North Carolina’s Young and in the Way is a band you should know about. They kill everything. They’ve got a new song up on their MySpace page called “Dark Seed” which is amazing. Their new album “Amen” will be out this Spring through Hands Up Records, on limited 12″ colored vinyl. Can’t wait for that. In the meantime, head over to their page and give em a listen, and get excited about music again. I know I did.
i lived in Albuquerque, NM until 8th grade. My first exposure to punk rock and alternative forms of music (read: stuff that my mom didnt put on the radio) was through Thrasher Magazine, and Channel 27 public access TV.
i was enthralled, mortified, scared, and forever changed. bands like Ministry, Black Flag, Skinny Puppy, old Janes Addiction… it all opened my eyes (literally) to the dark side of music. here are a few of those videos that i clearly remember, almost 20 years later.
Ministry- Burning Inside (embedding disabled)
I hadn’t heard of this band until recently when I found this record at the store. I went home to check their myspace to see if it was any good. It was. In fact, it was really good, so I went back and bought it, and have been listening to it pretty steadily since. If you like fast, crusty, Swedish hardcore punk then you should give this a listen.
When I was first getting into hardcore, I had a hard time spending money on records. There would be records that i had heard about, and wanted to buy, but either couldn’t afford, or that new copy of Destroy The Machines was more important.
The Rebuilding Comp was one of those records that I always wanted, but never wanted to buy. And I probably also figured, why buy the record for double digits when I can buy the CD?
Such an amazing lineup. No Escape, Gorilla Biscuits, Turning Point and Burn. On the 7″, each band contibutes one song. My personal favorite is the Turning Point song, but they are also one of my favorite hardcore bands. “Broken” was also on the CD version of It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn, and I always loved that song. Of course “Biscuit power” was on the CD version of the Gorilla Biscuits 7″. The version of “drown” on the record is different from the version that appeared on the Burn 7″. It was my least favorite song on that record. I don’t really know much about No Escape. They were one of those bands that everyone told me I should like, and that’s probably why I ignored them. I chose to lose.
The CD version has an extra live song from Burn, and the songs from the Turning Point/ No Escape 7″, and an atrocious layout. I have scanned all of the pages of the 7″, as each band got it’s own page. I also recorded it so that the original version was available, not just the CD version.
According to the Revelation Records pressing info page, there were only 200 of this on gold vinyl, with over 50 of those still with Temperance Records. What a fuckin waste. Seriously. Just sell them already. It would do the world a lot of good. So that means there are less than 150 copies of this record floating around. I sold this very gold vinyl copy about a month ago, so the dude who bought it is lucky indeed.
The Devil’s Night 7″ was a live record on Indecision Records. It featured Adamantium, Death By Stereo, Ensign, Eyelid, and The Missing 23rd. One song from each band was used, recorded live at Showcase Theater on July 25th, 1998.
The record was released on Devil’s Night, 1998. The back cover says
“one time pressing of 1,000″
However, the Indecision Records website says otherwise. It clearly states that 1082 were pressed on an orange/black vinyl and 15 were pressed on black vinyl. The orange/black actually looks pretty cool, as you can see.
The bands featured on the record are a pretty good snapshot of a scene that existed at the time. The bands that played weren’t quite posi, weren’t “hard”… they didn’t belong to any specific sub-genre of hardcore. Just a bunch of dudes playing hardcore music.
This was recorded straight off of the 7″. I have been told that Dave Mandel still has all of the masters from the night, so I am going to try and get ahold of at least SOME of them for future posting.
we finally got servers switched, thanks to the almighty Josh Highland
thought id kick things off with a little movie i made.
we’re back!!!
