This Saturday is national Record Store Day. This is a yearly event were independent music stores celebrate their existence and try and get people off the internet to come to a real record store to purchase some music. Lots of labels are releasing special limited edition releases in honor of the event and many bands [...]
Apr 16, 2009 | Categories: Music News | Tags: music, record store day, Records | Comments Off
I’m pretty selective about new music I’ll purchase and I often times rely on music sent in for review on this site as my exposure to new stuff so I’m far from being hip to all the new releases for the year like some other sites and publications. With that being said here’s the standouts [...]
Jan 05, 2009 | Categories: General, Music News | Tags: 2008, Architect, Best Of 2008, Earth, Favorite Band, Groove, Mice, Middle Class, music, Musicians, New Music, New Releases, New Stuff, Ohgr, Punk Band, Punk Rock Band, Retrospective, Skinny Puppy, Solo Album, Southern California Punk, Standouts, Surprises, Tradition, Vogue | Comments Off
One of the most essential and perfect hardcore punk 7″s of all time just got yet another reissue. I am talking about Government Issue – Make an Effort. This four song piece of perfection has been reissued perhaps more times and on more labels than any old punk record I can think of (I think [...]
Nov 12, 2008 | Categories: Records | Tags: Black Vinyl, colored vinyl, Cup Of Coffee, doctor strange records, Ep, Good Doctor, Government Issue, Hardcore Punk, music, Next Level, Punk Band, Punk Bands, Punk Record, punk reissues, punk rock, Punk Rock Band, Punk Vinyl, record collecting, Records, Rock Fan, Starbucks, Strange Records, Variations, Vault, Vicious Circle, Vinyl Version, Washington DC punk, Zero Boys | 2 Comments »
Plan 9 – Manmade Monster CD Nickel and Dime Records The worst kept secret in the entire world is that I don’t like new punk bands doing covers of old punk rock songs so when I opened up my mailbox to find a CD from a band whose entire premise was formed as a Misfits [...]
Nov 06, 2008 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Cd Reviews, Crap, Decade, Dime Records, Entire World, Legacy, Manmade Monster, misfits, music, Myspace Page, New Bands, New Punk Bands, Nickel And Dime, plan 9, Premise, Punk Covers, punk rock, Punk Rock Songs, Reviews, samhain, Tribute Band | Comments Off
I just learned that Frank Navetta, one of the founding members of the legendary Descendents passed away this weekend. I don’t think I need to go into any detail just how influential the Descendents have been to the world of punk rock and music in general and losing one of the founding members is a [...]
Nov 03, 2008 | Categories: Music News | Tags: descendents, frank navetta, music, punk rock | Comments Off
Mouth of the Architect – Quietly CD Translation Loss I think it was about a year and a half ago that i saw Mouth of the Architect play a show. I had never heard of them before and they were opening up for the band that brought me to there. I was pretty blown away [...]
Sep 25, 2008 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Cd Reviews, mouth of the architect, music, Reviews, translation loss | Comments Off
It’s hard to believe that the first Suicidal Tendencies LP is now a quarter-century old. It is also equally hard to believe that I bought this album for myself 24 years ago, and that my punk rock youth was so long ago. I have no idea where the time went, but sometimes it feels like [...]
Sep 22, 2008 | Categories: Records | Tags: colored vinyl, frontier records, Hardcore Punk, music, punk records, punk rock, Punk Vinyl, record collecting, suicidal tendencies | Comments Off
This particular feature has been a long time coming. When I was a freshman in high school I heard a Peace Corpse song on Kathy and Shrub’s radio show on our high school radio station. The song was called “Jocko Macho” and I was an instant fan. I used to record their shows because my [...]
Sep 18, 2008 | Categories: Vault Selections | Tags: CA, California punk, Hardcore Punk, music, peace corpse, Pomona, punk history, punk rock, record collecting, toxic shock records, Vault Selections | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 19, 2008 | Categories: Podcasts | Tags: classic punk, Classic Radio, Combustion, Cortisone, Cortisone Shot, Destroy Everything, Hardcore Punk, LFCM, live from combustion manor, Members, music, MXV, Pleasure, podcast, Punk News, Punk Radio, punk rock, Punk Vinyl, Radio Show, Rare Vinyl, Rock News, Spine, Vault | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 17, 2008 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 1980s, Barbi, Bondage, Bonus Track, Brown Vinyl, Cliff Hanger, colored vinyl, Dr Strange Records, Hardcore, Melody, music, Music Reviews, Narcoleptic Youth, New Edition, Pink Vinyl, Punk Compilations, Punk Music, punk rock, record collecting, record reviews, Reviews, Turntable, Variations, Vault | Comments Off
I just updated The Punk Vault Store with some new limited and old/rare vinyl. The store has also be retooled so it displays your shopping cart on the sidebar and most importantly non-U.S. customers can now finally use the online store instead of having to email their orders in and wait for a total. Now [...]
Aug 16, 2008 | Categories: Music News, Records | Tags: Displays, music, Music Shop, Online Store, Punk Store, Punk Vinyl, Rare Vinyl, record collecting, record store, Records, shopping, Shopping Cart, The Punk Vault Store, Vault, vinyl, Vinyl Store | Comments Off
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 [...]
Jul 28, 2008 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Axe, Band Members, Bruce Pavitt, Circuits, Drug Use, DVD reviews, Early 1990s, Eventual Demise, grunge, Handful, Kim Thayil, Legal Troubles, Lone Man, Mark Arm, Mudhoney, music, Musical History, Nirvana, punk, Rich History, Ringing Ears, seattle, Soundgarden, Sub Pop, Sub Pop Records, Tad, Tad Doyle | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 15, 2008 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 1980s, adolescents, Bonus Interview, Casey Royer, D.I., DVD reviews, Flipside, Handful, Interview Footage, music, punk rock, Rock Classics, Sessions, Suburbia, Team Goon, Teenager, Videos Dvd, Warrants | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 08, 2008 | Categories: Records | Tags: Adolescent, Dayglo Abortions, Dayglow Abortions, Death Race 2000, Dogs Fucking, Fears, Fetus, Gray Vinyl, Humor, Little Man In The Canoe, Lot, music, Music Albums, Photo, Sounds, Stuff, Two Dogs, Two Versions, Unrest, Vinyl Record, Vinyl Releases | Comments Off
I came home the other day to find a package sitting on my doorstep from Frontier Records. Inside it was a note from Betty and Lisa saying “hi” and also there was a new colored vinyl record in there. This particular one is a colored vinyl first for the label. Rikk Agnew – All By [...]
May 16, 2008 | Categories: Records | Tags: adolescents, colored vinyl, D.I., frontier records, Hardcore Punk, music, punk, punk rock, record collecting, Records, rikk agnew, vinyl | Comments Off
Dead Boys -Return of the Living Dead Boys DVD MVD Visual In the 1970s, the Dead Boys were among the first punk rock bands in the United States and they also rank among the best. They only put two albums out before breaking up and moving on to other things so they never stuck around [...]
Apr 21, 2008 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 1970s, Banter, Bonus Footage, Dead Boys, Dropouts, DVD reviews, Ep, Introducing The Band, Joey Ramone, Legacy, music, Mvd Visual, New York City, punk, Punk Bands, Punk Rock Bands, Relic, Return Of The Living Dead, Reunion Show, Ritz, Sonic Reducer, Studio Songs, Top Notch, Tv Interview | Comments Off
Last night I updated the Punk Vault Store with some new items including some original copies of the Toothpaste 7″. I hope to have some more items in stock soon and look for a new pressing of the JFA/Faction 7″ in the not too distant future. I’m still trying to figure out options for overseas [...]
Mar 14, 2008 | Categories: Music News, Records | Tags: Distant Future, Faction, Mail Order, music, Punk Store, Punk Vault Store, Records, Stock, toothpaste, Vault | Comments Off
God I hate writing these, but this one is among the worst. Mike Conley, singer of M.I.A. who were among the many old punk bands I grew up loving, was found dead here in Chicago yesterday. What’s worse is it appears he was murdered. There is a story about it on the Daily Pilot. I [...]
Mar 01, 2008 | Categories: Music News | Tags: chicago, M.I.A., Mike Conley, music, punk | 1 Comment »
In what makes me feel really old and I didn’t even get the record until about seven years after it was first released The Weirdos – Destroy All Music 7″ is now 30 years old! To celebrate this milestone, Bomp Records have released a new Weirdos record. The Weirdos – Destroy All Music 30th Anniversary [...]
Feb 26, 2008 | Categories: Records | Tags: bomp, colored vinyl, los angeles, music, punk, record collecting, Records, vinyl, weirdos | Comments Off
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 [...]
Feb 20, 2008 | Categories: Records | Tags: , colored vinyl, dr. know, Hardcore, music, mystic records, nardcore, oxnard, punk, record collecting, Records, vinyl | Comments Off
Toothpaste – EP (1983 Schwa Records) Toothpaste were a band from my own city that I really didn’t know anything about until recently. I had heard the name mentioned a couple of times over the years but never gave it much thought. It wasn’t until the end of last year when the band along with [...]
Feb 10, 2008 | Categories: Vault Selections | Tags: chicago, classic punk, MP3, music, punk, Records, schwa, toothpaste, Vault Selections, vinyl | 2 Comments »
The Spontaneous Combustion mailorder has been revamped and is now The Punk Vault store. I just put it up and there is a lot of rare Mystic Records vinyl available as well as some other things for sale while supplies last. The store currently only supports customers in the USA but anyone outside the USA [...]
Feb 09, 2008 | Categories: Music News, Records | Tags: cd, colored vinyl, estore, Hardcore, music, mystic records, punk, record store, Records, shopping | Comments Off
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 [...]
Feb 05, 2008 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Canada, D.O.A., DVD, DVD reviews, Hardcore, music, MVD, punk, Reviews, Sudden Death | Comments Off
I just got a sweet little package in the mail from Lisa and Betty of Frontier Records and inside it contained a pair of new releases for the label, both of which are reissues of some long lost and excellent punk rock! Eddie and the Subtitles – Fuck You Eddie LP This LP is a [...]
Feb 01, 2008 | Categories: Records | Tags: CA, eddie and the subtitles, frontier records, LPs, music, punk, record collecting, Records, vinyl, wax | 1 Comment »
