Archive for February, 2008

Weirdos – Destroy All Music 30th Anniversary

In what makes me feel really old and I didn’t even get the record until about seven years after it was first released The Weirdos – Destroy All Music 7″ is now 30 years old! To celebrate this milestone, Bomp Records have released a new Weirdos record. The Weirdos – Destroy All Music 30th Anniversary [...]


Dr. Know colored vinyl

Mystic Records just reissued another old LP from their vast catalog of old punk rock. Dr. Know – The Original Group LP on green vinyl This is the Dr. Know – Original Group LP on green vinyl. This LP features recordings with their original singer, Brandon Cruz, but actually was released after the band’s first [...]


The Black Dahlia Murder 2/13/08 at House of Blues

Wednesday night I braved the frigid cold and crappy weather to go to the House of Blues here in Chicago to see The Black Dahlia Murder. I saw them play last fall with Cannibal Corpse and was pretty impressed, enough so that I left my winter hibernation to go to this show. Hate Eternal Hate [...]


Selections from The Punk Vault [Toothpaste]

Toothpaste – EP (1983 Schwa Records) Toothpaste were a band from my own city that I really didn’t know anything about until recently. I had heard the name mentioned a couple of times over the years but never gave it much thought. It wasn’t until the end of last year when the band along with [...]


The Punk Vault store is now open!

The Spontaneous Combustion mailorder has been revamped and is now The Punk Vault store. I just put it up and there is a lot of rare Mystic Records vinyl available as well as some other things for sale while supplies last. The store currently only supports customers in the USA but anyone outside the USA [...]


D.O.A. Smash the State DVD

D.O.A. Smash the State DVD

D.O.A. – Smash the State: The Raw Original D.O.A. 1978 – 1981 DVD MVD Visual/Sudden Death Records D.O.A. are a Canadian punk institution. They were among the first and among the best punk bands ever to come out of the Great White North. Not only that but 30 years later and they are still at [...]


Help me please!

Anyone out there good with html/css and can figure out why this site is working fine with the new theme in firefox but if you view it in IE, all the links on the sidebars are HUGE and the body text is all bold? I can’t figure out for the life of me why this [...]


Eddie and the Subtitles reissues!

I just got a sweet little package in the mail from Lisa and Betty of Frontier Records and inside it contained a pair of new releases for the label, both of which are reissues of some long lost and excellent punk rock! Eddie and the Subtitles – Fuck You Eddie LP This LP is a [...]