BLASST #65 TRACKLIST + NOTES

 BLASST 65 TRACKLIST1. Robert Johnson - "Me and the Devil Blues"
2. Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston - "It's Spooky"
3. Sonido Verde de Moyobamba - "La Danza Del Vampiro"
4. Los Diablos Rojos - "El Guapo"
5. The Screamers - "122 Hours of Fear"
6. Castration Squad - "No Mercy For The Dead"
7. Killing Joke - "Love Like Blood"
8. Bauhaus - "Severance"
9. Mike Oldfield - "Tubular Bells"
10. Death Bells - "Echoes"
11. Sonic Youth - "Halloween"
12. Chelsea Wolfe - "Demons"
13. The Cure - "A Forest"
14. Grupo Fantasma - "Arroz con Frijoles"
15. TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"


LISTEN TO THE SHOW

Here we have the first official Blistering Listens & Strange Sounds Thank You episode dedicated and painstakingly curated for a Halloween audience, since Halloween lands on this coming Wednesday. Technically if you're reading this, that's tomorrow, so let that be noted. I'm really not looking forward to having my neighborhood filled with cars--making it impossible for me to park and get into my apartment, but you know what's worse than that? The US' delivery of military forces to the border, further militarizing an already militarized zone, in response to the incoming wave of Central-American refugees seeking shelter in the United States from the dangers of their homelands (which were orchestrated in large part by the United States). I honestly don't know what to say to a situation like this. The RGV will become a very tense place once again, no doubt we will also be filled to the brim with journalists from every publication imaginable spinning this story for their respective outlets' audiences. I don't know what will happen to the shelters who have been tending to incoming immigrants since 2014 when this new wave arrives. They'll need all of the volunteers they can get, and all of the supplies they can get. I'll be looking into ways to make myself useful in this time. I encourage you, reader/listener, to do the same. 

A note about some music I played in the show, namely Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". I played a few minutes from side 1 of the entire piece, which consists of 48 minutes worth of musical wizardry. It's truly such a wild piece, I considered playing the entire thing for tonight's episode, but decided against it at the last minute. I recommend you listen to it, however, on your own time, as it is something that must be experienced. Especially if you're a horror fan, or even just a fan of the Exorcist.

Anyway, see y'all next week. GO TO THE MUSIC MARKET ON SUNDAY FFS.

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-A

BLASST 64: TRACKLIST + NOTES

BLASST 62 TRACKLIST

1. Old Time Relijun - "El Naranjo Gritando"
2. Salt-N-Pepa - "Shoooooooop"
3. Will Smith - "Gettin Jiggy Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiith It"
4. EXEK - "To Medicine (Biased Advice)"
5. Puzzlehead - "Rock$lut"
6. Gumming - "Sinking Ship"
7. SOUL GLO - "23"
8. Muro - "DESAHUCIADOS"
9. Klaus Johann Grobe - "Discogedanken"
10. Smog - "A Hit"

11. Chronophage - "Oh Gone From Me"
12. Table Sugar - "Carmen"
13. Solid Space - "Contemplation"
14. Toni Tornado - "Mane Beleza"
15. Githead - "Cosmology for Beginners"
16. Experimental Products - "Feeling Left Out"

17. Soft Healer - "End of the Chain"

- - - LISTEN - - -

NOTES:

Alright folks today's episode cover a lot of different ground: we've got some fresh new hardcore from MURO and SOUL GLO alongside some great guitar rock from Austin's prophetic four-piece CHRONOPHAGE, Olympia, Washington's TABLE SUGAR and we open up with a fresh new single from Olympia's own OLD TIME RELIJUN. All around a great episode in which I begin by driving to order Whataburger for the show, realize I forgot my wallet, retrieve it, and pick up my food--all during the intro. That's how we do things here at Universal Punk, I'm afraid.  

DON'T MISS THIS WEEKEND'S HALLOWEEN TRIBUTE SHOW AT THE ECHO HOTEL! SATURDAY OCTOBER 27TH! 8PM! $8! 18+! GO! I'm in the black sabbath cover band "SABBATHO GIGANTE", which is a reference to SABADO GIGANTE, the popular Univision variety show hosted by the immortal Don Francisco, who's deep grandfathery voice is forever burned in my brain. 

ALSO!  

U-PUNK'S MUSIC MARKET II is in less than two weeks! Sign up to be a vendor if you haven't yet! I've got a lot of people on board already but there's always room for more! We'll have DJs spinning vinyl the whole time, and in a variety of genres! It's going to be unbelievably cool! Cooler than anything you could be doing on a Sunday afternoon, to be sure! Don't miss it!

That's it for announcements. See y'all next week. Thank you again for tuning in, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. I'm going to try and revamp this site and maybe start a Patreon???!? I already have the packages/tiers in mind! The BLISTERING LISTENS PACKAGE, THE STRANGE SOUNDS PACKAGE, and the THANK YOU PACKAGE. 

More info on that soon.

-A

BLASST #63 - Tracklist + Notes

BLASST 63 TRACKLIST
1. Maximum Joy - "Stretch"
2. A Certain Ratio - "Only Together"
3. Medium Medium - "Hungry, So Angry"
4. Suburban Lawns - "Anything"
5. The Sound - "Missiles"
6. The Clean - "Anything Could Happen"
7. Total Control - "Bloody Glass"
8. SPF - "Moderation"
9. Pity Party - "Pop Song 4-Evr"
10. Würst Nürse - "Hot Doctor"
11. Sauna Youth - "Leisure Time"
12. Girls In Synthesis - "Fan The Flames"
13. Clang! - "OBVIOUS"
14. Tamagotchi Teenage Dirtbag - "DEVIL"
15. Eephus - "Gin Buck"
16. Carambolage - "City-Grossmarkt"
17. Ut - "Mosquito Botticelli"
18. Equalizer 24K - "New Moon Aries"
19. Didi - "Haru"

LISTEN 2 THE SHOW

Show Notes
This was an especially fun broadcast to put together. It's been a while since I've played mostly punk on the show, and I'll admit, this particular instance is not an uninspired one. If you listen to the show, you'll notice most of the people playing in the groups on the playlist are women, and cut from some kind of punk cloth. This is because I've been on the hunt for groups featuring women, lgbtq artists, and most importantly, people of color. I have found several groups with queer members and frontpersons, and plenty of unsung female heroes in the post-punk realm, but not very many groups from this realm featuring members of color. I tried looking a little closer to my own timeline and still have not found very many, the few groups in existence today have been found and are great and slowly getting their well-deserved attention, but still not quite what I'm looking for. I've felt so compelled to fill this gap myself--and I might sooner than later--but until then, my search will continue. The upside to constantly searching for something you don't find is that you come across a bunch of other things that you are thankful to have discovered, despite not knowing about them in the first place. I'm rambling as usual, but I've begun adding links to each artist name in the above tracklists so you can look them up easier, and below I've posted a link to the music video for the final track of the show, "Haru" by the Columbus, Ohio group, Didi. I think it's an incredibly beautiful song and I want the whole world to hear it/see it because the music video in particular seems to match the general air of whimsy and wonder that the song encapsulates. Enjoy.

Oh! Sign up to be a vendor at U-Punk's Music Market II! It's going to be a lot of fun and we will try our best to air all of the DJ sets from the event via the same listening link above! Until next week!

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BLASST 62: Tracklist + Notes

BLASST #62: 10/8/18

1. Low - "Quorum"
2. Broadcast - "Message From Home"
3. Charles Mingus - "Fables of Faubus"
4. Pill - "Fruit"
5. Sonic Youth - "Washing Machine"
6. Big Fruit - "Rivers and Rabbits"
7. 강정석 - "The Green Leaves Of Summer"
8. Virgin Prunes - "Pagan Lovesong"
9. Mr Twin Sister - "Jaipur"
10. Exploded View - "Raven Raven"
11. Yves Tumor - "Licking An Orchid (feat. James K)"
12. Yaeji - "One More"
13. Essential Logic - "World Friction"
14. Dikes of Holland - "Braindead U.S.A."

LISTEN

This episode is a good one, as usual. Less talking done though due to my car having some troubles and my needing to work on them immediately after the broadcast, which prompted me to do all my post-production work during the show. Sadly, the repairs did not help my car much. I'm pretty sad about that. But in other news, I heard about Kavanaugh later into Saturday (a surprising development in my social media-burnt life cycle) and it's not surprising at all that the people who currently make decisions for this country appointed a rapist to the Supreme Court, and not just because they've already done it once before (looking at you, Clarence Thomas), but because these senators and representatives were elected by people who voted with their interests in mind, people who exist in the same world you and I do, dear listener. It should go without saying that voting matters in every election, but this upcoming election in particular is of great importance to the future of our world as we know it (at least if you live in the US, though the US has so much imperial influence throughout the world, it will eventually get to you too, international listener.) Sure, politicians are all tools of the state and the machine etc etc etc, BUT there are very real differences between some of them. You're not voting for your best friend, you're voting for someone who can be held accountable for what their responsibilities are. Some politicians are receptive to citizens taking to the streets and demanding their futures and livelihoods. Some make change--take that fella who became DA in Philadelphia completely overturning their prison system, that's one hell of a radical move, and he's a fucking Democrat. Partisanship is all smoke and mirrors, I tell you! It's all about human rights and who truly cares about them. Some politicians, like a good chunk of the Senate Judiciary Committee (on either side of the "aisle"), couldn't care less about an issue if it doesn't affect their reelection. In Texas, my senators are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both of whom voted Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court. These men don't listen to citizens demanding change, they think they've got enough support from their vested interests (who have also had a hand in Texas' gerrymandering of districts no doubt) to stay put in their senate seats. What reason would they have in their minds to listen to anyone else? I hope voters in Texas give them a reason to feel fear. I hope voters across the country send shivers down all of their diabolical sitting politicians' spines, and pull the rug out from under them. It's the next best thing to a kick in the ass, which would land any good citizen brave enough to do so in jail for who knows how long, depending on their skin color or religion. Wow, I'm really rambling here. Okay, look--my point in all of this is that you--the listeners--NEED TO VOTE. I hope you've registered. The deadline to register in Texas is tomorrow. You can't do it online, please don't fall for that garbage. Find a voter registrar in your area (surely they're running around looking for you), or go to your local county's election office and get a form, fill it out, and voila, you're good to go. I was a voter registrar during the 2014 gubernatorial election and can personally confirm that this process is that damn easy. There's no excuse. If you think something needs to change, put your vote where your mouth is. Remember, the monster of a government that exists today--was created, which means it can certainly be destroyed and replaced. Much like broken car parts! UGH. Okay, I'm done ranting for now. I think I've had too many Ferrero Rocher chocolates this evening, honestly I'm just obsessed with them. So bad. Anyway, thanks for listening. Go to U-Punk's Music Market if you're in the RGV on November 4th. I'm selling a lot of great records, tapes, shirts, and the rest of the vendors will surely have great stuff too. Don't miss. OK. Ferrerito Rocherito over and out.