Get Rad – What the Fuck Happened to Common Sense
Rad is an accurate description for this hardcore band with a familiar classic feel and energetic and catchy hardcore. Rating: Get Rad – What the Fuck Happened to Common Sense 12″ EP Underground Communiqué Records Get Rad is a hardcore punk band from Milwaukee, WI that features a former member of Since By Man, who [...]
The Desecrators – Speed Up the Death Process
A great unreleased recording by a UK trash band with metal guitars that would have been huge had they lasted long enough to release this 23 years ago! Rating: The Desecrators – Speed Up the Death Process LP Pro-Anti Records The Desecrators was a band from England in the mid 1980s that lasted only a [...]
Suicidal Tendencies – No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
A re-recording of songs from their second album and some unreleased No Mercy songs that while not terrible, was completely unnecessary. Rating: Suicidal Tendencies – No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family CD Suicidal Records Suicidal Tendencies has the distinction of releasing one of the most popular and excellent punk rock albums of all time, their self-titled [...]
New Articles of Faith video
Here’s something I never thought I would be writing about. Articles of Faith, a band who no one thought would be likely to get back together, just released a new video for “With a Vengeance” which is a song from their forthcoming album on Alternative Tentacles Records. If this is any indication of what the [...]
Burning Sons EP
Burning Sons – 7″ EP Mystic Records Milwaukee’s Burning Sons have the distinction of having this, their debut EP, be the first new 7″ released on Mystic Records in 20 years. With such a huge history of bands that rank from legendary to virtually unknown, being the first band to have something out in so [...]
Fast Death – EP
Fast Death – 7″ EP Patac Records Boston, MA used to be a hotbed for hardcore punk for a spell back in the early 1980s and a lot of fine bands came from that area. Apparently hardcore is still alive and kicking in the state of MA because now Boston’s latest offering is the band, [...]
Van’s Warped Tour 2010 7/31 at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater part one
The crew at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheater must have been putting in a lot of overtime last weekend because the very next day after hosting the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, they held the annual Vans Warped Tour. It must have taken a huge crew to tear down the first show, clean up and then set [...]
Municipal Waste cancel European tour
Municipal Waste announced last week that due to an emergency they had to cancel their upcoming European Tour. The band has released the following statement regarding the matter: “We regret having to cancel our recent European dates, but an unforeseen family emergency prevented us from being able to make these shows. We apologize to all the fans [...]
Psycho – Vertigo 7″
Psycho – Vertigo 7″ Patac Records Psycho is a hardcore band from the Boston area that dates way back to the early 1980s and in fact until this arrived in my mailbox I had no idea they were still around! You old-timers may remember that this band features Charlie Infection on drums who also did [...]
Articles of Faith return!
This just gave me a reason to keep living, Chicago hardcore legends, Articles of Faith, have returned! For the first time in 25 years, the band will reform (with all original members) to record an EP at Chicago’s Million Yen Studios for release on Alternative Tentacles on October 5th. It will be available digitally and [...]
The Bollweevils DVD
The Bollweevils – Weevilive In Color DVD Go Deaf Records Back in the 1990s, The Bollweevils were the best of all the active Chicago punk rock bands at the time. Every time they played a show it was a really fun time, the guys in the band were all super nice, and they wrote a [...]
MDC 5/26 at Reggie’s
Last night a legendary hardcore band returned to Reggie’s for a night of punk rock. That band happened to be MDC and they are once again touring in honor of releasing some new material. It’s hard to believe the band has been around about 30 years now. Talk about something making you feel old! Chicago [...]
Colt Seavers EP
Colt Seavers – 7″ EP Boss Tuneage Colt Seavers is (or was) a band from the United Kingdom. They formed back in 2008 and lasted about a year before disbanding. During most of their extremely short time together they didn’t have any records out until this piece of 7″ vinyl came out around the same [...]
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 [...]
J.F.A. – To All Our Friends
J.F.A. – To All Our Friends LP DC Jam Records I think the first JFA 7″, Blatant Localism, was the first hardcore 7″ I ever heard, if not the second (a Black Flag 7″ may have been the first, I’m getting too old to remember), regardless, that band of skate punks from the desert of [...]
DRI 2/9 at Reggie’s
Sunday night Reggie’s played host to a hardcore extravaganza which was headlined by the long awaited return of DRI! This was also a marathon show and a late one featuring five bands, which meant it was going to be a long night. Vicious Attack Vicious Attack Vicious Attack Vicious Attack, a local band, opened the [...]
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 [...]
Riot Fest 2009 Day Five
Sunday was the fifth and final day of the biggest Riot Fest yet, and it was being held simultaneously at two different venues. I choose to return to the Congress Theater for the show being held there and the chance to see a couple bands that I’d never seen before. She Likes Todd She Likes [...]
Riot Fest 2009 Day Four
Saturday’s Riot Fest show (well one of the them) had me back to the venue where Riot Fest all began, the Congress Theater. I’m quite fond of that venue and it’s nice big stage and good lighting so I pretty much figured I’d be in for a good time and of course a good time [...]
Riot Fest 2009 Day Two
The only good thing about fall continued on Thursday over at the Beat Kitchen, which I believe is another first time for Riot Fest venue. This show was a three band bill and got off to a pretty early start. The small size of the venue and the popularity of the headlining band, 7 Seconds, [...]
Amebix 5/29 at Reggie’s
Reggie’s has played host to a lot of good punk shows as of late and one that I was very excited to see happened last week. The legendary UK band, Amebix, reunited and came to Chicago for the first time ever only two plus decades after they broke up! Tierra De Nadie Tierra De Nadie [...]
The Effigies and Life Sentence 5/16 at Reggies
It was an old school punk weekend last week as I went to two shows in two nights. Saturday night I went over to Reggie’s to see two more old(er) Chicago punk rock bands: The Effigies and Life Sentence. Originally The Freeze were supposed to headline this show but sadly they canceled their tour which [...]
