Part 1, ANASAZI, Pleasure Leftists, Institute

Part1 formed in 1980 and were part of the original London anarcho-punk scene. During the early 1980s they played a number of gigs, often with Rudimentary Peni, who the band became associated with, as well as other acts operating around the London Anarchy Centre funded by Crass' Bloody Revolutions 7". The band's final gig before splitting up was at the 100 club in 1983 with The Subhumans.

In 2013 founding members, guitarist, Mark Ferelli, and singer, Jake Baker, reformed the band with long-time admirer Chris Low (ex-Apostles, Oi Polloi & Political Asylum) on drums; later being joined by David Barnett (ex- Adam & the Ants, Guernica, Lola Colt) on bass. Their first reformation show was at the Rebellion festival that summer – 30 years after their last live performance. Since then Part1 have played a number of gigs to great acclaim and enthusiastic response and will be playing more live shows plus several European punk festivals and events over the coming months.

Part1's original vinyl releases are the 'Funeral Parade' EP, released in a pressing of 500 in October 1982 on the band's own Paraworm label and the posthumous 'Pictures of Pain' LP on Pushead's USA Pusmort label, released in 1985 after the band had split. In recent years both have attained cult status, with copies selling on the collectors market for sums often over £200. As well as an anarcho-punk classic, these records are now regarded as seminal 'Deathrock' releases – largely due to the dark, heavily flanged guitar work, morbid imagery and anti-religious lyrical themes. Indeed, Part1 have been described as "England's Ultimate Cult Deathrock band". Reissues of both 'Funeral Parade' & 'Pictures of Pain' are scheduled for release in late 2014 together with new studio recordings.



Cleveland post-punk quartet Pleasure Leftists borrow more than a few gloomy moves from late 1970s Britain, but they've got the finesse to stake their own ground. Fronted by the grayly expressive Haley Morris, a powerful singer who claims equal influence from Factory Records and 1950s French balladeer Édith Piaf, the band breathes speed and energy into a formula that could otherwise be written off as mere posturing. "Elephant Men" builds its velocity off a hard-driving 2-D drum sound (claiming two former members of brutal Cleveland hardcore act 9 Shocks Terror doesn't hurt) and eschews a deadpan aesthetic for something that sounds desperate and poised. The 7" comes backed by "Not Over", and it's seeing release via the Brooklyn label Katorga Works (home to Merchandise, Wiccans, CREEM).

Institute are of the here and now, though; they hail from Austin, TX, and share members with Wiccans, Glue, Blotter, and Recide. The project began as a set of four-track sketches made by singer Moses Brown, and a full-band demo turned into Institute's six-song, self-titled debut EP, released in February on British Columbia's Deranged Records. The Giddy Boys 7" followed, on Katorga Works. Both of those records laid out the basics of Institute's sound in two and three-minute blasts, tarnished and ragged, with Brown's pained voice—part wail, part sigh, vaguely reminiscent of Darby Crash's wasted whine—as the cherry on the lopsided, fist-mashed cake.