Formed in 1986 in New Paltz, NY by Mike Adair, Mike Gurdin, Doug Beans, Anthony Ferrara and Bruce Gussin. This is their second demo.LINK:
In Pursuit of Toast (1998)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
FUNCTIONAL IDIOTS: IN PURSUIT OF TOAST
Formed in 1986 in New Paltz, NY by Mike Adair, Mike Gurdin, Doug Beans, Anthony Ferrara and Bruce Gussin. This is their second demo.LINK:
In Pursuit of Toast (1998)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT:SCREAM, DRACULA, SCREAM!
Scream, Dracula, Scream! is an album by the San Diego, California rock band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 1995 by Interscope Records. It was the band's first major-label release. Music videos were filmed for the singles "On a Rope," "Born in '69" and "Young Livers," and the band embarked on extensive tours of the US, UK and Europe. They experienced a surge of popularity in the UK, where "On a Rope" entered music charts at #12 and was a hit on MTV Europe, earning them rave reviews in New Musical Express and allowing them to play Top of the Pops.
The album also made the band an alternative rock hit in the US, where their videos were featured on MTV and the album received many positive reviews in both mainstream and underground music presses. A large headlining tour in support of the album ensued in 1996, as well as supporting tours with Rancid and Soundgarden. During these tours the band gained a reputation for a series of interesting and, at times, seemingly ludicrous gimmicks and stage antics which included holding raffles during live performances, spinning a large game show wheel to determine set lists, onstage fire breathing, annual Halloween and New Year's shows, and the wearing of coordinated and progressively more ornate stage costumes. In Europe the band also hosted a German variety show, played children's shows and morning shows, and did interviews with fashion magazines. While unorthodox, these antics increased the band's reputation as an energetic live act and helped to increased album sales.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
MCRAD: ABSENCE OF SANITY
Us old guys with bad knees remember McRad from back in the days when skate videos were events just because they came out, not because some publicist was hyping them with a YouTube ad campaign. The songs heard in those videos were new pieces of ear candy that were soon blasting on a sticker-covered boom box at the local ramp. That was back when Skate Rock belonged to skaters, and we had the best secret in the world. McRad was one of those secrets.McRad was in a few of Powell Peralta’s
classic vids—Public Domain, Ban This and Propaganda—bringing an energetic sound based in hardcore and punk to the post-Bones Brigade team. The song “Weakness” was the soundtrack to the world’s introduction to Ray Barbee in Public Domain, while McRad was also fast and loose enough to keep up with Tommy Guerrero as he destroyed the hills of SF. Coming out of Philly in 1983, McRad released a classic hardcore record, Absence of Sanity.
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MCSHRED
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
DEVOLA: PLAYING THE GAME OF REVENGE AND WINNING EVERY TIME
I went to school with these cats @ SUNY New Paltz. This is brutal, spastic stuff here. Devola play that crazy grindcore/powerviolence sound, but do it with a bit of noisy artsyness while they comment on social and politcal issues of importance. Think Brutal Truth, Monster X, and Deadguy. Mike G. watched Seinfeld for months to get the audio at the end of the album.track list:
1. 238/219
2. Red Light Thought
3. The Prozac Equation
4. This One Hurts
5. Exit Wounds
6. The Ultimate Plan
7. True Crime
8. Never to be Forgotten
9. Walking on Eggshells
10. Remembering Insignificance
11. Real Men Don't Wear White Hats
12. Well-Oiled Machine
13, Almost Negated
14. For A Cause
15 Pigeon Fight
LINK:
Domino Muthafucker
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
LIMBOMANIACS: STINKY GROOVES
With the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ascension in the 1980s, it became downright fashionable in “alternative rock” circles to combine rock and funk. One of the better funk-rock releases of the early ’90s was the Limbomaniacs’ Stinky Grooves — an inspired fusion of P-Funk, Washington D.C.-style go-go, rap and hard rock/heavy metal. Drawing on influences ranging from Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix to Parliament/Funkadelic to Trouble Funk to Public Enemy and Run-D.M.C., the sweaty, intense band is much more individualistic and recognizable than many of its peers. Though the Limbomaniacs sometimes employ sampling, they do so sparingly and are far more reliant on “real instruments” than technology. Bootsy Collins and Maceo Parker appears as distingushed guests on Stinky Grooves, a CD that should have enjoyed much recognition, but sadly, was all but ignored.LINK:
Butt Funkin'
pass: soulfunkjazzs_blog
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
YUPPICIDE: SHINEBOX
Yuppicide was a NY Hardcore Punk band born in Brooklyn in 1988, died in Brooklyn 1999. Joe Keefe, Steve Karp, and Jesse Jones met while attending art school in Brooklyn, NY. John Lynch was recruited on drums and in 1988 Yuppicide was formed.LINK:
Shinebox
STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: MY STOMPIN' GROUNDS
Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my distinct pleasure to introduce to you a man who is not only more Canadian than the maple leaf, and more devastating to a piece of plywood than a hungry beaver, but he’s even stomped down more streets in Canada than a Peterborough Postman. Ladies and gentlemen, make way for the one and only STOMPIN’ TOM CONNORS.LINK:
Stompin' Tom
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
INTO ANOTHER
Into Another's music was not easily categorized. At once heavy metal, grunge, alternative, and post-punk, the band's arresting melodies collided with their stop-and-go rhythms. They added to that a guitar wizardry steeped more deeply in classic heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden than the New York City hardcore scene that nurtured half of the band's membership early on, and an esoteric, far-reaching lyrical scope delivered skillfully by Richie Birkenhead. Into Another came together in 1990. Birkenhead, one-time guitar player for seminal straightedge flag bearers Youth of Today and vocalist for the reggae-tinged Bad Brains-inspired Underdog, hooked up with drummer Drew Thomas, who he had known for years through the New York City scene. Thomas, himself a hardcore alumni who spent time bashing the drums for Revelation Records recording artists Bold -- shared Birkenhead's desire to abandon the limiting conventions of the hardcore music style and explore other types of songwriting. The pair found exactly what they were looking for in Lower East Side musician Peter Moses, a guitar player who had never performed in a band before. Thomas and Birkenhead next recruited bassist Tony Bono. Bono had done a tour of duty in proto-thrash act Whiplash -- a band about as unlike Bold as one could imagine. Into Another performed their first show at New York's Pyramid, sharing the stage with a budding White Zombie. They were soon after offered a recording contract by Revelation. The following year, they released their debut, a self-titled album displaying Into Another's sharp musical chops and tripped-out spiritual vision, encapsulated by the band's multi-pointed star logo which adorned the album's cover artwork.
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INTO ANOTHER
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
FUGAZI: 4/3/95 IRVING PLAZA NYC
COUNTRY MIKE'S GREATEST HITS
During 1998, rumors, seemingly generated by comments from the Beastie Boys, pointed to a possibility that they were to release a country album. Both Michael Diamond and Adam Yauch are credited with interview comments that piqued interest in whether or not an album would be released. Since they had long been notorious for pranking the media, it was difficult for anyone to take these comments seriously until tracks became available, most notably on The Sounds of Science anthology album. Adam Yauch published the following in the liner notes: "At some point after Ill Communication came out, Mike got hit in the head by a large foreign object and lost all of his memory. As it started coming back he believed he was a country singer named Country Mike. The psychologists told us that if we didn't play along with Mike's fantasy, he would be in grave danger. Finally he came back to his senses. These songs are just a few of many we made during that tragic period of time."LINK:
Who's Country Mike?
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
SLAPSHOT: BACK ON THE MAP AND STEP ON IT
SLAPSHOT is a band shrouded in history, rumors, and urban legend. Their damn-near twenty year existense has equally divided the hardcore community and united its adherents. Very few bands have left such a mark that generation after generation of hardcore kids find it incumbent upon themselves to discover SLAPSHOT fresh and new for themselves to give them a foundation for their listening development. In a scene that so often differentiates sub-genres of old school hardcore between youth crew and tough guy, SLAPSHOT clearly is neither, and decisively both at the same time. They are straight edge and they are tough. But they don't share enough with either Youth Of Today or Madball to really serve to further define either sub-genre.LINKS:
Back on the Map
Step On It
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
MURDER CITY DEVILS: IN NAME AND BLOOD
The Murder City Devils were a garage punk band active between 1996 and 2001.
Tracks
1. Press Gang
2. I Drink The Wine
3. Bunkhouse
4. Idle Hands
5. Rum To Whiskey
6. I'll Come Running
7. Demon Brother
8. Lemuria Rising
9. Somebody Else's Baby
10. In This Town
11. No Grave But The Sea
12. Fields Of Fire
The inside fold out sets the mood for this album, as it's packed with gory photos of the band dressed up as murder victims. But without involving any gimmicks, the Murder City Devils just rock out to a gritty, nostalgic garage punk that looks up to the Dead Boys and Alice Cooper. The organ-synth adds to the haunting appeal of an already bleak, party-like presence that the Devils have had since day one.
LINK:
I Drank The Wine
SOLE: SELLING LIVE WATER
Sole, born Tim Holland, is an alternative hip hop artist and a co-founder of the Anticon collective. Sole is known for his dense, often dark stream-of-consciousness writing style. His verses are often filled with abstraction, metaphor and sarcasm while avoiding or deconstructing traditional hip hop topics. His albums and record label have been featured in magazines such as Playboy and The Wire. Sole is also a producer and releases his self-produced experiments under the alias mansbestfriend, taken from the name of his Apple G4 computer.
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Selling Live Water
Thursday, September 3, 2009
BOLD: THE SEARCH 1985-1989
Bold is a late 1980s youth crew hardcore band from upstate New York, which along with bands like Youth Of Today and Side By Side were a part of the Youth Crew, and a major influence in the late 80's straight edge hardcore scene. Originally called Crippled Youth, the band was formed in Katonah, New York by Matt Warnke (vocals), Tim Brooks (bass) and Drew Thomas (drums). After a couple of shows with Matt singing and playing guitar, they recruited John 'Zulu' Zuluaga on guitar, and Matt switched to just singing. They released a 7" EP entitled 'Join The Fight' on the California label New Beginning in 1986 before switching to the name Bold. It was under this name that they recorded the 11-song LP Speak Out. The record was supposed to be released on California's WishingWell Records, but was eventually released in 1988 on Revelation.
The band later recruited Tom Capone (Beyond/Shelter/Quicksand/etc.) on second guitar, and recorded a self-titled 5-song 7" in 1989, also on Revelation. The 7" is by many considered their best material, adding more melody to their straightforward hardcore sound. The 7" EP was re-issued on a 12" entitled 'Looking Back' in 1993, with 2 bonus tracks.
Bold reunited in 2005 with Warnke on vocals, Capone on guitar, Brooks on bass and Vinny Panza on drums. John Porcelly, who periodically played with the band in the 1980s, later joined on second guitar. To conincide with the reunion, Revelation released the retrospective CD The Search: 1985-1989, which contains the band's entire recorded output.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
THE HANSON BROS.: GROSS MISCONDUCT
The Hanson Brothers are a Canadian punk rock band based in Vancouver, British Columbia and led by John and Rob Wright and Tom Holliston, all members of the punk rock band Nomeansno.
The Hanson Brothers' band name references characters in the cult ice hockey film Slap Shot. Heavily influenced by the music of the Ramones and the sport of ice hockey. From the parody of the Road to Ruin album cover to the straightforward punk rock assault, Gross Misconduct is Ramones idolization, pure and simple.
Tracks:
1. No Emotion
2. It's a Secret
3. A Night Without You
4. My Girlfriend's a Robot
5. Sabrina
6. Butthead
7. Go Away
8. Comatose
9. Road Pizza
10. No More Headcheese
11. Duke It Out
12. Lovesick
13. Jack Off
14. Total Goombah!
15. Blitzkrieg Hops
16. You Are Not For Me
17. Bad
LINK:
POP, Go The Ruskies
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
CHARLES BRONSON: COMPLETE DISCOCRAPPY
Charles Bronson was a powerviolence band from Dekalb, Illinois, extant 1994 to 1997. Charles Bronson borrowed from the early powerviolence of Infest, who blended youth crew hardcore with the velocity and dissonance of thrashcore.
Youth Attack Records put together a two-disc "Complete Discocrappy", comprised of well over 100 songs of fury-core, most of which are under 1 minute long, and a good many of which are under 30 seconds. In fact, the longest song on the album is only 1:31, most of which is made up of a Charles Bronson movie sample; the shortest track on the album is 4 seconds long, although the actual song only lasts for about 1 second.
LINK:
Fuck Technology, I'll Keep My Pocket Change
Saturday, August 29, 2009
BEYOND: NO LONGER AT EASE
In January of 1988 on Long Island, Beyond arose out of the ashes of a high school battle-of-the-bands outfit called Third-Planet, when the temporary singer of that band, Tom Capone decided to get a serious band together.
Tom recruited drummer Dom Baiocco, bassist Lance, and singer Kevin Egan. They quickly wrote about a dozen songs and recorded a demo.
After the huge impact the demo made, Tom decided to get more fully-committed band members. This is when Alan Cage took over on drums, and Vic DiCara came in on bass.
LINK:
DEW IT!
MOONDOG: DEMO
Moondog was the short-lived project that Walter Schreifels formed right after Gorilla Biscuits broke up and just before starting Quicksand. Schreifels wrote a few songs and quickly went right into the studio to record them with GB's drummer Luke (Walter handled all of the guitar, bass and vocal chores). After the recording, he assembled Tom Capone on guitar, friend Howie on second guitar, Luke Abbey on Bass (who played drums on the recording) and Arman Majidi (of Sick Of It All fame) on drums to play Moondog's first (and only) show at CBGB’s. Once the unit started playing together, Schriefels decided Moondog wasn't a fitting name and they changed it to Quicksand (Luke was replaced by Alan Cage and Sergio Vega was recruited on Bass).
LINK:
MOONDOG
Friday, August 28, 2009
NEW YORK HARDCORE COMPILATIONS
THE WAY IT IS"New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is" is considered by many to be a classic, documenting NYHC as it was in 1988. More than just a straight-edge collection, it compiled bands from all facets of the hardcore scene including Bold, Nausea, Warzone, Gorilla Biscuits, Trip 6, Breakdown, Youth Of Today, Sick Of It All, Krakdown, Side By Side, Youth Defense League and Supertouch. Comparable to Boston's "This Is Boston Not LA" or Washington, DC's "Flex Your Head," "New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is" helped push New York to the forefront of the American hardcore scene.
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
In 1989, Noiseville Records teamed up with Blackout Records to put out "Where the Wild Things Are". A collection of what was going on in our local NY scene back then. It was an exciting time and that is clear on this compilation, which at the time featured bands that were new or completely unknown. Since then, many have emerged as major forces in the NYHC scene. Sheer Terror, Raw Deal (later Kiling Time), Breakdown, Maximum Penalty, Norman Bates and the Showerheads. This album was the spring board for these bands and this scene.
1. Outburst: The Hardway 2. Outburst: Controlled
3. Killing Time: Brightside 3. Killing Time: Backtrack
4. Life's Blood: Reckoning Force 5. Life's Blood: Counting On
6. Breakdown: All I Ask 7. Breakdown: Dissed And Dismissed
8. Breakdown: Kickback 9.Sheer Terror: Cup Of Joe
10. Sheer Terror: Not Giving Up 11.MaximumPenalty: Hate
12. Maximum Penalty: Immaculate Conception
13. Uppercut: Down For The Count 14. Uppercut: Am I Clear?
15. N.B.S.H.: Hellminded 16. N.B.S.H.: Desperate
17. Gorilla Biscuits: Sittin' Round At Home
LOOK AT ALL THE CHILDREN NOW...
Released in 1990, when the first wave of the NYHC hype was already over. This is partly meant as an overview of the alternatives to that scene. It's astonishing, though, how close a lot of bands are to the early Revelation sound. Powerful, fast and simple hardcore with some exursions into emo core (Moondog) or crust (Citizens Arrest, Rorschach) and some others.
1. Bad Trip: O.M.D.B 2. Bad Trip: No Easy Answers 3. SFA: Power 4. Moondog: Expression
5. Go!: Electricity 6. Go!: What's Your Price?
7. Yuppicide: Yellow Journalism 8. Bustin' Out: Exit 2-3
9. Citizens Arrest: Death Threat 10. Citizens Arrest: I Won't Allow
11. Bugout Society: Partyline 12. World Discrimination: Inspirations
13. World Discrimination: Skins & Punx 14. Rorschach: Someone
15. Rorschach: Clenching 16: Product 19: America Drules
17. Mas: Grey Morning
LINKS:
The Way It Is
Where The Wild Things Are
Look At All The Children Now
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
THE DEAD MILKMEN: BIG LIZARD IN MY BACKYARD
The aforementioned Side A.The Dead Milkmen are a satirical punk band formed in 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band initially consisted of Joe Genaro ("Joe Jack Talcum"; guitar, vocals), Dave Schulthise ("Dave Blood"; bass), Dean Sabatino ("Dean Clean"; drums), and Rodney Linderman ("Rodney Anonymous"; vocals, synth).
The band's musical style could be described as jangly, driving punk rock with a steady supply of irreverent humor as evident from the song titles "My Many Smells", "Taking Retards to the Zoo" and "If You Love Someone, Set Them On Fire." Linderman and Genaro both sing with heavy Philadelphia accents often sounding exaggeratedly snotty.
The group recorded eight studio albums, one live record, and a large number of EPs and self-released cassettes before disbanding in 1995. In 2008, after a small handful of reunion shows during their 13 years of inactivity, the group announced its plans to continue performing and work on new material with new bassist Dan Stevens replacing the deceased Schulthise.
Link:
I can't afford to feed it anymore
LET THEM EAT JELLYBEANS
In 1987 I was in the 7th grade and really in to Def Leppard. Then a friend let me borrow a tape his older brother had made for him. Side A had the first Dead Milkmen album on it and side B had Let The Eat Jellybeans written across the top. I thought that it was the name of the band. Needless to say, I was exposed for the first time to some of the most influential punk bands of the era and was quickly hooked to this thing they call the punk rock.Let Them Eat Jellybeans!, subtitled "17 Extracts From Americas Darker Side", is a compilation album released by Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles in 1981. It was one of the earliest compilations of underground music in the United States and its original release included an insert of all of the punk bands known to be playing in the U.S. and Canada at that time. The first side of the LP features songs by a number of bands that formed the canon of American hardcore punk in the 1980s, while the second side features more of an art rock sound.
The album's title comes from the phrase "Let them eat cake" (supposedly said by Marie Antoinette). The use of the word jellybeans is in reference to Ronald Reagan, who was known to consider them his favorite candy.
Link:
- "Ha Ha Ha" - performed by Flipper
- "The Prisoner" - performed by D.O.A.
- "Police Story" - performed by Black Flag
- "Pay to Cum" - performed by Bad Brains
- "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" - performed by Dead Kennedys
- "Paid Vacation" - performed by Circle Jerks
- "Prostitution" - performed by Really Red
- "Jesus Entering from the Rear" - performed by The Feederz
- "Slave to My Dick" - performed by Subhumans
- "Isotope Soap" - performed by Geza X
- "Persecution-That's My Song" - performed by BPeople
- "An Object" - performed by Wounds
- "Everyone's A Bigot" - performed by The Offs
- "Corporate Food" - performed by Anonymous
- "Fun Again" - performed by Half Japanese
- "Joke's On You" - performed by Christian Lunch
- "Sleep" - performed by Voice Farm
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
STAR WARS DISCO
Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk is a disco album by Meco released in 1977. The album remakes various themes and songs from the Star Wars soundtrack into disco beats. A single from the album entitled "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" was released. In addition to the normal 3:32 version the album contains a full 15-minute version of the tune.Link:
Play that funky music, Jedi
GROOVIE GHOULIES: FUN IN THE DARK
Since Outbreak is on TV today I thought it would be a good time to link some Ghoulies.The Groovie Ghoulies were an American pop punk band formed in Sacramento, California whose music took inspiration from horror movies. They released numerous albums, EPs, and singles, and toured internationally. The band's name was taken from the 1970s animated television series Groovie Goolies, a spinoff of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (itself a spinoff of The Archie Show).
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Monday, August 24, 2009
BLACK ARMY JACKET: 222
Black Army Jacket was an American grindcore / power violence band. They released one full length album and many 7" EPs, splits and compilation appearances.This is the full length.
Link:
222
THE TRANSFORMED MAN
The Transformed Man is actor William Shatner's debut album. It was released in 1968, while Shatner was still starring in the original Star Trek series, and began his musical career. The concept of the album was to juxtapose famous pieces of poetry with their modern counterparts, pop lyrics. The album is best remembered for showcasing Shatner's now-famous vocal style—spoken word with dramatic pauses and flourishes.
Link:
The Transformed Man
Sunday, August 23, 2009
ASSFACTOR 4: 1993-2000
Assfactor 4 was a hardcore punk band from Columbia, South Carolina formed by two members of Tonka (Jay and Alex) and two members of Unherd (Eric and Kevin). They formed in Fall 1992 and broke up in late 1997. Assfactor 4's sonic approach drew heavily from San Diego's early-1990's group Heroin, but their song structure was notably more akin to 1980's thrash and hardcore, placing Assfactor 4 in a unique position within the DIY hardcore scene of the era.
Thanks to Blogged and Quartered
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Assfactor 4
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