THIS WEEK: Layla and Jess respect the intro…

Maria Teta!

Intro song:
CYCLOPS – I Have One Eye

Layla plays a set of music for those that respect the outro
BLACK AND WHITE – Mortal Sin
PERIPHERIQUE EST – Le Rock Ici
TY SEGALL – Skin
SUPER WILD HORSES – Heard Your Back
WAX IDOLS – Dillno

Jess’ top ten 2011 hits
HYSTERICS – Arm Candy
PHEROMOANS – Soft Targets
ZOUNDS – Loads of Noise
HYGIENE – Polytechnic St.
VEGETABLE – Sol

Layla jams out on some recent reissues
MARIA TETA – No Te Hagas Paltas
BRAUSEPÖTER – Bundeswehr
SHIT DOGS – Raw Meat
MANIC DEPRESSIVES – Not Worth the Time

Jess remember those good old times, when millions of Laylas roamed the land
BLITZ – I Don’t Need You
CASTRATION SQUAD – Why Don’t You Just Die
HANS-A-PLAST – Kurz und Drecking
NAKED RAYGUN – No Sex
RATAS DEL VATICANO – Mata a tu Maestro

Outro songs:
TOTAL ABUSE – Early Morning
FORCED LAUGH – Student Plays
CÓLERA – ?

One of his first projects was a noisecore act called MDA.

He was truly making “noise not real music” and was always at the vanguard. Although he was a big fan of hardcore punk, he was never satisfied playing it in its traditional styles.

His second main project was Insumisión. He had a guy in the band whose job was to break stuff on stage. One of the guitarists was from Dios Hastio.

Insumisión – “Suicidio en Masa”:

0:20 He samples Daniel F. from Leusemia from a famous live recording.
0:37 Los Crudos

Insumisión live:

Later on he started an electro-pop band called Pestaña which achieved some success and was able to tour South America and play in Argentina. He helped launch Adrivainilla’s musical career with this band.

Pestaña – “Largate”:

He was a dear friend of mine.
—Mark Reátegui

THIS WEEK: Layla and Paul reverse time, destroy capitalism and discover the perfect daiquiri recipe, all from the comfort of the MRR mega-yacht.

Intro song:
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY – Flat City

Black Bug!

Layla jams out some recent reissues (before the acid kicked in)
COUNT VERTIGO – XPatriots
PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD – Politico
LAURICE – Ain’t Got Enough to Give
DEAD MOON – Not the Only One

Layla selects a few recent hardcore 7″s for possible airplay
HOAX – Sleep
PUNKOID – Today, Tomorrow
AVON LADIES- Hang ‘em High

Paul – #occupy
DEAD MOON – The 99′s
CONFLICT – From Protest to Resistance
RUBELLA BALLET – Unemployed
MDC – Selfish Shit
SUBHUMANS – Rats

Layla plays some more recent records
BLACK BUG – Machine
LA LA VASQUEZ – Horror Stories
DADFAG- Less
PUFFY AREOLAS – Gentleman’s Grip
ROYAL HEADACHE – Psychotic Episode

Paul – Cleanup
BACCHUS – Parasite
GERM ATTAK – Lock Down

Outro song:
THE ENEMY – Trendy Violence

BIG EYES falls somewhere between the MUFFS and the REPLACEMENTS, with really cool, tough girl vocals and of course there’s an invocation of the RAMONES. The sound on this LP is incredible, almost too perfect; it sounds like what you want the cool girl band to sound like in ’80s subculture movies, but they always end up with some shitty synth puffpastries. This is tough punk rock. City street rock, the sound of trash strewn sidewalks, dogs tied up to chain link fences, feathered hair with leather jackets, a packet of Lucky Strikes and beat up Chucks. It’s totally the more rock end of punk, and it’s so easy to go into really gross territory when you are in those waters — you know, shitty rawkin’ Sunset Strip bar rock cheese chowder. This is somehow badass though. The band is so tight and the songs are so cohesive and tough sounding, hooks in all the right places, melancholy and mean rather than posturing and limp. So catchy it’s relentless! I feel so cheesy writing this review, but it’s the band you wish the girl from Freaks and Geeks had formed after watching that terrible CREAM cover band her friends were in. Kate’s voice is sick, somewhere between Joan Jett, Kim Shattuck and Paula Pierce… She invokes Joey Ramone and that’s just dreamy. Anyway, I was not expecting to like this record at all, but I am convinced! (Don Giovanni Records)

THIS WEEK: Layla, Jess Snot and visiting English punx La La Vasquez get agitated in the rat society.

La La Vasquez

Intro song:
LA LA VASQUEZ – Dairy Queen

Layla plays some selections from the newly reviewed bins of gloom
TOTAL CONTROL – No
PARLOR – The Trade
RATIONAL ANIMALS – Toy Box
BROWN SUGAR – Canção de Amnade
DOUBLE NEGATIVE – Cunny Hop

Racheal’s on the run
ELECTRIC EELS – Agitated
THE FUGITIVES – On the Run
SUBURBAN LAWNS – Gidget Goes to Hell
IUD – Precious

Freya demonstrates the difference between nice and nasty
FRUMPIES – Frumpies Forever
PHEROMOANS – Penis Envy 96
KLEENEX – Nice
DEAD CLODETTES – La Sueur Coule

Merida informs about the dangers of teen love
NIXE – Scientist
NO TREND – Teen Love
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – I Don’t Wanna Play No More
HONEY BANE – Girl on the Run

Jess Snot takes what you got
THE SINS – Rat Society
SIN 34 – Join the Race
SCROTUM POLES – Pick the Cats Eyes Out

Outro song:
THE STALIN – Go Go Stalin

THIS WEEK: Layla and Martin get sick in the kitchen playing only new releases from the recently reviewed record bins!

The UV Race

Intro song:
MÖRPHEME – Muchi Moumai

Layla picks out three songs that will burn out your brain sockets
DECRANEO – Antidoto
CRAZY SPIRIT – I’m Dead
DOUBLE NEGATIVE – Face Jam

Martin has no fear of erections!
BURNING SENSATIONS – I Fear Erections
KRIG I HUDIG – Jag Skiter Val I Dig
NIGHTGAUN – Disgusting Affront
DEAF MUTATIONS – Mutation Shuffle
DESPERAT – Computer Control
RAYOS X – No Conformo

Layla selects some new lady punker destruction
NU SENSAE – Gumbo
DARK LION – My Super Power Would Be Invisibility
THROWING UP – When I Touch You
FOREIGN OBJECTS – Pillpopper
LOVE CUTS – Mime

Layla takes an odyssey into the minds of the doomed
SHITTY LIMITS – Survey Says
B LINES – Hastings Strut
DEADBEATS – Kill the Hippies
FUCKING BONESHAKERS – Pussycat Burglars

And then discovers that there’s no going back…
YOUNGER LOVERS – No Flowers in the Springtime
IDIOT VOX – Kill Power
LOVER – In Death
UV RACE – Speed Freak
NAKED ON THE VAGUE – Abstract Figures
PHEROMOANS – Neurotic Sunbeams

More trax from Noise Ordinance
NN – Es Anarchista
AIRFIX KITS – To Kill the King

Outro song:
RANK/XEROX – Drips

THIS WEEK: The SHITTY LIMITS were in town with Sorry State Records CEO Daniel Lupton and thus a radio show was born!

Shitty Limits (photo by Alex Bailey)

Intro song:
SHITTY LIMITS -  Survey Says

Daniel plays a NCHC pride set
NO LABELS – Changes
SUBCULTURE – Le Charters Principle
BRAIN FLANNEL – Sea Wall See

Ellis’ set will implode your inner sanctum
SILLY KILLERS – Knife Manual
THE FINGERS – First Time
GASOLINE – Killer Man

Tim’s treatise on ultraviolet discharge
ULTRAVIOLENT – Dead Generation
CARNAGE – All the Sad People
BLACKEASTER – What the Fuck
DISCHARGE – Religion Instigates

Eddie wishes these songs were his
WILD BILLY CHILDISH WITH ARMITAGE SHANKS – Shirts Off
COCKNEY REJECTS – Flares and Slippers
WIRE – Mr Suit

Louis and Mike endorse communal living and shared sets
DOGS – 19
SVART FRAMTID – Disiplin
NEROGASMO – Barchetto di Lussi
LAST RIGHTS – Chaunks

Layla plays some stuff from the recently reviewed in MRR boxes!
ALUMINUM KNOT EYE – Still Cleaning That Old Grease Trap
ZULUS – Illiterate Eyes
TIMMY’S ORGANISM – Scum Revolution
LOS LLAMARADA – Restless Light II
GG KING – Bored of Everything

Outro songs:
DILS – Sound of the Rain
NATIONAL WAKE – International News

THIS WEEK: Layla, Mariam, Dan, Robert, Arwen, Martin and outta town guest Amelia send messages of solidarity to the people of Wisconsin and Japan.

Vegetable

Intro song:
GAS – (title in Kanji)

Dan Goetz hardcore on your ears
DADDY NO! – Cruisin for a Bruisin
ACID REFLUX – Voting
PINK REASON – Empty Stomach
H100s – Knock Your Teeth Out
VARUKERS – One Struggle One Fight

Robert Collins is NOT HARDCORE
HASKELS – Taking the City By Storm
DIALS – Television Silence
VEGETABLE – Castration Frustration
GIRLS OF PORN – Sled Blaster
LOVER – In Death

Arwen is Unsafe at Any Speed
HUSKER DU – First of the Last Calls
LOST SOUNDS – Love Killed My Brain
STREET EATERS – The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise
SHOP ASSISTANTS – Looking Back
SILLA ELÉCTRICA – Tension

Layla’s Early Punker Lady History Lesson
GIRLS AT OUR BEST – It’s Fashion
MYDOLLS – Exorcism
AMADOTS – Hit Girls
FOAMS – Wanton

Amelia dedicates this set to Japan
THE SEXUAL – Anarchy and Destruction
GISM – Shoot to Kill
THE COMES – Panic
DISORDER – 3 Blind Mice

Mariam only got one song but it’s a RAGER!
NARCOSIS – Destruir

Outro song for Bruce:
AGNOSTIC FRONT – Victim in Pain

First of all, Magnolia Shorty, a local female bounce rapper got shot and died. Then, this guy named Jon Flee that my friends knew got shot while he was alone in his own home. Then there was a terrible fire that killed eight squatters and two dogs, the worst fire in this city in the last 25 years. Then I come home from tour to find a gun sitting out in my house, very nonchalantly, in plain view. I find out later it was loaded. Then a couple of days later our house got robbed. Nothing important or sentimental got ripped off but it made us all feel very vulnerable.

Violence and tragedy are all around and we’re all trying to ride the wave here in New Orleans. People who’ve lived here for a long time keep telling me that it always comes in waves, so I’m taking lots of deep breaths to combat the anxiety and waiting as patiently as I can for it all to be over.

It’s like the story of Adam & Eve — how Eve eats a fruit from the tree of knowledge and then they both realize they are naked even though they were naked all along. We are always vulnerable to violence, tragedy and death. We walk around naked and vulnerable every single day of our lives just waiting to die. But it’s times like this, when everything seems to be going wrong, that you begin to actually feel vulnerable and uncovered. In my rational mind, I know that anything could happen to me at any time, but at times like this, I feel it.

So, about the gun thing. I’ve never lived in a house with a gun in it before. Plus, the thing was just right out in plain view with no lock or anything, which was probably the worst way to find out that you’re living with a gun. As soon as I saw it, my whole house felt different to me and it didn’t feel safer, it felt scarier. We’re having a house meeting tomorrow to figure things out.

Things are already starting to stabilize, though. A week ago two friends of mine who I also play music with were thinking about moving away. The tragedies were still fresh in the air and people’s minds and emotions were reeling. But now, they think they’ll stay. Once the anxieties die down, you have to ask yourself, “Where am I really gonna go that’s safe?” Nowhere is safe.

I rode my bike alone from Mid-City to the Bywater by myself last night, pedaling out my anxieties and at the same time feeling this huge rush of gratitude for every time I’ve done anything even slightly risky like biking in New Orleans alone at night and gotten away with it.

Things I do to help cope when it’s like this:

1. Hang out with people more
2. Meditate — deep breaths help keep ya grounded
3. Get trashed — deep breathing only gets me so far
4. Obsess over music
5. Eat a lot of food
6. Watch Jem & the Holograms
7. Leave town
8. Read books, especially comic books
9. Talk on the phone to a friend in a different state
10. Ride my bike

Besides, what do New Orleanians do to balance the tragedy? We throw a big parties! Stay tuned for details on the No More Fiction fest in New Orleans, late spring or summer 2011. If you’re a queer punk misfit in the South, don’t move to the Bay Area or Brooklyn just yet. If you’re one of the only brown kids in your entire scene, I know it can get weird, but hold tight for a second. I know you’re lonely and there’s no one to date, but let’s just see what we can make happen down here…

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