After close to 30 years, a double album/download of missing material from Cleveland's own Guns will be released on Smog Veil / Red Hour Records in mid May of this year/2012. There will be a release /listening party at Now That's Class on Saturday May 26th. It starts at 9:00 p.m. til 2:00 a.m. in the morning & will feature the bands in this order: Gun Parole (local Guns cover band headlining), Killer Of Sheep (Pittsburgh, PA's own Bad Brains / 3rd), Zero Defex (from Akron, 80's hardcore punk veterans return / 2nd) with local horror punks Dead Federation opening. DJs Tom Dark, WCSB 80's legend S...
SERIOUS JASS PROJECT, FEATURING RALPH CARNEY, RELEASE NEW ALBUM ON SMOG VEIL RECORDS TITLED, SERIOUSLY, WITH COVER ART BY DERF Record Streets On September 27, 2011 Chicago, IL, August 9, 2011 – Smog Veil Records announces Ralph Carney's new Serious Jass Project album titled, Seriously, will street on September 27, 2011. It will be available as digipak CD, download and LP pressed on black vinyl, with eco-friendly recycled content jacket and full color two-sided insert. This collectable vinyl release is strictly limited to a single pressing of 500 pieces. Ralph Carney was a founding...
By D. Beall This is a first-wave hardcore punk collector’s item. Unbeknownst to some of us, Cleveland punk history isn’t just Rocket from the Tombs and the Dead Boys. Scene maker Tom Dark put this compilation record together in 1983 to show that hardcore wasn’t limited to LA and DC. According to Tom, the original intention was to “put Northeast Ohio on the hardcore map, announcing to the world that we were a force to be reckoned with." Featuring The Guns, The Dark, No Parole, Offbeats, Agitated, Zero Defex, Starvation Army, Spike In Vain, Outerwear and PPG, the...
Over the years, Akron has produced the occasional musical success story. Devo’s quirky, tongue-in-cheek lampooning of the American Dream has solidified its place in pop culture. After relocating to London in the early ‘70s, Chrissie Hynde formed the Pretenders, who were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. More recently, the Black Keys have released seven studio albums (eight if you count 2009’s hip-hop collaboration Blakroc) since 2002, all of which have received widespread praise from both fans and critics. But, as it goes in the music business, for ever...
