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40 Years Ago: CRASS record Reality Asylum

The whole thing was how the western world is like a concentration camp or asylum. At one point it was going to be 'Christ's Auschwitz' or something. I saw the concentration camps as a template for how it actually was: you had your slaves working at Ford or...

22 April 2019

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38 Years Ago: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY record their second Peel session

John Peel had been playing records by the band since 1979, when they were known as BOYS NEXT DOOR. Between their relocation from Melbourne to London in 1980 and 1982 - shortly before moving to Berlin and soon after splitting - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY recorded four Peel sessions.This...

21 April 2019

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40 Years Ago: POISON GIRLS record Hex

When I was a little girl, before I discovered that I don't have to go on being a little girl, I was very frightened by anger. I spent a long time in my adolescence and young womanhood feeling that I wasn't angry, that I looked down on people...

19 April 2019

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33 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH record From Enslavement to Obliteration

At the time, in England, hardcore thrash was a form that came from elsewhere and was a very minority interest. Even among many heavy metallers, it wasn't even really seen as music at all. You know, "There's no tunes. You can't sing along to that." Many of those...

15 March 2019

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40 Years Ago: SUBURBAN LAWNS live in Long Beach

SUBURBAN LAWNS live at Lawn Studio, Long Beach, California on this day in 1979. Early LAWNS. 1979 was the year they started making a name for themselves in the LA music scene, playing shows and later releasing the Gidget Goes to Hell single. The songs and band were...

24 February 2019

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30 Years Ago: S.O.B. record Suck Up Brain or Fuck Ya Brain?

S.O.B. finished recording material for their two-song flexi single Suck Up Brain or Fuck Ya Brain? on this day in 1989 at Studio Gorilla. Released through Sound of Burial. The b-side was "Nightmare", a song re-recorded for Thrash Night EP later in the year.

5 February 2019

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29 Years Ago: NOMEANSNO live at Cattle Club, Sacramento

New View Music productions in association with KDVS (90.3 fm) proudly presents NOMEANSNO with special guests VICTIM'S FAMILY plus Sacro's most hated DJ Dennis "The Master-Bastard" Yuot. NOMEANSNO live on this day in 1990. Around the time of their fourth LP, Wrong. This was their first gig of...

3 February 2019

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34 Years Ago: MEAT PUPPETS record Up on the Sun

...we were still playing a lot of punk rock shows and it wasn't until after the long tour with Black Flag where we were like, "We are definitely going to go our own way with this thing." By that time we were already working on the Up on...

28 January 2019

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31 Years Ago: BITCH MAGNET record Star Booty

'Star Booty' is an abomination, an abortion of a record. We were all totally ok with being in a band that sounded that shitty. Jon Fine / Bitch Magnet interview, The Quietus, 2012 Over three days at Conservatory Audio, Oberlin, Ohio, BITCH MAGNET recorded their debut EP Star...

8 January 2019

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35 Years Ago: MINOR THREAT record Salad Days

I'm glad to have been in that band, but that band will never reform. Because it can never be the same. I want it to be what it is. That's why we made the discography. That's why we broke up. It's like, we're done. Bang. Finished. MINOR THREAT...

14 December 2018

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30 Years Ago: RUDIMENTARY PENI release Cacophony

My favourite release is definitely "Cacophony", but Grant is a better judge of that sort of thing really. At the very outset of Peni, I wanted to wear masks and use keyboards as well as guitars... I don't think I'd still be talking about the band today if...

17 November 2018

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31 Years Ago: THE GUN CLUB release Mother Juno

THE GUN CLUB released their fourth studio album on this day in 1987.

17 October 2018

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32 Years Ago: EXTREME NOISE TERROR & CHAOS UK release Radioactive Earslaughter

EXTREME NOISE TERROR & CHAOS UK released the split LP Radioactive Earslaughter on this day in 1986. ENT's first record.Lots of info over at KYPP. It was at this house that Bear [Lunatic Fringe] and his brother Beano moved in, with Chaos from Chaos UK. They started up...

6 September 2018

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37 Years Ago: THE GUN CLUB release Fire of Love

After recording "on speed, in two days, for two thousand dollars" (although the complete album would be recorded at two separate California studios), THE GUN CLUB released their influential classic debut Fire of Love on this day in 1981. The Gun Club went deeper into the roots. Creedence,...

31 August 2018

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37 Years Ago: DEAD KENNEDYS record In God We Trust, Inc

DEAD KENNEDYS originally recorded In God We Trust, Inc at Subterranean Studios in June 1981. Due to defective tape the session was unusable, so the version we know, released by Alternative Tentacles in December 1981, was recorded eight weeks later - on this day in 1981 - at...

22 August 2018

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34 Years Ago: GISM release Detestation

Churning Metal-punk, or perhaps even speed-Metal, depending on where you draw the distinction. GISM are undoubtedly an HM band who've been heavily influenced by hardcore, but the music is so intense and the vocals so ominous that even I'm in a state of shock. These guys make VENOM...

12 July 2018

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29 Years Ago: CRANES record their first Peel session

CRANES recorded their first of two Peel sessions on this day in 1989. The session was played on the Wednesday programme, ten days later. On the same programme John played a couple of numbers ("Exhume to Consume" and "The Missing Link") from the Grindcrusher compilation - Earache's sampler...

9 July 2018