2014 Year in review

Another year has come and gone and Adult Crash is one step closer to the grave. (Seriously, the guy is old as dirt.) 2014 introduced us to some great bands like Fuck You Pay Me, Public Suicide, The Flex, Protester,  and many more.

We also saw some awesome bands for the first time like Boston Strangler, Infest, Waste Management, Give, and a slew of others at the Damaged City Fest. Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Chain of Strength, Samhain on Halloween and most recently, Soulside, Red Hare and Swiz.



Adult Crash here, let us not forget that Malvo likes Katy Perry and has also admitted to me in private that he likes "Dancing Queen" by Abba. And I'm the lame one for liking Morrissey? ("You Are The Quarry" is my favorite record by the way.) What else do we need to never forget about your boy Malvo... Oh yeah, he is small in the pants according to the young ladies that saw him taking a leak in between cars after Samhain. He wonders why I embarrass him with stuff like that, yet he's the one behaving like a man-child by urinating in public. Oh and how can I forget about walking with him to CVS so he could buy some Gold Bond for the chaffing he had going on between his legs at the Damaged City show. Who does that? Suck it up, punk!

In any case, we had another good year together and we hope to entertain you all for another. Happy New Year!

D.C.S.

If Adult Crash thinks we're ending this entry with that nonsense, he's got another thing coming. Let us not forget what his thoughts were on the debate about Stage Diving.

 
Soooo, yeah, old man Adult Crash thinks you stage divers are assholes. 

This is the text I received after that entry with that Meme.

"I said kinda assholes. Way to Fox News Me."

LOL.

D.C.S.

A weekend of shows in D.C.

The D.C. Sniper Team takes in a show. Actually, no we didn't. Adult Crash is too busy being Dad of the year and couldn't go to the show. He probably went to see the Nutcracker Ballet for all I know. He is so whipped. Anyway, I almost double booked myself for this past weekend since another friend of mine told me that Too $hort was coming to town. I mean who wouldn't want to see $horty The Pimp?! But I had already gotten my ticket for Soulside a while back, so no dice.

Now, the worst kept secret in D.C. this past week or so was that Swiz had been added to the bill. I was curious to see what they were like live. If you read our entry around this time last year, I said that I wasn't a big fan of Swiz but, I like Red Hare. As it turns out, I got to see both on Friday night at the Give record release at Comet Ping Pong in D.C. 

Red Hare sounded awesome live but the venue could've been better. No stage means that I was going to be looking past a bunch of heads and cell phones in the air. That kind of sucked, but what are you gonna do? If my memory is right, they played about 4 songs and in the middle of their set they gave their drummer a break to take a "leak" and replaced him with another guy and voila! Swiz was on stage!

They ripped into 4 songs that were fucking awesome! How did I not see the greatness of these songs years ago? After they ripped my face off with those songs, they got their drummer off and brought back their Red Hare drummer and finished their set. I have to say that I really like Red Hare live. Hadn't been able to see them until this weekend and I'm so glad I did. I'm hoping to see some new tunes from them in the future. If you haven't gotten their debut LP, Nites of Midnight, then get off your ass and get it! Or if you're lucky, you'll get it for Christmas like yours truly did last year. BOOM!

Next up was Give and they came out with guns-a-blazing! I saw them at Damaged City and was intrigued, but haven't listened to anything by them since then. I don't know what they have out or what they played that night, but it sounded great. They had all the energy in the world and rocked that place. I had to enjoy it from the back by the sound-man because it was just getting to be a bit too hot in that place. All in all, they were killer and I'm officially a fan.

Saturday night was the big night. Soulside, Swiz and Moss Icon at the Black Cat. I had a hell of a time trying to find parking and caught the last 10 minutes of Moss Icon and I couldn't have been more bored. Holy crap...It was some of the most boring, slow jams I've ever heard. (And I don't mean the slow jams you and your girl listen to when you're trying to make sexy-time.) So glad I didn't find a parking spot so quick and so close because I would've been ripping my hair out.

Swiz comes out and the place is buzzing. They sounded just as awesome as they did the night before and I really dug it. I don't know what they played since I'm not familiar with their music, but it was good. My only complaint was the lack of appreciation when they covered "Familiar" by G.I. Their Void cover right after that was far more appreciated, but I liked them both. I thought they put on a good show and after this weekend, I have a bigger appreciation for Swiz. Good stuff.



Soulside comes out and I'm getting excited. Again, I haven't been waiting for this as long as other long time fans have, but I have grown to really like this band over the last couple of months. They did not disappoint. I thought they sounded just as good live as they do on their records. They belted out like 18 songs which might've been a bit much, but I didn't care. I really enjoyed their set and their encore included my favorite song "Name In Mind".


All in all it was a great weekend and what an awesome way to close out 2014! I got to see a couple of kick ass shows and Adult Crash was probably at the mall buying gifts for his tribe. This is how I picture it.

D.C.S.

Giving Unit Pride a second chance

Well it's Christmas time and Adult Crash is busy doing the family thing. Typical stuff...putting up Christmas lights, tree and trip to see Santa. All things that this Scrooge is not doing. I wonder if I'm in store for a horror story of screaming kids on Santa's lap? Not his kids, but the other ones that will be there.

Anyway, I saw an advertisement from Mankind Records promoting some Unit Pride shirts that were made. This is a band that I know little about, but I remember liking one song by them. I guess I didn't like it enough to listen to the rest of their music and so my MP3's have been collecting digital dust for the better part of a decade. I decided to give them another listen and see if I made the right choice in ignoring them all these years.

I don't even know what I have here, but it seems to be an E.P. called "Can't Kill A Dream" based on the artwork I have for it. This is some pretty good straight up posi-hardcore. "Wide Awake" is the song I liked way back when and it still holds up for me now. But there is a monkey wrench in here. What is the deal with the song "Can't Kill A Dream"? It doesn't sound ANYTHING like the rest of the songs on here. Quite frankly, it sounds like a chorus of Care Bears were singing "friendship means the world to me, FRIENDSHIP!" And then you have Barney from Napalm Death singing "You Can't....Kill....A Fucking Dream!" The song sounds great and I wish there was a 7" of more songs that sound like it. Sounds a little rough, but it sounds HARD. So what's the deal with it?  Is it another singer? Demo song? I mean it's night and day. Anyway, I am digging all of these songs a lot and I don't know why I passed on them all these years? It's right up my alley.

I texted Adult Crash about them and this is how it went...

Me: Hey, what do you think of Unit Pride?

Him: "I like the Nerve Agents better."

Me: What do you think of this song? (Can't Kill A Dream)

Him: "Meh. Morrissey is better."

Me: (Rolling my eyes)

D.C.S.

PS: If you're interested in those reprinted shirts you can just click on the link below. Enjoy. 
mankindrecords.storenvy.com