X – Wild Gift vinyl reissue
X was a band I first heard when I was about 14 years old when I got the Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack. Back then I didn’t appreciate them because I was a foolish young teenager who didn’t think they were hardcore enough. It wasn’t until I reached my mid-twenties that I revisited the band [...]
Dangerhouse Volume One clear vinyl
One of the finest labels in the punk rock world, Frontier Records, turned 30 this year. It’s hard to believe three decades have passed already since the world got its first taste of the Flyboys and the Adolescents. The label has been a little quiet recently but that changes now as it just pressed up [...]
Executioner – Hellbound
Executioner – Hellbound 7″ Patac Records Executioner was a band for the first generation of San Jose, CA hardcore back in the very early 1980s. They were very short-lived but from everything I’ve read, they made quite an impact at the time, especially for a band who didn’t put out any records. They had recorded [...]
Rik L Rik Lost Album available for free download
Those of you who are fans of the first wave of Los Angeles punk rock likely know who Rik L Rik is. Rik was in F-Word, he was the second singer in Negative Trend, and then had a brief solo career that had a couple of starts and stops. If you want to catch up [...]
Rocky Mountain Low compilation
Various Artists – Rocky Mountain Low 2xLP Hyperpycnal When you think about punk rock in the late 1970s one of the last places that would come to mind would be the Denver/Boulder region of Colorado. The same could also be said about Chicago. Back in the late 70s, all the punk rock that got any [...]
Adolescents LP orange vinyl
The Adolescents first LP, commonly referred to as the “blue album” is one of those rare “perfect albums” in which every song on it is a classic. This is one of those albums that is an amazing listen from start to finish and one that you will likely never skip songs while playing it on [...]
Da! and Tutu and the Pirates record release show
Saturday night was a special one for old school punk rockers as two of the city’s finest reunited for a special evening. The bands in question were DA! and Tutu and the Pirates and the occasion was that on Record Store Day, both bands had LPs come out full of unreleased and/or out of print [...]
Government Issue – Joyride LP reissue
One of the finest punk rock records ever to come out of Washington DC just got a long overdue reissue on vinyl and that is the masterpiece titled Joyride by Government Issue! This was the band’s second album which originally came out in 1984 on Fountain of Youth Records and is easily one of their [...]
The Offs First Record limited reissue
A label that has been dormant for a very long time now, nearly two decades in fact, has been resurrected and is back in action. The label in question is CD Presents who was home to the Avengers, D.O.A., the Subhumans, Tales of Terror, the legendary Rat Music for Rat People compilations, and of course, [...]
Adolescents green vinyl
Well those purple vinyl ones sure didn’t last long as I received another new color of the legendary first Adolescents LP in the mail on a brand new color courtesy of the mighty Frontier Records. This time out this SoCal punk artifact is available on limited edition opaque green vinyl. It looks like some sort [...]
Suicidal Tendencies purple vinyl
Not to be outdone by its fellow classics, the first (and best) Suicidal Tendencies LP also got some new colored vinyl love recently as well courtesy of its only home, Frontier Records. The album that brought such classics as “I Saw Your Mommy” and what is perhaps the most famous punk rock song of all [...]
Circle Jerks – Group Sex LP purple vinyl
In the same package as the purple Adolescents LP from the previous post was another one of Frontier Records‘ classic LPs on a matching color. Circle Jerks – Group Sex LP is now available on translucent purple vinyl. Just like its purple cousin, this too is one of the greatest punk rock albums of all [...]
Social Task 7″
Social Task – 7″ EP Artifix Records Orange County, CA in the early days of hardcore had a talent pool unlike any other scene that spawned some of the most legendary and influential hardcore bands of all time, some of whom are still around to this day in one form or another. I don’t know [...]
Channel Three – To Whom it May Concern
Channel Three – To Whom it May Concern LP TKO Records Channel Three (or CH3 for short) has been around for well over 25 years now and amazingly are still alive and well and even still making good music which is pretty rare in the world of punk rock. Sure there was a time that [...]
Caustic Defiance/Negative Element CD
Caustic Defiance/Negative Element – CD Akashic Records I am pretty sure that the Stepe brothers would have invented hardcore punk had they been born a few years earlier. At the very least they brought the world of punk rock to the Western Suburbs of Chicago in the early 1980s. Their band, Negative Element, I believe [...]
Rosemary’s Babies – Talking to the Dead
Rosemary’s Babies – Talking to the Dead CD Ghastly Records Rosemary’s Babies were a very short-lived New Jersey hardcore punk band who were around between 1981-1983. Their sole muscial output consisted of the Blood Lust 7″ EP which came out the year they disbanded. Those of you who are Samhain and Danzig fans will be [...]
The Wacky Hi-Jinks of… Adrenalin O.D. CD
Adrenalin O.D. – The Wacky Hi-Jinks of… Adrenalin O.D. 2xCD Chunksaah Records My initiation to Adrenalin O.D. (or AOD for short) came at the hands of a pair of compilations: Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume One (where their cover of the Brady Bunch theme cracked me up and was awesome) and We Got Power (where their [...]
The Middle Class reissues
The Middle Class is sometimes credited for putting out the first “hardcore” record with their legendary Out of Vogue EP. Whether that is true or not is irrevelant, what is important is they put out some amazing early punk records. In their short career, the band left us with only a pair of 7″ EPs, [...]
Another new episode of LFCM – now with special guests!
I just uploaded the newest episode of LFCM. This episode is the first to feature special guests and this episode’s guest is Mike from CH3! You can download the episode right here. Be sure and let us know what you think and please tell your friends to give it a listen as well.
A new LFCM for your listening pleasure
While sitting here recovering from getting a cortisone shot to the spine, I just posted the latest episode of LFCM. After numerous tours among other things delayed production, episode two of the new season is up and ready for download. You can download the episode right here. And the show website has older episodes and [...]
The LFCM season premiere!
The “new season” of LFCM has officially kicked off with a freshly recorded, brand-new episode! We finally got together and recorded new shows and I have to say they are better than ever. This is the first episode to feature special guests, something that will become a regular feature starting with this season. You can [...]
