Pushead Top 100 Podcast Part Two
By admin on Aug. 15, 2011.
- GBH-Knife Edge
- Channel 3-Manzanar
- Youth Brigade-No Song
- The Proletariat-Religion is the Opium of the Masses
- Negative Approach-Nothing
- Poison Idea-Made To Be Broken
- Chaotic Discord-Fuck The World
- Scream-U Suck A/We’re All Fed Up
- SNFU-She’s Not On The Menu
- The Fartz-Campaign Speech
- Impact Unit-My Friends, The Pit
- Youth Patrol-America’s Power
- Anti Cimex-Cries of Pain
- CIA-Commie Control
- Youth Brigade-Violence
- Chaos UK-Kill Your Baby
- Cause For Alarm-United Races
- Cro Mags-My Myself
- The Stalin-Title In Japanese
- Circle Jerks-Paid Vacation
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Reviews For The Week Of July 25th
By admin on Jul. 25, 2011.
Mind Eraser at some Scion sponsored gig. I giggled at how DFJ bums out the bouncers.
Blessed Offal
Self Titled Tape
Death metal coming highly recommended by friends who dig this stuff. While a few songs go on forever, Blessed Offal keeps them interesting with enough changes of pace to not lose me. This is pretty good.
United Youth
Demo
Decent 88 style hardcore that goes by in the blink of an eye. I see a lot of potential for an ep. Keep going.
Vaccine
Crimes In Blood 5″
Painkiller Records
I am glad this is a 5″ because there is about three minutes of music here. I don’t think a single song goes over 30 seconds. Vaccine fit somewhere in between Infest and No Comment, playing blazing fast hardcore with some changes within those brief songs. This is excellent.
Black Flag
Live At The On Broadway CD
Huh, this is totally weird. I’ve had pieces of both of these sets (the debut of the “My War Demos” lineup) for about 13 years, but only parts put together to make one set. Even weirder: It was labeled “Los Angeles 1983,” not even the right city/year. This obvious bootleg (hello, poser alert, on the wrong song titles) puts out very nice soundboards of two Flag shows from 1982 at the On Broadway in San Francisco. My Rules and I’ve Got To Run are brand new songs, and some of the My War songs are played as well. Obviously, this is essential material from Black Flag, but I’m not sure if you want to support the bootleggers.
Bl’asting Concept
Self Titled LP
It’s Alive Records
Our old friend Fred Hammer put this one out on his long dormant It’s Alive label. Not surprisingly, because of their name, this band must be big fans of Bl’ast!, Fu Manchu, and Annihilation Time. Heading more towards the rockier sound of the latter two bands, I lost a bit of interest when listening to this one. I think there is a big audience for a band like this right now, so I’m sure you will check it out for yourself.
War Hungry
Self Titled LP
Six Feet Under Records
Somewhere between Iron Age and…Life Of Agony (? Seriously? People like that crap?) comes the new record from PA’s War Hungry. This is pretty metal and would have fit in with all the Roadrunner Records bands the kids in my high school who were into “hawd” bands dug. I’m glad I stuck to Floorpunch and Voorhees. This is definitely not for me.
Mauser
End Of The Line 7″
Vinyl Rites Records
Burly Discharge/Anti Cimex inspired hardcore from the cess pool of Florida. This is a genre filled with lots of garbage, but this stands out as an essential modern piece of d-beat hardcore.
Whirl
Distressor Tape
Bridgetown Records
As if D-Beat and youth crew hardcore being genres filled with garbage was annoying enough, shoegazer is another genre where the good is heavily outweighed by the bad and vastly overrated. A friend told me Whirl were very much in the vein of Slowdive, so I checked this out. “Sounds like Slowdive” indeed! This is beautiful, dream like, shoegazer ala Slowdive. After a soundbite from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Whirl slam into some fantastic music. Seven songs is a perfect length for this, leaving the tape at its ending before any hint of boredom, a big problem with this genre, ensues.
The Rival Mob
Raw Life 12″
Lockin’ Out Records
The Rival Mob are one of the best bands out there today. Somewhere between Madball, youth crew hardcore, and Ringworm, they sound fresh and interesting without anything silly or outside the realm of hardcore. Great stuff.
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Cervix-Tour Tape
By admin on May. 24, 2011.
Cervix
Tour Tape
Yet another great crust band. Recently, there seems to be a lot of them. Music in the vein of Nausea or Anti Cimex with distorted, political, lyrics. Well worth checking out. This band is from New York City, so hopefully I will get to see them sometime soon.
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Signifying Nothing Episode 03×04
By admin on Oct. 13, 2010.
Out Cold-Nothing Left To Say (Self Titled)
Out Cold-Shot Dead (Permanent Twilight World)
Out Cold-Suicide Watch (Will Attack If Provoked)
Out Cold-It’s Terminal (Split With Voorhees)
Out Cold-Menticide (No Bullshit Volume Three)
Beyond-Seasons (New Breed)
Black Flag-I’ve Heard It Before (The Future Looks Bright)
Ignition-Rebuilding (Sinker)
Iron Age-Dispossessed (The Sleeping Eye)
Oi Polloi-Hands Off Nicaragua (Resist The Atomic Menace)
Waste Management-No Way Out (Waste Tape Demo)
War Cry-Hellish Slaughter (Not So Distant Future)
Trauma-No Hope No More (Demo)
Mind Eraser-Spear (The Prodigal Son Brings Death)
Devoid of Faith-Purpose: Lost (Purpose: Lost)
No Escape-Silenced (Rebuilding)
Anti Cimex-Desperate Hours (Victims of a Bomb Raid)
Attitude Adjustment-Destruction’s Eve (Pusmort Sampler)
5051-El Salvador (Our Blow Out)
World Burns To Death-Blood & Dishonor (Split With Disclose)
Dancing French Liberals of ’48-In A Past Life (Scream Clown Scream)
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Morpheme-Self Titled 7″
By admin on Apr. 19, 2010.
Morpheme
Self Titled 7″
Prank Records
This is one of the best records I have heard in awhile. Scandinavian style hardcore with lyrics in Japanese reminding me of Nightmare, Anti Cimex, and Crucifix amongst others. This style is filled with horrible, derivative, garbage and this band really stands out above the rest. Great stuff worth checking out.
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