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Pete The Pirate Squid Southeast Asia Tour 2012
PETE THE PIRATE SQUID – a four-piece Swedish/German post-hardcore/screamo indie-rocking bunch – They have been around since March 2002, toured around Europe eight times and now visiting Malaysia & Singapore with a new EP “The New Royalty” – released on the occasion of the tour.
Capitalist War Holocaust 4-Way Split-CD – Out Now!
A multi-label crust/d-beat/thrash release featuring 3 Malaysian bands and 1 Singaporean.
Vialka – Free Downloads!
VIALKA, the crazy French/Canadian guitar’n'drums duo who played at NBT, KL in April 2010 put up their whole catalogue of recordings for download (via donation too), while on the same page you can order their CDs: HERE.
Aterpe – Aurkitu Bidea – Demo 2011
Somebody sent us two tracks with no info the other day – all I know file is called ATERPE and so I did a bit of googling and found an entry on the cool crust-demos.blogspot.com.
Leaving Normal: Beijing’s D-22 Punk Club
Beijing’s punk club, a mecca for China’s alternative/underground music and more, had closed down after operating for more 5 years – the club had played a huge role in promoting unconventional rock music, introducing some of the most well-known bands from China these days.
Free Aceh Punx Mixtape Volume 2
The second volume of the FREE compilation in support of the detained Achehnese punxs – this time going for 1.47 minutes with 64 bands and 64 songs from all over the globe – including contributions by PAZAHORA, KRASSKEPALA, OI POLLOI, PENYANGAK and more.
Free Aceh Punx Mixtape Volume 1
63 bands with 63 songs from all over the world – in solidarity with the 64 Achehnese punks who were detained for being “punks” in Aceh December 2011
from Bandung Pyrate Punx
THIS MIXTAPE IS DEDICATED FOR THE UPHOLD OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ACEH
On Saturday, December 11th 2011, 64 punks ranging in age from teenage to the mid 30s were unfairly arrested at a show in Aceh on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
Bangkok’s LOW FAT – Full Set, Live @ Cosmic Cafe
An awesome set by Bangkok-based part-japanese-expats crazy band LOW FAT.
GLK – Fan Zi Yi Ran CD – Out Now!
Goh Lee Kwang had just released his new experimentation, a CD called Fan Zi Yi Ran featuring 6 tracks of mind-melting soundscapes.
Flower of Carnage Records: WARNING/WARNING & 12XU LPs – Out Now!
Momo, a Frenchman who lives in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, runs this nice little label called FLOWER CARNAGE and he’s been in touch with us for quite a while now – here are the latest releases on the label and they rocks!
Sweden’s ANCHOR Southeast Asian Tour
BIgmouth Booking announced today the long-rumoured tour of the region by Swedish straight-edge hardcore band ANCHOR – self-described as bringing “a heavy, aggressive hardcore sound with howled vocals and devastating mosh parts, but not without its speed and urgency, taking cues from bands like Judge, Entombed, Skitsystem and Verse.”
Fascist Insect / Damage Digital – Split-Tape
Featuring our old and dear friend Mat Ribis (ex-ENSLAVED CHAOS, now based in Cleveland, USA), FASCIST INSECT has been very active of late (as detailed on their FB page here); and now there’s a special release with Saga-City, Japan’s DAMAGE DIGITAL!
MAGNICIDE – Demo 7″
MAGNICIDE – no need to say more if you’re into Southeast Asian grind, but for those yet to be enlightened, this Singaporean trio should be out there touring the world, and kicking arses everywhere they go.
VAARALLINEN – Demo Cassette – Out Now!
When we talk about a list of best bands to appear in the region for 2011, Singapore’s VAARALLINEN is immediately up there in the top 5, right at the top – excellent reproduction of the classic, and well-loved Finnish Hardcore-Punk sound, with songs to boot – I mean there are a lot of bands doing this but do they have the hooks to lift you up for every minute of their songs?
Kelelawar Malam / Ghaust Split-7″ – Out Now!
Actually this has been available from Cactus since three weeks ago and I managed to snag one at the recent Rumah Api visit.
Punk Rock – Disebalik Fesyen & Musik Bising Book – Out Soon…
Translated into English, the title would be “Punk Rock – Behind The Fashion & Loud Music” and it is a compilation of articles on “punk rock” by 10 local fanzine editors + musicians from the scene.
Kelelawar Malam’s 12″!!
Jakarta’s horror-rockers which resides along the dark, dank Danzig/Misfits axis of influences, announced the arrival of their debut album – a huge surprise since they had just released a split-7″ with fellow Jakarta dwellers GHAUST.
Bloody Hammer, Melbourne
A bit late but here we are introducing BLOODY HAMMER, a band formed around Yeap (ex-PISSCHRIST, current KROMOSOM) – a sort of a side-project revisiting (and turning the tables) upon the mid-70s street-yob sound made awesome by the then still-cool All Skrewed-Up-era SKREWDRIVER (before they turned shite and hilarious bigots); there are also shades of prime BLITZ, ANGELIC UPSTARTS and all that “taking back punk to the streets” thang.
BLACKHOLE RADIOSHOW #08
BLACKHOLE RADIOSHOW #08 with
The SECRET PROSTITUTES – Jabatan Dipocot (USA)
DESPERDICIO – Tómar Un Futuró (JAPAN)
DISTRUST – Battlefield (SINGAPORE)
KILLER CASSETTES – Ando En Malos Pasos (MEXICO)
TEARGAS – Pool of Mercy (AUSTRALIA)
SARABENTE – Rain of Shame (GREECE)
SEX CULT – Errand boy (USA)
NEO-CONS – Rent Controlled (USA)
DISKANGKUNG – Perang Bangsat!
BERANTAKAN – Demo Download
KL street-punks brothers BERANTAKAN released their “Lawan” (Fight) four-songs demo for download
BERANTAKAN was formed back in 2001 by three brothers who came to live in Malaysia from Payakumbuh, West Sumatra in Indonesia.
Shock & Awe Fanzine #04 Launch Shows!
As per usual, the S&A crew would do a show to launch the zine’s latest issue, an this time there are three shows
The second show at Rumah Api, KL features a bit of a re-union smorgasbord; KUCHALANA, the long silent punk-reggae master who put out one album and promptly faded into retirement, is finally BACK – The same with SUARA ANAK MUDA, who haven’t been seen since 2007, but they also back with a discography in the pipeline – Then we have RECONSTRUCT – And also SICKNESS – Dang!
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