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September 1, 2014
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Born Against, By The Grace Of God, CR. Youth Of Today, Crass, Deadguy, Endpoint, Friendly Fire, Fugazi, Hogan's Heroes, Judge, OS 101, Rollins Band, Tim Singer, Transmeggetti, Victory Records
The first thing I remember about this show was that it was FREEZING outside. A snow storm had come in a few days before the temperature dove down with it. Sitting in the back of a friend’s truck with no heat was a pretty brutal experience. What pissed me off though was he just called us a bunch of wimps. The same dude who fucking cried and made us listen to weak shit like Lifetime whenever a girl breathed near him. TransMegetti were a local emo band that one of the Tesi Brothers and Brian Strahele (also ex Hogans Heroes)…
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August 4, 2014
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200 North, Atari, Broken Glass Records, Carry On, Chain Of Strength, Champion, Cro-Mags, Crown Of Thornz, Crucial Response, Dead Kennedys, Down In Flames, DYS, Earth Crisisi, Esteem, Eulogy Records, Far From Breaking, Fastbreak, Forever & A Day, Grade, Havoc Records, Ignite, Kind Of Like Splitting, Last Rights, Late Night Revenge, Leeway, Let It Burn Records, Misfits, Murphy's Law, OHEV Records, One Word, Papa Roach, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Rain On The Parade, Raybeez, Reach The Sky, Redwood Records, Revelation Records, Right Brigade, Rites Of Spring, Saves The Day, Shark Attack, Shutdown, Skarhead, Soulside, Strife, Tear It Up, The Gatecrashers, The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring, The Purpose, Thursday, Trial, True Blue, Turning Point, Twelve Tribes, Underestimated Records, Victory Records, War Zone
Issue three would be the end of Parade Brigade Fanzine and, as promised in issue two, we mostly only reviewed records that were sent to us. Boy were some of these records awful! John and I handle most of the reviews with only the Carry On and Esteem records getting both of us. Issue four would have had a Carry On interview that I think John actually did…? Our friend Ryan, who did a lot of grunt work with me getting this issue thrown together as quickly as it was, jumped in to do a few reviews as well. 200…
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July 22, 2014
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By The Grace Of God, Floorpunch, Hands Tied, Rad, Rain On The Parade, Saves The Day, Skrewdriver, Up Front, Victory Records
This show is apparently pretty memorable, eh? On a personal silly level, this was the first show I did not X up for. Why do I remember this? I was just kind of bumming out hard. I had just finished a dreadful first semester of college and wasn’t really feeling it too well. But I remember the marker coming around and being all “eh” about it. I wrote about this in a fanzine at some point. We drove to this show with Ian Smith (OS 101) and I think Jenn West came along as well as our usual crew. We…
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June 23, 2014
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108, Agnostic Front, Arms Reach, Automatic, Avail, Bad Religion, Battery, Beyond, Big Wheel Recreation Records, Black Flag, Blackout Records, Boiling Point Fanzine, Bold, Breakdown, By The Grace Of God, C.R., Cargo Records, Christina Dong, CI Records, Cornerstone, Count Me Out, Dag Nasty, Dan Skebra, Deadguy, Degenerics, Double Decker Fanzine, Down Low, Dropkick Murphys, Earth Crisis, Ensign, Equal Vision Records, Exit Records, Fast Times, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Found My Direction. Spazz, Full Speed Ahead, Get High, Gorilla Biscuits, Hansen Devola, Hatebreed, Ignite, Impact Fanzine, In My Eyes, In Reach, In The Blink Of An Eye Fanzine, It's Alive Fanzine, Kill Your Idols, Killing Time, Korn, Lifetime, Madball, Milhouse, Mincing Words Fanzine, Model American, Monster X, Morning Again, Mouthpiece, My War Records, Negative Approach, No For An Answer, No Holds Barred, None Of The Above Records, OS 101, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Parting Shot, Project X, Quicksand, Rain On The Parade, Raybeez, Ressurection, Revelation Records, Scared Straight, Screaming At A Wall Records, Second To None, Seein Red, Sepultura, Shades Apart, Shutdown, Sick Of It All, Silent Majority, Some Records, Something Beyond Fanzine, Speak 714, Stand Your Ground, Standard Issue, Straight Ahead, Strength 691, System Of A Down, Teamwork Records, Ten Yard Fight, The Abused, The Business, The Judas Factor, Third Party Records, Time Flies, Time Will Tell Fanzine, Turning Point, Underestimated Records, Uniform Choice, Unit Pride, Verbal Assault, Victory Records, Vinyl Rights Fanzine, War Zone, Wide Awake, Wreckage Records, Youth Of Today
These were the reviews from In The Blink Of An Eye Fanzine #2 (#1 was a brief one pager that a few of these reviews appeared in originally). After a few issues of What Was Said, I switched names and tried pretty unsuccessfully to reboot the fanzine. A lot of the same problems that plagued WWS were all over this one too. This came out in the summer of 1998. I am thinking late in the month of August perhaps? I did not do another fanzine for about eight months before the first issue of Parade Brigade Fanzine came together.…
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October 13, 2013
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7 Seconds, A Thin Line Fading, As We Once Were, Backfire Records, Bane, Better Than A Thousand, Big Boys, Black Marker 88, Blink 182, Braid, By A Thread, Cave In, Citizens Arrest, Cro-Mags, Crucial Youth, Dropjaw Records, Eliot, Equal Vision Records, Failure, Fall Silent, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Four One One, Full Speed Ahead, Garrison, Genet Records, Good Clean Fun, Grudge, Handplant, Hell Bent Records, Himsa, Hydrahead Records, Ignite, In My Eyes, Jimmy Eat World, Kill Your Idols, Kiss It Goodbye, Nerve Agents, Neurosis, No Doubt, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Phyte Records, Pink Floyd, Polyvinyl Records, Revelation Records, Sensefield, Shelter, Slapshot, Speak 714, Standing Order, State Of Mind Records, Straight Ahead, Sunny Day Real Estate, Tears Of Frustration, Ten Yard Fight, The Faith, The Promise Ring, Tim Singer, Tony Hawk, Turning Point, Uniform Choice, Unit Pride, Victory Records
All three “staff members” did reviews for issue two. BW=Bill Wend, John=John Piorkowski, Ferret=Justin Bragg I got a ton of shit in the weeks before that In My Eyes record came out. I got it in the mail, listened a few times, and posted one morning on the Rev Board that I did not like it. I said it reminded me of Better Than A Thousand and was kind of shitty. I went to class and came back to this huge thread about what a fag/loser/pussy I was. LOL. Oh noes, I didn’t like your precious friend’s band and their…
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August 6, 2013
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Bad Religion, Blanks 77, Blood For Blood, Cause For Alarm, Chris Stagner, Fists Of Fury, Gorilla Biscuits, h2o, Jessica McPartland, Minor Threat, Raybeez, Sheer Terror, The Anti Heroes, The Business, The Truants, Urban Riot, Victory Records, War Zone
This was, I think, the first time I went to a show in New York City. I went with a few of the local skinheads, this girl Jessica and her boyfriend Chris, and I think someone else tagged along. They wanted to see The Business; I really wanted to see War Zone. After the hour and a half or so drive from the shore, we met up with some of their friends and a few of mine, who informed us that War Zone were filiming a video at the show (see above). I remember standing on line for a long…
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July 2, 2013
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A2, A389 Records, Cro-Mags, Death Side, Discharge, Electric Wizard, Integrity, Mayday, Negative Approach, No Tolerance, Organized Crime Records, Quality Control Records, Saint Vitus, Victory Records
Awesome Saint Vitus set from last fall. Their newest record is not too bad… *** Integrity Systems Overload Organized Crime Records Even though Integrity, well, the classic lineup at least, is one of my favorite bands, there has always been something about Systems Overload that seemed a bit off to me. While great, of course, I found myself sometimes losing interest in it for years at a time unlike their classic Humanity Is The Devil album. This remixed version, done directly by A2, completely changes things. I can now see why some of my friends swear by this album as…
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July 25, 2006
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Ringworm, Victory Records
Ringworm Justice Replaced By Revenge CD Victory Records After being disappointed by the last few Ringworm releases, I went to listen to Justice Replaced By Revenge with a bit of apprehension. Their demo and The Promise are classic and essential hardcore records. Nothing they have done has come close since. This record is a step back to the right direction however. The classic Ringworm style is here, albeit a bit updated. There is, at times, too much double bass and chugga style that ruins so many newer hardcore bands. For the most part, that doesn’t take away from the songs…
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March 2, 2006
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97a, Agnostic Front, Atari, Autumn, Black Flag, Bold, Circle Storm, David Koenig, Earth Crisis, Ensign, Extent Fanzine, Floorpunch, Fuck You Fanzine, Hands Tied, Hardware Fanzine, McRad, Minor Threat, Mouthpiece, Over The Line, Rain On The Parade, Rancor, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Teamwork Records, Tension Building Fanzine, The Purpose, The Straight Edge, Underdog, Up Front, Vegan Reich, Veganism, Vegetarianism, Victory Records, What Was Said Fanzine
This is the interview I did with Rain On The Parade in April of 1997. Originally in What Was Said Fanzine. 1. Okay, who is in the band and all that crap? My name is Ronnie and I sing. DII plays one guitar. Justin plays the other. Matt jumps around with his bass. Chris just joined the band. He plays drums. 2. Have you guys gotten any shit for the lyrics to Body Bag? You know, with the way all this metal slop has taken over hardcore in the past few years, you’d think we’d catch some slack for writing…
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October 12, 2005
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Billingsgate, Black Flag, By The Grace Of God, Embrace, Ensign, Even Score, Fugazi, Gorilla Biscuits, Government Issue, Half Off, Judge, Matt Smith, Minor Threat, Mouthpiece, Murphy's Law, My War Records, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Rain On The Parade, Ronny Little, Society System DeControl, Soundgarden, Stand Up, Token Entry, Turning Point, Victory Records, We're Not Gonna Take It Fanzine
John and Justin did this interview in May of 1997 for a zine called We’re Not Gonna Take It, which they never finished. We ended up finally using it in 2000 for Parade Brigade #2. This interview was conducted at the basketball court down the street from the New Providence Hall during Ensign’s set. Also present were myself and one of ROTP’s friends named Lee. I think I asked one question. John and Justin handled the rest. Ronny Little and Matt Smith give answers. *** Who is in the band and what do they do? Ronny-Right now it’s me, Ronny…
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