7/1/23

Radio Update

Mic check (tap, tap) is this thing on? I can't imagine anybody still checks out a blogger site in the year 2023 but in case you do... 

Those of you that were subscribed to the HotDogDayz Radio feed may have noticed it's dead as of today (07/01/2023). That was intentional. I kept the feed available for a couple years after closing the HDD Radio show so that people could dig into the archives, as well as be alerted when new one-off radio shows were posted. I never asked listeners for donations or to subscribe to a Patreon or anything like that. The funds to pay for the hosting service came from zine sales and/or out of my own pocket. I was very fortunate to be able to keep it going for as long as I did. And even more fortunate that there were so many people that listened to it. However, financially, it doesn't make sense to keep the feed afloat any longer so I decided to end it. 

Unfortunately this means that all 144 episodes of HotDogDayz Radio, the podcast I did with Robert Newsome Relatin' Dudes To Jazz, and various one-offs are now unavailable.  I may investigate moving them to Internet Archive at some point, but for now they only live on my hard drive. I hope you were able to download the stuff you wanted. If there's something that you wish you had saved, let me know and I'll get it to you. I really appreciate anyone that took the time to listen, and especially those of you that would reach out to me and/or support me through the purchase of zines, tapes, merch, etc. It means
the world.

I'm toying with the idea of starting up another radio program but will only be able to use outlets that don't require RSS feeds or paid hosting; something that I can upload to directly. Going forward I'll be posting non-podcastable one-off shows and/or mixtapes to my SoundCloud and Mixcloud. I'm hoping to have new semi-regular programing soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime I'll be uploading some old mixtapes just for the heck of it (the first three are up now). 

Jah Bless!

Nathan G

6/1/23

Metal Tapes OUT NOW~!

A hair metal fanzine for everyone... 


Soda Killers Magazine Omnibus, Vol.2: METAL TAPES 

A collection of every hair metal cassette review from the first 30 issues of Soda Killers Magazine. A few thrash and hard rock tape reviews as well. Gently cleaned up and edited to improve the overall flow as a collected works. In addition there are some previously published show reviews and one brand new piece exclusive to this zine: the author's hair metal journal 

Heavy metal discovery, sexual exploration, denim 'n' leather dirtbags, Aqua Net & eyeliner, small town heshers, and more

12/31/22

RADIO SPECIAL: Nathan G's Best of 2022, Pt.3

Nathan G of Soda Killers Magazine returns to for a third a final time to wrap up the year with some more favorites from 2022...

Tracklist:

DJ Eons – Secret Trap (DJ Eons & Bad Shane – 41st & El Camino)

Action Bronson – Turkish (feat Meyhem Lauren) (Cocodrillo Turbo)

Meyhem Lauren & Daringer – Chicken Chinese (Black Vadimir)

Crimeapple & DJ Skizz – Penthouse (Breakfast in Hradec)

Bad Shane – Knockout (Rogue Titan)

Luke Sick & Bad Shane – Park with a Payphone (Rogue Titan)

Dankslob (Luke Sick & G-Pek) – Time 2 Zone (Dankslob IV)

J.Rocc – Love & Dope (feat MED) (A Wonderful Letter)

LMD, MED & Madlib – Flying High (Flying High)

Oknice – Brick Meets Window (Have You Tried Being Happy?)

Lord Apex & Cookin’ Soul – M.I.M.S. (Off the Strength)

Xp the Marxman, DJ Rhettmatic & D-Styles – Trunk (Pacific Standard Time)

Big Ghost Ltd. & Jae Skeese – Vintage Eastbay Pages (Authenticity Check)

East Hampton Polo Boys – You Killed Vera (Shoulda Killed Me) (Winter Catalouge)

Shrapknel – Gravity Falls (Metal Lung)

Pen Pals & Spectacular Diagnostics – Frame Perfect (feat Brainorchestra) (Dimensions of Dialogue)

Height Keech & Darko the Super – My Arms Bend Back (You Gotta Have Friends)

Pan Amsterdam & Damu the Fudgemunk – Duck Wok (Eat)

Strick the Clutch (Luke Sick & Damien) – Suckaz R Miniture (Thunder! Silent)

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12/7/22

RADIO SPECIAL: Nathan G's Best of 2022, Pt. 2

 Soda Killers Magazine’s Nathan G returns to plays some more of his favorites from 2022…

Tracklist:

Lost Legion – The Game (Bridging Electricity)

Utopie – Statues (Tour Tape ’22)

Syndrome 81 – Francois Cuillandre (Prisons Imagenaires)

Recidive – Impasse (Tripes d’Acier)

Prisonnier Du Temps – Perdu d’Avance (Comme Un Lion En Cage)

Padkarosda – Lélekcsapda (Sötét Végek)

Glaas – No One (Qualm)

Persona – Getting Fucked (Free Your Mind)

Dauðyflin – Droppa Droppa (Dauðyflin / X2000 split)

Axe Rash – Buy Your Way Out (Contemporary Ass)

Goaled – Voices (Bestial Hardcore)

Somatic Decay – Mutilated Facades (Demo)

Undeath – Head Splattered in Seven Ways (It’s Time… To Rise From the Grave)

Xenoviscerum – Convulsing Labyrinth of Flesh (Human Corpse Abuse)

Brain Tourniquet  - Hope and Pain (II)

Warthog – Four Walls (Warthog)

Foreseen – Tolerance of Abuse (Untamed Force)

Gridiron – Helta Skelta (No Good At Goodbyes)

Mindforce – Thirteen and Mean (New Lords)

Erupt – Coward (Left to Rot)

12/6/22

RADIO SPECIAL: Nathan G's Best of 2022

 
 Soda Killers Magazine’s Nathan G plays some of his favorites from 2022…

Tracklist:

Phantasia – Residue (Ghost Stories)

Public Body – Reset My Passoword (Flavor of Labor)

Pinch Points – Stock it (Process)

Crime of Passing – World on Fire (Crime of Passing)

Onyon – Kanal (Onyon)

Börn - Þú Skuldar Mér Að Vera Sexý (Drottningar Dau​ð​ans)

Nicfit – Human Inane (Fuse)

Weird Nightmare – Oh No (feat Chad VanGaalen) (Weird Nightmare)

The Web of Lies – Receiver (Nude With Demon)

Social Union – Fall Into Me (Fall Into Me)

Varsovia – Disenar y Destruir (Disenar y Destuir)

The Serfs – This Chorea (Primal Matter)

The Mall – Deconstruction (Time Vehicle Earth)

Cyberplasm – Mutilated Systems (Mutilated Systems)

Cyberplasm – Access Joy (Mutilated Systems)

Mock Execution – Government Schemes (Killed By Mock Execution)

Ohyda – Kompfuhrer (Pan Bóg Spełni Wszystkie Pragnienia Lewaków... I Dojdzie Do Katastrofy!)

Hallux – No Servium (Demo ’22)

Doldrey – Celestial Deconstruction (Celestial Deconstruction)

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12/1/22

The Breakfast Nook Omnibus: Talkin' All That Jazz OUT NOW~!

 

A jazz fanzine for everyone...

"The Breakfast Nook" is a layperson's jazz column that runs occasionally in Soda Killers Magazine.

With the exception of issue 30 (which is nearly gone) all of the issues in which "The Breakfast Nook" have previously appeared are out of print. This ominbus collects the four previous installments, plus some all-new material exclusive to this zine:

Danny Noonan wrote about the collaborative performances between Getachew Ekuria & The Ex, and the resulting album Moa Anbessa

Lydian Brambila wrote a reflective piece about their complicated relationship to jazz and made some accompanying drawings

Nathan G. O'Brien interviewed Martyn, host of NTS Live's jazz program Martyn's Darkest Light, and wrote a brand new fifth installment of "The Breakfast Nook"

Record and tape reviews, art, essays, photos, and more


7/6/22

Fan Club T-Shirt, No.9

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Cellular phone photograph of the television screen screenprinted on a shirt. Extremely rare.



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6/1/22

Soda Killers Magazine #30 OUT NOW~!



Your favorite DIY magazine is back to kick off Summer 2022 with our 30th issue! 

Featuring:

The Normie's Guide to Death Metal, Vol.1
Mike Dikk makes his Soda Killers debut, taking on the impossible task of auditing the Corpsegrinder era of Cannibal Corpse and making sense of it

Clell's Comix Kook Sesh
Clell Miller returns with a survey of recent Bat-Fam titles, flexing unique insight and penned in his inimitable style

Turn On, Tune In, and Sell Out
Hardcore Jherri is back with a new perspective and table-turning approach to junkin' in another installment of the "Junkin' With Jherri" saga

Plus:
Editor/publisher Nathan G. O'Brien profiles the various creatures you'll find lurking behind the cash registers at suburban comicbook stores

And, and, and...
A short comic by Carl Alessi, record reviews, and the resurrection of Nathan's jazz column "The Breakfast Nook"

36 pages, half-size, cut 'n' paste, photocopied in black & white

RIYL: punk, hardcore, rap, metal, jazz, graffiti, bikes, college radio, records, zines, and more

12/31/21

Soda Killers Magazine #29 OUT NOW~!

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Your favorite DIY zine back to close out 2021/kick off 2022 with a new issue. Featuring: 

An in-depth conversation with photographer Max Sidman (plus photos)

A heartfelt essay by Hardcore Jherri

Nathan G. O'Brien's record reviews, quips, poems, and people profiles (sometimes all one in the same)

FFO: punk, rap, hardcore, metal, bicycles, pirate radio, malt liquor memories, and more

24 pages, half-size, cut 'n' paste, photocopied in black & white, cover color may vary. Comes w/stickers and other stuff

7/24/21

Soda Killers Magazine #28 OUT NOW~!

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SJC interviews Young Horse

Hardcore Jherri traverses the continued woes of junk collectin' during a pandemic in the latest addition of "Junkin' With Jherri"

Matthew Thompson of Fluke fanzine ruminates upon the positive life force and lasting effects of skateboarding

Nathan G. O'Brien interviews Skateboard (the band), Raw Rodgers (the skateboarder), and Abdominal (the rapper)

Essays, music reviews, book and zine reviews, film reviews, illustration, collage, punk, hardcore, hip-hop, heavy metal, graffiti, skateboarding, camping, and more

36 pages, half-size, cut 'n' paste, photocopied in black & white, cover color may vary. Comes w/stickers and other stuff

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3/31/21

HDD Radio #143: Milk is Spillin'


This one is all over the place. But aren't they all.

Tracklist:

Planet Pump – Chair to the Face (Haze)

Planet Pump – You Wouldn’t Last a Day (Cocaine Cowboy)

Haggus – Live at Obscene Extreme 2017

Unholy Grave – In Silence (Heresy)

Agenda – None For All

Larma – Matad Med Var Frihet

Mind Block – Bridge to Lunacy

Tower 7 – Endless Growth

Spy – Running Out of Space

Ratt – You Think You’re Tough

Twisted Sister – I’ve Had Enough

W.A.S.P. – Fistful of Diamonds

Kick Axe – Heavy Metal Shuffle

The Replacements – Asking Me Lies

Happy Mondays – Clap Your Hands

The B-52’s – Communicate

The Cure – Birdman Girl

Kurtis Blow – Rappin’ Blow

Run-D.M.C. – It’s Like That

LL Cool J – That’s a Lie

Eric B & Rakim – Paid in Full

3/17/21

HDD Radio #142: The Breakfast Flub


Loads of demo tapes, and some other stuff. Thanks for listening!

Tracklist:

Reserving Dirtnaps – No Consent

True Vision – Foolproof

Tied Down – Nothing to Lose

Asid Bateri – Silent Spring

Wriggle – American Piss

Deep Creeps – Turd World

Narcoman – PTA

Javla – Modern Panic

1/4 Dead – Printing Press

Love Canal – Coward’s Blood

Deadmen – Fucking Coward

Sem Hastro – Slander Me

Public Image Ltd. – Low Life (Live in Paris, 1978)

Sonic Youth – Ringo/He’s on Fire/Florida Oil Drums/Westminster Chimes

Sonic Youth – Death to Our Friends (Live in Denver, 1986)

Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs

The Stranglers – Princess of the Streets

Black Devil – We Never Fly Away Again

Bacon Grease – What Do You Know

This Heat – Makeshift Swahali

Impotentie – T Stad Slaapt

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2/27/21

HDD Radio #141: The Sky is a Sea of Darkness When There is No S.A.D. Lamp to Light the Way


reggae//rap

Tracklist:

Peter Tosh – African

Junior Byles – Demonstration

Dillinger – Freedom

Derrick Harriot – Iris (Means Music)

Horace Andy – In the Light

Owen Grey – Peace and Freedom

Decimals Band – Getto Dub

Keith Hudson – Torch of Freedom

Wackies – Jah Jah’s Call

Dangerdoom (Danger Mouse & MF Doom) – The Mask (feat Ghostface Killah)

Viktor Vaughn (MF Doom) – Dead Mouse

Viktor Vaughn (MF Doom) – Doper Skiller (feat Kool Keith)

GZA – Duel of the Iron Mic (feat Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa & Ol’ Dirty Bastard)

Ghostface Killah – Winter Warz (feat Raekwon, U-God, Masta Killa & Cappadonna)

Del the Funky Homosapien – Offspring (feat El-P)

El-P – Dr. Hellno and the Praying Mantus (feat Vast Aire)

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2/20/21

HDD Radio #140: Earth, Sun, and Goon


Sonic mishmashing for breakfast. Eat Eat Eat.

Tracklist:

Atrament – Plague Upheaval

Tragedy – The Grim Infinite

Skitsystem – Snutstat

Wolfpack – Shitsystem

Detractors – Fragments

Zhukov – Burn it Down

Straw Man Army – Operation Despair

Maufrais – Preferred Death

Ectoplasm – Tiny Heaven

Fuga – Hipocritas

Orden Mudial – Marginal

Perro de Prenda – Tema del Perro

Altar of Eden – Veil of Sanctuary

Soldier’s Disease – Dead Monuments

Muro – Doblegados

Muro – Infertil

Nimzo – Nu Kings

Eddou XL – Dope Style Doom Draft

DJ Rhettmatic – U Call Dis a Mixtape? Vol.4, Side A (excerpt)

The North Pole – Playa Like Me

Grand Invincible – Our Disturbance

7FA7 Mobb – Amer’s Mix (excerpt)

The North Pole – Stree Legal

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1/30/21

HDD Radio #139: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Fallacy

 Who brought the chips?

 
Tracklist: 
Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane – Air 
Spired That in the Sunset Rise – Portabittaclog 
Alice Coltrane – Battle at Armageddon 
Ultimate Spinach – Where You’re At 
Guided By Voices – Game of Pricks 
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death – Demolition Man 
Alice Coltrane – Los Caballos 
Agony Bag – Feelmazumba 
Faze – Prison Planet 
NRRRV – A Man Is… 
Dame – Ersatz

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