Finally, a new episode of LFCM
At long last, there is a new episode of LFCM that I just posted. Hopefully we’ll be back on a regular schedule of getting these things out there again. If you want to subscribe to the podcast feed, you can do so by copying this link into your iTunes. To download the show the old [...]
Final Conflict – Ashes to Ashes CD
Final Conflict – Ashes to Ashes CD SOS Records Final Conflict was a hardcore band from CA who started in 1983 but didn’t put out this, their first album, until 1987 on Pushead’s label, Pusmort Records. It wasn’t in print for more than a year or two before it vanished. It was reissued once in [...]
G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked by Rats DVD
Charged G.B.H. – On Stage: City Baby Attacked by Rats DVD Music Video Distributors G.B.H. (who somehow have put the “Charged” back in their name) has been around longer than a lot of modern punks have been alive! Through good times and some bad ones (*cough*metal*cough*), they’ve been at it well over two decades and [...]
Violent Midnight – DVD
Violent Midnight – DVD Dark Sky Films Violent Midnight was the first film made by low-budget horror director Del Tenney. It came out in 1962 and featured a younger Dick Van Patton (later of Eight is Enough TV fame). The movie tells the story of Elliot, a Korean war vet turned artist who is living [...]
Buzzcocks – Flat-pack Philosophy CD
Buzzcocks – Flat-pack Philosophy – CD Cooking Vinyl The Buzzcocks have been a punk rock institution for three decades now. Sure they took some time off here and there but it seems that even time off didn’t result in them losing it. They’d come back at will, tour the country playing nothing short of amazing [...]
Selections from The Punk Vault [My 3 Sons]
My 3 Sons – 7″ (1984 Buy Our Records) I first heard My 3 Sons on the New Jersey’s Got It compilation on the long defunct, Buy Our Records. I had a big thing for New Jersey punk back then so I bought everything I could find on that label and then some. If it [...]
R.I.P. Earthquake
I just learned that John Tenta, known to the world as the pro wrestler Earthquake, passed away this morning after losing his two year bout with cancer. He was only 42 years old. It’s always sad to learn of a wrestler passing, especially one I grew up watching, but it is even more sad when [...]
Negative Approach DVD
Negative Approach – Fair Warning Vol. 1 – DVD Motor City Rock ‘n’ Roll Negative Approach were an early hardcore band from Detroit, MI who put out one 7″ and one LP in the short time they were together. They were part of that “Touch and Go” scene that spawned so many great Midwestern punk [...]
30 years of punk show
Saturday was the big 30 years of punk show over at Stage 83 in Lemont, IL. This day-long festival was put together by some of my best friends, the guys from Destroy Everything. It featured a mix of old and new bands spanning nearly every decade of punk rock, though it was much more heavily [...]
