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.
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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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AUGUST 3, 2026
A Boston garage
punk legend has left the house—Jeff “Monoman” Conolly of DMZ and Lyres. I didn’t
know him and quite a few of the tributes said he could be complex or difficult
but others said that he also had a kind nature. I imagine the truth encompasses
all of that and the music he made with his bands over nearly five decades
certainly left a mark. DMZ were one of the first local punk bands I ever heard,
on the “Live At The Rat” album, although I didn’t get around to seeing them
live until 2008. It was worth the wait though.
Sorry this
one is a bit late… been a hectic couple of days in “real life.” Everything’s
OK, though.
To listen or download, click on the link below…
PART
1
DMZ-Boy
From Nowhere (from “Live At The Rat,” Rat) in memory of Jeff “Monoman”
Conolly
DMZ-Mighty
Idy (Crypt)
DMZ-Don’t
Jump Me Mother (Sire)
DMZ-Busy
Man (Bomp)
LYRES-High
On Yourself (Ace of Hearts)
LYRES-I
Ain’t Going Nowhere (Taang)
NEON
LIES-Day They Built A Wall (Cosmic Brood)
BZDET-Zlo
(Syf)
THE
FRITZ-Vicious Fix (Drunken Sailor)
LOTHARIO-The
Animal (self-released)
ART
YARD-The Law (Ride The Snake)
PART
2
WASTE
MANAGEMENT-Solitude (Painkiller)
GAS
RAG-Body Bags (Beach Impediment)
CONQUEST
FOR DEATH-Humans Are Disposable (Wajlemac)
BARRICADED
SUSPECTS-Widow (Closet Landscapes)
PIG
RIDES-Nothing Left (Color and Time Tonight)
INNUENDO-Poison
Pill (Unlawful Assembly/Roachleg)
ELECTRIC
CHAIR-Certain Doom (Iron Lung)
WIPERS-Let
Me Know (Restless)
LAZY
COWGIRLS-Reoccuring Thang (Bomp)
BANGS-Sweet
Revenge (Kill Rock Stars)
MAKERS-Small
Town Depression (Estrus)
DRONGOS
FOR EUROPE-Instigators (Violated)
SEEING
SNAKES-Keep On Running (Till You Burn) (from “A Punk Tribute To UK Subs,”
Violated)
RHDP-Diskarga
(Beach Impediment)
BLANKS
77-I Wanna Be A Punk (Radical)
PART
3
SUITOR-Model
Actress (Feel It)
CLIFF
AND IVY-Black Pyramid (House Of Extreme Darkness)
HOME
FRONT-For All The Children (Fuck All) (La Vida Es Un Mus)
PARANOIAC-Morbid
Psycho (Toxic State)
KINETIC
ORBITAL STRIKE-Hopeless World (self-released)
IMPALERS-Nazi
Burning Man (540)
KRIEGSHOG-P.S.M.
(La Vida Es Un Mus)
NISEMONO-Hidoi
Omoide (Toxic State)
DISKELMA-Sick
World (Kämset Levyt)
VILLAGE
PEOPLE-Food Fight (RCA)
ADAM
& THE ANTS-Fall-In (CBS)
BOW
WOW WOW-C30 C60 C90, Go (EMI)
PSYCHEDELIC
FURS-So Run Down (Columbia)
PART
4
LYMES-Like
Nuts (Weather Vane)
HOTMOM-Mansplaining
(demo)
VIOLENCE
CREEPS-I Hate Strangers (Digital Regress)
DICK
MOVE-Nurses (1:12)
NICFIT-Boundary
(Upset! The Rhythm)
VANILLA
POPPERS-Hard Work (Lumpy)
OUTCASTS-Magnum
Force (GBH)
LEPER-Visiting
Grandmother (demo)
COLORS
OUT OF TIME-Rock Section (Monsters In Orbit)
CRAMPS-The
Crusher (IRS)
MOOD
OF DEFIANCE-Drug Addicts (Water Under The Bridge)
MODERN
LOVERS-Roadrunner (Beserkley)