Warfrat Tales Unabridged CD
Various Artists Warfrat Tales Unabridged CD Avebury Records If there is one problem with having a vault consisting of thousands of records is that there are plenty of them that you own, yet go ignored and damn near forgotten for years. Sometimes it takes something old being reissued on a CD for you to take [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [The Catatonics]
The Catatonics – Hunted Down 7″ EP (1984 Anorexic Nympho Records) The Catatonics were among the many standouts on the Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume Two compilation. Their song, “Descending in E” went on more mix tapes of mine than I could possibly remember. I liked it so much that I wanted to hear more from [...]
LFCM November recording session
Last night we had another recording session for our “Live From Combustion Manor” radio show. Sadly out planned special guest, Barry, couldn’t make it out for the show. Hopefully he can come out for the next one. Members in attendance this time were MXV, Senor Citizen, Cheddar Nines, Stiff Mittens, Hanover Fist and Cocoa Hole. [...]
The many flavors of: Minutemen – Paranoid Time 7″
The first Minutemen single, which just so happens to be one of my favorite releases from the band, came in a few different variations over the years that it was in print. Not only were there a few different US pressings, but there was a foreign one too as SST had a UK branch at [...]
Any WordPress experts out there?
Anyone reading this know much about how WordPress works? I have a big problem with it. Suddenly all email from it stopped working. I don’t get any notifications of any sort, not for comments, recovering lost passwords, the people who subscribe to updates don’t get mail and same for subscribe to comments. The entire email [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope everyone who reads this has a great day and stuffs themselves into a food coma while eating the best meal of the year. As for me, I’ll be spending the day at my Uncle’s place eating a fine meal and watching some movies. This year I didn’t have a whole [...]
Bang Sugar Bang – Thwak Thwak Go Crazy CD
Bang Sugar Bang – Thwak Thwak Go Crazy CD SOS Records Though this is their second release, it is the first I’ve heard of this Southern California band. Upon reading the bio that was included with my CD, three things caught my eye. The band is from Southern California, my favorite punk rock home Geza [...]
Attention would be thieves
In case there may have been any question in the mind of all these image stealing assholes, let me make something perfectly clear. NO ONE HAS PERMISSION TO USE MY PHOTOS FROM THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY REASON WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM ME FIRST, AND ONLY THEN YOU MUST ALSO GIVE PROPER CREDIT! IF YOU ARE [...]
LFCM October 2005 episode 3 now available!
I just posted the newest episode of our “Live from Combustion Manor” (or LFCM for short) radio show/podcast (or punkcast as I’d like to call it). Lots of great old punk tunes and some (hopefully) entertaining stories and whatnot from myself and my beloved Klowns from Destroy Everything. Click the image below to download the [...]
Pinball Expo 2005
So the past few days were spent at the Wyndam Hotel near O’Hare Airport for the annual Pinball Expo. The pinball related action started a full week ago when Koz came to town and we made our rounds in the basement of Combustion Manor practicing up, as well as playing over at some friends houses [...]
The Weirdos – Live Radio CD
The Weirdos – Live On Radio CD Frontier Records The Weirdos are one of the first, and one of the absolute best bands from the first wave of Los Angeles punk. It is no secret that the era and locale is my favorite of any punk scene, including my own. While The Germs got all [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Ottos Chemical Lounge]
Otto’s Chemical Lounge – 7″EP (1983 Reflex Records) I first heard about Otto’s Chemical Lounge from an ad or a review in an issue of Raveup Fanzine, which was a fanzine Anthony Illarde of Rights of the Accused put out back when I was a young lad just discovering punk and hardcore music. It would [...]
R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero
Koga just emailed me the shocking news that Eddie Guerrero died at the far too young age of 38! It is believed he suffered a heart attack while in his hotel room. This is really shocking and very sad, Eddie was one of the most entertaining people in the WWE and one of the only [...]
New Frontier Records color vinyl!
Yesterday in the mail was a little care package from the lovely Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records. Inside was some new, sweet, limited-edition colored vinyl greatness as well as a new CD that will be reviewed here tomorrow. The vinyl contained. Adolescents – Demos LP on green vinyl with a special black/white sleeve…. numbered on [...]
Halloween producer dies
This just sucks, Moustapha Akkad died as a result of wounds in the Jordan hotel bombings. God dammit! I LOVE those Halloween movies. R.I.P. Mr. Akkad, and thank you for the fine horror films.
Murphy’s Law – Up With Us Down With Them DVD
Murphy’s Law – Up With Us, Down With Them DVD Music Video Distributors Murphy’s Law has been around for a very long time. They formed around 1983, but aside from a demo, didn’t put out their first record until around 1987. That record got really heavy play among my friends and myself and I even [...]
Bauhaus x2
Both last night and tonight I went to see Bauhaus play at The Vic. Originally it was supposed to be at The Riviera, but the venue was changed about a few weeks ago due to low advance ticket sales. I really wasn’t surprised at the low sales considering how much they were charging per ticket, [...]
New “Live from Combustion Manor” show posted!
I just posted part two of the recent “Live from Combustion Manor” radio show! You can download the show right here. You can visit the site for the LFCM show at http://radio.punkvinyl.com. We’d appreciate any feedback on these shows, so if you love them, hate them, etc, leave a comment of send an email to [...]
Riot Fest after-party at The Exit
After we decided that we couldn’t stomach the shit sandwich that “The Misfits” were trying to feed us, Senor Citizen and myself drove a couple of the Angry Samoans over to The Exit to get prepared for them to play there in the upstairs section of that fine little bar. We arrived and it turned [...]
Riot Fest 2005 day two
Saturday saw the second and final day of Riot Fest 2005. There was an obscene number of bands playing that day, something around 20 and the show was supposed to start around noon! Needless to say the thought of sitting through ten bands we either never heard of and/or didn’t care about didn’t appeal to [...]
Riot Fest 2005 day one
Friday was the start of the two-day Riot Fest here in Chicago. For those unaware, it was a two day huge punk “festival” at the Congress Theatre. There were more bands on the bill than I could keep track of and a lot of big name punk bands from the old days in some form [...]
Since By Man 11/3/05 at Beat Kitchen
Tonight I went to see Since By Man at the Beat Kitchen. They played second on a four band bill. The show started really early, 5:30pm to be exact. I guess there must have been a late show scheduled at the club. When I arrived a few minutes before the doors were to open, there [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [I Braineater]
I Braineater – Artist Poet Thief LP (1985 More Records) Being more than a huge Skinny Puppy fan, I would take notice of such things as the people who were doing their artwork and all kinds of other things related to the band. One such person who did the covers to Too Dark Park and [...]
