Best of the Year

In no particular order...

Non - Seven Sermons of the Dead (Back to Mono)

Zebra Pulse - Endings
Psychic Zipper / Basaraba / They Drove Him to the Edge of Town

Peace - The World is Too Much With Us
Winterhouse / Black Cocaine / Fun and Games

The Courtneys - K.C. Reeves
Intro / K.C. Reeves / Nu Sundae

Weed - Gun Control
Tie to Everything You Own / Amber / Ben's Tour

Both the Courtneys and Weed tapes are available courtesy of Green Burrito Records, Vancouver.

Pizzarrhea - Laser Bacon Eye Surgery
Acidents / Hol Onta Dis' Pear

No Problem - Triangle EP
Living in the Void / What Have I Become? / Happy Family

Nu Sensae - Sundowning
Eat Your Mind / Spit Gifting / Tea Swamp Park

Field and Stream - Field and Stream
Salmon Arm / Soccer

Nu Sensae - Spit Gifting

Wire - Crazy About Love

Artist spotlight: Gang of Four. After the early eighties, they weren't worth much, but what a band they were before then! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(band)
Contract (Entertainment, 1979) / He'd Send in the Army (Solid Gold, 1981) / Capital (It Fails Us Now) (Another Day, Another Dollar, 1982)

Dag Nasty - Under Your Influence
Beefeater - Out of the Woods
Embrace - Money

Refused - the Shape of Punk to Come
Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender
Born Against - Poland

And while we're parading out the 90s hardcore, let's sink to the lowest levels of tough guy ridiculousness with....
Earth Crisis - Firestorm

DNA - 5:30
Flying Lizards - A-Train
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Emerson Lake and Palmer - The Barbarian
Van Der Graf Generator - Masks

the Cravats - Icecubists
Longshoremen - Rail Road Tracks
Swell Maps - Bonze and Baby Shoes

New Nu Sensae! "Sundowning" is out this week on Suicide Squeeze Records. See them at the Wunderbar this Monday: http://www.facebook.com/events/405742209463237/. Listen to to a live stream of the album here: http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/nu_sensae-sundowning_album_stream
Nu Sensae - Burnt Masks

Nu Sensae - Whispering Rule / Spit Gifting / Eat Your Mind

Peace - Your Hand in Mine (this is a brand new track, listen to it online here: http://www.spin.com/articles/listen-peaces-moonlit-your-head-mine)
White Lung - Bunny
Mutators - Get it Clean / Bourgeois Fantasy

Augustus Pablo - Africa (1983)
Abyssinians - Forward unto Zion
Bob Marley and the Wailers - So Jah Seh

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey on the Moon / Lady Day and John Coltrane
John Coltrane - Resolution
Wilson Pickett - I'm Sorry About That

the Fall - Hexen Definitive / Strife Knot
Folk Devils - Albino
Bogshed - Fastest Legs

the Ex - Aha Gedawo (listen to this new track here: http://www.theex.nl/mp3/AhaGedawo.mp3)
Fugazi - Turnover / Repeater
fIREHOSE - Some Things

Butthole Surfers - Whirling Hall of Knives
Killdozer - Live Your Life Like You Don't Exist
Daddy Longhead - Driftwood