Although this was another unbelievable year of no gigs and cancelled tours, a plethora new releases gave us solace and respite from these cursed times. Vinyl seems bigger than ever, but also continues to be prohibitively expensive. Pressing plants are being tied up for months manufacturing major label releases from the likes of Adele and Taylor Swift etc. This situation leaves all the indie stuff on the back burner creating a situation where a 12 month turnaround is not uncommon. WE see more CDR and cassette releases in the future for indie bands.
LOCAL RELEASES: Another healthy amount for this small town and its expats. Cheers to all.
TJ Cabot - Dick Charles / Get Ready Get Set / ... And More cassette
TJ Cabot & Sonic Hz - Out of Touch & In The Clear cassette
Andy Creeggan - Andiwork IV LP
Expired - The Reaper's Line CDJulie Doiron - I Thought of You LP
Joseph Edgar - Peut-être un rêve LP
Elevator - Eerieconsiliation Extra 2LP
Eric's Trip - Peter (1992 Recordings) LP
Eric's Trip - Peter (1992 Recordings) LP
Mars Creation - Don't Believe In God cassette
Mars Creation / Eerified Catacomb - split cassette
Ümlab - Disque Space (bandcamp/streaming)
Which Witch Is Which / Frig Dancer split LP
Rick White - Where It's At LP
LIVE GIGS: We thankfully managed to go out a few times to see some live music. Gratitude to the musicians, singers, clubs, bars, sound techs etc.
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Our annual tradition is asking local music freaks to list off their
faves of the year. Read 'em and weep. (some late submissions may be added at
a later date)
Ray Auffrey (AKG editor, street walking amateur pomologist)
Top Ten New Music 12 inchers in alphabetical order
Amyl And The Sniffers - A Comfort To Me LP
The Descendents - 9th & Walnut LP
Godspeed You Black Emperor - G_d's Pee At State's End! 2LP
Hawkwind - Somnia LP
Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns LPMdou Moctar - Afrique Victim LP
The Moor - From Smoke and Sorrow 12" EP
Real Sickies - Love Is For Lovers LP
TUNS - Duly Noted LP
Rick White - Where It's Fine LP
Top Ten 7 inchers in alphabetical order
Antibodies "LP 2021" EP
Gina Birch - Feminist Song
Black Halos - Uncommonwealth
The Dickies - Gary Glitter Get Away
Gun Club - Ruby Sessions
Aldous Harding - Old Peel
The Jacobites - Shame For The Angels EP (reissue)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Live At The Fox Theatre, Detroit 10/22/18 7" EP
Eugene Ripper - Ride The Northern Train
The Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules (reissue)
Top Ten Reissues/comps/anthologies in alphabetical order
Angered Wrecks -Bennies, Booze And R&R 1981 LP
Elevator - Eerieconsiliation Extra 2LP
Forbidden Dimension - Mars I Heaven LP
Neos - Three Teens Hellbent On Speed LP
Pillbox - Jimbo's Clown Room LP
Screamers - Demo Hollywood 1977 12" EP
Sloan - This One's An Original LP
SNFU - A Blessing But With A Curse 12" EP
Tricky Woo - Sometimes I Cry LP
Voivod - The Outer Limits LP
Top Five Live Releases in alphabetical order
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle 2LP
Electric Prunes - Stockholm 67 LP (reissue)
The Gun Club - Live At The Starwood 1981 LP
Hawkwind - Greasy Truckers Party 2LP
The Ramones - Triple J, Live At The Wireless: Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 1980 LP
Top Three Zines in alphabetical order:
Maggot Brain
Ugly Things
Vive Le Rock
Looking forward to new releases by The Damned, Voivod, The Dickies, Black Halos and Michael Monroe.
Billy Battershill (gluten dealer)
Top Ten Albums
Geoff Palmer - Charts and Graphs LP
The Randells - Kicks (digital)
The Bambies - Summer Soon (digital)
Brad Marino - Looking For Trouble LP
The Reflectors - Faster Action LP
Radio Days - Rave On! LP
Peppermint Kicks - s/t (digital)
Jesse Malin - Sad and Beautiful World (digital)
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (digital)
Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc (digital)Tyler Boutilier (Cape Breton Liberationist)
Top Ten Albums
Mononegatives - Apparatus Division LP
Control Freaks - Get Some Help LP
Civic - Future Forecast LP
Brad Marino - Looking For Trouble LP
S.U.G.A.R. - s/t LP
Tricky Woo - Sometimes I Cry LP reissue
Tricky Woo - The Enemy Is Real LP reissue
Tricky Woo - Rock and Roll Music Part One LP reissue
Gruesomes - Cave In LP reissue
Ramones - 1975 Demos LP (bootleg)
Daryl Buote (Port City correspondent)
Top Ten Albums
Rich Ragany And The Digressions - Beyond Nostalgia And Heartache CD
Needles//Pins - s/t (digital)
Richard Bacchus & The Luckiest Girls - Viva La Wattage (digital)
Chain Whip - Two Steps To Hell LP
Dogma - The World At Peace Not In Pieces LP
Neon Christ - 1984 LP
Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders - There's Pretty Things In Palookaville (digital)
Phane - s/t LP
Fractured - demo tape
Dee Cracks - Serious Issues LP
Top Five Singles
Black Halos - Uncommonwealth
Antibodies - "LP 2021" EP
The Chisel - Come See Me
Cheap Cassettes - See Her In Action
Antibodies - "LP 2021" EP
The Chisel - Come See Me
Cheap Cassettes - See Her In Action
Ritual Warfare - Repulsion Addiction
Jeff Cheyne (a man of sartorial hyperthymesia)
Top Ten Albums
Mogwai -As the Love Continues LP
Low - Hey What LP
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (digital)
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Gods pee at States End 2LP
The Besnard Lakes- are the great thunderstorm (digital)
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victim (digital)
Iceage - Seek Shelter LP
Julie Doiron - I Though of You (digital)
Dusted III (digital)
Cloud Nothings The Shadow I Remember LP
Marc Doucet (drummer and ritual b.t. adherent)
Top Ten Releases
The Ramones - Triple J, Live At The Wireless: Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 1980 LP
The Ramones - Triple J, Live At The Wireless: Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 1980 LP
Billy Idol - Roadside 12" EP
Wire - PF456 Deluxe. (10” + 7”+ hardback book)
Electric Prunes - Stockholm 67 LP (reissue)
Carcass - Torn Arteries LP
Sloan - This One's An Original LP
Rick White - Where It's Fine LP
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raide The Roof LP
The Gun Club - Live At The Starwood 1981 LP
The Dickies - Live In Winnipeg LP Mark Eveleigh (local music supporter & full-time dad)
Top Ten Albums
The Moor - From Smoke And Sorrow LP
War On Women - Wonderful Hell (digital)
Pussy Gillette - s/t LP
Foxx Bodies - Vixen (digital)
Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me CD
Which Witch Is Which / Frig Dancer - Split LP
Les Shirley - Forever Is Now CD
Rick White - Where It's Fine LP
The Descendents - 9th & Walnut CD
Expired - The Reaper's Line CD
Top Ten EP's / Singles
The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia 12"
Local H - Local H's Quarantine Mix Tape #3 CD
Louisville Burnouts - Bloated Desperation / Stuck On Autoplay (digital single)
Gemstones - Paranoid Amp EP cassette
Cluttered - Accidents cassette
Gemstones - Novel of Nothing 7"
Cluttered - s/t cassette
TJ Cabot & Sonic HZ - Out of Touch EP cassette
Crown Lands - White Buffalo CD
Antibodies - LP 2021 7"
Top Three Reissues
Metallica - s/t (3 Disc Expanded Edition)
Elevator To Hell - Eerieconsiliation Extra 2LP
Eric's Trip - Peter (1992 Recordings) LP
Grant Forsythe (lead shouter at Neighbourhood Watch)
(Top Ten Albums in alphabetical order):
Angered Wrecks - Bennies, Booze And R&R 1981 LP
The Boys - Terminal Love LP
Capitali$t Alienation - Capitali$t Alienation LP
Chain Whip - Two Step To Hell 12" EP
Citizen Rage - The Black CD EP
The Clash - Tokyo Calling LP
False Confession - Resurrectionists LP
Neon Christ -1984 LP
Stalag 13 - Fill In The Silence LP
Which Witch Is Which/Frig Dancer - Powertrip/Billy split LP
Mark Gaudet (Purple Knight, Hugs & Kisses)
Top Ten Albums
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails LP Carcass - Torn Arteries LP
Blackmore's Night - Nature's Light LP
Rick White - Where It's Fine LP
Ramones - Triple J, Live At The Wireless: Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 1980 LP
Deep Purple - Turning To Crime LP
Cheap Trick - In Another World LP
Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School of Medicine - Tea Party Revenge Porn LP
Discharge - East - The West Live Dis-aster LP
Billy Idol - The Roadside 12" EP
Peter Leger (Bagtown Correspondent)
Top Ten Releases in no particular order
Adult Mom - Driver
The Weather Station - Ignorance
Turnstile - Glow On
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
Abba - Voyage
Altin Gün - Yol
Squid - Bright Green Field
War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
Wednesday - Twin Plagues
Geese - Projector
Gavin MacNeil (apiarist, cardboard connoisseur)
Top Ten Releases
Wire - PF456 Deluxe. (10” + 7”+ hardback book)
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg LP
Modu Moctar - Afrique Victime LP
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (bandcamp)
Eric’s Trip - Peter LP (1992 Recordings)
Freelove Fenner - The Punishment Zone LP
Diamondtown - Diamondtown LP
Rick White - Where it’s Fine LP
Roland Kirk - Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1963 LP
Gustaf - Audio Drag For Ego Slobs (digital)
Best Music Documentary
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground A Todd Hayes documentary (video)
Kyle McDons (bassist/vocalist at Zaum)
The Melvins - Working With God LP
Zombi - Liquid Crystal 12" EP
Wardruna - Kvitravn LP
Lustmord / Karin Park - Alter LP
Choirz - Diamodn Lover EP (digital)
Night Flight Orchestra - Aeromantic II LP
Carcass - Torn Arteries LP
Expired - The Reaper’s Line CD
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim LP
The Melvins - Five Legged Dog LP
Chris Murray (legally astute)
Top Ten Albums
Hank Mobley - Soul Station LP (reissue)
Dexter Gordon - Go! LP (reissue)
Herbie Nichols - The Prophetic
Herbie Nichols Vol 1 & 2 LP
Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie LP (reissue)
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' LP (reissue)
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers -
Moanin' LP (reissue)
Sonny Clark - My Conception LP (reissue)
Oliver Nelson - The Blues
and the Abstract Truth LP (reissue)
Curtis Amy - Katanga! LP (reissue)
Art Blakey and the
Jazz Messangers - First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings LP Sonia Noel (local music supporter)
Top Ten Albums
Julie Doiron - I Thought of You LP
Rick White - Where It’s Fine LP
Daniel Romano’s Outfit - Cobra Poems LP
TUNS - Duly Noted LP
Catenary Wires - Birling Gap CD
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Theory of Ice CD
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour CD
Fiver With The Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition - s/t LP
Kiwi Jr - Cooler Returns CD
Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers CD
Mat O'Blenis (drug cartel)
Green Lung - Black Harvest LP
Dvne - Etemen Ænka LP
Leprous - Aphelion LP
The Armed - Ultrapop LP
Delving - Hirschbrunnen LP
Straytones - Magic Green River Swimmin' & Stunning Tarzanka Experience LP
Weedpecker - IV: The Stream of Forgotten Thoughts LP
Top Ten on 12"
Svaveldioxid - Forsta Dagen Efter Sista Bomben LP
Manbiki Chocolate / Sarushibai - split LP
Cuir - Album LP
Koma - Internment Failure LP
Phane - self titled LP
Last Agony - The Imminent Slaughter LP
Dodsrit - Mortal Coil LP
Fatum / Decade - split LP
The Moor - From Smoke And Sorrow 12" EP
Bootlicker - self titled LP
Craig Pinhey (beer, wine & spirits)
Top Ten Releases
1. TUNS - Duly Noted
2. Juliana Hatfield - Blood
3. Aimee Mann - Queens of the Summer Hotel
4. They Might Be Giants - Book
5. Motorists - Surrounded
6. Papal Visit - Five Fathom Hole
7. Guided By Voices - It’s Not Them...
8. Brian Setzer - Gotta Have The Rumble
9. Danko Jones - Power Trio
10. Field Music - Flat White Moon
Remi Vienneau Leclair (thee hunter of comics)
Top Ten Releases
Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion LP
King Buffalo - The Burden of Restlessness LP
Boss Keloid - Family The Smiling Thrush LPGreen Lung - Black Harvest LP
Dvne - Etemen Ænka LP
Leprous - Aphelion LP
The Armed - Ultrapop LP
Delving - Hirschbrunnen LP
Straytones - Magic Green River Swimmin' & Stunning Tarzanka Experience LP
Weedpecker - IV: The Stream of Forgotten Thoughts LP
Top Ten on 7"
Violent Spirit - Fire
Anti Machine - self-titled EP
Taqbir - Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause
Imploders - self-titled EP
Electric Chair - Social Capital
Nightfeeder - Exploited Partisans
Reaksi - Esok Hari Kepunyaan Kitaa
Kohti Tuhoa - Vakivaltaa
S.H.I.T. - Hidden In Etrnity
Ritual Warfare - Repulsive Addiction
And to close things off, an incredibly long list of musicians who have passed away this year. Rest in peace and thanks for the music...
Tony Brighton (Zro4), Dave Davies (Son of Happy), Billy Conway (Morphine), Little Richard, Carol Fran, Meg Brazill (Los Microwaves / Baby Buddha), Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire), Paddy Maloney (The Chieftains), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Ian “Bobsie” Millar (Coloured Balls), Hank Von Hell (Turbonegro), Big Bob Clark (Aggression), Russell Hardy (Kilburn & The Highroads), Benjamin Vallé (Viagra Boys), Dee Pop (Bush Tetras), John Drake (The Amboy Dukes), Drew Steele (Surf Punks), Darrell Bath (Crybabys, UK Subs, Vibrators, Dogs D'Amour etc), Mark Enbatta (Vietnam Veterans), Paul Humphrey (Blue Peter), Brian Travers (UB40), Astro (aka Terence Wilson) (UB40), Graeme Edge (Moody Blues), John Goodsall (Brand X), Keith Allison (Paul Revere & The Raiders), Andrew Barker (808 State), Nao aka Fabio Pol (Basta), Adam Balsam (Most Serene Republic, The Wilderness of Manitoba), Everett Morton (The English Beat), George Frayne aka Commander Cody, Ron Bushy (Iron Butterfly), Timo Kaltio (Cherry Bombz, Cheap and Nasty), Mick Crudge (The Fits), Paul Boudreau (Glamour Puss Blues Band), Ollie Wisdom (The Specimen, The Unwanted), Laurence Wood (Zounds), Dusty Hill (ZZ Top), John "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Bowie guitarist), Kip Brown (Portland ME punk legend), Walter Kot (Personality Crisis), Jimmy Weatherstone (The Demics, Handsome Ned), George Hington (Existers), Chuck E. Weiss, Bryan St. Pere (Hum), Brendan “Stu” Maguire (Reach The Sky, Deadly Sins), Bob Murphy (Stitch In Tyme, Soma), Ellen McIlwaine, Jack Terricloth aka Peter Ventantonio (Sticks and Stones, The World/Inferno Friendship Society), Chris Newman (Napalm Beach), Ali McKenzie (The Birds), Julz Sale (Delta 5), Laura Kennedy (Bush Tetras), Nanci Griffith, Don Everly, Wanda Young (The Marvelettes), Mensi (Angelic Upstarts), Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones), Melvin Parker (drummer for James Brown), Pwee Wee Ellis (sax player for James Brown), Jazz Butcher (aka Pat Fish), Alan Lancaster (Status Quo), Charlie Keigher (King of The Slums), Sanford Clark, Willie Cobbs, Rosa Lee Maphis, Don Maddox, Warren Storm, Michael Nesmith (The Monkees), Tom T. Hall, Greg Gilbert (Delays), Jerry Granelli, Robbie Shakespeare, Ernest Wilson (The Clarendonians), Lonnie Smith, Stefan Crush (Men They Couldn't Hang), Leroy Radcliffe (The Modern Lovers), Sylvain Sylvain (New York Dolls), Dan Sartain, Ray Campi, Edwin Bruce, Tom Stevens (Long Ryders), Don Heffington (Lone Justice), Hilton Valentine (The Animals), Ian North (Milk N' Cookies), U-Roy, Anita Lane, Nolan Porter, James Purify, Malcolm Cecil (Tonto's Expanding Head Band), Mary Wilson (The Supremes), Dave Evans (AC/DC, Rabbit), Shock G (Digital Underground), Dion, Rusty Young (Poco), Trinity (aka Wade Brammer), Bunny Wailer, Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers), Celia Humphris (Trees), Junior Mance, Lloyd Price, Dean Parrish, Mark Keds (Senseless Things), Jon Hassell, Chris Barber, Les McKeown (Bay City Rollers), Evan C. Jones (SNFU), Bob Lanois, Mike Mitchell (The Kingsmen), Lew Lewis, Steve Robinson (Disorder),Tony Pola (Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon & The Surrealists), Michael Thimren (Teneriffa Cowboys, Johny Thunders), Gerry~Jenn Wilson (JP5), Nollag Bridgeman (The Waterboys), Wojtek Krawczyk (Homomilitia), L-G Petrov (Entombed), Dave Aronson (Jerry's Kids), Ralph Peterson (jazz drummer), Marc Ellington, Tony Morrison aka Tony Perfect aka Tony Feedback (Long Tall Shorty, Angelic Upstarts), Gene Taylor (Blasters, Downchild Blues Band), Damian Branica (L.E.S. Stitches), Chick Corea, Milford Graves, Michael Fonfara (Rhinoceros, Electric Flag), Taz Rudd (Symbol Six), Rude van Steenes (Arson, Glamatron), Joe Camarillo (Waco Brothers, NRBQ, James "Yapo" Valenzuela (Young And Pissed Off), Phil Spector, Michael Fonfara (Lou Reed), Duris Maxwell (Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers), Mick Bolton (Mott The Hoople, Dexys Midnight Runners), Gerry Marsden (Geery & The Pacemakers), Katz Seki (Hated Principles, None of Your Fucking Business), Les Emmersonn (The Staccatos, Five Man Electrical Band), Simôn Santana (The Brass, Royal Hounds NYC)
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