{"id":1441,"date":"2012-06-29T01:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T06:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:57:38","slug":"madhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Madhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 2px 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/Madhouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Madhouse<\/em> EP, 1985<br \/>\nFountain of Youth Records<\/p>\n<p>Picked up this gem solely based on the label and was pleasantly surprised to find a <strong>Siouxsie &amp; The Banshees<\/strong>-influenced take on early Revolution Summer-style DC postpunk. While the cover art looks totally aggro and the Fountain of Youth label was best known for releasing a slew of\u00a0<strong>Government Issue<\/strong> records, this anomaly takes a chilly, almost gothic path into female-male harmonizing, sounding like <strong>X<\/strong> if they were from suburban DC instead of LA. Lead singer Monica Richards was a staple of the early DC hardcore scene as a member of <strong>Hate from Ignorance<\/strong> and was part of the first wave of HC kids disenfranchised by the codification of hardcore, spurring the Revolution Summer of 1985. Madhouse could be considered part of this Revolution, ushering in the\u00a0bouncing, melodic mid-tempo sound popularized by groups like <strong>Soulside<\/strong>,<strong> Ignition, Rites of Spring<\/strong> and <strong>Embrace.<\/strong> Check out this solid EP (and their sole 7&#8243;) they released before fading into obscurity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/Madhouse.zip\">Madhouse &#8211; <em>Madhouse<\/em> EP<\/a> (31.5mb ZIP file)<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Madhouse-Mecca\/release\/1369717\">Madhouse&#8217;s <em>Mecca<\/em> 7&#8243;\u00a0on Discogs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhouse EP, 1985 Fountain of Youth Records Picked up this gem solely based on the label and was pleasantly surprised to find a Siouxsie &amp; The Banshees-influenced take on early Revolution Summer-style DC postpunk. While the cover art looks totally aggro and the Fountain of Youth label was best known for releasing a slew of\u00a0Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}