flu.ID – Iots
flu.ID – Iots CD Exile on Mainstream Records flu.ID were an experimental hardcore band from Germany who seems to have disbanded shortly after this release. This CD contains all the songs from their previous two 10″ vinyl releases that are long out of print. The songs have been remixed and expanded upon to create a [...]
Voetsek – Infernal Command
Vöetsek – Infernal Command CD Self Made God Records Despite their band name making me think they are some sort of old Finnish hardcore band, Vöetsek hail from San Francisco, CA and have been around for five years. The band has had a handful of releases but this is only their second full length album. [...]
Rudimentary Peni – No More Pain
Rudimentary Peni – No More Pain CD Southern Records When I was a young punker in the 1980s, I stuck mostly to the North American punk rock and never got super heavy into the British stuff with few exceptions. I remember all the “Crass punks” as I called them also seemed to be into Rudimentary [...]
Riot Fest 2008 part two
Riot Fest continued as my blood sugar level and energy started dropping. I went to the catering room backstage for a quick sugar fix, stepped out the side door to make a quick phone call and then got back to work. Mighty Mighty Bosstones Mighty Mighty Bosstones Mighty Mighty Bosstones The next band was one [...]
Riot Fest 2008 part one
With fall comes the changing of the leaves, the beginnings of crappy weather, the kids go back to school, and if you live in Chicago it also means the return of Riot Fest. The annual punk rock festival rears its spiked head about this time every year and for me it’s usually the one show [...]
The Meatmen – The Devil’s in the Details DVD
The Meatmen – The Devil’s in the Details DVD MVD Visual When I was in high school, I was over at Jamie Munroe’s house and borrowed some of his records and one of them was We’re The Meatmen and You Suck. I loved that record so much that he didn’t get that record back for [...]
The Accused – More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral CD
The Accused – More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral CD Unrest Records Back in the late 1980s punk rock fell on some dark times. All the great hardcore bands were either breaking up, trying to sound like U2 or turning metal, with turning metal being the avenue that was the most popular. While this [...]
Narcoleptic Youth – Barbi in Bondage
Narcoleptic Youth – Barbi in Bondage 7″ Dr. Strange Records When I placed this single on my turntable and started it, I thought for sure this must be a reissue of some old punk single that eluded me in my youth. I thought wrong as Narcoleptic Youth formed around 1992, but it’s pretty apparent that [...]
D.I. – Horse Bites Dog Cries reissue
The fine folks over at Nickel and Dime Records have released a couple of old Orange County punk albums on vinyl that is well worth noting. First and foremost they have released the second full-length album from punk legends D.I.. D.I. – Horse Bites Dog Cries LP on blue vinyl This was the band’s third [...]
Flipper Live DVD
Flipper – Live DVD Target Video/MVD Visual Flipper were one of the most bizarre and challenging bands in the history of punk rock. To say they were unique would be an understatement and I’m pretty sure the term, “acquired taste” was invented for the band. For those who “got it” however, there was and never [...]
New Frontier Records color vinyl releases
My two favorite people in the record business (Lisa and Betty of Frontier Records) sent over the latest color vinyl reissues of their fine punk rock classics. There’s nothing like coming home to find a box waiting for me full of pretty colored vinyl! Suicidal Tendencies LP on orange vinyl Adolescents – The Complete Demos [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Scream colored vinyl
Dischord Records just released another one of their classic albums on colored vinyl. Scream – Still Screaming LP on white vinyl This was the first Scream record and is now available on white vinyl. It also comes with a lyric sheet. I am pretty sure this record had been out of print on the vinyl [...]
Cro Mags The Final Quarrel DVD
Cro-Mags – The Final Quarrel: Live at CBGB 2001 DVD Music Video Distributors The Cro Mags were a New York hardcore band that started in the 1980s and were kind of a big deal during the NYHC heyday in the mid to late 1980s. They put out a few records but it was really just [...]
Number Nine 10/12 at Champs
Last Friday Lunchbox, Beth, and I went to see Number Nine at Champs Rock Room in Burbank, IL. Number Nine is a punk rock band from the Chicago area that dates back to the mid 1980′s. They appeared on a cassette compilation I released back around 1987 but I never got the chance to see [...]
A new episode of LFCM (two seasons later!)
It only took the passing of two seasons and the unfortunate ending of my relationship with the girl I was in love with since I was 15 (a story I may write about in the near future if anyone gives a shit about reading about me and not just the punk rock) to bring you, [...]
Destroy Everything 9/1 at Memories
Last night I went to see Destroy Everything play with four other bands I’ve never heard of over at Memories in Chicago, IL. I was in need of a night of fun at a show and I was itching to take some photos so this show couldn’t have come at a better time for me. [...]
RKL blue vinyl
The old man (Doug Moody) sent over a copy of the limited blue vinyl edition of the RKL – Best of RKL album on Mystic Records. As mentioned in a post last week, this is a limited edition of 300 housed in the original sleeve. Judging by how vinyl collecting seems to be at an [...]
CH3 picture disc
CH3 – One More for All My True Friends – Picture Disc 7″ Suburbia Records CH3 have been around a long time, about 25 years to be exact. Throughout the years they put out some really good records, and one or two that kind of missed the mark. After a long hiatus from recording, a [...]
