NEWSLETTER 001
05/17/21 - SCOTT VOGEL
Welcome to the inaugural installment of the Scheme newsletter. With both of us sick of our unpaid internships with the Daze Media Conglomerate, we decided to take our skills elsewhere and join forces to start the next premiere hardcore label that releases three or four records and fizzles out when we get bored or start smoking cigs in our thirties.
This newsletter will be an extension of the label and will contain crucial content such as label updates, recommended media consumption, articles, interviews, jokes and more.
The first release of the label will be Connecticut’s ALMIGHTY WATCHING’s debut 7” EP Doubtless due later this Summer/Fall. Songs will be finished recording this month - think the weirdness of Burn but a little more thugged out (read: DISMAY) to appeal to the modern coremans’ ears. AW will be appearing on both of the two premiere hardcore compilations slated for this summer, Triple B’s America’s Hardcore Vol. 5 and From Within’s One Scene Unity Vol. 2. We will be dropping a promo tape for the band to roll out alongside these comps to give a taste of what’s to come.
There are additional releases in the pipeline as well. If you’re a homie and haven’t already, send us demos of your new shit and let’s chat.
Continue below for some suggested listening, crucial viewings and five people who snubbed Scott Vogel.
- Kyle and Albin
KYLE’s PLAYLIST:
END OF ONE - The Chance live set 1999 (available soon from S.O.H. and YouTube)
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Deliverance
THE POST AMERICA PODCAST w/ RICHIE KRUTCH
BLOOD RED - Hostage
KNIFE FIGHT - All Of It
ALBIN’s PLAYLIST:
INTERNAL BLEEDING - Onward To Mecca
SAMIAM - Astray
MENTAL - Planet Mental
PILLARS OF IVORY - Leviticus
FORCED REALITY - Forced Reality
TURNED OUT A PUNK - Recent episode with Steveo (Who woulda thought that Steveo had GUT INSTINCT on his iPod?)
Listen to these songs and others here:
MIKE HOOD/VINNIE STIGMA PIGEONS FUCKING
It’s a twenty three second long video of Mikey Hood and Vinnie Stigma watching / narrating two pigeons having sex in Poland. This is the type of content that YouTube exists for.
No Warning - live at Posi Fest 03, Wilkes Barre, PA 07/2003
For their time and place (I’m talking 7” / Ill Blood) in hardcore you really can’t do any better short of DEATH THREAT. I say this as someone who never attended because I was like 13 years old but Posi #s was probably the fest that best captured what the totally self aware era of hardcore of the 2000’s was. People KNEW what was cool and strived to do it, sure you can find plenty of uncool shit all over the place but NO WARNING isn’t that. You had hard songs being played by kids who look like you and me, that were scientifically formulated to make you mosh. This video has got wild dives, hard dancin’, a fight and yes...quotes from the then still fresh in the theatre smash hit AUSTIN POWERS: GOLDMEMBER. Some choice audio cuts from the vid:
“Who the fuck are you Mothafucka???” - Guy who starts the fight
Incessant taunting of the guy who got fought: “Yoooo Goldilocks!!”
“This is for you Wilkes-Barre” - in a Mean Steve voice
“I loveeeee gold” - People with good taste
THIS WAS HARDCORE BEFORE YOUTUBE #8 Madball live 1997
MADBALL stock might be down at the moment but they’re forever going to be a blue chip hardcore band. Akin to the Jordan jersey that Freddy is wearing - you can include this footage into MADBALLs equivalent of the Last Dance that should exist, as this is arguably the best era of the band. It has everything you’d want in a MADBALL video: Setlist spanning everything up to Demonstrating My Style, AF songs, dope video angle, dope mosh, Henderson style, a perfectly NYHC video title and to top it off - mid set, Freddy introduces a band he likes very much, KICKBACK, and they play a song for these lovely Europeans. A masterclass in hardcore.
THE BIG TIME or “When trying to make friends goes wrong…”
by Scott Vogel
We asked Vogel to tell us about the first time he saw STIGMATA (or just anything funny or dope) and we got funny AND dope back instead. All this shit happened a long time ago, so don’t get mad at the guy from NO FOR AN ANSWER for not being a social butterfly 25 years ago, these are just some funny situations that everyone can laugh at in retrospect.
1. DJ Premier (GANG STARR): I tried to jock him backstage at some outdoor festival and he wasn’t having it. Walked off with two ladies, one under each arm.
2. Hoya Roc (MADBALL, DMIZE): Smuggled MADBALL merch over the Canadian border in like ‘95 as a favor to EVR. Instead of thanking me he said “put it over there“ and went on with his day.
3. Mike Score (ALL OUT WAR): Tried to introduce myself after the ALL OUT WAR set at a Chicago fest. He didn’t have time for me. To be fair the cops were shutting the show down right then, but it’s still funny!
4. Dan O'Mahony (NO FOR AN ANSWER, 411): He was playing with 411 at Krazy Fest. I wanted to talk about A Thought Crusade. Zero interest in the conversation.
5. Defari: Fat Beats in store. Would not take a photo with me or acknowledge me despite asking three times. Bummer. Focused Daily is a classic.