Local wax: It's always nice to be able to make this list. So here, to my knowledge, are the local vinyl releases of 2019:
Joseph Edgar - 2004-2019 Point Picot 2LP (Rosemarie) April
Zaum - Divination LP (Listenable) April
Phone Jerks - 10x10 10" EP (Alien Snatch) October
Follow-Ups - Don't Like You Either LP (Flat Tyre) October
Eric's Trip - Warm Girl LP (Bluefog) December
Upcoming: hopefully some new stuff by Funeral Fog, Which Witch Is Which, Nerve Button and a local punk comp.
Gone But Not Forgotten: Klackers, Bruce, les Paiens
Missing In Action: Whoregasms, Chiller
New Blood: Zero Zero U.F.O., Old Habits, Pas Much, Johnny Deathwish, The Atlantix
Reunion of The Year: Fear of Lipstick
Venues: We lost the Plan B Lounge back in April. That small bar tucked away at the corner of Lutz and St. George Street played host to many local bands as well as various indie touring acts. Whether it was country or death metal, it was one of the few stages where you could original music on almost any night of the week. Luckily for us punters, the Caveau has stepped up and provided us with a space for occasional night time revelry.
As is customary, we've asked a few of our music obsessed friends to compile a list of their favourite moments of 2019. So without further ado, here goes...
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| One of the better releases of 2019 |
Top Ten New Music Releases (in alphabetical order)
Amyl and The Sniffers - s/t LP
Black Halos -Geisterbahn II b/w Tandem Drown 7"
Booji Boys - Tube Reducer LP
The Chats - Pub Feed 7"
Aldous Harding - Designer LP
Phone Jerks - 10x10 10" EP
Plasticheads - Nowhere To Run 12" EP
Subhumans - Crisis Point LP
Rick White and Eiyn Sof - The Opening LP
Wolfbrigade - The Enemy: Reality LP
Top Ten Reissues, collections, live recordings (in alphabetical order)
John Coltrane - Blue World LP
D.O.A. - 1978 2LP
Discharge - Noise Not Music Box Set
Eric's Trip - Warm Girl LP (first time on vinyl)
Genetic Control - First Impression LP
Hawkwind - The '1999' Party (Live At The Chicago Auditorium, March 21 1974) 2LP
Heartbreakers - Yonkers Demo LP
The Ramones - Live At The Palladium, New York, NY (12/31/79) 2LP
The Unintended - s/t LP (first time on vinyl)
The Victims - s/t LP
Top Ten Live Shows (in chronological order)
Atoxxico / Helltroopers / Warsick, Saturday May 25, Wize Guyz, Riverview NB
The Cult - Thursday May 30, Casino NB, Moncton NB
Doc MacLean, Saturday June 29, Timber Lounge, Moncton NB
No Funswick Fest July 12, 13 and 14, various venues, Moncton NB
Andy Irvine, Friday July 26, Shepody House, Dorchester NB
Painbow / Warsick / Grosse Bouche / Small Package, Saturday July 27, The Caveau, Moncton NB
Fred Eaglesmith and Tif Ginn, Sunday September 22, Tide and Boar, Moncton NB
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Saturday October 5, Centre culturel Aberdeen, Moncton NB
Fear of Lipstick / New Calling / Phone Jerks - Friday October 18, Tide and Boar, Moncton NB
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| Local faves Which Witch Is Which |
Top Ten EPs and Singles
1. Aloha Swamp - Aloha Swamp/Midnight, the Stars and You 7"
2. Channel 3 - The Bellweather 12" EP
3. Corporate Citizen - A Brief Moment Of Sanity 7" EP
4. Crime - San Francisco's First And Only Rock 'N' Roll Band: Live 1978 dbl 7" EP
5. Cro-Mags - Don't Give In 7" EP
6. Misfits - Hellbent For Vinyl 7" EP
7. Parasytes - Boxed In 7" EP
8. Pisser - Breaking Chains 12" EP
9. Tasty Wangs - Better Living Through Proper Nutrition With... 7" lathe cut EP
10. Tørsö - Build And Break 7" EP
Top Ten Albums
1. Chain Whip - 14 Lashes LP
2. The Follow Ups - Don't Like You Either LP
3. The Freeze - Calling All Creatures LP
4. Frig Dancer - Hot Garbage LP
5. The Grim - Nuclear World Order LP
6. Hard Charger - Vol 4: Take The Guff And Suffer LP
7. Hype - Live Larry's Hideaway 1985 CD
8. Various Artists - Drunk Canadian Punk Rock Vol. 1 LP
9. Various Artists - Oakville Uber Alles CD
10. Various Artists - Punk East Vs. Punk West LP
Top Five Reissues/Compilations
1. Chronic Submission - Sick Of Reality LP
2. Direct Action - Tomorrow Is Too Late LP
3. Genetic Control - First Impressions LP
4. Mad Parade - Caffeine Screams LP
5. Nine Nine Nine - Nasty Cuts LP
Ken Kelley (drummer at the Monoxides)
The Raconteurs - Help Us, Stranger CD
Sebadoh - Act Surprised CD
Spoon - Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon CD
Ian Blurton - Signals Through The Flame CD
The National - I Am Easy To Find CD
Jeff Tweedy - Warmer CD
Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock CD
Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope CD
The Black Keys - Let’s Rock CD
Jenny Lewis - On The Line CD
Bill Battershill
1. Pale Lips - After Dark LP
2. Frank Turner - No Man’s Land LP
3. Brad Marino - Extra Credit LP
4. Amon Amarth - Berserker CD
5. The Cigarettes - You Were So Young LP
6. Pkew Pkew Pkew - Optimal Lifestyles LP
7. Titus Andronicus - An Obelisk LP
8. Plasticheads - Nowhere to Run 12" EP
9. Los Pepes- Positive Negative LP
10. Neck - You Don’t Think It’s Evil LP
Tyler Boots (guitarist at Nerve Button and Phone Jerks)
10. Gino and the Goons – Off The Rails LP
9. The Follow Ups – Don’t Like You Either LP
8. Bikes – S/T III LP
7. Real Tears – Hay Fever LP
6. The Muffs – No Holiday LP
5. Brad Marino - Extra Credit LP
4. Neck - You Don’t Think It’s Evil LP
3. The Cowboys – Bottom of a Rotten Flower LP
2. Plasticheads – Nowhere To Run 12" EP
1. Control Freaks – She’s The Bomb LP
Cat Butterfield (man about town)
1 Hunt Sales Memorial - Get Your Shit Together LP
2 Daddy Long Legs - Lowdown Ways LP
3 Billy Childish - Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot: The Billy Childish Story 1977-2018 LP
4 Peter Perrett - Humanworld LP
5 The Raincoats - s/t LP (reissue)
6 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen LP
7 Guitar Wolf - Love and Jett LP
8 Booth and the Bad Angel - Angelo Badalamenti LP (reissue)
9 Fallen Angels - s/t LP
10 Headcat with Johnny Ramone - Good Rockin’ Tonight 7"
Mark Eveleigh (local music supporter/ full-time dad)
Top Ten Albums
1. Amyl and the Sniffers - s/t CD
2. Starcrawler - Devour You CD
3. Heart Attack Kids - Bad Luck Like Gold CD
4. The Black Keys - Lets Rock CD
5. The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger CD
6. The Headstones - Peopleskills CD
7. Rick White + Eiyn Sof - The Opening LP
8. L7- Scatter The Rats CD
9. Ian Blurton's Future Now -Signals Through The Flames Digital Download
10. The Follow Ups - Don't Like You Either LP
Top Ten EP's / Singles
1. Local h- Patrick Bateman 7"
2. Ian Blurton - Space Is Forever 7"
3. Thick-Thick Digital Download
4. The Beaches- The Professional CD
5. Mudhoney - Morning In America 12" EP
6. Sleater-Kinney - Animal 7"
7. Trash Juice-Trash Juice Digital Download
8. Sleater-Kinney - Hurry On Home 7"
9. Idles - Mercedes Marxists 7"
10. Phone Jerks- 10 x 10 10" EP
Top Three Live Shows
1. Thrush Hermit with Shotgun Jimmie 09/27 at the Marquee Halifax NS
2. Thrush Hermit with Walrus 09/26 at the Tide and Boar Moncton NB
3. The Offspring with Sum 41 and Dinosuar Pile-up 11/13 at the Avenir Centre Moncton NB
Top 5 Reissues
1. Eric's Trip- Warm Girl LP
2. The Unintended- S/T LP
3. Fu Manchu -Start The Machine LP
4. Green River-Rehab Doll CD
5. Fu Manchu-Godzilla's /Eatin' Dust 3 x 10"
Remi LeClair (thee Comic Hunter)
1. Green Lung – Woodland Rites download
2. Motorpsycho – The Crucible LP
3. Horseburner – The Thief LP
4. Ian Blurton – Signals Through the Flames LP
5. My Diligence – Sun Rose download
6. Baroness – Gold and Grey LP
7. Oozing Wound – High Anxiety download
8. Zeta – Mochima download
9. Cult of Luna – A Dawn to Fear LP
10. Howling Giant – The Space Between Worlds LP
Mark Gaudet (Purple Knight, Parlour Tricks)
1. Darkthrone - Old Star LP
2. Motley Crue - The Dirt LP
3. Subhumans -Criss Point LP
4. Hawkwind - The 1999 Party LP
5. Discharge - Noise Not Music LP Box Set
6. The Ramones - Live At The Palladium New York 12 31 79 LP
7. Rick White/Eiyn Sof - The Opening LP
8. Redd Kross - Beyond The Door LP
9. Mayhem - Daemon CD
10. The Doors - London Fog LP
Sonia Noel (local music supporter)
Top Ten Things...
1. Rick White + Eiyn Sof - The Opening LP
2. Anyway Gang - s/t LP
3. Shotgun Jimmie - Transistor Sister 2 LP
4. Diamondtown - The Voice CDEP
5. Mauno - Really Well LP
6. Taylor Swift - Lover CD
7. The Nuclear - No Emotion (digital purchase through iTunes)
8. The Unintended - s/t LP reissue
9. Julie Doiron - live at Thunder and Lightning Sunday Sessions February 17th, 2019
10. Def Leppard - live Avenir Centre July 13th, 2019
Brian LaManna (Phone Jerk)
Top 5 in no particular order
1) Gino and The Goons - Do the Get Around LP / Off The Rail LP
2) The Victims - s/t LP (reissue)
3) The Undertones (live at the Once Ballroom, Somerville, Mass. May 24, 2019)
4) Crime - Live In ’78 (DVD + 2 x 7")
5) MY BAND RELEASED A SOPHMORE LP!!! SORTA!!! KINDA!!! IT COUNTS, DAMMIT!!! I DON’T CARE IF IT’S A 10” – THAT COUNTS!!! IT HAS MORE SONGS THAN “RAW POWER” AND THE SAME AMOUNT AS “(I’M) STRANDED!!! DON’T MAKE ME CUT A BITCH!!!
Jeff Cheyne (a man of ideas...)
Top Ten in no particular order:
Phone Jerks 10x10 10"
BATTLES -Juice B Crypts (digital)
Health - Volume 4 CD
Uniform and the Body- Everything that dies Someday Comes Back (digital)
Zaum - Divination LP
Flying Lotus - Flamagra CD
Tim Hecker- Anoyo (digital)
Cate Le Bon - Reward LP
Priors - Call to You 7"
Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Disappeared (digital)
Craig Pinhey (Wine, beer and spirits. What else is there?)
1. John Southworth - Miracle In the Night CD
2. Tegan and Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You CD
3. The Likes of Jeff Pittman - History and Mystery CD
4. Stray Cats - 40 CD
5. Jenny Lewis - On The Line CD
6. Joe Jackson - Fool CD
7. Juliana Hatfield - Weird CD
8. Lloyd Cole - Guesswork CD
9. TC&I - Naked Flames CDEP /Robyn Hitchcock and Andy Partridge - Planet England CDEP
10. Weezer - The Teal Album CD / Jonathan Coulton - Some Guys CD
Mat O'Blenis (screamer at Warsick)
1. Devil Master – Satan Spits On Children of Light LP
2. L.O.T.I.O.N. – World Wide Web LP
3. Enzyme – Howling Mind LP
4. Fetish – World Eater LP
5. Rocky and the Sweden – City Baby Attacked By Buds LP
6. Svaveldioxid – Dodsogonblick LP
7. The Wraith – Gloom Ballet LP
8. Larma – S/T 12" EP
9. Witchtrial S/T 12" EP
10. Kohti Tuhoa – Ihmisen Kasvot LP
Peter Leger (Bagtown correspondent)
1 Beatles - Abbey Road (remaster expanded) CD
2 Marc Bolan - Marc Bolan Early Years CD
3 Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Sessions Expanded CD
4 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen CD
5 Indoor Pets - Be Content CD
6 Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains CD
7 Queen Zee - Queen Zee CD
8 Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation CD
9 Pup - Morbid Stuff CD
10 Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars CD
Sammy Klacker: (record store clerk extraordinaire)
1. Control Freaks - She's a Bomb LP
2. The Cowboys - The Bottom of a Rotten Flower LP
3. Gee Tee - Chromo-Zone Cassette
4. Judy and the Jerks - Music for Donuts 7" EP
5. The Muffs- No Holiday LP
6. Pale Lips - After Dark LP
7. Phone Jerks - 10X10 10"
8. Powerplant - People in the Sun LP
9 .Steve Adamyk Band - Paradise LP
10. Uranium Club: The Cosmo Cleaners LP
Gavin MacNeil: (apiarist, connoisseur of cardboard)
1- Fontaines DC - Dogrel bandcamp
2- Actors - It Will Come To You LP
3- Phone Jerks - 10x10 10"EP
4- Iggy Pop - Free LP
5- Trash Kit - Hoizon soundcloud
6- Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops bandcamp
7- The Wraith - Gloom Ballet LP
8- Rick White, Eisner Sof - The Opening LP
9- Kim Gordon - No Home Record LP
10- Kælan Mikla - Nótt eftir nótt LP
Kyle McDons (bassist at Zaum)
1. Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror (LP)
2. Big Business - The Beast You Are (LP)
3. Firebreather - Under a Blood Moon (LP)
4. Com Truise - Persuasion System (LP)
5. Sunn O))) - Life Metal / Pyroclasts (LP)
6. Spidergawd - V (LP)
7. VR Sex - Human Traffic Jam / Horseplay (LP)
8. Torche - Admission (LP)
9. Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel (LP)
10. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - The Undivided Five (LP)
Daryl Buote (Port City correspondent)
Top Ten Releases:
1. Rich Ragany and The Digressions - Like We'll Never Make It (download)
2 Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock CD
3 The Divided- World You're Living In LP
4 Little You Little Me - Hard To Say Not Knowing LP
5 Zaum - Divination LP
6 Chain Whip - 14 Lashes LP
7 Desperate Times cassette
8 Rainbow Grave - No You LP
9 The Wraith- Gloom Ballet LP
10. Black Halos - Geisterbahn II 7"
10. Hammered Hulls 7"
10. Phone Jerks - 10×10 10" EP
Top Live Shows:
No Funswick Festival (especially Feed) - July 10, 11 and 12 (Moncton)
Acidez/Hard Charger - September 6 (Fredericton)
Existench - July 11 (Fredericton)
Atoxxcico - May 25 (Riverview)
Zaum - June 8 (Moncton)
Painbow - July 27 (Moncton)
Steve Adamyk Band / Chiller / Dee Cracks / Phone Jerks - May 10 (Moncton)
Fear of Lipstick - October 18 (Moncton)
Interpol - August 3 (Saint John)
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