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The year is winding down and tomorrow most of you will be enjoying your figgy puddings by the fire, but if you get a break please enjoy a few gifts from your pals over here at bidhardcore.

Beyond live on WFMU 1988
This is my personal favorite NYC radio set that’s out there. Yes, even more than Supertouch, Breakdown, and any other.

Rigor Mortis - Holocaust/Warriors Of Doom 7″ an often overlooked NY Death Metal Gem. HC fans should like this too. Some parts remind me of Breakdown. These guys became Immolation.

The Guns - Unreleased ‘85 lp - 256vbrSome of you know this was bootlegged by Dwid as bonus tracks on a Bowel CD that was released when Dutch East was footing the bill for Dark Empire releases. This is great lost early Cleveland HC. Most of the rips of this out there SUCK.

Ripping Corpse - Splatter Remains demoRed Bank NJ’s finest deathrash act. This has been on the Internet for years in a crappy mono version. This is a rip I made from the 12″ vinyl pressing that was issued in the UK, of course at a high bite-rate.

Meat Puppets live 6-30-81An early snapshot of the Meat Puppets in hardcore mode. They are ragged as hell but great at this how. They do probably the most obnoxious (but I think sincere) 4-Tops cover ever. Pscyhocore forever.

Hopefully there’s something on that list that you’ve never heard, or need an upgrade on, if not, well I hope Santa hooked it up.

…and what would hardcore be without the hardcore thank you speech? Here it is:

Seriously a big thanks from me and AJ to everyone who’s linked us on their blogs/websites this year, all the people who come to the site daily and leave comments or send links. HUGE thanks to Stuart Schrader, Colin Tappe, Tony Rettman, Cooch, & Jon Westbrook for their guest posts at various times. Thanks to spellcheck for making me seem marginally less stupid, and thanks to the Internet, for making it all possible. It’s been a solid year now since I started posting on here and the response has been sort of amazing, so from me and my ego, thanks. It means a lot.

Have a good holidaze here (wherever).