As 2023 came to a close yesterday I realized that I couldn’t remember exactly which year I started Minimum Table Stacks, the blog nor the label. I’ve been fortunate enough to see some of my releases appear in the countless…
Category: Hardcore
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” —Oscar Wilde…..On s/t LP (2006, Saucerlike Recordings, Australia)
Since I started my own label this past year and I have a bit more of a :ahem: financial interest (investment?) in “the game”, I’ve been paying a little more attention to labels, critics, writers, etc that I probably otherwise…
Better Late Than Never…. Smelly Feet “Smelly Neu Pollution” LP out now
If you’re reading this here you probably have some connection elsewhere to my Instagram/Twitter etc and you already know: What once was my blog is now my record label. Like having a child a little over a year ago: you…
“You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.” – Phyllis Diller… Artacus Eaght “Mission Impossible” LP (Blood & Glory, US, 1985)
Early on in the first chapter of the 2014 book NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 by Tony Rettman there’s a quote from Reagan Youth guitarist “Paul Cripple” that reads: When I hear the term “mainstream punk” these days, I have…