Friday, May 30, 2008

Customers-Shut up! (we're dead)-(2007)



Putain cette fois-ci Customers c’est vraiment fini! Le quatuor parisien s’est séparé début 2007 pour divergences internes comme on dit poliment. Le rideau semble être définitivement tombé sur leur chouette hardcore vieille école. Pour nous consoler de cette trop rapide séparation Customers propose leurs dix derniers titres sous la forme d’une troisième démo superbement présentée et mise en page par Stef du génial fanzine Rad Party…qui est aussi le chanteur du combo. Pour ce troisième et dernier effort discographique Customers poursuit sur la lancée de sa dernière démo qui laissait place à quelques plans mi tempo dans une salve de hardcore américain début 80’s de haute tenue. Le son clair caractéristique de la guitare, l’approche délibérément roots de l’ensemble, le chant toujours à la limite de la rupture (ce qui en fait tout son charme), l’énergie punk…tous les principaux éléments de leur musique on les retrouve en grande forme pour cette dernière danse, pour ce dernier bal, leur dernière virée. Je dirais juste que le groupe n’a jamais eu un aussi bon son que lors de cet enregistrement, que le mix est particulièrement réussi et que les compos alternent entre les essais mi tempos de la deuxième démo et la furie hardcore pur jus de la première. On a même droit à une reprise personnalisée de Minor Threat pour clôturer la galette de la plus belle des manières. La boucle est bouclée ! Chers Customers…merci pour tout !!

I have no clue what that says.
Basically if you like Regulations, Amdi Petersens Armi, Vicious, Masshysteri or shit like that you'll dig these French dudes.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Lords of Light-Self Titled (I think)



While it's not as balls-out weird as the album that was released by Life Is Abuse last year, this eight-song 7" from the Seattle thrashcore band Lords Of Light (who have connections with eco-black metallers Wolves In The Throne Room) is still one of the quirkier EP's to have been issued on 625 Thrash. Presented in a goofy, brightly colored record sleeve that is illustrated with crudely drawn cartoons of cosmic superheros doing battle with assorted evil robots, this EP rips from start to finish with a hyperfast hardcore style that falls somewhere in between a cracked-out Infest and a kind of SST Records vibe that's hard for me to put my finger on. Lords Of Light can attribute some of the gnarliness of their sound to their pared-back instrumentation, made up of only drums, baritone guitar, and vocals. But it also sounds like these guys have been listening to a lot of art damaged hardcore and noisy post punk, an ineffable element that doesn't make them sound like any other band. You could probably draW some comparisons between LOL and Iron Lung due to the bass-heavy brutalness of their Infest worship, but these guys are infinitely more freaked out, setting up songs with jangly rock riffs and weird jaunty melodies, total vocal freakouts and some other sounds that you don't normally hear on a record this freaking fast.

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

BxUxSxHx-New American Century



Brazilian political thrashers who combine tinges of 60's and 70's rock & punk with straight ahead 80s Brazilian heavy hc/thrash! It's a twisted musical brew that will get you into the circle pit. Lyrics in Portuguese & English.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Knuckle Scraper-Demo-lition (2007)

Texas powerviolence dudes.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Bad Dirty Hate-Self Titled 7"

I asked for requests and someone requested I post something bad for a change so here you go:



DEBUT 7" FROM THIS BAND BASED IN OSAKA, JAPAN. 7 TRACKS, WITH 4 BEING FROM THEIR 2006 DEMO. FAST PACED THRASHCORE NOT UNLIKE GAUZE AND SIMILAR ILK.

This 7" rips!
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Saturday, May 3, 2008

The Sluts-12" of Sluts Ep 1982



I don't really know a whole lot about this band except they were a hardcore punk band from New Orleans that existed in the early 80's.

I don't wanna be your friend audio sample.

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Friday, May 2, 2008

any request?

I have lots of records so i may have something you're looking for.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Paintbox-Earth Sports Ball Tournament



Here is a band that gets better and better. Starting with their self-titled 7" to their CD titled "Singing Shouting Crying" to the earth-shattering "The Door" / "Provided Railroad" 7". The progression from the first to the current amazes me on how much a band can improve and continue to grow while not staying within their formula. The last 7", including the current release, has moments of a spaghetti western mixed with a blend of old school Japancore with some metal overtones. An absolute enjoyable listen. The songs have melody and rage while they continue to search to find new elements to introduce. They bring in horns, acoustic guitar and harmonica at moments to add more texture to their music. If you have been following the Japanese music scene, you know that these guys are heavy hitters. (Razorcake)

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Lycanthropy / Say why split



Two Super fast powerviolence-grind-fastcore whatever bands from the Czech Replublic

Lycanthropy myspace

Say Why myspace

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Monday, April 21, 2008

The Suspicions-Self Titled Lp



Influenced equally by 70's garage punks like DMZ and the Scientists and unlikely pop heroes such as Rick Springfield and Joe Jackson, Seattle's the Suspicions strip both genres down to raw jangly riffs and catchy, sing-along choruses. Formed in early 2004, the group consists of Karen Mitchell on guitar and vocals, Bryan Standridge on bass, both formerly of the Knock-Ups from San Francisco, and Boom Boom Records alum (and current Fe Fi Fo Fum) Nick Larson on drums.

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Instangd-Mitt svar på ingenting



Sweden's Instängd are a new band featuring members of Regulations and Tristess, but they don't sound anything like the melodic punk of those bands. On Mitt Svar På Ingenting, Instängd take as their main influence old, barbaric Scandinavian punk like Headcleaners / Huvudtvätt, Missbrukarna, or S.O.D. (the Swedish one, not the one from New York). If you need a less obscure comparison, Urban Waste would make a good reference point since this has a completely blown-out, blistering guitar sound and catchy, punk-as-shit vocals. Needless to say, this six-song rager destroys everything in its path. (Sorry State Records)

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

NK6-Keep on keeping on



Hailing from Japan, NK 6 dish out nine blasts of hard hitting hardcore. The style is pretty classic Japanese thrash with a bit of melody and a crazed approach (would you expect anything less?!). Complete GAUZE worship at work and just so happens that Fugu from Gauze produced this little gem.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Epicycle-Teenage Suicide



A bunch of young kids (15 to 18 years old) from Chicago released an album and three great singles on their own label Cirkle records between 1979-81.

This is what the terminal boredom nerds had to say about it:
Probably the first essential Rave-Up reish since the Penetrators' "Kings of Basement Rock" LP. Late '70s Chicago masters of hard pop/punk/r'n'r come out blazing with the comped "You're Not Gonna Get It" and parlay it into a number of even better tunes, most notably the Damned-soaked "Underground" and the epic/anthemic "Hardcore Punk." "Radical Attitude," aside from boasting one of the greatest song titles ever, mines Boys-ish balladry and features Andew Ellis Clark's proclamation that he is, ahem, a "niggerwhitehonkeyjew, all wrapped in one." Retarded.
For fans of KBD/Bloodstains type shit.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Observers-So whats left now



Melancholy singalong punk. Combines the darker and more experimental aspects of bands like the Dead Kennedys and WARSAW & other late 70’s UK art punk with the anthemic choruses of LA’s Youth Brigade yet sounding nothing like any of those bands. Put these guys on a bill with the Stitches, Geisha Girls, Manikin and the Distraction and the art punks will go nuts!

Myspace

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also check out:

The Speds

Pre-Observers, some of these songs ended up being on Observers records.

Red Dons

Born from the ashes of the Observers. Same songs, new name.

"New band featuring Doug from the Observers and Justin from the Clorox Girls doing anthemic punk similar to where the Observers left off. Expect a 7” in late February and some touring in 2007.

Here's a shitty photo I took of Red Dons playing at a bar last year:



Clorox Girls played too:



The Revisions

In 2006, Justin Maurer of the Clorox Girls asked Douglas Burns of the Observers and Red Dons to perform an acoustic set at one of Maurer’s book readings for, Don’t You Take Your Life. Burns, along with fellow Red Dons members Hajji Husayn and Derek Skokan, adapted songs he wrote while in the Observers and Speds into an acoustic format for the set. These adaptations proved to be popular amongst the group’s friends and they were encouraged to continue performing. That is how the Revisions formed.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Any you jerks have any request?

Maybe some Pearl jam or something.
Speak up

Monday, March 31, 2008

Wrangler Brutes-Self titled Cassette + Zulu Lp.







Sweet artwork dudes



Formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., Wrangler Brutes released a cassette, a 7" record and one full-length LP before breaking up in December of 2004. Featuring Sam McPheeters (Born Against), Andy Coronado, Cundo Si Murad, and Brooks Headley, the band sold over 1,000 copies of their self-released, self-titled cassette in 9 months before recording their debut album Zulu in May of 2004 with Steve Albini, which featured Chris Thomson (of Monorchid and Circus Lupus fame), as well as Circle Jerks' Keith Morris on back up vocals. In Japan, at the end of a lengthy tour, McPheeters bowed out and was replaced for the band's last US show by Dean Spunt of the band Wives.

The band was known for somewhat confrontational, hectic live performances which were heralded by their biggest fans as a return to the artsy yet entertaining briskness of early Los Angeles hardcore punk. McPheeters' sense of humor dominated their presence as a live act; his patter, alternately caustic and cryptic, was a major aspect of these shows. On their first tour, their set ended with noted history buff McPheeters donning a wig and reciting a dramatic monologue taken from the closing scene of act 1 of Shakespeare's Henry V.

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Wives-Erect The Youth Problem



Band creation myths don't get much weirder or better than this: according to legend, Wives singer Dean Spunt launched his own label, Post-Present Medium, and financed his band's first EP using the large settlement he scored following a traffic accident with one of the Backstreet Boys. If the fact that blow-dried creampuff Nick Carter's musical career is inexorably linked with Spunt's spastic, minimal no-wave doesn't prove that God does indeed have a sick sense of humor, it's unlikely that anything else will.

Wives trade in a cramped, nervous fury that bubbles just below the surface of their short, scabrous eardrum assaults. A collision of detuned guitars, busted drums and Spunt's distorted, Albini-esque wails completes a mental image of open mic night in the psych ward. Wives also recall the feral stompings of prime Big Black and Black Flag -- the period when both bands scored high on unfocused rage and significantly lower on technical skill and actual songs (only four of these 14 tracks clock in at over two minutes; most quickly burn out or collapse under their own weight. Erect the Youth Problem is a loud, vicious, chaotic mess (which is entirely the point), but in this business, that's often more than enough.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Nothing my love can't do for you baby!

I like how the last 2 records posted match the layout of the page

Good job me!

The Drags-Stop Rock and Roll (1997)



OK trashhounds, let the headaches begin 'cause Albuquerque's truncaters of trash THE DRAGS have spewed forth a ragged chunk of completely unrestrained lo-fi slop n' sleaze that'll bring you to yer knees, on their first full-length foray, THE DRAGS "Stop Rock & Roll" LP/CD! 12 crazed cuts of prime DRAGS stomp and howl that clocks in at just under twenty blazing minutes... a mutated march thru the rotting r'n'r graveyard that radiates enough raw nerve electricity to melt that plate in yer pretty little head, and kick yer sorry ass straight outta the pan and right onto the burner dig? So join the HEAR AND NOW with THE DRAGS "Stop Rock & Roll" (Estrus)

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Gene Krupa-Best of (Verve)

Best record posted so far!



Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was a famous and influential American jazz and big band drummer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.


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Almost all the records posted in this blog are vinyl rips but most of them are ripped on first play so they're perfect. I bought this used and its an old record so there's some surface noise between songs but that's pretty common for any record thats been played more than once.



Friday, March 21, 2008

Rice-Fuck you, this is rice!



Rice Loving assholes

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Fe Fi Fo Fums-Shake All Night



More Seattle shit heads telling you how it is!
Seattle's Fe Fi Fo Fums have a knack for quick, energetic songs of sonic chaos. The LP Shake All Night is a heavily-amplified, trash punk session of fuzzed-out lyrics and sweet one-liners, and it doesn't wear out its welcome. It’s a pretty short album that leaves you ready for the next round of the same jabs.With songs entitled "My Baby's Got the Boom Boom!" and "Fuck New Wave,” none are quite complete without a few "come on baby's" and heavy bass lines. Its simple structure and fun-filled party mood makes this album a good choice if you like to go Boom Boom all night! (Prick Magazine)

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