Playlist: Feb 25, 2008

drunks with guns - hippo stomp
ari ari - liquored up and at 'em
self destruct - self destruct

charles bronson - the tears of a clone
closet fairies - ghetto girls
snack truck - the belgian congo

word salad - electric funeral
carbonas - stoned to death
ape shit - wolf in sheep's clothing

fucked up - colour removal
total abuse - sex pig
sinks - get outta my house

waco fuck - sob
virginia black lung - gentrifuckers
look back and laugh - trashed

social circkle - life crisis
eaten alive - eat your face
government warning - trend city

man is the bastard - feed the octopus
sidetracked - on edge
fruit salad - blood makes me cum

off with their heads - shambles
fuel - incomplete
crime in stereo - unfortunate tourists

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Baader Brains "The Complete Unfinished Works of the Young Tigers" LP

daitro - place tolazon
yage - future is now
plot to blow up the eiffel tower - murder at the five spot

the conversions - big game
guyana punch line - direkt aktionists daily affirmation
the khayembii communique - how to change addictions

the breaks - landlocked blues
cardiac arrest - what's up
civic progress - kill the president

form of rocket - keep smilin' ed smart
xbrainiax - red out
the new flesh - untitled

brain handle - scratching at my skull
dancing feet march to war - the cause from an uncommon heat
issei sagawa - all my best lovers were pre-teens

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #3: Baader Brains "The Complete Unfinished Works of the Young Tigers" LP

So we're bending the rules a bit on this one, but it's completely necessary. Mike Kirsch does what Mike Kirsch does best: makes incredible hardcore music tinged with weird and creative conceits that reinvent and reimagine what punk music is and can be.

This time around, Kirsch borrows some ideas from German revolutionaries, the Baader-Meinhof gang in particular, creating Baader Brains (featuring much of the same cast from the unfuckwithable Please Inform the Captain This Is A Hijack). What you get is an entire cosmology of the Young Tigers, from birth to futuristic victory. Kirsch and crew drop the sass a bit this time, choosing a bit more of a traditional viciousness (think John Henry West), but the high concept is still there. Heard in its entirety, you get the feeling that this is just another unearthed document of man's depravity in humanity's deep, dark bunker.

Split release from Waking Records and Clean Plate Records. Color is probably all gone, and black is sure to be extinct relatively soon. Don't fuck with the brains.

Playlist: Feb 18, 2007

funeral diner - the sword
daitro - des plaies ouvertes
fire team charlie - halvsies

off with their heads - shambles
deathcycle - ten year's later
acid reflux - half spic

civic progress - alling apart
relics - no end
dazzling killmen - medicine me

wasteland - river
civil crisis - hammered down
chronic seizure - hypochondriac

life at these speeds - younger monkey
olde ghost - echo
other men my age - number two

in disgust - copmlete failure
double negative - looking at the rats
insect warfare - oxygen corrosion

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Social Circkle "I've Got Afflictions" EP

formaldehyde junkies - nbsd
cpc gangbangs - teenage crimewave
warkrime - get loose

gordon solie motherfuckers - ghost cry of betray
career suicide - left with nothing
threatener - antlers in the throat

baader brains - baader brains
iron lung - future corpses
young livers - the small hours

frustrations - evil twin
the vicious - dead town
saboteurs - straighten up

skarekrau radio - airplanebomb
condominium - let's die
breathing fire - cease

the swarm - ollie impossible
holier than thou - dumb motherfucker
backstabbers inc. - jaybird

shorebirds - people i live with
thank god - that mouse is cool
ampere - sleepwalking

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #2: Social Circkle "I've Got Afflictions" EP

Social Circkle is up this week for the strike, one of Boston's own. We could write a review, but Doug Mosurock at Dusted Magazine does a better job. Get it, if you can.

"Second single, new guitarist, pretty different approach overall, but Social Circkle still treads on. Gone is the clean guitar of the demo, and abated are the straight lines and the slower, more Anglophilic notions of the first EP. Here the Crickle plows straight into more modern hardcore territory, blazing through four new tracks with almost no room for breath until the more solid, piecemeal riffage of closer “I Don’t Want” takes hold. Still pretty great, just different than before; makes me wonder how their ideas might translate to a full-length. 2000 copies, first 200 on clear."--Doug Mosurock, Still Single, dustedmagazine.com

New Band New Shows

According to the Clean Plate Records website, "there's a new band brewing: Matt Wilga, Andrew Jackmauh, Mark McCoy, and Will Killingsworth are Failures." If I'm not mistaken, that's Mark McCoy of Das Oath and Charles Bronson fame, and Will Killingsworth of Ampere and before that, Orchid.

A new LP has been in the works for over a year and will hopefully be released soon. 14 new songs that can't go wrong considering these guys' backgrounds. The band has some shows lined up for the end of February around the New England area and plan on a Midwest tour with Repos in March.

Check It:

2/22 @ The Breadbox; New Brunswick, NJ with Outnumbered, Ashtray Dirt , Shit Fit
2/23 @ The Ratscellar; Boston, MA with Mind Eraser, Aerosols, Men's Interest
2/24 @ The Red Barn at Hampshire; Amherst, MA with Conversions, Aerosols, Ripshit

Look on the Clean Plate website for updates.

Playlist: Feb 11, 2007

Truncated due to the Beanpot Championship. Sorry, Crimson.

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Heartbeatz "Secret Girls" EP

insect warfare - mind ripper
divider - the sun never sets
walls - just pain

bucket full of teeth - capital distracts & imprisons
holy mountain - birth
scrotum grinder - q: what kind of a name is scrotum grinder? a: a terrible one

double negative - retro abortion
cardiac arrest - hype machine
discharge - a: and children

cross laws - buried alive
gorilla angreb - motorsavsmassakren
la piovra - risacca

lion of judah - war of souls
socialcide - zoned out
repercussions - no peace

tyvek - give it up
humanoids - minor wound
end of a year - midwest

self destruct - self destruct
bored to death - no friend
conversions - dictated desires

youth of togay - never going back

Sat, Feb 11: Social Circkle Record Release Show

This should get good quick. Bring a helmet. Social Circkle celebrates the release of their new EP "I've Got Afflictions" on No Way Records (look for that on next week's Strike). If you missed it last year, also check out Wasted Time's "No Shore" EP on Grave Mistake.

SATURDAY FEB 16th

DIRECT CONTROL - no way records
SOCIAL CIRCKLE - record release
WASTED TIME
CHEAP TRAGEDIES

@ The RATSCELLAR
8pm.
6 bucks
ALL AGES
ratscellar @ gmail (dot) com for info.

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #1: Heartbeatz "Secret Girls" EP

Hyperkinetic, completely fuzzed out punk from Bakersfield, CA. Featuring Neutron Ron of the Contaminators; also the proprietor of Going Underground Records. Check it out while you still can at www.goingundergroundrecords.com, and look out for the second installment on P. Trash Records.

HeartBeatz - Secret Girls 7" EP
Going Underground #11
- 8 Test Presses
1st Press
- 475 Black Vinyl
- 100 White Vinyl w/ Alternate Sleeve, Most came with Junkie Timez Zine
- 25 White vinyl with SECRET Sleeve

A Ripple In Time

We've been out of the game for a while, but no more. Communiques resume tomorrow night, with some new leadership. Baris will be around, but look out for Ben every one in a while at least.

Get ready.