PLANET EARTH // PANIC BONER

 

Beautifully damaged subtle (improvisational) noise from Olympia's PLANET EARTH backed with damaged saxophone/guitar/drum/vocal free psych/noise/jazz by way of total (casual) sonic assault from Missoula's PANIC BONER. Maybe this should be on the live blog but you'd never see/hear it if I dropped it there, so....spend your Saturday wisely, punk. PANIC BONER might be the best band name of all time.

LIVE AT LE VOYEUR

BERKAH SENTOSA

 

Just two songs today - one ridiculously catchy number that could almost find its way onto Too Tough To Die if it weren't for the Sing The Sorrow caliber chorus, and then a live cover of one of the kitschiest RAMONES cuts. 

TAMAN LAWANG

CAPITAL CRIME

 

The cover is so gloriously sick, and still the contents will blow you away. Blistering, blasting and intense fastcore/grind circa 2004....then they drop crust leads into the mix and it sounds so fukkn natural. This is a release that will require repeated listenings to fully consume - "Merdeka," "Bad Luck," "Against" and the devestating "Jiwa Yang Telah Mati" lead the pack, but there are twenty songs here and CAPITAL CRIME do not waste a single second. Dual vocal maximum energy mania.....and the cover is so sick.

MASSA BERKUASA

GAIA GALAXY

 

At the risk of repeating myself: Always check the bargain bins. Kelsey checked the tape bin at a Savers thrift store and came up with a grip of Filipino pop and this gorgeous gem from late '80s San Francisco. Hard driving funk, blues rock and residual hippie jams co-mingle effortlessly with era appropriate pop/rock here, yet the result is something I struggle to describe. This could be the bar band in an episode of Rockford Files just as easily as they could be playing in a drugged out cult revival tent...listen to the title track "All Of Our Love" and tell me I'm wrong.

ALL OF OUR LOVE

FREE VOICE

 

I do not understand why any band of any era and/or genre would think that this artwork was a good idea. And then you listen to FREE VOICE and somehow it all makes sense - it's still a bad idea but it makes sense. Absolute '90s melodic hardcore but from modern Indonesia. Think Ontario's NOAH FENCE (the Canadian Ontario, to be clear) or early AFI - all the shit from the early Fat Wreck / NOFX tree that influenced thousands of bands around the world. Including FREE VOICE, apparently. Seriously dudes, the artwork sucks.

LET'S THINK CLEARLY FOR A WHILE

The dude in the DISRUPT shirt really just reinforces the '90s vibes. 

BARREN SOIL

 

Quintessential UK anarcho crust from Vancouver - right down to the Celtic knots in the art. Apocalyptic and dystopian stench with an ear turned towards '90s Japanese hardcore...and yeah, it's every bit as essential as that (brief) description suggests. 

ALL PATHS LEAD TO DARKNESS

ORIGINAL PIHILIPPINE MUSIC

 

This is like 100 Strings from Philippines, and if you actually dig through records and tapes in thrift stores then you should know what I mean. And if you don't dig through records and tapes in thrifts stores....? Well, you should.  

ORIGINAL PHILIPPINE MUSIC: VOLUME IV

SIDE A

 

These are the things you find when you just.....look. I wish I had some history, but my guess is that was a pop group being marketed by a would-be music business entrepreneur from Oakland. Or mayhaps it was just a bootleg. Either way, we're left with 86 minutes of Filipino pop. No one needs twenty-one songs on a commercial pop cassette, especially when the eighteenth and nineteenth tracks are the only potential hits. There's a really (really) small audience here, but to those readers......keep digging.

SIDE A

WAVE OF NOISE

 

Continuing on a theme....a total hyper-crust assault in four movements. DISCHARGE worship from SKITSÖFRENIA. Ferocious street punk from INCRUST. Clenched fist '90s crust from DISGRACE. Apocalypse fastcore/crust mania from DISTRUST. Singapore meets Malaysia, and DIY punk still rules. 

WAVE OF NOISE
Seriously though, the DISTRUST tracks are next level. 
You're welcome.

ZUDAS KRUST // CONFLITTO

 

Shoelace headband crust assault at its finest - nine minutes of blistering sonic devastation in your earholes. 
All eyes upon Papua.

CONFLITTO // ZUDAS KRUST

HEAVY COMFORTER

 

Gloriously sinister synth driven hyper punk from Tennessee. We're talking infectious Reatard caliber hooks, '90s Rip-Off energy and PHANTOM LIMBS mystique all supercharged and hyped beyond description. Listen to the (backing) vocals in "Unholy Armistice" and know that punk rules, ok?

IRON RATIONS

BACOT!

 

The band name translates into English as something like "shut up" but I want to BACOT! to do anything but. We're talking top notch early 2000s early 1980s worship - Indonesian hardcore with a serious penchant for SoCal punk and an indescribable ability to make eye-rollingly generic hooks seem like they belong....because they do indeed belong. 

DEMO TAPE 2026

unknown artist

 

MUDWIMMIN. OH SEES. REATARDS. MARKED MEN. SUPERCHARGER. MISTREATERS. MISFITS. 50 MILLION. WHITE TRASH SUPERMAN. SONICS. BIKINI KILL. SQUIRREL BAIT. FRIGHTWIG. SHOTWELL. CRAMPS. PUSSY GALORE.....

The hooks are undeniable. 
The power is infectious. 
The only text reads: "18 Nov 2015"
The tape rules. 

18 NOV 2015

GLICH

 

If you wondered whether of not the razor sharp hardcore of the early 2010s was going to stick - look no further than Indonesia's GLICH. Piercing buzzsaw guitars, howling vocals drenched in reverb, arm swinging mid paced moshes that slow to deadly lurches before launching into heart stopping DBeat-as-USHC riffs. Sinister, scowling, dangerous hardcore from 2025; "Safe Means All" on repeat all damn day. 

NO SILENCE LEFT

APHID TRIP

 

Ten minutes of murky, mysterious electronics. Like one component of a spaced-out ambient recording from 1986 got lost in the studio and just degraded for four decades until.....today. 

SKY LISTENING

HAFNER // THE EDOMITES

 

The kind of release that 2026 could really use, only Aklasan released this split five years ago. Four focused tracks from SF's HAFNER - the kind of alt/sludge that that reminds you of the transition from Rev Summer into early Sub Pop....it's a really good reminder. Noise laden drum/electronic freak outs from EDOMITES on the flip - an instrumental series titled "Fuck ICE" in five mind melding movements that made me want to dig around for a GAY BARBARIANS AND OR THE JAURWAURS disc because I know I have at least two of them. Somewhere. 

HAFNER // THE EDOMITES 

CREEPING CHILL

 

I remember being blown the fukk away by this band when I heard their 2019 demo, and here I am in 2026 being blown the fukk away by their 2020 demo. Covid-era hardcore is a real thing, and this bombastic four song bulldozer is a perfect example. "Hate Polluters" might be a (read: the) perfect hardcore punk song. 

CREEPING CHILL

SIMON FRANK

 

I first heard of Frank through HOT & COLD's excellently sparse Border Area LP, but most of his solo output has eluded me.  Until no, that is - because after relentless and compulsive listening to 2018's Humid Music, I will be making every effort to seek down physical copies of everything. Everything. The 7+ minute "See Self" opener hits like an entire night at the club; everything is there. Everything is here. Monotonous SUICIDE clashing with driving '80s new beat by way of early PIAS and shades of NITZER EBB and then a burst of no wave like the brilliant "Good Taste Is Worthless." Simon freaks and chants deliberately over each track and it feels like you're in a trance just listening....I would love to experience this at full volume in a packed club.

HUMID MUSIC

GERUTUAN BANGSAT

 

Raw UK styled punk from Indonesia - distant, distorted and damaged. 

LAWAN KEMBALI

NSA

 

This shit is absolutely damaged. Carelessly replicated and hopelessly destroyed mutant hardcore maybe from Florida - sometimes I listen to "I's" and I'm thinking "this is like CONEHEADS on a steady diet of CROSSED OUT" and while I know that doesn't really make sense (or seem like it works).....just listen.

NSA IS WATCHING