VIRGIL'S TORMENT

artist: VIRGIL'S TORMENT (??, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: ?? May 2001
length: 17 minutes

HERE

DOPESICK

artist: DOPESICK (??)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 20 November 2001

length: 32 minutes

HERE

So many bands played Mission Records in the early '00s. Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon there were local bands no one had heard of, touring bands who weren't yet well known but who would become famous, there miscreants and dirtbags and edge kids and teenagers and middle aged tweakers and posit-fastcore bands and stoner sludge bands. Many of the shows were totally "whatever" of course, but there were more than enough life affirming moments to keep us all coming back.  

NATURECORE

artist: NATURECORE (??, USA)
venue: ??
location: ??
date: 1988/1989
length: 62 minutes

HERE
Who knows anything about this band? the "With Love..." 12" has been in all of the bargain bins since I knew what punk was, but still I know nothing about them. 

spontaneous eruptions of sound

DAN MELCHIOR

artist: DAN MELCHIOR (New York City...or maybe North Carolina? I don't really know)

venue: Philadelphia Records Exchange

location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

date: 2015

length: 53 minutes

HERE

NARCOTICA

artist: NARCOTICA (??)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: ?? May 2001
length: 19 minutes

HERE
I swear this band existed in every medium-to-large sized North American city in the '00s, but I also swear that NARCOTICA, based on this recording, was better than most of them. 

ARTIMUS PYLE

artist: ARTIMUS PYLE (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: Radio Free Records
location: San Jose, California, USA
date: 22 August 1999
length: 17 minutes

HERE
The bass sounds like total shit, and my vocals sound like I was a fukkn child (I was 26), but we were kinda on fire this night - especially Scottzy - and the fifth track is my four favorite pre-Jensen ARTIMUS PYLE songs all stacked on top of each other (though "A Man" was a FUCKFACE song that ARTIMUS PYLE rarely played live). 

AMERICAN HATE

artist: AMERICAN HATE (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA)

venue: American House

location: ??

date: ?? 2016

length: 13 minutes

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