Word On The Street - Street Spirit 7" OUT NOW

After many months in the works, the Word On The Street record is available to the masses! A few setbacks made sure this took a bit longer than expected, but with the end result now in house, we couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. For those unaware, Word On The Street have been playing some devastating hardcore here in Halifax for the past few years in the style of bands like Straight Ahead, Brotherhood, Life's Blood and LARM. This new ep is no exception. In fact, this may just be their angriest and most intense release yet. 6 new songs of blaring fast hardcore and knuckle dragging breakdowns that only these goons know how to deliver. If you're not convinced, check out a track HERE.



Normally we like to keep things pretty basic with pressing details, but we got a bit scummy on this one. 440 records pressed, but 100 of those have been pressed on gold wax and come with the Word On The Street logo stamped on the dust sleeve as pictured above. This version is only available through mailorder from us, so get on over to the WEBSTORE and grab one before the other goobers beat you to it! As per usual, folks looking to get wholesale copies to distro get in touch.

We've got another update coming soon with some more news, but i'll reserve that for a night where I don't have a puppy attempting to piss on my floor and maul the W-Z section of my LPs. As always, thanks for the support.

-DB

Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa

So it's been a while now since the last update, but that's because I've been back in school seeking a higher level of education, working like a stone cold chump and making plans to move out to the country. All in all, it's been a busy couple of months. While things had to be put on the back burner for a bit we're back in full force and ready to get some things done again.

The WORD ON THE STREET - Street Spirit 7" has been mastered and will be off to the plant any day now. Just when you didn't think this band could get any faster and angrier, they hit us with 6 rapid fire blasts of PURE HARDCORE that keeps up with the Straight Ahead influence, but also at times brings to mind bands like Life's Blood and Brotherhood. I had the chance to catch them live a couple months ago in PEI when they played a rare live set (which doesn't happen much these days) and was blown away by how powerful this band continues to get each time I see them. The ep will have a limited version that will be only available for mailorder direct from the label, so be sure to check back in a couple weeks for when it drops!

DYSCONTROL have also recorded a new set of songs that will hopefully be released as a new 7" ep sometime in the near future. The first track from the ep can be heard on the bandcamp page (http://dyscontrol.bandcamp.com/). Also, we'd like to say congrats to guitarist Lachie and his wife Jaime on the birth of their healthy and handsome baby boy!

That's all for now. New stuff has been showing up in the distro with more on order, so keep checking back...

Take care,
DB

Sewercide Summer Start Playlist:

Word On The Street 7" masters
Flesh World 12"
Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill lp
Lowest Form 12"
V/A - Darkscorch Canticles 2xlp
The Bats - Daddy's Highway lp
Warthog - Both 7"s

Still alive and kickin'...

There hasn't been an update over here since the new year began, but I assure you we're plenty busy at the moment. A few projects in the works, but with finances always being an issue, everything is bound to come to light at a considerably slower rate than what we'd prefer. No sense in letting the cat out of the bag on anything until we know it's getting ready to go to press, but I assure you we'll have some good stuff to announce in the coming months.

The Word On The Street 7" is recorded, but is a long way off from a release. I haven't even heard the tracks yet, but as mentioned before, I'm beyond excited to be putting this together as the next Sewercide release. More on that when I get the tracks and the ball starts rolling. Until then, here's photographic proof of Chris laying down the vocal tracks with a Timmies in hand....

2013 Round Up // Other Junk, who's punk?

          2013 surprisingly marked our busiest year, which isn't really saying much, but it does mean we went from doing a single release every year or two, to TWO of them in one year. We've been trying to focus a bit more on the label this year and hope that in the next few years to come we can continue on this path. It's been a rather great time in Halifax for punk music this year with loads of newish bands all releasing killer records and heading out to play some great shows / fests across north america. Napalm Raid, Life Chain, Abject Pax, Outtacontroller, Word On The Street, Concrete Asylum, Dyscontrol etc. all seem to be busy with no chance of slowing down. My friend Greg dubbed it "The Halifax Domination", which I dig. Hopefully it's just the beginning. On that note, Abject Pax are on the road now with Concrete Asylum and should be at about the halfway point of their tour. Be sure to go see them if they're coming through your city.

           As for looking ahead to 2014, there are plans for some new stuff that's in the works but we can't quite spill the beans on yet. A few things that we can mention: Dyscontrol are heading out on tour again in the early months of the springtime and may or may not have a new record to go along with that. The winter has been slow for the band so far with the change out of bass players, but with the new addition of Noel MacDonald (MOON, Long Weekends), they've begun writing some new material which will be recorded sometime in the not too distant future. Also, we're happy to announce that WORD ON THE STREET will be recording some new material for a 7" on Sewercide in the next while. I'm anticipating great things from these guys since they've proved so far that they can do no wrong, recording track after track of Straight Ahead worship that just seems to keep getting better and better. In the meantime, they have a new track on the Winds Of Change 7" comp that should be dropping any day on REACT RECORDS, so do yourself a favor and pick one up.

         As for year end top 10s, not going to happen. Instead, here are a few of my favorite things that came out this year. Thanks for the support...-DB