Like a lot of folks of a certain age, I only knew Modern English from "Melt With You" and never bothered to check out their earlier stuff & that's a shame cuz they were quite solid. This song sound like a post-punk band channeling Hawkwind. youtu.be/C3FJ9vFFnjo?...

Here's the entire episode of denim-clad Tony Wilson's So It Goes where the Sex Pistols made their tv debut in '76. I've seen their performance before but it's cool to watch it in context of what else was happening at the time. Must have been shocking to watch live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIxg...

The world could use a vinyl pressing of the Hash Jar Tempo catalog (Bardo Pond plus Roy Montgomery). www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aEt...

John Livengood - s/t cassette on Eurock. Awesome French electronic weirdness from the Spacecraft/Red Noise dude. Never been reissued. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3o...

I'm digging this release by Romeo Poirier, which is a really cool collage of studio chatter, false starts, & various other studio sounds normally left on the cutting room floor. romeopoirier.bandcamp.com/album/off-th...

The world could use a vinyl pressing of Bailter Space's Solar 3, which only came out on cd back in the day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jnw...

Crime & the City Solution - 1979 demo. Not great, but still cool to hear what they sounded like prior to the main dude moving to the UK & reforming the band with Rowland S Howard, Mick Harvey, and Epic Soundtracks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO9M...

Always cool to hear a good sounding live Can concert. youtu.be/H7K384SeXWc?...

If you are a writer who likes money losing ideas, may I suggest a book on the BYG/Actuel series?

Cool short documentary about the great Chris Knox. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQjv...

Cool article about Ian Thompson's fab book on the underground French music scene. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Here are some free Hardware retrospective downloads. RIYL UK-post punk, Messthetics, Pere Ubu, the Fall, Wire, Pigbag etc. Buy LPs here: dirtyknobby.bigcartel.com hardware79.bandcamp.com/yum xewk-xf6h h8st-ja9v 4n42-k2y9 qwpw-6hnz gh9c-kj56 y424-gk2y yplj-b94f t6s6-w9ja 2yh2-ct9b ated-x26x

Generally indifferent to a lot of obscure hardcore since most of those bands just seem plodding, but I've been waiting for this forthcoming Mecht Mensch retrospective for ages.... nocoastrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/anthol...

Looking forward to getting this book on Rochdale's Cargo Studios. The Fall, Joy Division, bIG fLAME, OMD, Discharge, Gang of Four, the Chameleons, and countless other bands recorded there...

Desperate Bicycles interview from The New Wave Magazine #9.

Teengenerate was one of the best live bands of the 90s & I am proud to report that Fink continues to rule w/ his latest band, Angel Face. Saw them last night in Seattle & they even included some TG classics in their set.

Hardware review courtesy of Razorcake. Order it from our Big Cartel page and dazzle the hep.

Hardware lp is now available at Iron Lung. Buy it, punk. ironlungrecords.bigcartel.com/product/hard...

Classic rock radio used to be a safe place for chumps with old cars who also dislike modern rock, so imagine my displeasure when I turned on the big local station last night only to hear Kid Rock. Can't we just enjoy "Slow Ride" for the millionth time?

Hardware spin on the awesome Kosmos Klub Radio Show. Show also features a cut from the killer new bIG fLAME Peel Session lp. www.mixcloud.com/ajaysaggar/k...

Not a lot of info out there about UK post-punk band Past Seven Days who put out an early 7" on 4AD but then vanished, but here's a song from some rare tape comp. Guessing it's from their demo & while it's not as cool as their 7", it's still cool to hear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ium...

Kha Ym - unreleased French underground prog from 1980. This was supposed to be the follow up to their great lp on F.L.V.M. but it got scrapped when the drummer died. RIYL Magma, Pole Records catalog, outsider/experimental jams, etc.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyDb...

Midheaven/Revolver still has copies of our Hardware lp and Vains 7". Vains was an early Seattle punk band w/ Criss Crass (Muffs) and Duff McKagen & were on a couple of Killed by Death comps. Hardware was 70s DIY UK post punk that would appeal to any Messthetics fans. midheaven.com/label/dirty-...

Seattle zine Chatterbox reviewing the S'nots 7", which was Seattle's first punk record and now a Killed by Death classic.

UK folk can get our Hardware retrospective lp at Badlands in Cheltenham, which, incidentally, was where the band formed in the late 70. RIYL Messthetics comps, Pere Ubu, the Fall, Can, Wire, the Homosexuals, etc... badlands.co.uk/products/unt...

Looking to have a Hot Baloff Summer.

The Tupperwares - live in '76. Pre-Screamers band (plus El Duce) & the 1st DIY punk show in Seattle. Recording is pretty lo-fi, but it would be cool for someone to clean it up & release it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayez...

The Feelings was a Seattle punk band who only had a song on a radio sampler comp in '78 before splitting up. Rob Vasquez was briefly a member, but I dunno if he played this show. Band sounds a bit like the Stooges so it's a shame they didn't do more. seventiesseattle.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Rob Vasquez is NW garage rock legend who started gigging in the late 70s & then had some top 80s/90/00s bands like Nights & Days, Night Kings, etc...anyhow, Total Punk just released a 7" of lost recordings by Nice Smile & Pissed Off Zombies. totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nice-s...

Pretty good sounding Scientists rehearsal tape from '78. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvpk...

The U-Men in 1985 setting the Seattle Center Mural Amphitheater moat on fire during their Bumbershoot performance.

'S Nots put out Seattle's first punk single back in 1977 and while the a-side is awesome sorta weird punk that ended up on some Killed by Death comps, the b-side is a bonkers noise jam. A definite oddball record for '77. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j7c...

Cool review of our Hardware retrospective lp in the latest Ugly Things.

Rising Tones Cross - great free jazz doc from '85 w/ Charles Gayle, William Parker, Peter Kowald, John Zorn, Rashied Ali, Charles Tyler, Don Cherry, Brotzmann, etc. www.dailymotion.com/video/x43q8f0

dirty knobby recording stars Hardware opening for Killing Joke in 1979.

The Telepaths was an early Seattle punk band that featured Bill Rieflin on drums and a few other future Blackouts but only released 1 7" in 1978. Not sure when this demo was recorded but it sorta sounds like a proto-Flipper w/ some James Williamson guitar worship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q4S...

Visitors - 3rd & final Peel Session from these Scottish post-punks who didn't get around to ever doing a full length, sadly. Telephone Explosion did a great retrospective lp maybe 10 years ago but it's didn't include a couple of these songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAd...

If you ever wondered what the High Rise guitarist was doing in 1980, here's your answer. (You probably already guessed that he was making a loud racket.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=izXl...

Pink Plastic Gods - In the Lap of the Gods. NZ supergroup w/ Robert Scott, Michael Morley, Denise Roughan, and Bruce Blucher (Trash/Alpaca Bros) making a lo-fi racket from '84. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tzA...

Desperate Bicycles - Peel Session from '78. Sounds a bit more 'pro' than the singles but still really cool. "Smokescreen" is slower and bit beefier sounding but still awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSL...

Grab yourself a free download of our Hardware retrospective. RIYL UK post-punk, Messthetics comps, Pigbag, etc. LP available from our Big Cartel site. 6h8s-km56 kcnc-g62y kpde-3k4f z949-ckja nysu-c89b 5kqx-xr6x bzgs-jdzq w2ks-ydyz pvye-bh26 8bkg-wjwk hardware79.bandcamp.com/yum

Pre-synth Tangerine Dream kicking out the psych jams in '69 w/ Klaus Schulze on drums. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bds...

Inner Circle might be most known for their song "Bad Boys" being the theme song to that awful show Cops, but their dub offshoot Fatman Ridim Section ruled and their catalog deserves to get reissued. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl5h...

Folks in Japan can get our smokin' hot Hardware lp at Diskunion! diskunion.net/avant/ct/det...

Listening to the great forthcoming Krautrock Explosion comp on Bureau B & reminded at how much Harald Grosskopf's first solo lp smokes. Dude played drums w/ Ashra, Cosmic Jokers, Klaus Schulze, & a ton of other greats and dropped this synth classic in 1980 on Sky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1It...

Awesome review of our Hardwire lp courtesy of Maximum Rock & Roll. Hear it on Bandcamp and buy it on our Big Cartel page. www.maximumrocknroll.com/review/mrr-5...

If you dig zoned out synth jams, you might like our Beauty Hunters lp from a few years back. Band featured Guy from Mudhoney/Bloodloss/Lubricated Goat & Sean from Steel Wool and they did long zonked out/sorta minimalist tunes that you can stream here: beautyhunters.bandcamp.com/album/muscle...

Now playing: Hardware - Untitled LP, 1979 LP (2025, Dirty Knobby). A great public service in compiling their two excellent 7s from the N.A.R.C. label, plus two unreleased songs. If you like Ubu, NNB, The Fall, this will do the job. #diy #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Our Hardware lp is officially out now! RIYL Messthetics comps, UK post-punk, awesome jams. dirtyknobby.bigcartel.com

Hardware lp now available at Total Punk! Buy it along w/ the great new Heavy Mother II (featuring Eddie Flowers from Gizmos/Crawlspace & Craig Bell from Rocket from the Tombs/Mirrors) also on Total Punk. totalpunkrecords.com/collections/...