No Tolerance Demo This Is Edge Day Records Wow! No Tolerance, featuring members of Mind Eraser, are one of the few modern Straight Edge bands who can even attempt to hold my attention. This bands play my favorite style of late eighties Straight Edge hardcore in the vein of classics like Brotherhood and Confront. Pretty heavy and “hard” without the idiocy normally attributed to that. I really want to hear more.
PissChrist/Framtid Split 7″ HG Fact Records A split combining the best of Australia and Japan. Framtid’s Under The Ashes LP is one of the top five or ten records of the past decade and their tracks here, while not quite as good, are still really solid. Fans of bands like Judgment, Bastard, Anti Cimex, etc take note. Pisschrist have not impressed me much before, but their songs on this record are solid D-Beat inspired ragers. Definitely worth checking out.
Signifying Nothing Episode Twenty Two Playlist Discharge-Protest & Survive (Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing) Black Flag-Thirsty & Miserable (Program: Annihilator) Pisschrist-Plastic Security (Split With Framtid) Avengers-The American In Me (Self Titled) Face Value-Someday (Only The Strong) Floorpunch-No Exceptions (Division One Champs) Brotherhood-The Deal (Words Run As Thick As Blood) Mind Eraser-Wrote Off (Glacial Reign) Bl’ast!-Look Into Myself (It’s In My Blood) Minutemen-Shit From An Old Notebook (Double Nickels On The Dime) Shitlickers-Armed Revolution (Cracked Cop Skulls) Shitlickers sleeve gallery from Shit-Fi Shitlickers article from Crust War Fanzine (done by member of Disclose) New Vulgate on the pre-Minutemen band The…
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Four years late, here is the final list. One thing I’ve noticed as I put this together is that there is a great lack of compilations on this list. A lot of the decent compilations in the nineties have great songs, but also terrible ones. I still feel like I am missing something obvious… 1.6 Band, Self Titled LP, USA, 1992 Acme, Self Titled 7″, Belgium, 1994 All Chrome, Flounders Flyers College & Canada LP, USA, 1999 Arms Reach, Self Titled 7″, Australia, 1998 Assuck, State To State 7″, USA, 1993 Aus-Rotten, Fuck Nazi Sympathy, USA, 1994 Bastard, Wind Of…
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I have republished the now defunct Hardware Media & Radio’s interview with me from back in 2006 about Signifying Nothing. Thanks to Dave K for letting me put this back on the Internet.
Pictures courtesy of Start Today Fanzine (Nice Hardware Fanzine shirt on me) This show was hyped up for awhile as I recall. Smash & Grab was the new band for three members of Floorpunch together with members of Shark Attack and American Nightmare. Yeah, we were pretty curious. Bane and No Warning also played along with a couple others. I think I headed to this show with Jay Fisher and maybe Jim Lundy and a few other friends of ours. Smash & Grab had shirts for sale before they played and I got a chance to catch up with a…
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A few weeks back, someone asked for stories about how people came to become vegetarians. As many people might know, I stopped eating meat a few years before I got fully involved with hardcore. I often tell a story about refusing to eat for a week because no one believed me (it still seems so strange to me that people think it is WEIRD not to eat meat) and another one about standing up to my parents on one of the, mercifully, few vacations we ever went on. The seeds of this came a little bit before that. If you’ll…
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Destroy Babylon recently posted this video of Floorpunch playing at Manville 8-3-97. You can see me all over this! I don’t remember a ton from this show…Vision also played (really early for some reason…I think they had to leave???) and maybe The Purpose. Someone on the Livewire Board said Fastbreak too but I don’t think they did…they played Manville the next weekend with Hands Tied, In My Eyes, and some others and then the next year with Fit For Abuse (!). A lot of familiar faces in the crowd. I can see Chris Oliver, Mickey, Matt Molnar, Matt Smith, Joe…
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For the first time in a very long time I drove up to this show with my friend John. We hit a ton of rain on the way up but, thankfully, by the time we got to New York City it was gone besides some lightning. John and I caught up on what each other was up to and laughed at the antics of the world around us. On the way up we listened to Dave K’s 1988-1990 NYHC mix. Upon arriving in Hoboken and trying to find a parking spot for probably around twenty to thirty minutes I quickly…
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The Good Book Demo 2006 This band has apparently already broken up, but this demo fucking rages hard. The Jersey Shore pedigree here is impressive: members have spent time in bands as varied as Ensign, Full Speed Ahead, Human Remains, S.O.V., and Tear It Up. In fact 3/5 of Full Speed Ahead were in this band. The five songs on this CD sound a lot like a median between Tear It Up (where vocalist Dave Ackerman spent time in before this band) and Full Speed Ahead. Fast, right to the point, hardcore in the vein of Bl’ast!, Black Flag and…
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