Radio - Sunday, August 22nd, 2021

Tonight’s show starts out with a mini feature on Toronto’s early 90’s scene (Phleg Camp, Rocktopus, No Mind). A feature on punks bands from Spain featuring women singers (Algara, Barcelona, Lux, Accidente and Rata Negra). We feature a new band from Myanmar (The Rebel Riot). And a ton of great hardcore (Running for Cover, State, Ekulu, No Justice). And a demo feature by NEVERGREEN (the Sharron Brothers origin story). Download the show here. 

THE HUNS - Busy Kids (God)

UNION YOUNG AMERICA - Kevorkian (Workshop)
PHLEG CAMP - On the Map (Self-Released)
ROCKTOPUS - Rocktopus (Self-Released)
NO MIND - Move Over (Lone Wolf)
HUSKER DU - M.I.C. (New Alliance)

BAMBIES - Teen Engine (Spaghetty Town)
THE CYBERMEN - Where's The New Wave? (Rockaway / Breakout)
SLANDER TONGUE - Goin’ Down (Slovenly)
PUP - DVP (Royal Mountain / Side One Dummy)
THE RAYDIOS - I Call You Back (Dirtnap / Mangrove)

ALGARA - Todo Me Da Igual (La Vida Es Un Mus)
BARCELONA - Fumando espero (La Vida Es Un Mus)
LUX - Manâna (La Vida Es Un Mus)
ACCIDENTE - Luchar (Self-Released)
RATA NEGRA - Llorando (La Vida Es Un Mus)

PONY - Swore (Take This to Heart)
THE FRESHIES - If It's News (Razz)
THE WINDBREAKERS - Young Republicans (Big Monkey)
THE MODERNS - Got To Have Pop (1977)
THE TOASTERS - Teenage Tease (Bomp!)

THE REBEL RIOT - Punk Against Sweatshops (Kids Union)
METACHRIST - Raging Like a Beast (Self-Released)
CHRIST AIR - Cause of Death (Self-Released)
EKULU - Half - Alive (Triple B)

ZEX - Nowhere To Go Pt.1 (Common People / Grave Street / Maniac Attack / Plastic Bomb / Warhead Punx)
ONE EIGHT SEVEN - Positive State of Mind (Self-Released)
MAU MAUS - Unforgotten (Pax)
MAJOR ACCIDENT - Clockwork Toys (Captain Oi! / Step Forward)
STATE - White Mare (Punks Before Profits)

Demo Feature
NEVERGREEN from Long Sault, Ontario, just outside of Cornwall. This recording was recorded in the basement of the brother’s basement. The brother’s I am speaking of are the Sharron brothers. Jon and Matt. They would go on to start HACKSAW. And then Jon would continue on in a string of bands that included Union of Uranus, Rammer, Brutal Knights, Valley Boys, Hassler, and more recently Plastic Heads. All bands that have gotten a decent amount of airplay on the show. But NEVERGREEN were the beginning of it all.

NEVERGREEN - Nothing Else (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - Carrots (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - Simple and Short (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - No Regrets (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - I Don’t Know (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - Failure (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - Here to Help (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - Gobstopper (Self-Released)
NEVERGREEN - Someday (Self-Released)

NO JUSTICE - Throw It Away (Underestimated)
RUNNING FOR COVER - Form (Painkiller)

Radio - Sunday, October 6th, 2019

Download the show HERE.

We are hoping to interview the Members for next week's show. Here is the B-Side for their first single. 

THE MEMBERS - Rat Up a Drainpipe (Stiff)

I got to see STRUNG OUT last night. They were the first band to get signed to Fat and have stayed on the label to this day, which is pretty good nine records later.

The singer is a vegan and was wearing it proud last nit with a LIBERATE shirt supporting anti –vivisection practices. He did an impromptu cover of “Pet Semetary” with the CASUALTIES last night.

They are not just a pop punk band. Their music is incredibly complicated borrowing form so many styles with fusing skate punk with crossover, but it is much more complicated than that. They have the melody of sung vocals and harmonizing. They have breakdowns which borrow almost a dub step mosh. They have duel guitars which borrows hammer-ons from AC DC but played at MAIDEN’s pace. And they could be playing arena rock except the singer just wants to keep getting in the pit.

STRUNG OUT have never been on my radar before but I am giving them a chance now starting off with something recorded before 1994 and released a collection called “Skinny Years”. 

STRUNG OUT - I Am Not Afraid (Fat)
STRUNG OUT – Away (Fat)
STRUNG OUT – Strange Notes (Fat)
THE CASUALTIES – Ashes of my Enemies (Cleopatra)
DOA - General Strike (Alternative Tentacles / Sudden Death)

DJ Waves and Rob take over the rest of the show alternating in a unplanned sound clash relay.

GULCH - Self-Inflicted Mental Terror (Creator Destructor)
NAILS - Unsilent Death (Six Feet Under / Streetcleaner)
DEFTONES - CMND/CTRL (Reprise)
ALEXISONFIRE - Complicit (Dine Alone)
POWER TRIP - Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe) (Southtern Lord / Daymare)

THE CONTROL FREAKS - I Hate Your Face (Slovenly)
OH SEES - The Daily Heavy (Castle Face)
CR DICKS - Skate 2 Die (Slovenly / Black Gladiator)
THE MATURE THEMES - Go Getter (Self-Released)
FLESH RAG - Sunday Morning (Schizophrenic / Loose Lips)

THE GRUESOMES - Jack the Ripper (Primitive)
THE CRAMPS - Sheena's in a Goth Gang (Epitaph / Big Beat / Shock / Paradoxx / Vengeance)
STARCRAWLER - Pet Sematary (Waxwork)
MISFITS - Hallowe'en (Plan 9)
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS - Strychnine (Fire)

THE FORGOTTEN REBELS - Eve of Destruction (Star)
BILLY CHILDISH - Length of Pipe (Sympathy for the Record industry)
CHRON GEN - You'll Never Chnage Me (Secret)
JAGS - Back of My Hand (Island)
THE LAMBRETTAS - Another Day Another Girl (The Rocket Record Company)

THE DIRTY NIL - Idiot Victory (Self-Released)
PUP - Kids (Self-Released)
SINGLE MOTHERS - Road Sick (Self-Released)
FRANK CARTER AND THE RATTLESNAKES - Kitty Sucker (International Death Cult)

Radio - Sunday, August 25th, 2019

Tonight's show features an interview with Jose Moreno (promoter of the Our Latin Thing Punk fest), a feature on hockey and punk for a feature story I was interviewed for in an on-line piece that looks at the world where this intersects, and a demo feature of Conscripts. Download the show here.


DISORDER - Law and Disorder (Ace)

Our Latin Thing Punk fest....
was started up as a way to create a more inclusive space in Toronto's punk scene. This fest will showcase bands in this scene and in surrounding scenes effected by the Spanish diaspora. Next Saturday (August 31st) there is a show at the Garrison (1197 Dundas St W.) called “Our Latin Thing Punk Fest” and we speak with Jose Moreno one of the organizers for the fest. He came in tonight amidst a flurry of last minute organizing to tell us about the upcoming show and spin songs from most of the bands playing. We also get the line up for the after party so make sure you listen to the show to figure out how to get the instruction for that. We start off with the local bands playing the fest.

TASHME – 09/11/1973 (Self-Released)
MALDITA - Sonita (Self-Released)
SCORPIO RISING - Power (Self-Released)
QUE LASTIMA – Historias Falsas  (Self-Released)

Here are the bands from New York City
CES CADAVRES – Petrificados (Self-Released)
DEMENCIA ALKOHLICA –Revolucion Social
OLOR A MUERTE – Prision (Self-Released)

And lastly the headlining bands from Colombia
VICTIMAS –Futuro Incierto (Descomunal / Self-Released)
MURO - La Cuidad es Hostil (Byllepest)

The cost for the tickets is $25 for the main show and $10 for the after show. Show starts at 7:30pm

Here are some other Spanish speaking punk bands starting with a band from Bogota that has a split with Victimas, but we start wth a song fro their four way split release.

AMENAZAS - El Salado (Ruido Total / Maldito Sudace / Tutti Pazzi / Contraurras ediciones / Liberacion / Enrenadur / Ramon / Discos Sanjuanito / Seless Acts of Angers / Mierdallo / Massa Punk / Deskabezado / Bisounours Prod / Discos Bastardos)
HUASIPUNGO - Cuentos De Amor (Ruido Total / Maldito Sudace / Tutti Pazzi / Contraurras ediciones / Liberacion / Enrenadur / Ramon / Discos Sanjuanito / Seless Acts of Angers / Mierdallo / Massa Punk / Deskabezado / Bisounours Prod / Discos Bastardos)
IRREAL - Societat Verinosa (Sangre Azul / Self-Released)
HEDOR - Aferrados A Las Manos Que Aprietan (Noise of Hell / Ojala Me Muera / Hecatombe / Humanicide)
PERRA VIDA – Heroína (En Tu Kara)
RATA NEGRA - Es Unica (La Vida Es Un Mus)
SOGA – Insecto (Iron Lung)
SHOCK - Sexta Extinción (Mad Butcher / Malicia / La Negra / El Lokal / Indie Box Music @ 360 / Grita O Muere)
XENU AND THE THETANS - Dos Imperios (Slovenly / Musica Para Lorcos)

A few months back I was interviewed by a good friend and former colleague at CHRY, Sunaya Sapurji about a piece she had been researching that looked at the relationship between hockey and punk. The on-line story appeared on the Athletic and is called "How hockey became hardcore : The often complex relationship between the game and punk rock".  Sunaya built a playlist on spotify for the article and I pulled together some other songs mentioned in the article and some harder to find pieces to support the article. 

SLAPSHOT - I Got Your Number(Bridge Nine)
DOA – The Hockey Song (Sudden Death)
THE HANSON BROTHERS - Third Man In (Wrong)
TWO MAN ADVANTAGE - Hockey Junkie (Royalty)
PUP - Kids (Self-Released)
THE TET OFFENSIVE - No Fault Parenting (Self-Released)
HOCKEY TEETH - Game Face (Outcast)
GOOD RIDDANCE - Our Great Divide (Fat Wreck)
PROPAGANDHI - Dear Coach’s Corner (G7 Welcoming Committee)

Tonight's demo feature is a band based in Montreal with members from Boston and some other places. We featured their two song demo that came out last year. Since then Byllepest released a full length with the band's new line up. 

THE CONSCRIPTS – Protect and Survive (Self-Released)
THE CONSCRIPTS – To What End? (Self-Released)

We are going out with some new and old releases. 
ELECTRIC CHAIR - Law Means Nothing (Iron Lung)
UNDER ATTACK -Blood Soaked Eyes (Iron Lung)
T.S.O.L. - Property is Theft (Posh Boy)

Radio - Sunday, March 24th, 2019

Pandemix are from Boston and will be playing here in April so we started off with them. Tonight's show is a return to form for the show in that thee is very little by way of themes except for a Top 10 for February and a compilation set. We also have a demo feature with a band from Ottawa called No Borders. Download the show here. 

PANDEMIX - Second Opinion (Dirt Cult)

PIPER MARU - MPDG (Sam) (Self-Released)
DAVE SMALLEY AND THE BANDOLEROS - Join the Outsiders (Little Rocket)
SUEDEHEAD - New Traditions (Mad Butcher)
FASHIONISM - Nun of That (Dirt Cult / Drunken Sailor)

THE COLA HEADS – Coffee Shopzzz (Self-Released)
BLACK MARKET BABY – Potential Suicide (Limp / Y and T / Dr. Strange)
PINHEAD GUNPOWDER – Losers of the Year (Lookout)
PUP – D.V.P. (SideOneDummy / Royal Mountain)
SCHOOL DAMAGE – Stranger Fruit (Self-Released)

BRING THE WAR HOME - People's War (Self-Released)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION  – World of Change (Schizophrenic)
THE GRINNING BARRETTS - Riot Crew (Self-Released)
NO-HEADS – Battle Plan (Six Feet Under / Refuse)

SO TIRED – Chemistry (Self-Released)
BOOTS FOR DANCING – Boots for Dancing (Cherry Red)
THE WASPS – Teenage Treats (Cherry Red)
ENGLISH DOGS – Psycho Killer (Cherry Red)
THE VECTORS – Hey Kirby (Cherry Red)

Top 10 - February 2019
10. KAKAFONI “Kralar I Stfotet” - Krälar I Stoftet (Phobia)
9. BOOZE AND GLORY “Chapter IV” LP – Simple (Pirate Press)
8. BYSTANDER “Bystander” ep - How Far Have We Come (Goodwill / Safe Inside / World's Appreciated Kitsch / Ugly and Proud)
7. VANILLA POPPERS “I Like Your Band” ep - Get Away From Me (Feel It)
6. U-NIX “Nuke Portland” LP – Landlord (Feel It)

5. RUIN IT “Locked Up Dead” - The Bar (Armageddon Label)
4. DESTRIPADOS “Gutless” - Planeta Karcel (Black Water)
3. BOOTLICKER “6 Track ep”- Partisan (Slow Death)
2. CHEAP APPEAL “You Lose” ep - Spite (Neon Taste)
1. MAKABERT FYND “Systemkollaps”- Fienden Ibland Oss (Phobia / Anomie / Romantic Disasters / Dark Elk / Mangel Wax / Up the Punx)

LIE - Ethics
DENIM AND LEATHER – Organ Donor
ANTITODO - Romper España
BOOJI BOYS - New Personnel
PLASTIC HEADS – Manikins
SINISTER PURPOSE - Fire in the Hole
FLESH RAG - Nighthawk (Schizophrenic)

Tonight's demo feature is a cassette called “The Walls They Build ... The Walls We Break” from this band from Ottawa. You can download the recording from here

NO BORDERS – We Rise (Self-Released)
NO BORDERS – No Human is illegal
NO BORDERS – Juvenile Crime (Self-Released)
NO BORDERS – Thick as Thieves (Self-Released)