Sonic Overload 1/21/13

While I mourn the New England Patriots’ loss at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens, it’s time to press ahead with this week’s Sonic Overload. It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day and I begin this week’s show with a new clip taken from an interview on NBC’s Frank McGee Report a bit under a year before Dr. King’s assassination. As with the previous clips I’ve used, it shows how King’s activism reached beyond desegregation and civil rights to encompass a wider-ranging economic ideology, as well as vehement opposition to the Vietnam War. I hope I articulated that at least somewhat coherently at the top of the show. It always astounds me when right wingers try to make the claim that King was conservative. It’s mind-boggling. If anything, King was a democratic socialist and he’d be appalled at the Republican Party’s agenda. He’d just as likely be disappointed with or at least critical of Obama, with his own aggressive foreign policy, attack on civil liberties and inability (so far) to do much about the ever-widening gulf between the haves and have nots. I haven’t paid much attention to Obama’s inauguration today—I was busy working on the show but heard he quoted King. I hope Obama will fully embrace what King stood for. But call me a cynic—I’m not holding my breath.

Sonic Overload 1/21/13

TRACK 1

BLIGHT-The Dream Was Dead (Touch & Go)

SOCIETY NURSE-Self Made Man (Iron Lung)
SLICES-Medusa (Iron Lung)
NEEDLES-Desperacion (Iron Lung)
DUSTHEADS-Altered States (Don Giovanni)
FEJLFIX-Tvivl I Dit Sind (Spaghetti Cassetti)

JOEL GRIND-Vengeance Spell (self-released)
PARASYTIC-Ire Of War (Relapse)
BLANK STARE-White Hell (Third Party)
PRISONER ABUSE-Worst Intentions (Painkiller)
RAISE CAIN-Sense Of Fear (Amok)
MAD CONFLUX-Bloody Character (from “Virus,” Jungle Hop)

ROLLERBALL-Savage Eyes (CNR)
LOST KIDS-Cola Freaks (from “Bloodstains Across Europe”)
PORCELAIN FOREHEAD-Human Touch (Corpus Callosum)
C.R.A.S.H.-Cult Merch (Post Present Medium)
WHITE FANGS-Sick & Sad (Azbin)

TRACK 2

ARTICLES OF FAITH-Bad Attitude (Version Sound)
TEEN IDLES-Fiorucci Nightmare (Dischord)
REPOS-Go Faster (Youth Attack)
PANDAMONIUM-Bring That Shit (demo)
TIPPER’S GORE-Closed Your Mind (Flat Black)
VITAMIN X-About To Crack (Tankcrimes)
COLD SHOULDER-Not For Sale (Cowabunga)

CYNICS-Way It’s Gonna Be (Get Hip)
VKTMS-White Girl (Broken)
NEIGHBORHOOD BRATS-Throw Away Girl (Modern Action)
LA URSS-Hasta Fin De Existiencas (La Corporacion)
GAY ANNIVERSARY-Dear Killer (Slovenly)
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.-D.U.M.B. (Doomtown Sounds/Static Age)

SOFT BOYS-I Wanna Destroy You (Matador)
THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY-Lottery Dad (Snax)
THAT PETROL EMOTION-Can’t Stop (Demon)

TRACK 3

TERVEET KADET-Viimeinen Naula (Kämäset Levyt)
RAYGUN-Ahne Poliitikko (Kämäset Levyt)
ANTIKEHO-RAY (from “Russia Bombs Finland,” Propaganda)
BANNLYST-50 Døde Barn (X-Port)
SVART FRAMTID-17 Milliarder (X-Port)
CITY X-Avis (Grand Theft Audio)
7 SECONDS-I Have A Dream (BYO)

BLACK BUG-Midnight (XVII)
FNU RONNIES-Cut To Ribbons (Load)
SYNTHETIC ID-No Context (1-2-3-4, Go!)
HYGIENE-Asbestosi (from “State Funeral,” Artcore)
FOLDED SHIRT-Folded Shirt (Proud To Be Idiot)

SUBURBAN STUDS-No Faith (Pogo)
TIGHTS-Howard Hughes (Cherry Red)
SPIZZENERGI-Where’s Captain Kirk? (Rough Trade)
KLARK KENT-Don’t Care (IRS)

TRACK 4

RED DONS-Pieces (Deranged)
WEEKEND-Age Class (Slumberland)
OUT ON A LIMB-Peking Man (Taken By Surprise)
DOGMATIC ELEMENT-Just Friends (from “Strange Passion,” Cache Cache)

MEGA CITY FOUR-Start (Decoy)
NILS-I Am The Wolf (Siegfried)
ARRIVALS-Analee (Thick)
SOVIETTES-Bottom’s Up, Bottomed Out (Adeline)
PULSES-Scandal (Dirtnap)
KICKING SPIT-Way Out (Tankcrimes)

AU PAIRS-Come Again (Castle)\