Outed!!

The DEMON’S CLAWS first lp repress is officially out! And don’t forget, only 1000 copies were pressed; 500 for North America and 500 for Europe (exclusively distributed by PTRASH). Here’s some info for those who don’t already know these garage punks :
“From the ashes of bands like The Cut Offs, Scat Rag Boosters and Les Météores, the DEMON’S CLAWS quickly became an important part of the Montreal garage scene together with BBQ and CPC Gangbangs. They originally released this first lp on P.Trash records in 2004 (recorded by Edouard Laroque). After touring the US and Europe, they’ve been rapidly related to this new psych-country-garage-punk wave along with The Black Lips. Short after, they signed on In the Red label and released their excellent “Satan’s little pet Pig” album, acclaimed one of the best garage album of 2006”.
First orders will receive yellow banana wax (only 100 copies per continent!).
MRR # 298 : DEMONS CLAWS S/T LP
" Radio 81 thought that this self titled 12” was deserving of a vinyl repress so they slapped on new (impressive) cover art and sent it on its way. These songs haven’t gotten old or tired over the past few years – instead, the echoed, desperate, lo-fi booms of shadowy blues and 60’s garage punk snot are still a good old sleazy time. It swaggers and sways as much as ever.”

Vicious Cycle's Neon Electric: Mixed and mastered by Jay Reatard, this 3rd ep shows a brand new dimension of the band. 4 new songs still inspired by early 80’s hardcore, but more in the early Black Flag way. Best effort to date. Here’s what Felix Havoc wrote on his website :
“Third and best 7" by this band by far. I saw these guys play with Regulations in Ontario and was impressed. This 7" is heads above their last two in my opinion. Just good raw hardcore punk like early Black Flag. Simple aggressive and pissed off songs.”

The Toyotas Run-down Cities: After their excellent “Makes Headlines” album, which was a real success in Europe, here is theses German's second effort! They now hit the American streets with their frenetic 70’s punk that could easily fit in with UK bands ala Buzzcocks, or with the early 80’s Americans ala Dickies/Zero Boys.
And just for you collector freaks: The newspaper special edition! Limited to 50 copies in America!

Press Gang's SELF TITLED LP
Co released with Hardware and PTrash records, the Press Gang LP is on its way! And, it’s already sold out in Germany! Definitely for fans of early Black Flag or Adolescents! First press limited to 650 copies!


Still in the closet, but on it's way out!

We‘re also waiting for Chocolat's 2nd ep (first was on Goodbye Boozy), the brand new band of Ysael from the Demon’s Claws. Inspired by Velvet Underground and 60’s French Canadian “yéyé”, these garage freaks will set aside your Saturday night home parties with these 3 new songs! Cynical lyrics mixed up with super catchy mid-tempo melodies. One and only pressing of 500 copies.

The limited edition of Statues “are go” ep will be out in a week. Limited to 100 copies; mailorder only. The repress of New people lp (200 copies) will be a Euro tour edition . 50 copies will be available thru our mail-order and 50 other copies will be available thru PTrash.


In the Works!

We will release the 2nd ep from Ultra Violence Ray (due out late winter 2008), a band from Sudbury/Ontario, the same little Ontario town that gave us Statues and Vicious Cycle. UV Ray play an American inspired punk ala Ramones/Angry Samoans/Adolescents/early Descendents. Fuckin’ catchy shit!

The split ep Vicious Cycle/Cobra Noir is stillin the works. We expect it spring 2008. 500 copies will be pressed.
We also have future plans with Retainers (their first LP), Short Fuse, Human Mess, Loser Life, Statues, Vicious Cycle, CPC Gangbangs, & many more.

All the items of our catalogue can be purchased at bistrodistro.com in the US and at PTrash in Europe.

We might not be frequent but we're always fucking worthy!

Movin' on up!

RADIO 81 headquarters has moved to Trois-Rivières, Quebec. It's cheaper living here and I can go fishing all day! Send Demos and anything you think may interest us (including fishing tackle) to: 802 Ste-Ursule, Trois-Rivieres, QC, CANADA, G9A 1P1.

The Statues repress will be a little bit late. We have the records, but Ysael left in tour with the Demon's Claws before finishing the screened covers... Good old Ysael, I wouldn't even let him take care of my cactus... In the meantime, there's about 20 copies left of the first pressing...

Getting Reatarded

We're waiting for the final mix of Vicious Cycle's 3rd ep called "Neon Electric". It follows the path of "I'm watching you" but with more rockin' riffs. 4 new songs that prove Vicious Cycle are more than a generic hardcore band. Jay Reatard mixed and mastered it! Just wait until you hear it, you'll thank mother Mary and baby Jesus for not being deaf!

The split Margaret Thrasher / Beauty Dopout LP will be a little bit late. The BD songs needs to be remixed so we chose Mr. Jay Reatard to do the job. Don't worry this one will be available by the end of Summer. Still a P.Trash & R81 co-release.

Sometimes shit happens and sometimes it doesn't.

We will not be releasing the split with Last Days & Cobra Noir but we will release the two Cobra Noir songs with another mystery band. We might know what band will be on the other side, but we need some confirmations before announcing it! It will be a co-release with our mates at Vinyl Addict Records from Sherbrooke, QC.

Shit that does Happen


The Homostupids "The Edge" EP (co-release with P.Trash) will be available soon. Don't wait for the day that pigs can fly to order this one because it will be sold out...

Ptrash and Radio 81 are also very excited to release a CPC Gangbangs one sided LP this fall... This release will follow their first full length that's due out in June.

Chany of INEPSY is going to do the Cover Art for the Radio 81 Re-press on the 1st Demon's Claws LP!! We are stoked!

OKAY - YOU WANT 'EM?? YOU'LL GET 'EM!!

We ordered a repress of the Vicious Cycle EP! 400 black wax with 3 different screened covers (129 white, 13 white with blood spatter and 158 on orange). The final 100 have the original Yellow cover. This is the last pressing! We expect them in March… Distros and stores : pre-orders are accepted. Contact Radio 81 to order.

We also ordered a repress of Statues- New People… This is a final pressing of 200 on 130g. vinyl with new artwork... Keep your eyes open!

Hi everyone! First of all, I wanna apologize because the website has not been updated often in the past year. You can now be reassured because in 2007, Radio 81 will become bigger and will be more assiduous.

MRR #285 STATUES - "New People Make Us Nervous" LP

Wow, a welcome new dsicovery for me. Mining the same updated pop-punk/power-pop/mod-punk vein as SMALLTOWN or current faves (and co-Canucks) TRANZMITORS, with the hint of a less snotty BRIEFS and a literary JAWBREAKER-esque quality to the lyrics. Great stuff, recorded well and with great catchy choruses. Sounds authentic but not retro. Eight songs at 45RPM for max. auditory effect. Apparently the CD has five more songs-BOO! If those extra songs we're any good they'd be onthe vinyl. You don't need 'em! (AM)

A great review plus two top 10's for the month!

P.TRASH

Our association with P.Trash Records, in Germany, became more serious and you guys will be able to buy Ptrash stuff on the store section of this website very soon. Also, P.Trash has decided to release a Europeen version of Statues' New People... LP on his label. So in résumé, you will get a lot of R81 bands on Ptrash : Vicious Cycle first LP (due out late winter), CPC Gangbangs split The Confusers (due out February), and, like I said before: Statues second LP. And don’t forget that all these bands will be on Killed by Trash Vol:2 together with Fucked Up and Brutal Knights

DEMON'S CLAWS - RE-ISSUE ALERT!

The Statues LP is officialy out. There are2 different screened covers - 100 pink and 400 yellow. Write me for wholesale prices (radio81records@yahoo.ca). No wholesale for the pink cover. It is also distributed in Europe by ptrashrecords.com

Here's a review they were given :

When I first heard Statues' New people make us Nervous, I said to myself : "How did I not previously notice this awesome 77 pop-punk band before?" 'Cause you know what? I thought it was actually real old school! A mix of classic British punk ala Buzzcocks/The Jam with some American sound that reminds me of the Replacements or late Hüsker Dü. Each of these 8 songs were perfect one after the other and after having the album on repeat for a whole week, I could feel the heart that reminded me of early Jawbreaker albums and even a Descendents way of delivering perfect catchy songs. These guys show a very mature songwriting talent, combining cliché and originality, which puts their music at a level rarely reached by bands today. Destined to be a classic.

Radio 81 records will also release a split LP/CD between Margaret Thrasher from Vancouver and Beauty Dropout from Montreal due out next spring. You can buy Margaret Thrashers great first ep "Are You There God?" from bistrodistro.com. Checkout the great review they got for this ep in MRR #282.

Lots of good news in October... First off, the CPC Gangbangs/Confusers split will be a Radio 81/Ptrash (Germany) co-release. Vicious Cycle and CPC Gangbangs will be on Ptrash's "Killed By Trash Vol.2" compilation with bands like Brutal Knights & Fucked Up. Finally, VC are releasing their first LP, estimated for winter 2007 on Ptrash Records in Europe and Radio 81 this side of the water.
www.ptrashrecords.com

CPC Gangbangs will be playing with Sweden's Regulations on October 31st in Montreal. The Aversions and Sexhead are supporting this show also.

The Vicious Cycle EP is nearly sold out. One last pressing of 200 is visionned for winter. Hurry up and order your copy. There are a few red covers left and you can even pick the record up at Ebullition.com (North America) or Ptrash/Kangaroo Recs in Europe.

Radio 81 will be putting out CCSS (members of Inepsy)'s first EP. Originally on Ugly Pop Records in 2004. We're then releasing the new CCSS EP which should be out by winter 2007.

Radio 81 is proud to say that we're now the current home of Sudbury's STATUES. Welcome to the family.. Statues play an excellent pop punk ala Buzzcocks/The Jam. We'll be releasing their 2nd album on vinyl. For fans of Clorox Girls, Observers or The Tranzmitors. www.statues.ca



Many other surprises in the works for 2007. Keep an eye out. 81.