Freedom Has No Bounds

Category: Philly bands (Page 2 of 25)

Bardo Pond

April 9, 2026 /

A hard band to describe so I’m going to use the one fromtheir own site – Bardo Pond’s music traverses space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegaze, noise, Krautrock and psychedelia. They have been around since the early 90’s and have a lot of releases. While writing this I feel like it has been a while since I’ve seen them but hopefully I’ll rectify that sometime soon. I’m just putting up a few live videos and live tapes (there are many many more out there) – Pete Fasolo’s Live video from Astrocade and when they were on his WKDU show Drug Music. Plus two Chicago show from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.

Bardo Pond @ The Astrocade 11 1 98


Bardo Pond @ WKDU on my DrugMusic show 10 23 97


Bardo Pond Live at Quaker Goes Deaf on 1995-06-09


Bardo Pond Live at Lounge Ax on 1995-06-08

Floating Dogs

Floating Dogs was a pre Suffacox band with Christine Weiser, Lou Cooper, Pete Young, Tim Boyer & Wayne Hamilton.From the tape notes: 2 guitars, bass, drums and keyboard.Jrug Blimp from…

Keep reading
by user

Damo Suzuki

In 1973 metaphysical transporter and singer DAMO SUZUKI left the legendary experimental rock band CAN, to which he gave his voice and energy on some of the bands most ground…

Keep reading
by user

Suffacox – demos

Phila. ’93-?. Space Glam-a-delic Smudge-Pop. Lou Cooper on drums, Christine Weiser/Mike Hughes/Art Difuria on bass, Brother JT on guitar, and Wayne Hamilton on guitar/sing. He also wrote almost all of…

Keep reading
by user

Photos from the late 80s(?)

April 7, 2026 /

Some photos from the late 80s (I think) taken by Laura.
Not sure who all of them are so if you know what bands the Unknown ones are please let me know.

Serial Killers

A Subtle Plague

Unknown (One has Steve Marasco but not sure what band it is)

Sounds from Psychedelphia

April 1, 2026 /

Sounds from Psychedelphia is a ten track, 55 minute sonic excursion into the distorted, frenetic Philadelphia underground music scene. Recorded entirely at Philadelphia’s Deep Space Recording Company, the compilation took over a year to complete. From 60’s inspired pop delivered by The Three 4 Tens and Photon Band – to the acid tinged freak-out of Aspera Ad Astra and The Asteroid #4 – to the avant garde edge of Azusa Plane & Bent Leg Fatima Sounds from Psychedelphia is a mind-expanding musicality ready to be experienced.

Related Posts

Go Go compilation 7-inch

7 inch compilation that was released in 1979 with King of Siam, Helen Wheels & JJ180 King of Siam was Bob Dickie, Jacy Webster, Sky Kishlo, Bruce Gilder? Not sure who was…

Keep reading
by user

Cashing in on Christmas

Black Hole Records Christmas Comps – started out with mostly Philly bands then expanded. Includes Stuntmen, Thorazine, Jukebox Zeroes, Doomed To Obscurity, Missile Toads, Violent Society, Limecell, Angry Snowmans plus a lot…

Keep reading
by user

Suktub

March 25, 2026 /

Suktub was Roger Bodine (Grisly Fiction, Underraga, DTO) on bass and vocals, John Malloy (Flower Girl, The Scraggs) on guitar and vocals and Jeremy Sustare (Flower Girl, Grisly Fiction, Underraga, Skeeter & the Itch, The Scraggs) on drums.

Butkus Demo Tape

They are recordings we did with Chuck Hanning who was the first Grisly Fiction drummer in 1996 or 1997

This is a review by Alan Pinkerton of our demo tape in the March 1997 issue of Rockpile.

MediaFire Zip of all files

Live on WKDU
Live on Marina’s show from March 7, 1997.

MediaFire Zip of all files

Related Posts

Grisly Fiction

Formed in late 1985 by guitarist Rob Coye and bassist Roger Bodine (aka Food-Gas) in their hometown of Syracuse, NY, Grisly Fiction is a band that has weathered many changes…

Keep reading
by user

Doomed To Obscurity (DTO)

DTO had a sound that was kind of a mix of old Hardcore and Garage rock. Probably because of the influences of all the past local bands the members were…

Keep reading
by admin

Red Buckets

March 18, 2026 /

The one 7″ from early 80’s West Philly band Red Buckets. In the band for this 7″ was Kris Yiengst (Bass, Piano) Richard Mason (Guitar, Vocals) and Mark Tanzer (Drums, Percussion).
For the full story of Red Buckets including many stories of various ex-members and Yo La Tengo go to the TapeWrecks post.
Thanks to Bob Dickie for the files

MediaFire Zip of all files

Pre-Red Buckets band with Richard Mason (guitar, vocals), Beth Kaplan (bass, vocals), Dave “Bass” Brown (the Young Snakes, Negative FX, the Lyres) (drums)
Insteps EP



Flyers








Floating Dogs

March 11, 2026 /

Floating Dogs was a pre Suffacox band with Christine Weiser, Lou Cooper, Pete Young, Tim Boyer & Wayne Hamilton.
From the tape notes: 2 guitars, bass, drums and keyboard.
Jrug Blimp from “All The Noise You Need”
Assholes, Firewalk, The Pipe from The Khyber
Following The Pipe, the band plays a live rendition of Jrug Blimp.
1992 remix Jrug Blimp & Live Khyber trash
credits
Mixed At – Amoebe
Mixed By [Remixed By] – Pete “Smiley” Young*
Recorded By – Gary “The Sound Guy”* (tracks: 8-11)



Related Posts

Brother JT – Live on WKDU

Brother JT with Jamie Knerr on drums Live from WKDU’s Studio – Sunday, June 3, 2012. Brother JT got started in 1985 or so, had a garage band called the…

Keep reading
by user

Caterpillar

Caterpillar was one of my favorite local bands in the 90s – I was hooked after hearing the title track off the Bus 6 7 inch. This is a demo…

Keep reading
by user

Beretta76

February 25, 2026 /

Beretta76 was founded in 2003 by Camille Escobedo, Pete Rydberg and Rob Giglio (Mothra, Rockula, Stinkbomben, Bottom Feeder, Creem Circus). They have shared stages with bands such as The Muffs, Visqueen, Shonen Knife and The Fleshtones, and were performers at the 2007 WXPN XPoNential Music Festival. Their music has been compared to The Runaways, Cheap Trick, Ramones and Suzi Quatro. They have had a few different Bass players including Peter Santa Maria (Jukebox Zeros, The Thirteen, Stuntmen) who was on the Black Beauty cd. All of their releases are available on BandCamp (see below)

 

 

 

 

Beretta 76 perform “Pegasus” [Live Music]

Zen Guerrilla

February 11, 2026 /

Zen Guerrilla were a rock band from San Francisco, California. Musically, the band evolved over their career. Their early sound was characterized by pyschedelic elements, such as delayed guitars and noise washes. Later, Zen Guerrilla fused blues, rock and gospel to create a sound which could be likened to bands such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Zen Guerrilla formed in Newark, Delaware in the late 80s. Band members Andy Duvall (drums), Marcus Durant (vocals/harmonica), Carl Horne (bass), and Rich Millman (guitar) came together from local bands Marcus Hook, The Gollywogs, and Stone Groove.

The band released their self-titled CD on Philadelphia-based Compulsiv records in 1992. Soon after, Zen Guerrilla moved to Philadelphia and were regular performers around the city at clubs such as the Kyber Pass Pub. Around this time the band began a grueling touring schedule, which would have them cross the country multiple times through the end of the decade.

A fusion of blues, rock, and gospel, Zen Guerilla’s musical style comes as naturally to them as licking gravy. Their sound is as genuine and as pure as Al Green’s sweat. It screams, it moans, it shakes and it moves.

Zen Guerrilla relocated to San Francisco in 1994. Their constant touring increased their exposure, and, combined with their explosive live show, helped to release albums first with Alternative Tentacles and later Sub Pop.

The band dissolved sometime around 2003.
–Wikipedia

Get It 7″ (1991)

MediaFire Zip of all files

Vamp 7″ (1992)

MediaFire Zip of all files

Pull 7″ (1993)

MediaFire Zip of all files

Zen Guerrilla cd (1993)

MediaFire Zip of all files

Crow 7″ (1994)

MediaFire Zip of all files

Zen Guerrilla / Caterpillar – Creature Double Feature LP (1995)

MediaFire Zip of all files

Invisible Liftee Pad – Gap-Tooth Clown cd (1997)

Positronic Raygun cd (1998)

Trance States In Tongues cd (1999)

Shadows On The Sun cd (2001)

Plasmic Tears And The Invisible City (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)(2001)

MediaFire Zip of all files

MediaFire Zip of all files


Compilation Songs


Videos

Zen Guerrilla Philadelphia PA Firenze 3/25/1995 live on stage
Other live videos on BLexp’s youtube channel

 

MC50 – Kick Out The Jams Tour (Union Transfer) Philadelphia,Pa 9.15.18
Marcus filling in for Rob Tyner

New Byles

February 4, 2026 /

Philly punk band from the late 80’s that recorded two demos.
Demo 1 has Nancy Danon singing and demo 2 hasRick Dobrowolski (Stalin’s Daughter, booked lots of shows at Firenze, Upstairs at Nick’s and as co-owner of Tritone.) singing.
Other than that, the members are the same:
Guitar – Rich Birtwell (Crib Death, Blunder Boys)
Bass – Dave Birtwell (Crib Death, Blunder Boys, Love Gutter, Blue Train)
Drums – Bob Labar, some backing vocals in “Late Great Me”

MediaFire Zip of all files

Also, here is a comp the Rick D. songs are on.

Stick Men

November 21, 2025 /

Stick Men were a punk rock/no wave/funk band from Philadelphia in the late 70s early 80s. The Lineup for the band at this timeFronted by guitarist/painter/sculptor Peter L. Baker and keyboardist B.A.L. Stack (Beth Ann Lejman), bassist Billy Bradfield and percussionist Jim Meneses. There are versions of this show tape already on YouTube but Bob Dickie send me the files from his tape (Thanks Bob) so I’m putting them up anyway. This is the Stick Men from the East Side Club – September 24, 1981.
I’ve also included the Bandcamp of the Insatiable CD retrospective, some other live videos on Youtube and when they were on the Uncle Floyd show. Defiantly one of the bands that makes me wish I was older and went to college in Philly earlier.

Stick Men from the East Side Club – September 24, 1981

MediaFire Zip of all files

Insatiable CD retrospective (2001, Cuneiform Records)


The Stick Men Live at Ripley Music Hall + Interview – Philadelphia – 25 May 1982


THE STICK MEN – Live @ Trenton City Gardens 1983


Stick Men on the Uncle Floyd show


« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2026 Freedom Has No Bounds

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑