Showing posts with label Edmonton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmonton. Show all posts

Saturday, January 18, 2014

The Shapes - Wot's For Lunch Mom? (Not Beans Again!)

Die Kruezen - All White
Void - Who Are You?
Happy Flowers - Fever Dream

Hawkwind - Orgone Accumulator
Peter Hammill - Open Your Eyes
Public Image Limited - Poptones

Small Faces - Come Back and Take This Hurt Off Me
The Creation - Making Time
Love - She Comes in Colours

The Revolutionaries - Rootes Dub
Prince Jammy - Shaolin Temple
Pop Group - How Much Longer

UV Race - Nazicistic
Birthday Party - Swampland
Mad Nanna - You Can't Expect It

Coloured Balls - Something New
Radio Birdman - What Gives?
Saints - Erotic Neurotic

The Cleats - Save Yourself
Wednesday Night Heroes - Move to Press
Ben Disaster - Close My Eyes

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Best of the Year

Ben Disaster - Another World (Close My Eyes) (EP)

Big stars of this year Rhythm of Cruelty released two great recordings. Still Life (CS), and In Time (EP).
Can't Escape (Still Life)
Still Life (Still Life)
In Time (In Time)
Pictures (In Time)

The Ex - Enormous Door (LP)
Bicycle Illusion
We Are Made of Places

Night Court - (Sean McIntosh of Gary Debussy and Zebra Pulse and Robert Burkosky of Energetic Action, Ben Disaster, Cockatoo, Christ Appearing As Sun and Love Electric) Live at Ramshackle Day Parade, July 22 2013.

Christ Appearing As Sun - Program One (The Love Hour Series, Volume One) (CS)

Love Electric - Love Electric (CS)
Inside Joke
Have a Vision

The Stooges - Ready to Die (LP/CD)
Job
Dirty Deal

Zebra Pulse - Heh, Vay Bae-Bays (CD)
Placenta's Lament
Hillbilly Galactic
Technical Space Composition No. 5

Dot Wiggin Band - Ready! Get! Go! (LP/CD)
Banana Bike

Cockatoo - Present (CD)
Drum Song

Chumbawamba - In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher (EP)
So Long, So Long

Thank you again to anyone who voted me best music show in the spring.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

The Ravers - It's Gonna Be a Punk Rock Christmas This Year

Flying Lizards - Money
Barrett Strong - Money
Plastic Ono Band - Money

Embrace - Money
Buzzcocks - Moving Away From the Pulsebeat
Minutemen - Life as a Rehearsal

The Barbarians - Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?
Yardbirds - Still I'm Sad
Sonics - The Witch

It just wouldn't be Christmas without Merry Crassmas the single released in 1981 by Creative Recording and Sound Services (CRASS).


Chrome - Electric Chair
The Fall - No Xmas for John Quays
pragVEC - Happy Valley

Amebix - Winter
Chaos UK - No Security 
Disorder - Remembrance Day

Dead Kennedys - Forward to Death
Dot Wiggin Band - End of the World
Longshoremen - Cindy the Shack Girl

Jom Comyn - The Boiling Inferno (releasing a new album tonight at Wunderbar)
Husker Du - Crystal  
Naked Raygun - Those Who Move

Putos - Demo (excerpt)
Germs - My Tunnel



Saturday, December 14, 2013

Funkadelic - Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis-enemasquad (The Doo Doo Chasers)

Rondos - The Russians are Coming
De Kift - Staal Op Staal
Svatsox - Villa-Red-Rap

Sugarcubes - Birthday
Killing Joke - Pssyche
The Fall - Iceland

Lora Logic - Brute Fury
Love Electric - (performing tonight at Wunderbar)
Poison Girls - Good Time (I Didn't Know Sartre Played Piano)

The Ex - Meanwhile
The Very Things - Down the Final Flight
UK Decay - Werewolf


Special Feature: Bob Marley's Punky Reggae Party realized at long last:

"I'm sayin
the Wailers will be there
the Damned, the Jam, the Clash 
Maytals will be there
Dr. Feelgood too"
- Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Punky Reggae Party" (1977)

The Clash - Cheat
Dr. Feelgood - Watch Your Step
The Damned - Stab Your Back

RIP Junior Murvin,  1946 - December 2 / 2013.
Junior Murvin - Lucifer
The Slits - Improperly Dressed
Big Youth - Cool Breeze

Freddie Mercury and Ilhan Mimaroglu - Threnody for Sharon Tate

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Edie and the Eggs - Hey Punks Get off the Grass!

The Spy's - Underground
The Hot Nasties - Invasion of the Tribbles
The Rock and Roll Bitches - Wild West

Madoo and DJ Welton Irie - Joe Grine / Serve Mi Long
Augustus Pablo - Upfull Living
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

X-Ray Spex - Plastic Bag
Raincoats - Off Duty Trip
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Orphans

Flux of Pink Indians - Taking a Liberty
Throbbing Gristle - Maggot Death (Live at Rat Club)
Mothers of Invention - Nasal Retentive Caliope Music
Beatles - Revolution #9
Hari Krishna Chanting
William S. Burroughs - K9 Was in Combat With the Alien Mind-Screens

Butthole Surfers - Mexican Caravan
Tragic Mulatto - Tac Squad
Big Black - Passing Complexion

Glitter - Glitter Theme MK II
Chlorinator - Staring at the Wall
Exotic Functions - (Title in Russian) (Warning: Bandcamp is NSFW)

Famines - I Like Some of the Things You Do
Motorhead - Vibrator
Dead Boys - High Tension Wire

Soft Boys - I've Got the Hots For You
















Saturday, November 2, 2013

Charles Mingus - Oh  Lord Don't Let them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me

Velvet Underground - Sister Ray

Phil Ochs - The Crucifixion
Cecil Taylor - Indent (excerpt)
Patty Waters - Black is the Colour of My True Love's Hair

Death - You're a Prisoner
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Who - Substitute

Christian Death - Figurative Theatre
Death Cult - God's Zoo
Killing Joke - SO36

The Mental - God for a Day
Sears - Last Day
Dirt - Another Filled Hole

Junior Murvin - False Teachin'
Culture - Zion's Gate
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Lou Reed - Street Hassle

The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail
Alternative TV - Another Coke (read an excellent in-depth interview with ATV's Mark Perry HERE)
Crass - Berketex Bribe

Minutemen - 99
Nomeansno - Two Lips, Two Lungs and One Tongue (live)
Embrace - Building

Eno - Cindy Tells Me
Iggy Pop - Mass Production
Sparks - Tits

Rhythm of Cruelty - In Time
Chameleons - Monkeyland
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Eddie and the Hotrods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
Kim Fowley - Animal Man
Crazy World of Arther Brown - Come & Buy

Exotic Functions - (title in Russian)
Negative Approach - Evacuate
Reagan Youth - New Aryans

Albert Ayler Trio - Spirits
John and Yoko - Two Virgins
John Coltrane - Ascension





Saturday, September 14, 2013

The Slits - Ping Pong Affair

A special debut of the new Rhythm of Cruelty EP In Time. Four songs that (I think) are their best work yet. Listen to the whole thing online or buy a copy for yourself HERE.
In Time 
The Past
Walls (Part 2)
Pictures

Coil - Panic 
Martin Denny - Martinique

Pere Ubu - Real World
Full Blast + Friends - Battle of Visions
The Ex - We Are Made of Places

Jello Biafra + Nomeansno - Sharks in the Gene Pool
Zeni Geva - Freedom Bondage
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Barbarian

Peter Tosh - Stepping Razor
U-Roy - Chalice in the Palace
Wailers - I Shot the Sheriff

Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together?
Curtis Mayfield - We the People Who Are Darker than Blue
Chairmen of the Board - Gimmie Just a Little More Time

Germs - We Must Bleed
X - Your Phone's off the Hook, But You're Not
Fear - New York's Alright if You Like Saxophones





Saturday, September 7, 2013

I Jog and the Tracksuits - Red Box

Dicks - Kill From the Heart
Die Kruezen - Sick People
Flipper - Love Canal

Cabaret Voltaire - Heaven and Hell
David Byrne and Brian Eno - The Jezebel Spirit
Second Layer - Metal Sheet

Gong - The Pothead Pixies
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band - We're All Water
Public Image Limited - Chant

Tuxedo Moon - 19th Nervous Breakdown
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Mutants - Monster of Love

The Jam - Wasteland
Gang of Four - If I Could Keep It For Myself
Crisis - Holocaust

Tragic Mulatto - Scabs on Lori's Arm
Happy Flowers - I Wet the Bed Again
Pink Section - Francine's List

Fuck the CIA - Right and Wrong
DIRT - Slaughterhouse Rock
Andy T - Jazz on a Summer's Day
The Ex - Every Sixth is Cracked

Fugs - Children of the Dream
Butthole Surfers - American Woman


Saturday, August 17, 2013

Abyssinians - Forward to Zion

Uppers:
Undertones - Here Comes the Summer
Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind
101ers - Keys to Your Heart

Downers:
Modern Lovers - Hospital
John Cale - Amsterdam
Young Marble Giants - Final Day

Partisans - Police Story
Blitz - Time Bomb
UK Subs - Stranglehold

Jandek - No Break
Michael Yonkers - Micro-Miniature Love
R. Stevie Moore - Dates

Elvis Costello - Party Girl
Rockpile - Play that Fast Thing (One More Time)
Graham Parker and the Rumour - Pourin' It All Out

The Cure - Cold
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Blow the House Down
Crisis - Afraid

Teledrome - Boyfriend
Ben Disaster - Street Pop (Performing tonight at DV8 more info HERE)
Magazine - Motorcade

Urinals - Black Hole
Gun Club - For the Love of Ivy
Bloodless Pharoahs - Bloodless Pharoah

Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt
This Heat - The Fall of Saigon

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

the Stranglers - Princess of the Streets
Joy Division - Day of the Lords
les Olivensteins - Je Hais Les Fils De Riches

Fugazi - And the Same
Dog Faced Hermans - The Bride Has Feet of Clay
Nomeansno - The Tower

Germs - Manimal
Void - Think
Minor Threat - Straight Edge

Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
David Bowie - Five Years
Lords of the New Church - Open Your Eyes

Yabby You - Fish and Bread
Prince Far I - Rain A-Fall
Tommy McCook and Vin Gordon - Fisherman Special
Descendents - I Like Food

Killing Joke - Frenzy
Arkansaw Man - Question #2
Au Pairs - Stepping Out of Line

Electric Chairs - Toilet Love
Dictators - (I Live For) Cars and Girls
Laughing Dogs - I Need a Million

Bog Bodies - Studded Codpiece
Berurier Noir - Macadam Massacre
Rhythm of Cruelty - Can't Escape



Saturday, July 27, 2013

Royal Headache - Psychotic Episode

Elvis Costello - Pump it Up
Adam and the Antz - Digital Tenderness
Magazine - Because You're Frightened

Scotty - Draw Your Breaks
The Royals - When You are Wrong
Heptones - Now Generation

A tribute to the music of Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper).
Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - If Six Was Nine

Born Against - Well Fed Fuck
Black Flag - Swinging Man
SWANS - Coward

Big Black - Kerosene
Scratch Acid - Flying Houses
Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball

Night Court - Live performance recorded by yours truly 7/23/2013. Double drum madness from Robert Burkosky (Energetic Action, Christ Appearing As Sun) and Sean McIntosh (Zebra Pulse, Gary Debussy). Was this a one off performance? I can't be sure, but if it happens again DON'T MISS IT!

The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
Eater - Outside View
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

Slint - Washer





Saturday, July 20, 2013

The Fall - Smile

Essential Logic - Bod's Message
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Minutemen - Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want the Truth?)

Nocturnal Emissions - Delgado Monkey Torture
Felix - Tiger Stripes
Nurse With Wound - The Burial of the Sardine

This week's album spotlight: a segment of the 1983 industrial masterpiece The Culling is Coming by 23 Skidoo. This wild piece of work was recorded live at 11 AM (!) in the morning. Music to shave your head and worship Satan to.

A Summer Rite - 11AM 17.7.82
Banishing
Invocation
Flashing
Stifling
Healing (For the Strong)

Iggy Pop - The Endless Sea
Death - You're a Prisoner
MC5 - Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)

School Jerks - Endless Mirrors
No Problem - Spoiled Little Jerk
Exotic Functions - ? (in Russian)
All three of these bands are playing tonight at Allendale Hall - more info HERE.

Fear - Camarillo
Misfits - Bloodfeast (Danzig is here August 25, don't miss it! More info HERE.)
45 Grave - Evil

Mothers of Invention - Help I'm a Rock / It Can't Happen Here
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Ella Guru




Saturday, June 8, 2013

The Bags - Survive

Headache - Empty
Kurws - Koszmar Gramsciego
Gary Debussy - Song a

Neos - Typical Obligatory Anti-Government Song
Sludge Confrontations - Ice Jar
Negative Approach - Negative Approach

and because it's too good not to play:
Negative Approach - Whatever I Do

Rapid Loss - Death Persuades
Scattered Bodies - Distant Thunder (from a recently unearthed cassette demo, this is Edmontonian hardcore punk from the mid-eighties. Listen to it all by clicking the name of the band).
Pale Face - Powertrip

Larm - The Complexity of Life
Mob 47 - Rustning Ar Ett Brott
Terveet Kadet - Tornion Kevat

Kukl - Greece (Just By the Book)
Rondos - Colour T.V / Kontrast
Dvouleta Fama - To Ona Ona To

Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Le Scrawl - Proud of Shit
Naked City - Osaka Bondage

7 Seconds - Straight On
Minor Threat - Stumped
Dead Kennedys - This Could Be Anywhere, This Could Be Everywhere

Crass - Nagasaki Nightmare
John Lennon - Well Well Well
Poison Girls - Under the Doctor

The Coloured Balls - Hey! What's Your Name?

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Blurt - The Fish Needs a Bike

Birthday Party - King Ink
The Stooges - Dirt
Chrome - Chromosome Damage

Hawkwind - Master of the Universe
Mirrors - She Smiled Wild
Yoko Ono - Hirake

Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
Killing Joke - Brilliant
Christian Death - Romeo's Distress

Mad Nanna - I've Been Talking
Good Missionaries - Fire From Heaven
Snow - Still Around

Glaxo Babies - Shake (the Foundations)
Chandra - Kate
Bush Tetras - Das Ah Riot

The Last Gang - Spirit of Youth
Flys - Love and a Molotov Cocktail
Icon A.D. - Fight for Peace

Husker Du - Pink Turns Blue
Nu Sensae - Throw
the Damned - Stretcher Case



Saturday, April 27, 2013

Zebra Pulse was here this week debuting their new album Heh Vay Bae-Bays live on air, scope the release show and get your own copy May 2!

Crowning
Every Trilogy is a Movie (1, 2 & 3)
Placenta's Lament
Boddy Bubble
My Hands Sparkle Like Lemons
Night Tornadoes
Hillbilly Galactic
Catchy-Koshi
Technical Space Composition No. 5
Psychic Dinner Disco
Strombolopolis
The Rusted Bones of Home

From here on out the band picks songs:
Ciccone Youth - Tough Titty Rap (Parker)
Ruins - Vrresto (Sean)
Dillinger Escape Plan - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things (Owen)

Delia Derbyshire - Ziwih Ziwizih 00-00-00 (Parker)
Dalek - Lynch (Sean)
Venetian Snares - Nineteen 1319



Saturday, April 13, 2013

Farewell Margaret, thanks for all the tunes.

Big A, Little a says a dignified goodbye to the one, the only, Iron Lady - Maggie Thatcher

Notsensibles - (I'm in Love With) Margaret Thatcher

Exploited - Maggie You Cunt
Anti-Pasti - No Government
Varukers - Maggie's Fortress
Toxic Waste - Listen Margaret
System - Dogs of War

Toxik Ephex - Maggie
English Beat - Whine and Grine / Stand Down Margaret
Specials - Maggie's Farm
Newtown Neurotics - Living With Unemployment

Crass - Prime Sinister
- Sheep Farming in the Falklands
- How Does it Feel
- The Immortal Death
- Don't Tell me You Care

The Mob - No Doves Fly Here
Zounds - War / Subvert
Poison Girls - Another Hero
Omega Tribe - What the Hell?
Thatcher on Acid - Guess Who's Running the Show

Morrissey - Margaret on the Guillotine
Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

Spotlight this week is Chumbawamba's final release, a special memorial single to Thatcher that was mailed out the day she died.
Chumbawamba - Intro / So Long / Pinochet



Saturday, April 6, 2013

Iggy Pop - African Man

electric eels - Agitated
Death - Politicians in My Eyes
Mothers of Invention - Return of the Son of Monster Magnet

Liliput - Tschik-Mo
Mo-dettes - White Mice
Raincoats - Only Loved at Night

Minutemen - More Joy
Husker Du - 59 Times the Pain
Black Flag - Damaged I

Desperate Bicycles - Holidays
The Allovers - Allover Theme (great new locals, check out the link!)
Television Personalities - Part Time Punks

King Tubby - Say So
I-Roy - Satta
the Slits - Face Place

Rudimentary Peni - Alice Crucifies the Paedophiles
Void - Think
Melvins - Rickets

Beefeater - Blind Leads Blind
Really Red - Too Political?
Happy Flowers - There's a Soft Spot On the Baby's Head

October Faction - I Was Grotesque
Keith Rowe and John Tiulbury - Cathnor

Saturday, March 30, 2013

13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside this House

Kim Fowley - Wildfire
Kiss - King of the Nighttime World
Runaways - Cherry Bomb

Swell Maps - Midget Submarines / Bridge Head pt. 9
Red Crayola - Free Form Freakout / Hurricaine Fighter Plane
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine

Curtis Mayfield - Wild and Free
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
Chi-Lites - (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People

White Lung - I Rot
No Problem - Living in the Void
Systematik - Death Race
See all these bands and a couple more tonight at the third annual Rock Against Easter at the Artery.

Jazz - My Stuff
the Courtneys - 90210
Weed - Tie to Everything You Own

Flipper - Living For the Depression
Black Flag - Rat's Eyes
Fear - Getting the Brush

Talking Heads - Book I Read
Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
the Jam - Mr. Clean

the Stooges - Fun House
Small Faces - Come On Children
Simply Saucer - Electro-Rock

Rezillos - Top of the Pops

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Ice Age - Morals

Love Electric - Inside Joke
Nocturnal Emissions - Haldol Shuffle
Suicide - Girl

Soft Boys - Vegetable Man
Pagans - Real World
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Today's spotlight: 1984 Hardcore compilation P.E.A.C.E./War on R Radical Records. Hardcore punk from all over the world.
Holland:
Kalashnikov - Schluter's Kabinet
Local Disturbance - No U.S.A.
BGK - Arms Race

U.S.A! U.S.A!
Dicks - I Hope You Get Drafted
Dead Kennedys - Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Around
Butthole Surfers - 100 Million People Dead

Canada:
Unwarranted Trust - Honour's Calling
S.C.U.M. - So Much Hate
Porcelain Forehead - Will Amerika

Italy:
Negazione - Non Mi Dire
RAF Punk - Contro La Pace, Contro la Guerre
Wretched - Mai Arrendersi

Einsturzende Neubauten - Vanadium I-Ching
23 Skidoo - Fuck You G.I.
Lemon Kittens - The Hospital Hurts the Girl

bIG fLAME - All The Irish
Gary Debussy - Song
This Heat - Paper Hats

the Clash - All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes