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DB76 - CD/LP	BILL BONDSMEN SWALLOWED BY THE WORLD
	The Bill Bondsmen finally release a full-length. It may have taken awhile, but as usual, good things come to those who wait. 12 tracks of high-quality hardcore that avoid the generic pitfalls similar bands often stumble into. Angry and aggressive, but tuneful. Artwork by Chrisopher Ilth which brings to mind the works of Winston Smith & Nick Blinko.
AO 38467 - 7"	COCKROACH / GRIDE
	Cockroach, as you should know by now, play spastic hardcore as crazy as you could possibly want it.  Gride, from the Czech Republic, play similarly styled fast hardcore.  This is a import from KAZ Records in the Slovak Republic.
B9R-13 - CD	COPS AND ROBBERS EXECUTION STYLE
	A band that got pretty well-known despite only having released two EPs.  This being the latter, and in my opinion, far superior of the two.  Totally classic hardcore/punk that will no doubt stand the test of time and stand out against all it's grade-B contemporaries.  On the short side, but worth it's length in gold.
EYES 001 - Cassette * $4 (cheapo demo price) *	ELECTRIC EYES GOT WHAT I NEED / DOOMFREAK
	A side project of Mikey Flynn from Out Cold/Last In Line. Two songs of heavy, groove-oriented rock to rattle the ol' cassette deck.
FHR-023 - CD	HEARTBURNS FUCKED UP IN A BAD WAY
	Cranked-up, tuneful, garagey punk from Finland. The Heartburns are a side project of the bassist from Hero Dishonest, and the high level of quality that Hero Dishonest bring to the hardcore genre, the Heartburns bring to rockin' punk rock. This wouldn't be at all out of place on the Rip Off Records roster. 10 songs that are over all too quickly and leave you humming them for hours and wanting more. This is a straight-up solid little record. If you have any appreciation for real punk, you'll fucking love this.
IF-27 - LP	HERO DISHONEST JUGGERNAUT / LET YOUR POISON SCREAM
	My god!  Two fantastically great hardcore albums on one LP wrapped in a gorgeous, bronze-colored gatefold jacket!!!  How do you say "no-brainer" in Finnish?
IF-20 - 7"	HERO DISHONEST / MUKEKA DI RATO
	A split with Brazil's Mukeka Di Rato, who provide 5 tracks on their side.   Hero Dishonest come to the party with 4 songs, including their cover of Joy Division's "Warsaw".  As with everything else by HD, highly recommended.
IF-17 - CD	HERO DISHONEST LET YOUR POISON SCREAM
	Their 3rd full-length and not even slightly disappointing.  Angry & abrasive, but catchy as fuck.  You need this!  Believe me.  You'll thank me later.
IF-11 - 7"	HERO DISHONEST CLIMBING UP ON THE WAY DOWN
	More explosive, vehement hardcore from these Finnish freakazoids.  6 tracks here.   Classic stuff, kids.
LÄJÄ 28 - CD	HERO DISHONEST JUGGERNAUT
	The name says it all...one bad-ass, powerful, bombastic hardcore album!  Second only to When The Shit Hits The Man!  This is the Brazilian reissue on Läjä with 20 extra tracks culled from previous releases.
MAY2 - CD	LOS GUSANOS
	This Ramones alumnus wasn't content to ride the coattails of his legendary NY bandmates and started this band while the Ramones were still together.  They only released this one album.  CJ's signature style is showcased here in a rockin' punk session.  Available in 2 covers for a limited time.
EW 20 - 7"	OUT COLD / FOR THE WORSE
	A long time coming, but worth the wait.  Out Cold show up with 3 new raw ragers, while fellow Massholes, For The Worse, counter with 4, plus a Cops & Robbers cover.
SCHIZ 31 - 7"	OUT COLD / BILL BONDSMEN
	A worthy pair up.  Three tracks from Out Cold and two from the Bondsmen.  Both bands stick to their signature styles; Out Cold with the down-and-dirty hardcore and the Bill Bondsmen with the perhaps just slightly more progressive approach to the same.  A little gem if I do say so myself.
Cassette	OUT COLD OWN WORST ENEMY
	A Russian cassette release of 43 tracks taken from the first 5 studio albums.  60 minutes of music!  Talk about more bang for yer buck!   Comes with a big-ass lyric poster so you can scream along.
ORCA 010 - CD DY11 - LP	OUT COLD / VOORHEES
	Two great bands that go great together.  11 songs between them & no filler whatsoever!  This is a must have for fans of both bands.  CD on Blackfish, LP on Deranged.
KR-022 - CD/LP	OUT COLD LIVE IN AMSTERDAM
	28 tracks recorded live in Holland during the 1998 European tour. A good retrospective of the entire back catalog. Recorded by an audience member...very raw & unpolished.
KR-010 - CD	OUT COLD PERMANENT TWILIGHT WORLD
	Second album. First with Mark on vox. Featuring uplifting numbers such as “Falling Apart”, “Faster To Nowhere”, and “Beginning Of The End”. 14 songs.
PR004 - CD	SHODS THANKS FOR NUTHIN'
	Their fourth, and some say their best, record.  The Shods have yet to produce anything less than spectacular and while some of this may be a bit more commercial sounding, it's certainly not a blemish on their record by any means.  Find out what keeps Bostonians coming back for more.
PR006 - CD	SHODS TIPPY
	The long-awaited new album from the local heroes of songmanship. Existing fans will no doubt want to get their paws on this as soon as possible. As for those who are still pathetically unaware of how great this band is, this is as good a place as any to right the wrong. Simply put: another classic 14 tunes (plus a Them cover). Get this now!
LOW-011 - 7"	SHODS I'M IN LOWELL, MA
	The Shods' first release from 1993 on Lowell Records.  This features three songs, two of which appear on future albums.  Brown, was rerecorded for their debut CD.   Fighting The Abyss, a suave and slinky Clash-esque reggae-rocker that will make any greater-Loweller grin more than once.  Lastly is the rough and raw version of Shoot You Down, which was rerecorded and polished up on Thanks For Nuthin'.  I'm very pleased to have gotten ahold of these forgotten platters.
NEI 39 - CD	MICAH BLUE SMALDONE HITHER AND THITHER
	The highly-anticipated sophomore release from Micah Blue Smaldone finds him venturing into darker musical territory. Where the first album was befitting whiling away a summer's afternoon, this one is more suited to a long, dark, lonely night. Often slow and dripping with heartfelt melancholy. Ponderous and deliberate. Song titles such as Coal Black Crepe, More Than I Can Bear, and Grim sum it up succinctly. There's still a few upbeat pluckers, though, to keep it from getting too overwhelmingly maudlin. For what it's worth, as much as I love the first album, I love this one even more.
NEI 33 - CD	MICAH BLUE SMALDONE SOME SWEET DAY
	Former Out Cold & Shods guitarist does a musical one-eighty and records a set of unadultered, authentic, 1920's ragtime blues.  The perfect soundtrack for a hot summer's day, sitting on a porch with a glass of lemonde, whittling a stick.  Expert finger-picking-style guitar playing, great vocal delivery, surprisingly catchy.  Anyone who appreciates quality music is sure to to find this delightful.
CR007 - CD	STIVS THE BEAT IS LOOSE
	"The Stivs are here," to quote Bob Barker...  Indeed, the band formerly known as the Reaction has pulled themselves up by the short hairs after a cross-country relocation and an almost total replacement of band members and recorded this full-length in record time.  It's a bit of a stretch to be referring to them as the same band, but the fact is that fans of the Reaction album should definitely be pleased with this latest effort.  Replace some of the more Misfits-ey leanings on the first record with ample doses of early AC/DC and a pinch of Motörhead and you have a pretty good idea of what to expect.
STENCH10 - 7"	STUPID BABIES GO MAD / BRAINEATERS
	The Babies from Shizuoka, The Braineaters from Yokohama.  Two bands that make for one cool split.  Two new songs each.  Another platter from Human Stench.
EVILFLY 02 - CD	TECHNOCRACY PRICE OF KILLING MACHINE
	Imagine what it would sound like if two-thirds of the creative core of the late, great No Side were to tackle mid-80's crossover metal.  Well, no need to imagine, because here it is.  It's no news to anyone that Acme is not a fan of this genre, but leave it to Yamaguchi & co. to make it work!  If you're at all inclined to this style of music, don't hesitate to pick this up.  Even if it's not normally your cup of tea, you may very well dig this as simply a hard music aficionado.
NW-17 - 7"	V/A NO BULLSHIT VOL. 3
	From the ongoing "No Bullshit" compilation series from No Way Records.  This is one of the best comps I've heard in awhile.  Includes Life Trap, Socialcide, Double Negative, Out Cold, Acid Reflux, and Chronic Seizure.  This baby lives up to its name.  No bullshit at all on here, just solid, straight-forward, hard-hitting hardcore.
CTR-002 - CD	V/A NO SHIT...IT'S GG ALLIN AND THE JABBERS TRIBUTE
	26 bands from all over the world paying tribute to one of the greatest underrated punk bands ever, the Jabbers!!  All the classicks are here redone by various acts, sometimes faithful to the original version, sometimes not.  Features 3 original Jabbers outtakes (from the "Always Was..." sessions back in 1980!!!!): Nuke Attack, I Hope She Holds Her Breath, and Death Child as well as a new Jabbers recording of I Wanna Be Your Dog
KR-026 - 7"	V/A THIS IS KANGAROO NOT BERKELEY
	Yet another bloody comp from you-know-who, and of course it's good.  Great HC from around the world.  The artwork is a parody of a bad parody of a great record (figure that one out).  Here you have Real Shit, Trench Coat Army, Dead Nation, Positive Negative, Out Cold and many more.
KR-018 - 7"	V/A SONGS FROM THE GUTTER
	Compilation featuring Brother Inferior, Out Cold, Yawp, Brezhnev, Final Conflict, Boils, and Seein' Red.  Colored vinyl, poster, ltd edition, blah blah blah.
PGR009 - LP	V/A WEEDS IN THE GARDEN VOL. 2
	Back in stock...  From Paco Garden Records in Colorado comes this high-quality LP.  A disconnected group of bands such as The Force, AK-47, Gutbucket, Clusterfux, DS3, Out Cold, etc.
MT-548 - CD	WHITE FLAG WILD KINGDOM
	OK, please permit me to go on at length here for this is a special one... You see I pitched the idea to White Flag head honcho Pat Fear back at the dawn of 2002 about a proper and thorough reissue of their 1987 masterpiece "Wild Kingdom" along with appropriate, contemporaneous bonus tracks. I've loved this album to death since I first mailordered it back in early 1989 and felt it needed a good and proper reissue. I was ecstatic when Pat said, "I'm down" (pun intended). Machinations got underway: old tapes were dusted off, old artwork was unearthed, new artwork generated, money was sent for studio time, etc. Much time went by as they struggled to find the proper equipment to extract the recordings from their outdated source media. I waited patiently. More time went by with no apparent progress. Long story short, 6½ years later I found myself at a crossroads with respect to the label and made the depressing decision that I couldn't keep it up. Well, less than 6 months after that, I get word that it was finally done and released by longtime WF-allied label MT Records in Germany. I was simultaneously excited and annoyed. Excited that what I had been looking forward to for so long was finally done, but annoyed by the incredibly bad timing. Well, enough with the backstory. The fucking thing is FINALLY here, and man does it ever kick ass!! This thing is a beast! Not only does it contain the original 18-track "Wild Kingdom" album, it also contains all the absolutely vital tracks from WK's "sister" releases (WK was released in three different incarnations in different geographic zones...their entire discography is insanely-convoluted in similar fashion) as well as a smattering of other random, unreleased shit from that era, for a total of 34 tracks in all. WF is one of those tragically overlooked and underrated bands. Most people probably wrote them off as a joke band since there's a lot of humor and parody in their music, image, and delivery. In the early-'80s, when the punk/hardcore scene was becoming super-serious, political, and rigidified, WF went against the grain, dressing up in ridiculous outfits and playing pop & classic rock covers (as they say in the great and hilarious "A Question Of Intelligence": "When punk's become the establishment, I'd say our kind is heaven-sent.") They channeled an incredible array of influences into their music, which is nowhere more apparent than on this reissue. The bands covered here alone should tell you where they're coming from (Cheap Trick, Blue Öyster Cult, The Beatles (twice, including a dead-on version of "I'll Be Back"), Kiss, The Saints, The Germs, Herman's Hermits). Then there's the oddities sprinkled throughout: a "Bringing On The Heartbreak"-style power ballad, a doo-wop song on speed, psychedelia, a capella, and an homage to The Monkees' "Head". Normally such a fucked up mishmash wouldn't appeal to me, but WF pull it off with a plethora of panache. Of course the hard-driving rock, punk, and hardcore that make up the majority of this trove is what really does it for me. Tracks like "Instant Breakfast" (aka "Geiger Counter" from yet another side release), "12 O'Clock High", "Butterfly Revolution", "Loaded", "Kill Yourself", and "Zero Hour" are just all time fucking balls-out classics that I would put up against anything out there. Superior songwriting and pop sensibilities prevail on other rock solid tracks like "Paul Is Dead", "Face Down", "Jungle" (check that killer guitar solo). This is absolute quality shit, man. With all the trouble surrounding the transfer of the original recordings I was worried the vibrant sound on the record would be lost. My worries were for naught. This reissue captures the rich punch and sizzle that I loved so much on the original LP. There are a few minor imperfections in the mastering, but I doubt most people will ever notice. The booklet presents all the artwork and lyric sheets from the original releases exactly the way a good reissue should. Simply put, this reissue lives up to even my very, very lofty expectations. I'm so fucking psyched on this. I'm sad that I was unable to see it realized on Acme, but I'm just glad that it's seen the light of day. Like most things that I get excited about, people will probably just pass this by, but dammit I'm thrilled. Reissue of the decade, as far as I'm concerned! Now if they can give the same treatment to "Third Strike" I could die a happy man. You know that chicken's got a certain Wessonality!
WF-23 - Cass	WHITE FLAG DYING IN THE FUTURE, LIVING IN THE PAST
	A perfect introduction for the unenlightened to the immense world that is the career of White Flag.  This contains 24 tracks from throughout their distinguished 20-year career.  Don't be scared off by the fact that this is on cassette.  It's a very high-quality release with professional, color inlay card with tons of photos, information, etc.  Plus, you'll want this handy in the ol' automobile so this saves you the step of taping it!  On Slovakian label.
LOW-002 - 7" * $10 (collector scum price) *	WORSE THAN USELESS PROPHETS OF PUNK
	The long-out-of-print punk rock classic EP from Lowell.  This came out in 1993 and features Fred & Kevin from Out Cold and Opie, now in Nothing But Enemies/SCFF.  This is pure, unadultered punk rock of the most low-fi, don't-give-a-fuck variety.  A Killed By Death wet dream.