November 12, 2009

This is pretty much all I have to say this week. Gaahl is crazy and Norwegian Black Metal is just fucked in general, but Gorgoroth is still awesome. Go read Lords of Chaos if you haven’t already. Also the audio level in this youtube clip is lower than a snake’s balls, so crank that shit up.

November 5, 2009

To the one regular reader of this blog, I apologise for the delay in upping this playlist. I’ve been busy reading Archies and shit, so just LAY OFF.

60 Minutes of Mayhem (or my life as a hideous second mic)

My first ever time on air at CFUV was as a completely useless co-host on a sort of wannabe-morning-zoo-style program called “60 Minutes of Mayhem”. Basically the host (Andrew “The Mayhem” Graham) would throw out some cruddy puns and tell schmarmy jokes while I would laugh loudly and awkwardly in an attempt to be accepted. This was about six years ago.

Worst of Jocktober

This is must listen material for anyone with even a passing interest in radio and the radio industry. Download the torrent here.

Wiley on PB&J

Time Warp

I’m just in the process of ripping a “We Are Ugly” show from approximately Oct. 27. 2003. It includes me making some sort of horrendous non-joke related to The Police, singing “Message in A Bottle” really really really badly for absolutely no reason at all, teasing a Stooges version of Louie Louie that probably no one cares about, and showing how much of a blatant Presidents of the United States of America fanboy I used to be. I also play some twee and riot grrl stuff, and at least one horrendous Anti-Flag song. Also two Cibo Matto songs. Apparently there was a Black Rice gig the week I did this show too. I still have pictures from that show on my wall at home!

October 29, 2009

Brendan Mullen, the founder of the legendary underground punk club “The Masque” died earlier this month after suffering a stroke. The Masque—so named in part because of the dictionary definition of “masque” (a form of “cheap, amateur, histrionic, medieval entertainment”) and in part because the name pissed off Mullen’s partner Al Hansen (Beck’s granddad)—was the breeding ground for the super-awesome early L.A. Punk scene. Wow—run on sentence or what?

October 22, 2009

First things first: the show is now 10:30-Midnight. We’re still on Thursday nights, we’ve just gone back to our old time slot. 8-9 will now be a Mandarin language indie/twee/whatever fest with Louis, and 9-10:30 is still “It’s the Beat”.

“Classic” Handsome Don

I have a bunch of tapes of old shows that I might start digitizing soon. If you’d like to stroke my ego by pretending to be interested in these shows… please do.

October 15, 2009

If you want to meet a real-life rock star, you should pop on over to Vancouver and buy some Nominal Records releases from Ryan of the B-Lines at Scratch Records. Nominal have a bunch of sick shit coming out soon: including full lengths from Vapid, The Defektors, Nu Sensae, and the B-Lines. You should also head on over here to download Fun 100’s (pre-B-Lines Vancouver by-way-of the lower mainland group) final EP “Goodbye”.  Pretty much perfect bubblegum punk.