a li’l bit about today’s TODDCAST straight from the man himself: 

I really don’t care about being different. I don’t care about being obscure. I just like the bands and songs I like for personal reasons. Be true to your weird wiring, right? Here are some songs that I really like that’ve come my way over the past couple of months. 

Hope you dig ‘em. If there’s something that piques your attention, please seek it out. That keeps the robots from totally winning.

This podcast is dedicated to Willa The Cat. She’s between sixteen and eighteen years old and she almost died a couple weeks back. She’s a nice cat. I like her.

Tracklisting:
Rough Kids, “Cyanide” (Sorry State) 
Night Marchers, “Loud, Dumb, and Mean” (Swami) 
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Warm Soda, “Violent Blue” (Castle Face) 
Overnight Lows, “Shouldn’t Say It” (Blahll!) 
Moralens Väktare, “Du Är En Tönt (Dead Beat) 
Audacity, “Fun Spot,” (Recess / Burger) 
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Spokenest, “We Move” (Self-released) 
Smart Cops, “Vesciche in Guerra” (Sorry State) 
Neon Piss, “Siege Mentality” (Deranged) 
Obnox, “Cash Weed Green” (12XU) 
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Resonars, “Tomorrow Gears” (Burger) 
Destruction Unit, “Evil Man” (Jolly Dream) 
Muhamadali, Hickey cover (?), unlisted last song on record (Dirt Cult) 
Xaxaxa, “Hrabar nov svet” (Moonlee / Prügelprinz / Napravizaedno / Gaphals / Pank) [“Brave New World”] 
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Matthew Hart, “Do You Ever” (Ghostbot) 
Chill Dawgs, “Space Dawg” (Do What?) 

Razorcake friend and contributor Speedway Randy brings his exploration of the foundation of old punk venues to The Masque, perhaps the grandaddy of them all.

For a short time in the late 70s, this space was the only club in Hollywood where bands like The Germs, Circle Jerks, and The Bags were playing. 

Rudy, the building’s resident historian, retells his high school years spent in awe of the punks who left their mark on the space (and him). 

Today, the graffiti sits behind production equipment, storage shelves with rows of bins and raw footage tapes. Much of it is still in tact, a reminder of the Masque’s short, explosive history.

This is part of a series of videos exploring old punk clubs from the 70s and 80s, to see what’s left. For more, check out punkfoundations.blogspot.com

Teengenerate - Psycho Killer

Obviously we’re posting this. Also doubles as a Subway commercial!

Jackie & The Cedrics 

The best surf band from Tokyo ever!

The Stalin - Allergy

Editing an upcoming interview got us re-immersed in Japanese punk. Enjoy the next few posts featuring some of our faves!

RVIVR’s planning to release a music video for EVERY song from The Beauty Between. Here’s LMD.

jadedpunk:

Our favorite DIYers over at Razorcake have just released two 7”s by Mind Spiders and Lenguas Largas where they cover each other’s songs and we’re so fucking into everything about this we can’t even tell you. You can stream them below and also buy them on black vinyl for $8 or shell out an extra $2 for colored vinyl. (Don’t kid yourself, you know you’re gonna get the colored vinyl. Look at it, all clear and red and what not.)

the BIG SECRET REVEALED! we are so psyched about this sister series.

two amazing bands, mesmerizing artwork by our pal Marcos, and beautiful colored vinyl. GET ON IT!

don’t mind us, we’re just in heaven.

Todd interviewed the imitable Alice Bag way back in issue #23, and it’s now available as a free ebook!

an excerpt about Nicky Beat getting into a fight with Tom Waits:

Todd: Was that the same night that Nicky Beat got into a fight with Tom Waits?
Alice: Yes. That’s all on the same night.
Kat: That sounds like a great night.
Alice: The story actually starts back at Canter’s. My version of the story is that we were leaving Canter’s and a friend of mine who was with us knew Tom Waits and said, “Oh, let me say something to my friend.” The rest of us were on the way out. I don’t know if it’s still there, but there used to be a whole pastry section, so we were all looking at the pastries and then she came back over and said, “Let me introduce you to my friend.” So we went over and met Tom Waits and his entourage. I probably said, “Oh, we’re playing at the Troubadour, please come see our show,” because it was the following weekend or something, right around the corner. Somehow, that was interpreted as flirting. Who knows, maybe I smiled or winked or something. Later on, my friend came back to us and she said, “Tom Waits really liked you. He thinks you were great and he thinks Nicky’s a dipshit,” or something to that effect. Nicky was just like, “What?” Angry and whatever. We had left the place and I didn’t think anything of it. Nobody did. The night of the Troubadour, we’re upstairs and we’re getting ready and Nicky had to play drums with us because we didn’t have a drummer at that point. We used to go through drummers…
Todd: Like Spinal Tap, where you can’t keep track of your drummers. I think everybody except Terry Graham…
Alice: Yeah, Terry Graham lasted the longest. So we’re there and somebody came in and said, “Tom Waits is here and he’s at one of the front tables.” During that time, it was customary for clubs to have these long rows of tables in the front and people would watch the band while they ate. He was there with a group of people and Nicky was just livid. As we stepped on stage, Nicky went up to a microphone and he said something like, “We have a celebrity in the audience and his name is Tom Waits…” I don’t remember his exact words, but I know that it ended with “pussy.” [laughs] So we did our set, and as we were playing, our friends and our fans, the punks, started to move the tables and chairs out of the way so they could dance. Pretty soon, there was a pile. There were a lot of tables and chairs and they were just thrown in the back and everyone had come up to dance except for one table and that was Tom Waits’ table.
                He was sitting there expressionless, and at one point I looked over and saw a chair flying over their table, but still they sat there, seething. At the end of the night when we were going to load up our gear, the bouncers had locked us in and told us we couldn’t take out our equipment, not until that was settled. I was like, “This is stupid.” I was freaking out. You were talking about being scared. I think at that moment I was scared, because all our friends were outside. It was just us and a lot of these burly guys. Luckily, and I didn’t know this at the time, their only intention was to make sure that nobody interfered in the fight. They made a big, burly circle around them and they had it out. I remember trying to open the door and thinking, “They’re going to wreck our equipment and beat us all up,” but none of that happened. It was just Nicky and Tom having it out, rolling around on the ground.
Todd: That sounds very gentlemanly, actually.
Alice: It turned out to be okay. I don’t remember how it stopped. At some point, they got pulled apart.
Kat: But they needed to get their aggression out.
Alice: That’s that. We were released after that.

Toys That Kill and Rivethead were touring and showed up to Omaha and the promoter said, “You guys don’t have to play. No one’s here.” So we call that getting Omaha’d.

It’s Funny We’re Talking About This: an interview with Todd Congelliere

by Mike Faloon

with glorious photos by Shanty Cheryl!

click through for an Interview with Worthwhile Way by Sean Giles!