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Ferret’s Review: Not Sorry-Our Choices

By admin on Mar. 28, 2011.

Not Sorry
Our Choices 7″
React! Records

First thing to mind- sick album art!  Five songs of old school Straight Edge hardcore.  Sounds a bit like Floorpunch meets XChorusX and a bit (yes, yes- a very tiny bit) of Absolution for good measure. Think gang style back-ups, lot’s of “Busts!”, and some hard mosh. I don’t hear the Youth of Today influence that people have thrown around with this band. Big points for them going with this style and not sounding overly generic. The lyrics are actually quite good- introspective and well planned out. They sound like a promising live band…hmmm…. east coast tour sounds nice.

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Signifying Nothing Episode Twenty Five

By admin on Apr. 12, 2010.

Signifying Nothing Episode Twenty Five

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Playlist
Rites of Spring-Spring
Sleater Kinney-Things You Say

7 Seconds-Drug Control
Absolution-Fall of a Nation

Black Flag-Bastard In Love
Citizens Arrest-Woodstock

Breathing Fire-Hit Machines
Dry Rot-Oldest Pornography

True Blue-Delta
DropDead-Legacy of Death

Splitting Headache-Ratings Flood
Give-Amphetamine Dream
Trauma-Era of Excess

Our Gang-In Anger

Show Notes

• Double Cross on 7 Seconds
• Blogged & Quartered’s Absolution discography
• Tony Rettman’s interview with Dry Rot.

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Absolution Reunion

By admin on Sep. 22, 2008.

For the first time in a very long time I drove up to this show with my friend John. We hit a ton of rain on the way up but, thankfully, by the time we got to New York City it was gone besides some lightning. John and I caught up on what each other was up to and laughed at the antics of the world around us.

On the way up we listened to Dave K’s 1988-1990 NYHC mix.

Upon arriving in Hoboken and trying to find a parking spot for probably around twenty to thirty minutes I quickly realized why I can’t stand that city. Yuppies and “norms” everywhere going to bars and other social gathering. On the way home we had to watch adults stumble out of bars bombed out of their minds. Pathetic. Thankfully, we went directly to the PATH train and got to 9th street pretty quickly where we met up with our friend Dave.

A cab ride later we were in front of the club. I have seen a variety of bands at The Knitting Factory, from 7 Seconds to Kristin Hersh’s solo act. These days I am not really a people person, even worse than before, so when we got in the club I tried to make my way inside as quick as possible to check out whoever was playing.

We ended up getting inside while Maximum Penalty was setting us, which was fine by me. I had not seen MP in many years (I think the last time was in 1996 with Hogan’s Heroes and Vision…) so I did not know what to expect from them. The records they released in the nineties weren’t too hot but I love their demo from 1989, which is one of the best attempts at combining Bad Brains style hardcore with Alleyway Crew style mosh parts.

Despite some new songs that were a bit on the long side, I thought MP played well enough. They busted out most of the demo plus the songs from the Blackout! compilation. A huge pile on for Acceptance ended their set in excellent fashion.

Now this a reunion I just did not think I would ever see. After that haphazardly put together discography CD in the late 90′s (98? 99?) I perceived bad blood between band members and the chance of a reunion being near zero. I made my way up front and slid off to the side where some friends stood so I would be out of the way of the kickboxing (take it back to the nineties, please) and other jerky bullshit. My original plans had been to dance and dive and generally have fun but after running earlier in the day my stomach never settled (at the time I was a little under the weather) so I decided to pass. Soon enough Gavin came out along with Sergio (Collapse, Quicksand), who was filling in on bass, and their fill in drummer Doug (formerly of Slapshot, Speak 714, and other bands).

After a few minutes of tuning Djinji came out to a rather loud round of applause. Quickly they were flying into As We Are (no intro?!?) and from there they proceeded to play a pretty good set. In the beginning they were a little sloppy but that changed after a few songs. For some reason Gavin’s guitar was really, really, low in the mix for a handful of songs as well. Djinji had great things to say between songs and the band went off hard.

I was hoping on the way out to find Djinji so I could mention how much I appreciate his father’s playing with John Coltrane on the Ascension album, but the band had disappeared into the backstage area. Ascension is one of my favorite Coltrane albums. There is an excellent reissue CD from a few years back which combines both versions (as the story goes, I guess, one version came out but was recalled and the second version was then released in subsequent pressings) onto one CD. I tend to like the second version (they are long suites) more, but you can’t go wrong with either one.

After getting the cold shoulder from a few long time “friends” I decided to go find Dave and John and start heading back to New Jersey. We ended up at the World Trade Center PATH station and from there parted ways and headed home. Absolution and Maximum Penalty are playing ABC No Rio in a few weeks. I don’t think I am going to be able to make it, but I would advise others to check them out while they can. There are rumors of a more organized discography CD in the works as well.

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Signifying Nothing Episode Twelve

By admin on Aug. 26, 2006.

Signifying Nothing Episode Twelve

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Playlist
SNFU-She’s Not On The Menu
C.R.-Hate The Christian Right

Enola Gay-Grav Et Nul
Brotherhood-Three Things
Terveet Kadet-Onnellisia Kytkentoja

Teen Idles-I Drink Milk
Minor Threat-Stand Up
State Of Alert-I Hate The Kids
Deadline-Hear The Cry
Artificial Peace-Outside Looking In

Red C-Pressure’s On
Youth Brigade-Moral Majority
Void-Dehumanized
Government Issue-Hey Ronnie
Untouchables-I Hate You

Justice-Up & Down
Negative Approach-Fashionable Idiots
Look Back & Laugh-Open Wounds
Pissed Jeans-Love Clown

Authorities-Radiation Masturbation
Fire Party-Jerk
Citizens Arrest-Existence

Life’s Blood-Human Power
Absolution-Dead & Gone
Nausea-Electrodes
Born Against-The Good Father

Fearless Iranians From Hell-Life In Iran
Riff Raff-Riff Raff
Bastards-Huominen Tulee, Painajainen Alkaa
Don’t No-Innocence Of Youth
C.K.N.-Holland

Deathreat-Sick Charade
Spazz-Uniform
No Comment-A Mother’s Crime
Honor Role-Livin In The Sixties
Pagan Babies-Dirty Knees

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Newz U Can Uze

By admin on Aug. 29, 2005.

Holy crap, a lot of Newz U Can Uze

• After a couple years of work, Bridge Nine Records is going to be putting out the Schism Fanzine book. I have not had originals of the Schism issues in a couple years, so I am excited to check it out again.
• In sort of Schism related news, Ronny Little has a new interview with Alex Brown up about Schism’s precursor Loveseat.
• Porcell is now playing guitar for Bold yet again. I am not really a fan, but good luck to those guys.
• I am looking forward to the Generations compilation on Revelation Records. There are some great bands on it like Mind Eraser, Robot Whales, and Mental.
• Scumville is a new UKHC archive. Some of my favorite bands like Voorhees, Heresy, Napalm Death, and Discharge have come from the UK. I hope that this site takes off as Kill From The Heart did.
• Strange Reaction has had some awesome posts up lately. They have profiled Scared Straight, a favorite Nardcore band of mine. As I note in the comments, Scott Radinsky played pro baseball for the White Sox, Dodgers, and a few other teams. As of a few years ago he owned a skate park in California. He was interviewed for It’s Alive Fanzine and seemed like a very cool dude still. Strange Reaction also has a great post up about Government Issue.
• Punknews has the fall dates for Henry Rollins’ latest spoken word tour. Hopefully I’ll be hitting up one of the New Jersey shows.
• Bystander Fanzine has a really awesome interview up with Djini from Absolution. I have always wondered how Djini would be in an interview, and I was not let down by this at all.
• The Beastie Boys are posting acappella songs on their website to encourage fans to create remixes. They even have a forum for people to talk about and share them. I am not really into or know much about the remix thing, but this sounds cool.
• Triple Threat has a new website with live mp3’s from their upcoming record.
• Jello Biafra is going to be doing a 2^nd record with The Melvins entitled Sieg Howdy!. I was really into their first record, and was very pleasantly surprised to find out that Jello was the one who came to The Melvins with a lot of the more hardcore (that sound a bit like Bl’ast! I think) sounding songs. Also coming from Alternative Tentacles this fall is a new record from Articles of Faith singer Vic Bondi. Punknews has all the info here.
• Signifying Nothing’s friend Bart from Ghent Decontrol Fanzine has started his own music blog. So far, he has a preview of his latest issue (NYHC Tribute) and there is more to come. Looks good.
• Ladies From Neptune has an interview up with the old band Heibel. Good stuff; check them out if you have not.
• Meanwhile, across the hardcore blogsphere, check out these posts on The Master Tape Compilation, Deadguy, Gastunk, and The Angry Samoans.

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