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 23, 2013

Rites of Spring - End on End

SNFU - The Electric Chair
Subhumans - Fuck You
Pointed Sticks - Out of Luck

Monks - I Hate You
Cramps - Surfin' Bird
Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk

Bogshed - Tried and Tested Public Speaker
Gang of Four - Glass
Pop Group - Snow Girl

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Steal Softly Through Snow
Essential Logic - Albert Albert Albert / Alkaline Loaf (in the area)
Red Crayola - Yik Yak

Futureheads - Hounds of Love
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
the Smiths - The Boy With the Thorn in His Side

Keiji Haino - LOKSKOOIDGIIF
French Frith Kaiser Thompson - Where's the Money
Henry Kaiser - Devil in the Drain

Teen Idles - Teen Idles
Kaaos - Elephantti
Sick Pleasure - I Don't Play Pretty Music

Charles Mingus - Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America

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


Saturday, March 9, 2013

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

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Zebra Pulse - In the Tub of the Club

Slint - Breadcrumb Trail
Gary Debussy - Live at Bohemia
Nomeansno - Dead Bob

Misfits - Bloodfeast
45 Grave - Insurance From God
T.S.O.L. - I'm Tired of Life

Whirling Pig Dervish - Take the Money and Run
Stretchheads - Housewife Up Your Ass Music
No Trend - Blow Dry

Big Boys - Influence
Urinals - Black Hole
Minutemen - The Anchor

Compilation spotlight part one: Czech! Till Now You Were Alone. Conpilation of new Czech music from Communist Czechoslovakia in the early 80s.
Mama Bubo - 20 Stoleti
The Extempore Band - Zabi No!
Dvouletta Fama - To Ona Ona To
Jeste Jsme Se Nedohodli - Kone

part two: Hybrid Kids - A Collection of Classic Music (1979). Morgan Fisher of Mott the Hoople inexplicably makes a bunch of fake experimental punk bands, records them himself on a 4-track and covers popular songs of the time.
British Standard Unit - D'Ya Think I'm Sexy (Rod Stewart)
Combo Satori - Enlightment (Sun Ra)
U.S. Nurds - Get Back (Beatles)
The Incestors - Something Better Change (Stranglers)

Violent Femmes - Black Girls
Eric Dolphy - Come Sunday
Godz - White Cat Heat

Modern Lovers - Ice Cream Man