Monday, July 13, 2026

Sonic Overload 6/29/26--Salute To America, 250th anniversary edition

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PART 1

BROTHER INFERIOR-Land of the Free (Sensual Underground Ministries)

NAKED RAYGUN-Home of the Brave (Homestead)
HÜSKER DÜ-In A Free Land (Reflex)
THE FREEZE-American Town (Modern Method)
PEDESTRIANS-American Town (demo)
PEOPLE’S TEMPLE-Patriotic & Brain Dead (Roachleg)

PHAGOCYTE-I Am An American (demo)
EXPERT PIE-No One Is Treading On You (self-released)
S.L.I.P.-There’s No Hope For The U.S.A. (Sorry State)
MAD DOG-National Anthem (demo)
THE BUG-American Hate (demo)
NAZTI SKINZ-Defending Liberty (Youth Attack)

FAGGOT-Fuck You America (Selfish Satan)
EXTERMINATORS-Patriotic American (Slope)
THE CLASH-I’m So Bored With The USA (CBS)
ANAL CUNT-American Woman (Earache)
MELT-BANANA-Surfin’ USA (Tzadik)

PART 2

MELEE-Fuck You To The Red White and Blue (from “DIY or Die,” Suburban Voice)
7 SECONDS-Fuck Your Amerika (from “Not So Quiet On The Western Front,” Alternative Tentacles)
VICIOUS CIRCLE-You’re An American (from “RIX-Core,” Atomic Action)
PTL KLUB-Constitutional Monarchy (F.OA.D.)
WHIPPING BOY-America Must Die (GTA)
PATRIOTS-Land of the Free (Another Lousy Record)
ECONOCHRIST-Fuck Your American Dream (Truant)
FU’S-My America (X-Claim)

L.O.T.I.O.N.-Boots on the Ground (Toxic State)
SUICIDE-Rocket USA (Red Star)
SPECIAL INTEREST-The State, The Industry, The Community & Her Lover (Raw Sugar)

ART OBJECT-USANRK (Constant Motion)
PAGANS-Dead End America (Drome)
MC5-American Ruse (Atlantic)
APPLIANCES-SFB-Living In America (SFB)

PART 3

BALANCE OF TERROR-This Is Nowhere (Paralogy) in memory of Bryan Livov 
WRECKAGE-White House Spokesperson (Busted Heads)
KEGCHARGE-God Bless America (Hardcore Holocaust)
ANCIENT FILTH-This American Lie (self-released)
MALE NURSES-Red. White. Blue (Deranged)
GOONS-USA (Torque)
JOHN THE BAKER AND THE MALNOURISHED-Fuck The Fascist USA (Crucial)

D.I.-Living In The USA (Reject)
FRITES MODERN-USA (Boy Bensdorp Platen)
SOCIAL UNREST-Red, White and Blue (Libertine)

THOSE UNKNOWN-Cries of a Nation (TKO)
CHOKING VICTIM-Hate Yer State (Hellcat)
SWINDLE-USA (Grilled Cheese)
MAN AFRAID-Stars and Stripes Forever (Half-Mast)
BRIEFS-We Americans (Strange Club)

PART 4

GEORGE CARLIN-God Bless America (Eardrum)
TOXIC REASONS-God Bless America (T-reason)

BROKEN PRAYER-National Cum (Sorry State)
TERROR VISIONS-Death In America (Goner)
HO99O9-Hated In Amerika (self-released)
ISS-Barron Wasteland (Sorry State)
GENE-America Was Never Great (demo)
DJ FREAK-God Damn America (Serioius 21)

CIRCLE JERKS-Stars and Stripes (Trust)
REAGAN YOUTH-USA (Freeway Ent.)
SIN 34-American America (PNV)
SCREAM-U.Suck.A/We’re Fed Up (Dischord)
ARTICLES OF FAITH-American Dreams (Reflex)
DILLINGER FOUR-The Great American Going Out Of Business Sale (Hopeless)

KIM WILDE-Kids In America (EMI America)

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Sonic Overload 6/22/26

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PART 1

SWINGERS-Counting The Beat (Backstreet)

GRAY MATTER-Chutes and Ladders (Dischord)
MIDDLE CLASS-Politics (Body and Soul) (from “The Well,” Independent Project)
TUBERS-High Tide It’s Inside (No Idea)
BRAINIAC-Ride (Grass)
MAN OR ASTRO MAN-Lo Batt. (Touch and Go)

SWEEPING PROMISES-Cocoon (Sub Pop)
SNIFFANY & THE NITS-Best Of Luck (Gob Nation)
GENTILESKY-Money Making (Slovenly)
DISPLAY HOMES-Precursor (ETT)

UNDERDOG-Say It To My Face (New Beginning)
INFEST-Where’s The Unity? (Deep Six/Draw Blank)
ROLLINS BAND-You Look At You (2.13.61)
LEFT INSANE-Neck Deep (Nemesis)

PART 2

KILLING JOKE-Tension (EG)
YELLO-The Evening’s Young (Polygram)
COLIN NEWMAN-Don’t Bring Reminders (Beggars Banquet)

SNOBS-Control (My War)
PINKEYE-Thaco (Slasher)
MAD MEN-The Awakening (demo)
SCHOOL JERKS-Outcast (Grave Mistake/Bad Vibrations)
BIG BLEACH-Bleacherz (More Power)
STOIC VIOLENCE-Chained (Video Disease)
FLACCID-Concrete (demo)
AGARI-Roadkill (demo)

STARZ-Night Crawler (Capitol)
RED CROSS-Kill Someone You Hate (Smoke 7)
GO-GO’S-We Got The Beat (Stiff)
SLAMMIN’ WATUSIS-King of Cha-Cha (Epic)

PART 3

WANTED-Smoking Gun (demo)
PIG RIDES-Nothing Left (Color and Time Tonight)
HEZ-Joula Personal (Under The Gun)
LAND OF WOLVES-Worth Has Won Out (self-released)
GOOD TOUCH-All Together (Coin Toss)
VIC BONDI AND HIS ISSUES-Sun God (Alternative Tentacles)

NOMEANSNO-And That’s Sad (Alternative Tentacles)
UPRIGHT FORMS-Mission (SkinGraft)

TUXEDOMOON-What Use? (Ralph)
LOS MICROWAVES-Time To Get Up (Posh Boy)
PLASTIC BERTRAND-Super Cool (Mode)

PART 4

VACUUM REBUILDERS-Cinnapunke (Pee Blood)
MONOTONY-Monotony (Faux Disc)
UNNATURAL HELPERS-My Brother’s Been Kissin’ My Girlfriend (from “Babyhead,” S-S)
CUNTZ-Nah Man (Homeless)
SCHUND-Chaos (Höhnie)
L.O.T.I.O.N. MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION-Machine Hallucinations/Celebrate The Suffering (Static Shock)

APB-Chain Reaction (Oily)
SKIDS-Open Sound (Virgin)
TV21-Something’s Wrong (Deram)
REZILLOS-Cold Wars (Sire)
SIMPLE MINDS-Tonight (MindMood)

SLAMBOOK-Hollywood Ten (Lorem Ipsum)

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Sonic Overload 6/15/26

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PART 1

BATTERY-Go Back To The Gym (Soulforce)

TOWER OF ONE-Fog Of War (Barely Fluent)
SNEER-Cattle Prod (Crew Cuts)
PIG RIDES-I Want Out (Color and Time Tonight)
SOGA-Mi Cadaver (Iron Lung)
GROTTO-Dark Arts (Blow Blood)
RE-TOX A.D.-Heel (Skinwalker)

XV-Tasmanian Angels (Gingko)
MENGZHUMIENG-I Hate Internet (Syf)
OHYDA-Koniec Swaita (from “Wspolna Sprawa,” Syf)
FASHION PIMPS & THE GLAMAZONS-Free World (Feel It)

GOATS-Burn The Flag (Columbia)
CONSOLIDATED-Fight The Fascists (Nettwerk)

PART 2

SYSTEMATIC DEATH-Underage (Selfish)
CRUDE-Just Go Go Ahead (HG Fact)
RAW DISTRACTIONS-Wake Up (La Vida Es Un Mus)
KVOTERINGEN-Fettet Har Avgått, Vargen Är Lös (Havoc)
SEPTIC DEATH-Negative Threat (Hato De Todo)
EL DOPA-Wrong End Of The Gun (East Bay Menace)

MH(A)OL-IBS (Merge)
PUBLIC FIGURES-Repeat It (self-released)
STATION MODEL VIOLENCE-Drip Away (Static Shock)
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING-Bop (Suppression)
DISPLAY HOMES-CCTV (ETT)

DICKHEADS-Squad Leader (Khomeini)
BAD MANNERS-Lip Up Fatty (MCA)
THE BEAT-Click Click (Sire)
SKATALITES-Fidel Castro (Studio One)

PART 3

DESPISED-Probation (Kangaroo)
THE POGO-Police War (Loud Punk)
I MANIACI-Clone My Cock (Loud Punk)
NITAD-Ge Mig, Ge Mig (Deranged)
JANITOR-Nations On Fire (Agro-Wax)
LIPKICK-To Cope (Kink)

RED DONS-Pieces (Deranged)
THE ESTRANGED-Fast Train (Black Water)
HOT SNAKES-Past Lives (SFTRI)

POISON IDEA-Pure Hate (Fatal Erection) in memory of Malcolm Conover 
IMPERIALIST PIGS-Cherub Face (Fatal Erection)
REJECTORS-Anti-Patriot (Fatal Erection)
FINAL WARNING-I Quit (from “Drinking Is Great,” Fatal Erection)
NO THANKS-Fuck Everything (Lengua Armada)
URBN DK-Future Primitive (Beer City)

PART 4

SWIRLIES-Didn’t Understand (Slumberland)
LYNYRD’S INNARDS-Houston, We Have A Problem (Harmless)
J CHURCH-Waiting On The Ground (Honey Bear)
NILS-Fountains (Psyche-Industry)
DENTS-Big Mistake (demo)

CHRIS SPEDDING-Pogo Dancing (RAK)
ZEROS-Hungry (from “Streets,” Beggars Banquet)
DRONES-Lookalikes (Get Back)
USERS-I’m In Love With Today (Raw)
VILETONES-Rebel (Vile)
BLADES-How Do You Know? (Gummopunx)

DOGMATICS-Hardcore Rules (Homestead) 

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Sonic Overload 6/8/26

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PART 1 

CRIME-Frustration (Swami)

G.L.O.S.S.-G.L.O.S.S. (We’re From The Future) (Nervous Nelly/Total Negativity)
LIMP WRIST-Limp Wrist vs. Dr. Laura (Lengua Armada)
CLITERATI-Trans Is Beautiful (Tankcrimes)
MY REVENGE-Gay Marriage Is Better Than Your Marriage (Thorp)
WANTED-Gay Panic (demo)
SCHENECTAVOIDZ-Always Say Gay (demo)
LOCUST-Captain Gaydar, It’s Time To Check Your Clock Again (Anti-)
PROPAGHANDI-Homophobes Are Just Pissed ‘Cause They Can’t Get Laid (from “Fat Music For Fat People,” Fat)

SUICIDE COMMANDOS-Shock Appeal/Attacking The Beat (Blank) in memory of Steve Almaas 
SUICIDE COMMANDOS-Complicated Fun (from “Big Hits Of Mid-America Volume Three,” Twin/Tone)
SUBURBS-Chemistry Set (Twin/Tone)
CLOVERBOTTOM-Cottage Cheesheads (Toolbox)

SEX DWARF-Makt , Krig, Svält, Död (Armageddon)
FLOWER-Divided (Profane Existence)
FRENZY-Urban Alienation (Distort Reality)
AFTER THE BOMBS-Life In Fear (Sjakk Matt Plater)
MÖRPHEME-Hazamaa (Prank)

PART 2

DOA-The Enemy (Friends)
DOA-The Prisoner (Quintessence)
MINOR THREAT-Filler (Dischord)
BLACK FLAG-I’ve Heard It Before (SST)
DAG NASTY-Can I Say (Dischord)

G.U.N.-Friday Night Stake Out (Poison Vision)
RAW HEADS-Demolition (Poison Vision)
SCREAMING FIST-Moronada (Convulse)
SNEER-Brain Dead (Crew Cuts)
EXECUTION STYLE-Hell At Capacity (self-released)
EX PARENTS-Dimwit (Council)

B-MOVIE-Marilyn Dreams (Deram)
STEVES-Making Time (Iron Lung)
NEATS-Six (from “Propeller Product,” Propeller)
NATIVE TONGUE-Speaking In Captions (Détente)

PART 3

FITNESS WOMXN-Easy (Sorry State)
NATURAL CAUSES-Styrene (from “American Idylls,” Sorry State)
VOLT-Testbild (In The Red)

HELMET AND HOUSE OF PAIN-Just Another Victim (Epic)
YOUNG GODS-TV Sky (Play It Again Sam)
POINT LINE PLANE-Death Dance 2000 (SkinGraft)

DEAN DIRG-Be Smart Be Quick (Six Feet Under)
HENRY FIAT’S OPEN SORE-HFOS (Rocknroll Blitzkrieg)
UV RAYS-Failed Generations (Feral Kid)
CATHOLIC SPRAY-Drift With Satan (Born Bad)
CRUDDY-My Level (Basement Scream/Let’s Pretend)
PROBLEM ADDICT-It’s A Joke (self-released)

PART 4

KATHERINE-As If (demo)
TRAUMA HARNESS-Flag Smasher (Rat King/Lumpy)
OPTION-The Front Page (demo)
BEAST FIEND-Transparent (demo)

PAILHEAD-I Will Refuse (Wax Trax)
CHILDREN ON STUN-Hollow (Cleopatra)
SEDATIVES-Guilty (Deranged)
SIGNAL LOST-Blueprint For Babylon (Prank)

SPECIALS-Ghost Town (Chrysalis)

PART 5—A TRIBUTE TO HENK SMIT FROM KANGAROO RECORDS

(all records released or co-released on Kangaroo, along with Way Back When or Even Worse on some of them)

OUT COLD-Like Clockwork
DIRECT CONTROL-Religious Rampage
CARDIAC ARREST-Fed Up Burnt Out
DEAD NATION-Battle Scarred
RAT BASTARDS-Economic Segregation
SOCIALCIDE-S.D.A.

NEIGHBORS-The End of Mankind
AVO-Solutions
TOE TO TOE-No Allegiance
RUNNAMUCKS-The Take 
DEATHTOLL-My Advice
BURY THE LIVING-Made With Pride

AGENT ORANGE-Your Mother Sucks Cocks In Hell 
ROCKS-Guts 
STRUNG UP-Death By Cop 
STREET TRASH-Hurt The Children 
CAREER SUICIDE-Jonzo’s Leaking Radiation

OFFENDERS-I Hate Myself