Selections from The Punk Vault [Beaver]
Beaver – 7″ EP (1981 Choice Cuts) Many years ago, my immense love for Government Issue would lead me to discover a little known 7″ that featured Tom Lyle in his pre-GI punk days. I didn’t know a thing about the band. They on the Bouncing Babies compilation, but I didn’t even notice it until [...]
Seeking band members
I am looking for anyone that can put me in touch with anyone who was in the following bands… Corpsicles, No Thanks, Misguided, Armed Citizens, Token Entry, Salvation Army, Meaty Buys, Catatonics, False Prophets, Kids For Cash, The Next. Aside from those, I’m always looking to get stories direct from the source so if anyone [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [White Pigs]
This one is a unique entry as it is featuring two records by the same band, which covers different eras of the band’s existence. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. It all started with a compilation…. While not an overly original way to start one of these features, it is a testament to just [...]
Anyone want some Gmail?
I still have some Gmail invites to give away. If you want one, post a comment here.
Nardcore, such a warm place
In my never ending effort to contact people from punk bands of the past, I figure it was due time to start to prepare some entries for some of the Nardcore bands, such as Dr. Know and Ill Repute. So I went on the nardcore website, which is where these old timers gather. I found [...]
Fuck You Paypal
In an effort to further fist you up the backside in fees like its parent company, ebay, apparently paypal has instituted some sort of receiving limit per month on personal accounts. I am sure this was done to force people to upgrade to the type of account that they get to fuck you on in [...]
Young and the Useless update
A kind reader named Lisa sent me this additional info regarding Young and the Useless. Adam Trese is an actor. He is currently on Broadway as Juror #12 in “Twelve Angry Men”. He has also been on Law & Order (3 times) NYPD Blue, and “Murder She Wrote”. He played the coach of a college [...]
Snow induced hibernation weekend
Well, as everyone probably knows, the bitch known as mother nature layed the smackdown on us by dumping a foot of snow on us again. I drove home from work while it was in its early stages, so only the last half of the drive was crappy. I did not leave the house from then [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Sin 34]
Sin 34 – Die Laughing 7″ (1982 Spinhead Records) You’ll never guess where my first exposure to Sin 34 came from? If you guessed a compilation, you’d be correct. They were one of the bands on what I feel to be one of the greatest hardcore compilations of all time, We Got Power: Party Or [...]
Pelican and Seven Days of Samsara
I just got back a little while ago from seeing Pelican play a show at Bottom Lounge. I went after work and missed the first band and most of the second. The second band was called Envy and they played some emo-ish stuff that wasn’t bad, but seemed a bit on the boring side. Long [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Underground Hits 2]
Various Artists – Underground Hits 2 LP (1983 Aggressive Rock Produktionen) Since so many of my stories start with how I discovered a band through compilations, I figure I should probably start featuring some. In the early to mid 1980s, hardcore punk was on the rise and in some cases the records were selling in [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Bags]
The Bags – Survive 7″ (1978 Dangerhouse Records) When I was a young teenage punk, I had a bias against bands with female vocals. I am not sure why I did, but the fact was that I did. The only band I really liked back then with a female singer was The Avengers. My like [...]
What happened to the Daghouse?
Does anyone know why the Dag Nasty message board has been down so long and why? I am going thru withdrawl not being able to read it and chat with my friends there.
Selections from The Punk Vault [Shattered Faith]
Shattered Faith – I Love America/Reagan Country 7″ (1981 Posh Boy Records) Shattered Faith were a Southern California punk band that started in 1978. It would be 3 years before they put out their first record, which is this single. They had appeared on a few compilations around this time as well. They signed a [...]
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Frontier colored vinyls
Back in the summer, I interviewed Lisa Fancher, owner of Frontier Records, for the Spontaneous Combustion site. We got to talking about records and I suggested to her that when she has to repress some more records that she should do them on colored vinyl. Well, she seemed to take my advice because there is [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Stains/MDC]
The Stains – John Wayne Was a Nazi 7″ (1981 Radical Records) You might be more familiar with them as MDC (an acronym that would constantly change), but they got their start as The Stains. In 1981 Dave Dictor, Al Schvitz, and Ron Posner, all residents of Austin, TX, formed a punk band called The [...]
Thank you Mike G!
Awhile back I did a vault entry on Group of Individuals. Someone posted a comment in there to let me know there was a compilation LP that they were on that I’d never heard of before. A very kind reader emailed me to say he had a copy, and that he would donate it to [...]
Goodbye Mola Ram
Amrish Puri, best known for being Mola Ram in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has passed away. You can read about it here.
Yeah, the records are cool and all but how are YOU doing?
You may have noticed that aside from writing lengthy diatribes about old punk records, I haven’t had much to say about anything else. This isn’t intentional, it’s just that I don’t have a lot to say. Even Lady Combustion says “your blog is boring, all you do is write about records”. When I explain to [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Kraut]
Kraut – Unemployed 7″ (1982 Cabbage Records) In 1981 The Clash played a string of sold out shows in New York City. They were sold out to the point of being way over-sold and to remedy the problem, the band decided to double up the number of shows they would play. This required them to [...]
Is it just me….
Has anyone else noticed their computer getting slower since installing SP2 for Windows XP? Ever since I’ve had it installed, my laptop has become super sluggish. I am running on only 256meg of ram and I just ordered some more ram today for the thing so hopefully that will help me out but I am [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Plugz]
The Plugz – Achin’/La Bamba 7″ (1980 Fatima Records) Aside from being from the first wave of Los Angeles punk, The Plugz also might have the distinction of being the first Latino punk band. They formed in 1978 by Tito Larriva. They put out their first single on Slash Records, which is now considered a [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Fix]
The Fix – Jan’s Room 7″ (1982 Touch and Go Records) The Fix were one of the earliest midwest hardcore bands. They started in 1980 and didn’t waste any time in getting around. In 1981 their friends at Touch and Go Records (then run by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson) put out their first single [...]
