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Listen here: French Exit Interview Podcast I like French stuff. French fries, French onion soup, French bread pizza. Hell, I'll even drink a Perrier if the beer is all gone. So it shouldn't be surprising that when I noticed French Exit's name on several show lineups in the Los Angeles area, I pulled them up on the ol' Interwebs and checked out their small back catalog of Bandcamp releases. I was happy to find this seemed to be a band that was able to create catchy, anthemic, mid-tempo punk rock with some self-loathing and self-deprecation mixed in lyrically. In short, right up my alley, though not necessarily something I'd expected to find in my own backyard geographically. I kind of forgot about them until I got a copy of the band's criminally overlooked debut full-length, Guts & Black Stuff late last year. Everything I remembered was there: the crunchy, taut, two-guitar sound, the shouting/singing dual vocalists and the thoughtful yet totally relatable lyrics. To my ears, something else was at play that I hadn't noticed in their earlier work. The album's production was as impressive as the songs and performance. What isn't present is as important as what is: the guitar tones are raw and biting, refreshingly not drenched in studio effects—a “Gibsons plugged directly into Marshalls” kind of thing. Every whoa-oh and every background vocal is so well placed. Nothing is hiding behind walls of reverb. Who was responsible for crafting the band's sound? Turns out their bassist Tim is also the band's engineer, who was present for our interview along with the dual guitarist/vocalists Bob and Anthony. Drummer Duke was absent. Coincidentally, I ran into Bob and Anthony before the interview in the local liquor store, all of us picking up the requisite brewed beverages needed for the interview. I glanced at them and they at me, intuitively guessing each other's purpose as we paid for the goods and left. Four minutes later, as I walked up the hill to Razorcake HQ there they were, beer in hand. We all laughed about the liquor store encounter and introduced ourselves. I was confident this interview was going to be fun and interesting. I was not disappointed. Introduction by: Garrett Barnwell Interview by Garrett Barnwell and 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.) Listen here: French Exit Interview Podcast 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. If you'd like to read this interview, zine-style, it was in issue 81 And here are some reviews we've done over the years Guts & Black Stuff Guts & Black Stuff, deux French Exit / Signals Midwest: Split: 7” Worst Case Scenario 7” Demo CD-R

Oh, man. ADD/C was right. Busy days, indeed. I finally found enough spare minutes to crank out another podcast. No particular format or theme here – just another grouping of enjoyable tunes that have been floating their compressions and rarefractions across the air molecules in the vicinity of my stereo. I am struck – having now looked at this list – by the fact that the oldest song on here dates back to about 1981 and only one other song here was recorded in the ‘80s, i.e. this is a relatively recent collection of jams compared to what I usually whip together. Times are weird and gettin' weirder. –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 #338 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 Doughboys, “I Remember” from Whatever(MTL) --- Hard-Ons, “Throw It In” from Love Is a Battlefield of Wounded Hearts(Taang!) Bombsite, “Planted Seeds” from V/A No Slow…All Go! (The Daggers / Half-Mast) French Exit, “When There's a Fork in the Road, Take It” from Guts & Black Stuff (It's Alive) --- ADD/C, “Itch” from Busy Days (Mauled By Tigers / Plan-It-X South) Pete Shelley, “Homosapien” from Homosapien(Uh-Wrist-Ah) Small, “Toastmaster” from Chin Music(Alias) --- The Draft, “Wired” from In a Million Pieces (No Idea) Action Patrol, “Tube” from 1993-96: On Patrol (Whirled) Rivethead, “Thirty Miles Down” from City Sound Number Five (Blood Of The Young) --- Ye Olde Buttfuck, “Special News” from The Burden of the Southern Future(Raw Sugar) The Y, “Rubik's Dude” from Sooo… Intense(Soooo Intense) Dark Rides, “Dance for Rain” from Dark Rides (Do Ya Hear We) --- Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer, “Redemption Song” from Unearthed(Universe Aluminum) Doughboys: I know I started another recent podcast off with a Doughboys song awhile back, but I just couldn't help it. While I would consider Home Again to be their best record, I felt that this song from their first LP would be a good opening rocker for this installment. I'll try and bring everything full circle eventually in future podcasts with some Asexuals and All Systems Go!, but probably not before we branch off into some Big Drill Car and M.I.A. Hard-Ons: This is one of the best songs from what I would consider to be the best Hard-Ons record. Whenever life has got you down, just remember that the most successful independent band ever to come out of Australia is named after a slang word for male erections. Bombsite: I just saw a review of a release from this classic MPLS band in the last Razorcake. Apparently, Bombsite has just released a collection of sorts, so I had to pull this gem out of the archives. I first heard these guys on theNo Slow…All Go! Comp. I bought that comp at behest of the merch guy at the first D4 show I saw and it turned me on to a bunch of great MPLS bands: Man Afraid, Code 13, The Salteens, Dirt Poor and, of course, these guys. French Exit: Continuing with the Razorcake theme, I decided to play a song from one of the featured bands from the last issue. Some kind soul at Razorcake HQ dropped this CD in with my subscription renewal and I've been rockin' it ever since. ADD/C: ChattanoogaRockCity! A cut from the highly recommended Busy Days LP. Pete Shelley: I

I'm starting a new trilogy of podcasts, Razorcake listeners, so watch out! This one is based on the calendar. So to start with I have songs with days of the weeks in the title. I'll follow it up with months in the title and then one with the word “year” or “years” in the song titles. You've been warned. It's gonna be epic. Well, maybe not epic, but it'll be fun. For me. –Kurt welcometoflavorcountry@gmail.com PS. Contrary to what I said in the podcast, you can't listen to the interview with Avail for which I wrote the introduction, but you can READ it here. 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 #337 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: Trans Megetti, “On the Monday” (Fading Left to Completely On) --- Avail, “Tuesday” (4 AM Friday) The Weakerthans, “Wellington's Wednesday” (Fallow) The Undertones, “Wednesday Week” (The Best of The Undertones) Knapsack, “Thursday Side of the Street” (Day Three of My New Life) The Killingtons, “Thursday” (Redwood Records: A Collection) --- Carpenter, “Just Another Friday Night” (Sea to Sky) Mutoid Man, “Friday the 13/8” (Helium Head) Ultravox, “Saturday Night in the City of the Dead” (No Thanks! The ‘70s Punk Rebellion) The Cure, “10:15 Saturday Night” (Staring at the Sea) --- Morrissey, “Everyday Is Like Sunday” (Bona Drag)

“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all—it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday." –Marty Ploy 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 #336 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: Turkish Techno, "Days," Number 2 (LP), (Dirt Cult) **unreleased** --- Beach Slang, "Get Lost ,” Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken 7" (Dead Broke) Everybody Row, "The Sea Inside," The Sea Inside 7" (Vitriol) Big Eyes, "Back from the Moon," Back from the Moon 7" (Grave Mistake) Dead Bars, "Just Fine,” Split w/ SunshineState 7” (No Idea) --- Murmurs, "Villa Kula,” Bound LP (Dead Broke) Poor Form, "Put It Off,” 7" (Minor Bird) **unreleased** Model Talk, "High Hopes,” Demo **unreleased** Hillary Chillton, "Mitosis," Split w/ Void Boys tape (Tuesday Tapes) --- Shang-A-Lang, "Friends Grow Up,” Error: You Cannot Add Yourself as a Friend EP 7" (Dirt Cult) Hidden Spots, "Most Important Thing," Self-titled 7" (A.D.D.) Tiltwheel, "Boat in Boiling Water,” 4-way split 7" (A.D.D.) Drunk Dial, "Never an Adult Moment,” Down//Out EP 7" (FYL) **unreleased** --- Crimpshrine, "Inspiration," Quit Talkin' Claude 7” (Lookout)

Listen here: DOPAMINES TOP SHELF INTERVIEW MP3 For our second Top Shelf installment, Jon Lewis—guitarist and co-vocalist of Cincinnati's The Dopamines—sits down with Dave Drobach and Matt Sweeting to talk about 2010's Expect the Worst. In addition to being released on Gainesville's Paper + Plastick, the album was recorded right here in our fair city, and The Dopamines have been known to tour with a Gainesville band or two. Also, Mikey Erg gets name-dropped. –Replay Dave 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.) DOPAMINES TOP SHELF INTERVIEW MP3 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.

I don't have much to say for this one except that putting it together is what kept me together throughout the boring week. I hurt my back and couldn't train. This led to my being super bored and depressed, moping around the house when I remembered, “I have something important to do!” Assembling my podcast is sometimes done hastily, guided more by passion and that week's musical whims than any sort of planned out sonic attack, but on this one I really thought it out. I dug through every record I have at the B-Space, wrote out a bunch of set lists that got trashed, debated over which tracks to play by what artists in what order. I wanted to open with a track that promised a good time, take you on a wild ride, then bring you back down in a somber tone. Hopefully that was accomplished. If not, I apologize, but thank you for listening and supporting Razorcake regardless. –Rene 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 #334 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: Masshysteri, “MassHysteri Del Tva” --- Stranglers, “The Duchess” XTC, “Senses Working Overtime” Wire, “Ex-Lion Tamer” Talking Heads, “The Book I Read” --- Reigning Sound, “Stormy Weather”/ “Straight Shooter” Ramones, “Havana Affair” Replacements, “I Will Dare” --- Fucked Up, “Disorder” X, “Burning House of Love” Spokenest, “We Move” Tenement, “Dreaming Out Loud” --- Hank Williams, “Wealth Won't Save Your Soul”

I've recently come across a couple of interesting web articles featuring two high profile record collectors. One was of a Brazilian fellow who is the proud owner of a collection of more than five million LPs. The other was of a Pittsburgh man with a mere three million records. The Brazilian gentleman is a millionaire who began collecting in his teens only to amass a collection that he is now in the process of converting into a public library. The Philly dude owned a record store for several years and quickly built his record empire by insisting on ordering a personal copy of every single release that came through his store. He is currently looking for a buyer for the reasonable asking price of a dollar a record. Yup: three million big ones. The United States library of congress passed on it, citing “budget cuts” because, you know, the U.S. government can't profit off vinyl recordings the way they can with weapons manufacturing or public healthcare. After reading the articles, two thoughts immediately came to mind. The first being that I will never in my life have the money to purchase, let alone house, a million records. The second was: how much fucking art can you take? Let's not kid ourselves. There is already an unbelievably large surplus of garbage records floating around in the used records section of any respectable record store, thrift shop, garage sale, what-have-you. I can't help but imagine that a good number of them are part of these “prized” collections. I'm not going to tell you or anyone how to collect. I am guilty of being as picky, superficial, and skeptical as any other shameless, pretentious record collecting asshole. My only suggestion is that if you fancy yourself a record collector, please consider what these globs of oil mean to you. Are they there for show or for listening pleasure? Do they represent your love of good music or a talking point? If anything, I hope we can all agree that record collecting can be as fun as it can be an unhealthy obsession. Let me tell you, though, fun is a lot more fun. –Juan Espinosa 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 #333 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: Yacht Club, “Tropicana” Tropicana 7” (Burger) --- Hank Wood And The Hammerheads, “The Ghost” Stay Home! LP (Toxic State) Condominium, “Thug” Thug 7” (Self-released) Una Bestia Incontrolable, “La Primera Foguera” Observant Com el Món es Destrueix 12” EP (La Vida En Un Mus) --- Earth Girls, “Unavailable” Wrong Side of History 7” EP (Grave Mistake) Steve Adamyk Band, “MRI” Dial Tone LP (Dirtnap) Arctic Flowers, “Anamnesis” Weaver LP (Deranged) Catholic Spit, “I'm Your god Now” A Pact with the Devil 12” EP (Crapoulet / Symphony Of Destruction) --- Who Killed Spikey Jacket?, “Spike Your Hair with Beer” Beer Storm Trooper7” (Headcount) Cülo, “Adult Life Is No Fun” My Life Sucks and I Could Care Less LP (Deranged) Civilized, “Wallflower” Dust and Blood7” EP (Youth Attack) Kontaminat, “Why I Grew Up Loving Israel” Self-titled 7” EP (Lengua Armada) --- Flesh World, “A Wet Line in the Grass” “A Wet Line in the Grass” b/w “Not a Soul” 7” (Iron Lung)

Let me explain how these things come together for me: I'm often thinking up ideas of themes for podcasts for Razorcake. I go through dry spells and then there's a torrent of inspiration. Something about a band's name or song title will strike me and it all comes together. I search through my iTunes (yeah, I'm all digital—sorry vinyl nerds) and see what I can find that fits the theme. An extensive list of songs is made and then I try and look for bands I haven't played before (or at least not too often). Based on that I narrow it down so the music clocks in between thirty-five and forty-five minutes (with my talking I like it to come in at between forty and fifty minutes). Then I arrange the songs so there's a good flow from one track to the next. I usually like certain genres and sounds to fit together in blocks and the opener and closer of the podcast both need to be strong. I load it all up into Garageband and put the songs in order, spacing them out, and creating some gaps to record my voiceover in between sets. Then I work my magic, say stupid things, stumble over my words, and make jokes that only I understand. The whole recording process usually doesn't take any more than thirty minutes by the time I yell at Garageband a few times and have to go back and record sections because my roommate slammed the door in the background or a truck decided to back up outside my window for five minutes. I try and keep it “somewhat” professional. At least so you, the listener, are not distracted. Finally, I check levels on my vocals and all the songs so that they're all equal and sync up all the tracks so there are no gaps in between anything. I send it from Garageband to my iTunes and listen to it a couple of times with headphones on to hear for anything I don't think I can live with. And voila! You have a podcast. I send it over to Razorcake folks along with my setlist and a photo and they take care of the rest. For this particular podcast, I don't remember which of the bands spawned the idea, but it hit me: bands with body parts in their names. It seemed like a good idea. And it was an excuse to play Agoraphobic Nosebleed. That's too good of a band name to pass up. –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 #332 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: Ten Foot Pole, “John” (Unleashed) --- Lungfish, “Friend to Friend in Endtime” (20 Years of Dischord) Gunmothers Head, “Sleeping Science” (Well, I Don't See Why Not, Vol. 3) Motörhead, “Going to Mexico” (Aftershock) Agoraphobic Nosebleed, “Pentagram Constellation” (The Poacher Diaries) Small Arms Dealer, “Today I Discovered the World” (Cover Your Tracks) --- Stiff Little Fingers, “Suspect Device” (No Thanks!) Brainiac, “Flash Ram” (Electro-Shock For President) Bad Brains, “Big Take Over” (Self-titled) The Redneck Manifesto, “Paint The Dilebloa Pink” (I Am Brazil) --- Cross My Heart, “The Reason I Failed History” (The Reason I Failed History)

GENERACION SUICIDA INTERVIEW MP3 Los Angeles is an unsolved mystery that's shattered into hundreds of pieces: mirrors, daggers, broken things. In Los Angeles, DIY punk isn't one thing. It's not a unified scene, which is both a blessing and a curse. It's a wide, fissured spectrum, a spectrum that also gets routinely shattered or too-thinly sliced by subgenre. It's fractured by the immense geography of Los Angeles itself. People—punks included—become isolated by rivers, freeways, social class, customs, race, transit lines, and invisible lines that separate neighborhoods, sometimes mid-street that you'd never know about until you live there yourself or are shown by someone who does. Further deepen that segregation with generations-old neighborhood pride and prejudice, to friends parting ways over ego, to hubris, and issues of trying to become the police chiefs of their punk scenes. The isolation and separation doesn't end at doorsteps. It goes deeper, more personal, to the spelling and slanginess of the words, to birthplaces, to skin color, to the darkness or lightness of skin color within a skin color. To blood, family, things you have no control over when you come into this world. Welcome to Los Angeles. Generacion Suicida's a four-piece band. They play icy, angular, catchy punk with oscillating male/female voices creating a serrated edge of paranoia and anxiety. It's right up my alley. I highly recommend their entire catalog. (Their debut album Con La Muerte a Tu Lado was just released and it's amazing.) Two of its members are from South Central L.A. One lives in Koreatown, another in Anaheim, OrangeCounty. None are from East L.A. They sing solely in Spanish and remind me of bands from other countries, mainly Umeå, Sweden—in the Ny Våg tradition of the Vicious—and Copenhagen—Gorilla Angreb and No Hope For The Kids—which sort of brings the sound back home to California because those Scandinavian bands borrowed heavily from Los Angeles's past (late ‘70s Dangerhouse, especially). The irony didn't escape me. I'm more conversant in the language of songs of many bands that are based 5,317 miles from Razorcake HQ than I am in some of the bands that live less than twenty miles away. It's not like I'm trying to be willfully ignorant of punk in my hometown. That's just the nature of the beast here in L.A. One mile past the last bus stop often is the end of the world. Los Angeles is its own country. The up side is this: some of the best DIY punk in the world has been and is being made in Los Angeles. We have a rich, diverse heritage. One that's as great as it is totally fucked and frustrating. But it's this real fight to be heard—even in your neighborhood—to make meaningful music that gives it such vitality, such uniqueness. What do White Murder, Wreck Of The Zephyr, Thee Undertakers, Toys That Kill, Neighborhood Brats, Rough Kids, Spokenest, and Generacion Suicida have in common besides they're active punk bands in L.A.? Not much, except they all rule in their own distinctive ways. And that's what keeps being a punk in L.A. exciting. Interview by Todd Taylor and Rene Navarro Interview assistance by Richard Davila and Jimmy Alvarado Mario: Guitar Tony: Guitar, sing Kiwi: Drums, vocals Juan: Bass 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.) GENERACION SUICIDA INTERVIEW MP3 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. To read pa

Friends engage in any number of activities when they get together. Some compare monocles. Others debate Night Ranger vs. Styx. We dig spinning punk rock records and talking about them. This is what it sounded like one afternoon in August. –Mike mikefaloon46@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 #331 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: Night Birds, “Hope for the Best (Expect the Worse)” (Wallride) Future Virgins, “Late Republic” (Self-released) --- Underground Railroad To Candyland, “Worried” (Recess) Lenguas Largas, “Heavy Bubbles” (Recess) Treasure Fleet, “Surrender of Promises” (Recess) White Night, “Stuck on You” (Recess) --- Vanna Inget, “Alla Andra Dagar” (Man In Decline) Chantey Hook, “Underground” (ADD/Razorcake) Street Eaters, “Reverse” (Contraszt!/Nervous Intent) --- Worriers, “Get Bored” (Yo-Yo) Brain F≠, “Dry” (Grave Mistake/Sorry State) Gories, “View From Here” (Crypt) --- Fastbacks, “In the Summer” (Popllama) Bright Ideas, “Please Say Yes” (Radio On)

Ryan Mishap made the argument in the recent book review issue of Mishap Zine thateverything we hear or take in is somehow a story. Even if it isn't a story, it tells a story. He believes the way we interpret what we take in defines our reality. It's also what drove us out of the caves and developed our consciousness, making us human. Now we live in a world where stories are all around us: the news, commercials, billboard ads and smart phone apps, Hollywood movies and television shows. These stories are defining how we think and they are often put there to make us, to paraphrase Woody Guthrie, feel small, too poor, too ugly, or too beaten down. What Woody said still holds true and like Woody, I don't want anything to do with those stories. So give me music that tells true stories, not lies that, over time, become true. Give me something that rocks with the added element of a well-turned phrase, music with a lyrical pop that hits me right in the guts. Give me a song that burns into my memory like a won fight or a lost love. Give me something I want to scribble on the wall of a bathroom stall. Give me dark, pensive, poetry for three AM walking. Give a song that encourages, like a warm, knowing embrace, or a fist-pumping anthem of resistance. Give me such torch songs. Give me these stories and I'll keep coming back to them. –Craven Rock 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 #330 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: Mr. Lif, “The Sun” Tacoma Aroma, “I Need Food” Freedom $old, “Front Porch” Open Mike Eagle, “Mef's Lament” P.O.S., “Goodbye” Solaris Earth Pipeline, “Not the Only One” Doomtree, “Fresh New Trash” Hail Seizures!, “Daddy” Reading Group, “Oh, Primo!” Crackbox, “Reckless Self Destruction” Strawman, “Filling My Ballast” Agatha, “Undefined” Siren Songs, “Nuclear Son” Peace, “Be Here Now” Todd suggested some good hip-hop resources, so here's a few: http://elmattic.podbean.com http://potholesinmyblog.com

Listen here: FAY WRAY TOP SHELF INTERVIEW MP3 The first Top Shelf interview has a few hiccups, but it's honest, raw, and we care, much like Fay Wray's album itself. This record has always been a stand-out for me. When I remember watching them play during that time in Gainesville, it always brings a smile to my face. Hell, that time was great all around. But that was a long time ago. Fay Wray reunited to perform at Fest 7. I had the honor to play bass. Rob Coe sat me down and showed me the songs. So for the inaugural Top Shelf interview, I sat Rob down with Matt and me to discuss the landmark album I Love Everyone. Matt and I were still getting familiar with the Grow Radio studio, so bear with us…and Love Everyone. –Replay Dave 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.) FAY WRAY TOP SHELF INTERVIEW MP3 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.

This benefit show (see flyer above) is tonight. It isn't officially sponsored by Razorcake, but Razorcake officially supports the idea of helping people. Organized by Razorcake contributor John Mule, with music being performed by multiple fellow contributors, all for a good cause. This show isn't going to end that cringing feeling I get every time I read the news, and we are all still totally fucked, but we're not completely helpless just yet. Change can still be made, your voice can still be heard. take care, 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 #329 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: Darto, “Duvall Days” (Hex, Mother Image) --- Hurula, “Sveriges Ungdom” (Vi Är Människorna Våra Föräldrar Varnade Oss För, No Good) Vexx, “Strength” (Self-titled, Grazer) Dead Moon, “It's Ok” (Crack in the System,Tombstone / Mississippi) Leatherface, “Grip” (Horsebox, BYO) --- Future Virgins, “Centre” (Self-released 7”) B 45 Street Eaters, “Null” (Blood::Muscles::Bones,Nervous Intent) Reigning Sound, “North Cackalacky Girl” (Shattered, Merge) The Estranged, “Mark of Sin” (Self-titled, Dirtnap) --- Feral Future, “No Means Nothing” (Haematic,Western Medical) Bad Daddies, “You Ain't Right” (Negative Fun 7”) Supercrush, “Lifted” (Grave Mistake 7”) Toys That Kill, “Nervous” (Influence: A Tribute to The Big Boys, Stiff Hombre) --- Video, “Captivity” (Total Punk 7”)

Your favorite taco-eating, beer-drinking trio is back! Simon and Bianca, Razorcake reviewers and local zine fiends, join Todd for another evening of great music and greater banter. This installment includes anti-cassette propaganda, less convincing pro-cassette arguments, and a reminder to check out EchoPark'sEcho Chamber Creative HQ this summer through September. It'll be housing the LA Zine Fest's zine library! –Bianca 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 #328 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: Friend Of My Youth, "Future Perfect" Self-titled (Secret Pennies) --- Maxie Dean, "Tornado" (Self-released) Tülips, "Wait" (Self-released) Collosal Wrecks, "Idol Worship" Waste the Moments (Lauren) --- Double Cheese, "Anyone But My Baby" Self-titled (Cheap Trash Tapes) Tony Molina, "Nothing I Can Do" Dissed and Dismissed (Slumberland) The Backhomes, "Tear It Up" Only Friend (Shake!) -- Swans, "Stay Here" Filth(Neutral) Girlpool, "American Beauty" Self-titled (Big Joy) Jeffrey Lewis, "Graveyard" It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through (Rough Trade) -- SARALEE, "The Motion" SARLEE(Ride The Snake) Stoned At Heart, "Your Image Is All You've Got" Party Tracks Vol. 1 (Recess / It's Alive) Radiator Hospital, "Leather & Lace" Torch Song (Salinas) Tweens, "Don't Wait Up" Self-titled (French Kiss) -- Sledding With Tigers, "Never Really Good at Sports" A Necessary Bummer (Antique)

Here in New England, this past winter was pretty cold and snowy. It wasn't anything I haven't experienced before, but the warmth of summer feels pretty damn good. As I've gotten older, the seasons seem to go by quicker and while I try my best to enjoy each one, it can still seem like they're here and gone before I know it. As I was thinking about all this, I thought it would be a good idea to search out some songs that have seasons in the title and put them together into a podcast. And no, I don't have a favorite season. They're all fine by me. –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 #327 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: Rites Of Spring, “Spring” (Self-titled) Leatherface, “Springtime” (Mush) The Vapors, “Spring Collection” (New Clear Days) --- The High-Back Chairs, “Summer” (20 Years Of Dischord Box Set) Hüsker Dü, “Celebrated Summer” (New Day Rising) Patrol, “Summer Of Violence” (Zirconium) Pelican, “Autumn Into Summer” (The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw) --- Zao, “A Fall Farewell” (Where Blood And Fire Bring Rest) Sunday's Best, “Winter-Owned” (Poised To Break) Oneida, “The Winter Shaker” (Secret Wars)