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.

This Heat - Cenotaph

Yoko Ono - Why?
Public Image Limited - Swan Lake
Essential Logic - Collecting Dust

Roxy Music - The Bogus Man
Talking Heads - The Good Thing
Devo - Shrivel Up

Bram Tchaikovsky - Lonely Dancer
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Nick Lowe - Rollers Show

The Beat - Jackpot
Specials - The Dawning of a New Era
Glaxo Babies - Who Killed Bruce Lee?

Bauhaus - Double Dare
Rhythm of Cruelty - Pictures
Cockatoo - Abyss

Rhythm of Cruelty and Cockatoo take the stage at the Buckingham, next Wednesday November 20th. More information HERE.

R.I.P. Ronald Shannon Jackson (1958-2013)
Last Exit - Detonator
James Blood Ulmer - Interview
James Brown - Bodyheat

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian

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

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 

Zebra Pulse - My Hands Sparkle Like Lemons

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

Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance?

See all three of these bands tonight at Allendale Hall. More info HERE.
Rhythm of Cruelty - In Time
The Grown-Ups - Pigpen
Chlorinator - Chromosome

Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances
Patti Smith - Land
Television - Marquee Moon

The Courtneys - Social Anxiety
The Verlaines - Death and the Maiden
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Egypt Texas

Rip Rig and Panic - hey Mr E! a gran grin with a shake of smile
Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman
Funkadelic - What is Soul?

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - I Woke Up Dreaming
the Del-Byzanteens - My Hands are Yellow (From the Job That I Do)
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Love Comes in Spurts

Rites of Spring - By Design
Beefeater - Mr. Silverbird / Manic Depression
Dag Nasty - Under Your Influence

The Ex - 1 000 000 Ashtrays
The Fall - Smile

Reagan Youth - Anytown

Dog Faced Hermans - The Heart of Everything
Don Cherry - Total Vibration, Part 1
Neneh Cherry and the Thing - Cashback
Rip Rig and Panic - HOWL! Caged Bird

Steve Ignorant - Take Your Elbows Off the Table
Sugarhill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day
Kurtis Blow - Hard Times

Rhythm of Cruelty - Still Life (this cassette is being officially released THURSDAY, be there or feel like a fool!
Zebra Pulse - Night Tornadoes (click the link to see the new music video!
Pigeon Breeders - Ext/

All three of these bands are also performing June first for the release of my band Energetic Action's new LP. Other shameless links:
Energetic Action
Energetic Action Recordings

Public Image Ltd - Track 8
Jah Wobble and Holger Czukay - Hold on to Your Dreams
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express

Call me a hypocrite for not hating this like I hate the new Black Flag, but somehow I think this is pretty cool:
(new) Iggy and the Stooges - Job (Ready to Die, 2013)

Fang - Fun With Acid

Alice Donut - The Son of a Disgruntled Ex Postal Worker Reflects On His Life While Getting Stoned In the Parking Lot of a Winn Dixie Listening to Metallica

Tragic Mulatto - Sexy Money

Dead C - 8:47

Tiny Tim - Tip-toe Through the Tulips

Dead Milkmen - Tiny Town

David Bowie - Cygnet Committee
HAIR Soundtrack - Be In
Tom Rapp - Fourth Day of July

the Cure - Fire in Cairo
New Order - Broken Promise
Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand

Radio debut (in the physical realm at least) of the new Rhythm of Cruelty cassette Still Life. All four creepy crawlers in one set:
Can't Escape
Words
All That's Left
Still Life

Check out their Bandcamp to listen to the whole thing in cyberspace or buy it.

SWANS - Stay Here
Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota
Thighs - Horse

Sex Church - Somnambulist
Eyeless in Gaza - Skeletal Framework
Wire - The 15th

the Courtneys - 90210
Deerhoof - The Great Car Tomb
Geister - Trapped

GBH - Faster, Faster
Discharge - Free Speech for the Dumb

Black Flag - Sinking

DIRT - Hiroshima
Alternative - Warfear
Toxic Waste - As More Die

Crass - Bomb
Poison Girls - Underbitch
Cravats - Icecubists

Omega Tribe - Pictures
Apostles - Punk Squatters
Amebix - University Challenged

Hugh Mundell - Jah Will Provide
Burning Spear - Live Good
Prince Far I - Heavy Manners

Ludus - Unveiled (A Woman's Travelogue)
Magazine - Back to Nature
Peace - Winterhouse

Whitehouse - Mindphaser
Nocturnal Emissions - Herpes Virus
Leather Nun - Slow Death (Live)

Rhythm of Cruelty - In Time
This Heat - Cenotaph

Blyth Power - Marius Moves

The (seemingly) weekly I love Dischord Records set
Fugazi - Epic Problem
Evens - Warble Factor
One Last Wish - My Better Half

Husker Du - Crystal
Replacements - I Will Dare
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion

Rolling Stones - I'm Alright
Yardbirds - Too Much Monkey Business
Small Faces  - Whatcha Gonna Do About It

Chrome - Pygmies in the Park
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Defektors - Bottom of the City

Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
Stevie Wonder - Black Man
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun

Christian Death - Figurative Theatre
Rhythm of Cruelty - Can't Escape
Sex Church - Slipped

the Famines - The First World War
Neu! - Hero
Peace - Winterhouse

Television - Venus

Instumentals:
Black Flag - Obliteration
Slint - For Dinner...
Nomeansno - Obsessed

A-capella:
Nomeansno - No Fgkcuink

A little of column A, a little from column B:
Album spotlight: Sonny Sharrock - Monkey-Pocky-Boo (1970)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Sharrock
27th Day

Tom Robinson Band - Blue Murder
Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
Dr. Feelgood - She Does it Right

Johnny Osbourne - Jah Promise
the Slickers - Johnny Too Bad
Heptones - Party Time

Rhythm of Cruelty - All That's Left (Stream this brand new track HERE) Live at Filthy McNasty's today! See the event HERE!
Chrome - Mondo Anthem
Scratch Acid - Holes

No Problem - Living in the Void
Void - Dehumanized
DC3 - Apparent Doom

Chandra - Stranger

Pigeon Breeders - Luminous Debris (live at the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, just behind the farmer's market on Gateway, 2:30 PM, free!)
http://pigeonbreeders.bandcamp.com/

New Music Week!

Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Who Says?

the Ex - the Buzzword Medley
Shellac - My Black Ass
Nomeansno - And That's Sad

No Problem - Living in the Void
Minor Threat - Look Back and Laugh
Misfits - Bloodfeast

All new music! Click the links to listen to more.
Rhythm of Cruelty - Can't Escape http://rhythmofcruelty.bandcamp.com/track/cant-escape-rough-mix-2
The Love Electric - Have a >ision http://soundcloud.com/ben-disaster-1/have-a-ision
Peace - The Perp Walk http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/peace-world_is_too_much_with_us_album_stream

the Raincoats - In Love
Lora Logic - Stop Halt
LiLiPUT - Boatsong

This week's artist spotlight: The Slits! 
Love and Romance (Peel Sessions, 1977?)
Ping Pong Affair (Cut, 1979)
Life On Earth (Return of the Giant Slits, 1981)

Zebra Pulse - In the Tub of the Club
Flying Lizards - Hands 2 Take
Public Image Limited - The Suit

the Clash - This is Radio Clash
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
Blondie - Heart of Glass
(Come dance the way at the Non Stop Ecstatic Dance Party, tonight at the Cosmopolitan Music Society, I'll be spinning some platters along with other notable Edmontonians Alex McKie, Robert Burkosky and more! http://www.facebook.com/events/230926587035032/?fref=ts)

No Problem - Debts (performing live on the show for Fundrive October 6)
Personality Crisis - Piss On You
Subhumans - Firing Squad

Album spotlight: Fly (1971) by Yoko Ono (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_(Yoko_Ono_album)
Mind Train

Prince Far-I - You I Love & Not Another
The Revolutionaries - A Who Say
Linton Kwesi Johnston - It's Noh Funny

Rhythm of Cruelty - The Past (also appearing live on the show October 6!)
Geister - Night Terrors
Christ Appearing As Sun - Love Hour Series Excerpt (Appearing live on the program next Saturday!)

Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Material - Unauthorized

Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings of Patient O.T.
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan