Einsturzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch DVD
Einsturzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch DVD Music Video Distributors There has never been a band like Einsturzende Neubauten before, and there will never be one like them in the future. They are perhaps the most unique band ever to exist and they were one of the main pioneers in the genre of music that became [...]
Goodbye Chris Candido
Pro wrestling has lost another talent this week. Chris Candido passed away this week due to a blood clot that was a result of leg surgery he underwent on Monday. I first saw Chris wrestle as part of the tag-team, The Body Donnas in the (then) WWF. I also remember watching him wrestle in ECW. [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Painted Willie]
Painted Willie – 7″ (1984 Spinhead Records) Painted Willie was a band whose records I would see around all the time at places like Wax Trax, but always put off buying. I always vowed to get around to picking them up and checking them out someday but something always happened that prevented me from doing [...]
Well this just blows
I lost my job today. I was laid off. Well, not just me, all of us were really. I’m fucked because I don’t know what I am going to do. My options for what I did for a living (assistant video game designer) are pretty limited in Chicago. I’m still in shock and it is [...]
The many flavors of: Articles of Faith – What We Want is Free 7″
Chicago has been known to produce some fine punk rock bands, even if they may have not received as much attention as bands from California or New York. One of the best bands Chicago ever gave birth to was Articles of Faith. In their career they left us a pair of 7″s and a pair [...]
Government Issue – Live 1985 DVD
Government Issue – Live 1985 DVD Music Video Distributors I think anyone who knows even only a little about me knows what a huge Government Issue fan I am. I put out one of their records even! I am also a huge fan of Flipside fanzine, and all things associated with it, including their videos, [...]
When will it end?!
I just saw a commercial for the movie House of Wax. They remade yet another movie from the past. Is Hollywood really that hard up that they can’t come up with new movies and instead have to remake films from the past that not only in most cases were very good, but had nothing wrong [...]
Mr. Potato Head goes to the big easy Part 3
A couple days after the envelope with the previous entry’s pictures arrived, another one showed up in the mailbox and would be the last document of the little spud’s travels to the city that probably has more drunks per square foot than any other. Well at least at Mardi gras it does.
Selections from The Punk Vault [Husker Du]
Husker Du – Eight Miles High 7″ (1984 SST Records) It is probably a pretty safe bet that if you are a fan of punk rock from the 1980s, then you probably have at least heard of Husker Du. My first exposure to the band came via a radio show a couple of not-yet-friends of [...]
Game On
Close to two weeks ago, I took the day off and Lady Combustion and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago to see the Game On Exhibit. It is a limited exhibit that documents the history of video games. I, having been a fan of video games literally since their [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [That was Then, This is Now]
Various Artists – That was Then, This is Now 7″ (1986 Plus Records) This one flew under my radar when it was first released and I didn’t acquire one for about 2 years or so after it was released, when my friend Vince traded me his copy. While he liked Ruin, he hated the FOD [...]
Smackdown Chicago taping 4/12/05
Last nite I went with a few friends to see WWE Smackdown at Allstate Arena. It was the taping for what will be tomorrow’s show. It was a really fun show and I think one of the best Smackdown’s they’ve had in awhile. We were sitting on the main floor in the 10th row, behind [...]
Some bad record luck
Last week was a bad luck week for records in my life. The first one was I ordered a record from this place in Spain. It was supposed to be the Black Flag Jealous Again 10″ on red vinyl. I even emailed the place selling it to make sure it was red and was told [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Cyanamid]
Cyanamid – Stop the World, I Want to Get Off 7″ (1984 Mutha Records) This band is somewhat of a mystery to me. I first heard them on the New Jersey’s Got It? Compilation on the long-defunct Buy Our Records. It was a lot of years before I ever ran into a copy of their [...]
The many flavors of: Husker Du – Land Speed Record
While I love all their records, especially Zen Arcade, I’m particularly fond of this album for the fact it was the first Husker Du album I bought when I was in high school. The first thing I ever heard from them was their cover of “Eight Miles High” on Kathy and Shrub’s radio show on [...]
Anyone out there know a lot about good cartridges for turntables?
I’m due for either a new stylus for my turntable, or even perhaps a new cartridge. Currently I have a Technics 1200 turntable and I’m using a Ortofon Super OM20 cartridge/stylus. I would like to upgrade the stylus and/or cartridge for an even better sound. Should I just get the Super OM 30 or 40 [...]
How about some Gmail?
I still have like 11 million Gmail invites left to give away. So if anyone wants one, let me know. They have now upped it to 2GB of storage, and it keeps growing.
Selections from The Punk Vault [F]
F- Mess You Up 7″ (1988 Mystic/Superseven Records) I first heard about the band F on the Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume 1 compilation and was interested enough to check them out. Problem was finding any of their records, which at the time was limited to the You are an EP 12″. They appeared on a [...]
Mr. Potato Head goes to the Big Easy part 2
A few days or so after the first mysterious envelope arrived, a second one came, postmarked from the same place. This one contained 3 more pictures documenting the spud’s exploits in the city where you can barter beads for boobs. It appears the little guy and I have a lot in common as we are [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Misfits]
The Misfits – Cough/Cool 7″ (1977 Blank Records) If there is one band that probably doesn’t need an introduction it is The Misfits. Over the years they garnered quite a following, in no small part thanks to Metallica always wearing their shirts and talking about them in interviews as well as covering one of their [...]
The many flavors of: Jawbreaker – Unfun LP
This is easily one of my favorite records in the later days of punk, not to mention one of my most favorite “newer” bands. Yeah, they broke up like a decade ago, but compared to most of the stuff I’m into, Jawbreaker is a lot newer than most of the scope of my punk collecting/upbringing. [...]
I’m cashing out!
The Punk Vault is now for sale. Look for the shilling on ebay to begin shortly. I’m tired of assholes with trust funds cheating me out of my punk rock time after time. I don’t make enough money to keep up with such humps as scott666 on ebay so fuck it, they can have it [...]
