The Punk Vault
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Archive - July 2005

Curl Up And Die
7/28/05 in DeKalb, IL

Last nite, youngdave and I made the trek out to DeKalb, IL to see Curl Up and Die play. It was a band we had been waiting two years to see again. Young came out from the city and we met up and my place and hit the road...

MXV
July 29, 2005

More Frontier colored vinyl

Lisa Fancher, owner of Frontier Records, sent me a little care package in the mail. In it was the latest 3 colored vinyl reissues of some of the classic punk albums on the label. Not only do they come on sweet colors...

MXV
July 26, 2005

A new address and a new system

Note: the URL now for The Punk Vault is simply . Please update your bookmarks and links if you’d be so kind. Under the suggestion by my good friend Thor, I made the switch from Movable Type to WordPress. It was...

MXV
July 24, 2005

R.I.P. Lord Alfred Hayes

Wow, this week isn’t a very good one. First we lose Scotty, and now Lord Alfred Hayes! Koga just IM’d me to let me know and pointed me to this link. I never got to see Lord Alfred wrestle as far as I can...

MXV
July 21, 2005

Goodbye Scotty

Actor James Doohan, most famous for his role as Scotty on Star Trek, passed away. I used to watch the show when I was a little kid and saw all the movies. More recently, while still gainfully employed, I picked up the...

MXV
July 20, 2005

Selections from The Punk Vault [United Mutation]

United Mutation – Fugitive Family 7″ (1983 D.S.I./Dischord Records) United Mutation was a band I hadn’t heard of until their label, D.S.I., sent me one of their 7″s in the mail to review in...

MXV
July 19, 2005