TINGLER

If this 1998 tape had been released a decade earlier, then TINGLER might have been heralded as some ground breaking guitar driven noise rock outfit. Tongue in cheek (but not really funny) presentations of mid tempo hook laden tracks bashed out by seriously damaged and dirty stringed weapons. File alongside first wave grunge and early AmRep....you just need a time warp to get it there. I'm thinking this band existed in every college town in the USA by 1994 or so, but this one comes from Toronto, and maybe time is different up there.

TINGLER

"If only you were single, you'd make my pee pee tingle"

GLOCHIDS

Beautiful and peaceful collection reinterpreting nine different GLOCHIDS tracks. Remixes by JOCK CLUB, SØREN, J.S. AURELIUS, DEEP PILL, SANDOVAL and others. Perfect listening today, for a myriad of reasons. 

REmI-X

REVAS EN LA SONGO

Two young Japanese powerhouses crank out three tracks each of relentless destruction. MALIMPLIKI turn their churn into into a rhythmic pulse that surges with the beat, distorted almost to the point of losing any semblance to music whatsoever (this is a good thing) - total intensity. SACA LA FIESTA skip the distortion, but their sound is still dirty and raw as fukk. Two short, smart punk blasts with shouted female vocals and the longer, slower "My Truth" to bring Revas En La Songo to a close. There are so many bands in Japan....

REVAS EN LA SONGO

O INIMIGO

It's hard to believe that O INIMIGO has been rolling as long as they have, but I remember Juninho talking about his "new" band while DISCARGA and WHN? were touring together in 2002....and that was a very long time ago. This demo is just as good now as it was then, and is a great indicator of the band that they would evolve into over time. Powerful melodic punk with earnest vocals and an undeniable intensity that clearly doesn't need speed, volume or distortion to make it's point. Enjoy your day. 

O INIMIGO

BUTTZZ

Feisty and catchy garage punk with '90s college radio hooks, but delivered with the bombastic distorted fury that the cover implies. M.O.T.O. meets D-CLONE? Yeah.....

BUTTZZ

DISPOSSESSED

Twenty minutes of Rose City doom spread over three tracks. Portland's DISPOSSESSED are heavy beyond heavy, and the deliberate way they pummel is enviable. Bleak and devastating. 

BESEIGED

ERFURT70

Got this banger in the mail from my pal Søren last week...I was chuffed that he thought of me, since we've been out of touch for some time, but I was floored when I popped it in the deck. Full throttle, maximum intensity hardcore, and his vocals are perhaps even more intense than they were in THE NOW DENIAL (note: we met in 2003 when ARTIMUS PYLE and THE NOW DENIAL shared a couple of weeks in Europe, and this seems an appropriate time to remind you that 2007's Mundane Lullaby is as close to perfect modern hardcore record as you will ever find). I suppose it wouldn't be far off to say that ERFURT70 is a logical musical progression, but the power here is worth far more than a casual "yeah, sounds like the dude's old band" and tracks like "Knees" just explode out of the deck. Check the guitars on "Rutsche" and then get ready for the mosh that drops at 0:51. Oh yeah. 

ERFURT70

Physical copies from the nice folks at Sabotage Records, a label I recommend visiting  and supporting....and not just because they released records by my band(s).