Selections from The Punk Vault [Geza X]
Geza X – We Need More Power 7″ (1981 Alternative Tentacles Records) Like a lot of tales, this one for me started with a compilation. It was the compilation called Let Them Eat Jellybeans on Alternative Tentacles Records (which for some reason remains out of print and never was reissued on CD) where I’d first [...]
Mother Nature strikes again
We got dumped on with snow today. I think they are saying the total accumulation is 12″. It really started last nite and just kept on going, seldom stopping. After spending 15 minutes cleaning off my car, it took me forever to get home from work because the roads were still really bad. My reward [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Reagan Youth]
Reagan Youth – Youth Anthems for a New Order 12″ EP (1984 Freeway Enterprises) Along with a ton of other bands, my first exposure to Reagan Youth was on the mighty P.E.A.C.E. compilation. I bought that comp because it had a bunch of bands I had only heard the names of at the time and [...]
The year gets off to a shaky start
Well, I finished off 2004 and started this new year sick. I seem to have caught a bad cold either from someone at work, or when I was on that damn overcrowded plane on the trip home last week. It really hit hard thursday nite, and on New Years Eve, which I had to go [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Blatant Dissent]
Blatant Dissent – Is There a Fear 7″ (1985 Landmind Records) My first exposure to Blatant Dissent was when my friends who did Landmind Records (this is when we were all in high school) put out their 7″ and they gave me a copy. I took it home and played it to death, I loved [...]
