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August 12, 2013
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Dead Kennedys, Give, Grave Mistake Records, Necros, Night Birds, Omegas, Pennywise, Social Distortion, Sublime, Trayvon Martin
After spending the afternoon at the shore with my parents and buying my mother a new Nintendo 3DS so she can play Animal Crossing: New Leaf, I went up to Asbury Park to check out an awesome gig at Asbury Lanes. I thought that venue was closing? Whatever happened with that? This was a great gig and I saw three excellent bands. Driving into Asbury Park got a bit complicated. I came down the main road through the city like I always do and was suddenly diverted around a detour. After going a few minutes out of my way, I…
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January 20, 2012
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540 Records, Back To Back Records, Bastard, Beyond, Bl'ast!, Brotherhood, Circle Jerks, Cold Sweat, Confront, Corrosion of Conformity, Critical Point, Cro-Mags, Cyclopean Records, Deep Six Records, Deranged Records, Devoid Of Faith, Die Kreuzen, Discharge, Dischord Records, Double Negative, Eyeball, Eyehategod, Flower Of Carnage Records, Four Walls Falling, Gasmask Terror, Give, Guerrilla Records, Hoax, Ignition, Impact Unit, Infest, Iron Age, Krakdown, Lack Of Interest, Low Profile Threat, Mainstrike, Mind Eraser, Necros, Negative Approach, No Comment, No Tolerance, Nomos, Omegas, Our Side, Outlaw Order, Parts Unknown Records, Pigsticker, Powered Records, Release, Rites Of Spring, Seasons Of Mist Records, Society System DeControl, Stick Together, Swiz, Technocracy, The Icemen, The Rival Mob, The Snobs, Touch & Go Records, Triple B Records, Turning Point, Underdog, Void, Waste Management, Youngblood Records, Youth Of Today
Nomos Demo Great 82 style hardcore from this New York band. There are a lot of modern influences on this band’s demo including Cold Sweat, The Snobs, and other, hey, early 00 bands. I would like to hear more. Our Side Demo Really raw, late eighties, influenced hardcore in the vein of Release, Youth Of Today, and Four Walls Falling. With a better recording, I sense this band could be pretty good. I want to hear more. Pigsticker Demo I really like this demo. Pigsticker reminds me a cross between Circle Jerks and Necros with sloppy, raw, production values that sounds pretty authentic to the early eighties…
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August 5, 2011
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Black Flag, Blessed Offal, Corrosion of Conformity, Indian Dream, Mauser, Mind Eraser, Misery, Necros, Neurosis, Podcast, Rorschach, Sacrilege, Slang, Talk Is Poison, Voorhees, Whirl, Youth Brigade
Talk Is Poison-Right To Die (Self Titled) Youth Brigade-Snow Job (Demo) Voorhees-A Cure For The New Disease (Spilling Blood Without Reason) Necros-Youth Camp (IQ32) Mind Eraser-Manhood (Glacial Reign) Sacrilege-A Violation of Something Sacred (Beyond The Realm of Madness) Rorschach-Hemlock (Protestant) Corrosion of Conformity-Holier (Animosity) Blessed Offal-Bottomless Grave (Demo) Misery-Class Warfare (Who’s The Fool) Neurosis-The Choice (The Word As Law) Slang-World of Lunacy (Life Made Me Hardcore) Indian Dream-Silent Screams (Orca) Mauser-New Threat (End of the Line) Black Flag-Best One Yet (Loose Nut) Whirl-Blue (Distressor)
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June 6, 2011
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Adolescents, Anti Sect, Antidote, Bad Brains, Cockney Rejects, Discharge, Disorder, DYS, Gism, Jerry's Kids, Minor Threat, Necros, Podcast, Pushead, Rudimentary Peni, Sick Of It All, Society System DeControl, State of Alert, Subhumans, The Faith, The FU's, True Sounds of Liberty
Here’s the idea: Instead of doing regular Signifying Nothing podcasts this summer, I thought a cool idea would be to do podcasts chronicling the famous Top 100 Records of the Eighties that Pushead did many years ago. If people like this, I’d love to try it with various specific record labels too. Twenty songs for each. I think this will be cool. Discharge-War’s No Fairy Tale Society System DeControl-Get It Away Subhumans-Parasites Minor Threat-Bottled Violence Bad Brains-The Regulator True Sounds of Liberty-Abolish Government/Silent Majority Disorder-Violent Crime Rudimentary Peni-Black President Jerry’s Kids-Raise The Curtain Anti Sect-Channel Zero Reality Gism-Death, Agonies, &…
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July 25, 2006
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Born/Dead, Consume, Deathreat, Midnight, Necros, Prank Records
Born/Dead Endless War…Repetition CD Prank Records I wasn’t that familiar with Born/Dead before Prank sent this CD in. This Oakland band play raging crusty hardcore somewhat similar to Deathreat, Midnight, and other bands of that nature. Born/Dead aren’t quite as good as Deathreat but I enjoyed listening to this CD, which collects a few different records including a split with Consume. There is also a pretty awesome Necros cover on here. I would check this one out.
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January 14, 2006
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Government Warning, Hated Youth, Necros, No Way Records, Touch & Go Records
Government Warning No Way Out 7” No Way Records I really like this record. Government Warning (great name!) play snotty early eighties styled hardcore in the vein of stuff like The Necros & Hated Youth. I could see myself listening to this one a lot. My favorite part of this record is how authentic to the 82′ style it is. I could figure this record for being outtakes from Flex Your Head or an unreleased Touch & Go record. The cover also looks like an early hardcore record. Check them out at the No Way Records website.
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November 1, 2005
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Antidote, Contention Records, Cops & Robbers, DRI, Fit For Abuse, Insurance Risk, Last In Line, Last Rights, Life's Halt, My War Records, Necros, Negative Approach, Out Cold, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Rain On The Parade, Shark Attack, Suicidal Tendencies, The Fix, The Gatecrashers, What Happens Next
Originally in Parade Brigade #3. Interview done with Matt Smith by me (although John supplied all of the questions as far as I remember) *** When the band started did you ever think of putting something out on Contention Records? Contention Records went under like four years ago. I was always kind of bad with the mail order, so the idea of putting it out under that name never really came up. Matt Summers always did a better job with his label, plus he had money to put it out right away, so we decided to put it out on…
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June 22, 2005
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Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Beefeater, Bikini Kill, Black Flag, Cops & Robbers, Discharge, Eyeball, Hole, Jesuseater, Kid Dynamite, Necros, Not Normal Fanzine, Paint It Black, Ressurection, SOA, Team Dresch, The Snobs, Token Entry
Not Normal was a fanzine I started in 2002 but never really got it off the ground. I did like the idea of combining more personal writing (2002 was a particularly ugly time in my life for a variety of reasons) with hardcore content, but a second issue did not really go anywhere. I am happy still with most of what is here. It is definitely a time capsule of that time in my life. Not Normal #1 would have probably featured The Snobs and a reprinted Bikini Kill interview. The Snobs broke up before I could interview them and…
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