Sonic Overload 12/29/14--The Best of 2014

When I say it’s end of a fucked-up year, to quote Embrace on one of the last songs played on this week’s show, I really mean it, this time. Still, no time to wallow. It was fun putting this show together. I look at it as the Sonic Overload All-Star game, in a way.

As I scan through the list, it’s a shame that some of the bands represented have broken up—Savageheads, Stoic Violence and Gas Rag, in particular, while Baja Blatz was described to me as a band with an “expiration date” and they were only together a short time this year.

On to 2015... another musical adventure awaits and hopefully the non-musical part of it won’t be so bumpy. Happy New Year!

Sonic Overload 12/29/14

TRACK 1

INMATES-Crustdust (Painkiller)

COMBAT ZONE-Untamed (Side Two)
Q-Shqvel (demo)
RASH-Standards (demo)
BORN WRONG-Two Faces (Schizophrenic)
BLOOD PRESSURE-The Facts (Beach Impediment)
REPLICA-Trust (Prank)

WHITE PAGES-No Hair No Flair (Can’t Stand Ya!)
ZEN FUCK-UPS-Fight (self-released)
BIG ZIT-Suhbuhb’n Varmun (Not Normal)
X-RAYS-Jameson Shot (Big Neck)
ASYLUM-Riding High (Vinyl Conflict)
NIHILIST CUNT-GMO (Suburban White Trash)

HOT TIP-Electric (demo)
NARCOMAN-PTA (Sorry State)
ARCTIC FLOWERS-Anamnesis (Deranged)
PERFECT PUSSY-Driver (Captured Tracks)
KURRAKÄ-Bailando (Trabuc)

TRACK 2

HANK WOOD AND THE HAMMERHEADS-The Ghost (Toxic State)
SLEAFORD MODS-Jolly Fucker (Ipecac)
FLEECE-Sheets (demo)
INSTITUTE-Giddy Boys (Katorga Works)

TERCER MUNDO-Ser Nosotros Mismos (Cintas Pepe)
PURA MANIA-1000 Años Despues Del Hombre (demo)
RAKTA-Tudo Que É Sólido (540)
MODERN DELUSION-Lost In Fear (Doomtown)

EX-CULT-Shattered Circle (Goner)
WHITE WHALE-Three (demo)
FACILITY MEN-Down In The Valley (demo)
SILVER SCREAMS-Infinite Mirror (self-released)

TRACK 3

GLUE-Enemy (Katorga Works/Video Disease)
GAG-Locker Room (Iron Lung)
LOWEST FORM-Some Horrible Bug (Iron Lung)
S.H.I.T.-Generation Shit (Lengua Armada)
FLACCID-Concrete (Nothing Is Real)
SUNSHINE WARD-Radioactive Chunks (from “Cream Of The Crop,” Best Before 84)

NUKES-Fascist Perverts (Man In Decline)
VALLEY BOYS-Copsucker (Ugly Pop)
OOZE-No Brrrn (Not Normal)
BEASTMAN-Heinous (demo)
LORETTAS-Fucked Up Things (self-released)
BAJA BLATZ-Joe Sly (demo)
FLYKILLS-The Lump (demo)
LUMPY & THE DUMPERS-I Lost My Mind (Space Ritual)

RASPBERRY BULBS-How The Strings Are Pulled (Blackest Ever Black)
DAVIDIANS-Bummer Tent (Deranged)
BRAIN F≠-Sicks (Sorry State/Grave Mistake)
BREAKOUT-Razor Wire (On–High)
KATHERINE-Nothing (demo)

TRACK 4

FARANG-If You’re Not Now, You Never Were (self-released)
ANIMAL MOTHER-Hate Fuck (demo)
SNOB-Harassed (self-released)
BAD DADDIES-You Ain’t Right (Negative Fun)
EEL-Combat Amputee Victim (Mind Cure/Konton Crasher)
GAS RAG-Body Bags (Beach Impediment)

A.D. SKINNER-On The Nod (demo)
ANCIENT FILTH-Forced Fed Freedom (self-released)
SAVAGEHEADS-Trained Killer (Twerp/X-Ploit)
STOIC VIOLENCE-Cut Down/Empty Inside (Video Disease)
GOOD THROB-Acid House (White Denim)
IVY-Antsy (Katorga Works)

EMBRACE-End Of A Year (Dischord)
SVT-New Year (415)

Sonic Overload on Stench Radio--Show #83, 12/24/14

Listen every Wednesday from 6 to 8 PM eastern on Stench Radio 

Sonic Overload on Stench Radio 12/24/14

FEAR-Fuck Christmas (Slash)

HARD SKIN-Ding Dong Merrily Oi Oi (TKO)

THE BUSINESS-Bollocks To Christmas (Harry May)

WRETCHED ONES-The Christmas Song (TKO)

WARDS-Santa’s Cadillac (self-released)

ALAN MILMAN SECT-Punk Rock X-mas (Bedazzled)

ANTI-HEROS-All Hail Santa (GMM)

IVY-Got No Instinct (Toxic State)

RASPBERRY BULBS-Light Surrounds Me (Blackest Ever Black)

FLYKILLS-Street Meat (demo)

ANIMAL MOTHER-Wine Bag Lady(eez) (demo)

A.D. SKINNER-Sex Pest (demo)

EEL-One Track Mind (Mind Cure)

MOTÖRHEAD-The Hammer (Mercury)

LEWIS BLACK-Xmas (Comedy Central)

KING DIAMOND-No Presents For Christmas (Roadracer)

BLOOD SAUSAGE-Fuck Santa, Fuck Christmas, Fuck You (from “Hardcore Holiday,” Essential Noise)

VENOM-Black XMas (Castle)

REVILERS-Winterland (from “Cashing In On Christmas, Volume 2,” Black Label)

BRAIN F≠-Dry (Sorry State/Grave Mistake)

GOOD THROB-Crab Walk (White Denim)

INSTITUTE-Salt (Sacred Bones)

BREAKOUT-Stab In The Dark (On-High)

FACILITY MEN-Fucked and Frozen (demo)

TERCER MUNDO-Caidos (Cintas Pepe)

CHUCK BERRY-Run Rudolph Run (Chess)

SONICS-Santa Claus (Norton)

YARD TRAUMA-Christmas Tyme (Baby) (from “A Midnight Christmas Mess,” Midnight)

BANTAM ROOSTER-Let’s Just Fuck For Christmas (From “X-Mas Surprise Package,” Flying Bomb)

SWINGIN NECKBREAKERS-Under The Christmas Tree (Norton)
SANTO & JOHNNY-Twistin’ Bells (Stardust)

SAVAGEHEADS-Wrong Side Of The Law (Twerp/XPloit)

FLACCID-Flaccid (Nothing Is Real)

GLUE-Opportunist (Katorga Works)

S.H.I.T.-Generation Shit (Lengua Armada)

STOIC VIOLENCE-Chained (Video Disease)

INMATES-Little Bitch (Painkiller)

BASEMENT 5-Last White Christmas (Island)

BEAT HAPPENING-Christmas (from “Mondo Stereo,” Tinnitus)

SERVOTRON-Christmas Day Of The Robot (Amphetamine Reptile)

PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS-Jingle Bells (Columbia)

MIDDLE CLASS-Out Of Vogue (Joke)

DOA-Fucked Up Ronnie (from “Rat Music For Rat People,” Go!)

RAMONES-53rd and 3rd (Sire)

ANTISEEN-Hippy Punk (Steel Cage)

STOOGES-Loose (Elektra)

DEVO-Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin’) (Warner Bros.)

DAMNED-There Ain’t No Sanity Clause (Emergo)

DICKIES-Silent Night (A&M)

THE CLAP-Christmas In A Body Bag (Fraud)

TVTV$-Daddy Drank Our Xmas Money (from “Punk Rock Christmas,” Rhino)

SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN-Merry Christmas, I Fucked Your Snowman (Tario)

Sonic Overload 12/22/14

Time for the holidays... whatever you celebrate or don’t celebrate. No War on Christmas here... one doesn’t exist anyway, despite what the assholes at Fox “News” tell you. I play a few sets of holiday favorites and I’m saving a fair amount for this Wednesday’s Stench Radio Christmas Eve show.

Next week—the Best of 2014... Happy Holidays!

Sonic Overload 12/22/14

TRACK 1

SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN-Merry Christmas, I Fucked Your Snowman (Tario)

TOM & BOOT BOYS-Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Pogo 77)
SCUZZ-Rudolf (self-released)
MHZ-Secret Santa (from “X-Mas Surprise Package #3,” Flying Bomb)
PORK GUYS-Fuck Xmas, Fuck You (self-released)
NUNSLAUGHTER-Deathlehem (Hells Headbangers)

Q-Cqp (demo)
TEENAGE CHAINSAW-Pissed Off (self-released)
CONEHEADS-Hack, Hack, Hack! (demo)
NICE GUYS-Free Slice (demo)
ENDLESS BUMMER-Ecstasy (In The Red)
BUCK BILOXI & THE FUCKS-I Got Kicked Out Of Shadowrun (Total Punk)
WILD BILLY CHILDISH & MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE-Joe Strummer’s Grave (Damaged Goods)

ORDEN MUNDIAL-Son Fantasmas (La Vida Es Un Mus)
PIG DNA-Leather Man (Nightrider)
SUNSHINE WARD-Ranch Hand (Hardware)
CLEANSING WAVE-Hellish Fever (Man In Decline)

TRACK 2

SACCHARINE TRUST-A Christmas Cry (from “Chunks,” SST)

DIDJITS-Under The Christmas Fish (Touch and Go)
MEANS-Die Hard (It’s Xmas) (Reptilian)
CIDER-Concrete (Painkiller)
LIP CREAM-From My Soul (Selfish)

BLANK SPELL-Vulgar Flowers (demo)
SNOB-Harassed (self-released)
NOTS-White Noise (Goner)
PERFECT PUSSY-Advance Upon The Real (Captured Tracks)
CADAVER EM TRANCE-Ritual (Nada Nada)

CHRISTMAS-Dig We Must (demo)
IUD-Charm (self-released)
TÉRAPI-Le Maraudeur (Etiquette Bleue)
EDITH NYLON-Avorton (CBS)

TRACK 3

LOWELL GEORGE & THE FACTORY-Candy Cane Madness (Rhino)
SONICS-Don’t Believe In Christmas (Norton)
FREAK OUTS-Santa Claus (from “The Funhouse Comp Thing,” Funhouse)
MISTREATERS-Santa Stole My Baby (from “X-Mas Surprise Package #4,” Flying Bomb)
LAZY COWGIRLS-Sock It To Me Santa (Bomp)
SNAP-HER-I Hate Christmas (New Red Archives)

CRIME DESIRE-Beyond The Void (Standards)
TRENCHES-Dying In Oakland (demo)
PRAG-Gas (La Vida Es Un Mus)
SPLASHIN’ SAFARI-Space Faces (demo)
SHIPWRECKED-Destroy (Crucial Response)
PUBLIC ENEMY-She Watch Channel Zero?! (Def Jam)

CONDEMNED TO DEATH-Dreams (GTA)
SLIME-Linke Speisser (Aggressive)
URBAN SAVAGE-Minimum Wage, Maximum Slave (Savage)
BUTTOCKS-Law and Order (Weird System)
WHO KILLED SPIKEY JACKET?-Police Truck (Total Fucker)

TRACK 4

RESIDENTS-Santa Dog (Ralph)
THE FALL-No Xmas for John Quays (IRS)
MYDOLLS-Christmas Day (CIA)
TEEN ANGELS-Jesus Is On My Side (Scooch Pooch)
SKULL KONTROL-Satan Is Jesus To Me (Touch and Go)

TOTAL DICKS-Overdraft (demo)
WRIGGLE-Leash (demo)
BAD AMERICAN-Doozer (Bad Recordings)
NUDES-Get Me (Inimical)
MUCH WORSE-Can’t Bullshit A Bullshitter (No Way)
ÄÄRITILA-Veriruusut (Partners In Crime)

MOTT THE HOOPLE-Death May Be Your Santa Claus (Atlantic)

Sonic Overload on Stench Radio--Show #82, 12/17/14

Listen every Wednesday from 6 to 8 PM eastern on Stench Radio. The show is shorter than usual this week due to my computer shutting down on me for about ten minutes.

Sonic Overload on Stench Radio 12/17/14

ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE-Snowman (WXYZ)

NUKES-Fascist Perverts (Man In Decline)

NARCOMAN-PTA (Sorry State)

VALLEY BOYS-Copsucker (Ugly Pop)

SKELETON PARTY-Human Astronaut (Punks Before Profits)

IN SCHOOL-Knocked Out (Kill Test)

RAD-Never Turn Your Back On A Mosh (Sacramento)

PURA MANIA-1000 Años Despues Del Hombre (demo)

CADAVER EM TRANSE-Take A Look (Nada Nada)

LOW LIFE-Dogging (RIP/Disinfect)

NOTS-Static (Goner)

VIOLENT APATHY-Hunger Strike (from “Charred Remains,” Radio Raheem)

UNITED MUTATION-Passout (DSI)

HEART ATTACK-God Is Dead (Broken)

LIFE SENTENCE-Figured It Out (Walkthrufyre)

RF7-57 Million People (Smoke Seven)

AMDI PETERSENS ARME-Alt Er Ved Det Samme (Kick ‘n’ Punch)

RETOX-A Funeral On Christmas Sunday (Ipecac)

FLEECE-Sheets (demo)

RANK/XEROX-Discipline (Make A Mess)

EX-CULT-Shattered Circle (Goner)

VIDEO-Make Me Bleed (Play Pinball)

CRUDDY-Incendiary (12XU)

THE PIST-Never Question (Elevator)

GOONS-Nation In Distress (Reptilian)

GUNS N’ ROSA PARKS-I Hate Assholes (self-released)

ALERT! ALERT!-Live Free Die (Cassette Kill)

SCARRED FOR LIFE-Born, Work, Die (from “Viva La Vinyl Vol. 3,” Dead Beat)

RESTARTS-System Error (Havoc)

IMPALERS-High Wired (540)

LOWEST FORM-Some Horrible Bug (Iron Lung)

SPERM-Atomized, Automatized, Homicide (demo)

PORD-What Are Tuesdays For? (Solar Flare)

MISSION OF BURMA-Red (Ace of Hearts)

LIMBO RACE-There Goes Kafka (from “A Wicked Good Time, Volume Two,” Modern Method)

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING-Insufficient Funds (Goner)

RAKTA-Tudo Que é Sólido (540)

WATERY LOVE-I’m A Skull (In The Red)

PUFFY AREOLAS-1982 (HoZac)

CREEM-Wasted Time (Katorga Works)

EPISODE-no title (self-released)

EMPTY VESSEL-Poison (Blind Spot)

SLEAFORD MODS-Tied Up In Nottz (Harbinger)

CONTAMINATORS-Past Life Dictator (Going Underground)

STAINS-Give Ireland Back To The Snakes (Gutterworst)

LEGIONAIRE’S DISEASE-I’d Rather See You Dead (Lunar)

THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS-RnR Hall Of Fame (Onion)

ABORTION SQUAD-Youth Attack (demo)

NEOS-Jungle Beat (Schizophrenic)

THE WHITE LIE-Postcard From Dachau (from “Rat Music For Rat People Vol. 2,” CD Presents)

THE PACK-King Of Kings (Rough Trade)