The Many Flavors of: Butthole Surfers – Cream Corn EP
Its been a little while since I did one of these and I apologize. Not working has kept me somewhat busy, too bad most of what has kept me preoccupied isn’t paying the bills. I wish I could say I was off galavanting around the globe, tracking down more records for the vault and to [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Defoliants]
The Defoliants – Hang Ten 7″ (1987 Pravda Records) I remember seeing The Defoliants name on plenty of flyers around the city, they would be one of the opening bands for various shows in town. I finally got to see them when they opened up for Naked Raygun sometime around 1987. I forget where, but [...]
A little sneak preview
In an effort to use up the sleeves I have left, I am pressing 100 copies of the Government Issue – GI’s First Demo 7″ on green vinyl. I sent off the order today and they should be here and ready to go in probably 3 weeks. I’ll have the ordering info when they are [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Negative Element]
Negative Element – Yes We Have No Bananas 7″ (1983 Version Sound) Note: I know what you are thinking, “Wait a minute, this is a rerun!” Well, it is really more of an update as I am appending this original post with new material and changing the date on it to be current. Since this [...]
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation, The First London Invasion DVD
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation. The First London Invasion 1987 – DVD Music Video Distributors Many of you may not know this but I am a fan of a good handful of early rap music. Around 1987 when all these youth crew bands were turning punk fans into the jocks the rebelled against years [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Execute]
The Execute – Criminal Flowers 7″ (1984 Hit Parade Records) I’m kind of breaking tradition here as I am not covering a band from North America, which is the main scope of my record collecting/punk rock love. This time we are going to the other side of the globe, to a place where giant monsters [...]
Goodbye to The Riddler
Frank Gorshin passed away yesterday at the age of 72. Most of you will likely know him as The Riddler in the old Batman TV series. He also played a character who was half black and half white in an episode of the original Star Trek series, was in an episode of Buck Rogers, and [...]
Mr. Potato Head goes to Texas
Well, at least I think he did. The envelope that these 3 photos came in was postmarked from Austin, TX. This was the only packet to come from that place. Having never been there myself, I couldn’t tell you where these places are but here you go. So what these places are is really as [...]
Still no luck
Still no luck so far on the job hunt. In the meantime I have been catching up on stuff around the Manor and just started another project for Mystic Records that I should probably finish by the weekend seeing as I have so much time on my hands. That money will be a little help [...]
No more notifications
Just so you don’t think I vanished, I am shutting off the email notifications for this site for when its updated. In checking the logs just now, I noticed a flood of bogus email subscriptions. The lowlife spammer fucks are up to something and I’m not sure what, but whatever those shitheaps are doing, I’m [...]
Iggy Pop – Live San Fran 1981 DVD
Iggy Pop – Live San Fran 1981 DVD Music Video Distributors Ah yes, yet another Target Video release from the archives has been reissued in digital glory. I’m really glad to see them continue to re-release this old stuff as all of it certainly deserves to be preserved and this is no exception. On November [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Sorex]
Sorex – Portrait of a Prisoner 7″ (1985 Rectal Tract Records) This is a unique story as I had never heard of the band Sorex before until late last year when a regular reader of this site would comment from time to time and occasionally mention his band having played with some of the bands [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Salvation Army]
Salvation Army – Mind Garden 7″ (1981 New Alliance Records) This record is another example of a record I bought not because I had read a review or heard the music before, but for the simple reason that it was on New Alliance Records. I have said this before but often times I would buy [...]
The Effigies – 5/6/05 at Abbey Pub
Last nite, thanks to the generosity of Jeff for hooking me up with a ticket, I went to see The Effigies play at Abbey Pub. Eske and No Slogan opened the show and both were fairly standard hardcore bands. They were alright, nothing great and nothing bad and played pretty short sets. Klown #2 also [...]
What day is it again?!
It is amazing how quickly I have fallen into the trap of not even knowing what day it is since I am not working. No luck on the job hunt so far, and it is frustrating and scary all at the same time. I need a damn job and I need income. I don’t go [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Tooth and Nail]
Various Artists – Tooth and Nail LP (1979 Upsetter Records) In the mid to late 70s, punk rock was exploding in California, especially in Southern California. A young punk rocker by the name of Chris D. was playing in a band called The Flesheaters and he put out a couple of their records on the [...]
The many flavors of: Meat Puppets – In a Car 7″
The first release by the Meat Puppets is nearly tied for my favorite record of theirs with their first album. It is quite a contrast listening to this record and then listening to anything that followed the first album because in most cases you’d be amazed that it was the same band. This single has [...]
