Archive for May, 2007

The invasion has begun

The invasion has begun

For those of you not in the midwest, specifically IL, you may not know about the Cicada, or the 17 year locust. This is the year they return and over the weekend seemingly out of nowhere, my back yard was filled with them. I was out in the backyard yesterday preparing for my annual Memorial [...]


Punk zine archive

I just learned of a great punk zine archive. This site has made available old issues of MRR, Flipside, etc for free in pdf format. With the old zines being pretty scarce and probably exchanging hands for large sums of cash on ebay (along with anything else in the old punk genre it seems), here’s [...]


Ed Colver signing at Dr Strange Records

If I lived in CA (or was on one of my many visits there), I would definitely be heading over to one of the greatest record stores still standing and one of the only to specialize in the punk rock I love so much, Doctor Strange Records. EDWARD COLVER AT DR. STRANGE RECORDS!: The world [...]


When will it stop?!

Price of gas Sunday – $3.29 Price of gas yesterday when I had to fill up – $3.49 The shit went up 20 cents in one day, after going up about 10 cents every week or so for the past few weeks! What the hell is going on with this shit, it has never been [...]


Destroy Everything at Champs Rock Room

Sunday night I took a quick trip over to Champs Rock Room in Burbank, IL to see Destroy Everything. They only ended up playing five songs. I was experimenting some more with different settings on the camera using the flash on the second curtain sync with longer exposures trying to get better results with showing [...]


The Locust – New Erections

The Locust - New Erections

The Locust – New Erections CD Anti/Epitaph The Locust to me are one of the most interesting newer bands around these days. Instead of following the latest trend of hardcore and punk, they went out and forged their own sound which has since been copied by quite a few bands, none of which can do [...]