CRAZY SPIRIT "Demo 12" Toxic State Records Review

CRAZY SPIRIT "Demo 12"

Toxic State Records 2011

Pretty sure this band could care less what you or I think of them. I love a lot of things about this record and that is one of the things I love about this record (the impression that they don't care what I think). I love that the screen printed jacket and lyric sheet / poster still feel wet and / or gritty. The record feels like New York City in the early 80s.

I love that their songs sound like they were constructed by a gang of nihilistic end of the world warriors who stumbled upon instruments one day and this recording is what they came up with. I love that it sounds like they just turned everything up, everything is overly distorted. As I learned in 1982, when I first got a guitar and amp, when you turn things all the way up, they take on a life of their own and you do what you can in an attempt to control the sound, but eventually just let it flow. They temper the chaos with some appropriate between song sound bytes. Musically this falls towards another one of my loves, Rudimentary Peni.  

FOD, Nostalgia Crisis, Maestro Please, Dave Phlegmball 1/28/12 Photos

Dave Phlegmball solo. Dave kept the makeup on all night. 

Bob FOD side project with Ron Fathead! A bass and drum clinic.

Nostalgia Crisis ran through these punk rock classics:

SONIC REDUCER – DEAD BOYS

TODD KILLINGS – ANGRY SAMOANS

HOW DO YOU KNOW - CHELSEA

BANNED FROM THE PUBS – PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES

C.I.D. – U.K. SUBS

1945 – SOCIAL DISTORTION

NEVER ‘AD NOTHIN' – ANGELIC UPSTARTS

TWO MILLION VOICES – ANGELIC UPSTARTS

SOMEBODY’S MOM – POINTED STICKS

RIOT SQUAD – COCK SPARRER

HOMICIDE – 999

POLICE TRUCK – DEAD KENNEDYS

Flag of Democracy blazed as usual!

Special thanks goes out to all the bands who played this amazing gig, everyone who came out to the gig (including the many old-timers), Maggy for putting this all together, David for making sure everything went smoothly and Hannae for kicking ass at the SAS. 

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Amoebas, Neighborhood Brats, Sharp Objects LP Reviews on Modern Action Records

I have recently picked up three outstanding records on Sonoma California's Modern Action Records, thanks to recommendations from Cobrakale at My Wife Says I'm An Angry Person blog.

Amoebas "Amoebas" LP 

Modern Action Records

Grand Rapids Michigan strikes again! 8 songs, 17 minutes, ripping punk that slams together the sounds of N.O.T.A., Zero Boys, Briefs and early Vibrators. If you have ever loved the energy of punk, the straight forward approach to power pop and/or early 80s US HC punk, the type with understandable vocals, then there is no reason you should not seek out this record. Seventeen minutes of compelling reasons why punk rock should still exist in 2012. This was recorded in 2010 along with the aid of Gimme Gimme Records. The Amoebas need to release some more records!

Amoebas

Neighborhood Brats "Neighborhood Brats" 12"
Modern Action Records
This is a five song, one sided 12 inch, clocking in at just around 9 minutes. Just enough to make you anticipate the next step. We will require more recordings. It would be a crime for this to end without the realization of a full discography. So the Neighborhood Brats need to get to it. It has been started. This is instantly timeless California punk. You could have dropped the needle on this record in the late 70s or early 80s or in 2012 and the result would be the same. This kills. Female vocals, furious energy, leather jacket clad, snotty punk rock. I want more!!!

 Neighborhood Brats

Neighborhood Brats

Sharp Objects "Sharp Objects" LP

Modern Action Records

Billed as two guys from the Bodies, one from the Briefs and a guy from Puerto Rico, the Sharp Objects fuse early Posh Boy California sounds like Agent Orange and Red Cross and work just as well as the Cute Lepers as a post Briefs band. Every song is a ripper, reminding me of the first time I heard the Briefs! If you are looking for a surefire way to improve your day, I suggest dropping the needle on this piece of vinyl (comes with a download code)! This could have been the next Briefs album, an instant classic.

Sharp Objects

Up To No Good Radio January 22, 2012 Playlist

Maddog Surrender

Frank FOE and Johnny Generic (click here to listen) were honored to play you these songs on Sunday January 22, 2012:

Rancid "Up To No Good"
Maddog Surrender "Sober Living"
Lifeless "Day By Day"

Lifeless

DRI "Shame"
Cro Mags "By Myself"
Faith "You're X'd"
Corrosion of Conformity "Rat City"

COC

Poison Idea "Pure Hate"
Sworn Enemy "Labeled"

Sworn Enemy

Common Enemy "Bail Out"
Ex Humans "Shakin'"
Eddy Current Suppression Ring "You Let Me Be Honest With You"
Biohazard "Reborn"

Biohazard

Bottomfeeder "Suburban Warzone"
Dox "Her Secrets"
Hairy Phlegmball "Designated Driver"
Mr. Yuk "Wilding"
Angelic Upstarts "2 Million Voices"
Buck Satan & The 666 Shooters "Quicker Than Liquor"

N.O.T.A. "Face the Facts"
Angry Samoans "Todd Killings"
Melvins "Candy-O" (the Cars)
Social Distortion "1945"
F.O.D. "Commercial Success"
Unlearn "Unlearn"
Corrosion of Conformity "Leeches"
Faith "Trapped"

Faith

The Neckbones "Cardiac Sutures"
Jimmy Cliff "Guns of Brixton"
Strength For A Reason "Ties That Bind"

Strength For A Reason

S.O.D. "United Forces"
Samiam "Home Sweet Home"
Dead Boys "Sonic Reducer"
Eddy Current & The Suppression Ring "Anxiety"
Chelsea "How Do You Know"

Thank you for listening!

Up To No Good Radio January 15, 2012 Playlist

T.S.O.L.

Reds and Johnny Generic provided the punk rock soundtrack to your Sunday on 1/15/12. Show was not recorded.

Rancid "Up To No Good"

Skull Control "Radio Danger"

Ramones "Anxiety"

American Dream "Get A Grip"

Free Beer "Pigs in Space"

Free Beer "Start the Ark"

Strangers "Kiss This World Goodbye"

Cock Sparrer "Roads to Freedom'

D.O.A. "Let's Wreck the Party"

Dead Boys "Hey Little Girl"

Dead Boys

Boomtown Rats "Joey's on the Street Again"

Slamhounds "Hate"

Roger Miret's Disasters "Give Em the Boot"

Jack Black "Drive Them Wheels"

Die Toten Hosen "Love and a Molotov Cocktail"

Fear "I Believe I'll Have Another Beer"

T.S.O.L. "Secret Shelter"

All "Wrong Again"

999 "Found Out Too Late"

Agent Orange "Everything Turns Grey"

X Ray Spex "The Day the World Turned Day-glo"

X Ray Spex

Wayne County and the Electric Chairs "Night Time"

Flyboys "Different Kind of Guy"

Flyboys "Theme Song"

Schaeffer Beer theme

Murphy's Law "Sit at Home and Rot"

Chelsea "45 RPM"

Bags "We Will Bury You"

Damned "Problem Child"

Damned

Cock Sparrer "Teenage Heart"

Vindictives "Carbona Not Glue"

Meatmen "Abba, God and Me"

Meatmen "Morrisey Must Die"

Ramones "The KKK Took My Baby Away"

Dead Kennedys "Chemical Warfare"

Fear "Let's Have A War"

Saints "Stranded"

Stiff Little Fingers "Straw Dogs"

Plasmatics "Concrete Shoes"

Plasmatics "Butcher Baby"

HIM "Back in My Arms"

Briefs "My Girl Wants To Be A Zombie"

Hairy Phlegmball "Designated Driver"

D.O.A. "That's Why I Am An Atheist"

The Explosion "If You Don't Know"

The Carpettes "Radio Wunderbar"

Walter Lure and the Waldo's "Let Go"

Napalm Death "Nazi Punks F*** Off"

Napalm Death

Undead "The Invisible Man"

Superchunk "Girl You Want" (Devo)

Violent Society "I Am the Hunted"

Dr. Know "Circle of Fear"

The Mad "I Hate Music"

Squat "She"

AOD "New Year's Eve"

Hairy Phlegmball "Cheap Beer"

Up To No Good Radio Approved Events List as of January 21, 2012

Listen To Up To No Good Radio Every Sunday Noon - 3 PM WLVR 91.3 FM Bethlehem PA or online at www.wlvr.org

TONIGHT AT JIMMY's PLACE!!!

Sun 1/22 Darius Rucker @ State Theater In Easton PA

Girls on Film: 40 Years of Women in Rock, a traveling exhibit from Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is presented at Lehigh University’s Zoellner Main Gallery from January 25 to May 25, 2012.

Thurs 1/26 Megadeth, Motorhead, Volbeat, Lacuna Coil @ Susquehanna Bank Center NJ

Thurs 1/26 Lamb of God @ Trocadero Philly PA (sold out)

Fri 1/27 Damn Dirty Apes, Rough on Rats, Red Hill Ramblers, Defeated @ Mothers Easton PA

Sat 1/28 F.O.D., Maestro Please, Nostalgia Crisis, David Phlegmball @ Secret Art Space Bethlehem PA

Sat 1/28 Smokers and Rollers, Buzzherd, Bastard Thieves, Mountain of Skulls, Battering Ram, Pity Da Fool @ Jimmy's Place Allentown PA

Sat 1/28 Endzone @ Peppercorn Pub

Sun 1/29 Fuel @ Crocodile Rock Cafe Allentown PA

Tues 1/31 Anvil @ Sellersville Theatre Sellersville PA

Thurs 2/2 Machine Head, Suicide Silence @ Trocadero Philly PA

Fri 2/3 Leslie West (Mountain) & Uli Jon Roth (Scorpions) @ Sellersville Theater Sellersville PA

Mon 2/6 Anthrax, Testament & Death Angel @ Croc Rock Allentown PA

Thurs 2/9 Queers, Ataris & Far From Finished @ The Barbary, Philly PA

Sat 2/11 Cro Mags, Wisdom in Chains, Death Before Dishonor, Stick Together, Unlearn @ Reverb in Reading PA

Who Shot Rock N Roll: A Photographic History 1955 to the Present, running at the Allentown Art Museum from February 11 – May 13, 2012

Sun 2/12 Keystone Record Collectors Music Expo @ Continental Inn Lancaster PA

Tues 2/14 Wayne Static @ Crocodile Rock Cafe Allentown PA

Thurs 2/16 David Johansen (NY Dolls) @ Sellersville Theater Sellersville PA

Fri 2/17 Less Than Jake, Plow United, Samiam, Flatfoot 56 @ Trocadero Philly PA

Sat 2/18 Suffocation, Strong Intention, March To Victory, Limb By Limb @ Jimmy’s Place Allentown PA

Sat 2/18 Cordova @ Funhouse Bethlehem PA

Sat 2/25 Terri Clark @ Sellersville Theater Sellersville PA

Fri 3/2 Deicide, Jungle Rot, Abigail Williams, Lecherous Nocturne @ Reverb Reading PA

Sat 3/10 Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys @ Wells Fargo Center Philly PA

Sun 3/11 Keystone Record Collectors Music Expo @ Continental Inn Lancaster PA

Sun 3/11 Michael Schenker @ Croc Rock Allentown PA

Thurs 3/15 Henry Rollins @ Union Transfer Philly PA

Fri 3/23 DRI, Common Enemy, Product of Waste, Tight Fits @ Reverb Reading PA

Fri 3/30 Andrew WK @ TLA Philly PA

Fri, Sat & Sun 3/30-4/1 Skindustry Tattoo Expo featuring musical guests Trouble City All-Stars and Ultra Kings @ Holiday Inn Allentown

Sun 4/1 Keystone Record Collectors Music Expo @ Continental Inn Lancaster PA

Sat 4/7 Moody Blues @ State Theater in Easton PA

Wed 4/18 Black Dahlia Murder @ TLA Philly PA

Fri 4/27 Graham Parker & the Figgs @ Sellersville Theater Sellersville PA

Sat 4/28 Melvins @ Note in West Chester PA

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Faith "Subject To Change Plus First Demo" LP Review

Faith "Subject to Change Plus First Demo" LP

Dischord Records 2011

When this LP was originally released (minus the demos of course) back in 1983, it had such an impact on me that I played it constantly on my radio shows on WLVR and eventually owned a blue and a pink vinyl copy. I say this, not to prove my record collecting prowess, but to prove another point. That point being how much I love this record. Although I love collecting records, it is a rarity that I have ever owned more than one copy of any record. Agnostic Front's "Victim In Pain" comes to mind as the only other record falling into this category for some reason, besides my close friends bands' records, of which I try to have every version. 

Listening to the demo versions of Faith's hardcore classics, that appear in non-demo form on either the original of this LP or the split LP with Void is an exhilarating sensation! The raw, rough, developmental angst of early hardcore comes across perfectly. One of the premier, groundbreaking harDCore bands. Another work of Dischord art.