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When we started these podcasts several years back, I thought it'd be a good idea to have themes so we didn't overlap one another too much. Commercial radio blows and one thing commercial radio does is play bad songs so often that people buy those songs and I get bummed out when I'm buying groceries or pumping gas when I hear it over the intercom. So, I suggested to our podcasters to play stuff that hasn't been beaten into the ground. The longer we're at it, I've realized that the main theme of Razorcake podcasts is “please don't suck.” That's the theme. Okay, that's not completely true. “Play a lion's share of DIY punk.” Because that's what's Razorcake's about. We think it's the best music on the planet, otherwise we're wasting both your and our time. I live in a cultural bubble. I totally cop to it. It gives me great joy to be totally straight-faced and honest when someone asks me about Justin Beiber or Jessica Simpson or Brittney Spears or Lady Gaga, and I have no fucking idea what they're about or one fucking note of their music. It's amazing how quiet the world gets when you don't reflect its garbage back to it. Tilt the balance. Fuck those corporate sharecroppers of the mind. Learn how to find these podcasts without the itunes middleman. Go to http://www.razorcake.org/punk-music-podcast and download all 240+ of them. -Todd Taylor To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #246 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: The Brokedowns, “Beast Resources V” (Cassette Deck) Occult Detective Club, “Third Way” (Dirtnap) -- The Measure [SA], “Stop Calling” Are You with the Band comp. (Paper and Plastick) The White Wires, “I Need Your Love” (Total Punk) Midnight Snaxxx, “Lost Weekend” (Goner) Neighborhood Brats, “SharkBeach” (Falsified) -- Poison Idea, “My Hard-on Withers in Your Face” (TKO) Red Dons, “Mauvaise Foi” (Dirtnap) Hygiene, “Hygéne” (Sorry State) Shellshag, “Crybaby” (Paper and Plastick) -- Eddy Current Suppression Ring, “Time of Day” (Almost Ready) PS Eliot, “Entendre” (Paper and Plastick) Black Dots, “Movin'” (blackdotrock@gmail.com) Alicja Trout, “Close UR Eyes” (Spacecase) -- Something Fierce, “Warlords of Information” (Dirtnap) The Chantey Hook, “The Disciples of St. Paul” (http://www.thechanteyhook.com/)

There really is no reason for parenthesis in song titles, and yet they still exist. Some bands utilize them in their titles as though they want to hide something or aren't able to commit to the title. But it still doesn't change the fact that many of these songs are pretty good. Thus, for this podcast I chose songs with parenthesis in their titles. Hope you hear something you like. –Kurt welcometoflavorcountry@gmail.com To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #245 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: The Saints, “(I'm) Stranded” ((I'm) Stranded, EMI) --- Elvis Costello, “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” (My Aim is True, Columbia) The Buzzcocks, “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) (No Thanks! The 70s Punk Rebellion, Rhino) The Soft Boys, “(I Want to be an) Angelpoise Lamp” (No Thanks! The 70s Punk Rebellion, Rhino) The Baptist Generals, “Alcohol (Turn and Fall)” (No Silver / No Gold, Sub Pop) --- Saul Williams, “List of Demands (Reparations)” (s/t, Fader) Eyes of Autumn, “(Distance + Time)” (Hello, 54 40 or Fight!) Nakatomi Plaza, “(Don't) Close Your Eyes” (Unsettled, Brightskull/Redleader) Everdown, “Pure (Never Seen You Like This)” (Straining, Tooth & Nail) Boysetsfire, “Blame (Live at Eleven) (This Crying. This Screaming. My Voice is Being Born., Magic Bullet) --- Stranglers, “(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)” (No Thanks! The 70s Punk Rebellion, Rhino)

I've been sitting on some of these tracks for a while now and it feels good to finally get this thing on record. It's more of what you'd expect from my podcasts, catchy, fast pop songs with a few hardcore jams thrown in. I guess I'm fairly predictable, but I hope that there's a few bands in here you haven't heard before. My life kind of took a turn for the worse mentally and emotionally a few months ago. I'd like to think this podcast is my therapy. I talk (boy, do I talk) about everything under the sun because I wanted something to talk about. Hopefully you find something here that you need to share with the punks who you love. Shoot me an e-mail. I enjoy talking to punks about punk and other derelict forms of entertainment. Spread the joy. –Bryan Static bryanstatic@gmail.com To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #244 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: Sun Puddles, “Assorted Sharks (Demo, Self-released, 2010) ---- Bass Drum of Death, “High School Roaches” (GB City, Fat Possum/Inflated, 2011) Amoebas, “Nervous Wreck” (Self-titled, Modern Action/Gimme, 2011) Neon Piss, “Look Homeward Angel” (Self-titled, Deranged, 2012) The Brokedowns, “Done With Funk” (Species Bender, Red Scare, 2010) --- Japanther, “First of All” (Beets, Limes and Rice, Recess, 2011) Dwarves, “Runaway No. 2” (The Dwarves Must Die, Sympathy for the Record Industry, 2004) FIDLAR, “No Waves (Don't Try, Mom + Pop, 2012) Jay Reatard, “Gamma Ray” (“Gamma Ray” single by Beck, XL Recordings, 2008) --- The Capitalist Kids, “We Are Each Ultimately Alone in the Universe” (Lessons on Love, Sharing, and Hygiene, Toxic Pop, 2012) Mean Jeans, “Night of the Creeps” (On Mars, Dirtnap, 2012) The Marked Men, “On” (The Other Side 7”, 540, 2010) Audacity, “Subway Gir”l (Mellow Cruisers, Recess, 2012) --- The Goodnight Loving, “Doesn't Shake Me” (Self-titled, Dirtnap, 2010) Shannon and the Clams, “Cry Aye Aye Aye” (I Wanna Go Home, 1234 Go!, 2009) Mind Spiders, “You Are Dead” (Meltdown, Dirtnap, 2012) Personal and the Pizzas, “Tearjerker” (Raw Pie, 1234 Go!, 2009) --- King Khan & The BBQ Show, “Invisible Girl” (Invisible Girl, In the Red, 2009)

“We're the people you don't wanna know/We come from places you don't wanna go….” – Sham 69 Those words resonated hard with me for obvious reason: they described exactly how I, and many others, felt. The punk of my formative years occurred in a wildly different world, one where people were openly hostile towards anyone who dared to be even slightly different – a silly haircut and the cut of one's jeans was an open invite to trucks filled with morons hunt you down to yell “Devo!” or “Faggot!” at you, pelt you with eggs, or worse; relatives told you they'd “beat the shit out of you” if you were their kid; cops fucked with for simply waiting for a bus and each excursion out the front door felt like a mad dash through enemy territory. Now imagine trying to be defiantly different in East Los Angeles. Fun abounded. It was, of course, tough early on, when there were only two of us in our immediate area that we knew of. Soon, though, we found another, then two more, then whole groups of kids grooving on the same vibe just around the corner, down the block and in the next 'hood over. Before I knew it we had a bit of a scene going, with bands forming and breaking up, kids fighting in backyards and, most importantly ideas and music from all over the world freely flowing back and forth. Most “normal” people still didn't wanna know us, but fuck 'em, their loss. This is the last of some podcasts featuring stuff my teenaged self liked to listen to, a theme initially suggested by Todd and ridiculously overkilled by me – he asked for one, I delivered four. The dearth of eastside punk/hardcore here is intentional – I've covered those efforts in two other podcasts, so this is stuff floating in from outside the neighborhoods. While it was a large part of my diet, punk rock was not the only thing I was listening to: metal, psychedelic rock, ‘60s rock, hip hop, soul, jazz, blues, Mexican music, disco, funk, art rock, new wave and a whole bunch of other stuff were making the rounds. This I feel is important to note, because one can't eat ham sandwiches the whole day and not end up somehow stunted. Same with music: you stick to solely the same thing, you don't grow. As mentioned prior, my exposure to most of the stuff here came from various sources and instead of prattling on more about things “back in the day,” I just want to take a quick minute to thank the following: Andrea ‘Enthal and Liz from 12 o' Clock Rock; Adam Bomb of The Final Countdown; Stella of Stray Pop; Rodney Bingenheimer of Rodney on the Roq; some thirty years of KXLU daytime DJs; Al, Hud and the Flipside folks; Thomas, Steve, Brady, Joe and all the Ink Disease folks; the Maximum Rocknroll folks; SFTG fanzine; Peter Ivers and New Wave Theatre; Shane; Tito; The Rodarte twins; Webster; Beatle; Happy; Topo; Boomer; Eyeball Ernie; Bear 'n' Mando; Boots; Becky; Mousie; Mike; Yogi; Matt; Stinky; Billy Branch; Brother Al; Kenny the Weasel; Art Muñoz; Ponyboy; Zambo 'n' Morris; Jaime; Mando Fimbrez; Junior; Gary Pogo; Scotto; Sluggo; Caesar; John Blakely; Mike Vallejo; Jake Smith; the East Side Punks tribe; the men of OBS; Danna and the Monterey Park punker kids; the Bloodcum boys; the Montebello UPA crowd; all the bands in the backyards, halls, clubs, on records and tapes traded back and forth, and anyone who ever popped in some music on the way to a gig, in between practice sessions, between band sets, at one of many drunken reveries, while waiting for the bus, or just ‘cause it was too damned quiet. Thanks also to Todd ‘n' Daryl for lettin' me drag this on for four podcasts, and to those of you who bothered to listen to any or all of 'em. –Jimmy To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To pla

There's no theme to this podcast. I was just down at Razorcake HQ and had a little extra time, so I teamed up with Todd to spin some records. Everything here came off a seven-inch. Some of this music should be very familiar to Razorcake readers. Some of it is almost impossible to get your hands on. Nothing really connects the songs other than that the records happened to be by my record player when I was getting ready to head over to the HQ. Well, that and it's all fucking awesome. I hope you enjoy it. –Sean Carswell To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #241 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: Marked Men “Oh My Pretty Face” --- That's Incredible “80 Doing 90” Minds “Knifed” Rough Kids “Why So Serious” --- Closet Fairies “Union Suit” Whiskey Sunday “Laughing Academics” Broken Bottles “Suburban Dream” Teenage Bottlerocket “Why I Let You Go” Witches With Dicks “Second Chance” The Tiffs “Background Music” --- Epoxies “Synthesized” This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb “Jack Johnson” Superchunk “Blinders” Unlovables “Ramona” God Damn Doo Wop Band “I'll Always Be Your Girl” --- Birthday Suits “It's About Time”

Hüsker dü? I can never forget. Here's a grab bag of tracks, new and old. –Daryl To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #240 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: Toys That Kill, "FamBLY" (Fambly 42, Recess) Flesh Eaters, "Secret Life" (Destroyed By Fire, SST) --- Neon Piss, "Siege Mentality" (Self-titled, Deranged) Them Martyrs, "Back Masking" (Wretched, Girth / Champion Edition / Randal) Hüsker Dü, "Helter Skelter (live)" (Don't Wanna Know If You're Lonely Maxi-Single) Young Guv & The Scuzz, "Not in It For the Good Time" (A Love Too Strong, South Paw) --- Dicks, "All Night Fever" (Hate the Police, 1-2-3-4 Go!) Hickey, "Last Nite on the Planet" (Various States of Disrepair, 1-2-3-4 Go!) Crucifix, "See Through Their Lies" (Dehumanization, Corpus Christi) Black Wine, "Naysayer" (Hollow Earth, Don Giovanni) --- Divers, "Montrose" (Self-titled, Rumbletowne) Brokedowns, "Beast Resources Part IV" (Split with Wide Angles, Cassette Deck) Criminal Code, "No Such Omen" (Hollowed, Deranged) The Controllers, "Suburban Suicide" (Self-titled, Dionysus) --- Red Dons, "Ausländer" (Ausländer, Dirtnap)

Up to this point I've been laying off the hardcore, for the most part, in favor of a more diverse selection of the punk-oriented stuff that was in the air during the period I was thirteen to twenty years old. While it's true that I was listening to a lot of different stuff thanks to the varied tastes of friends, radio programmers and my own odd sonic proclivities, it'd be disingenuous to imply that I/we didn't listen to hardcore, which was the prevailing form of the period. I listened to a friggin' ton of the stuff (still do, to be perfectly honest), and adored it, damned near every band I was in at the time was playing some sort of hardcore variant and I was buying records of it with every spare dollar I could keep hold of. This podcast is part three of a sampling of some of the zippy, noisy shit that got me, and many other locals, careening off of walls. How the hell a buncha kids from the eastside of Los Angeles found out about obscure bands from places like Florida, Holland, Finland and Sweden is a testament to the efforts of late night radio DJs, hip record stores and the tenacity of rags like Flipside and MRR. I thank 'em kindly. –Jimmy Alvarado To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #239 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: Zany Guys, “Hardcore” (Party Hits Vol. II EP, Placebo) Hated Youth, “Hardcore Rules” (We Can't Help it if we're from Florida comp, Destroy) Disorder, “Provocated War” (The Riot City Years, Step-1) Zero Boys, “Outta Style” (Vicious Circle, Toxic Shock) Bad Brains, “Pay to Cum” (Self-titled, ROIR) BGK, “Gone Mad” (White Male Dumbinance EP, Vögelspin) Cause for Alarm, “True Colors” (Self-titled EP, self-released) Roach Motel, “More Beer” (Roach & Roll EP, Destroy) --- Artistic Decline, “Reality or Dream” (Random Violence, Deco) Crewd, “Soldier of Fortune” (Gather 'Round, Bemisbrain) Grim, “No Respect” (Getting Revenge in ‘Merica EP, Mystic) The Klan, “Cover Girls” (Pushin' Too Hard single, Posh Boy) Agression, “Body Count” (Don't Be Mistaken LP, BYO) Code of Honor, “Fight or Die” (Split LP w/ Sick Pleasure, Subterranean) Necros, “IQ32” (IQ32 EP, Touch & Go) Gang Green, “Terrorize” (Old School, Taang) Battalion of Saints, “Second Coming” (Second Coming single, Mystic) Deranged Diction, “Kill or be Killed” (Eat Me cassette comp, BCT) McDonalds, “Miniature Golf” (Process of Elimination compilation, Touch & Go) Pig Children, “Sick” (Blood for the State EP, Savage Beat) --- Conflict (Tucson), “Fester” (Last Hour, Placebo) Conservatives, “Beaver Cleaver” (You Can't Argue withSucksess comp, Mystic) Beyond Possession, “What's the Matter” (Tell Tale Heart 7” EP, Fango) Nip Drivers, “Dog & a Cow” (Destroy Whitey, New Alliance) Clitboys, “Gay's OK” (We Don't Play the Game EP, Feedback) Target of Demand, “Botulizm” (Man's Ruin, Happy Hermit) Final Conflict, “Central America” (Ashes to Ashes, Tackle Box) Mob 47, “Rustning är ett brott” (Kärnvapen Attack EP, Uproar) Terveet Kädet, “T. Tuho” (Ääretön Joulu EP, Poko)

Too much nostalgia kills hearing. (1984, 1984, Groundhogs Day, 1984, 1984.) Too much idolatry forms gods and heroes. Too much digital distance and you can't smell the sweat, can't form blood friendships. Music that's purely consumption is like pouring a digital soda pop into your ear; endless empty calories, cultural diabetes. Music that's a give and a take; that's what I'm interested in. DIY punk rock: Diverse. Squirmy. Fuzzy. Don't be fooled. Check out its still-vibrant edges during a time when many of its former and present “heroes” are getting bought and sold like branded cans on a shelf. This batch spans unreleased demos, recently unearthed gold, and gifts from close friends. –Todd Taylor To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #238 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: Taxpayers, “Atlanta's Own” (UselessState / Asian Man / Really) Hickey, “El Farolito” (1-2-3-4-Go!) A33, third from last --- Dicks, “No Nazi's Friend” (Alternative Tentacles) Riverboat Gamblers, “Blue Ghost” (Volcom) The Bertos, “Ghosts” (unreleased) Iron Chic, “You Know What I Mean, Jellybean?” (86'd, Banquet) --- Ambition Mission, “Amerikan in Me” (Smilin' Bob) Full Of Fancy, “Blue Black” (No Breaks) English Singles, “Disaster” (Squirmy) Young Guv And The Scuzz, “Not in It for the Good Time” (Southpaw) --- Rose Cross, “Sleep Alone” (Drugged Conscience) Awful Man, “Words Fail” (Dead Broke / It's Not A Phase, Dad) The Crowd, “No Other” (Hostage) The Arrivals, “Alright” (Smilin' Bob) --- Ty Segall Band, “Tell Me What's Inside Your Heart” (In The Red) Hickey, “Hey Cutie Pie” (1-2-3-4-Go!)

A dark cloud hung around the Canadian Rifle guys that weekend. Things hadn't necessarily gone according to plan. Call it bad luck, call it reality, shit happens. You can either let it beat you, or you can preserver. They accepted what they had to do and kept going. Didn't miss any shows, did the interview, played the cards they were dealt. Below is the audio that was transcribed for their interview in Razorcake #69 (http://www.razorcake.org/store/razorcake-69). Hopefully the sound of their voices will add to their story. Thanks for listening. -Daryl To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) INTERVIEW WITH CANADIAN RIFLE

(Glictch art by Candice Tobin) Welcome to my fifth podcast for Razorcake! As I mentioned in the actual podcast, this time around I picked out several different songs from bands I am currently enjoying the fuck out of and/or are also currently active. Actively seeking out music beyond the comfort and ease of digital downloading is important to me. In fact, I can't name one band whose record that I didn't buy that I've downloaded onto a computer. If there were ever trends that I'd like to see spread like wildfire they would involve more people in the record stores and more mail carriers delivering packages (with records of course) to people's doorsteps. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy! -Juan To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #237 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: Tranzmitors, “Writing on the Wall”, Writing on the Wall b/w Dream Our Dreams Away 7”(React!) --- Big Eyes, “Back From the Moon”, Back From the Moon b/w I Don't Care about Friday Night 7”(Grave Mistake) Occult Detective Club, “Ships at Sea” Split 10” with Something Fierce (Dirtnap) Give, “Boots of Faith” Boots of Faith b/w Going Confetti 7”(Deranged) --- Hatred Surge, “Brutal Tyranny” Brutal Supremacy double 7” comp (Painkiller) Mob Rules, “Untitled”, The Donor LP (Sorry State) No Statik, “Earhammer Soundsystem” Never Be a Martyr b/w Earhammer Soundsystem 7” (No Statik) The Ropes, “Down In Flames”, Demo II 7” (Youth Attack) --- Total Control, “Rogue Abortion”, Split 12” with Thee Oh Sees (Castle Face) Giant Haystacks, “Slack Nail”, Split 12” with Young Offenders (625) Tenement, “City Bus #30”, Napalm Dream (Mandible) --- Little Cuts “What We Can't Deny”, Bishop Eyes b/w What We Can't Deny 7” (Bag Of Hammers)

I'm self-analyzing myself. I think I'm going through a reverse mid-life crisis. I've done everything backwards. I went to college directly after high school. I took summer school every year, and graduated with a master's in literature at twenty-three. Then, through a series of what Bob Ross would call “happy accidents,” I started working on zines and clawed inside of DIY punk full time. Often by having other jobs. Often by just flat-out hustling side work and working sixty hour weeks to not be a shitbag loafer, yet pushing time aside to full-time create and contribute. Now I'm forty and I've been doing what I really want to do for the past seventeen years without lapse. It's the opposite of the dillhole who suddenly realizes that their life's half over and they attempt to fill that void with the illusion of security and glistening merchandise. Regrets, I've got tons. But none of them revolve around making the wrong life choice. It's still a tremendous daily struggle, but, fuck, the soundtrack is great. With this collection of songs—many, but not all—reflect a clutch of bands and musicians that have made long-term decisions to pay back into a living culture that is far-too-often invisible, far-too-frequently taken advantage of, and rarely given its due in real time. –Todd Taylor To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #236 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: Toys That Kill, “Stye” (Recess) --- RVIVR, “Seethin'” (Rumbletowne) Vånna Inget, “Våra Drömmars Död” (Erste Theke Tonträger) Cholita, “Chinga Tu Madre” (Artifix) Joint D≠, “Depth Charge” (Sorry State) --- Mind Spiders, “Wait for Us” (Dirtnap) Low Culture, “Travel Song” (Rad Girlfriend / Drunken Sailor / Dead Broke) Tenement, “Perverse Universe” (Lets Pretend / No Brakes) Treasure Fleet, “High on a Bicycle” (Recess) --- Big Eyes, “Back from the Moon” (Grave Mistake) Taxpayers, “Who the Hell Are You?” (Asian Man / Really) Sick Sick Birds, “Olive” (Toxic Pop) Wild Assumptions, “Roots” (Plan-It-X / Lost Cat / Sweethearts With Slingshots) --- Rocket From The Crypt, “California Lights” (Swami) Mean Jeans, “Don't Stop Partying” (Dirtnap)

For this edition of the podcast, I decided to pair up two bands who have songs with the same title. They're different songs, no covers, they just happen to share the same title. And somehow I unintentionally ended up with four bands on Dischord Records out of that. Not sure how that happened. Oh well. –Kurt Morris welcometoflavorcountry@gmail.com To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #235 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting The Dollar Cannon, “By Design” (Are You Here?, ?) Rites of Spring, “By Design” (End on End, Dischord) --- Bob Mould, “Circles” (Body of Song, Yep Roc) Dag Nasty, “Circles” (20 Years of Dischord Box Set, Dischord) Cancer Bats, “Grenades” (Birthing the Giant, Abacus) Torche, “Grenades” (Meanderthal, Hydra Head) --- Channels, “Mayday” (Waiting For The Next End Of The World, Dischord) All State Champion, “Mayday” (s/t, Five One Inc.) Burning Love, “The Body” (Rotten Thing to Say, Southern Lord) Osker, “The Body” (Idle Will Kill, Epitaph) --- Artificial Peace, “Wasteland” (20 Years of Dischord Box Set, Dischord) Whirlpool, “Wasteland” (In-Flight Program, Revelation)

I am Bill Pinkel and this is my third Razorcake podcast. This time around I just grabbed a stack of records from my recent listening pile and headed over to Todd's dude cave. We cracked a couple Tecates and played some stuff I've been into lately. If I sound distracted and weird it's probably because I was stressing out the whole time about what to play since I did absolutely no preparation whatsoever. In fact, this podcast was supposed to come out weeks ago, but I've been kinda busy and I lost the playlist twice. So Todd had Daryl threaten me via email until I sent him what he needed. Honestly, all this nonsense speaks to my rather dubious character. Despite the overarching theme of slackerdom that envelopes virtually everything I touch, this podcast may have come out pretty good. Just looking at the playlist I feel like I played some decent stuff. I'm still on the fence about the Bam Bams. Also I believe at one point I offered to “rear-naked choke” Todd. Please ignore this and any other weird sex puns I probably made and enjoy the podcast. –Bill Pinkel To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #234 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: White Lung, "Bag" (Sorry, Deranged) The Bam Bams, "Tickle Party" (Self-titled 7",???) --- Young Governor, "Pizza Face" (Pizza Face, S-P) Punch, "Stay Afloat" (Push Pull, 625 Thrash Core) The Max Levine Ensemble, "Last of the Assholes" (Elephant in the Room, Fuck You Is A Seven Letter Word) Neon Piss, "Tabula Rasa" (Self-titled, Deranged) --- Terrible Feelings, "Thrash & Burn" (Blank Heads, Este Theke Tontrager) The Plasmatics, "Butcher Baby" (New Hope for the Wretched, Thick) Youth Avoiders, "Run" (Time Flies, Build Me A Bomb) The Observers, "Symbols, Slogans, Lies" (So What's Left Now?, Vinyl Warning) Nervosas, "Anxious Tendencies" (Rev 45, Meth Mouth) --- The Brokedowns, "The S.A.R.S. Groove" (New Brains for Everyone, Traffic Street) The Dickies, "Hunchback" (Stukas over Disneyland, Restless) Witch Hunt, "Sick Game" (As Priorities Decay, Profane Existence) B-Lines, "PsychedelicHigh School" (Self-titled, Deranged) --- Bossy, "Walk Around" (The Best of Bossy, Wild World)

A brief snippet of a conversation that took place in Guidance class, Spring 1986, Franklin High School, Highland Park, CA: Cute Disco Girl (looking at my clothing): What kind of music do you listen to? Me: Me? I'll listen to almost anything. Mostly I listen to punk rock though. Cute Disco Girl's Boyfriend: Punk rock sucks, man. Me: (Roll my eyes, thinking, “Here we go again”) Cute Disco Girl: I've never heard punk rock. Cute Disco Girl's Boyfriend: Yeah, me neither. Me (looking incredulously at the boyfriend): Well, then, how the fuck can you say you don't like it if you've never ever heard it? Cute Disco Girl's Boyfriend (sits back, smug): Maybe I haven't heard it, but I know I don't like it. I've had variants of this conversation too many times to count over the years with people much smarter than that eraser-headed dipshit, folks who should've marveled at the breadth of diverse sounds that had developed from punk in such a relatively brief period, and the myriad of doors it opened to other cool sounds, “reggae, gamelan, classical, norteño, blues, I could go on all day. Punk wasn't just a musical style to me, it was an appellation for the way I'd been my whole life, “the perennial outsider with the slightly off-kilter fashion sense, the messy hair, the weird musical taste (while the other kids in elementary school were grooving on Steve Miller and the Commodores, I was engaging in heated discussions with my cousin about whether or not Space Ace was really an alien, if Devo were robots and if The Nuge could really play guitar so fast his hands would become invisible), and had an incessant need to question everything he was told. My father, from whom I'm certain my adoration music directly stems, HATED punk rock. Outrage from some half-heard lyrical snippet or an EP's cover art would result in shouting matches, posters and flyers being ripped from bedroom walls and what records I'd amassed up to that point being tossed out into the garbage cans. This happened often and, considering it was coming from an artist and gang counselor who'd made a career out of trying to understand kids and thought of himself as open-minded, was frustrating as hell. How could he not see the “art” in all of it, from the homemade clothes (no Hot Topic then, so clothes were decorated with spraypaint, markers, food coloring and, in one instance, cow's blood left over from a hunk of steak my mom cooked for dinner) to the sonic dissonance to the various visuals employed? No amount of explaining would make him see why it was so important to me. Until one day he decided to go into our room when we were at school, plop a record onto the turntable and listento it, and he finally got it, “the humor, the sarcasm, the challenging of staid thinking, the artistic push against barriers and, yes, the being offensive for offensiveness' sake. Soon after, the bands he'd especially loathed, “X and Fear, “he was a bona fide fan of, he became supportive of the attempts at artistic expression of me and the clutch of friends I was hanging with at the time, and he even attended an eastside backyard punk party or two. He learned to respect my judgment and, to his dying day, would shout, “Let's have a war and blame it on the middle class!” and thought Fear was hilarious. As for Mr. Disco Boyfriend, I imagine he never wised up, and I hope Disco Girl dumped him for a dude with “BITE ME” shaved into the side of his head, and his kids ended up in powerviolence bands. Here's part two of a partial soundtrack for too many nights of damaging my hearing and my liver. –Jimmy To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music fi

I've been a little burnt out lately, but I'm getting back into things with a new setup. So I decided to sit in front on my music collection for a couple nights and just pick some songs. This podcast and the next one are what came out of that. Most of it is probably old or obscure, but that's just the way things go I suppose. –Russ Van Cleave To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #229 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: 1) Mutoid Men, “Orbit” from Mutoid World (Rumbletowne Records) 2) Carl Perkins, “Sure To Fall” from Original Sun Greatest Hits (Rhino Records) 3) Common Rider, “True Rulers” from Last Wave Rockers (Panic Button Records) 4) Vagrants, “Berthe” from Can Of Pork (Lookout! Records) 5) Gateway District, “Highway Song” from Some Days You Get The Thunder (It's Alive Records) 6) Bill Moss, “Number One” from Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label (Numero Group) 7) Good Luck, “Contact” from Without Hesitation (No Idea Records) 8) Tony Wain & The Payne, “Old Sunshine” from Don't Worry About Anything Ever (Family Night Records) 9) The Cure, “Close To Me” from Mixed Up 10) The Brokedowns, “Celebrity Death Panel” from Species Bender (Red Scare Records) 11) Angelic Upstarts, “Last Night Another Soldier” from 2,000,000 Voices (EMI Records) 12) Impact All Stars, “Last Of The Jestering” from Dub Reggae Essentials (Hip-O Records) 13) The Velvet Underground, “Who Loves The Sun” from Loaded 14) The Tremeloes, “Here Comes My Baby” from Here Comes My Baby 15 Joe Newman, “Until The Real Thing Comes Along” from Atlantic Jazz: Kansas City Extra Notes: The Mutoid Men didn't play the show I saw, but I think one of the guys from RVIVR is in the band or was roadie-ing for them or something. I don't know. Somebody else can set me straight. Regardless, this is a good, good record. Jay Perkins is Carl's brother. Gotta love them sibling harmonies. Common Rider was sort of an all-star super group (look ‘em up.) I thought this was one of their better songs. Been listening to this lately and thought I would throw this track down. Vagrants is one of those East Bay bands I just don't much about. I think they had one other Lookout! EP that I seem to recall is pretty good, but I don't have it. Gateway District is one of the best bands around right now in my humble opinion. They just put out another record last year which is also really good, but this song had to be played. Bill Moss is another one of those guys that I never would have heard of had it not been for the Numero Group. They have yet to let me down. This Good Luck record is one amazing piece of vinyl. Tony Wain & The Payne are unlike many things I've heard, but familiar at the same time. Somehow they pull off that magic combination. I don't know much of anything else about them. I think they're from Asheville. Check out http://familynightrecords.com/ for more good stuff including recordings from the legendary Peter Stubb. Yea…I know and I don't care…I borrowed Mixed Up from my bother and glued it in my car tape player for most of 1992. The Brokedowns! Some of Chicago's finest… Damn I love this song….my friend Shawn got me into these guys and I had a copy on the Angelic Up