The many flavors of Naked Raygun – Throb Throb LP
Naked Raygun’s first (and best) full length, and what I feel is probably the best punk rock album from a Chicago band, came in a lot of different flavors over the decade or so that it was in print. In fact, it can get so confusing at times it might give you a headache. Take [...]
LFCM Emergency Broadcast
There is a new episode of LFCM that is now available to download. This is a special emergency episode all about the big 30 Years of Punk show we are putting on June 3rd. What is the 30 years of punk show you ask? Well, click the image below and find out. Provided I survive [...]
Punk ’77 A book by James Stark
Punk ’77: An Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock n’ Roll Scene 1977 by James Stark RE/Search Publications Punk ’77 is a look back at the first wave of the San Francisco punk rock scene. It tells the story through the voices of some people involved in interviews that were done about a decade [...]
George Tabb books
Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows up in Greenwich – Book by George Tabb Soft Skull Press George Tabb is a punk rock veteran that you may or may not have heard of. He did time in the Florida hardcore band, Roach Motel, as well as False Prophets, Iron Prostate, and later his own band, [...]
H.G. Wells’ Invisble Man Season One DVD
H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man The Original Series Season One – DVD Dark Sky Films H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man was a TV series that started in 1957. It told the tale of Peter Brady (who is in no way related to the Brady Bunch) who while working on invisibility experiments, becomes invisible himself when a harmful [...]
Two new Frontier colored vinyl releases
The day I ended up in the hospital, I received a new package in the mail from the ever-so-lovely Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records. Inside I was quite pleased to find two records on sweet colored vinyl that just got released. Christian Death – Only Theatre of Pain LP on purple vinyl. This is the [...]
Stones!
So Wednesday started off like any other day in the past couple weeks. I woke up cursing my alarm for waking me up, went to work at my temp gig, then drove home in shitty traffic, but it didn’t end up like most days. I’m sitting on the couch watching TV and having a snack [...]
Don’t Go Near the Park DVD
Don’t Go Near the Park – DVD Dark Sky Films Don’t Go Near the Park is a B-movie horror film from 1979 that is now seeing release on DVD for the first time that I’m aware of. The film’s story is that two prehistoric cult members abuse teh secret of eternal youth by cannibalizing their [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [Subculture]
Subculture – I Heard a Scream LP (1985 Fartblossom Records) I can’t remember where I heard of Subculture from, it was either a fanzine or I simply bought their record because it was on Fartblossom Records (same label that Justice League were on). I actually had nearly forgotten I even owned this record until someone [...]
It’s not that I don’t have anything to say…
It’s just that I don’t have the time to say it! I guess now is the time for your regular MXV update. As regular readers are well aware of from my incessant whining about it, I didn’t have a job. Well technically I still don’t have a real one, but I am working. A lot! [...]
Clit 45 at Stage 83
Last night I went to see Clit 45, Career Soldiers, The Infected, and The Frantic play at Stage 83 in Lemont. Cheddar and Lady Nines came by early and picked me up because the promoter (Rose Red Productions) was borrowing a couple of mics from Cheddar Nines for the show. We were at the club [...]
The many flavors of The Germs – Forming 7 inch
One of the earliest Los Angeles punk singles was the first release for both the Germs, and Chris Ashford’s What Records – The Germs – Forming 7″. It came out way back in 1977 and has enjoyed more than its share of variations over the years that it has been in and out of print [...]
