Welcome to the webpage for Sonic Overload. As my regular listeners know by now, I play punk, hardcore, garage and other loud music, although there are surprises from time to time as well as decidedly slanted commentary on the “issues of the day” and that’s also presented through song selections and audio clips.

Recent shows can be streamed or downloaded from the archive at sonicoverload.blogspot.com. And check out the Facebook page.

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Sonic Overload

Al Quint

PO Box 43

Peabody, MA 01960

E-mail: subvox82@gmail.com

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OCTOBER 19, 2026

This continues to be one awful year of suck. Three people from the Boston hardcore punk scene have left us this year—Wayne Maestri and Ian King from The FU’s and now The Freeze’s Clif Hanger, whose real last name was Croce. Clif passed away in his sleep over the weekend. The Freeze have been working on a new album and I believe it’s close to completed, so it will come out. I’d known Clif since the early 80s. We weren’t close friends but were always in touch and he supported my ‘zine since the beginning.

Can this year just be over already?

To listen or download, click on the link below…

Sonic Overload 10/19/26

PART 1

SIEGE-Sad But True (Deep Six)

SCIENCE PROJECT-Might Makes Right (Neck Chop)

WATERMARK 6000-No Friend Of Mine (Prank)

LORETTAS-Fucked Up Things (self-released)

STINKHOLE-Schnuggle (Mangel)

PIOUS FAULTS-Not Me (Feel It)

FLYKILLS-The Lump (demo)

WHITE PIGS-Victims (Swinch Kwilsen)

ICONOCLAST-After The Massacre (self-released)

CONFLICT-Fester (Placebo)

COMES-Baca Moss (Dogma)

COCADICTOS-Carne Para El Exterminio (Bazopfia)

THE STALIN-Reizoku (Political)

BAUS-Modern Man (self-released)

BED MAKER-Two Left Feet (Dischord)

PORNOGRAPHY GLOWS-Pleasures (self-released)

COCHONNE-Asking For A Friend (Sorry State)

FRAU-Nada (Dead Beat)

PART 2

SHELLAC-Crow (Touch and Go)

TOTAL CONTROL-Meds (Aarrght!)

MÜLLTÜTE-Halbschlaf (self-released)

BRORLAB-Pee Is The Solution (La Vida Es Un Mus)

FUGITIVE BUBBLE-No Escape From The Land of the Free (Ragdoll)

SOUP ACTIVISTS-Angelyne (Feel It)

CLASS-Blister Point (Feel It)

RABID DOGS-Hangin’ Around (Aarrght!)

REACHAROUNDS-I Can’t Breathe (Push and Pull)

K.O. QUEEN-Hit Police (demo)

COLD SWEAT-2.5 Cliché (Rock and Roleplay)

BIG STICK-Shoot The President (Recess)

PAIN TEENS-Pleasures of the Flesh (Trance)

ALGEBRA SUICIDE-True Romance At The World’s Fair (Buzzerama)

CATHOLIC SPIT-Inevitable Death (MMM)

PART 3

GIVE UP-Macho (Test Pattern)

SCALLY-Rey Del Cielo (self-released)

E-150-Azul (DIY Product/Don’t Belong)

HERESY-Follow Suit (In Your Face)

CONCRETE SOX-Siberian Or Die (Earache)

GREEN MAGNET SCHOOL-Ellipse (Sub Pop)

CRAIN-King Octane (Automatic)

TAR-Altoids, Anyone? (Touch and Go)

SIX FINGER SATELLITE-Parlor Games (Sub Pop)

HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE-Blow Up (Passport)

STRANGLERS-5 Minutes (IRS)

TSOL-Peace Through Power (Frontier)

LEATHERFACE-Razor Blades and Aspirin (Roughneck)

PART 4—A TRIBUTE TO CLIF HANGER

THE FREEZE-Nazi Fun (Modern Method)

THE FREEZE-No Exposure (Modern Method)

THE FREEZE-Princess Die (Modern Method)

THE FREEZE-Voices In My Head (Modern Method)

THE FREEZE-No One’s Ever Coming Home (from “Flipside Vinyl Fanzine,” Gasatanka)

THE FREEZE-Skate To Hell (Taang)

THE FREEZE-Broken Bones (from “This Is Boston, Not LA,” Modern Method)

THE FREEZE-Time Bomb/This Is Boston, Not LA (from “This Is Boston, Not LA,” Modern Method)

THE FREEZE-Talking Bombs (Taang)

THE FREEZE-Shedding Season (Dr. Strange)

THE FREEZE-Suspended Heaven (Dr. Strange)

THE FREEZE-I Hate Tourists (Rebel)