EDDY CURRENCY

24 Jul 2008

We've got a couple killer new local releases in store now... First, the Eddy Current Suppression Ring 'Demons Demands b/w I'm Guilty' 7" is here - both the local release on Stained Circles (limited pressing of 300 copies!) and a very small quantity of the US pressing on Iron Lung. This record is exclusively available for mailorder through Missing Link and the band. We also have the Eddy Current Suppression Ring / UV Race split cassette - limited to 300 indiviudally hand drawn covers - recorded right here at Missing Link when they played an instore back in May. We also have the new CDEP from Melbourne's Request Line, featuring ex-members of 28 Days and Mindsnare playing catchy, anthemic pop punk. Add to this a swag of new Aussie hardcore and punk fanzines and it's getting crowded down here...

Carpathian "isolation" pre orders and competition

24 Jul 2008

OK so the new Carpathian album "isolation" is about to drop (02-08-08) and looks like its going to be one of the killer Aus hardcore releases of the year. We are currently taking pre-orders for it and every pre-order goes into to the draw to win a limited carpathian skate deck, shirt and signed poster. Imagine how envious your friends will be when they come over for a quick round of pre-show practice moshing in your living room and see that sucker hanging from your wall. Oh and for all you vinyl nerds out there, its also being issued on lp format. Get on it.

Nazarite vow / City escape instore this weekend canceled

24 Jul 2008

Due to unforseen circumstances the Nazarite now / City escape instore that was planned for this sunday (27th) has been canceled.

New jams!

21 Jul 2008

We've got a whole bunch of new jams for the people who don't mind ear-bleed: the Condominium 7" is a great four song rager of creepy pervert hardcore punk; the Clockcleaner 'Babylon Rules' has finally seen local release on CD and is in stock; the Hard Luck 'Dead End' LP is back in stock with a real cover this time (!), almost 20 songs of straight forward hardcore; Snake Run dropped in a handful of copies of their very limited tour tape, Adelaide thrash scum dribblers; and, of course, the friggin' excellent looking Merzbow book is finally here to make heads and hearts collide. Of course, it's all available for mailorder, so check us out or get in touch!

Are you SIKED?!?!??!?!

20 Jul 2008

Sike Your Mind 2008 tickets are here and selling fast. It's all happening at the Seaford Community Town Hall on September 20th and 21st. Should be a biggie, so get SIKED. $45.50 for a full weekend pass, or $28.30 for either a Saturday or Sunday ticket. These prices include the regular booking fee. Get in quick or you won't be siked and that would be a goddamned shame.

Upcoming Instores. Meatlocker, Dropsaw, Pissbolt, Realized (Japan), Rex Banner & More.

17 Jul 2008

Check out some of the great upcoming instores!

This weekend, Sunday 20th of July at 3pm Meatlocker and Dropsaw punch out some hardcore intensity. Meatlocker formed in the UK when members of Ultimatum, Within Blood and All In Deep Shit / The Collapse temporarily re-located and teamed up with Voorhees vocalist. Dropsaw from Newcastle play metal/hardcore, both bands are currently touring Australia in support of freshly released albums on Trial & Error Records.

Sydney punks Rex Banner and Homewrecker both hit town in early August, Sunday, August 3rd to be exact and will be tearing it out at 3 in the arvo the bands are touring together having released a Split CD on Washed Up Records.

Japan's Realized and Melbourne's Pissbolt will be rearranging the furniture at the shop at 5 in the arvo on Tuesday 12th of August. Realized, from the SMD Records family (Palm, Birushanah, Ryokuchi etc) will be bringing their brute hardcore styles all the way from Japan while Pissbolt, local lads (3/4 of Dad They Broke Me) bust out a thrash riffin' punk assault.

There is many more instores happening 3-4 times a month so keep an eye on the website for further details of who's playing. All instores are all-ages and free to attend.

PINK REASON 'Cleaning The Mirror' CD

15 Jul 2008

The very excellent Pink Reason 'Cleaning the Mirror' CD has just had local release on Stained Circles. The true spirit of undeground DIY featuring creepy synthm stark strums, rickety percussive splats and vocal woe... An extremely interesting character and we highly recommend this album! We have also got back in stock the latest single from P.R. on the great Fashionable Idiots label in the US: 'Borrowed Time' has a lot more pace and energy than his other more mellow stuff but feels right at home. We've also just recieved a huge stock of DVDs including the new Cannibal Corpse (plenty of live footage, etc.)

new vinyl

9 Jul 2008

Some killer vinyl has come in to the store the last couple days. We've got the new Wooden Shjips LP, a collection of their highly collectible EPs. We've got a restock of the first Clockcleaner 7", a more mellow jam called 'Frogrammer' backed by the seedy Crucifucks cover 'Early Man'. Restocks of the excellent Sex Vid 'Nests' and No Peace 'Zombie Brains'. We also have copies of the very limited new Lakes LP 'Cloven', which has a more sombre / moody approach than previous records but is nonetheless EXCELLENT solo brooding synth / noise.

July 9 News from the Basement

9 Jul 2008

So Wednesday huh... so we think everybody who loves solid,spuzzed out noisy rock action should secure a copy of the fine DEAF WISH CD-R which we've just got in, as it's fantastic and we love it to pieces. Some it is in the ballpark of Am Rep gruff-o-phonics,or closer to home maybe some Lubricated Goat or Nunbait, whilst other sounds are based a bit more on cool guitar melody. Either way you cut it, it's the best friggin' TEN BUCKS you may spend this or next week so take our word, pick up this and their debut 7" which came before it and you're set. There is a swag of other bits and pieces in this week too...with some quite big releases, so watch this space a bit later today as we update this news item. **We also sent out quite a detailed Online Newsletter on friday, so if you're not getting it, just email Mel at Missinglink dot net dot au and she'll zap you one across the optic fibres...

New Aussie 7" Rock Action !

1 Jul 2008

Those Rock'n'Roll Reprobates Legends of Motorsport kick it on out with a new 3 track 7" vinyl ep entitled 'Pushin' The Envelope'. Issued on the local Torn & Frayed imprint in a cool sleeve with insert and hand stamped outta 500 copies !. We post singles around Aussie for 3 bucks or anywhere in the friggin' world for $6 so if 7" vinyl is your game then here be a newie to play lots and play loud !

Books for reading

28 Jun 2008

Restocks and new stuff - True Norwegian Black Metal is a massive hardcover coffee table book of photos by Peter Beste (with an editing hand from Ugly Things regular and all-round music freak Johan Kugelberg) limited to 5000 copies and features Gorgoroth, Burzum (heaps of scans from old metal magazines covering the early 90's hysteria), Darkthrone, Emperor, Mayhem and a HEAP more. The Replacements biography is here too, Thurston Moore & Byron Coley's new book on New York No Wave is superb (both in content and presentation) and restocks of the excellent Process titles - EYE MIND (the wild tale of Roky Erickson & the 13th Floor Elevators), Moondog and the bizarre story of Father Yod. There's a whole bunch more we got in, but you gotta come into the store and see 'em...

New Release Wrap

25 Jun 2008

Hey..It's mid-week and we have a swag of interesting New Music Releases out and about, both from our own backyard and across the seas. The very fine Solar/Sonar label has issued a cool slice of Hobart History with a CD by 90's band The Stickmen which is well worth an ear. Add to that we have the new Sigur Ros album on CD, a killer dose of Japanese Heaviosity with a new Coffins CD, the latest Less Than Jake disc with extra cut, a Deluxe CD/DVD edition of the Carcass album 'Heartwork', plus a new Made Out Of BabiesCD,both LP/CD of the Vice King Khan and his Shrines set, more copies of both The Meanies 7" singles, plus a mega triple set vinyl version of the Boris with Merzbow 'Rock Dream' album (an edition of 1,000) and so much more.... Watch for another News Item of other bits 'n' bobs real soon.

Total Grind Destruction !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

17 Jun 2008

New on the No Escape label this week comes a raging,blistering,all out gring attack over 25 tracks from Melbourne's claret exrecters The Kill with Hate Sessions 2000-2002 and as the title suggests it comps their early ep and demo into one tasty digital morsel ready to rip it up and lay waste. For fans of Discordance Axis, Assuck, Warsore, Napalm Death, Insect Warfare, Pig Destroyer and the like... you know the drill and get ready to have it spuzzed into your skull ! In stock now and a buck fifty to post it anywhere within Aussie, or a fiver to get it Airmailed anywhere else on the globe......

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