Yadokai - S/T 7"

A little bummed I had to wait over a year to hear more Yadokai cuts after first bumping that little masterpiece of a demo. But yeah, this shit is nuts. I swear the bass and guitars are samples from the 'alien talk' in that badass blockbuster hit 'District 9'. If you didn't know, Yadokai is doogs from ECOLI, MORPHEME, & FACE THE RAIL, playing some evil, pulverizing hc/punk, up in the gutz of Italo madness ala WRETCHED, as well as retard Clevo shit, and obviously Discharge. The clear vinyl w/ black labels on this looks HOT. Out on Video Disease Records, but looks like he's already sold out. Should be hitting yr favorite distro soon.

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Brain Tumors - Cassette

Excited to bring you Pass Judgement release number five! Debut recordings from Minneapolis' Brain Tumors. Graceless and barbaric hardcore punk, much in the vein of 9 Shocks Terror and assorted Clevo bangers. Wild tempos, insane solos, psychotic speed--the whole shebang. Let's fart. 12 complete tracks from two separate recordings. 100 Pressed.

purchase @ http://passjudgement.bigcartel.com for 5ppd.

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SOON:
FASHIONABLE ACTIVISM #2 - Interviews w/ THE MEN, SHAVED WOMEN, HPP & DEATH DOMAIN
SELF-INTEREST - "Blooming" 7"

Stay tuned.

Solid Attitude - Prison Water 7"

Newish 'lo-fi' garage-punk group from Iowa City, IA (You might be a little late for the trend, Iowa). Pretty wyld jams from this 7" from Solid Attitude, whom you might think is some shite youth crew revival band (judging by the name), but this is some real dirty-swanky rock n roll. The second track is called "Solid Mental Attitude" a possible juxtaposition on Unity's first EP?..Which has the second track, "Positive Mental Attitude"...weirdos. Member(s) of 'psychy-noise' outfit Wet Hair to add to the strange scheme of things. The tracks remind a lot of Rocket From The Tombs' 'noiser songs', cool listen. Ill cover art too. Limited to 200 copies on Rotted Tooth Recordings--Get it here I guess.

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Volt - S/T 7"

HOZAC-01 ---- The VOLT 7" is an overlooked 'OG shitgaze' classic, the record is seemingly hard to find online, and in the bin as well- but found myself a copy a few weeks ago. Before I 'scored' this, I could only find stupid clips of the tracks, and kind of gave up my search for the mp3z. Anyways, VOLT are a French synth-punk trio--metallic drum machines, cold synthesizers, with an ear ripping guitar. I was hoping they sounded a bit more like KAS PRODUCT, but they end up sounding like a goofy JAY REATARD//DIGITAL LEATHER hybrid than anywhere in the coldwave realm. A-Side with "Man On The Ground" and "Not You" are total retard-bangers..when the chorus on "MOTG" drops, tha METAL DANCE begins. Sad they used 'Impact font' on the cover...gross dawg...but a pretty rad group of tracks. Guess they have a few more records, that I haven't checked out yet..Late pass I know, this shit came out in like 2006.

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Women In Prison - Demo CS

Hell yeah, six hot demo cuts from this new supergroup from Tejas, with the hillside stranglaz from TOTAL ABUSE, SACRED SHOCK & FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS. These tracks actually remind me a lot of the first FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS LP (One of my favorite Chicago records ever),the snotty, funky reverby vocals and that warm, fat, delicious bass, but without the whacko guitar shit, instead with catchy ass retard-slop off the hits of BLOODSTAINS ACROSS TEXAS and assorted KBD bangers. "Birth of Rots" seriously has the catchiest punk riff ever…wanna dance? Guess they already have some singles that are about to be shat out, one soon on HOZAC, surely it will revive the labels punk status....yeah the 7" on HOZAC is OUT NOW, go buy it right now.

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Diet Cokeheads - Oral / Nasal

Great name? Or greatest name? This band has done something profound, by defying my personal rule of thumb with these Noise/Punk/Whateverthefuck bands of: the recordings ain't as good as the show. Thats saying a hell of a lot considering they kicked my ass live. Both on record, and in their seamless live set, the stand out track has gotta be jöns. I can't wait for the next record, which should no doubt be called Aural.

Ventriculoperitoneal Sound

Drugged Conscience

Vinyl Rites

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Teenage Panzerkorps - Thee Incantations of Bunker Wolf 7"

New 7" from the the coolest half German, half American band on earth: Der Teenage Panzerkorps! Here's 4 new tracks 'hot off the heels' of their latest and AMAZING full-length "German Reggae" 12" out soon(?) on Holiday recs, it's available on cassette over at Campaign for Infinity right now though, seriously a spectacular LP. TPK's raw, melancholy, psychedelic post-punk sound...with those iron-fisted deutsch vocals make every release such a treat. Hail Bunker Wolf! Only 116 pressed! You'll be lucky if there's any left over at Release The Bats.

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Wiccans - Teenage Cults 7"

This one has been out for a bit, but I haven't had a chance to present it much (lazy lazy). When I heard the first Wiccans recordings well over a year ago I was floored, I hadn't heard anything so catchy and distinguished from a modern punk band, I had to do their record. Teenage Cults has the 4 best cuts off the demo, re-mixed and mastered to perfection. Their killer links of speedy USHC styled punk with euphoric double guitar riff attacks on top make the record a total smashing hardcore release...all behind one of the most powerful and glorious throats I've heard since Fucked Up. Wiccans already have an LP recorded, and it's fucking killer, hopefully it should be ready for their tour this summer. Also: PERFECT LIVE BAND, truly a must see. Members of Wax Museums, Teenage Cool Kids, Silver Shampoo, Bad Sports: Denton, TX rules. Termbo loves this record, read the review. Limited to 300. Last copies available, again at http://passjudgement.bigcartel.com.

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Getting Even - S/T 7"

The latest release on my Pass Judgement label. 3-way Split release with Rock Bottom recs, who's responsible for all the early Off With Their Heads releases, and One Percent Records, which got dug up from the grave to help out on this one too. Anyways, This is Getting Evens debut 7", I posted up their demo about a year ago, maybe you listened to it, but now here's the real deal. The 7" is 4 tracks of punchy, riffy, groove-hitting hardcore punk. Much so in the light of BL'AST's "It's In My Blood" or POISON IDEAS "Plastic Bomb", a hard hitting layer of hooks, mosh and perfect execution. Members of past Minneapolis hc championing groups: THE REAL ENEMY, HOLDING ON, & BODIES LAID BROKEN. First pressing of 300 on purple vinyl still available at http://passjudgement.bigcartel.com

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Daily Void - Civilization Dust 7"

Been a Daily Void fan for quite some time, and just happened to come across this baybie in a new-arrivals bin to my surprise...Hadn't been following the band much since I wasn't too into the Sacred Bones 12" and figured they were busy with other bullshit projectz, but here's a new one by these Chicago noise garage punx. I just read somewhere that people describe them as the 'garage rock Rudimentary Peni', weird. A-side (Before Death) is a total hit, a hunky fuzzball you'd normally expect from these dudes, but the B-side (After Death) is a weirdo, spacey instrumental improv jam that is cool, I guess (This is like...a concept record..right?), would prefer another guitar damage banger, but I am content with these two. Out on the always quality KEN ROCK label in Sweden.

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Under The Covers Vol. 2: A Tribute to The Nerves

Bought this guy on a whim, thinking it might be cool, since I love the Nerves, and a few of the bands on the comp, and woah it delivers. All these tracks are recorded so well, and executed with finesse. Killer output by Grass Widow, Le Face, White Fence, Hunx & His Punx (they do 'When You Find Out', lol) and all your (probably not) favorite psych-y garage rock bullshit bands. 18 trax of your fave Nerves songs; butchered...or re-lived... Well I think it's great. Lim to 200 copies on Cassette and it's recently out on twelve inches as well. Get it quick @ Volar Records. Ripped into two trax- tracklisting is in the zip.

Updated link w/ all split tracks. Thanks bro:
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White Walls - Kevin CS

The self described 'magnum opus' from WHITE WALLS is here, and it's 'Kevin'. I posted up their Demo & Live tapes about a year ago, get on that if you haven't yet. But yes, 3 new tracks from Cincinnati Ohio's finest HC partisans. 'Kevin' is a 7 minute, grieving death hymn, that strokes your ego till you fucking cum. Only the most unsociable kinds will be able to grasp the intellection of 'Kevin'. The CS is backed with two tracks, 'Pointless Itch' & 'Evening Babble', two dirge driven HardCore anthems that wont help wipe any tears away. Released on by the LIFE-ROT label, contact them for ordering if there are any left. The debut White Walls 7" is soon, their site has a track to preview.

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TOP 12"s of 2010

Alright I just wanna get this over with and bring on 20††. Sorry for being lazy. This year I possibly bought more LP's than ever before- Here's my faves.

1. Broken Water - Whet (Night People) - DL // BUY

2. Total Abuse - MUTT (PPM) - DL // BUY

3. The Bitters - East General (Mexican Summer) - DL // BUY

4. Rayon Beach - Memory Teeth (Hozac) - DL // BUY

5. The Men - Immaculada (Self Released) - DL // SOLD OUT

6. Kriegshog - S/T (LVEUM) - DL // BUY

7. Deskondocidos - En La Obscuridad (Todo Destrudio) - DL // BUY: tododestruido[at]gmail[dot]com

8. HPP - LP (PERENNIAL) - DL // BUY

9. No Talk - Leather Discipline (Death Exclamations/Cutthroat) - DL // SOLDOUT

10. Nerveskade - S/T (Black Water) - DL // BUY

11. Gun Outfit - Possession Sound (PPM) - DL // BUY

Top 7"s of 2010

2010 wasn't a good one for the 7", I feel like only bought a few dozen new ones this year with not much stick, but here's a few that grabbed my willy:

1. The Sleaze - Crush w/ PCP
Thank fucking GOD for this record. Been waiting for the return of the Sleaze since the monumental SMOKIN FUCKIN CIGS ep on Fashionable Idiotos out a few years ago. SO here they are again with two more TOP retardo slop drop speedy freaky anthemz. It's been agreed that PCP truly IS the b-side to Smokinfukincigs. Out on Leather Bar recs, only 300 of these guys so hit up (leatherbar * gmail * com) to shoot up the skuzz. Rest in nicnicnic.
download here.


2. Urban Blight - Total War
Undeniably UB is the King Kong of HardCore 2010. If these 5 tracks don't make you do tha step, I really think there's no hope for ya. The key track on here is 'SOCIAL ORDER', the two minute mid-tempo blitzkreg, that plows through the warzone without a scratch. I just ripped this one and I think it sounds better than any I've heard...320KBS of STOMP baby...
download here.


3. Homostupids - Night Deacon
Arguably the Homo's best material yet. But it's a no-brainer that this guy had the best one liner of the year...thanks to our pal the bus driver. A 2010 Classic. Brought to you by FashionableIdiots. I guess there's new 12" coming soon!!!!! Plz play Chicago!..or somewhere soon...
download here.



4. Vile Gash - S/T
Yow! A true modern classic. When I first heard this one I most excited to the re-recording of that track 'Scum'...that riff...is the catchiest thing ever. Was a little bummed when Unfit wasn't redone (my fave track from the demos), but I will keep my hopes high for a future release maybe...though the new track 'Incapable' gives off a similar slowdeath, masochistic vibe. SICK. This thing is recorded flawlessly too- More scorch in the vox, with the drums in a pummeling d-beat throughout, and a chest-rattling bass that leaves you gasping by the end. Perfecto.
download here.

5. Men's Interest - More War
download here.

6. Condominium - Gag
download here.


7. Crazy Spirit - S/T
Beautiful, catchy, and destructive. One of the freshest. Rip from tha ICDT
download here.

8. Schizophasia - S/T II

TOP 10 DEMOS/CASSTTES OF 2010

1. Boston Strangler - Outcast
Wowie, this guy is the most exiting demo I've heard all year, not by far though. These tracks just flat out fucking rule. It makes me want to steal a motorcycle and beat up nerds, or something. Yeah. Nothing more to say here. When I pre-ordered the tape, I think I was most excited to get the BXS pin... :O. Pick it up at No Way records if there be any left.
download here.

2. Neon Blud - Whipps
I remember hearing this one early in the 2k10, maybe it was even December 09? But whatever, this one is a goodie and I'm sure everyone agrees. Top notch punk tapping into the sounds brought by the early NYC NO WAVE scene. The femme vocals on here are strikingly eery, but also come as deeply lulling. The guitar noises, are just plain genius! Tape has been looong gone, but has been pressed to seven inches via Fan Death recs. Their new LP is out now, and is also GREAT.
download here.


3. Weird TV - Demo
Olympia launches out ANOTHER killer band. Wow, there's at least 6 or 7 active bands from that area that are just the cat's pajamas, see: PERENNIAL DEATH. This demo is allll bliss. Easy, snotty, groovy, punk with some sweet sweet female vocals mostly sung in Spanish! What we got here is some perfectly executed late 70's California punk stuff and THEN SOME. Reminds me a lot of the arty-er bands like NO TREND, but it also mostly brings to mind a lot of U.X.A. & the FLESHEATERS stuff; basically just a sweet blend of bands off the TOOTH & NAIL comp. Killer! Here's a vid of them kicking it live, & covering TOTAL ABUSE hehe. Cant wait for the 7".
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4. Reckless Aggression - Demo 2010
You saw the post back from September. DUH. Guess they be doin' a new 7"? Rumor? The demo is getting pressed as a 7" by some dumb top40HXC label, get at it if you didn't grab the demo. download here. ALSO, here's a recording of some rehearsal with some UNHEARD TRAX download that here.


5. Perdition - 9 Track Kassett
YEAH!!!!!! Perdition fucking kill. I think I took the best punk photo ever when I saw them in NYC back in October, see it in FA #1's centerfold. Fucking NUTZO raw punk, and my favorite of the whole NYC gang. Long live raw punk 2.0. This one is allll Dis-Dis-Distort. download here.


6. No Class - Demo
I posted this baybay soon after I bought it back in April. You've probably heard it already, and their LP too, but I think it deserves a spot here. TUFF hardcore from dudes that are obviously not tough. Apparently the Deranged dawg dropped in on that LP cause he peeped on here first. COOL. The LP is pretty good too. Interviewed in FA #1 as well. "hot". download here.


7. Pukeoid - Demo
Real deal North West Indiana hardcore punk. Paying true homage to blazing midwest USHC. I'm talkin' NECROS, WILLFUL NEGLECT, THE FIX, and all the classics. A modern masterpiece. Favorite part of the tape is at the very beginning of the first track, with the Bass/Snare stomp. DIRTY. Yeah...this one was on repeat the most for me. 7" out on NOT NORMAL soon. Should be real sweet. download here.

8. Mauser - Summer Tour Tape
Uploaded on here recently, but WOW, yes, great tape. I got this in a trade with the dude from Vinyl Rites down in Florida. Turning me into possibly their biggest fan! Cannot wait for the 7", which should be widely available very soon hopefully. download here.


9. Warning//Warning - Nuclear Cult
Great little follow up to their excellent "My World" 7" (which is surely in my top10 7" list). Just more terrorizing noise bomb anthemz! CaN U NuKe It? download here.

10. Waste Management - Waste Taste 2010
Three words: TOO MUCH UNITY. download here.

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My top 7"s & LP's in the coming days!