Posts Tagged ‘old punk’

Adolescents – The Complete Demos purple vinyl

Adolescents - The Complete Demos on purple vinyl

It has been awhile since we’ve seen some new colored vinyl action from Frontier Records. Some distributor problems and the summer saw a vinyl drought from one of the longest running and finest punk labels from the west (best) coast. That drought has finally ended with a new color vinyl pressing of an Adolescents LP, [...]


The Cheifs – Holly-west Crisis LP

The Cheifs LP (click for larger image)

The Cheifs were one of the best of the early Southern California punk rock bands that many of you may not have heard of. The band’s output consisted solely of one 7″ and two compilation appearances. The band came and went almost in the blink of an eye but man did they leave behind some [...]


Rik L Rik Lost Album available for free download

Rik L Rik

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 [...]


JFA “Pipe Truck” video

Here’s something I never saw before today, a video made by Placebo Records for the JFA song, “Pipe Truck”! This song, and especially this band, was one of many I’d skate to constantly during the 1980s and my teenage punk rock years There’s lots of great images of the band playing the old Mad Garden [...]


The Reactors 7″ EP

The Reactors EP

Channel Three – To Whom it May Concern

CH3 - 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 [...]


Selections from The Punk Vault [F-Word]

fword

F-Word – Shut Down 7″ (1978 Posh Boy Records) Note: Since this originally “aired”, F-Word founding member, Dim Wanker, contacted me and wanted to share his story of the F-Word history, as it is much different than the Posh Boy version. I being the one of the belief everyone should have their say, I was [...]