Divided By Hate - Sediments of Shame 7"

Interesting slice of Connecticut hardcore from 1997. Only wax released by the band and only release besides a demo tape. Released on East Coast Empire Records, who continued to put out Reach the Sky, fortydaysrain and Integrity releases through the nineties until the early 2000's.

This 7" has melodic parts, heavy parts and metallic parts. The recording quality and guitar tone and mix brings to mind Hatebreed's "Under the Knife" 7", a record released only a year earlier from possibly the largest CT hardcore group. What really stood out to me personally about the release is the vocal delivery. Anyone from Florida might recognize the vocals are eerily similar to FL's own Axis, on their Rites of Passage 7" released in 2011. I highly recommend this band to anyone who loves that record. There is also plenty of low drowning talking parts on this record. Not to mention just plain aggressive, tough sounding breakdowns that don't come across as stale or uninteresting.

This download includes all four songs and scans of the artwork, insert and labels.

d/l here:
Divided By Hate - Sediments of Shame

First Radio Show of April

Please be sure to tune in for a very special show tonight - as usual, 6 PM EST on bullsradio.org !

Brandon Hardcore: Music For The Kids Compilation 7"

Burn Brandon Records #5. This free compilation 7" was put together by the Burn Brandon Collective in 2007. 500 copies were pressed and given away for free. As the back cover of this record so delicately puts it, "If you had to pay anything to get this record, please go back and punch the dude who sold it to you in the nose". Thankfully, my friend Blue gave me my copy, so no punching was necessary.

Featured bands are Gross National Product, Reckless Deerhunters, Small Talk Death, Machete Attack, Control de Estado and Bad Eating Habits. Scans of the cover art, insert art and label art all all included in the download. Front cover art you see here done by Scott C. Bentz, back cover design by Bob Suren.

Unfortunately on this rip I somehow ended up not recording one of the Machete Attack songs. I didn't want to wait until I had another chance to properly rip it as it could be a while, so I recorded a very rough version of it on my phone. If you are after a cleaner rip of "To Live and Die In My Head", send me an e-mail and I promise I'll get around to it... maybe.

d/l here:
Brandon Hardcore: Music For The Kids

Gross National Product - Ronald McVomit's 14 Song Happy Meal 7"

Female fronted punk from Brandon, FL. 14 quick and simple songs from a recording session of 17 songs, two of which will be on the Brandon Hardcore compilation to be uploaded soon. The bass player of GNP was Bob Suren, whose full phone interview on the radio show can be found here. This 7" was released on Bacon Towne Records. From their blog, which can be found here...

"2. Gross National Product "Ronald McVomit's 14-Song Happy Meal" BTR002 1,000 copies. First 250 on hand-numbered green vinyl. Comes with comic book and poster. 50 copies come with hand-screened vellum cover."

Scans of poster and insert included in this download, but not the coloring book or vellum cover... yet. Will upload and post a link to just that on this post at a later point in time. In the meantime, enjoy the music.

d/l here:
Gross National Product - Ronald McVomit's 14 Song Happy Meal

Crisis Unit Live on Exact Change Radio 1/28/2015

Exact Change Radio - Now on Wednesday

Listen in tonight at bullsradio.org as we kick off the new semester on a new night.

January show schedule:

1/14/2015 - First Wednesday night show ft. Dog Julio's Metal segment.

1/21/2015 - Florida Punk & Hardcore ft. Bob Suren (Failure Face, MSP, author of "Cratedigger")

1/28/2015 - Crisis Unit live set & interview

Make sure to keep checking the archive to listen to these shows after they air.

One More Week of Hiatus & Searchin For The Light

 

Radio shows will resume when the semester starts. Showtime will be changing from 6 - 7 PM on Thursdays to sometime on either a Monday or Wednesday... new time will be announced as soon as it's confirmed. Meanwhile, here at HQ, we're working on getting the UNIFIED RIGHT live tape out before the end of January. We also did some helping out with this fanzine...

Brandon Brandt from St. Pete put out this skateboarding and music fanzine called Searchin' for the Light for FYA Fest last week. If you didn't nab a copy then, now is your chance to read the scans online. Featuring interviews with Ned of Title Fight, Soft Hoagie Rolls, Joshua Lother and Sick of Talk (which I play guitar for and will soon have a release on ECR). Get the scans here.