate)
DOXX – Shoplifted (Self Released)
TEENANGER - Just Drop It (Telephone Explosion)
Shequalizing-X-Distort's 11th takeover of the airwaves, Girls of Summer 2017 edition of the show. Tonight's instigators were long time stalwarts Zoe and Sarde and first time co-hosts Mariam, Karla, and Christina who has been on before. Sarde started out with ESG and some apologies for the band not being punk enough, but it sounded great. A download of this show is available here.
ESG – It’s Alright
Sarde started off with a dedication to Marjie and also talked about Not Dead Yet which is coming up soon and how the festival will be different without Soybomb. She also mentioned a great meme that Rosie from Outcry started for this year's fest.
HAGAR THE WOMB – Idolization
BOOJI BOYS – Plaza Too Perfect (Self-Released)
1-900’s – Trained Dog
PLAYBOY – The Weather
RIK AND THE PIGS – TV Bloopers
Zoe was teased for being such a media darling this past few weeks with her street health work that has spearheaded some IDU sites including a pop up site and has led to some funding finally. In fact she is being interviewed again in the morning and is a real trooper coming out tonight. But Zoe also speaks about applying your punk ethics in a real life way.
GAZM - Fuck You (Self-Released)
OUTCRY - It's a Joke (Self-Released)
CAMERA SILENS - Squatt
DAME - Glitch
CIRCUIT 7 - Video Boys
Mariam is somewhat new to the city but used to be the zine coordinator at MRR and did a punk radio show in Chicago where she is originally from. Mariam has also sung in five punk bands the most recent being Permanent Ruin and pulled together a set of little known bands that reflect a number of things.
UNSUB – Trapped
INDIREKT – Groten Ult Holland
FUMIGADOS – Pendeme
DRUJ – War Hymns
QUE LASTIMA – Paradise
Karla plays in Pure Pressure and is moving back to Victoria after NDY 2017. Karla is organizing a screening about a film that explores the moral dilemma between veganism and First Nation's hunting and trapping rights.
BLINDSIDE USA – Not Punk
TOMAR CONTROL – Haz le Diferencia
PURA MANIA – Grandes Esperanzas
DIASPORA – In Place
MALA RACHA – Land of the Free
Christina sings in the Vanilla Poppers and runs Blowback Records. She is moving back to Australia after NDY 2017 and pulled together an all Canadian set as a way of saying goodbye. But we have invited Christina back to guest host a show before she goes and delight us with an exploration of Aussie punk.
PROM NITE – No Motivation (Self-Released)
THE PROTRUDERS – Cold Energy
SIYAHKAL – Pari Bolandeh
THE BOYS – Big Boy, Big Attitude
Everyone ran out of time with material and so the last set was a combined set between Zoe and Sarde.
SECT – Masters and Slaves
FLESH WORLD – Just to Tear Me Down
DEAD FLOWERS – First Track demo
PELADA – No Hay
CITIZEN’S ARREST – Light in the Darkness