Friday, October 28, 2011

Sonic Overload 10/17/11

Siege were one of the greatest local hardcore bands I ever saw—a terrifying, ravaging sound that attacked aurally and physically. The three musicians in Siege would pound their instruments to a bloody pulp but were tight as hell. At the center of this storm was their vocalist Kevin Mahoney, who was listed as Screaming Kev Mahoney on the hand-written lyric sheet given to me by their guitar player Kurt when he gave me a copy of their demo. The covers hadn’t been printed yet. It’s a prized possession and I lost count of how many times I copied that demo for people over the years until it finally saw release on CD and vinyl. They were the real deal. I don’t think they played more than 10 shows and I saw 3 or 4 of them (I’d have to check). They didn’t even have that large a local following while they were an active band although they did eventually build an audience here. As for Screaming Kev, the name fit. He’d howl and scream and flail himself around the stage and even play saxophone for their dirge “Grim Reaper.” Kevin passed away suddenly late last week at the too-young age of 46 and this week’s show goes out in his memory. Rest in peace.

Meanwhile, the “Occupy” protests continue to spread around the country. There’s the inevitable backlash from the usual right-wing elements but more people are making themselves heard. No audio from those events this week but I do have some very special audio at the top of the second set. You’ll just have to listen to find out.

Sonic Overload 10/17/11

TRACK 1

SIEGE-Conform (Deranged) in memory of Kevin Mahoney

SIEGE-Cold War (Deranged)
SIEGE-Starvation (Deranged)
SIEGE-Drop Dead (Deranged)
DROPDEAD-Another Stone (Armageddon)
DRY HUMP-All You Can Be (Sex Cult)
SYSTEMATIC DEATH-Man Made (Way Back When/Even Worse)

FOLDED SHIRT-no title (Live on WCSB)
WHITE LOAD-My Wall (Ken Rock)
INSERVIBLES-Asfixia (Shogun)
FINAL SOLUTIONS-Disco Eraser (Misprint)
MAD MEN-The Awakening (self-released)
TOTAL CONTROL-Stonehenge (Iron Lung)

THE FAITH-Untitled (Dischord)
THE VICIOUS-Illusions (Feral Ward)
OUT ON A LIMB-Competitive Eating (Taken By Surprise)
KICKING SPIT-Way Out (Tankcrimes)
THE ENERGY-Roach Spray (Team Science)

TRACK 2

YOUTH BRIGADE-It’s About Time That We Had A Change (Dischord)

WARDS-Redneck (self-released)
REFLEX FROM PAIN-Rednecks (Death Threat)
NOTA-Redneck Mentality (Rabid Cat)
NEGATIVE ELEMENT-Just Be Yourself (Version Sound)
NARCS-Doppleganger (Reel Time)
DBCR-Let Them Eat Bikes (self-released)

MONSTERS-Whatcha Gonna Do (Voodoo Rhythm)
WAX MUSEUMS-Traffic Violation (Tic Tac Toally)
BRAIN F?-Sleep Rough (Sorry State/Grave Mistake)
PLASTIC IDOLS-Sophistication (Vision)

WHITE DRUGS-Black Wizard Gloaming (Amphetamine Reptile)
GREEN MAGNET SCHOOL-Throb (Sub Pop)
UZI-Criminal Child (Matador)

TRACK 3

AGAINST EMPIRE-Wordsmiths (Profane Existence)

WARHEAD-Brain Washing By The Shocks (HG Fact)
MÖRPHEME-Mouchi Moumai (from “Noise Ordinance,” Maximum Rocknroll)
WOLFPACK-No Neo Bastards (Farewell)
PEACE OR ANNIHILATION-System Shit Lies (Radical HC)
KAAOS-Ei Ulospääsyä (Lost and Found)

PINKERTON THUGS-Murdered By The FBI (Police)
YOUNG LIONS-We Wanna Riot (Schizophrenic)
(IMPATIENT) YOUTH-Yankee Go Home (Frontline)
CHRON GEN-Mindless Few (Razor)

METAL URBAIN-Hysterie Connective (Byzz)
CHRISTIAN DEATH-Romeo’s Distress (Frontier)
LAUGHING HYENAS-Love’s My Only Crime (Touch & Go)

TRACK 4

IN DEFENCE-Democracy Hi-Five (Profane Existence)
DEAD STOP-All I Can Take (Deranged)
TINO VALPA-Social Insect (Kangaroo/Way Back When)
MUCH WORSE-Tarred Lungs (No Way)
UNDERDOG-Say It To My Face (Bridge Nine)
YOUTH OF TODAY-Put It Aside (Caroline)

CLOAK/DAGGER-Don’t Need A (Jade Tree)
RANK/XEROX-Discipline (Make A Mess)
GENERAL INTEREST-Drunk Doctor (Ride The Snake)
DEFEKTORS-Bottom Of The City (Nominal)
COMA-Verre (from “Nouvelles du Front, Vol. 1”)

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING-Second Guessing (Captcha)

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Sonic Overload 10/10/11

Occupy Wall Street continues and rallies and protests have sprung up all around the country. There’s also the inevitable backlash, mainly from Republican politicians and pundits (big shock). One of the presidential candidates, Herman Cain, had the audacity to say "Don't blame Wall Street," Cain said. "Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself.” He also said that being gay is a choice and has a radical tax agenda that would include a 9% sales tax on everything, including food—of course, this will affect poor people a lot more than others. I don’t have the time or space to spell out his viewpoints but it’s made him a darling of Tea Bag Nation.

In the meantime, two former Bank of America executives received severance packages totaling about $11 million between them and that’s while the company is laying off 30,000 people and will start charging fees to use their debit cards. You couldn’t have a more perfect example of what’s wrong with this country.

And, oh yeah, it’s Columbus Day and that’s marked at the beginning of the show, with the “Reconsider Columbus Day” public service announcement that you can see on YouTube and a few songs about how indigenous people suffered after America was “discovered.”

Despite all this weighty subject matter, I don’t dwell upon it all that much. I think you’ll find this week’s show provides a couple of hours of loud ass-kickin’ fun that will take your mind off all the crap I mentioned...

Sonic Overload 10/10/11

TRACK 1

ONxALERT-Mending 500 Years (from “Bridging Oceans,” Third Party)

DEFECT DEFECT-Stolen Ground (Residue)
LOS JODIDOS-500 Anos De Mentiras (from “Ratas De Ciudad,” SouthKore)
LOS CRUDOS-No Exisen Palomas Blancas En Mi Barrio (Lengua Armada)
SIEGE-Sad But True (Deranged)
NAIFA-Nao Sou Seu Amigo (Faca Cega)

OBN IIIS-Wager My Heart (Tic Tac Totally)
BURNING ITCH-You Should Fucking Die (Tic Tac Totally)
WAX MUSEUMS-I Eat Vomit (Tic Tac Totally)
RIP OFFS-Ugly (Rip Off)
GORILLA ANGREB-Livstid (Feral Ward)
GOD EQUALS GENOCIDE-Why Would You Want Me To Feel Safe (Shock To The System)

MUKEKA DI RATO-Acabar Com Voce (Sound Pollution)
PROLETARIAN ART THREAT-Proletarian Gospel Drive (Lean Enterpise)
GORILLA BISCUITS-Competition (Revelation)
CRUCIAL UNIT-Let’s Unite The Punx and Skinz, Put ‘em On A Boat, Send ‘em Off To Sea and Sink Those Fuckers (Crucial Blast)
PSYCHO-Contempt (Ax/ction)
KICKER-Walking Headache (Inimical)

TRACK 2

TOXIC REASONS-Break The Bank (Sixth International)
GOVERNMENT ISSUE-Understand (Dr. Strange)
OUT ON A LIMB-Peking Man (Taken By Surprise)
PAC-MEN-Action (Red Tape)
CIRIL-Hell Fell Down Again (Know)

HOLY SHIT!-I Hate Banks (Trigger-On-The-Dutendoo)
HOAX-Suicide Pact (Youth Attack)
ORGANIZED SPORTS-Entertain Me (Bulkhead)
NOMOS-Mendicant (Deranged)
NASA SPACE UNIVERSE-Grizzly Graham (Shogun)
HERO DISHONEST-The Biggest Asshole (IfSociety)

BLITZ-I Don’t Need You (No Future)
PARTISANS-Partisans (Anagram)
MAJOR ACCIDENT-Clockwork Toys (Step-Forward)
UNDERDOGS-Dead Soldier (Riot City)
RED ALERT-Rebels In Society (Captain Oi)

TRACK 3

NEIGHBORHOOD BRATS-We Own The Night (Abscess)
CONDOMINIUM-I Don’t Hate Any Of You (self-released)
HUMAN EYE-Dinosaur Bones (Hook or Crook)
SPECIAL AFFECT-Headache (Special Affect)
ESTRELLA 20/20-Marvelous! (Estrus)
HALF JAPANESE-There’s A Girl (Iridescence)

DARK AGES-Merchants Of Cool (Sorry State)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH-Philosophy (Fringe)
EXECUTIONER-The Burn (Patac)
KILLROY-66 Big Build-Up (Ghetto-Way)
PERSONALITY CRISIS-People In Glass (Risky)
GERM ATTAK-Crown Attorney (Loud Punk)

YOUNG OFFENDERS-Black Hands (Derenaged)
MOST SECRET METHOD-Inch (Dischord/Superbad)
PRICHARD-Ranch-Style (self-releaed)
EXPANDO-BRAIN-Flogging A Dead Relationship (Vacant Lot)

TRACK 4

PITBOSS 2000-Yankees Suck (self-released)

SEX PISTOLS-New York (Virgin)
RENTALS-New York (Beggars Banquet)
RADIATORS FROM SPACE-Television Screen (Chiswick)
DICKIES-Poodle Party (A&M)

RIPPER-Heart Of Darkness (Black Water)
KILL THE MESSENGER-Overfull (Indecision)
THE VOWS-Speak To Truths (Indecision)
ANNIHILATION TIME-Jonestown (Tee Pee)
R’N’R-I’ve Had It (DeadAlive)

ROSE TATTOO-Astra Wally (Atlantic)

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Sonic Overload 10/3/11

So after a couple of weeks of protests on Wall Street, voices are being raised around the country as people get out and demand economic justice. That’s kind of a broad analysis of what’s going on but I think that’s what’s at the crux of this activism. And the mainstream media, which had largely the protests since they began, have started to pay attention. Part of it was due to some egregious police behavior, such as the unprovoked use of pepper spray on people in lower Manhattan by a rogue cop, Joseph Bologna, as well as the arrest of 700 non-violent protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge.

It boggles my mind that there are still people who support the banksters and the large corporations, who say that regulation is bad for the country. People who think that this is some sort of unamerican behavior. That’s the teabagger mentality and it’s a misguided notion. I don’t know all the answers—far from it—and maybe some people aren’t always sure what they’re protesting but when you’re unemployed, can’t afford life’s basic necessities and wonder what the future will bring, you can’t blame people for wanting to be heard, to make people understand what they’re dealing with. I start two of the sets with a few minutes of audio taken from a protest in Boston and a news report from Democracy Now...

Sonic Overload 10/3/11

TRACK 1

CZOLGOSZ-No War But The Class War (Rodent Popsicle)

SYSTEMATIC DEATH-Just The Head (Way Back When)
STOCKPILE-Body Politic (Destroy Me)
CHAOTIC NEUTRAL-Collapse (Lawful Evil)
TINO VALPA-Reunion (Kangaroo/Way Back When)
POISON PLANET-Bleed For Me (Third Party)

VATICAN COMMANDOS-Why Must I Follow? (Pregnant Nun)
SMEGMA & THE NUNS-Napalm Sticks To Kids (demo)
NOTHING-Uniformz (from “Killed By Death #9”)
CATHOLIC BOYS-When Yer Not Here (Trick Knee)
REATARDS-Sick When I See (Empty)

NEIGHBORS-Lack Of Compassion (Six Weeks)
GHOULIES-The Company (Rockstar)
POISON IDEA-Rich Get Richer (Fatal Erection)
DILS-I Hate The Rich (Dionysus)
NO IDEA-Class War (Jayrem)

TRACK 2

COLERA-Histeria (Order & Progress) in memory of Redson Pozzi
GUYANA PUNCH LINE-Not Right (Prank)
THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY-About Last Night (Smog Veil)
BEAR PROOF SUIT-We Won’t Repent (Urban Pirate)
HAIL MARY-Maimed (Vermiform)
RUIN-Where Fortune (Black Hole)

INSERVIBLES-No Nos Dieron Ni Madres (demo)
LOS WEBELOS-Maldita Pulga (Bazofia)
COCADICTOS-Fieles Siempre al Vicio (Bazopfia)
INSULTS-Population Zero (Brain Transplant)
S.A.D.-No Escape (Empty)

RATIONAL ANIMALS-Someone Like You (Katorga Works)
SOKEA PISTE-Collective Panic (Peterwalkee)
LIBERTY MADNESS-Sore Losers Vicious Circle (Kink/Sengaja)
ICEAGE-You’re Blessed (What’s Your Damage)
DUCK AND COVER-Candy Man (from “Noise Ordinance,” Maximum Rocknroll)
BRAIN F?-Seawall, See (Sorry State/Grave Mistake)

TRACK 3

FUCKED UP-Police (Deranged)

RANK/XEROX-Turn To Stone (Make A Mess)
DAN RUSSELL (THE NEED)-Mind Split Open (Aggravation Overdose)
KNIFE THE SYMPHONY-Squatting Warrior (Phratry)
WRY-Blueprint To Nero (Forge)

OUT COLD-Like Clockwork (Kangaroo)
OUT COLD-High Maintenance (ACME)
IN DEFENCE-The Police Are Fuckin’ Rad! (Profane Existence)
MAJOR DAMAGE-Pathetic
CHAOS UK-What About A Future? (Dead Ringer)

RUTS-In A Rut (Virgin)
DEFECTS-Killer On The Streets (WXYZ)
SEAWEED-Kid Candy (Sub Pop)

TRACK 4

NAIFA-Hoje (Faca Cega)
WHITE LUNG-Backhouse (Deranged)
ARCTIC FLOWERS-Fall To Pieces (Inimical)
NUCLEAR FAMILY-Hear This (demo)
DA!-Next To Nothing (Factory 25)

PEGBOY-Through My Fingers (Quarterstick)
DI-Stick To Your Guns (Reject)
NAKED RAYGUN-Tojo (Touch & Go)
EFFIGIES-Guns Or Ballots (from “Busted At Oz,” Autumn)

SOFT CELL-Sex Dwarf (Sire)

Friday, October 7, 2011

Sonic Overload 9/26/11

There’s a good chance the state of Georgia executed an innocent man last week. His name was Troy Davis, he’d been convicted in the killing of an off-duty police officer but serious questions had been raised about his guilt. That still didn’t stop the state-sanctioned killing committed by Georgia, after the Supreme Court refused to stop the execution. The show starts with some audio from “Democracy Now” giving a brief outline about the case. One hopes the day will come when this country stops engaging in such barbarism and joins the rest of the industrialized world.

Sonic Overload 9/26/11

TRACK 1

AUS ROTTEN-Capital Punishment (Tribal War) in memory of Troy Davis

F-MINUS-Capital Murder (Hellcat)
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT-Capitol Punishment (We Bite)
IN/HUMANITY-Fuck The Death Penalty, Let’s Compromise (Prank)
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY-Eye For An Eye (No Core)
CRIMINALS-State Sponsored Slaughter (Adeline)
AGNOSTIC FRONT-Blind Justice (Ratcage)

BULLET LAVOLTA-Baggage (Taang)
DEEP SLEEP-Head Spins (Grave Mistake)
EVERYTHING FALLS APART-Roses (self-released)
AMERICAN JIHAD-Cardinal Maloney (from “Traveling With George,” Scare America)
STUNTMEN-Kick Them Out (Stump)

BRAIN F?-Hand’s In The Jar (Grave Mistake)
FOREIGN OBJECTS-Look Around (Vinyl Rites)
ARCTIC FLOWERS-Vexed (Inimical)
TOTAL CONTROL-No Bibs (Iron Lung)

TRACK 2

RESIST-Faith In Compromise (Profane Existence) in memory of Ty Smith
BEDLAM-Hated You Then & I Hate You Know (Buy Our Records)
NEW REGIME-Be A Man, Go To War! (from “Party Animal,” Mystic)
HAPPY FLOWERS-Leave Me Alone (Homestead)
OS ESTUDANTES-Aprendizado (Laja)
FIENDS-Die Bob Die (Bemisbrain) in memory of Dolores Hope

NEO CONS-Hardcore Elite (Abcess)
FLESHIES-Death Of A Peckerwood (from “Noise Ordinance,” Maximum Rocknroll)
NIGHT BIRDS-Landfill Land (Grave Mistake)
MIDNIGHT BOMBERS-Krypto Justice (Light Rail)
POPULAR SHAPES-Symmetrical Girl (On/On Switch)

HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE-Pound (Passport)
VOLCANO SUNS-Tree Stomp (from “Claws,” Throbbing Lobster)
NEATS-Sometimes (Ace of Hearts)
LIMBO RACE-There Goes Kafka (from “A Wicked Good Time, Vol. 2,” Modern Method)

TRACK 3

VIOLENT MINDS-Brutality (Parts Unknown)
KILL THE MAN WHO QUESTIONS-Your Backlash Against A PC Hysteria Is A Fucking Joke (Cheap Art)
TOTAL ABUSE-Scarred (Deranged)
MURDER-SUICIDE PACT-Sharp Tongue, Cold Shoulder (demo)
BRAIN HANDLE-Sentimental Men (No Way)
THUMBS-Ribbon Men (Adeline)

REALLY RED-Too Political? (CIA)
PART TIME CHRISTIANS-Case (Alternative Tentacles)
IGGY POP-I Snub You (Arista)
STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH-Kill Yourself (Megaforce)

BAD DADDIES-Not That Kind Of Girlfriend (CDR/Finch)
SEXUAL SUICIDE-White Shirt (United Riot)
LE FACE-Manic Depression (Dead Beat)
THE NURSE-Rirekyura (SS Recordings)
THE CRUSADE-Psychedelic Woman (from “Scum Of The Earth: The Complete Story,” Sound Stories)

TRACK 4

GANG GREEN-Selfish (Taang)
FAMILY DOG-Why Me (El Pocho Loco)
DFL-Society’s Pressure (Epitaph)
THE MOB-Step Forward (Mob Style)
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT-Poison Eye (Perfect Sound)
HOLLYWOOD-Jack Crap (Dead Beat)

GERM ATTAK-Fucking Nightmares (Loud Punk)
MUNDO MUERTO-Politicos Falsos (Que Punk?)
DAY CREEPER-Nervous Energy (Tic Tac Totally)
WIPERS-Up Front (Trap)
UNREST-Oils (Caroline)

PUBLIC ENEMY-Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Columbia)

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Sonic Overload 9/19/11

Back to our regular programming, more or less. I had to include the audio of Ron Paul at last week’s GOP teabagger, uh, tea party debate that was co-sponsored by CNN. The latter is lame enough. Way worse is the response Paul and a few shitheads in the audience gave to Wolf Blitzer’s hypothetical question about a 30 year old man who ends up in a coma without insurance. Also, I wish to hell I only had to pay $300 a month for my insurance. So it shouldn’t be too difficult to figure out the reason for the opening song. There’s no other way I can put it... fuck these people, the conservative politicians who are trying to outdo each other for sheer lunacy and their bloodthirsty, heartless minions. OK, I’m done...

Sonic Overload 9/19/11

TRACK 1

THE LEWD-Kill Yourself (Chuckie Boy)

YEAR ONE-Colony Collapse Disorder (from “Noise Ordinance,” Maximum Rocknroll)
CEREMONY-Nimrod’s Son (Bridge Nine)
NOTHING BUT ENEMIES-I’m Violent (Welfare)
POOR LILY-Pretty Little Uniform (self-released)
SSS-Laughing Leads To Crying (Earache)
TH’INBRED-The Shitpile (Alternative Tentacles)

LAMA-Rahaa (Johanna)
EYES-Don’t Talk To Me (from “What? Stuff,” Bomp)
NO SIDE-Usual Life (ACME)
PINK SWORDS-No Rock ‘n Roll (Gearhead)
SOCIETY DOG-Metropolitan Rush (Subterranean)
MARGINAL MAN-Missing Rungs (Dischord)

GERM ATTACK-Fuck You Homophobe (Loud Punk)
SHEGLANK’D SHOULDERS-Skate Assassin (Handsome Dan)
TEENAGE RAMPAGE-Not Enough (Handsome Dan)
NO PROBLEM-Debts (Handsome Dan)
SNFU-Cannibal Cafe (BYO)

TRACK 2

NIRVANA-Territorial Pissings (DGC)
UTI-Commodity (Schizoprhenic)
RATIONAL ANIMALS-Crumbling Buildings (Katorga Works)
IMPALERS-Mad Medicine (Todo Destruido)
DESTINO FINAL-Que Vas A Hacer? (La Vida Es Un Mus)

WARMERS-Red Light Runner (Dischord)
GIRLS AT OUR BEST-Getting Nowhere Fast (Vinyl Japan)
LEGAL WEAPON-War Babies (Arsenal)
WALL OF VOODOO-Back In Flesh (IRS)

SAINTS-No Time (Sire)
TEENGENERATE-Dressed In Black (Crypt)
TESTORS-Bad Attitude (Swami)
SUPERCHARGER-Lost Cause (Estrus)
DISTRACTORS-Don’t You Just Know It (Dime Store)

TRACK 3

OBLIVIANS-Kick Your Ass (Sympathy For The Record Industry)

SICK THINGS-Crystal Ballroom (Shock)
TRASHIES-Taz Tattoo (The Party’s Over)
LOGNHALSMOTTAGNINGEN-Va e Poangen (Yellow Mica)
LIDS-No Good (Rip Off)
SUBVERTS-Radiation Nation (Clandestine)

ARCTIC FLOWERS-Crusaders and Banshees (Inimical)
SOKEA PISTE-Vieraantuneet, Soputuneet (Tuska & Ahdistus)
RANK/XEROX-Helpless (Make A Mess)
NATIVE TONGUE-Bit Part (Modern Method)

BOYS-First Time (Captain Oi)
WITCHES WITH DICKS-Your Job Does Not Rock Balls (Kiss of Death)
TRIGGERS-Patent Pending (Dirtnap)
SOVIETTES-Bottom’s Up, Bottommed Out (Adeline)

TRACK 4

GUN CLUB-Sex Beat (Ruby)
BRAIN CAR-Spiders (Reel Time)
MAKERS-Please Kill Yourself (Estrus)
MOORAT FINGERS-Hateball (Radio Blast)
DOW JONES & THE INDUSTRIALS-Can’t Stand The Midwest (Hardly Music)
DESCENDENTS-Bikeage (New Alliance)

THE CLEARER-Storm (Forge)
ALLOY-Unafraid (Bitzcore)
FLYING NUNS-Frank (Matador)
READ YELLOW-Read Yellow (Fenway)

PETE SHELLEY-Homosapien (Genetic)