05 January 2014

OVERPOWERING


Oppressively distorted drum machine crust/grind from Mexico. A true challenge for those of you who can't get enough of the noise...are you up for a challenge?

You know what I'm doing today? I'm on a beach in Puerto Rico. I might go snorkeling. Who schedules a tropical vacation in the middle of tour? NO STATIK, that's who.


04 January 2014

IDIOTS RULE


It's getting later and words are getting harder to conjure. You like dirty hardcore punk with super catchy riffs? Then you like IDIOTS RULE, and you will enjoy this 2006 demo.


03 January 2014

HALF OFF


I was in a band once that played a HALF OFF cover. I was the only member of the band who was not familiar with the band when we started (I'm not even sure that I heard the original before I learned "Make Every Minute Count"), but then I was the only member who didn't grow up in California. This demo...just, damn. I want hardcore to sound like this.



02 January 2014

ELFTENBERRY


My guess is that this 1991 demo was meant to rocket some midwestern outfit into the college rock stratosphere. It might have fallen a little short in that department (though, to be honest, the name probably held them back as much as anything else), but this is quality early '90s guitar driven alt rock with more than enough punk and weird to keep it interesting. See early FLAMING LIPS and SOUL ASYLUM for references.



01 January 2014

DEFIANCE OF SHIT BASTARDS


Met these dudes on my first trip to Japan in 1996, and then when FUCKFACE returned later that year, we played with them in Tokyo. We figured it was going to be good...but nothing could have prepared us for D.S.B. live. I know it's a rather typical thing to say, but I do not think that any of their releases can touch this demo. Happy New Year.

NO STATIK in Baltimore at Barclay House tonight. WARxGAMES, SLEEP DISORDER and OLD LINES will be melting our faces.

31 December 2013

DRUG LUST // RADIUM GIRLS


Two years ago NO STATIK played in Pittsburgh. On the way to the show we had a spirited discussion about punks using, wearing or celebrating the rebel flag (to my non-USA friends, this is the flag that represented the Confederacy during the US Civil War, and the Confederacy were the ones who supported slavery, and that flag in modern times has come to represent right wing and/or racist ideology). It was stated by one van dweller that any punk seen wearing or celebrating the rebel flag on our tour might be met with some sort of confrontation. Without going into details, our van political conversation ran first into someone else's inside joke at the show that night, and a few months later I got this killer fukkn tape in the mail. And this was the return address:


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And a while later, even though I never got around to posting the DRUG LUST tape, this banger showed up on my doorstep. RADIUM GIRLS are grating high end hardcore, disjointed and wholly original in the same way that MUKILTEO FAIRIES made you perk up and go "...the fuck?" I want to hear a full studio recording bad, not because I feel like anything is missing from the demo, but because I want to know how much more they are capable of. And just to seal the deal, this was the return address:

(if you know the reference, then you know what I mean)


NEW YEARS EVE in New York City? Are we fukkn insane? Find out at The Acheron with LA MISMA, GRUDGES, PERFECT PUSSY and CREEPING DOSE. And tomorrow, you should join me for the Coney Island Polar Plunge, because stupidity is better when you are surrounded by other idiots.

30 December 2013

FUNERAL CONE


My friend Greg said these dudes were the best. And then my friend Doug told me they were the best and sent me this tape. I'm not gonna say that a few months ago when I went to Oakland to see INFEST instead of seeing these dudes at Thrillhouse that I made the wrong choice, I'm just saying that this tape is really good, and that Greg and Doug are, as a rule, typically right.

Philadelphia: THE BROOD and ANXIETY HAMMER will be joining us at The Golden Tea House, which is something that I am excited about.