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Don't Back the Front

Oct 9, 2026 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

Xerox music is here at last! Don't Back the Front brings you DIY weird waves from the classic punk era through today. All with extra saxophone!

(Your DJ reserves the right to play indie pop)

8:01 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front 7" 1977
8:03 PM		The Worms Last Time Everything In Order 2016
8:09 PM		Susanne Lewis Five Shades of White N S/T Concentric Circles 2026
8:13 PM		Yuasa-Exide Pandaemonium Of The Sun N Warm Up The Citizen's Band - A Blip History Of: Tumble Mat Tapes 2026
8:16 PM		The Sheaves Come to Mind N Consonant Songs (Levels Of Quality) 2026
8:19 PM		Wire Ignorance No Plea (I Should Have Known Better) [6th Demo] Not About To Die (Studio Demos 1977-1978) pinkflag 2022
8:24 PM		Kilynn Lunsford Disney Girls N I Woke Up In the Body of Peter Pan With A Pinocchio Nose 2026
8:26 PM		Wild West Calling the House N Connectors: Sydney Post-Punk 1979 - 1983 Eminent Vinyl 2026
8:34 PM		Kontexte Bibelot N Hello World Chrüsimüsi Records/Dot Dash Sounds 2026
8:38 PM		The Momes Bloodsucking Babies Spiralling GUERSSEN 1989
8:41 PM		Wingtip Sloat Leap Into My Velvet Arms Why Do You Think They Call It Pop? - The Pop Narcotic Compilation Pop Narcotic 1994
8:45 PM		The Dictaphone Demonology Hazmat Totally Wired Records 2015
8:48 PM		J.R.C.G. Dogear Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra) Sub Pop Records 2024
8:53 PM		Kitchen's Floor Kidney Infection Look Forward to Nothing Siltbreeze 2011
8:55 PM		Trumans Water Speeds Exceeding Spasm Smash Xxxoxox Ox and Ass Elemental Records 1993
9:06 PM		Sonic Youth Cotton Crown Sister SST Records 1987
9:11 PM		Bill Orcutt Is left alone Music in Continuous Motion Palilalia 2026
9:13 PM		Unwound Demons Sing Love Songs Leaves Turn Inside You Numero Group 2001
9:18 PM		Carlos Giffoni & Chris Corsano The Creature N Eat The Rich Gilgongo 2026
9:26 PM		Water Damage Reel 41 N Repair 2026
9:50 PM		Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Hurricane Admonishing the Bishops - EP Matador 1993
9:56 PM		Mountain Movers Killing Frost N Knifethrowers 2026
10:00 PM		Mick Kelly Cant I Tell You N Kismet 2026
10:05 PM		Victor Dimisich Band Native Waiter Victor Dimisich Band Siltbreeze 2013 Originally released in 1983
10:08 PM		SKEPTICS And We Bake Amalgam Flying Nun Records 1989
10:13 PM		Firefriend Pacific Trash Vortex Sulfur Firefriend 2018 Reissued on Feeding Tube
10:19 PM		Nowhere Flower Shared or Shattered Peace Channel Soft Abuse 2026
10:21 PM		Alastair Galbraith & Demarnia Lloyd Merry-Go-Round Tae Keening Roof Bolt 1995
10:23 PM		Bardo Pond Die Easy Die Easy/Apple Eye Compulsiv Music 1994
10:30 PM		Helen Linda's Head N Linda's Head kranky 2026
10:32 PM		tina k.c. turn to milk N tina k.c. presents: SKINSKINSKIN ("WHAT ARE YOU?") - EP shithouse records 2026
10:34 PM		The Sleeves Procedure The Sleeves 12XU 2026
10:38 PM		The Garbage & the Flowers Carousel Eyes Rind as If Beggars Fire Records 1991
10:41 PM		Stefan Christensen Wandering Gaze Cheap Things World of Echo 2021
10:53 PM		Peter Jefferies Speed Only N The day they let you out is the day they might not let you come back Grapefruit 2026

Chat is archived.

hello everypony

Hey

Hi Steve!

I have my Wawa coffee. Ready to rock.

Oh yes!

Oh yeah!

Hello DK!

Hi Marcus!

Heyyyyy Dana!!

Alan! Alan! Alan!

Good evening

Hello Mr. Ramone!

Off to a Great start!!!!!!

Mr Ramone is my father… Carlos is fine

Wow. The new mandatory AT&T update completely fucked my phone. I can either listen, OR chat. I had to reinstall the weird app so I can do both. Capitalist "innovation". Yay

PJ DJ...

I'm glad you figured it out, Steve

Steve: Similar prob here. A update made it possible to take photos but not look at them...arrrgh!!!

A lot of long songs tonight my friends

u5 fest was such a blast! i had never had guiding light before and now i love them

Guiding Light was the highlight for me! I loved their Zounds cover

*never heard

yes!!

I really liked The Serfs too. Toody was incredible but I left early because I was so exhausted

i had to stay til the end.. i peeked at the setlist and saw that the encore was going to be 54/40 or fight

Oh man

omg I'm obsessed with the sheaves. hope they come this way.

Leaving early preserves the mystery

Hi Roffle!

Sheaves just played Gonerfest I believe

Heya Dana! PJ Boss!

Leaving early preserves my sleep schedule

I'm thrilled to see Susanne Lewis has a solo record out!!! We used to hang out in the late '80s and early '90s in the early days of Hail and she and my husband Rob worked together at MOMA. In late 1992 or 1993, she and Azalia Snail collaborated on an album called 'Hail/Snail'. On it is a track called 'C.O.D.' which is about the death of Azalia and my mutual ex-boyfriend Charlie Ondras.

I wish I had one of those sleep schedules again... I truly forget how that works anymore... :)

Teresa! Thank you so much for the info, I really have to check out her entire back catalogue. The solo record in question is actually from 2000 but was just reissued and I'm obsessed with it.

Yeah. Wow that's pretty cool.

Mutual ex-boyfriends is a cool sounding band though! lol

ih how i miss regular sleep schedules

*oh

Greetings earthlings

Hello how is Valentine

Soft. Rambunctious. Naughty.

Same

That I was born on earth is hearsay yoni...

🐈🐈🐈

I thought you said it came out in 2000! Yeah, it makes sense that it's a reissue. And @Rofflelectic TM -- if Mutual Ex-Boyfriends were a band, it would have to somehow riff on Big Star's 'Sister Lovers'.

@Teresa Peacock, that is an eggshell event on a good day! :)

I've always thought of it as one five four

I think one hundred fifty four is more English

What is that in abacus?

Steve: works for me as long as you say twenty twenty-six

Bibs are not just for children.

A bibelot is a small, attractive, rare, or curious object, such as a trinket, knickknack, or miniature decoration

says google

beeb-el-ot, my question has been answered

it would help if i paid attention to the song while screening it

another new vocab world thanks to DBTF

i live to edify

@Alan: I only use the Vietnamese lunar calendar.

Steve: I heard that the Mayan calendar is pretty cool too..

Nah. It doesn't have Tet.

WTF this is amazing

Mick Hobbs (RIP) from The Work and Officer!

Hi Dana bash the front

Hi Ossy!

Those fucking priests with that Gregorian number smithing shit again. Everyone with a number system still has zero clues as to when day one was.

If we all use Julian dates there's not problem

Nor are my French Fries.

I need to go buy French fries! Back in a bit...

Time is circular. We've all seen Battlestar Galactica. The reboot was actually a sequel. So there.

Pizza is a flat circle

Whoa. Pizza. Yes.

with macaroni cheese and fried shrimp

Oh this bomps

This band RULED at U5 Fest. Totally new to me. Vicious. Massive.

mmmmmassivvve

How the heck is this already in my bandcamp wishlist?

Bandcamp wishlists get unwieldy FAST

Here comes the skronk

Reggae guy: MASSIVE

DBTF Massive in the House

my bandcamp wishlist is beyond ridiculous

trumans water ! awesome

You knew that I was stoked on them!!

Jesus Christ that was 4 years ago?!

MAKES YOU FEEL REAL BOSS

YUP

Wow I was in my 50s then. Now I'm 140

2022 was a great year for me in terms of "doing stuff" but possibly the worst year in terms of mental health

4 years since I interviewed Jerry!

the day i went to buy my first sonic youth album was when goo came out. i was all prepared to buy it when i saw sister in the used bin for $3. i bought that instead.

4 years already??

A good deal!

Jerry loved you. That was a fun interview

You should replay it

I think I lost the recording. Or it's on an old laptop somewhere.

'Cotton Crown' was the first song by Sonic Youth I heard when 'Sister' was hot off the presses. I think 'Cotton Crown' may still be my favorite SY song.

It's such a good song.

i bought sister in 1990 without ever having heard SY because it was on everyone's best of the 80s lists in the zines i was reading back then. it's still one of my top 3 favorite albums ever

Heartily agree! <3

I wonder if Pilmer has it or maybe Jeff Winner

Also loved everything on the SST label. Boy, I miss that label!

SST was my jam

First Sonice Youth song I heard was Kill Yr Idols in '83 on PRB

I can't remember the first Sonic Youth song I heard but I think it was something obvious like Teen Age Riot

I was hooked

For me it was almost certainly "Tunic" in like 97 or 98

this outro is amazing

My friend and future housemate Ed was a South Jersey indie rock stoner and he introduced me to a lot of stuff that I probably should have heard already but missed cause I was too busy listening to KMFDM and Coil

Also, Dana: the reason I was friends with TRB

This Radiant Robinson Band

my first sonic youth song i heard was silver rock. definitely on either wprb, wkdu, or wtsr. I can't pinpoint it.

This is a LongSong but not anywhere near as long as the next one!

Marilyn & I are listening!

Hi David! Hell yeah!

I am wearing my seatbelt

Water Damage! The ghost of Jon Solomon haunts DBTF

He does play them a lot, doesn't he

Jon plays music for a transit through the Oort cloud

Still have fond memories of the time I saw them at Century. Like 11 people crammed into that tiny bar.

All momentum and the unknown

*11 musicians, I should say

I missed what u said earlier what did u call the greatest label ever

Siltbreeze!

Just bump that needle.... oh forget it!

We are not quite halfway through, Fran!

Aaaaaaa!

My 90s roommate was friends with the head Siltbreeze guy. I'm sure I met him at some point. But my roommate was a weed dealer so who knows? We were high all the time.

Tom Lax

Sounds familiar.

Leo knew everybody

While you're all here I want to remind everyone that I am DJing the NEON DREAM CLOWN LOUNGE again tomorrow from 6-9pm!

Sorry. NEON CLOWN DREAM LOUNGE. I always mix up the words.

LOUNGE CLOWN? NEON DREAM!

I am definitely a lounge clown in this outfit

Sounds like you beat up Solomon and took a set! lol

Drone baby drone!

I would NEVER touch a hair on that man's head

Ow! Ow!

Oh hi

what was that band Jon played Pow Pow? Paw Paw?

LOL!

Jane Pow and Paw.

Speak of the devil! Welcome, Jon! It's another transit through the oort cloud

...soothing effect

Only maybe a quarter of the length of Lindstrom.

Really enjoyed listening to DBTF on our way back from the general New Hope area.

hey not bad!

Can't wait to hear their take on "Do They Know It's Christmas" during the Marathon, Jon!

Three years ago

Speaking of which...

https://nealmarkowski.bandcamp.com/album/reel-x-mas

YES

Things to Do in New Hope, PA: Steel yourselves!

Oh right!! Hah! I made the joke and forgot it was a real thing

My stepfather has been playing sax at Havana's in New Hope first sunday for maybe 20 years

I went crazy over that Neal Markowski track last Christmas

wow, that would be a sweeeet show! howdy! happy Friday!

Hi Richard!

i still have some hope that the Fellers will make at least one more journey to the east coast

Will Christmas time come this year Jon? We have many questions out here. :)

I would love an excuse to go back to New Hope. I don't think I've been in years.

I also want the Fellers here!

First Sunday Jazz Brunch will a full big band

Bring dem fellerz here

new hope's been a bit sterilized by developers but it's still a fun place

Thinking Fellers played a show at a small bar in my neighborhood in 2011 as a warm up gig for All Tomorrow's Parties since their drummer lives in Boston. I have no idea why I didn't go, but I didn't go and have eternally regretted it.

i found this cd when they still sold cds and records during shows at the fu church

New Hope used to have a cool knife store. My favorite $5.00 Chinese knife is from there. I've had it 30 years and use it at work.

The knife and leather shop? It was still there when I went with a friend last year if that's the same spot

I just want to keep playing the fellas...maybe summon them to New Jersey

New Hope was one of why teenage stomping grounds since it was like a 20-30 minute drive from Quakertown (where I grew up) and it had Now and Then Records, another good record store I forget the name of, some good bookstores, and a cool vibe. I haven't been there in like 35 years and I'd kind of love to go back, but also would be kind of afraid of what it's like now

@Steve Keane, I worked and lived on a boat in Seattle for a while and the cops let me cary a big fucking knife.

I went to New Hope a ton when I was a teenager. I think the last time I was there I stumbled into a steampunk convention and there were hundreds of people dressed like total dorks. I think that was 2014?

Such good Fellers

I wish I didn't miss out on these cool spots before modern times. NH last year was pretty cool, but it was super crowded and everything was quite frankly more expensive than I'd normally be willing to pay.

I went to the eye doctors this week and the ultimate Steam Punk glasses are the one they check your eyes with.

TONS of New Zealand stuff this hour

lol roff. imagines that with a top hat lol

@Corn Maize, Hell yes! Insanity in focus!

one of my college roommates was from new zealand. she just got out of the navy and came to the US to get her masters in jazz trombone

Wow, one of my high school friends went to go study Maori. What a world.

My Norwegian friend from grad school in Scotland moved to New Zealand to get her PhD and work with sheepdogs.

This is outrageous

this sounds like kiwi jeffrey lee pierce

I think humans sounded like this before we figured out how to sound like this.

Skeptics are actually from Palmerston North which is where my friend lived when she first moved to NZ!

good stuff...

North Island sounds lovely, but South Island is where I want to get lost.

DBTF is in a zone rn 😎

Sweet jeezus I thought this was feedtime

This band is Brazilian!

Why would they do that?

Firefriend is Brazilian?

Yes

Is that a choice?

Them people!

Ah, São Paulo

Parts of São Paulo are outside of space and time

i used to tune into a dj from brazil on twitch. They would play all sorts of southern hemisphere vinyl that never made it up north. gotta get back into that habit.

That's where all the good people have gone Marcus!

Damn this show is spitting FIRE

It's where Mike Tyson beat up a cameraman

We had Cosmo Baker spinning Brazilian music at the record shop this summer. It was great. Huge crowds. Same week the Brazilians were all here for the World Cup!

But, uh, none of it sounded like Firefriend

@Corn Maize, I used to be on the Mexican border a lot and the shit that came over in El Paso was genius

Mexican Radio?

Radio... Radio...

Dana K, I used to DJ vinyl on the beach in Brazil

wprb used to blow up that song.

A friend had a bar and I moved there with all my equipment

Marcus, that sounds idyllic

I played my copy of Mexican Radio at the clown lounge a few weeks ago!

This chat zone is where so many waters meet.

It was a blast. 80's dancehall reggae was a big draw

in da pond 🔵

hell yeah

bardo pond. 😎

Going back to earlier conversations, first time I saw Sonic Youth in 2004 I also saw Bardo Pond! Didn't know who they were at the time though

Fursaxa and Magik Markers too

Nice

sounds like a sick show

Legendary bill!

I think it was like my fourth show ever.

90s philly art scene was thick with bardo. Some good people

We are in this bardo...

Fantastic show as is always your wont, Dana!❤️‍🔥🤘💗 I must bid you all a good night and a sensational long Indigenous Persons Weekend!

Thanks so much for listening and chatting, Teresa! Have a great weekend!

Sleeve

Gotta go. Night everyone.

I thought your cat was named Sleevene

thank you for another great 3 hours

say hi to sleeve

Thanks so much, Andrew! And thank you everyone!

Great show, Dana!

Thanks again Dana, be well! See you wherever's !

Dana: Thank you! be safe & bcnu!

Thanks Dana! See you next week

Thx Dana K! Show was outer limits 💥💥💥

Sweet socks dreams dana and ride home, if traveled to campus!