I may have jinxed myself when I subscribed to the original Sub Pop Singles Club. I think the first record I got in the mail was the AmRep “Smells Like Smoked Sausages” 2×7″ comp or maybe the L7 single and…
Month: April 2020
“If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”- Theodore Roosevelt…Crippled Pilgrims “Head Down – Hand Out” LP (Fountain Of Youth Records, US, 1984)
When you’re following the timeline of any city/scene from the advent of 70’s punk, to the second wave of punk (ie the first wave of “posers”) to the nascent beginnings of “hardcore” and its iterations, somewhere along the line you’re…
Dollar Bin Dandies: White “This Is A Black-Owned Business” 7″ (Behemoth Records, 1998)
As the saying goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” and I thought I’d take the time to highlight some records I love that’re often floatin’ around for next to nothing. Some of this stuff might not be easy…
“At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.” – Chris Burden
The first time I ever saw a Born Against record was at Rhymes Records in New Haven, CT in 1991. I was 15 or 16. It was on a new release rack next to “Steady Diet of Nothing” by Fugazi,…
“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” – Audrey Hepburn
The curse of getting a song you don’t like stuck in your head can be absolutely maddening. I’m not even sure I can think of too many times where I got a song I do like stuck in my head…
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I don’t think I’ve ever been able to look at a Jan Hammer record without unconsciously thinking “Miami Vice”. The series ran a total of 5 seasons during which I went from age 9 to 14, prime TV viewing time…
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.” – William S. Burroughs
For going on two decades I’ve had this memory in my mind of the hardest, most pronounced eye roll I had ever received from a record store employee. It wasn’t until a few years ago that a friend pointed out…
“Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum” – Lucretius, First Century B.C.
Not long ago my wife posted an Instagram video of our nephew, a 4 year old growing up in South London, banging on a toy guitar/synthesizer and loudly singing shouting a song he had just written on the spot and…
“I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not?” – Jack Handey
If you’re a record collector who has spent any time keeping up with new releases within your preferred genres, surely at least once you’ve missed out on buying something “limited” that went OOP within minutes of being put up for…