Murder Suicide Pact

Last night I went to see Bob and the boys play. There is a new venue in Sarasota on 12th St. Just a rented house with the gig in the front room. The sound was pretty good. I saw local bands Injustice System and Thaw. INJ/SYS had a 3 piece with drums, vocals and guitar. Fast hardcore which I liked. I have a demo cassette, but who knows if I'll ever figure out how to connect the tape deck to the computer again. The four guys in Thaw played one song that lasted for 15 minutes. Very slow, loud sludgecore. It was a nice break from breakneck speed music. MSP now have Alonso (also of Control De Estado super band link http://www.myspace.com/controldeestado) now on bass. MSP were as tight as ever and Bob was full of energy doing high kicks, rolls and lifting members of the audience up head high and spinning them around. They have a new record coming out soon. Here's their website http://www.myspace.com/mspfl Bob gave me a demo of the new stuff. This is only the rough version and not the finished record quality. http://www.divshare.com/playlist/677125-08b Password "RPM".

Two weeks from now No Fraud are playing at the same venue in SRQ.

ratina-ja-pauke

The excellent http://saapasnahkatorni.blogspot.com/ has come up with a comp that will blow your mind away. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=45Q4FIMR I have heard other comps that profess to be proto punk from the '60s, but this is the real deal with wacked out psychos kickin' out the jams. Well done indeed.

Terveet Kadet

TK are back together with three original members and have a new record out. So far I have heard one track which is classic. It's a 10" available from http://www.punkinfinland.net/

Blog of the week

While Nation on Fire is still my daily favourite blog through the links I found many great street punk tunes at http://jex-streetpunk.blogspot.com/

With regards to recording I may have mentioned before that I have hundreds of tapes, but these take ages to transfer to digital even if I record without any separation of tracks. Anyway wifey says she saw a cool gadget that lets you record direct from the tape to the computer. I may investigate this which would mean you could be in for some treats or maybe just some shit me and a few other weirdos in cyberspace might enjoy.

Where Religion Ends

Thanks to a comment here's a site with a great name and super musak.
http://wherereligionends.blogspot.com

I have only justed touched the surface. The genres are well seperated. I have so far looked at the anracho bands and have downloaded lots of stuff in particular lots of Mexican revolutionaries.

Protesys

Band on heavy rotation is this thrash metal band from Cuba. Yeah, long haired tattooed dudes blasting out an aural apocalypse.
http://www.divshare.com/download/8927045-4d1
website
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Protesys-l-en.html

Sweet Tooth

Back in the late 80s punk was pretty stagnant but there were still good bands playing other genres. I was lucky enough to see Godflesh, God, and Terminal Cheesecake. I never knew this band was a side project. Thanks to YouTube.com I have been edjamacated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGR8oRhrm0c&feature=related

Also a search revealed a website with all the side projects. http://www.godflesh.com/project.html

Not all Napalm Death will like these bands, but as I have said before punk should be about being different and not appealing to mainstream music including metal jocks.

Today there are numerous decent metal/crust/d-beat/thrash/punk bands. Some examples are: Toxic Holocaust, Oakhelm, Wrath Cobra, Uncurbed.