Hardcore Podcasts
September of 2010 I put together eight Hardcore Podcasts. You can check them out here if you are interested. For more insight into how I came up with the years 78-90 for the First Wave you can read about The Hardcore Superiorty Myth.
Category Archives: No Wave
The Stickmen – Get On Board
The Stickmen – Get On Board (Red Music) 1983. Get on board for the funky hayride. What the fuck is this!?! It sounds like the missing link between Flaming Demonics-era James Chance and the early Real Men Don’t Kill Coyotes … Continue reading
Posted in No Wave, Philly
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Oil Tasters – What’s In Your Mouth / Get Out of the Bathroom
Oil Tasters – What’s In Your Mouth // Get Out of the Bathroom (Oil Tasters Records) 1980. In an alternate universe the Oil Tasters would be a household name among Midwestern-based post-punk fans. All three of us. I mean, here … Continue reading
Posted in New Wave, No Wave, Wisconsin, post-punk
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The Beakers – Red Towel
The Beakers – Red Towel // Football Season is in Full Swing (Mr. Brown Records & Tapes) 1980. Wow, all that hardcore put me in a skronky mood and you just can’t get much more skronkorific than this excellent band … Continue reading
Posted in New Wave, No Wave, Seattle, post-punk
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The Philosophic Collage
The Philosophic Collage – Genius, Planned Obsolesence // Toxic Poppies, Headline Deadline (American Aesthetic Industries, LTD) 1981. One of my favourite post-punk, no-wave obscurities and it comes from my hometown of Saint Louis. Have you ever heard of this? Probably … Continue reading
Posted in No Wave, Saint Louis, Uncategorized, post-punk
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Pre Fix – Underneathica / Ectomorphine
Pre Fix – Underneathica // Ectomorphine (Subterranean Records) 1981. One of the more obscure acts on the amazing Subterranean label out of the post-punk paradise that was San Francisco in the early 1980s, Pre-Fix were actually a Tuscon, AZ band. … Continue reading
Posted in Art-Punk, New Wave, No Wave, post-punk, san francisco
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Idoli – Maljčiki / Retko Te Viđam Sa Devojkama
Idoli – Maljčiki / Retko Te Viđam Sa Devojkama (Jugoton Records) 1981. Ahhhhhh Idoli. What to do with them? One of the bands that the mysterious Neso introduced me to way back in 2007 when I got schooled in the … Continue reading
Posted in No Wave, Yugoslavian
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AKA – Red Therapy
AKA – Red Therapy – God, City Drugs, 645 Dog // Raggedy Andy’s, Fear, Mental Timebombs (Zulu Records) 1980. Another great Canadian New Wave release. AKA are often referred to, along with UJ3RK5 and Monitor as “West Coast No Wave”. … Continue reading
UJ3RK5 – UJ3RK5 EP
UJ3RK5 – The Anglican, The Locator // Eisenhower and the Hippies, Booty Dread (Quintessence Records) 1980. A post-punk classic of dryly academic dadaism. UJ3RK5 (pronounced “You Jerks”) were a band of social misfits from Vancouver who released this wacky EP … Continue reading
Posted in Art-Punk, California, New Wave, No Wave
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Minimal Compact – Minimal Compact
Minimal Compact – Minimal Compact – Statik Dancin’, Creation Is Perfect (I Am A Camera), Ready-Made Diary // To Get Inside, Happy Babouge (Crammed Discs) 1981. The first Minimal Compact EP immediately maps out the two distinct personalities of the … Continue reading
Poptronix – TV Programmed TV Set
Poptronix – TV Programmed TV Set // War of Crime (Klang!) 1981. You wouldn’t be wrong to assume, upon listening to the A-Side of this great single, that Poptronix was a UK band. The singer sounds like a peer of … Continue reading
Posted in Art-Punk, New Jersey, New Wave, No Wave
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