Selections from The Punk Vault [Minutemen]
Minutemen – Spin Radio Show LP (1985 Spin Radio) Having seen that movie the other day, it inspired me to make the Minutemen a feature for one of these. It was something I was going to do anyway, but now it just got bumped to the front of the line while it was fresh on [...]
We Jam Econo
Tonight I went to see the Minutemen documentary, We Jam Econo over at the Gene Siskel Film Center with the Demon (who graciously offered to drive). The place is in the heart of downtown, right near State/Lake streets. I had never been there before, and I’m not sure I had even heard of it until [...]
R.I.P. Piggy
I tell you, the past couple weeks have been cursed with music-related deaths. I am sad to now report that Denis “Piggy” D’Amour from the great Canadian metal band, Voivod, has passed away. Here’s the story that was taken from blabbermouth.net. VOIVOD Guitarist DENIS ‘PIGGY’ D’AMOUR Dead Of Colon Cancer – Aug. 27, 2005 VOIVOD [...]
Devo – Live 1980 DVD
Devo – Live 1980 DVD Music Video Distributors Devo, while enjoying a bit of mainstream success thanks to MTV and their song “Whip It”, were somewhat of an anomaly in the world of punk/new wave. They were certainly unique and were in no way a mainstream type of act at that time, yet they seemed [...]
The many flavors of: Gods Favorite Dog
This record was featured in a recent “Selections from The Punk Vault” and it got me to thinking that there was a few different variations of it. I was missing one of them, which I have since acquired, thus giving me completion for this slab of wax. Yes, I can sleep just a tiny bit [...]
R.I.P. Stevo
I just learned that punk rock has lost yet another member of its extended family. Stevo (real name: Steven R. Jensen), the original singer of The Vandals (who sang on the only Vandals record I like, the classic first album, Peace Thru Vandalism) has passed away. There is a memorial service planned and you can [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Gastunk]
Gastunk – Devil 7″ (1983? Dogma Records) Gastunk is another one on the fairly short list of non-North American punk/hardcore bands I collect. I first heard of them when Pushead put out one of their albums on his long-defunct Pusmort Records. By the time that record came out, the band had already been around a [...]
Sumerslam 2005
Last night I had a bunch of people over to watch the Summerslam PPV. Everyone chipped in for the purchase price and since so many people turned up, it was very cheap for all involved. We grilled up a bunch of food and had a good feast during the show, part of which I missed [...]
The Manson Family – DVD
The Manson Family – 2 Disc Special Edition DVD A film by Jim VanBebber I took an interest in Jim VanBebber a long while back because of the work he had done with Skinny Puppy. I’d soon learn that he wasn’t just a guy who made one of their videos, but he was an underground [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault
[The Freeze]
The Freeze – I Hate Tourists 7″ (1980 Rebel Music) My first introduction to The Freeze came from the Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume 1 compilation LP. Their song, “No One’s Ever Coming Home” was among the many standouts on that record and as always, it was all it took for me to seek out more [...]
Since By Man 8/13/05 at Bottom Lounge
Last night I went to see Since By Man play at the Bottom Lounge. I ended up having to go by myself because no one I knew either could, or wanted to, go with, not even for free! Remind me to kill all of my friends seeing as no one stepped up to the plate [...]
Curl Up And Die
8/11/05 at The House
Last night, youngdave, his friend Vince, and I made the trek again to the toilet known as DeKalb, IL to see the quick return of Curl Up and Die at The House. We were pretty stoked at the opportunity to see them just two weeks after the last time they came to town, especially with [...]
Of thanks and life
Just some various odds and ends. I’d like to thank Thor for once again helping me with something blog related. I couldn’t seem to figure out why the redirect script I installed to get people to the new blog when coming from a search wasn’t working. It took him all of about 5 minutes to [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault
[Serial Killers]
Serial Killers – Roadside Rendezvous LP (1987 Plus Records) I can’t recall how I first came to hear of this band, it was either the fact that someone from Condemned to Death was playing with them and I read about it in MRR, or it was simply the fact that this record was on Plus [...]
Planes Mistaken for Stars
8/6/05 at Bottom Lounge
Last night I went to the Bottom Lounge to see Planes Mistaken for Stars. After a raping at the gas pump at $2.39 a gallon (which one gallon is more than I am making an hour right now seeing as I’m unemployed!) and a real fisting on the trip down in the form of traffic [...]
The many flavors of:
Adrenalin OD – Let’s BBQ 7″
The first single from these New Jersey based jokesters came in a couple different variations in the short time it was available. The first pressing had red letters on the sleeve, and on the back cover, they scratched out by hand a typo and wrote in the correction. There was 1500 pressed. Then it was [...]
Curl Up And Die
The One Above All, The End of All That Is
Curl Up And Die The One Above All, The End of All That Is – CD Revelation Records A couple years ago, I received a review copy of this band’s last album (and first for Revelation Records) titled Unfortunately We’re Not Robots and it was the first I’d ever heard of them. The packaging and [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault
[God's Favorite Dog]
Various Artists – God’s Favorite Dog LP (1986 Touch and Go Records) This is another one of those “why in the hell haven’t they reissued it” records, especially considering the label who issued it is still around. In 1986 Touch and Go released this fine compilation that documented a lot of its current artists, as [...]
