Monday Night Strike

Look Out #1/Just Out #1

2008-05-06T21:58:00.007-05:00

Weekly, bi-weekly, or whenever weekly, we'll try and keep you up to date on records worth watching for (Look Out) and records worth grabbing (Just Out).

LOOK OUT

Rockbottom Records has been a favorite for a while (check out the Humanoids 12" as soon as possible), so it's always nice to hear about new material. Especially when it's a slew of EP's from bands like Loser Life and the Conversions. The site just upped some new tracks by Autistic Youth and Loser Life, so keep your eyes peeled for them.

Immediate future: RBR#9: American Cheeseburger/Canadian Rifle 7", RBR#10: Loser Life "Life Number 2" 7", RBR#11: Autistic Youth 7"
Not too distant future: Canaveral 7", Humanoids 7", Lost Boys 7", The Conversions 7"

Shorebirds owe me some more material before I wear out the self-released EP from last year. Latterman and Jawbreaker alums do it right, and they should be doing it even better soon. Expect some new material off a comp and the bigger news, a summer release for the debut twelve song full-length "It's Gonna Get Ugly" on Rumbletowne.

Going Underground Records can't stop won't stop, nor should they. Two new releases expected for May, both of which you will get: So Cow 7" and Harpoon Guns 7". Especially don't miss the HG.

16oh looks like they're finally going to stop teasing and start delivering on the Bookburner 7". All the parts are finally in, so the release should be right around the corner. Now if only we could do something about that Neighborhood Threat 7"...

Clean Plate may be a bit inoperative right now due to Will Kill's heavy everything schedule, but once he's back from the Ampere tour in June, expect a confirmed treat, the Failures LP (like Ampere? like Das Oath? like this) and a hopefully not too distant announcement about the Aerosols LP.

JUST OUT

Christ on Parade "Loud and Live" LP. Prank was kind enough to rerelease "Sounds of Nature" recently, and now a new gift: 13 live tracks from the 2007 tour. All original material, all killer. You know what this sounds like, so get it. Released by Prank Records.

Endless Blockade "Primitive" LP. Split, split, split, full length, and now another one. All brutal, all the time. Limited cover gone, but plenty of the regular still available. I suggest you get this already. Released by 20BuckSpin.

Flaws "Erect Nation" LP. Stumbled across this while being curious about Tiny Hawks. Featuring members of Tiny Hawks, Palatka, etc., you owe it to yourself to try and find it (these dudes give "off the radar" a new meaning). Exactly how you'd expect all those bands to sound wrapped up into one. Released by Obscurist Press.

Running for Cover "Dark Well" LP. Oh, you're into hardcore? Power violence, you say? Running for Cover provides a reality check for all those newjacks who need it. Seriously, listen to the drums. Released by Art of the Underground.

Who Calls So Loud 2x10". This is some packaging, and some wax. Ex-members of Funeral Diner pick up where Funeral Diner left off. That's about all the info you need. Released by Sorry Records and Adagio830. A bit pricy, so try to track down some local distros for this.

Reviews, Friends, and More Shit

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We may not be back until the fall, but that doesn't mean the hits won't stop coming. In the mean time, we'll try and keep you abreast of as much as possible with more reviews and more news. We'll also be sprucing up the linkage and doing a little more house cleaning, so don't lose track.

Also, make sure to check out Hulk's Music Corner early and often. It's Loser Life's own Steven's music blog, which is more on and to the point than we ever will be, probably. Get into it.

Punch "Eyeless" EP

2008-05-06T21:30:00.002-05:00

There's playing fast, then there's playing fast. Knocked-off knock-offs muck up the landscape right now, but it's good to know that the real deal still has the unparalleled ability of actually knocking you on your ass. Punch lives up to the name, meting out some real punishing speed. There's no real time to catch your breath here; the breakdowns are too heavy to really start sucking wind. Any doubts of 625 and the Bay Area's relevant need for speed are put to rest right here. Not since Get Destroyed have I been this devastated by an EP, and where as those Snottsdale ragers were content to approximate the Man Is the Bastard treatment, Punch brings some of the harshest female vocals this side of, well, I don't even know. "Fuck prevention/we can't market that." No, you can't.

Split release from 625 Thrash and Discos Huelga. Band on tour right now.

THE INLAND EMPIRE ORGY: Friday May 2 10pm-5am

2008-04-30T11:03:00.003-05:00

The regular season is over, but that doesn't mean we aren't going for the pennant. Check in at www.whrb.org and www.recordhospital.org for plenty of great orgy programming--for the uninitiated, orgies are large blocks of themed air.

First up for us: The Inland Empire orgy. The past few weeks have been dominated by bands too fucked for L.A., and that's been through no fault of our own. It's fitting, then, to have these seven hours to look back at some of the great music coming out the Empire, including:

Contaminators
Crime Desire
Human Mess
Loser Life
Waco Fuck

and much more from Going Underground Records, Life's A Rape Records, and who knows what. Join us, and keep an eye out for the "Different Kind of Grind: Two Human Hardcore Band Orgy."

Essayistic promo prose for Friday below:

What does David Lynch’s Inland Empire, a dark, grainy
journey through the dark side of America, have to do with the
actual Inland Empire, the geographical area bordering Los
Angeles just to the west? Aside from sharing a name, not much.
But consider the film’s opening shot: a turntable, spinning in the
dark, over and over, incredibly grainy and obviously video. It’s
this idea that we’re taking and running with over here, because
little known to Lynch and to much of America, there are some
angry punks in the kingdom and they’re letting you know. We
explore the highs and mostly lows of the down-and-out geniuses
behind labels like 16oh and Going Undergound, and bands such
as Loser Life, Heartbeatz, and the Contaminators, to name a few.

Playlist: April 28, 2008

2008-04-28T22:31:00.002-05:00

repos - flame still burns
human mess - uncaged animal
baader brains - year zero

logs - thriving in volcanoes
sinaloa - what we could not move
montcalm - i stopped believing in existence

no age - sleeper hold
swinehood - in bad shape
valoids - kick my face

new bloods - eyes
formaldehyde junkies - road hazard
draize - long knives

no thanks - are you ready to die?
libyans - welcome to the neighborhood
young wasteners - ecuador

wolves - 16
daniel striped tiger - an errand to run
solidarity pact - the radical sabbatical

crime desire - in lucifer's grip
anti you - ask me if i give a fuck
john brown's army - royal

sex vid - always home
vivian girls - wild eyes
rodan - milk & melancholy

mark telfian - inappropriate behavior for a grown man

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Inmates "Now We Talkin Hardcore" EP

darvocets - john titor
burn your bridges - revolution now! destroy the scene!
battletorn - intense warfare

soul swallower - dead fall
iron lung - stone hands
francis harold & the holograms - the eagle can't fly with one wing

condominium - hello tomorrow
practice - everyday tranquilizer
meltdown - cashing in

dangerloves - lipsmart
ugly law - wasted space
contaminators - human mess

civic progress - falling apart
waste management - strangled
meth teeth - to my good friends

dynamite arrows - hobo clown love song
godfodder - in the shit
daily void - mass communication culture

waco fuck - sociopathic society
cpc gangbangs - rich rich rich
state - fight to be free

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #11: Inmates "Now We Talkin' Hardcore" EP

2008-04-28T13:06:00.004-05:00

This is the last strike of the semester, closing with a new EP from one of the best bands Cleveland has to offer. They had an LP, "Assholes Unanimous" out on Painkiller a while back and this is their newest material. Thick, raw, and really grimey sounding, these guys know how to make you feel great about your hardcore. No amateur bullshit and no pretensions, and as the label puts is: "NO METAL SHIT......., NO SKA ..........., NO LA LA LA ........, NO EMO CRAP ....... JUST GOOD OLD HARDCORE." If you're a fan of any Cleveland hardcore and wish you hadn't missed Gordon Solie Motherfuckers' last show, then this is the record for you. From Even Worse Records: "CLEVO TRADEMARK OBNOXIOUS,NIHILISTIC,OFFENSIVE STUFF,WITH SOME OF THEIR OWN TWISTED FUCKED UP HUMOR. "

A split release between Even Worse and Kangaroo Records, this might not be available through them so check some distros. Don't miss out.

http://www.geocities.com/EVENWORSERECORDS/
http://www.geocities.com/TYSONKANGAROO

Playlist: April 21, 2008

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shorebirds - d.o.a.
bridge and tunnel - the rules of children's games
baader brains - be seeing you at camp delta

waco fuck - priced to sell
loser life - undressing you with my mind
darvocets - john titor

age of giants - prodigal son of benito mussolini
sinaloa - seek harbor
daitro - we're not all part of the same utopia

sex vid - always home
havaistys - tunnevammaiset
john henry west - shut yr mouth

crime desire - nadir
fuck this - die in the dirt

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Francis Harold and the Holograms EP

brainworms - not heavy just awkward
waste management - strangled
drunks with guns - melissa explains it all

under pressure - skate for jesus (faceplant for me)
out cold - violent mood swing
apeshit! - hamster

contaminators - minimal minds
cheveu - el tortuga
condominium - let's die

meth teeth - to my good friend
godfodder - no sleep
erase errata - driving test

the daily void - mechanical teeth
scene creamers - session man
daniel striped tiger - untying knots

repercussions - savage mutilation
pissed jeans - don't need smoke to make myself disappear
belching penguin - hellhole

rajoitus - moraal ja jarki

Francis Harold and the Holograms EP

2008-04-21T16:58:00.003-05:00

When society fails, the architects of post-apocalyptic America are going to come knocking on the doors of Going Underground Records asking for a soundtrack. We started off this year's round of strikes with the Heartbeatz EP, already tinny and synthy and everything a punk record should be. Fast forward to now; Going Underground manages to unearth another filthy punk neo-relic that squeals and churns and dirges its way across all seven inches.

This is the sound of the downfall of technology. Screeching, plodding, and wildly schizophrenic, Francis Harold and the Holograms more or less shrug off conventional punk warfare and go straight for the inner ear. It's out of control from start to finish, and even when you're singing along, you can't help but feel like you're singing along to your own doom.

Playlist: April 14, 2008

2008-04-14T20:57:00.004-05:00

sinaloa - what we could not move
loser life - undressing you with my mind
tranzmitors - teen man

caustic christ - sadist society
what happens next? - stand fast armageddon justice fighter
libyans - welcome to the neighborhood

chromatics - beach of infants
f-80 - casanova
daniel striped tiger - untying knots

gang green - sold out
hated youth - i'm stupid
social circkle - life crisis

torches to rome - this is not a step
spirit assembly - simple transactor
daitro - a plague for another

contaminators - want me dead
repos - track 1
draize - severed throat

brutal knights - teach me sex
blank dogs - the doorbell fire
weapons grade - from birth to the hearse

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Sex Vid "Nests" EP

mau maus - secret society
deathreat - tempers rise
funeral diner - the wicked

total fury - i win, you lose
rites - come get it
ripshit - growing up not old

cancer kids - boston creme
vitamin x - can't you see now
sinks - out of control

kill the man who questions - dose
daily void - mass
mindflayer - take your shoes off

anomie - deny tradition
cadaver in drag - fuck this place
youth of togay - meat machine

four letter word - punk rock ghetto
victims - destroy and rebuild
out cold - menticide

heartbeatz - bummer timez
rot shit - power pop
ringers - walking ghost

angry samoans - you stupid asshole
civil crisis - sidestep
meth teeth - bus rides

volcano! - apple

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #9: Sex Vid "Nests" EP

2008-04-14T18:28:00.002-05:00

Took me a minute to realize just what was going on with the latest offering, but consider me fully on board, even if the captain is fucking insane. If you're counting, and you should be, this is Sex Vid's third EP, and any sort of composure has been shed from sheer use, experience, and disaffection. This is raw, people, and if you find yourself alone in the basement with this beast, I'd suggest you get out as soon as possible. Dirty and simmering, Sex Vid doesn't have a problem shoving it in your face, and you shouldn't have a problem with it either. Got it? Good. Bistro Distro's all out, but check the usual suspects (No Way, Grave Mistake, Painkiller, Missing Link, even Interpunk, etc.) before you're officially out of luck.

Also, sorry for the lapse: last week's Strike (#8) was Mentally Challenged. But you knew that already.

Playlist: April 4, 2008

2008-04-11T21:11:00.005-05:00

tyvek - give it up
black lips - freakout
disclose - why must we die?

rat byte - search warrant
scapegoat - hemorrhage
career suicide - lost on you

dropdead - legacy of death
draize - dead where you stand
homostupids - apeshit

smackdown - whole fucking wrestling show
crimson curse - sweet baby jesus
out cold - menticide

science of yabra - the beat union
frail - ideal
brainworms - not heavy just awkward

universal order of armageddon - painfully obvious
fisticuffs bluff - pre-installed
crucial unit - squat the woods

kidcrash - the ground eats you
daitro - a plague for another
sinaloa - cause and effect

lats - younger monkey
tranzmitors - plastic genocide
undertones - more songs about chocolate + girls

STRIKE OF THE WEEK
Mentally Challenged EP

astronaut catastrophe - free your mind
angel hair - you were ugly but you got cute again
civil crisis - call it quits

social circkle - life crisis
death of anna karina - themes
shoot it up - high up in the sky

inquisition - we've got a bomb
brainworms - heart-shaped hickey
hot snakes - braintrust

christ on parade - the american in me
insomnio - lifetime
jba - fitting the mood

sightings - back to back
captain condoms - bed bunny
rip shit - times up motherfuckers

yage - eyes to a fist
look back and laugh - kick the chair
nostril - bewdong canoe start

brain handle - oblivion crud
witches with dicks - how to cook for 40 humans
out with a bang - love my life

Playlist: March 31, 2008

2008-03-31T21:20:00.009-05:00

Big congratulations to Ben, formerly of the Strike, on becoming a father. The real question; Man is the Bastard lullaby, or Bastard Noise?

insomnio - lifetime
contaminators - ain't so fun
harpoon guns - brain freeze

deathsquad - summer of arson
under pressure - my generation (failed the test)
bron bad - society bullshit

wipers - wait a minute
tranzmitors - plastic genocide
cheveu - el tortuga

thank god - number two
kids return - untitled
daitro - place tolazon

strung up - legal dope
state - girl violence
oxes - track 3

turpentine brothers - get your mind off me
major stars - portable freak factory
fingers louie - blink

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Sinaloa/Daniel Striped Tiger Split EP

bloody phoenix - spoiled lungs
ataque frontal - no habra paz
career suicide - left with nothing

adversary workers - young goodman brown
evens - all these governors
dangerloves - lipsmart

baader brains - baader brains
loser life - undressing you with my mind
by the end of tonight - sweet junk

mentally challenged - disappeared
dead fucking last - dfl
civil crisis - hammered down

crispus attucks - red black blood attack
witches with dicks - secondchance
landed - dairy 4 dinner

big'n - moonshine
crimpshrine - in my mind

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #7: Daniel Striped Tiger/Sinaloa Split EP

2008-03-31T09:24:00.003-05:00

The cast of characters are all familiar here; Clean Plate and Narshardaa team up to put out this cross-Atlantic release, served up just in time for (the now defunct) Euro tour for these two Boston area bands. The quality is just as familiar. Daniel Striped Tiger lays down two new tracks of angular, mathy hardcore. Familiar, but different, continuing to push their sound forward. Can't help but hear some old school 90's influence via Kirsch via 2008.

Sinaloa gives a taste of things to come on the flip side; be sure to pick this up along with their incredible new full length insta-classic "Oceans of Islands," out now on Level Plane. There's not much to say. Sinaloa does what Sinaloa does best, except its even better this time. Tighter, more powerful, and incredibly intriguing, this band continues to push the boundaries of emotive hardcore.

Playlist: March 17, 2008

2008-03-17T21:11:00.011-05:00

loser life - undressing you with my mind
complete waste - sustain
social circkle - i don't want

gorilla angreb - timen er kommet
total abuse - i deserve to be dead
sinks - get outta my house

wasted time - enemies of common sense
civic progress - falling apart
please inform the captain this is a hijack - asymmetric enemy

waifle - australian for women
los crudos - pelamos (we fight)
dangerloves - lipsmart

contaminators - ain't so fun
kolokol - protestant
brain handle - lifestyle template

the insurgent - hey kid
colbom - prisoner of work
baader brains - year zero

totalitar - du ar status du
down in flames - i don't care that i'm falling apart
slowmotions - target

self destruct - self destruct
no parade - a rising sun so bright it blinds
jenny piccolo - sink or swim

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Insomnio "Walking On The String" EP

kyklooppien sukupuutto - we are being run over
burn your bridges - i love to be ignorant
severed head of state - corpse of hope

victims - how could i lie?
rajoitus - idiootit!
clusterfuck - puny anthem

yaphet kotto - usual suspects
city of caterpillar - untitled #1
this is my fist! - gun crazy explosion noises

invasion - claustrofobia
universal order of armageddon - benedict
career suicide - social circle

kids return - untitled
life at these speeds - younger monkey
elder - town of clay

xbxrx - untitled
tigershark - king d
endless blockade - role models for dummies

make-up - i want some
shoot it up - broadway glass
la piovra - le ultima sigaretta

anti-cimex - victims of a bomb raid
out with a bang - i can't come

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #6: Insomnio "Walking On The String" EP

2008-03-17T21:05:00.002-05:00

Another one from No Way; not our fault, they just keep puttin' on the hits. As usual, they say it better than I could:

4 songs of killer spanish punk for fans of old punk/hc where the song matters a little more than the noise. Catchy as hell, but still hardcore in the way that REAGAN YOUTH, BLITZ, and DESCENDENTS were. This is also a must have for fans of newer bands like PELIGRO SOCIAL or NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS. Their lp is absolutely killer, and this was recorded at the very same time, so it's no bullshit.

Playlist: March 10, 2008

2008-03-10T21:03:00.002-05:00

social circkle - i don't want
complete waste - why do i bother
tear it up - through being cute

tigershark - he's not a bartender, he's an artist
kung fu rick - paper apartments and paper people
walls - consumed by failure

bloody phoenix - nine months
insect warfare - mind ripper
in disgust - to live a lie

reversal of man - get the kid
from ashes rise - moths to the flame
olde ghost - echo

tem eyos ki - communion
civic progress - depopulate
sed non satiata - les hommes san visage

terminal youth - don't thrash for cash
born bad - worthless
acrimonie - teacher doesn't know...

kids return - untitled
lift at these speeds - younger monkey
baader brains - baader brains

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Loser Life "My Hell" 12"

das oath - good news from the south pole
rot shit - what the fuck is weird punk?
small town - come around

limp wrist - limp wrist vs. doctor laura
towel - your world is shit
in/humanity - let's compromise

civil crisis - hammered down
crossed out - he-man
capitalist casualties - reborn

sinks - get outta my house
wrangler brutes - shank'd
tiny hawks - whenzy

tunnel of love - please, please, please
condominium - faded
mentally challenged - surveillance

elder - town of clay
brainworms - break down the pajama walls
contaminators - drugs

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #5: Loser Life "My Hell" 12"

2008-03-10T16:59:00.002-05:00

Loser Life gives you exactly what you expect, perhaps better than ever this time. Fast and furious, it's not that they're pissed off so much as they've grown tired of telling the word to fuck off. Enter "My Hell;" ferocious from start to end that makes you want to charge the mic and scream the greyness away. Twelve inches, five songs, 45 rpm; this ain't a revival, it's something much more, but fuck you if you think they're going to lead you to the promise land. Apparently their hell is the same as Diane Arbus's.

On Life's a Rape Records, a veritable Bakersfield juggernaut. Watch out for new LP's from Crime Desire and Waco Fuck coming soon.

Playlist: March 3, 2008

2008-03-04T00:01:00.002-05:00

baader brains - baader brains
thank god - number two
crime in stereo - xxxx

in defence - hardcore is dead
social circkle - i don't want
contaminators - outside inferior

louise cyphre - revolver
daitro - place tolozan
life detecting coffins - faking appendicitis

los crudos - mediocre
olde ghost - echo
birds of a feather - take the chance

forstella ford - order is everything
necktie party - penny box opera
walls - same guy, same story

endless blockade - role models for dummies
insect warfare - mind ripper
infest - kill the peace

mk ultra - nameless in life, faceless in death
seein' red - democracy
dear landlord - high fives

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Complete Waste EP

authority abuse - try to reason
double negative - rehumanization
the stalin - money

la quiete - super omega
devoid of faith - human stooge
brutal knights - grow up throw up

jenny piccolo - bore dome
poison idea - punish me
daniel striped tiger - sex in the sixties

anasarca - stationary people
breakfast - day dreamer
the conformists - black dahlia

funeral - treated as rats
foot village - korea
ssd - boston crew

86 mentality - intro/life trap
out with a bang - wasted needle
anton bordman - no class reunion

destroy la - waste of life
warkrime - fight me

Strike of the Week, Vol. 2 #4: Complete Waste EP

2008-03-03T11:01:00.004-05:00

And the Twin Cities continues to deliver. More hyperkinetic fuck you hardcore in the vein of ANS as well as a whole laundry list of historic skatethrash bands. Three way release by the band, Give Praise, and Rock Bottom, who continue to pump out the essential jams. Get on it.

Playlist: Feb 25, 2008

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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

2008-02-25T00:18:00.004-05:00

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

2008-02-18T22:36:00.003-05:00

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

2008-02-18T22:30:00.002-05:00

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

2008-02-12T21:55:00.001-05:00

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

2008-02-11T21:51:00.000-05:00

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

2008-02-11T01:09:00.001-05:00

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

2008-02-10T20:47:00.000-05:00

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

2008-02-10T20:44:00.000-05:00

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.

Playlist: April 30, 2007

2007-04-30T21:29:00.000-05:00

Last of the semester, and unfortunately down one Ben to the flu. Stick around for Record Hospital orgies for the next few weeks (get details at www.recordhospital.org) and we'll see you in the fall!

third memory - mal acquis
cardiac arrest - going nowhere
procession of vultures - black, white, and red all over

death to tyrants - mother
latterman - water mains at the block's end
cancer kids - boston creme

how we are - reaching the crossroads
giant haystacks - all this could be yours
dirty looks - dead rip

appalachian terror unit - enslaved
the bomb - indecision
eaten alive - eat your face

are you fucking serious - born hateful
step forward - can't get ahead
opeartion latte thunder - smoke signals

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Go It Alone "Histories" EP

end of a year - beleaders
relics - vocalization
this is my fist - wooden bullets

meltdown - thin ice
i object - burn
soul swallower - dead fall

reagan ss - exit interview
fruit salad - p.s.m.
crime desire - in lucifer's grip

the vicious - psychotic mind
no trigger - neon national park
new mexican disaster squad - destroy at all costs

terminal youth - bridge game
call me lightning - soft skeletons
sinking ships - give up

Strike of the Week #10: Go It Alone "Histories" EP

2007-04-30T21:24:00.000-05:00

Go It Alone pulls out the stops for a sampling of what is to come on their soon-to-be released "Histories" LP. Rivalry Records has consistently put out phenomenal melodic hardcore releases, and this one is no exception. As Ben would say, you can definitely feel the brotherhood.

Get Into It

2007-04-26T12:21:00.000-05:00

THIS WEEKEND the Record Hospital on WHRB Cambridge presents:

RECORD HOSPITAL FEST 2007
------------------------------

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DAY ONE
6:00PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 27TH
45 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge

Featuring:
TURPENTINE BROTHERS
RUSSIAN TSARCASM
HEART2HEART
WITCHES WITH DICKS
CONVERSIONS
NAUTICAL MAX
DEAD RADICAL
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DAY TWO
2:00PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH
21 South Street, Cambridge

Featuring:
SISTERS AND BROTHERS
CASKET
THEY AND THE CHILDREN
FURNACE
RELICS
SINALOA
AMPERE
OFF MINOR
-----------------------------------------

Heavily suggested donations: $8 for one night. $14 for both nights.
Both locations are easily accessible from the Harvard stop on the Red Line.

www.recordhospital.org

Playlist: April 23, 2007

2007-04-23T21:37:00.000-05:00

bastard noise - we are the brain
kalmex and the riff merchants - stoway on the vessel of death
lords of light - dividing up

disrupt - mindblock
agathocles - hippie cult
exhale - ?

totalitar - fienden
cancer kids - boston creme
they and the children - watch it go

how we are - reaching the crossroads
relics - vocalization
jellyroll rockheads - dull face, bright eyes

twenty seven shots - h.o.m.s.
heroin - has been
lync - two feet in front

massgrave - inherited hatred
sutek conspiracy - christ (tm)
framtid - nuclear power genocide

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Acid Reflux EP

FEST STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Ampere side of the Ampere/Sinaloa Split LP

are you fucking serious - your dreams are killing
i object - burn
off minor - the heat death of the universe

thid memory - mal acquis
coleman - spartan
fields lay fallow - lockdown

the rats - share or die
harpoon guns - brain freeze
bruce banner - connex

death wish kids - 13
this computer kills - sleepwalking tedium
sex/vid - tania

meltdown - cashing in
step forward - again and again
death to tyrants - mother

Strike of the Week #9: Acid Reflux EP

2007-04-23T21:06:00.000-05:00

Here's the brand-new 7" pressing of this Albany band's demo. No Way Records sez:

Sick of those bands that are too serious for their own good? Well, look no further. ACID REFLUX is here to put the FUN back in Hardcore Punk! Completely sarcastic and funny lyrics belted out over some very intense hardcore punk is what you get here. This ep contains selected tracks from their unbelievable demo. However, they are remastered, resequenced and ON VINYL! 8 songs in 8 minutes, need we say more?

Playlist: April 16, 2007

2007-04-16T20:57:00.000-05:00

cancer kids - boston cream
harriet the spy - die victory die
a petal fallen - our lives in braille

in defence - hardcore is dead
from ashes rise - concrete and steel
birds of a feather - architect

kwisatz haderach - litany against fear
mk ultra - that adult crash
tsol - sounds of laughter

red scare - smoky mountain high
wipers - return of the rat
harpoon guns - dried out

call me lightning - nobody dies
loser life - bad teeth
relics - no end

age of giants - the prodigal son of benito mussolini
our times - sinking ship
textbook traitors - a norte temps

sex vid - firm grasp
septic death - burial
wolfbrigade - this is life

suppression - elite, stranglehold, enema
seized - the drowning
nausea - clutches

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Dirty Looks EP

clockcleaner - bad man
sadville - george walker bush, texas ranger (landmines)
operation latte thunder - the most trusted name in news

how we are - reaching the crossroads
f.p.o. - deserter
encyclopedia of american traitors - sangre por pan

b.u.s.h. - banido
youth brigade - barbed wire
shut the fuck up - tear me apart

soihadtoshoothim - sing to me
jenny piccolo - patented genes
rorschach - clenching

chronicle a/d - when a soldier dies
dead hearts - these are our lives
pissed jeans - wachovia

no idols - belief
fruit salad - blood power
science of yabra - bado dudes

my lai - input versus output
song of zarathustra - find a grave
bright calm blue - it's so cliche to believe

dystopia - socialized death sentence

Strike of the Week #8: Dirty Looks EP

2007-04-16T00:54:00.000-05:00

Up next on Strike of the Week is the newest seven inch from Dirty Looks, out on Long Island's Iron Pier Records. Iron Pier's been pumping out a slew of great punk records, and this one's no exception. Check the description below:

Dirty Looks play Brooklyn nuevo-grunge and sound to the band like The Gits and Dead Moon and to some others like The Vaselines, Bikini Kill and early Replacements. Ex Members of: Bent Outta Shape, Crybaby Macarthur, Beer Garden, United States, Scent Of Human History, Neverending Party, etc.

Dirty Looks was born in September 2005 in Brooklyn, NY when Skip and Nate were living in a two-bedroom apartment on Bartlett St. The living room became the practice space and soon Ren and Gaylen joined them. Cheap 12 packs would be purchased from the freezer section at Food Bazaar and Gaylen would scream over the boys jamming through blown-out PA speakers.

Playlist: April 9, 2007

2007-04-09T23:04:00.000-05:00

this flood covers the earth - drawing a line
spitboy - right
relics - poisonous beliefs

how we are - reaching the crossroads
giant haystacks - take a letter
swing kids - quiet nothing

nema - ford
vae victus - last man
the rats - out of control

american cheeseburger - classic mantra
cobra noir - road to ruin
bruce banner - gotta run

lion of judah - trapped
cancer kids - boston cream
spirit assembly - ingestion

static radio - one for the good guys
true north - new beginning
procession of vultures - black, white, and red all over

twenty seven shots - h.o.m.s.
deathreat - courtesy officer
dystrophy - no answers

uncurbed - why am i to be
california love - under the crosses
lords of light - dividing up

daniel striped tiger - #3

Strike of the Week:
Harpoon Guns 2nd EP

reagan ss - don't harsh my mellow
yage - anders leben
call me lightning

fruit salad - blood power
go it alone - flatline
vitamin x - can't get enough

sex/vid - tania
no fucker - another...
kieltolaki - totaalisen tuhon huominen

closure - inferno
antioch arrow - ain't my day
la piovra - risacca

calvary - the long night of barbarism
what happens next? - stand fast armageddon justice fighter
end of a year - darnel
this is my fist - bible thumpin'

the vicious - dead town
bipolar bear - calypso vacation

hatred surge - split personality
artimus pyle - closed casket
warzone womyn - magma digester

memento mori - the haunted sea
black flag - nervous breakdown

Strike of the Week #7: Harpoon Guns 2nd EP

2007-04-09T21:07:00.000-05:00

This week we'll be playing the entire 4-song second 7" by Harpoon Guns. This one is a split release from Eliminator and Square Wave Records.

Playlist: April 2, 2007

2007-04-02T21:42:00.000-05:00

the audience - the ramona pageant
guyana punch line - better off dead
lords of light - dividing up

jr ewing - an offer you can't refuse
q factor - i'm not that stupid
new grenada - fighting the demons

how we are - reaching the crossroads
straight to hell - meeting our maker
eaten alive - eat your face

giant haystacks - take a letter
relics - no end
ringers - lame jokes and sneers

fader war - religios terror
burned up bled dry - wash your own hands
reagan ss - don't harsh my mellow

talk is poison - declassified
christ on parade - human laboratory
severed head of state - song for fucker

twelve hour turn - dance like everyone is watching
la quiete - il destino di un umbrello
john henry west - avoiding

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Sex Vid - Tania EP

earthless - sonic prayer jam
illyah kuryahkin - silk road
loser life - bad teeth

disrupt - for what?
rabid grannies - shut up and play
bad acid trip - kill or be killed

terminal youth - bridge game
bombs of death - blank expression, inward destruction
chronicle a/d - tribes against empires

narwhal - guild of taxidermists
frail - revolution
static radio - one for the good guys

look back and laugh - street terrorism
soul swallower - cut down, ripped apart
montcalm - i stopped believing in existence

career suicide - realities
the fix - vengeance
no parade - good intentions

the endless blockade - hex
kylesa - delusion on fire
dsb - dive

Strike of the Week #6: Sex Vid "Tania" EP

2007-04-02T21:02:00.000-05:00

Here's a new 4-song rager from these Olympia punks. Don't blink or you'll miss it! This record is available in distro everywhere right now. If you can't find it, try Feral Ward.

New Records This Week

2007-03-27T20:59:00.000-05:00

A crapload of new stuff coming in that'll be played on next monday's show!

SEX VID - Tania EP
Dom America

HATRED SURGE/ENDLESS BLOCKADE - split LP
Schizophrenic Records

TWENTY SEVEN SHOTS EP
self-released

LORDS OF LIGHT EP
Iron Lung Records

Playlist: March 26, 2007

2007-03-26T22:53:00.000-05:00

Ben is solo again!

suffering luna - smoking on the devil's piss
envy - mystery and peace
tierra de nadie - corazon negro

a sleeping irony - cancer is the cure
rakkaus - ?
gism - endless blockade for pussyfooter

kieltolaki - pedofilielukka
reagan ss - saints and sinners book
terminal youth - spoonful of dependency

murderers - bloodbath
sound of disorder - moral
warfare state - mockery

career suicide - attempted suicide
direct control - stay blind
belching penguin - dead people can't drive

bomben alarm - sleep well
witch hunt - by a thread
disperazione - anime morte

california love - approaching oblivion
crime desire - in lucifer's grip
born against - shroud

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Disrupt - First EP

skabs - ilegales
arma contra arma - esa es mi gente
ruination - giblets

agna moraine's autobiography - lying burnt the surface
one last wish - break to broken
loser life - bad teeth

Strike of the Week #5: Disrupt "s/t" EP

2007-03-26T22:49:00.000-05:00

Since Evan's not around, I'm bending the rules and this week's strike of the week is neither new or a 7". On the other hand, the songs all appeared for the first time on one 7" and they were just reissued a week or two ago!

Disrupt's first EP came out on Crust Records in 1990. Five tracks, no compromises. You can hear these tracks plus a buttload more Disrupt on the just-released 2xCD "The Rest" on Relapse Records. "The Rest" includes 1 split LP, 6 split EPs, 2 full EPs, unreleased and comp tracks, original demo, rehersal demo and a live 1992 set.

Download our last show

2007-03-21T12:27:00.001-05:00

I have an mp3 of the last show to share if you're interested. Email me at benjaminpopp at yahoo.com.

Playlist: March 19, 2007

2007-03-19T23:02:00.000-05:00

ben flying solo tonight!

uranus - panacea
antischism - path of destruction
paintbox - cry of the sheeps

career suicide - the last say
angst - pa den andre sida
stato di polizia - paura

government issue - world caved in
navio forge - hate machine
true north - it's 3am do you know where you ballot box is?

kvoteringen - vidrig maskinell framfort
oi polloi - victims of a gas attack
death token - on the fields of prey

california love - under the crosses
kung fu rick - no choices give no answers
unruh - compost

witch hunt - conform
larm - chemical suicide
cardiac arrest - fat lord

takaru - you will fail
citizens arrest - c.d.r.f.
christ on a crutch - in on your joke

reagan ss - don't harsh my mellow
jerry's kids - pressure
the deride - we are the freak
ratbyte - search warrant

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Loser Life - I Want the World EP

kill in me - dark rosaleen
spirit assembly - simple transaction
relics - no end

rakkaus - el pulesta javastaan
dead ones - vanmakt
inepsy - hammer hearth

crime desire - submissive i.d.
martyrdod - valdommen til dodsriket
consume - victory is nigh

breakwater - eleven
calvary - insertion
to dream of autumn - the rapture of the deep

ear bleeding disorder - fictional disposal
straight edge kegger - don't pinch it
despise you - hand me down existencia
living under lies - too many walls

cancerous growth - ecology
bear proof suit - science is dead
pissed jeans - i'm sick

Strike of the Week #4: Loser Life "I Want the World" EP

2007-03-18T20:54:00.000-05:00

This week we'll be playing the new 3-song Loser Life EP from Life's a Rape records. Record Hospital loved Loser Life's first EP on Going Underground and has been waiting patiently for this follow-up. Here's the description from Life's a Rape:

Hailing from Bakersfield, the armpit of California,
Loser Life follow up their well received demos and
single with "I Want the World," a 3 song ep that hones
their Articles of Faith/Leatherface brand of melodic
and aggressive hardcore. Fuelled by all the anger and
frustration that comes with growing up in a hostile
and ignorant hicktown, Loser Life conveys a certain
sense of urgency that many of their fellow Chicago
style hardcore worshippers lack. Look for an LP and
full US tour later this year.

To get in touch with Life's a Rape to order your own copy, try

colinrrmf@yahoo.com
M. Colin Tappe
POB 278
Carlsbad, CA 92018

Next week's strike of the week remains a mystery. If the USPS gods are smiling, we'll have a few choices.

MySpace

2007-03-18T20:51:00.000-05:00

I went ahead and created a MySpace account for our show. Please add us if you have an account.

Playlist: March 12, 2007

2007-03-12T22:01:00.000-05:00

permanent trip - divider
groundwork - gearhead
dry rot - isolated

kieltolaki - totaalise tuhm huomoren
insane youth - revenge
tierra de nadie - desensitized

how we are - reaching the crossroads
cardiac arrest - end of the line
rites - go out an die

black ss - shit for brains
call me lightning - billion eyes
...and sometimes i - with a capital j

death token - chain of fools
copout - chained
halfman - in control

likskjit - dodsdisirppel
youthg against fascism - nazi scumheads
wounded knee - hands

warkrime - glass parking lot
deathcycle - no warning
no idols - temporary solutions to permanent problems

fucked up - what could have been

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Reagan SS - Bon Apetit EP

crime desire - in lucifer's grip
pinhead gunpowder - freedom is...

terminal youth- down your throat
h100s - knock your teeth out
belching penguin - box lunch

pisschrist - yet we close our eyes
tom and the boot boys - i'm in blue
hellkrusher - on and on

eaten alive - eat your face
this is my fist - nerd camp
step forward - can't get ahead

balboa - clandestine
fruit salad - things are getting fucked
kill your idols - we've tried nothing and are all out of ideas

ratbyte - break yourself/get lost
hickey - naked cult of hickey
social circkle - static eyes

rakkaus - svulline
heist - wwiii
totalitar - vi ar eliten

Strike of the Week #3: Reagan SS "Bon Apetit" EP

2007-03-12T21:26:00.000-05:00

This week's Strike of the Week comes from Reagan SS, an LA band that released a few raging EPs a few years ago and recently reformed. This new 5-song EP is out on Rabid Dog Records. To pick up a copy, email rabiddogrecords@yahoo.com.

We'll be playing the entire EP at 11pm sharp!

Reagan SS should be playing Boston with Total Fury on May 2nd so mark your calendars.

Playlist: March 5, 2007

2007-03-05T22:27:00.000-05:00

how we are - reading the crossroads
this is my fist - wooden bullets
balboa - clandestine

a fine boat that coffin - confessions 0.2
infest - speak easy
havaistys - tunnevammaiset

the rats - not afraid to die
high on crime - no time for poetry
forward - make their wish come true

turning point - broken
no justice - still fighting
la piovra - risacca

brain handle - disheveled
earthless - live
the last forty seconds - the third time is never the charm

dead hearts - adult crash
the saddest landscape - the seduction of alabaster
ringers - lame jokes and sneers

poison idea - ugly american
amen - how will it be
acme - blind

terminal youth - spoonful of dependency

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
Crime Desire - In Lucifer's Grip EP

ss decontrol - who's to judge
warcry - one last warning

hewhocorrupts - two buckets of fuck you plaster
giant haystacks - take a letter
appalachian terror unit - enslaved

black ss - you don't need us, we don't need you
no trigger - my woods
no idols - entrail party

severe - intro/company man
no less - 1/2 % ?
kontraattaque - estoy harto

clusterfuck - flagfucker
raw power - i do what i like
cardiac arrest - going nowhere

end of a year - timeshares
the rites - it gets worse
bear proof suit - sans equity

endtables - trick or treat
no comply - who we are
step forward - pushing forward

dean dirg - never adds up
out with a bang - punches in the face
belching penguin - blow your mind

infinity dive - settle the deal
second story window - track five

Strike of the Week #2: Crime Desire "In Lucifer's Grip" EP

2007-03-05T21:58:00.000-05:00

This brand-new ripper from Life's a Rape Records brings us five new songs from Crime Desire. Pissed and chaotic, this is right up our alley. We'll be playing the whole EP at 11pm tonight.

Life's a Rape Records
POB 278
Carlsbad, CA 92018
colinrrmf@yahoo.com

Playlist: Feb 26, 2007

2007-02-26T22:15:00.000-05:00

la piovra - danni collaterali
discarga - regras
books lie - it doesn't take a brain surgeon

tidal - we are out of step
volume 11 - abuse/you and me
gob - bring me the head of gob

warkrime - no more
how we are - reaching the crossroads
fruit salad - not for nothing

yage - clearness of fog
party of helicopters - slow dance
wasted time - enemies of common sense

kieltolaki - pedofilelukka
assault - victims of jackals
tierra de nadie - tierra de nadia

rakkaus - askel
skitkids - du kanbli jord
victims - gate of fear

social circkle - cut loose
ringers - walking ghost
new mexican disaster squad - pulse

black ss - subhuman
havaistys - minuutissa
xbrainiax - red out

STRIKE OF THE WEEK:
This Is My Fist/Giant Haystacks Split EP

insect warfare - fucked up on pcp
rise above - scientific abuse
anal massaker - nachbarschaft

angel hair - stigmata martyr
conversions - dictated desires
the rats - do you really want to fight me

appalachian terror unit - armageddon will not be brought by the gods
rats into robots - the finite universe
daitro - chaque seconde

from ashes rise - high on the media fix
deathsquad - repent
def choice - we've got our money on you

kyklooppien sukupuutto - ymmarra...
destroy - stop thinking and follow
desolation - in blue no innocent will die

abe froman - citizen's arrest
bear proof suit - up front
okara - june 14th

end of a year - harrison
sinking ships - the next time i go
tear it up - the beginning

Strike of the Week #1: This Is My Fist/Giant Haystacks Split EP

2007-02-25T23:25:00.000-05:00

So here's the deal: Ben and I both like 45's a lot, even when they're not played at 45. That's okay, because it's the seven inch diameter that matters, and is the basis for our newest conception: Strike of the Week.

Every week, we'll be picking one or two 45's and playing them in their entirety at or near 11:00pm. Criteria? Freshness, of course, and punk rockness. Nothing more, really.

First up: This Is My Fist/Giant Haystacks courtesy of 625. Bay Area punk rockers put that hyphy to shame with some ragingly good tunes. Fist-pumping and righteous, this is something worth picking up, especially after the amount of time put into it to finally get it out.

Playlist: Feb 19, 2007

2007-02-19T22:16:00.000-05:00

kylesa - identity defined
shikari - post student syndrome
tierra de nadie - desensitized

la piovra - risacca
behead the prophet n.l.s.l - in love with the dead
social circkle - cut loose

no idols - temporary solutions to permenant problems
amanda woodward - un peu d'etoffe
on the might of princes - you can only be so careful

step forward - can't get ahead
the vicious - it's all a lie
rites - nothing to show for it

permanent trip - losing ground
morser - spiral of pain
germ attak - direct action attak

bg - the hill
deadbodieseverywhere - the wahit
pisschrist - hellfare wellfare

daniel striped tiger - dusk broke out as the desert burden
bear proof suit - sans equity
brain handle - disheveled

scapegoat - scum
eaten alive - die die die
makara - papercuts

out with a bang - out with a bang
rakkaus - el puolesta javastaan
the rats - we are the rats

bomben alarm - virus
wellington - should've known
likskjit - war is upon us

ringers - walking ghost
gorilla angreb - supersyn
navies - a survey's measure

fruit salad - not fit for nothing
dynasty - tff
no trigger - the not-so-noble purveyors of the third or fourth coming

rat byte - break yourself/get lost
nihilistics - after death
death token - on the fields of prey

totalitar - vi ar eliten
reagan ss - empty black box
ripcord - single ticket to hell

championship - string or twine

MNS Flyer

2007-02-15T22:29:00.000-05:00

Favorites of 2006

2007-02-15T21:06:00.000-05:00

Here's a show we did on Dec 18, 2006 featuring our favorite hc/punk releases of the year. This one was a blast, hopefully we'll be able to do another to end 2007.

daniel striped tiger - your birthday cake
navies - continental drift
have heart - life is hard

verse - weather to a stone
eaten alive - eat your face
shook ones - pheasant

artimus pyle - savages
extorion - fuse
today's overdose - insomnia

permanent trip - losing ground
look back and laugh - street terrorism
kylesa - hollow severer

a.r.m. - jacking off satan
they and the children - watch it go
meneguar - bury a flower

life at these speeds - landfilled
united states - thanks for nothing
please inform the captain this is a hijack - in the service of capital

hatred surge - farce
sick of talk - intro/in your place
burial - heart is truth

wasted time - enemies of common sense
warkrime - ?
social circkle - ussa

ampere - new forms
tiny hawks - eggs in reverse
sinaloa - words through wires

pyramids - slow hair
dynasty - animal disregard
great redneck hope - ?

kieltolaki - ?
regulations - stop
tragedy - crucifier

sunday morning einsteins - ?
mind eraser - coping methods
skitsystem - rat, klass and rang

coldbringer - metaphysical ways
waco fuck - overcompensation
wasteland - new american century

solidarity pact - radical sabbatical
magrudergrind - my lai massacre
caustic christ - doesn't anyone want to impress jodie foster anymore

deep wound - don't need
l.s.d. - ?
lobotomia - faces de morte

direct control - fake
bear proof suit - no equity

Last Monday's Show

2007-02-15T11:06:00.000-05:00

I have a copy of the last show recorded as an MP3 that I can share. Email me at benjaminpopp at yahoo.com if you're interested.

Scapegoat/Ampere Burn Down Western Mass.

2007-02-12T23:09:00.000-05:00

I'll be hitching out from Cambridge for this. I think you should, too. That Scapegoat 7" has been a big hit around the station and the show. Here are the deets:

FEBRUARY 24, 2007
@ the flywheel
2 holyoke st.
easthampton, MA.

SCAPEGOAT(from boston, in the vein of infest and crossed out. 7" on painkiller records, first western MA show appearance!)

AMPERE(first western MA show since october!)

SOUL SWALLOWER (from boston. heavy and brutal. members of mind eraser, mental etc...)

WASTE MANAGEMENT (new band from boston. members of say goodbye, sick and tired and mind eraser.)

HELPING HAND (sounds like 7 seconds "the crew". really awesome band from western MA.)

7pm
$6
www.flywheelarts.org

Playlist: Feb 12, 2007

2007-02-12T22:02:00.000-05:00

harriet the spy - ? (from tour ep)
swing kids - blue note
relics - vocalization

cardiac arrest - fat lord
they live - play the part
kyklooppien sukupuutto - ymmarra...

new mexican disaster squad - the piggy bank's gone
phleg camp - arrest
balboa - clandestine

tear it up - i hate my life
sinking ships - give up
eaten alive - eat your face

tierra de nadie - corazon negro
pisschrist - manusia bangsat
likskiit - exit bag

dean dirg - never adds up
in/humanity - portion of a murder mystery
the rats - not afraid to die

appalachian terror unit - endless bloodshed
call me lightning - ghouls
bear proof suit - sans equity

xbrainiax - sunken tomb
scapegoat - hemorrhage
no comply - stitched from a skateboard injury

laudanum - virus
insane 'n the brain - naught energy murder
insult - suicide of democracy

encroached - shoot the icons
loomis slovak - land sea air
under a dying sun - when walls are built

the pine - strings
scent of human history - take your time with time
reds - the blind believe

end of a year - darnel
gorilla angreb - the saw is the law
havaistys - tunnevammaiset

raukkas - askel
tusk - depraved perspective
corss examination - p.a.c.p.

totalitar - sista kriget
germ attak - canadian concentration camp
social circkle - ussa

bravo fucking bravo - feed the motherfucking sharks
sawhorse - snap
warkrime - everybody hates me

thieves and assassins - the death on the city pavement
one eyed richard and the goddamn liars - holden caulfield
eloe omoe - illidrium

New Records on Monday's Show

2007-02-09T22:26:00.000-05:00

We've got a crapload of new 7"s that will make their Monday Night Strike debut on our next show. Most of these are still available through Havoc Records Distro.

RATS - WE ARE THE RATS
Sweden, Thrashbastard Records

DEAN DIRG/BOMBENALARM - SPLIT
Germany, Hate Records

RAKKAUS - KUOLEVAN MAAILMAN HILJAINEN KIROUS
Finland, Tuska ja Ahdistus Records

TEIRRA DE NADIE - SORDOS A LA TIERRA
Wisconsin, Mundo en Kaos Records

OUT WITH A BANG - I'M AGAINST IT
Italy, Fashionable Idiots Records

LIKSJIT - DODSDISIPPEL
Norway, Dodsrall Records

PISSCHRIST - TOTAL FUCKING PISSLICKERS
Australia, Endless Blockades Records

DEATH TOKEN/KYKLOOPPIEN SUKUPUUTTO - SPLIT
Denmark/Finland, many labels

Underagers Set to Lose Out On Shows

2007-02-07T16:43:00.000-05:00

The Boston Herald recently reported on a new ban introduced by Boston on underaged shows, reporting that "On Tuesday, the City Hall notified nightclubs across the city that events featuring live music or DJs will have to clear the room of underage patrons by 11 p.m."

No word yet on how this might eventually affect Cantabrigian shows, but we'll see. A similar piece of legislation has been a point of controversy in D.C. recently; it seems that show violence is leading to the proposed laws.

A sure to be effective online petition has been started here.

Hot Cross New Release

2007-02-06T13:59:00.000-05:00

Level-Plane is now taking pre-orders for the new Hot Cross LP, Risk Revival. Available in orange, yellow, and hideous picture disc form online from 29 North Records. Pretty limited runs, and the band won't have any at the record release shows.

Speaking of record release shows, don't miss Hot Cross with our friends and generally awesome Boston band, Sinaloa.

FEBRUARY 17 (Saturday) @ MassArt Pozen Center
Hot Cross (record release)
Transistor Transistor
Readyellow
Sinaloa

Disrupt Reissues

2007-02-06T12:26:00.000-05:00

Relapse is reissuing Disrupt's Unrest album as well as a new collection CD of all of Disrupt's other material. Massachusetts newcomers should check out this crusty Boston classic.

You can preorder the CDs at the Relapse Store. There's also a box set version available which includes a DVD and larger booklet.

Sudden Death

2007-02-06T12:22:00.001-05:00

According to Ben, the Harvard power play apparently blows.

Playlist: Feb 5, 2007

2007-02-06T00:15:00.000-05:00

An abbreviated show tonight due to Beanpot Hockey!

scapegoat - catchechize
on the might of princes - the water vs the anchor
400 years - radio silence

eloe omoe - illidrium
gorilla angreb - long island
balboa - clandestine

permanent trip - losing ground
bear proof suit - sans equity
social circkle - static eyes

germ attak - direct action attak
diallo - sudden movements
wardance orange - radio resistance

appalachian terror unit - armegeddon won't be brought by the gods
infest - mankind
colbom - too 'smart' for our own good

havaistys - tunnevammaiset
the fiction - who dares question ryan dorn?
thieves and assassins - death on the city pavement

brainhandle - disheveled (off of no bullshit #2 comp)
totalitar - inspelning pagar
kieltolaki - uskallatko kyseenallaitik

kylesa - where the horizon unfolds
unhinged - vicious circle
warcry - countdown to hell

tragedy - rabid panic
relics - no end
off minor - cadaveric