Adrenalin O.D. – Let’s Barbeque reissue
In the 1980′s, New Jersey was a hotbed of quality hardcore bands. The kingpin of the NJ hardcore scene that revolved around the Buy Our Records label was Adrenalin O.D. who also happened to be one of the best bands that state ever produced. These guy played some great hardcore and had a wonderful sense [...]
Government Issue – GI5 vinyl reissue
Government Issue was one of the two longest running punk rock bands from Washington DC (Fugazi being the other one) and they were certainly one of the best bands to ever come from that area. The band was rare in the fact that they got better as the years progressed while most bands got worse [...]
New (old) Posh Boy digital releases
They may not have pressed an actual record since the 1990s but that doesn’t mean Posh Boy Records has vanished. The label is still alive and kicking and still has a nice back catalog of classic punk releases that have only been available on CDs for the most part in recent times. The label has [...]
The Undertones LP vinyl reissue
The Undertones were a punk rock band that actually started before the first wave of punk rock and quickly found their calling after hearing bands like the Ramones and Sex Pistols. They were from Ireland and were together from roughly 1975 – 1983 with their first album being released in 1979. They were a band I [...]
The Clash – Black Market Clash vinyl reissue
Way back in October 1980, Epic Records in America released an EP that collected a bunch of Clash songs that weren’t available on any releases domestically. This EP was a 10″ vinyl record that was part of Epic’s line of EP’s called Nu-Disk. Cheap Trick was another notable band to have a 10″ on Epic [...]
Suicidal Tendencies LP smoke colored vinyl
Much like the changing of wardrobes from winter to summer clothes, the Suicidal Tendencies LP (I’m talking about the only Suicidal Tendencies LP that matters, the first one) went and got itself all dolled up for the summer time. This new color is easily one of the best looking variations that this LP has ever [...]
The Exploited – Troops of Tomorrow vinyl reissue
The Exploited were quite prolific in their early years. In the same year as their debut LP was released they also released a live album and the following year, 1982, saw them release another new studio album, Troops of Tomorrow. Just like the first album, this one was also originally released by Secret Records. Musically the [...]
The Clash – Give ‘Em Enough Rope vinyl reissue
A year after they released their first album (in the UK at least), The Clash followed it up with a second full-length titled Give ‘Em Enough Rope. It was released way back in 1978 in both the UK and the US and as far as the US went it was the first Clash album released [...]
The Clash first LP vinyl reissue
The Clash were one of the first UK punk bands in the 1970s and one of the more diverse. The band achieved some mainstream success too with a few of their later records before the band splintered apart and members went their separate ways (or put out one final album under the Clash name which [...]
Agent Orange – Living in Darkness vinyl reissue
Way back in 1981 the legendary Posh Boy Records released the first LP by Agent Orange which is easily one of the best Southern California punk rock albums of the decade it was released in. Living in Darkness featured eight songs that blended surf with melodic punk. While everyone started playing hardcore, Agent Orange stuck [...]
The Meatmen – War of the Superbikes vinyl reissue
When I was a teenage punk rocker all I cared about was skateboarding, records, and video games. Now that I’m a middle-aged punk rocker most of that is still true as well. Back when I was a lot more resilient and skillful on a board, I borrowed the first Meatmen LP, We’re the Meatmen and [...]
The Wacky Hi-Jinks of Adrenalin O.D. reissue
When I was a young teenager back in the early 1980′s I bought this great compilation LP called Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume One. This was back when compilations were actually things you wanted to buy and labels took the care to put out great ones instead of lame collections of cover songs or rejected tunes. [...]
Circle Jerks – Group Sex red vinyl
A label that has entered its 30th year in business, Frontier Records, just pressed up a new color of one of its legendary albums. The Circle Jerks first and easily their best album, Group Sex, just go pressed on cherry red vinyl. The album at this point needs no introduction, it is one of the [...]
Peace Corpse – Terror of Quincy LP
Toxic Shock Records just sent over this newly released punk rock artifact, one that I hold very dear to my heart. The record you see is a newly released album containing much of the old Peace Corpse material and is called Terror of Quincy. My love for Peace Corpse, especially their first 7″, has been [...]
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, [...]
Flex Your Head red vinyl
Dischord Records, who never stopped releasing records on vinyl even when most did, have been quite busy lately with the superior format. For about a year or so now, the label has been revisiting a lot of their back catalog that they in many cases they let go out of print on vinyl and have [...]
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 [...]
The Gears – Rockin’ at Ground Zero Deluxe Edition
The Gears – Rockin’ At Ground Zero Deluxe Edition 2xCD Hep Cat Records The Gears were a surf punk band from the Los Angeles area who were around during the first wave of punk rock to emerge out of Southern California. They put out a 7″ and an album and then broke up. Their records [...]
Flyboys – Crayon World
The fine folks at Frontier Records have a brand new release under their belts. This one comes in the form of a reissue of a long out of print 7″ that totally deserved to be brought back to life. Flyboys – Crayon World 7″ The Flyboys had the distinction of being the very first release [...]
D.I. reissues
Last year Nickel and Dime Records did the punk rock and vinyl worlds a service by reissuing D.I. – Horse Bites Dog Cries on colored vinyl. The record had been out of print in the vinyl format for something like a decade, possibly more. I believe when I featured that on this site I mentioned [...]
