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V/A - sxe sells LP - 2014 Cobra Records CR-60

I bought this pretty late. It was out for I don't know how long already and I always meant to pick up a copy but for some reason I didn't want to spend postage on it. But then we did a show with Give, Minutes and Echoes. It was a great night. Unfortunately I didn't catch either Minutes' or Echoes' set because I had to take care of other things. The down side of organising shows. You book bands you like and more often than you'd like to you don't get to see them. But what I heard was great. Unfortunately two members of Echoes couldn't make it to the show but instead of cancelling they got Bigma (of Mainstrike and Birds Of A Feather fame) to fill in on vocals and decided to play a sweet cover set. Nice! Of course Give played a killer set as usual. I think it was at least the third time I saw them. If they would play around here every month I guess I'd be there every time if possible.

After the show I grabbed this LP  from Echoes who contributed to it and therefore had a few copies for sale. MDMA, Xwalk awayX and Echoes are really good. Constrict are even a little better if you like that 90s militant vegan sound. But Hangin' Tough and Last Warning are killing it. Definitely the best songs on this 12". As much as I like Hangin' Tough I have to say that the Last Warning track on here is more interesting. Each contribution to this this piece of wax was previously unreleased. Except for one of the two HT songs which was already on the 7" on Good Intentions HC and their other one is 'wound up' from REV 1 so this is why LW got them beat. Their song I didn't know before. The rest of the bands are not bad but somewhat don't hit home with me. All together it's a nice varied compilation but because I'm quite bored with 9 out of 15 bands I will probably not break this out again anytime soon. I guess it's the curse of the compilation.

I think there were 3 different vinyl colors pressed and all of them used the same colors as the layout. I like that. It's the best choice you can make when pressing color vinyl. The wax has to match the rest of the layout otherwise I don't see the point and prefer black. In this case there is no standard black vinyl pressing though and the choices available all looked ok so I didn't mind. Which is why I had  Marc (from Echoes) pull a random copy out of the box and that's the one I documented just now.

Hangin' Tough working on new songs

And unfortunately that's already all that can be said for sure. It's probably gonna be a 7" and maybe... maybe it's gonna come out on Good Intentions HC. Who knows? It will be quite a while until they are ready to talk business. #slackedge ;)

 

Fresh in 2012

While I was on holidays with my wife I missed out on the incredible line-up of Hangin' Tough, Rise And Fall and AYS. So much even that I also didn't blog about it. But who cares if I did. The show was sold out in no time anyway. Right now JoeZilla and I are working on bringing that very same line-up to the legendary AK 47 in the always beautiful city of Düsseldorf but that's a bit besides the point I'm trying toget across.

HANGIN' TOUGH had some new Shirts for sale at aforementioned show. As my brain is a big lump of (vegan) cheese I don't remember if they all sold out right that night or just a little later. All I remember is that they had to make a rerun of the new designs. Luckily I'm not only a connected but a made guy when it comes to that band so Jaybeez has one of each design neatly folded away for me to pick up when I'm back from this awfully long work-trip. Too bad for you this one is already sold out again:

But maybe the yellow haze is more your color anway. That one's still available

As is this new take of theirs on a classic print

Also this older shirt is still for sale

BE QUICK !!!

YO! Put it on and crank it up!

Been waiting on that compilation for a long time. Already kinda forgot about it in the meanwhile thinking it was already out but hey... now it is. Release date was June 8th.
It's chockfull of good Bands. Best compilation I've heard in a while and that's not just because the mighty Hangin' Tough are on there ;) Next to them Better Times, Survival and Giant stick out from all the solid songs on that Tape... Yes! Tape!! Classic Format!!! Go listen and then buy something. Although I don't see the Tape in the store. Maybe you wanna shoot Crackin' Up Tapes a message to inquire about a real life copy of the comp. 15 hours ago they still had some according to their facebook profile.
Get on it!!

Ch-Check it out

Here are a few Bands you should check out:

Abfukk

Altered Boys

Better Times

Boston Strangler

Procession

Halbstark

Hangin' Tough

No Tolerance

Peace

Praise

Sniffing Glue

State Of Mind

Wolf Down

and two compilations:

V/A - Friends Like You

V/A - Rad Summer

HANGIN' TOUGH new shirts

And here they are with another ltd. run of shirts. Zeltinger knows! BE QUICK!

Available in S, M, L 12 € each.

And there are a few of the following shirts left in size S for only 5 €

And to top it all off this rager is still available in XXL which actually fits more like a XL and its also only 5 € !! What are you waiting for???

HIT THE HANGIN' TOUGH STORE!! NOW!!!

HANGIN' TOUGH

Yo, their 1st Show is only a few weeks behind us but they already have a 2nd press of their demo available through their webshop. Who would have guessed they'd run out of Tapes in a couple of hours only. If you were not at their demo-release aka 1st show you never had a chance of buying one. Well a few people were lucky because they had friends attending the event. For all you other folks there is this new batch available.







Or maybe you'd prefer the US version of the Demo available from Crackin' Up Tapes

You should really check out CUT. They got a lot of good stuff going on.

But let's get back to the main topic. Hangin' Tough also got some sweet merch. If you like what you see hit the pic.





The following Shirt is Sold Out for now but a reprint is in the works. No idea who did the first run but this time it's being handled by pressure & ink.



Sorry for the wrong format on some of the pictures. This mobile blogging app fucks 'em up no matter what I do.

HANGIN' TOUGH - HARD AND SOLE

The HANGIN' TOUGH crew are done recording. Word on the street is the songs are hard and if you're not Straight Edge you will probably not like it. Maybe even if you're Straight Edge. Ha!
Can't wait to hear that shit!!!
Lace up or shut up!

HANGIN' TOUGH - xSTRAIGHTxFUCKIN'xEDGEx

If you're somewhat connected with the Hardcore scene in and around Germany's Ruhr Area there is a chance you have heard about Hangin' Tough before. They were supposed to release their demo on Save My Soul Records in the summer of 2010. Due to several reasons that didn't happen but next weekend at long last they are going to record a few songs. Keep your eyes peeled. You mustn't sleep on this.

Shoes not booze suckaz.