Joy Division Under Review DVD
Joy Division – Under Review DVD Music Video Distributors One of the more influential first wave of sort of post-punk bands, Joy Division, gets the documentary treatment in the Under Review series. Much like The Velvet Underground one, this focuses on not one record, but the entire career of the band and what happened in [...]
Dwarves FEFU DVD
Dwarves – FEFU The DVD Music Video Distributors The Dwarves have become somewhat legendary over the years with their short chaotic live sets and their catchy brand of raw and raunchy punk rock. Also since their first Sub Pop album, they have also been associated with something else; naked ladies. It came as no surprise [...]
Planes Mistaken for Stars 11/24 at The Note
Friday night I met Wife of 2 over at The Note to see Planes Mistaken for Stars play a show. It had been a couple years I think since I last saw them play so I was looking forward to seeing them again because the last two times I saw them they put on a [...]
Punk The Whole Story
Punk The Whole Story – Book DK Publishing It seems that now, some 30 years after a new style of music that came to be known as punk rock started, it has become a much more accepted (and co-opted) style of music and as a result there has been a lot of books and movies [...]
Riot Fest 2006 part one
First of all, I apologize for the lengthy delay in getting this up here. I had the most hectic week of the year last week between working overtime nearly every night and Saturday, and then going to Senor Citizen’s wedding on Sunday (congrats to him and Lady of 2 on tying the knot by the [...]
AC/DC – Back in Black Under Review DVD
AC/DC – Back in Black Under Review DVD Music Video Distributors When I was in 6th grade I heard AC/DC for the first time and they left a huge impact on me. The album I heard was Back in Black, which had just been released and it wasn’t like anything my young ears had ever [...]
The Toy Dolls – Our Last DVD?
The Toy Dolls – Our Last DVD? Music Video Distributors Another UK punk mainstay of the past 25 years gets a video release on MVD. They’ve been on quite a frenzy lately of releasing rather high quality live DVDs of long-time punk rock bands, especially from overseas and this is no exception. This disc was [...]
Black Fag CD
Black Fag – CD A few weeks ago I saw this band play a show in Long Beach, CA and it ended up being one of the most fun and entertaining shows I’ve been to in a very long time. Black Fag are the most “fabulous” Black Flag tribute band around, and in fact since [...]
Touch and Go 25th anniversary festival
I bet you are all wondering where my neat photos and story are for this big event? Well let me tell you. Back on the day that they announced this show, I’m talking before there were tickets on sale, etc. I started inquiring about a photo pass for the event. I sent multiple emails over [...]
Sham 69 In Concert DVD
Sham 69 – In Concert: Hersham Boys DVD Music Video Distributors Sham 69 were very much the epitome of blue collar “working man’s” punk rock from England in the early days (and the salamanders sure seemed to love them too). After a bit of a hiatus in the early 1980s, they were back in action [...]
Avengers, The Effigies 9/3 at Beat Kitchen
Last night The Loaf and I went down to the Beat Kitchen to see the Avengers, The Effigies, The Plus Ones and M.O.T.O. It was a 21 and over gig which meant it started at 9pm and thankfully they didn’t have to hurry the show along so to clear out for a later one the [...]
30 years of punk show
Saturday was the big 30 years of punk show over at Stage 83 in Lemont, IL. This day-long festival was put together by some of my best friends, the guys from Destroy Everything. It featured a mix of old and new bands spanning nearly every decade of punk rock, though it was much more heavily [...]
Punk ’77 A book by James Stark
Punk ’77: An Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock n’ Roll Scene 1977 by James Stark RE/Search Publications Punk ’77 is a look back at the first wave of the San Francisco punk rock scene. It tells the story through the voices of some people involved in interviews that were done about a decade [...]
George Tabb books
Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows up in Greenwich – Book by George Tabb Soft Skull Press George Tabb is a punk rock veteran that you may or may not have heard of. He did time in the Florida hardcore band, Roach Motel, as well as False Prophets, Iron Prostate, and later his own band, [...]
H.G. Wells’ Invisble Man Season One DVD
H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man The Original Series Season One – DVD Dark Sky Films H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man was a TV series that started in 1957. It told the tale of Peter Brady (who is in no way related to the Brady Bunch) who while working on invisibility experiments, becomes invisible himself when a harmful [...]
Don’t Go Near the Park DVD
Don’t Go Near the Park – DVD Dark Sky Films Don’t Go Near the Park is a B-movie horror film from 1979 that is now seeing release on DVD for the first time that I’m aware of. The film’s story is that two prehistoric cult members abuse teh secret of eternal youth by cannibalizing their [...]
Clit 45 at Stage 83
Last night I went to see Clit 45, Career Soldiers, The Infected, and The Frantic play at Stage 83 in Lemont. Cheddar and Lady Nines came by early and picked me up because the promoter (Rose Red Productions) was borrowing a couple of mics from Cheddar Nines for the show. We were at the club [...]
Prince of Space/Invasion of the Neptune Men DVD
Drive in Double Feature: Prince of Space/Invasion of the Neptune Men DVD Dark Sky Films This DVD features two old sci-fi movies put together in a double feature style of package, just like they were probably packaged back in 1964 and 1965 when these movies were originally shown in drive-in theatres. The movies are somewhat [...]
So Unloved – Pink Black & Broken CD
So Unloved – Pink Black & Broken CD SOS Records I saw So Unloved open for The Adicts last fall and was pretty impressed with them. They are a four-piece band consisting of three ladies and one gentlemen (who plays drums). They can’t be much older than 18, they look really young, but don’t let [...]
Subhumans 4/22/06 at Logan Square Auditorium
Last night, Senor Citizen, Lady of 2, and I went to see Subhumans, Leftover Crack, Saint Catherines, and Siderunners at the Logan Square Auditorium. Senor and I got to the city and found Lady of 2 and proceeded to wait in the very very long line to get in the show. I was amazed at [...]
The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse DVD
The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse – DVD Dark Sky Films This DVD is a double feature of old Del Tenney films from 1963. To be honest I’ve never heard of the man until I received this DVD to review, but it turns out he is some kind of classic drive [...]
The Velvet Underground Under Review DVD
The Velvet Underground – Under Review DVD Music Video Distributors The Velvet Underground, who were around from about 1966 – 1970, were way ahead of their time and to this day are one of the most unique and original rock and roll bands ever. They no doubt had an influence on the punk rock that [...]
Destroy Everything, The Deranged, Dublin Brigade at Stage 83
Last night (well it could almost be considered late afternoon) I went over to the Clown Ranch to meet up with the Klown army to head out to a show Destroy Everything was doing over at Stage 83 in Lemont. After a pit stop for some junk food over at White Hen, we made the [...]
Red Alert – The Best of Red Alert CD
Red Alert – The Best of Red Alert Blazin’ Thru the Years CD SOS Records UK punk was never my specialty. I have said it before and I’ll say it again, with some exceptions, I didn’t give a lot of UK bands a fair shake as I was always more interested in the bands from [...]
