Archive for July, 2008

Tad – Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears DVD

Tad - Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears DVD

Tad – Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears DVD MVD Visual During the Sub Pop/Grunge Years in the early 1990s while bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney were getting a large share of the attention there was a very large individual by the name of Tad Doyle who was making every bit as much noise as [...]


Lair of the Minotaur – War Metal Battle Master

Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master

Lair of the Minotaur – War Metal Battle Master CD Southern Lord Recordings Despite this being their third album and evidently the band being from my own city, this CD stands as my first exposure to Lair of the Minotaur. The band name alone conjured images in my mind of something dark and sinister and [...]


D.I. – The Suburbia Sessions DVD

D.I. - The Suburbia Sessions DVD

D.I. – The Suburbia Sessions 1983 DVD MVD Visual I think it may have been the movie, Suburbia, that first turned me on to D.I. when I was a young teenager. The song they performed in that movie, “Richard Hung Himself” is one of the all time punk rock classics. I’d soon find out that [...]


Middle Class

For those of you who are familiar with the old (and great) band, Middle Class, you’ll be happy to know in September Frontier Records will be reissuing their early material. For you record collectors out there, Frontier Records has available some original sealed copies of Homeland, the band’s only full length release. These were unearthed [...]


Dayglo Abortions reissues part 2

The series of Unrest Records Dayglo Abortions reissues continues with all the later releases that until now were never released on vinyl. As far as the music goes, these albums were really hit or miss, sadly with the emphasis on miss. Dayglo Abortions – Two Dogs Fucking This was the album that followed Here Today [...]


Lydia Lunch – Video Hysterie DVD

Lydia Lunch - Video Hysterie DVD

Lydia Lunch – Video Hysterie: 1978 – 2006 DVD MVD Visual Lydia Lunch has been an icon in the underground culture for three decades now. She has had a very long and diverse career that took her from punk rock singer to artist, to poet, to author, to film star, to “celebrity crush” of a [...]


New Frontier vinyl colors

New Frontier vinyl colors

My two favorite ladies in CA – Lisa and Betty of Frontier Records once again sent over the latest batch of new color vinyl releases of three of my favorite punk rock albums from “back in the day”. They are as follows… Adolescents – LP (aka: the blue album) on opaque pink vinyl Circle Jerks [...]