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Averting Tragedy

Moshpit Tragedy, purveyors of the mighty Amebix and other worthy noise merchants, are having a few problems with their old web URL. So they've bought a new one - http://moshpittragedy.com - which will be their permanent home from now on. And they're asking their friends to spread the word. So there ya go.

They're working on [...]

Rebel Yell

It's nice to know that my efforts here have a positive knock-on effect elsewhere - just check out this email I received yesterday:

Hey, Randy from Insurgence Records here, hope this finds you doing well. Just wanted to say 'Thanks!' for the kind words you've written about Insurgence on the blog. It's very much appreciated...honestly, blurbs [...]

Free Noise #31

Artist: Twenty Fifth Of May
Title: Lenin & McCarthy
Source: CD LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:46:47
Size (mb): 76
Label: BMG
Year: 1992

1. Answer Back
2. Crackdown
3. F.T.R.T.V. [II]
4. Go Wild
5. 0898
6. It's All Right
7. Shelter
8. Army 2 Joyriders 0
9. Word Is Out
10. Why?
11. What's Goin' On
12. Solid State Logic
13. Things Are Getting Better (Sic)

I'm not in the habit of [...]

Free Noise #30

Artist: The Dicemen
Title: Sitting On The Tarmac
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:31:38
Size (mb): 64.9
Label: Peasants Revolt
Year: Early 90's (anyone know the exact year?)

With spring slipping inexorably into summer, and long hot days wandering lazily towards warm balmy nights (yeah, right), I can sense the fields beckoning me to them for a right [...]

Free Noise #29

Artist: Archbishop Kebab
Title: Yinferranodgie
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:37:23
Size (mb): 73
Label: Seldom Fed Records
Year: 1989

Hailing from Edinburgh in Jockland, Archbishop Kebab were a very strange brew indeed. Their particular melting pot combined a confrontational anarcho-punk perspective with a sound that's half The Ex, half Gogol Bordello and half crusty new-age traveller skank. [...]

Merry Masscrust

When I got a bit of cash from my mum at Xmas, there was nothing I really wanted or needed at the time, so I decided to wait a bit for the right moment for it to play its part in the capitalist mode of exchange.

That moment came in late February, when I was perusing [...]

Free Noise #28

Artist: Back To The Planet
Title: A Potted History
Source: CD LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 01:05:09
Size (mb): 107
Label: Arthur Mix Records
Year: 1994

Yet another band from my crusty traveller yesteryear who kinda lost the plot for a bit when they signed to a major label, disappeared for quite a while and have now popped up on the [...]

And For My Next Trick...

Another one of my favourite micro-labels, Suburban Home, is offering their latest release, Ghost Buffalo's 'The Magician', as a free download to the first 200 people to click the link in the post. They're keen for people to hear it, hopefully like it, spread the word, and maybe buy a copy and encourage others to [...]

All Guns Blazing

Fighting Chance - Sacrifice And Struggle (ltd. edition package)
Insurgence Records

As I've probably said more than once before, I like to get my music delivered through the post. Not only does it mean I usually deal direct with the label or band, it's cheaper, there are often freebies and, most importantly, I love getting a parcel [...]

Free Noise #27

Artist: Amebix
Title: Monolith
Source: Studio master
Bitrate: 256kbs
Running time (h:m:s): 00:44:04
Size (mb): 85.8
Label: Moshpit Tragedy
Year: 1987 (re-released 2008)

This band should need no introduction. As the official Godfathers Of Crust™ before the term was even coined (credit for that goes to Hellbastard with their 'Ripper Crust' demo), they were personally responsible for adding the dark and crushing edge [...]