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GR2 Top 15 Tracks – April 16th, 2007

Here are the Top 15 tracks for the previous 7 days.  Hope this adds a bright spot to your tax day.

  1. Dropkick Murphys – Barroom Hero
  2. No Use For A Name – For Fiona
  3. Lagwagon – Alien 8
  4. Supersuckers – Pretty Fucked Up
  5. The Vandals – I'm The Boss Of Me
  6. Fugazi – Waiting Room
  7. Bad Religion – Voice of God is Government
  8. Darlington – Dorkin' Around
  9. Rancid – Warsaw
  10. NOFX – Linoleum
  11. The Briggs – Media Control
  12. Lagwagon – Heartbreaking Music
  13. The Clash – Safe European Home
  14. Stiff Little Fingers – Guitar & Drum
  15. Rancid – Black Lung

GR2 Top 15 Tracks – April 9th, 2007

Back again with the top 15 for the previous week.  This week again shows the diversity of listeners as we have another list that is completely different from the week before.  Enjoy and thanks for listening! 

  1. The grays ct – folsom & 23
  2. I DECLINE (Los Angeles) – Devil's Playground
  3. Dropkick Murphys – Barroom Hero
  4. The Unseen – Scream Out
  5. Stiff Little Fingers – Guitar & Drum
  6. Sewing With Nancie – Sorry in Advance
  7. Minor Threat – I Don't Wanna Hear It
  8. Dillinger Four – "I Was Born on a Pirate Ship!
  9. Strung Out – Bring Out Your Dead
  10. NOFX – Hot Dog In A Hallway
  11. Agent Orange – Bloodstains
  12. Rise Against – Dead Ringer
  13. Bouncing Souls – True Believers
  14. The Bouncing Souls – The Gold Song
  15. Consumed – Wake Up With A Smile

GR 2 Top 15 Tracks – April 2, 2007

 Here we are again on a Monday morning, and here is the top 15 on GR2 for the last 7 days.  The only holdover from last week is the Dropkick Murphies, otherwise this is a completely different list than any previous top 15.  Enjoy and thanks for listening!

 

  1. Lagwagon – Heartbreaking Music
  2. Anti-Heros – Fuck Hollywood
  3. Good Riddance – Yesterday's Headlines
  4. Reverend Horton Heat – Suicide Doors
  5. Bad Religion – Voice of God is Government
  6. Swingin' Utters – Beached Sailor
  7. Operation Ivy – Caution
  8. Rancid – Black Lung
  9. NOFX – Dig
  10. Buzzcocks – What Do I Get
  11. Selby Tigers – Dolph Indicator
  12. Left Alone – Every Night
  13. Dropkick Murphys – The Auld Triangle
  14. The Nobodys – Joe's Sister
  15. Social Distortion – Ball and Chain

GR2 Top 15 Tracks – March 26, 2007

Here's the latest iteration of the GR2 Top 15 Songs for the last 7 days.  Only 3 songs from last week are in the Top 15 again this week so either you guys got sick of the other stuff or I have two entirely different sets of listeners taking turns rating the music.  Must be some sort of conspiracy…

  1. Trial by Fire – To Whom It May Redeem
  2. I DECLINE – Devil's Playground –
  3. New Mexican Disaster Squad – Tightrope
  4. Dillinger Four – "I Was Born on a Pirate Ship! "
  5. The Hollow Points – My Misfortune
  6. Snapout (aka Fastpace) – Hope
  7. One Man Army and the Undead Quartet – It's Empty –
  8. Love Equals Death – Pray For Me
  9. Left Alone – Every Night
  10. Dropkick Murphys – The Warrior's Code
  11. Subhumans – Religious Wars
  12. The Lawrence Arms – Beyond The Embarassing Style
  13. The Bouncing Souls – The Gold Song
  14. Strung Out – Bring Out Your Dead
  15. No Use For A Name – For Fiona

GR2 Top 15 Tracks – March 19, 2007

Top Rated tracks on GamersRadio2:  The Punk Phase over the last seven days. 

I'm going to attempt to do this each Monday, so what do you think I should call it.  Fine Fifteen?  Fabulous fifteen?  Neither one of those sounds punk enough for my taste.  Anyway…looks like we have some NOFX and Bouncing Souls fans in the listening audience and that a couple of the "new" songs I added are catching on as well.  Keep listening!

 

  1. Left Alone – Every Night
  2. The Vandals – I'm The Boss Of Me
  3. The Bouncing Souls – The Gold Song
  4. Bouncing Souls – Sing Along Forever
  5. NOFX – The Separation of Church and Skate
  6. The Sun Eats Hours – Tour All Over
  7. NOFX – Linoleum
  8. Stiff Little Fingers – Guitar & Drum
  9. Refused – Bullet (Misfits Cover)
  10. No Use for a Name – Exit
  11. Strung Out – Bring Out Your Dead
  12. NOFX – Kill All the White Man
  13. Happy Campers – Struggle
  14. Anti-Flag – Turncoat
  15. Youth Brigade – Live Life

GR2 Playlist Update!

Just completed uploading 34 new tracks to GR2:  The Punk Phase!

 

These are the tracks that I added: 

TSOL Abolish Government/Silent Majority
:30 Seconds Over Tokyo Stand Your Ground
59 times the pain classaction
Adolescents No Way
Agent Orange America
Ann Beretta Straight Shooter
The Bouncing Souls Gone
The Briggs Media Control
The Buzzcocks What Do I Get
Channel 3 Mannequin
CIVET Extra
CIVET State Line
Clorox Girls Boys/Girls
Crass Do They Owe Us a Living?
Daisy Chain The Things
Desendents Hope
Die HUNNS Time has Come Today
DI Hang Ten In East Berlin
Dropkick Murphys Do Or Die
Effiges Body Bag
Fear I Love Livin' In The City
Happy Campers Struggle
Hollow Points My Misfortune
Hollow Points Sickness
Mission Of Burma Dirt
Mission Of Burma Wounded World
Monster Magnet Kick Out The Jams
New Bomb Turks 01 Born Toulouse-Lautrec
One Man Army It's Empty
One Man Army The T.V. Song
Radio One Pipe Bomb Rebels
Refused Bullet (Misfits Cover)
The Bad Rackets Couple Million Miles
Youth Brigade Live Life

 

 There are a number of other tracks that I wasn't able to get up, and I'll try to get those in next week to spread things out a bit.

 

 The entire GR 2 Playlist 

GR1 Playlist

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GamersRadio.Com Current Playlist!

Current Play List

 

Artist Title Album
36 Crazyfists Bloodwork Resident Evil: Apocolypse
36 Crazyfists Slit Wrist Theory' Bitterness The Star
40 Below Summer Self Medicate The Mourning After
Alien Ant Farm Movies ANThology
Alien Ant Farm Wish Kerrang! – The Devil's Music Volume 3
ALLOS Collapsing Machine Across The Room
Anthrax Inside Out Volume 8 – The Threat is Real
A Perfect Circle Imagine Imagine (Single)
A Perfect Circle Magdalena Mer de Noms
A Perfect Circle The Outsider Thirteenth Step
A Perfect Circle The Package Thirteenth Step
Atomship Pencil Fight The Crash Of '47: April '04
Atreyu Ex's & Oh's Ex's & Oh's (Single)
Atreyu Lip Gloss & Black Suicide Notes and Butterfly Ki
Avenged Sevenfold Unholy Confessions Waking the Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold Bat Country City Of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold Beast And The Harlot City Of Evil
Bionic Jive I Shot Lucifer Armageddon Through Your Speaker
Bionic Jive Ricochet Armageddon Through Your Speaker
Bionic Jive Shut 'Em Down Armageddon Through Your Speaker
Black Label Society Rust Zakk Wylde's
Bloodsimple Sell Me Out A Cruel World
Bloodsimple The Leaving Song A Cruel World
Breaking Benjanmin So Cold So Cold
Bullet For My Valentine Her Voice Resides The Poison
Bullet For My Valentine Suffocating Under Words of Sorry The Poison
Chevelle Closure Wonder What's Next
Chevelle Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) This Type Of Thinking Could Do Us In
Clutch Profits Of Doom Blast Tyrant
Clutch Regulator Blast Tyrant
Clutch The Mob Goes Wild Blast Tyrant
Cold Suffocate Year of the Spider
Crossbreed Regretful Times Synthetic Division
Crossbreed Seasons Synthetic Division
Crossfade Cold Cold
Damageplan Pride New Found Power
Damageplan Save Me New Found Power
Danzig Mother Danzig
David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
Deftones Change Queen of the Damned
Disturbed Awaken Believe
Disturbed Darkness Believe
Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
Disturbed Guarded Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed Remember Believe
Disturbed Rise Believe
Disturbed Stupify The Sickness
Disturbed Voices The Sickness
Dope I Am Group Therapy
Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
Drowning Pool Follow Sinner
Drowning Pool Mute Sinner
Drowning Pool Reminded Sinner
Drowning Pool Sinner Sinner
Drowning Pool Step Up Desensitized
Drowning Pool Tear Away Sinner
Endo Clean Sheets (And a Dirty Mind) Songs for the Restless
Endo Simple Lies Songs for the Restless
_fallen_ Feed off the Negative Half Of What You Wanted
Finger Eleven Stay In Shadow Finger Eleven
Flaw Payback Through The Eyes
Ghost in the Machine Lies Unknown
ID/PSA Visit www.GamersRadio.com ID/PSA
ID/PSA Visit www.GamersRadio.com ID/PSA
ID/PSA Visit www.GamersRadio.com ID/PSA
IDS/PSA GamersRadio.com – Win A Ipod IDS/PSA
ID/PSA Visit www.GamersRadio.com ID/PSA
Helmet Unsung Meantime
Sevendust Hero Next
Hurt Falls Apart Vol. 1
Hurt Overdose Vol. 1
Hurt Rapture Vol. 1
Hurt Unkind Vol. 1
Ill Nino This Time's For Real Confession
illuminati Machine illuminatimusic.com
Thrice Image Of The Invisible Vheissu
Killswitch Engage A Bid Farewell The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage Hope Is… The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage Rose Of Sharyn The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage Take This Oath The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage The End Of Heartache The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage When Darkness Falls The End Of Heartache
Korn A.D.I.D.A.S. Life Is Peachy
Korn Did My Time Take A Look In The Mirror
Korn Freak On A Leash Follow The Leader
Korn Here To Stay Untouchables
Korn No One's There Untouchables
Korn Thoughtless Untouchables
Limp Bizkit Almost Over Results May Vary
Lollipop Lust Kill Like A Disease My So Called Knife
Lollipop Lust Kill Personal Jesus My So Called Knife
Manifest Destiny As I Am Within
Manifest Destiny Dethroned Within
Manifest Destiny Storm Is Forming Within
Marilyn Manson Coma White Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson Disposable Teens Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Marilyn Manson I Don't Like The Drugs Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson Rock Is Dead The Matrix Soundtrack
Marilyn Manson Tainted Love Not Another Teen Movie ST
Marilyn Manson The Nobodies Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Motograter Down Motograter
Mudvayne Forget To Remember Lost And Found
Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found
Mudvayne Mercy, Severity The End of All Things to Come
Mudvayne Not Falling The End of All Things to Come
Mudvayne World So Cold The End of All Things to Come
Mushroomhead Crazy XIII
Mushroomhead Solitaire/Unraveling XX
NGB Cold2 The Spiral Eyes
Nine Inch Nails Hurt The Downward Spiral
Nonpoint Bullet With a Name To The Pain
Nonpoint Move Now Recoil
Nonpoint There's Going to be a War! To The Pain
Nonpoint Truth Recoil
No One Chemical No One
Orgy Can't Take This Punk Statik Paranoia
Pantera Cementary Gates Cowboys From Hell
Pantera Walk Vulgar Display Of Power
Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder Getting Away With Murder
Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein Amerika Reise, Reise
Rammstein Engel Mutter
Rammstein Ich Will Mutter
Rammstein Links Mutter
Rammstein Mann gegen Mann Rosenrot
Rammstein Rosenrot Rosenrot
Rammstein Sonne Mutter
Rammstein Spring Rosenrot
Rammstein Wo bist du Rosenrot
Rikets Hollywood Anything For The Devil
Rikets the murder The Best of War and More
Rob Zombie Demon Speeding The Sinister Urge
Rob Zombie Foxy Foxy Educated Horses
Rob Zombie Superbeast Hellbilly Deluxe
Seether Driven Under Disclaimer II
Seether Gasoline Disclaimer II
Sevendust Angel's Son Animosity
Sevendust Disgrace Seasons
Sevendust Follow Animosity
Sevendust Gone Seasons
Sevendust Praise Animosity
Sevendust Seasons Seasons
Sevendust Separate Seasons
Seven Wiser Life Seven Wiser
Seven Wiser Sick Seven Wiser
Shadows Fall What Drives The Weak War Within
Shinedown 0.45 Leave A Whisper
Shinedown Heroes Us And Them
Shinedown Save Me Us And Them
Skillet Savior Collide
Slipknot Duality Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Left Behind Iowa
Slipknot My Plague (New Abuse Mix) Resident Evil Soundtrack
Slipknot (SIC) Slipknot
Slipknot Spit It Out Slipknot
Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Three Nil Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Vermilion Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Wait and Bleed Slipknot
Soil Breaking Me Down Scars
Soil Halo Scars
Soil Pride Redefine
Soil Redefine Redefine
Disturbed Sons Of Plunder Ten Thousand Fists
SOUND&FURY Perfectly Wrong reflections
SPLYT The Other Side Figureheads
State of Being Take Me Away Haywire
Static X Black and White Machine
Static-X I'm The One CD Promo (WB)
Static-X Permanence The Hot Stuff: The Noise of Su
Stereomud Get Me Out Perfect Self
Stereomud Pain Perfect Self
Stereomud Steppin Away Perfect Self
Stone Sour 1st Person Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour 30/30-150 Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour Inhale Stone Sour
Stone Sour Made Of Scars Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour Sillyworld Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour Socio Come What(ever) May
System of a Down Innervision Steal This Album!
System of a Down Spiders System of a Down
The Accident Experiment Sick Love Letter United We Fear
Thrice Send Me An Angel Punk Goes Pop
Tool Parabola Lateralus
Tool Prison Sex Undertow
Tool Sober Undertow
Trapt Headstrong Trapt
Trapt Stand Up Someone In Control
TWYTCH Hatred Light Of Day
Underride Glass Eye Necessary Evil
Underride Watching You Bleed Horsepower Kills
White Zombie More Human than Human ASTRO-CREEP:2000 Songs of Love

Ozzfest 2007 for Free?

Heavy Metal Fans everywhere just got a little happier.  Livenation has announced that this year OZZFEST WILL BE FREE!!!!!! 
 
Full press release below….. 
 
 OZZFEST 2007…FOR FREE!

GROUNDBREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT
PULLS PLUG ON TICKET PRICES

"This will change everybody’s impression of the way touring in the summer in America should be."–Sharon Osbourne

Imagine a day of wall-to-wall hard rock.

Imagine the world's greatest headliner sharing a bill with cutting edge new artists.

Imagine if this brass-knuckled beast was hellbent on coming to your town.

Imagine this earth-pounding event…FOR FREE.

2007 will forever mark the year OZZFEST spiked the concert industry's punch and gave every head-banging American kid a reason to strap on an air guitar with the historic announcement that tickets to the summer’s premiere touring concert festival won't cost fans a dime.

Testing one, two, three…

That's right, OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE and tour producer LIVE NATION broke the news today at the Concert Industry Consortium in Los Angeles that their 12th annual hard rock spectacular–a 25-date extravaganza launching July 7 in Los Angeles–is pulling the plug on ticket prices and giving the power back to the fans calling this summer’s OZZFEST "FreeFest." The other OZZFEST cities as of now are San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Charlotte, Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Nashville. Note: a final confirmed list of cities and dates is forthcoming.

"For the last few years," says SHARON, "ticket prices have steadily climbed as artists demand more and more money for summer tours. We certainly want everybody to make money, however we also want the kids to be able to afford to come out and have an incredible experience. If we continued with the traditional touring festival model, we would have no choice but to raise ticket prices again this year."

Cited as “one of rock’s biggest juggernauts” in the cover feature of Sunday's New York Times' “Arts and Leisure” section (6/25/06), OZZFEST and Live Nation will turn to sponsors to provide added support for the festival's new incarnation. This summer’s OZZFEST will provide select sponsors with a unique opportunity to engage fans one-on-one utilizing one of music’s best known brands.

"We're reaching the same point we did years ago when kids no longer wanted to pay for overpriced CDs," compares Sharon. "As a result, they found alternative ways of getting music. That’s what’s happening with summer touring in this country, it’s out-pricing itself. We started this and we want to keep it and we want to make it bigger and bigger each year by getting bigger sponsors to be involved with the festival and underwriting the festival. That’s what it’s about."

“For the past 11 years, music fans have made OZZFEST the most successful and enduring rock music festival in the United States,” said Jason Garner, Live Nation President of North American Concerts. “What better way to say ‘Thank You’ to the music fans who have made this possible than inviting them to attend OZZFEST for free.”

To gain entry into the event, fans will go to www.ozzfest.com or www.livenation.com to find links that will direct them to special sponsor sites where tickets can be secured. More details regarding the process are forthcoming.

As OZZFEST’s founder and namesake, OZZY will make his triumphant return to the headlining position on this year's mainstage after surprising fans last year by performing on the down-and-dirty second stage at a handful of dates. Audiences can expect the Prince of Darkness to unveil new songs from his forthcoming studio album, OZZY’s first disc of new material since 2001. While the rest of the in-progress bill is under wraps, Sharon points out, "we have bands committed, but we’re hoping that after today's announcement we’ll have a whole influx of artists who want to be a part of something this ground breaking. We know there aren't any major headlining acts that would tour all summer for nothing, but we're confident we can turn some of the genre's biggest bands on to what we're doing and have them come out to play a date or two. If they're in town and want the rush of performing in front of 20,000 frenzied kids, they're more than welcome to join us. They can sell their t-shirts, CDs and whatever else they've got. They're also welcome to book their own shows in local venues on the day of OZZFEST. I’m not stopping them. People have to be creative and think of alternatives."

Since 1996, OZZFEST has been a virtual breeding ground for rising bands. The festival has been instrumental in igniting the careers of platinum-selling artists like System of a Down, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Incubus, Slipknot, Queens of the Stoneage and Godsmack. Along with supporting bands on the rise including Avenged Sevenfold, Mudvayne, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage and Lacuna Coli, among others.

“OZZFEST was created to keep this genre of music alive by showcasing new talent," states Sharon. "You better believe we’re going to keep perpetuating that by hand-picking compelling new bands that are hungry for OZZFEST's career-making exposure."

Epitaph Tour 2007

The Epitaph Tour 2007 Kicks off in a couple of days and features Escape the Fate, The Higher and I Am Ghost.  You can check out free downloadable mp3s from each band via Purevolume.

 

Here are the tour dates: 

02.02.07 Pamona, CA Glass House  
02.03.07 San Diego, CA Soma  
02.04.07 Tempe, AZ The Clubhouse  
02.06.07 Dallas, TX The Door  
02.07.07 Austin, TX Emos  
02.08.07 Houston, TX Warehouse Live  
02.10.07 Orlando, FL The Social  
02.11.07 Tampa, FL Orpheum Theatre  
02.12.07 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits  
02.13.07 Atlanta, GA Masquerade  
02.14.07 Carrboro, NC Cats Cradle  
02.16.07 Charlotte, NC Casbah  
02.17.07 Towson, MD The Recher Theatre  
02.18.07 Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar  
02.19.07 So. Hackensack, NJ School of Rock East  
02.20.07 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom  
02.22.07 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre  
02.23.07 Providence, RI The Living Room  
02.27.07 Buffalo, NY The Icon  
02.28.07 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small's Theatre  
03.01.07 Cleveland Hts., OH Grog Shop  
03.02.07 Detroit, MI Shelter  
03.03.07 Chicago, IL Metro  
03.03.07 Boise, ID The Venue  
03.05.07 Minneapolis, MN The Loft @ The Barfly  
03.07.07 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck  
03.08.07 Denver, CO Marquis Theater  
03.09.07 Salt Lake City, UT Avalon Theater  
03.12.07 Seattle, WA El Corazon  
03.13.07 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater  
03.16.07 San Francisco, CA Slim's  
03.17.07 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theater

 

GR2 Playlist

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GR2: The Punk Phase!

Current Play List

 

Artist Title
:30 Seconds Over Tokyo Stand Your Ground
59 times the pain classaction
7 Seconds Meant To Be My Own
88 Fingers Louie Drunk & Ugly
88 Fingers Louie Selfish Means
Adolescents No Way
Against All Authority Dinkas When I Close My Eyes
Agent Orange America
Agent Orange Bloodstains
Ann Beretta Straight Shooter
Anti-Anti The Gold Old Days
Anti-Flag Turncoat
Anti-Heros Fuck Hollywood
Apocalypse Hoboken Personal Best
Aus Rotten Poison Corporations
Avail Black And Red
Avail On the Nod
Avail Simple Song
Bad Rackets Couple Million Miles
Bad Religion Fuck Armageddon, This is Hell
Bad Religion heroes_&_martyrs
Bad Religion Voice of God is Government
Bad Trip Something More
Belligerents Hate My Job
Belligerents PBR
Black Flag Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
Boy Sets Fire Boy Sets Fire – Pure
Buzzcocks What Do I Get
C.Aarmé Tu Puta Mi Casa
Channel 3 Mannequin
Code 415 Executive Control
Code 415 Stand and Fight
Consumed On The Take Again
Consumed Wake Up With A Smile
D.I. Hang Ten In East Berlin
Dag Nasty I've Heard
Death of a Nation Just Like Me
Decendents I'm Not a Punk
Descendents Bikeage
Descendents Cool To Be You
Dillinger Four "I Was Born on a Pirate Ship! " (Holdyourtongue)
Dillinger Four Folk Song
Discharge Free Speech for the Dumb
Domi Step Back
Doomed Youth Police The World
Down by Law Put The Boots In
Dropkick Murphys Barroom Hero
Dropkick Murphys Do Or Die
Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code
Fear I Love Livin' In The City
Forgotten No Control
Forgotten Shot Down
Fugazi Public Witness Program
Fugazi Waiting Room
Gallows In The Belly Of A Shark
Goin' Places Never Forget the Ramones
Good Riddance Shame
Good Riddance Yesterday's Headlines
Gorilla Biscuits forgotten
Grounded Loud and Clear
Happy Campers Wave The Flags
Heckle So Much The Same
Hi-Standard Teenagers Are All Assholes
Hudson Falcons The Right Way
Joy Division Warsaw
Kid Dynamite Heart_A_Tact
Lagwagon Alien 8
Lagwagon Automatic
Lagwagon Heartbreaking Music
Lagwagon Leave The Light On
Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards S.P.D.
LAST STAND ANY BATTLE WON
Love Equals Death Bombs Over Brooklyn
Love Equals Death Pray For Me
Manikin Stand Still
Millencolin Kemp
Minor Threat I Don't Wanna Hear It
Minor Threat Straight Edge
Minutemen Shit From An Old Notebook
Minutemen This Ain't No Picnic
Mudhoney Fix Me
New Mexican Disaster Squad Tightrope
No Use for a Name 3 Month Weekend
No Use for a Name Invincible
No Use for a Name No Use For A Name – Angela
No Use for a Name Noitall
No Use for a Name Permanent Rust
No Use for a Name Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?
NOFX 100 Times Fuckeder
NOFX American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters)
NOFX Hobophobic (Scared Of Bums)
NOFX Olympia, WA
NOFX Perfect Government
NOFX The Irrationality of Rationality
One Man Army and the Undead Quartet It's Empty
Only Crime Tenebrae
Operation Ivy Caution
Pennywise Disconnect
Pennywise Homesick
Pennywise My Own Country
Pennywise Time To Burn
Pennywise Wouldn't It Be Nice
Pennywise WTO
Pulley Fuel
Rancid Antennas
Rancid David Courtney
Rancid Indestructible
Rancid Out of Control
Refused Bullet (Misfits Cover)
Reverend Horton Heat Go With Your Friends
Reverend Horton Heat Reverend Horton Heat's Big Blue Car
Reverend Horton Heat Suicide Doors
Rise Against Black Masks and Gasoline
Rise Against Dead Ringer
Rise Against Ready To Fall
Sainte Catherines Ring Of Fire = 4 Points
Screeching Weasel Degenerate
Screeching Weasel I Wrote Holden Caulfield
Screeching Weasel Nobody Likes You
Selby Tigers Dolph Indicator
Selby Tigers Droid
Sewing With Nancie Sorry in Advance
Sick of It All Borstal Breakout
Smoking Popes Before I'm Gone
Smut Peddlers Rebatron Party
Snapout (aka Fastpace) Hope
Soapbox Revolt Stand Tall Stand Proud
Social Distortion Ball and Chain
Social Distortion Ring Of Fire
Social Distortion Story Of My Life
Sound of a revolution Come on let's go
Spoiled Rotten #2 Media Frenzy
Stiff Little Fingers Guitar & Drum
Strike Anywhere Prisoner Echoes
Strike Anywhere The Promise
Strung Out Bring Out Your Dead
Strung Out Calling
Strung Out Jackie-O
Strung Out Party In The Hills
Subhumans Religious Wars
Sublime We're Only Gonna Die For Out Arrogance
Suburban Armchair Paranoia Clear Channel
Supersuckers Pretty Fucked Up
Swingin' Utters Jackie Jab
Swingin' Utters Swingin Utters – Derailer
Swingin' Utters Swingin Utters – No Pariah
Swingin' Utters Tell Me Lies
T.S.O.L. Abolish Government/Silent Majority
T.S.O.L. Sedatives
Take Warning Fallen Angels
Texas Is the Reason Back And To The Left
The Boils Bullies
The Bouncing Souls Sing Along Forever
The Bouncing Souls The Ballad Of Johnny X
The Bouncing Souls The Gold Song
The Bouncing Souls True Believers
The Briggs Media Control
The Clash Safe European Home
The Cremators The best is yet to come
The Diffs Master Plan
The Distillers Idoless
The Distillers Sing Sing Death House
The English Work Standard Crickets
The Explosion The Explosion – Deliver Us
The Falcon The La-Z-Boy 500
The Flatliners July! August! Reno!
the grays ct folsom & 23
The Hives Die, All Right!
The Hollow Points My Misfortune
The Lawrence Arms Beyond The Embarassing Style
The Loved Ones Jane
The Loved Ones Suture Self
The Lower Class Brats Go Insane
The Mad Caddies All American Badass
The Mad Caddies Contraband
The Needles Captain America
The New Bomb Turks 01 Born Toulouse-Lautrec
The Nobodys Joe's Sister
The Replacements I'm In Trouble
The Replacements Stuck in the Middle
The Riot Before Fifteen Minute Revolution
The Saints (I'm) Stranded
The Stitches Cars Of Today
The Suicide Machines Pins and Needles
The Unseen Scream Out
The Used 801 Underground
The Vandals Go
The Vandals I'm The Boss Of Me
This Is My Fist Story of Reconversion
This Ship Will Burn Epic pt 1 – Rise of An Empire
Tiger Army Annabel Lee
Time Again Cold Concrete
Towers Of London Air Guitar
Trial by Fire To Whom It May Redeem
UK Subs Emotional Blackmail
Uncle Tupelo D. Boon
Uncle Tupelo Punch Drunk
Void Who Are You
Whiskey Rebels Roll The Dice
Youth Brigade Live Life
   

GR2 Playlist Update!

I updated the station today with 27 new songs and improved copies of three songs already up and playing.  If you look under "Featured Content" to the right side of the front page, you can see the play list in it's entirety.  Or you can click here .  I'll make an effort to keep it up-to-date.

 

Happy Holidays 

Every Time You Vote against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf

Every Time You Vote against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf

This article on the issue of Net Neutrality takes a different perspective than most that I have seen in that it looks at what the potential impacts to online gaming.  The author contends that of all the impacted aspects of internet use, online gaming will be the worst.  

What will be murdered with no fallback or replacement is the nascent market of interactive entertainment – particularly online gaming. Companies like Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Sony Online Entertainment, and countless others, have built a business on the fundamental assumption of relatively low latency bandwidth being available to large numbers of consumers. Furthermore, a large — even overwhelming — portion of the value of these offerings comes from their “network effects” — the tendency for the game to become more enjoyable and valuable as larger number of players joins the gaming network.

 

With the permanent barriers that the removal of net neutrality will erect for these uses, the worst-case scenario includes three waves of change:

  • One or more mainstream ISPs will introduce excessive lag that will effectively prohibit their users from participating in online games. The move will not be aimed at restricting usage per se, but rather to extract a fee from the game operator. However, as the Cablevision and YES dispute of 2002 showed us4, a fee disagreement between a cable company and content provider can effectively lock out the use of a popular service for over a year;
  • As online gaming guilds, clans, and partners disappear into the rifts created in the Internet fabric, players that derive value from the community of the game rather than the playing experience per se will drop off. This vicious cycle of scarcity of users will lead to diminished enjoyment for existing users which will lead to still fewer users, until more games follow Asheron’s Call to oblivion5;
  • Hardcore users will write strongly worded messages to their ISPs, who will classify them as unreasonable malcontents using more than their share of bandwidth.

 I encourage all gamers to read this article in full and make sure you contact your congressional representatives when they meet beginning in February.  Those that would favor allowing ISPs to establish different "classes" of internet users will be sure to have new legislation introduced that threatens net neutrality.  Last session congress received over 800,000 signatures supporting net neutrality but that level of effort will be needed again this time as well.

Battlefield 2142 1.05 Patch Released

EA has released the 1.05 patch for Battlefield 2142.  This patch addresses a number of issues including problems with players using game exploits to boost scores:

 

Today we release the 1.05 update for Battlefield 2142. As previously communicated this update will among other things make the experience better when playing Titan mode. It will also solve the transport exploit that some players have taken advantage of. Overall the update includes over 25 fixes. The fix list can be found at the end of the update.

Rest assured that we will continue to take action against players using exploits to boost their scores. We will also soon begin to ban accounts completely from online play. While we would prefer to not have to take this step we recognize it is necessary to ensure that players who use exploits and hacks in Battlefield 2142 are not allowed to continue ruining the play experience for others. As always, we are carefully monitoring how the game is being played to be able to prevent any exploits that are found. 

Download mirrors can be found at the EA link above. 

Here's the change list:

Fix List

  • Fixed Ground Defense kills to properly count towards the Ground Base Defense Ribbon
  • Fixed an exploit with using the Air Transport to gain points at an unnatural rate
  • Fixed a issue that caused scores and ranks to be improperly displayed in the front end
  • The Silver Titan Destruction Badge will now be properly awarded when the core is destroyed
  • The PAC Duty Ribbon will no longer be awarded randomly when a player enters a server
  • Single player End of Round screen will now display round stats properly
  • Enemy Squad Leader Spawn Beacon is now visible on the 3d-map
  • Crouch may now be bound to the same key for both common use and land vehicles (Battlewalkers)
  • Fixed an issue which allowed the Titan guns to be re-supplied for points
  • Players may no longer repeatedly spam a squad leader with requests to join a locked squad
  • Accept and Reject prompts will no longer be displayed in the debug console
  • Titan Survival pin will now be correctly rewarded to players who safely escape a titan after the core is destroyed
  • Fixed the issue that prevented players from reviving team mates in a moving Titan
  • Fixed an exploit that allows players to use tanks to enter building geometry
  • Players may now play single player offline mode when EA master servers are down
  • Fixed issues with Battle Recorder Playback and Camera control
  • Fixed the issue that caused missile silos to appear in the wrong locations on players’ HUDs.
  • Fixed the issue that caused the Squad Leader Spawn Beacon to not be usable after map and round rotations.
  • Added the proper game information to the Swedish install for when a mutiny occurs against the commander
  • 2142 will no longer show up as Battlefield 2 in the Windows Firewall Exception List
  • Altered some player collision inside the Titan. This should improve many of the Player / Titan interactions
  • Adjusted the Deviation per bullet on the Assault Rifles. This will allow the AR weapons to be more effective in medium to short range fire fights.
  • Titans will stop moving once the Titan shield go down
  • Battlefield 2142 will now close after a player selects “OK” in the patch prompt.
  • Added additional support during map load to prevent EA Master Server disconnects during map load times
  • Client Version is now displayed at the Login Screen