Parallax - Mediums & Messages LP vinyl reissue

For anyone who may have checked out that Parallax record and liked it, or anyone else who is as obsessed with it as I am... a new label from Utah called Kitchen Now! Records recently reissued the full length on vinyl for the first time! It came out when they played a recent reunion in Utah. Wish I could have been to that show!

Regardless, pick it up. The record is incredible, and I really wish more people knew about it! The layout looks GREAT and the vinyl sounds AWESOME! I had previously read the lyrics on occasion and been pretty blown away but when I got to finally sit down and read them along while jamming the LP, I was fucking floored even harder!

You can order the LP from Kitchen Now! Records by emailing them HERE. I hope this label gets the LP into some distros and stuff so more people can get their hands on it, as right now it seems like a lot of people are confused when they hear it was released on vinyl!

Haven't heard the album yet? Well what the fuck! Here's my original post on the record.

"Image against image. Force is given, force is taken. Separated, represented. Choice abandoned. More of the same. Passion has been usurped. Rendered useless, a means to an end. Of consumption. Desire is dictated. Separate from my own. Something outside - reified. Disarmed at all costs - unreal. To gain assurance, to continue to function. Maintain existence. Producing a life that's not worth living. Each day I dread the disposable. Each day I am replaceable. I've lost all sense of myself in this dispassionate quest for placement. This poverty of experience is requisite for the wealth of objects. Movement is prevented while each day is wasted. Contemplating the contemplated. These days are coated in the insipid. To waste time is to waste everything. This overabundance, the poverty of experience. Choice is irrelevant, a redundant gesture. Movement is prevented. I count the passing of days in dollars represented as desire. Alienated from the creative. To waste time is to waste everything. Reducing days to dollars. In the name of survival I've become an object of trade. I have lost all sense of myself. Image against image. Force is taken, force is given. Separated, represented. Choice abandoned. More of the same. This banal ritual, a predetermined outcome, where passion is disarmed, abandoned as fuel for this cycle of survival."

PS: here's a great review that AVERSIONONLINE did about the vinyl reissue.

-xCHADx

Bonescratch - Last Words Gone 12"

This record rules! Musically, Bonescratch sounded a lot to me like a mix of Born Against, Ebullition Records, and Gravity Records bands. Pretty cool to hear that people were playing the same style of hardcore over in Japan while it was happening at the same time in North America! Awesome stuff, I'm glad I stumbled across this record online! Now I need a physical copy.

They also released splits with In/Humanity and a band called Sawpit, and another full length called Diaglam (which I'd love to get an upload of if anyone has one). Were they any other releases aside from that?! If so, I want to hear all of em! This 12" rules, give it a listen.

Here's a cool live video of their song "Large" form their first release Diaglam.




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-xCHADx

AND ONCE AGAIN THE BATTLEFIELD IS YOUR BODY..

Born Against - Live at St. Stephen's Church, DC May 15, 1992



This Born Against live set is KILLER. Full set from a show they played with MDC and Citizen Fish!

Best band.

-xCHADx

Asylum Party - Picture One 12"

Fuck it, I'm gonna do some more uploads on this blog! If anyone out there still reads this shit... I'll be giving you some new stuff to jam!

I'm up WAY too late and about to go to sleep so I'm gonna make this first post back short. Asylum Party were from France from the mid 80s and played KILLER dark, depressing post punk type stuff. If you're into bands like The Chameleons, Joy Division, Blitz's Second Empire Justice LP, New Order, Death In June, etc.. check this record out. It's really good, and really underrated. Endless thanks to my dogg Colin for linking me to this record, I can't get enough of it. My two favourite jams on the 12" are Julia and Before The Smile. I find both songs getting stuck in my head all fucking day when I listen to it!

If you like this record, check out the Borderline LP, it's also awesome.

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-xCHADx

OUT OF SIGHT X NERD CREW 2011

Lots of updates for Out of Sight since I posted our demo link on here, check out our blog if you care.... OUT OF SIGHT.

Just a quick run down of things to come in the near future: React Showcase, Van Isle Fest, 7", shows this summer, (hopefully) some touring.

-xCHADx

Frankie Stubbs side projects: Jessie - Singles, and Pope - Johnpaulgeorgeringo LP

Man, I am happy. I had jammed Jesse and Pope songs on Youtube for the past couple years but I've had real troubles finding full downloads of either bands material. I stumbled across this tonight and had to throw up a download before bed! I felt it was a good way to show that this blog is still alive and kicking (hard to believe, I know)! Now, if only I can get my hands on a nice rip of the Jessie LP!

These are both Frankie Stubbs bands that were happening as side projects after the first breakup of Leatherface...and both are really fucking good! I would write a much longer post, but I'll leave you with that for tonight as I want to get to bed.

Respect and thank you goes to the people who originally uploaded these records. I'm sorry I don't have links to your blogs right now!

Pope - Johnpaulgeorgeringo LP

Jesse - Singles (95-98)

-xCHADx

OUT OF SIGHT - DEMO 2011 (New Vancouver Straight Edge)

James and I's band Out of Sight finished our demo the other day. Check it out if you have a sec. We'll have cassettes at the end of February. It's streaming on our blog, and you can download it as well if you feel so inclined.

http://outofsightxvancouver.blogspot.com

-xCHADx

ATTN VANCOUVER: PUNK GIG

Negative Standards EP

I can't beleive it's been something like 6 months since I last posted on here. It's 2011 now, so let's start things off right. I'll start to make an effort to start doing this at least once every couple of weeks (ha). Anyways..

I received an e-mail from a band called Negative Standards wanting to see if I'd be interested in posting their new EP, and after hearing it I'm more than happy to do so. They play some really dark and raging d-beat hardcore, just the way that daddy likes it. Comparisons to His Hero Is Gone and From Ashes Rise are kind of inevitable from me, but the band definitely adds their own feel to the mix. All in all, this has great energy, a real sense of urgency, and deserves total support. Heavy as fuck, totally crushing, and most importantly; pissed right off.

This a split release between Gay Scientist and Five-Ten tapes, from which you can order the release. Check out a sample at the Negative Standards website, or download below.









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- XEVANX

Chain Of Strength - 7" Rips

WE'RE NOT DEAD. I'm bringing this shit back. Don't have access to a ton of my files right now as my old computer crashed, BUT I've got some things saved onto my laptop, and I'm sitting in bed doing nothing so here you go!

My man Russell did this TIGHT rip of my Chain Of Strength 7"s. If you haven't heard these recordings before...DOWNLOAD THIS RIGHT NOW! You will be amazed! The songs sound straight up different, and in my opinion WAY MORE POWERFUL! For anyone like me who has been raised a Chain fan off of the discography LP, you need to hear these recordings! There are extra guitar tracks, the production is different, parts that sound way moshier...fuck. So much different about it, it's insanity! I'm kind of going nowhere with this write up, just download it and see for yourself.

Thanks to Russell for doing an amazing rip!

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-xCHADx

PS: despite the lack of updates, I feel like this is a pretty crucial way to come back, so if anyone still follows this thing: here you go. Happy Holidays.