Radio - Sunday, September 1st, 2013

Tonight's show was all about Cleveland starting with a studio 3 session that was just recorded with Smooth Brain. Then we programmed some music from various eras of Cleveland's punk scene. The demo feature is a new band featuring Tony Erba (of 9 Shocks, GSMF, Cheap Tragedies fame) called Fuck You Pay Me. You can listen to the show with the player above or download an MP3 file format of the show.

SMOOTH BRAIN - Pointing at Me / Freaker Party (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Mean Chimp (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Frog and Toad (Lost Cat / Dead Broke)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Dum (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Fleas (Lost Cat / Dead Broke)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - One of Them (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Bone 2 Pick (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - The Freezer (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - When I'm with you (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Interview (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Living Room Cop (CIUT)
SMOOTH BRAIN - Ramones cover (CIUT)

THE GUNS - Locked Inside (Smog Veil)
DEAD BOYS - Ain`t Nothin To Do (Sire)
PAGANS - Cleveland Confidential (Thermionic)

DEFNICS - Life so Fast (Oops!)
BEATOFFS - Ad Liberation (Oops!)
OFFBEATS - Ned (Smog Veil)
DUMBSHITS - Hey Devo (Oops!)
AGITATED - Beat the Race (Smog Veil)

FACE VALUE - Up To Us (Smog Veil)
H100`s - Destroy Cleveland (Burrito)
9 SHOCKS TERROR - Screw this Town (Devour)
GORDON SOLIE MOTHERFUCKERS - Clevo`s Finest (River on Fire)
INMATES - You're not a part of us (Parts Unknown)

CHEAP TRAGEDIES - (Mad at the World)
APARTMENT 213 - Bizarre and Brutal Crimes (Retribute)
CIDER - 5-11 (5R)
CRIMINAL AUTHORITY - Self-Righteous Bastards

Demo Feature
FUCK YOU PAY ME - Fuck You Pay Me (Self-Released)
FUCK YOU PAY ME - Gone Squatchin' (Self-Released)
FUCK YOU PAY ME - Scab City (Self-Released)
FUCK YOU PAY ME - Factory of Sadness (Self-Released)
FUCK YOU PAY ME - I Dig Pain (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday, August 23rd, 2013

Smooth Brain studio 3 session

Smooth Brain are a new band from Cleveland with a more garage influence to their sound. The band has just released their second ep called “One of Them” so much of that was recorded in this session, but it was a year ago in August when their first ep came out which was called “Fleas”. Both eps can be downloaded from the band’s bandcamp (smoothbrain.bandcamp.com/‎) page.

This was the first out of town band to play in studio 3 since we have moved into the Tower Road studio and that has more to do with the limitations on the use of the studio. The old St. George house gave us the flexibility of 24 hour access. And this band warned me ahead of time that they were going to be running late which had me nervous the whole time. And with the construction going on Tower Road I paced back and forth trying to find the band for an hour. But finally they pulled in on Hoskins, I spotted the Ohio licence plate and knocked on the window to introduce myself. I hurried them along as we were already behind the gun on time. Fortunately, Jon Hawkes had set up mics and the space so we were ready to go.

The band knocked out a set of material which involved the following list of songs:

1. One of Them
2. Dum
3. The Freezer
4. Mean Chimp
5. Living Room Cop
6. When I’m With You
7. Pointing At Me / Freaker Party
8. Bone 2 Pick
9. Ramones cover
10. EXD ID
11. CIUT ID

During the set I noticed that the band reminded me a lot of the Vapids. Then I realized that they shared a bass player lead singer format, but this is more coincidental. Nathan is also the band’s principle artist, and by that I mean, he draws a lot of the band’s artwork. He has a Robert Crumb influenced style and is responsible for both ep covers. But you can check out his artwork at http://www.nwardcomics.com/. Nathan’s brother, Jim plays guitar with their friend Mike. And the drummer is Kev who informed me that he used to play guitar in 9 Shocks Terror. That floored me. 9 Shocks is a band I love. The fact that he is playing a different instrument in this band is equally puzzling.

This session was videotaped by Aldo from Punks and Rockers. Below is an edit of some of the songs mentioned above.

We spoke about the band afterwards in an interview.