Sonic Overload 2/22/16

My friend Shawn Wenzel passed away last week after a long battle with colon cancer. He was only 40 and left behind two young sons. I’d never had the pleasure of meeting Shawn in person but he was a wonderful friend, a caring and selfless individual who often put other people’s difficulties ahead of his own. Ellen and I were going through some rough times last year and he was supportive in so many ways. This week’s show is dedicated to him, as was last Wednesday’s on Stench Radio. For both shows, I played some of his favorite music, particularly bands from his home state of Ohio. R.I.P. Shawn and, as always, fuck cancer!

This week’s show is also dedicated to Frances Sokolov Sansom, better known as Poison Girls founder/guitarist/vocalist Vi Subversa, who passed away last week at 80. She started the band when in her early 40s, and could easily lay claim to being the oldest punk performer. To put it in perspective, someone said to me that Little Richard was the first punk. I don’t think that’s really the case but she was less than three years younger than him. Incidentally, she had one son and one daughter, not two sons, as I said on the show. Her son Pete Fender was in the band with her...

Sonic Overload 2/22/16

TRACK 1

JUDGE-The Storm (Revelation)

FUMIGADOS-Vida Prestada (Verdugo)
TOZCOS-Pasitos De Muerte (Verdrugo)
THE AVERSE-No Future (demo)
LATEX-Nothing To Say (World Gone Mad)
GOD EQUALS GENOCIDE-Wasting Time (Razorcake/Dirt Cult)
BRONXXX-Team Is Shit (Beer City)

HATED YOUTH-Hardcore Rules (Burrito)
SQUIRM-Go Die (from “The Big Apple—Rotten To The Core,” Big City)
NEOS-Conscripts (Ratcage)
ANTIDOTE-Real Deal (Antidote)
SUBURBAN MUTILATION-I Reject U (Beer City)
FANG-With Friends Like You (Boner)
REBEL TRUTH-Trickle Down (GTA)

MODERN NEEDS-Not Cool (self-released)
COLD MEAT-Nausea (demo)
UGLY GIRL-Commas (demo)
DAUÕFLIN-Mannvera (demo)
MEMORY HOLE-Chained To Life (demo)

TRACK 2

L.O.T.I.O.N.-Goodbye Humans (Toxic State)
NURSE-Pressure (self-released)
HALSHUG-Blodets Bånd (D-Takt & Råpunk)
TOTAL ABUSE-Excluded (Deranged)
SHELLAC-Crow (Touch and Go)

RINGS-Third Generation (MCA)
JAMES-Four Point Restraints (Varulven)
UZI-Criminal Child (Homestead)
THEATRE OF HATE-Legion (SS Label)
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK-Red Frame/White Light (Virgin)

TRACK 3

SCHOOL JERKS-Slums of the Future (Bad Vibrations)
TERMINAL STATE-Sick (Deranged)
BIRTH DEFORMITIES-I Messed Up (Cowabunga)
FUNERAL SHOCK-California’s Dead (Tankcrimes)
UNDER PRESSURE-Black Bile (Fashionable Idiots)
BL’AST-Break It Down (Wishingwell)

JERRY’S KIDS-Raise The Curtain (Taang)
FLAG OF DEMOCRACY-Guimo’s Theme (Buy Our Records)
SNITCHES GET STITCHES-Let It Stack (Empty)
HALLRAKER-Twenty On One (Sike)

S/CKS-Cut Bait (Mind Cure)
TEEN ARCHER-Golden Years (Exo)
REPORTS-Pick A Side (Ride The Snake)
THE MEN-Please Don’t Go Away (Sacred Bones)

TRACK 4

POISON GIRLS-Crisis (Crass) in memory of Vi Subversa
MARCH VIOLETS-Snake Dance (Rebirth)
KILLING JOKE-Pssyche (Malicious Damage)

JOY DIVISION-Warsaw (Factory)
H100S-Brown Sugar (Profane Existence East)
CIDER-You’re Not A Part Of Us (Painkiller)
INTEGRITY-Systems Overload (Victory)
SLAPSHOT-Might Makes Right (Taang)

SUPERCHUNK-Lying In State (Merge)