The Vibrators 9/24 at Beat Kitchen
Sunday night I went over to the Beat Kitchen to see The Vibrators, The Black Beauties, The Bomb, and like another half dozen bands. Because of the sheer ridiculous number of bands that were on the bill, I opted not to sit in a too-small, smoky bar longer than I had to and tried to [...]
American Hardcore the movie
American Hardcore – film Sony Pictures Classic A few years ago a fellow by the named of Stephen Blush published a book that attempted to document the early North American hardcore punk scene. At the time of its release there had been a few books that chronicled the early punk scenes, but none whose sole [...]
The many flavors of Bad Brains – ROIR Sessions
One of the hardcore punk albums held in the highest regard by so many actually started its life as a cassette-only release in the 1980′s and remained that way for nearly a decade before it would finally get a proper release on the preferred format of vinyl. Throughout its vinyl life, it has seen more [...]
Bad Brains – Live at CBGB 1982 DVD
Bad Brains – Live at CBGB 1982 DVD Music Video Distributors It can be argued that the Bad Brains are one of the most influential bands of all time, not just in hardcore punk circles, but music in general. These four black musicians from Washington DC changed the way people looked at music forever and [...]
The Toy Dolls – Our Last DVD?
The Toy Dolls – Our Last DVD? Music Video Distributors Another UK punk mainstay of the past 25 years gets a video release on MVD. They’ve been on quite a frenzy lately of releasing rather high quality live DVDs of long-time punk rock bands, especially from overseas and this is no exception. This disc was [...]
The Tooth Fairy DVD
The Tooth Fairy – DVD Anchor Bay Entertainment The Tooth fairy is a modern day horror film that takes a long time children’s icon and turns it into something dark, evil, and deadly. In 1954 a deformed witch who lived in a run down house in a small town would lure kids to her home [...]
Black Fag CD
Black Fag – CD A few weeks ago I saw this band play a show in Long Beach, CA and it ended up being one of the most fun and entertaining shows I’ve been to in a very long time. Black Fag are the most “fabulous” Black Flag tribute band around, and in fact since [...]
Touch and Go 25th anniversary festival
I bet you are all wondering where my neat photos and story are for this big event? Well let me tell you. Back on the day that they announced this show, I’m talking before there were tickets on sale, etc. I started inquiring about a photo pass for the event. I sent multiple emails over [...]
Sham 69 In Concert DVD
Sham 69 – In Concert: Hersham Boys DVD Music Video Distributors Sham 69 were very much the epitome of blue collar “working man’s” punk rock from England in the early days (and the salamanders sure seemed to love them too). After a bit of a hiatus in the early 1980s, they were back in action [...]
Avengers, The Effigies 9/3 at Beat Kitchen
Last night The Loaf and I went down to the Beat Kitchen to see the Avengers, The Effigies, The Plus Ones and M.O.T.O. It was a 21 and over gig which meant it started at 9pm and thankfully they didn’t have to hurry the show along so to clear out for a later one the [...]
A new LFCM show just posted
I just updated the LFCM site with the latest episode. Go on over and check it out and let us know what you think. If you want to subscribe to the podcast feed, you can do that here.
