Saturday, June 22, 2013

NEW ARRIVAL 6/22

FRAMTID - Defeat Of Civilization LP $12
I think it's safe to say Defeat Of Civilization is inarguaby the most anticipated hardcore record of 2013.  Eleven years since FRAMTID's stellar debut LP with only a few split 7"s in between they bring this follow up LP.  10 face melting tracks of crushing riffs, guitar with the perfect distorted noise mix there is, and precise, manic drumming.  FRAMTID is a full force Japanese hardcore assault based on classic Swedish hardcore.



GAS RAG - Human Rights EP $5
As of yet, the best demo of 2013 was dropped by Chicago's GAS RAG a few months ago.  Out of the same recording session of the demo comes the Human Rights ep.  Sickening mid-west hardcore.  THE FIX and POISON IDEA smoking d-beat rocks.  When consciousness slips away from huffing gas and you begin to fall face first into the floor, the moment of impact when you bust out a few teeth is where the Human Rights ep comes from.





Monday, June 3, 2013

NEW ARRIVALS 6/3

GARY WRONG GROUP - Knights Of Misery 12" $10.00
After WIZZARD SLEEVE had a (pterodactyl) meltdown, front man Captain Beyonce began a promising career as a solo artist with GARY WRONG.  Lets say WIZZARD SLEAVE has a brother who is a mortician that you always see at the local watering hole and is one of those socially awkward (creepy) extroverts.  You are quite sure that in his spare time he skins babies to make banana hammocks.  His name happens to be GARY WRONG.  Or like if early SPK (the more coherent songs) was punkified and played through a Buffalo Bill filter.  Would you fuck Gary Wrong?  I'd fuck Gary Wrong.  I'd fuck Gary Wrong hard.  This shit is great!  Contains their elusive debut single, a reworked and better Heroin Beach plus three new tracks courtesy of TOTAL PUNK and JETH-ROW records.


THE SLEAZE - Tecktonik Girlz 12" $10.00
THE SLEAZE is like one of those late 70's punk / power-pop groups throwing jagged chunks of concrete at you.  That is the simple explanation.  Make no mistake though this band is as punk as it comes.  It has been guaranteed that THE SLEAZE is confused by the KBD acronym and that they would never use a geographical location to complete the sentence Bloodstains Across.... because THE SLEAZE is entirely ignorant of these phenomena.  This would explain THE SLEAZE' all encompassing '77 punk that is so damn good.  It's genuine.  It is unpolished sound and ability yet not inept.  Song writing that is too damn catchy.  It'll drive you nuts. It has attitude everywhere.  An ethos of let downs and disgust and stuff that is brilliantly dumb.  You know what I'm talking about.  THE SLEAZE doesn't know any better but think of THE FEATURES' "Floozie Of The Neighborhood", RHINO 39, GIZMOS, MASSMEDIA and, especially in the vocal delivery THE STITCHES.  Tecktonik Girlz is another total punk record from TOTAL PUNK.  THE SLEAZE already had well received singles and it seems that with Tecktonik Girlz comes a lot more murmuring about the band.  THE SLEAZE is kaput and there is 500 copies of this.....