Trip Six "Back With A Vengeance"

LP - $15.95
STREET DATE: 8/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-040
LABEL: Radio Raheem

One of our favorite cult classic NYHC bands finally gets the Radio Raheem treatment! Trip 6 formed from the ashes of legendary NYHC enigmas The Psychos, with ex-Psychos Tommy Rat (vocals) and Stu Psycho (guitar) teaming up with ex-Ultra Violence/WarZone drummer Charlie Rage and bassist Zippy. This lineup existed for about a year and managed to turn the crunchy, metal-tinged Psychos set list into one of, if not thee, rawest and and most blown out NYHC release of its time, 1987's "Back With A Vengeance" cassette. The cassette included new versions of nine Psychos classics plus four new cuts.

During their brief existence, Trip 6 also contributed the title track of the demo to Revelation Records' classic "New York City Hardcore – The Way It Is" compilation LP and recorded live sets on WNYU and WFMU radio, the latter of which is presented here on side B. The WFMU set from March 1988 features new drummer R.B. and includes several songs that never made it to the studio proper, as well as some choice banter from the band.

The LP is rounded out with a 12"x36" fold-out insert featuring flyers and photos from Trip 6's scant few live appearances, as well as lyrics and a reproduction of the original demo sleeve.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Trip Six Intro
02. Just Us
03. Barriers
04. From The Mind's Eye
05. Sands Of Time
06. Before
07. Rejected Youth
08. Blind Ignorance
09. Back With A Vengeance
10. One Voice
11. Who's Life
12. Trip To Infinity
13. Right To Life
14. Trip Six Intro (Live on WFMU Radio)
15. Trip To Infinity (Live on WFMU Radio)
16. Back With A Vengeance (Live on WFMU Radio)
17. Choice Of Destiny (Live on WFMU Radio)
18. Barriers (Live on WFMU Radio)
19. Never Gonna Learn (Live on WFMU Radio)
20. Sands of Time (Live on WFMU Radio)
21. Don't Bother Me (Live on WFMU Radio)
22. Just Us (Live on WFMU Radio)
23. From The Mind's Eye (Live on WFMU Radio)
24. One Voice (Live on WFMU Radio)
25. Whose Life (Live on WFMU Radio)

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, The Psychos, WarZone, Ultra Violence

MARKETING POINTS:

• First time on vinyl
• Includes 12"x36" full color poster insert
• Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air

Brooke Smith "Sunday Matinee" Third Printing

BOOK - $25.65
STREET DATE: 08/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-SM-3
LABEL: Radio Raheem

If the name Brooke Smith is known to the general public, it is from her acting on television shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and Ray Donovan or her role as Catherine Martin in Silence of the Lambs. But prior to all that, Brooke was a participant in the New York Hardcore scene of the 1980s, photographing bands at CBGB’s notorious Sunday afternoon gigs and hanging out on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

In 2010 when Brooke was moving, a box was unearthed of the photos she’d taken during that heady time in her life. A year later, these pictures were exhibited at the Primary Gallery in New York City under the appropriate title, Sunday Matinee. Soon after the exhibit closed, Smith began combing through the thousands of pictures she had snapped in the hopes of editing them down into a book.

Now, after years of painstaking assembly, the book Sunday Matinee will finally see the light of day through Radio Raheem Records. Made up of live shots of Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Underdog as well as candid photography of the colorful characters who made up the New York Hardcore scene, Sunday Matinee documents all the thrill and excitement of a Sunday afternoon on the Bowery in the 1980s and gifts it to you from the safety of the present day.

Sunday Matinee contains over 140 images, both color and black & white, spread across 160 pages in a clothbound 11"x11" book. Third printing of 500 copies.

MARKETING POINTS:

• Photos by Brooke Smith actor from Grey's Anatomy, Ray Donovan and Silence of the Lambs
• Live shots of Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Underdog as well as candid photography of the colorful characters who made up the New York Hardcore scene

FOR FANS OF:
Photography, punk, hardcore, New York Hardcore

Bob Barry "Photos by Bob B."

BOOK - $14.00
STREET DATE: 08/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-BOB
LABEL: Radio Raheem

A couple years ago our friends at Generation Records turned up a very cool lost photo album from their friend Robert Barry, a native Long Islander who was taking pictures around various New York City underground music scenes in the later 80s/early 90s. We toyed with a few different ideas on how to use them, and in the end decided to just reproduce everything as-is in a simple fanzine format split between our two labels.

This book is an almost-exact reproduction of the original album, right down to Bob's original clippings attached to the classic 1980s peel-n-stick photo album pages, and captures a candid snapshot (pun fully intended) of an era when the lines between underground music scenes were a lot more blurred — the bands featured run the gambit from the Bad Brains to Mental Abuse to Sonic Youth to rare club show appearances of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Megadeth, and everyone in between. When was the last time you saw Krakdown and Dick Dale featured in the same publication?!

Features approximately 300 photos of 27 bands spread across 80 pages in glorious full color. Each copy comes with an original photo print attached to the front cover. Limited to 300 copies.

MARKETING POINTS:

• Comes with one of 3 original photo prints on the cover

FOR FANS OF:
New York Hardcore, Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Abused "Loud And Clear"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 8/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-003
LABEL: Radio Raheem

What else can we say? Reissuing The Abused "Loud And Clear" EP was one of the main reasons we at Radio Raheem started this label back in 2012. You can take your pick of urban legends as to The Abused's influences: some say the band stole a car with a Minor Threat cassette stuck in the tape deck, and others say they played their Black Sabbath records on 78rpm and tried to emulate what they heard. Either way, "Loud And Clear" is, in our not-so-humble opinion, the total package of early New York Hardcore — some of the best and hardest music combined with some of first-gen hardcore's greatest artwork courtesy of vocalist Kevin Crowley.

Since we're not content to do straight reissues, we expanded the EP out into an LP, adding the band's equally great 12-song demo tape, and a killer live cut of "Police Reign," a song that never made it to the studio. With this new 2026 pressing, have the privilege of adding one more non-studio cut — "Friend Or Foe" — taken from the same excellent quality live set as "Police Reign." If you didn't have the pleasure of hearing "Friend Or Foe" live back in the day or at one of the band's 2000s era reunions, think "Hole In The Sky" by Black Sabbath filtered through NYHC's class of '83. Truly one of the greatest lost NYHC tracks.

We've also updated the original 2013 LP packaging into a standard 2-pocket gatefold sleeve along with a revised 28-page, full-color booklet featuring all of Kevin Crowley's legendary flyers and artwork, meticulously restored from the original pen-and-ink drawings, plus many newly unearthed photos, lost lyrics and flyers not included in the original pressing.

What are you waiting for? Blow your brains out (with this LP)!

TRACK LISTING:
01. Loud And Clear
02. War Games
03. Just Another Fool
04. No End In Sight
05. Nuclear Threat
06. Watch Out
07. Blow Your Brains Out
08. Drug Free Youth
09. Friend Or Foe (Live at CBGB 1983)
10. Watch Out (demo)
11. Nuclear Threat (demo)
12. Just Another Fool (demo)
13. War Games (demo)
14. I Don't Know You (demo)
15. Rule On You (demo)
16. Senseless (demo)
17. Drug Free Youth (demo)
18. Aaargh (demo)
19. Kill And Destroy (demo)
20. We Need A War (demo)
21. Blow Your Brains Out (demo)
22. Police Reign (Live at CBGB 1983)

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, Agnostic Front, Antidote, Cause For Alarm, Minor Threat

MARKETING POINTS:

• Double-pocket gatefold sleeve with 28-page, full-color booklet.

Murphy's Law "Bong Blast"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 8/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-039
LABEL: Radio Raheem

In 1983, Murphy's Law issued their first release: a limited edition nine-song cassette entitled "Bong Blast" that captured the band thrashing away live at various CBGB hardcore matinees. These nine tracks are the perfect representation of the band — "thrash, punk, metal and reggae all thrown together in a humorous way" as Maximumrocknroll aptly put it way back in 1983, and which still rings true today. The original lineup represented here included vocalist Jimmy G, guitarist Alex "Uncle Al" Morris, Cro-Mags founder Harley Flanagan on drums, and early Agnostic Front bassist Adam Mucci.

The band's own Creepy Crawl label would later press "Bong Blast" on LP and CD in the mid '90s, but this release went quickly out of print with most copies ending up overseas and these days commands a premium on the collector market. Radio Raheem and Generation Records are proud to bring this release back to life the only way we know how: with lots of extras!

This new vinyl pressing adds five bonus tracks recorded in the summer of 1985 with Jimmy and Uncle Al being joined by drummer Petey Hines and future Underdog bassist Russ Iglay. These tracks were rumored to have been recorded as an EP for BYO Records, but for reasons unknown, only made it out into the world as promo cassettes sent to a handful of fanzines (with the copy used for this release coming from the Flipside archives). The band would later re-record these five tracks for their 1986 debut LP on Profile Records and the rest, as they say, is history. Rounding out the package is a 16-page, 12"x12" full-color booklet featuring the usual goods: many never-before seen photos, flyers, and other bits of forgotten ephemera.

Split release with our friends Generation Records in NYC, available on green vinyl from Radio Raheem and yellow vinyl from Generation.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Have A Beer
02. Murphy's Law
03. Skinhead Rebel
04. California Pipeline
05. I've Got The Bong
06. Wild Thing
07. Stepping Stone
08. Fun
09. J. Watson R.R.
10. Fun ('85 demo)
11. Sit Home And Rot ('85 demo)
12. Beer ('85 demo)
13. Ilsa ('85 demo)
14. A Day In The Life ('85 demo)

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags

MARKETING POINTS:

• Includes 16-page, 12"x12" full-color booklet
• First time available on vinyl in 30 years

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Ultraviolence "We Hate You"

LP - $15.30
STREET DATE: 12/05/25
CAT#: RADIO-027
LABEL: Radio Raheem

Ultra Violence, one of the most enigmatic New York Hardcore bands of the 1980s, finally gets their due with the release of their long-lost LP sessions originally recorded circa 1984–85 for Big City Records. Students of NYHC have no doubt seen countless "Ultra Violence album coming soon!" mentions in fanzines and on flyers, but for reasons lost to the sands of time, this record never came to be.

Though starting in 1981, the band didn't fully hit their stride until late '82/early '83 when the core lineup of Tommy Kennedy (bass), Dave Manzullo (guitar) and Charlie "Rage" Sclafani (drums) brought on local artist/shirt printer Tony "T-Shirt" Meyers as lead vocalist and began playing frequent gigs in the tri-state area and recording comp tracks for Big City Records. Other members came and went over the years, but the band developed a unique brand of slow and pounding metal-tinged hardcore that stands out from their early contemporaries, setting the stage for the crunch of late 80s NYHC but still firmly rooted in the sounds of New York City punk. Astute listeners may even catch a few crossover riffs and lyrics from Lower East Side Crew-era WarZone, as the bands shared a songwriter in drummer Charlie Rage.

This LP collects 16 tracks from the unreleased LP sessions along with all five of their Big City Records compilation tracks and a few choice live cuts from the band members' archives. In typical Radio Raheem style, also included is a 28-page, 12"x12" full-color booklet crammed with photos, flyers, and other ephemera, with liner notes by Tommy Kennedy.

TRACK LISTING:
01. We Hate You
02. Toxic Waste
03. Cugine
04. Dumb Friends
05. Soldier In The Jungle
06. Quest For Herb
07. Popular
08. No Help (From Up Above)
09. New Brigade
10. Ku Klux Scene
11. I Wanna Kill You
12. I Threw It Away
13. Eat
14. I Don't Wanna Work (Big City Ain't Too Pretty)
15. No Help (From Up Above) (Big City Nice and Loud)
16. No One Rules (Big City Don't Want No Pity)
17. I Threw It Away (Big City One Big Crowd)
18. Toxic Waste (Big City One Big Crowd)
19. Misunderstood
20. I Don't Wanna Work
21. America United
22. I Want To Be Somebody (Live at CBGB)
23. Ku Klux Scene (Live at CBGB)
24. Riders Of The Riddle (Live at CBGB)

MARKETING POINTS:

• Includes 28-page, 12"x12" full-color booklet loaded with photos, flyers, and liner notes

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, Warzone, Agnostic Front

Negative FX "Government War Plans - 1982 Demos"

LP - $15.30
STREET DATE: 12/05/25
CAT#: RADIO-035
LABEL: Radio Raheem

Originally released by Parts Unknown Records in 2005 via Negative FX drummer Dave Bass' Distortions label, this new pressing was made to coincide with NFX's ill-fated reunion show in 2024. These records have been sitting in deep hibernation since March of 2024, waiting for just the right time to be released.

Containing 28 tracks of no-fi thrash-and-bash brutality from the depths of an Allston, MA basement, this LP showcases Boston Hardcore in its rawest, most primitive form. Includes 12"x36" fold-out poster with flyers for all six NFX gigs, plus original lyrics that were printed at the time of the demo's release.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Nuclear Fear
02. Primary Attack
03. Protester
04. Modern Problems
05. The Few The Proud
06. Turn Your Back/Nightstick Justice
07. Citizens Arrest
08. Mind Control
09. Feel Like A Man
10. VFW
11. Hazardous Waste
12. Negative FX
13. Primary Attack
14. I Know Better
15. Government War Plans
16. IDNTFS
17. Feel Like A Man
18. VFW
19. Modern Problems
20. Nightstick Justice/The Few The Proud
21. Pat, You Suck!
22. Protester
23. Nuclear Fear
24. Just Unite
25. Repeat
26. Citizens Arrest
27. Primary Attack
28. Punch In The Face

FOR FANS OF: SSD, DYS, Boston Hardcore, Jerry's Kids, Slap Shot, Gang Green, The FU's

Enuf "Demo 1988"

7" EP - $7.00
STREET DATE: 12/05/25
CAT#: RADIO-033
LABEL: Radio Raheem

In the fall of 1987, aspiring Hardcore vocalist Ajay James hung a flyer in central Jersey record store Vintage Vinyl looking for musicians to form a Straight Edge Hardcore band. “It had so many X’s on it that it looked like a treasure map!” jokes guitarist Andy White, who called the number on the flyer to offer his services. Drummer Ari Katz and bassist Rich Seymour were already in the mix and practices with Andy began above Cheap Thrills, a record store located in the college town of New Brunswick.

Throughout the summer of 1988, Enuf played gigs with New York bands like Sick Of It All as well as local bands Shades Apart, Crucial Fun, and Bottom Line, who would later change their name to Release. With the courage gained from both finally being able to play their instruments and a steady stream of shows, the group decided to take a stab at recording, at a studio called Trax East that was right down the road from Andy’s house and used by other New Jersey bands such as TMA, Vision, and Sticks and Stones. The seven tracks laid down that day showed the influence New York Hardcore had on the band, most especially bands like Breakdown and Token Entry, but it was Enuf’s own brand of suburban Straight Edge fury and the unique style and charisma of their frontman that pushed it beyond the many demo tapes flooding the tri-state Hardcore scene at the time. Once the demo tape got out, Enuf got a substantial amount of gigs through the fall of 1988 with Raw Deal and Beyond as well as a monumental one with Bold, Vision and Life’s Blood on their home turf of New Brunswick at Scott Hall on the Rutgers campus.

1989 saw bass player Pete being kicked out due to breaking edge with Andy taking his place and Chip Iatoro, who played briefly with Enuf during their formative stages, taking over on guitar. But by the spring of that year, the band began to fall apart. They ended up playing their last show on April 30, 1989 at the Fast Lane in Asbury Park with some of the hardest of New York Hardcore: Raw Deal, Maximum Penalty, and Uppercut.

Over the years, the demo tape Enuf recorded in 1988 has taken on a mystique with those attracted to the lesser-known bands from this era of east coast Hardcore. Perhaps Ari going on to front the popular 90s band Lifetime has something to do with it as well. Whatever excuse you wish to place upon the interest, the songs still hold up as a passionately executed batch of solid tunes. Give it an ear and don’t forget to mosh, sucka!

7" includes a 7"x21" fold out insert with liner notes, lyrics, photos and flyers.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Sucka Mosh
02. Face The Music
03. I Just Wanna Skate
04. Monkey Funk / Get It Done
05. One Too Many Times
06. Fantasy World

FOR FANS OF: Vision, Lifetime, Youth Of Today, Bold, Wide Awake, Straight Edge Hardcore

The Attack "The Attack Is Back"

LP - $15.30
STREET DATE: 12/05/25
CAT#: RADIO-034
LABEL: Radio Raheem

The Attack was formed in 1979 by three guys from Astoria, Queens: Jason Deranged (vocals), Alex Morris (guitar) and Steve Pain (drums). Jason had put an ad in the Village Voice looking to form a band, and through the many responses he received, he got together with Alex and Steve and later, bassist Zal, who was an accomplished jazz player from Manhattan. The Attack began playing out around town with frequent shows at Max’s Kansas City, CBGB and 171A, performing alongside other young New York bands like The Stimulators, The Undead and The Eliminators. Soon after, the infamous A7 club opened its doors to punk music and The Attack became a monthly fixture.

In April of 1981 the band entered Second Story Sound in Long Island City to record an album. Seven songs were recorded, but due to a lack of funds the tapes were shelved and the record was never released.

By 1982, The Attack lost Zal to a drug overdose and Jason to a prison stint in Rikers Island. The band attempted to soldier on with various replacement bass players (including Vinnie Stigma of future Agnostic Front fame) but things came to an end shortly after. By the end of the year Alex would form Murphys Law, and Jason and Steve would start Krieg Kopf the following year.

Featuring 7 studio and 10 live songs recorded at NYC's most notorious punk venues (A7, 171A and CBGB), this LP compiles 17 tracks of never-before-heard Lower East Side punk that existed in the brief transitional period between the end of the 1970s NYC punk explosion and the beginnings of the 1980s New York hardcore scene. Also included is a 12"x24" full color insert filled with band ephemera and liner notes.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Zero Factor
02. The Working Song
03. Your Loss
04. The Heroin Song
05. Fast Lust
06. I Hate
07. Gun Power
08. Self Destruction (Live at CBGB January 25, 1982)
09. Fast Lust (Live at A7 1981)
10. The Working Song (Live at A7 1981)
11. Your Loss (Live at A7 1981)
12. Late Lover (Live at A7 1981)
13. Zero Factor (Live at A7 1981)
14. The Heroin Song (Live at A7 1981)
15. Institution Life (Live at 171A, May 15, 1981)
16. Selective Servant (Live at 171A, May 15, 1981)
17. Rectum Rocket (Live at 171A, May 15, 1981)

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, Krieg Kopf, Murphys Law, The Stimulators, The Undead, Heart Attack

The Lips Are Back "The Lips Are Back"

7"EP - $6.00
STREET DATE: 9/20/24
CAT#: RADIO-038
LABEL: Radio Raheem

"The Lips Are Back existed from 1978-81 in the rural Michigan village of Battle Creek. Main Lip, John 'Rank Confusion' Conley, hailed from the Detroit area but was pursuing an engineering degree at Kellogg College. TLAB played throughout the state but primarily in and around the first wave Detroit punk scene. Unlike the terminal zilches with which they shared bills, the Lips had an urgent, crazed sound, comprised of equal parts Gene Vincent-yelp-greaser-rock and Bomp Records era Weirdos. I witnessed two unforgettable shows in early spring of 1980. The first on March 8 in Detroit at Bookies Club 870 and the second on March 24 in Ann Arbor at the Second Chance. I had just turned 17 and Yvette, a.k.a. Mrs. Confusion, snuck me into both venues. I recall a drunken recklessness to the performances, hopped up indeed. I'm not sure if the band was inebriated, however, as the musicianship was sharp yet loose simultaneously. Listening to these tracks in 2024 brings me back to the pre-dawn of the new thing: Hardcore. And knowing that a botched PCP deal delayed the release of this stone cold jam by 45 years is a punk rock story for the ages. Whose wise idea was it to flip Sherm for a profit? How many dust heads could there possibly have been in Battle Creek, circa 1980? Rank would go on to front the much bootlegged Midwest HC maniacs Latin Dogs." -- Barry Henssler (Necros)

Radio Raheem and Ancient Artifax have teamed up once again to bring you another killer lost recording, this time from beautiful rural Michigan. After laying down four tracks for a 7" record in 1979, The Lips Are Back got as far as the test pressing phase when someone had a bright idea -- what if, instead of using the band fund to self-release their spastic pop-laced debut, they were to first purchase some PCP, sell the dust for profit, THEN release their record and have some cash leftover? Genius, and what could possibly go wrong?! Well, we are happy to say that 45 years later, this brilliantly explosive platter is finally seeing the light of day, rescued from obscurity from the sole surviving test press. Limited to 500 copies with full color fold-out insert with complete lyrics.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Influence
02. Jones Town
03. Bad Morals
04. Swiss Cheese Memory

MARKETING POINTS:

• Includes a 7"x14" insert reproducing the original test press art mockup, as well as complete lyrics for all four original tracks.

FOR FANS OF:
Killed by Death punk, Latin Dogs, Midwest hardcore

Ancient Artifax Book

BOOK - $25.65
STREET DATE: 9/6/24
CAT#: RADIO-AA
LABEL: Radio Raheem

ANCIENT ARTIFAX showcases unearthed punk rock artifacts from the 1970s and 1980s through hundreds of images and supporting commentary from those who witnessed the birth of a counter-culture first-hand in the New York City, Washington DC, and Midwest scenes.

Book specs:
8.5"x11"
242 pages, full color
Foil stamped hardcover

FOR FANS OF:
Hardcore punk history, hardcore punk ephemera, New York Hardcore, DC Hardcore, Midwest Hardcore

The Radicals "Ready To Die"

7"EP - $6.00
STREET DATE: 9/6/24
CAT#: RADIO-AAv
LABEL: Radio Raheem

Featuring 5 long-lost tracks of punked-out proto hardcore recorded in 1981 with Alex Kinon of later Cause For Alarm/Agnostic Front fame on lead guitar and vocals.

TRACK LISTING:
01. I Don't Wanna Be
02. Annihilate
03. Why Am I Here?
04. Ready To Die
05. Pro Nukes

Spot "Sounds of Two Eyes Opening"

Book - $25.65
STREET DATE: 9/29/23
CAT#: RADIO-SPOT
LABEL: Radio Raheem

Glenn "Spot" Lockett landed in Hermosa Beach, CA in the mid-1970s. A serious musician, he helped build Media Art Recording Studio and stumbled into photojournalism via Easy Reader, the local news weekly. Hermosa proved to be a crossroads abounding with oddball roller skaters who were mostly overshadowed by Venice disco rollers and the Dogtown-inspired leaps into professional skateboarding (never mind that the first skateboard competition ever was in Hermosa in 1963). Then, in the late 70s, a cultural shift hit, fueled largely by music. This time the South Bay was in the vanguard. Spot became the in-house producer and engineer at SST Records--the label founded in 1978 by Greg Ginn as a vehicle for Black Flag, the band that defined LA hardcore. Between 1979 and 1985, he recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced most of SST's pivotal acts, working on all of Black Flag's greatest releases, and on classic albums by the Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Saint Vitus, Descendents, Big Boys, Hüsker Dü, The Dicks, Subhumans and Misfits. Throughout this period, Spot remained a master photographer who documented various Los Angeles subcultures in intelligently composed black-and-white photographs. As this volume reveals, there was no distinction between the musical and the visual--he heard what he saw; saw what he heard--hence, the title of this collection. Spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening offers an amazing portrait of Southern California beach life, set against the dark clubs and rehearsal spaces of the burgeoning punk scene.

Hardbound, 272 pages

FOR FANS OF:
Photography, Punk Rock, Black Flag, SST Records, Southern California, Beach Culture

SSD "How Much Art Can You Take?"

BOOK - $25.65
STREET DATE: 6/16/23
CAT#: RADIO-SSD
LABEL: Radio Raheem

In 2017, I asked Al if I could create an SSD Instagram page because I wanted him to see the impact he and his band had on people from around the world. Since I was not a member of the band, and I wanted to ensure authenticity, I only featured stories and interviews from members of the band and those close to them. Of course, I also highlighted the artistry of Boston photographer PHILIN PHLASH, who was present at so many shows, and who documented the band's trajectory so well. Almost immediately, people began contacting me, telling me how much they loved the stories and photos, and how they'd make a great book. Since Al has always said Phil's work deserved its own platform, I thought a photo essay book would be perfect. Society System Decontrol (SSD) ended as a band in 1985, but the stories, the photographs, and the music live on. As Al has said "We gave it everything we had. We wanted to make an impact. This is how we rock." -- Nancy Barile

"How Much Art Can You Take?" compiles over 170 images, many of which have never been seen before, plus first-hand commentary from the band and their crew, spread across 190 pages in a beautiful 10"x10" hardcover book.

FOR FANS OF:
SSDecontrol, SSD, Boston Hardcore, DYS, Jerry's Kids, Punk Photography

Compliments of: Chicago Gang Culture

Book - $25.65
STREET DATE: 5/23/23
CAT#: RADIO-COMP
LABEL: Radio Raheem

RADIO RAHEEM and BEYOND THE STREETS Publishing are pleased to present Compliments of: Chicago Gang Culture; a deep dive into the history of gangs in the city of Chicago, spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, and highlighting over 40 years of history with critical essays and a comprehensive documentation that deep dives into the artistic merits and fashion influences that were emitted from a cultural phenomenon that is now celebrated and emulated, but its origins and dark history are often overlooked.

• Compliments of: Chicago Gang Culture, 2023
• Softcover, 208 pages
• 8.5 x 10.5 in (21.59 cm x 26.67 cm)
• Compiled by Roger Gastman and Richard Warwick
• Texts by Alec Banks and Vic Mensa

Brooke Smith "Sunday Matinee"

BOOK - $25.65
STREET DATE: 12/9/22
CAT#: RADIO-SM
LABEL: Radio Raheem

If the name Brooke Smith is known to the general public, it is from her acting on television shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and Ray Donovan or her role as Catherine Martin in Silence of the Lambs. But prior to all that, Brooke was a participant in the New York Hardcore scene of the 1980s, photographing bands at CBGB’s notorious Sunday afternoon gigs and hanging out on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

In 2010 when Brooke was moving, a box was unearthed of the photos she’d taken during that heady time in her life. A year later, these pictures were exhibited at the Primary Gallery in New York City under the appropriate title, Sunday Matinee. Soon after the exhibit closed, Smith began combing through the thousands of pictures she had snapped in the hopes of editing them down into a book.

Now, after years of painstaking assembly, the book Sunday Matinee will finally see the light of day through Radio Raheem Records. Made up of live shots of Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Underdog as well as candid photography of the colorful characters who made up the New York Hardcore scene, Sunday Matinee documents all the thrill and excitement of a Sunday afternoon on the Bowery in the 1980s and gifts it to you from the safety of the present day.

Sunday Matinee contains over 140 images, both color and black & white, spread across 160 pages in a clothbound 11"x11" book.

MARKETING POINTS:

• Photos by Brooke Smith actor from Grey's Anatomy, Ray Donovan and Silence of the Lambs
• Live shots of Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Underdog as well as candid photography of the colorful characters who made up the New York Hardcore scene

FOR FANS OF:
Photography, punk, hardcore, New York Hardcore

Violent Apathy "11/29/81"

7"EP - $4.75
STREET DATE: 4/29/22
CAT#: RADIO031
LABEL: Radio Raheem

Along with The Fix, Necros, Negative Approach, and The Meatmen, Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Violent Apathy was one of the pioneering bands for the Michigan Hardcore Punk scene of the early 1980s. A few months after recording their contribution to the highly sought-after Midwest Hardcore compilation Process of Elimination, Violent Apathy went into the studio with Necros bass player and head honcho at Touch & Go Records Corey Rusk in the production seat and 11/29/81 contains six songs from that session. With a head full of frantic earnesty, the crazed caterwauling of Violent Apathy contained on 11/29/81 is more akin to Land Speed Record-era Husker Du than the menacing, boot-stomping sounds any of their peers from the mitten state were kicking out at the time. After lingering in the dark recesses of the internet and crusty tape collections for years, No Idols and Radio Raheem are proud as punch to team up and present this obscure and unheralded piece of Michigan Hardcore history to the underground.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Live In
2. Vice Grip
3. On Trial
4. Reason
5. Ignorance Is Bliss
6. Theme Song

FOR FANS OF:
Negative Approach, Necros, Midwest Hardcore