When I was 13-14 in 1989-90 my personal definition of “punk” was very informed by the Sessions catalog and t-shirt ads in Thrasher and other skate magazines. As far as I was concerned punk meant you liked bands like the…
Month: May 2020
Dollar Bin Dandies Special Edition TRIPLE THREAT: the Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink 7″s.
I’ve always loved bands whose entire output consisted of nothing but 7″s. A posthumous anthology LP collecting said 7″s plus maybe a comp track or unreleased song or demo is not only fine, but encouraged. It’s no doubt difficult to…
Sing Us A Song, You’re the Piano Man from U.N.C.L.E. – First Church of Napoleon Solo “Debbydid” 7″ (UK, 1984)
When I was in high school around ”92-’93 I travelled to Boston with some older, cooler acquaintances to see some bands play at the Rat. I don’t remember who ws playing. I’m guessing Sick of it All or Sheer Terror?…
Dollar Bin Dandies: Dynamic Truths “You Take It All” 7″ (Merge Records, 1998)
While we can all agree that the greatest release of all time on Merge Records is The Fuckers “QuickCash” 7″, the debut 7″ and sole release by Richmond, VA’s Dynamic Truths is definitely a close second. The band was the…
Writing About Hardcore Is Like Dancing About…Hardcore. Kor-Phu s/t LP (Roy Records, 1984)
Ah, 1984: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, “Thriller”, “Ghostbusters”, the debut of Apple’s Macintosh desktop computer. What a time to be into hardcore punk. So much to sneer at, so much to malign. If you were a punk-curious teenager living anywhere…
“My friends are important to me/I take friendship, seriously.” – Don Lennon
In 1996 I was living in Northampton, MA among the “Five Colleges”. I wasn’t a student, I actually worked two jobs full time: record store clerk by day, restaurant line cook by night, but I pretty much lived the life…
“Shit is hot up in the 6 right now.” – Aubrey Graham…..Dream Warriors “And Now the Legacy Begins” LP (Island Records, US, 1991)
Before Drake, if you were to say “Canadian rapper” to almost anyone in the US the first thing out of their mouth would probably be, “Oh yeah, like SNOW. ‘Infoooor-mer!‘” While Snow definitely left a bigger mark on the 90’s…