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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…