About me: Frantic City is a used book and record store on Toronto’s glamorous Ossington Avenue. We stock general literature (with an emphasis on the strange, the Beat, and the obscure, with a large poetry section.) We also cover History, Music, Philosophy, and Politics, as well as Art and Graphic novels, and a dusty but dirty section for Sex and Drugs.
The music end is all vinyl (both Lps and 45s) Records cover the collector oddities and all that’s cool. The Vibe is Rock’n’Roll. There is minor obsession with Garage and Punk, with healthy Jazz, Reggae, Blues and Rockabilly sections.
Always interested in looking at records!
123 Ossington Avenue (between Dundas and Queen),
Toronto, Ontario. (416)533-9138
Hours Monday to Wednesday 12 - 7 pm,
Thursday - Friday 12 - 8 pm
Saturday 11- 7 pm
Sunday 12 - 6.
NEW BOOK OUT NOW: Chthonic - Prose & Theory by Vadge Moore
"Vadge Moore is an American author and musician that has spent a lifetime testing the boundaries of good and evil. He toured and recorded with the infamous sleaze-punk institution The Dwarves, apocalyptic rock group Neither-Neither World, and his own nihilist-noise unit Chthonic Force. He has written for the early nineties occult journal Primal Chaos, the esoteric magazine Dagobert's Revenge, and the controversial web 'zine Synthesis. Recently Vadge has taken up an aphoristic-prose style of writing that best expresses his iniquitous and sinister insights into the mind of Man. Chthonic: Prose & Theory is just that; prose wedded to theory that scrutinizes the human, all too human, Monster that is Man."
"Chthonic: Prose & Theory" is a collection of perverse and violent prose wedded to his own brand of occult esoterica. Peer into the mind of one of America's greatest living libertines.
Interviews with Demon’s
Claws, Red Mass, The Black Lips, Dead Ghosts, artist TrUdE, The Sunday
Sinners, Bloodshot Bill, Manic Attracts, Nardwuar the Human Serviette,
Gerard Van Herk (Deja Voodoo), Teenage Hookers, Petroleum By-Product,
Simply Saucer plus other lubricants like a tribute to the late Sky
Saxon, Mike Sniper (Blank Dogs), reviews, and a 25-track CD Comp of
the best new garage, punk, and rocknroll!
Interviews with King Khan, The Spits, Pierced Arrows, The Dead Moon Story, Skip Jensen, Ratas del Vaticano, Chuck Violence, B-Lines, Rupert Bottenberg, CM Ruiz, The Speaking Tongues, plus an article on Stef Petticoat and a tribute to the late Cramps frontman Lux Interior. Also: Gary Pig Gold, Kirsten Easthope, an exclusive introduction by Bobby Beaton, reviews, more!
Tyranna ep TYRANNA were a second wave punk band that existed in 1979-1980 period. The band was the brain child of Vera Skye (a.k.a. Rabies) who got the musicians together, came up with the name for the band (a female version for Tyrant), and wrote the lyrics. Johnny Bubblegum who went on to start the WAY OUTS and Rabies recruited Cleave Anderson at the Last Pogo because he had just left the BATTERED WIVES. So this ep represents a recording that has been resurrected out of a session sometime between 1979 and 1980. The band lasted for exactly a year. The opening track “Back Off Baby” originally appeared on a comp called “No Pedestrians” which was a local punk comp that appeared in the early 80’s and featured all kinds of other great punk bands from Toronto like ZR04. The ep recording was done at a small studio in Hamilton that Mickey de Sasist knew and there are a few more that didn’t make it on here. The song “Shockface” is a short little 30 second blast. Two of the members went by the “Johnny” pseudonym and they thought Rabies might have been singing about them so it created a bit of paranoia within the band. The music is early punk and is on the melodic side. Rabies has a Josie Cotton style of delivery. And this is the first release on a new label that a book store / record store in the city has started up. The store is called Frantic City but the label is called Boppa Do Down and you can write for your copy at 123 Ossington Avenue / Toronto, ON / M6J 2E2 / Canada / www. myspace. com/boppadodownrecords. - SP
EQUALIZING X DISTORT Playlist CIUT 89.5 FM - Toronto May 5th, 2008
JASPER AND THE DIRTY LOOKS - Yummy Yummy Yummy (Unreleased)
TEACHER’S PET - Fast Food Baby (Smog Veil) 63 MUNROE - Media Junkie (Punk History Canada) NAZI DOGS - Detention Zone (Zurich Chainsaw Massacre) GUITAR GANGSTERS - Bye Bye Beach (Captain Oi!) CARBONAS - I’m a Schizo (Goner) THE VAPIDS - 9.18 Ft. lee VA. 1952 (Self-Released)
BATTERED WIVES - (You’ve Got Me) Giddy (Unreleased) BATTERED WIVES - Get What I Can (Unreleased) BATTERED WIVES - Uganda Stomp (Unreleased) BATTERED WIVES - Everybody Loves a Loser (Bomb)
TYRANNA - Back Off Baby (Unreleased) TYRANNA - Dying in the Suburbs (Unreleased) TYRANNA - Toronto Boys (Unreleased) TYRANNA - Johnny (Unreleased) TYRANNA - My Neighbour (Unreleased)
BUZZCOCKS - What Do I Get ? (A&M) SCREWED - What Do I Get ? (Screwed) SCREWED - Baby Won’t Ya (Unreleased) SCREWED - Green Haired Girl (Unreleased) SCREWED - Suzi Peroxide (Unreleased) SCREWED - Your Generation (Screwed)
GRIMPLE – One More (Prank) SET FOOT - Aginy (Copper Loving) THE FIRST STEP - Connection (Rivalry) SEARCH & DESTROY - Nervous Wreck (Clarence Thomas) PEDESTRIANS - Insufficient Funds (Residue) THE ENDS - New Rome (Dirtnap)
Equalizing X Distort CIUT 89.5 FM Sundays 10:00 pm - midnight 91 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8 Canada e-mail: equalizingXdistort@ciut.fm http://www. myspace. com/equalizingdistort
Erik Davis, Boyd Rice, Antero Alli, Orryelle, Aesthetic Meat Front, Carl Abrahamsson, Chad Hensley, Vadge Moore, Vincent Alexzànder, Stefan Szczelkun. Andrew Mckenzie, Brian Dean, Magus Coyotel Leyba, Center for Tactical Magic, Critical Art Ensemble.
ANTIBOTHIS Cd Compilation: O Yuki Conjugate, Controlled Bleeding, MILF (ex: bourbonese qualk), Enkidada ( former member of Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia/Exquisite Corpse), Cotton Ferox, Aesthetic Meat Front, Orryelle, Strings of Consciousness, Hybrids.
"Electronic Thisturbance" Cd Compilation offer: Along with the book/cd volume 2, the spokenword/oral cut up cd compilation "Electronic Thisturbance" will be offered, featuring, Jarboe, Francisco Lopez, Terre Thaemlitz, Gx Juppiter Larsen, Von Magnet, Rasalasad+Sci fi Industries, Telepherique, Wild Shores.
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