The week after
Duress played a great set on an otherwise disaster of a show, I was alone in the studio and stuck to playing songs. Here's the playlist.
1. Chapterhouse – Breather - Whirlpool
2. Nails - Unsilent Death - Unsilent Death – 2010
3. Infest - Wheres The Unity? – Slave – 1988
4. Life's Blood - Youth Enrage - Defiance 7" – 1987
5. Guided by Voices - Interest Position - Hold On Hope EP – 2000
6. Knots – Heartbreaker - Heartbreaker b/w Action – 1980
7. No Warning – No Time For You - 2002
8. Monsula - Down Inside – Sanitized – 1992
9. Sleepwall - Since Third Year - 4 Song EP – 2009
10. Best Coast - Wish He Was You - Something In The Way – 2010
11. Piece By Piece - All My Life (I Say Fuck You) - Piece By Piece – 2010
12. Say Goodbye - Anti-Social - Anti-Social 7" – 2003
13. The Dismemberment Plan - The City - Emergency & I – 1999
14. Beat Happening - I've Lost You – Dreamy –
15. Get it Away - Nation of the Damned - S/T 7"
16. Holding On - These Hallowed Halls - Question What You Live For – 2003
17. Koro - Dear Sirs - Koro 7" – 1983
18. Nazi Dust – Fervor - Nazi Dust 7" – 2009
19. Zola Jesus - Devil Take You - The Spoils – 2009
20. White Hinterland - No Logic – Kairos – 2010
21. The Teardrop Explodes - Went Crazy – Kilimanjaro – 1980
22. Blueboy - Always There – Unisex – 1994
23. Lemuria – Hours - The First Collection – 2007
24. Gun Outfit – Like it Is - Dim Light - 2009
25. AA - Suicide Fever - Essential Entertainment – 1981
26. The Legends - Something Strange Will Happen - Over and Over – 2009
27. Closure - The Vomiter - Closure 7" – 2009
28. Sin Orden - Otra Muerte - Arte, Cultura, Y Resistencia – 2009
29. Girl Alliance - Time Heals Nothing – S/T – 2008
30. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - In Steps - Letting Up Despite Great Faults – 2009
31. Wild Nothing - Vultures Like Lovers - Summer Holiday – 2009
32. My Bloody Valentine – Good for You – Unreleased Songs
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inside the freight elevator of the Fearless building. Why it's there, I don't know.
Young Moons is the moniker of Chicago based singer/songwriter MJ Grant. On his first effort, Music from the Manor, Grant brings 4 excellent rootsy, yet jangly acoustic tunes to the table. His voice is intimate and melancholy and lends itself well to the loose bluesy guitar work. This is a perfect listen for a rainy Sunday morning after a long night out. Check it out.
Permanent Sex Vacation is the raucous follow up to their four song demo. Where the first Loose Dudes recordings had a bit of a polished feel, these songs sound more true to their live show - a raw yet tight blur of aggression and humor that borrows heavily from early 80's west coast punk rock. There are 5 songs on here and each serve as a reminder of why you got into punk in the first place. 
On Mother's Day of 2010 members of Running, The Catburglars, The Pagan Blonde, The Plain White T's posted up in a studio and wrote and recorded 4 songs in the span of 4 hours. The result is Joel PPO, a fuzzed out, lo-fi garage punk homage to our brother Joel who went on sabbatical to New York for several months. Lyrics include incriminating details about various friends, inside jokes and generally confusing banter from the mouth of one of the greatest minds of our time, Ben Phillips. However, no one will ever be able to decipher the words because of the layers of static and noise burying the vocals. Check it out and pick up the cassette from Prio Male..jpg)
Right out of the gate, The Alright Alreadies established themselves as an excellent 4 piece, all-girl punk band. Then seemingly as quickly as they began, they rearranged their line up, slowed it down a bit and started borrowing more influence from 60's girl groups and surf-rock than Screeching Weasel. As a fan of their early material, I was skeptical of their shift in direction, but these songs are so catchy and well written it's hard not to get psyched about what they are doing. Maggie and Meg's vocals compliment each other wonderfully to create the layered vocal harmonies necessary for this style of summery garage-pop and the recording is lo-fi and natural without sounding muddled and shitty. Check out this cassette and pick it up from our friends at Priority Male.
In 2002-2003 I was in a hardcore band with several of my childhood friends called Time to Die. We didn't know how to write music or play very well, but we had a good time practicing and playing shows. We went on a poorly planned tour out to California that resulted in us breaking up while we were in LA. It was inevitable. We only released a demo, no one knew us outside of Chicago and even then, I'm sure a lot of people didn't know or care who we were. It was a bad idea from the get go. 
The other day I woke up to an email from blogger regarding a post on my blog that allegedly infringed upon the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. I took it with a grain of salt and assumed it was justified because even though I try to primarily post out of print and old records, a lot of major labels tend to get upset when you go around sharing records for free even though they let them go out of print. I'm a rational person and I understand these matters from a variety of angles, but if a record isn't even available to purchase anymore and technically out of print (i.e. Hum's Downward is Heavenward), why shouldn't people be able to access it somewhere else? 
Last week Dave Hofer came on the show and we took a step back in time a bit to discuss growing up in the 90's punk scene in Chicagoland and played songs from the era. Unfortunately, the computer froze and erased the first 7 songs we played, but here is what was salvaged. 
The week after Duress played a great set on an otherwise disaster of a show, I was alone in the studio and stuck to playing songs. Here's the playlist.
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