The Punk Vault Store has reopened
The Punk Vault store has just reopened. I had to replace the entire shopping cart system with a newer and better one. This one handles shipping much better than the old system. There’s also a bunch of new and some rare records for sale in there too, many of which there’s only one available!
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 [...]
Blight – Detroit CD
Blight – Detroit: The Dream is Dead CD Touch and Go Records In the early 1980′s, Touch and Go Records put out some really great punk records from Midwest hardcore bands. Negative Approach, Necros, Meatmen and The Fix singles have become legends in the minds of hardcore punk record collectors, but there were a few [...]
The Weirdos – Live Radio CD
The Weirdos – Live On Radio CD Frontier Records The Weirdos are one of the first, and one of the absolute best bands from the first wave of Los Angeles punk. It is no secret that the era and locale is my favorite of any punk scene, including my own. While The Germs got all [...]
The Romans – You Only Live Once CD
The Romans – You Only Live Once CD Warning Label Records I think a wise man once said, “You can’t hear it all”. Or perhaps I just imagined that but regardless, it is true. Despite all my digging and discovering music over the years and going back to unearth gems I missed the first time [...]
Adolescents – OC Confidential CD
Adolescents – OC Confidential CD Finger Records Its been a very long time since the Adolescents recorded a new studio album and by long time, I am talking nearly two decades! Their first album, affectionately known as The Blue Album, has reached legendary and classic status, it is easily one of the finest early hardcore [...]
Keats Rides a Harley CD reissue
Various Artists – Keats Rides a Harley CD Warning Label Records Recently I did a “Selections from the Punk Vault” feature on this record and came to learn that a CD reissue was in the works. I was quite pleased to find out this often overlooked, but great compilation would be once again available to [...]
Curl Up And Die
The One Above All, The End of All That Is
Curl Up And Die The One Above All, The End of All That Is – CD Revelation Records A couple years ago, I received a review copy of this band’s last album (and first for Revelation Records) titled Unfortunately We’re Not Robots and it was the first I’d ever heard of them. The packaging and [...]
