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15/06/2026

Pre-order for Exclaim LP, 7”, and CD, and THE MARGAReTS LP and CD, an official T-Shirts for both bands are live in the webstore. These are both dream come true reissues of some of the most cult Japanese punk most people have yet to hear. Both albums are available to sample on streaming and bandcamp. Pre-orders for the T-Shirts will run through Sunday June 28th.

I am taking a much needed hiatus until July, all webstore orders and preorders will resume shipping then with pre-order T-Shirts shipping a little later around the second week of July.

09/06/2026

Jawbreaker: A documentary about Anti Cimex – the band that defined Scandinavian hardcore punk. Directed by Tomas Haglund and Oskar Sjödin, Jawbreaker spans four decades of music, chaos and retold myths. Tomas Jonsson’s iconic voice, the band’s political charge and raw dynamics form the backdrop to the story of how Anti Cimex shaped both a sound and a subculture. Through international filmmakers, archive material and newly recorded fragments, Jawbreaker takes us from Skaraborg to Kuantan in Malaysia, from DIY scenes to the Swedish Music Hall of Fame. It is a film about creative friction, a band that refused to follow the rules, and about the resonance their music has in a contemporary world that is disturbingly reminiscent of the gloom of the 1980s.

Tickets are now on sale through the PhilaMOCA website or link in General Speech bio.

08/06/2026

Punk unity on the east coast brings you 3 very special screenings of “Jawbreaker”, the highly anticipated documentary by Tomas Haglund and Oskar Sjödin about legendary Swedish hardcore punks ANTI CIMEX. The film will be shown in its original Swedish/English language with English subtitles.

Friday July 24th - at Philamoca, Philadelphia, PA
Friday August 7th - at Studio Two Three, Richmond, VA
Tuesday October 6th - at Nighthawk Cinema, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY (In Person Q&A with Charlie from Anti Cimex)

Officially licensed merch, including a new 4 color T-Shirt design, (and vinyl records) will be available at all 3 screenings courtesy of General Speech.

01/06/2026

EXCLAIM - Akita City, Japan. In 1985, Dogma Records, home to G.I.S.M., The Comes, The Clay, Swankys, etc., printed an ad for their upcoming releases in Doll Magazine. One of them however, a band called EXCLAIM never ended up being released. Operating in Akita city, located in the far north of Japan’s big island, EXCLAIM played political hardcore punk influenced by bands like Discharge, Crucifix and Crass, through a uniquely Japanese filter. The result is some of my favorite under the radar Japanese hardcore of all time, and has been on the label bucket list since I started. Their sole appearance on record was a single lo-fi live audio track on Gauze’s “Shodoku Gig” LP from 1987, but the band had already gone into the studio 3 times from 1985-1986 and tracked close to 20 incredible songs, that by some unfortunate turn of events never saw release. The resulting recordings are the kind of metallic ‘80s style Japanese hardcore perfection that people dream of, which bookend perfectly next to bands like G.I.S.M., Zouo, and Gastunk. These recordings will finally see a release over 40 years later in late June in the form of separate 7” and LP releases on General Speech, as well as a CD version containing both the 7” and LP. For those who have been lucky enough to come across some of these recordings in the tape trading era, this reissue is high on people’s wish list of reissues, and if you are still unaware of EXCLAIM, and have a penchant for dark ‘80s Japanese hardcore, this may be your new favorite band.

29/05/2026

The MARGAReTS - Chiba City, Japan. In 1989 the flagship Kyushu punk bands like The Swankys had broken up, and a new wave was forming in their wake. Chiba City, and The MARGAReTS were about to deliver pound for pound with the originators in the post-Swankys era of fuzzy Japanese punk rock, building a scene of incredible and underrated bands in a similar style of raw 70s influenced punk like their close compatriots in Tokyo, The Registrators, but as with Kyushu Punk, Chiba City wasn’t about to forget the fuzz of Disorder, and Chaotic Dischord. The MARGAReTS were undoubtedly the torchbearers of this scene. Their “Hi-Tech Dinner” gigs, aesthetic, ‘70s influenced punk fashion, and signature sound acted as a center point that would influence and build up the Chiba Punk scene, which birthed bands like The C&C, Screaming Noise, Dust Noise, and dozens more. They gigged regularly, gaining a cult status, and recorded several times, but somehow never managed to release a record.

The first time I ever heard the Margarets some years ago I thought to myself, “How is this band so unknown overseas, instead of painted on the back of every jacket by anyone who ever loved a noisepunk record?” In late June, General Speech will release the career spanning album “Hi-Tech Dinner” which has been specifically remastered for vinyl. In addition, a digitally mastered CD will be released containing nearly their entire discography. I encourage you to starting painting “THE MARGAReTS” on the back of your jacket now if you want to get ahead of the curve.

15/05/2026

New Tiikeri 7” on General Speech, and Vänsuut 7” on Vox Populi are out today! New in the webstore, Ferocious X tour 7”, 4 new releases from Private Scandal, and some excellent punk zines, plus 100+ new and restocked titles in the distro.

01/04/2026

3 New General Speech releases are available today: A new Indikator B 7” released for their US tour which starts tomorrow in Boston, the D.S.B. - Substitute LP, their mest material never available before on vinyl, and Ignorantes - No Hemos Inventado Nada Ni Nos Interesa Hacerlo LP, the final release in their classic tupa tupa era which was never properly distributed. The Indikator B 7” will have a Euro press next month on and so if you’re in Europe please be patient and support those labels.

26/03/2026

Limited edition badge set for which will be available at their gig this Saturday March 28th with C**k Sparrer, Sheer Terror, and Beton Arme in Brooklyn. I’ll have a very small number of these sets in the webstore for the next update which is Monday March 30th.

18/03/2026

I’ve added the Early Grave “Sewer Baby Eaten By Worms” 7”, one of my favorite current bands from Philly, the debut LP from Sivilisaatio from Finland, a quickly sold out new release I managed to get the last copies of, The new Ydinaseeton Pohjolah LP, also from Finland, an official reissue of the first Laughin Nose 7”, when they still played raw Chaos UK and Disorder style punk, which also come with a deadstock laughin nose sticker as a free bonus! Issue 1 of I’ve Got A Date With The Devil fanzine, a repress of the incredible Tiikeri full length, and a few deadstock items.

09/02/2026

Less than 1 week left to get your preorder in for the forthcoming G.I.S.M. DVD + CD. Preorders will be open until 2/15, and the release / ship date will be mid April.

After 40 years Junji Yasuda’s film masterpiece “Performance” will be available on DVD. This video, features the full live footage from their performance at the punk magazine “POW (PUNK ON WAVE)” launch gig held at Nakano Public Hall. fully remastered video, and remastered audio, which was originally recorded on open reel tapes by Tam from The Stalin. The footage is fused with Vietnam War imagery personally selected by Sakevi. Originally released in 1985 as a highly limited and uniquely packaged video box, stamped with a metal label. The DVD package faithfully reproduces the video package, and this first press edition, will contain one of 4 different 8cm bonus CDs containing unreleased rehearsal and live G.I.S.M. recordings. We cannot guarantee which bonus CD you get, and if you order multiple boxes, we cannot guarantee you will get different bonus CDs.

Limited Bonus CD could include one of the following:
G. 1981/11/28 Nichi University Auditorium Live
I. 1982/2/8 キモノマイハウスライブ
S. 1992/6/4 Rehearsal Studio
M. 1994/5/4 Psychotoronic Driving2 Tune Kawasaki Club Citta

Additionally the iconic 80s G.I.S.M. T-shirt is back in print as a special pre-order to commemorate this DVD release, and is also available on the website.

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