Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster DVD
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster – DVD Dark Sky Films Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is an old low-budget B movie from 1965 that was just released on DVD for the first time. The title is a bit misleading because this is not the Frankenstein we all know and love from the Universal Monsters series. [...]
LFCM 11.26.05 Segment 3
I’m pleased to inform you that the newest episode of LFCM has just been posted. Visit the radio site to download the show. If you like to subscribe to podcasts through itunes, you can set itunes to subsribe to the feed at: http://radio.punkvinyl.com/lfcm.xml
New items in the Spontaneous Combustion shop
I just updated the online store on the Spontaneous Combustion site with some restocks and a couple of new CDs of old punk rock. You can check it out here.
Destroy Everything 3/26/06 at Nite Cap Lounge
Last night was the Destroy Everything, American Distress, Youth Dekay, and DJ MXV show at Nite Cap lounge. DJ MXV you might ask? Yes, I was asked to provide the pre/post and between show music for the evening. Since nothing could get me to take one single piece of vinyl out of the safe confines [...]
Japan night
Yesterday afternoon I received an email from Senor Citizen asking me if I would like to go with he and some other of the Klown army to Empty Bottle for the Japan Night show. Since it had been awhile since I got to go anywhere, and he generously offered to cover my admission and a [...]
Adolescents picture disc
I just got another package in the mail from Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records. Inside it contained a new limited edition release of a punk classic that was licensed to another label for a one-time limited edition of 1000. The Adolescents first album (aka: the blue album) as a picture disc! This was released by [...]
Blight – Detroit CD
Blight – Detroit: The Dream is Dead CD Touch and Go Records In the early 1980′s, Touch and Go Records put out some really great punk records from Midwest hardcore bands. Negative Approach, Necros, Meatmen and The Fix singles have become legends in the minds of hardcore punk record collectors, but there were a few [...]
Blitz – Hits CD
Blitz – Hits CD SOS Records Blitz is one of those old time UK street punk bands that went largely ignored by me in my young punk years. I always was much more partial to US Hardcore so I overlooked a lot of good UK bands back then that only now am I starting to [...]
Werewolves on Wheels DVD
Werewolves on Wheels – DVD Dark Sky Films Werewolves on Wheels is a 1971 film that defies description. It starts off as one movie, and finishes off as another. A gang of bikers, The Devils Advocates, travel around raising hell, getting wasted, knocking over gas stations and fight anyone who crosses them. One of the [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Pillsbury Hardcore]
Pillsbury Hardcore – In a Straight Edge Limbo 7″EP (1985 Fartblossom Records) I can’t recall how I came to hear of Pillsbury Hardcore, it was either from a compilation or it was just by reading the Toxic Shock Records catalog and checking them out just for their name. Either way, I do remember buying my [...]
Two new Frontier Records color vinyls
My favorite lady in punk rock, Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records, sent me the two newest color vinyl releases of her label’s punk rock classics. I’m sure they won’t last long as they seem to move rather quickly. They are as follows. Circle Jerks – Group Sex LP on pink vinyl Suicidal Tendencies LP on [...]
The Losers DVD
The Losers – DVD Dark Sky Films The Losers is a story about a group of outcast biker mercenaries that were hired to recover a Presidential adviser taken hostage in Viet Nam right in the middle of the ongoing war. The leader of the group, Link (William Smith) , was an army outcast who appears [...]
Game On revisited
Recently, the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago brought back the Game On exhibit that they had last year. Thanks to my friend Ken being a museum member, I got to go for practically free, which is pretty much the required cost for me to go anywhere in these lean times. So Ken, [...]
Dog Eat Dog – DVD
Dog Eat Dog – DVD Dark Sky Films Dog Eat Dog is a movie that was released in 1966 staring Jayne Mansfield. This could very well have been the last movie she made before her untimely death. It is now available on DVD I believe for the first time. Dog Eat Dog is a story [...]
