I was having lunch with my dad yesterday and he asked me, “Hey, I saw some famous professional skateboarder passed away the other day? Did you know who he was?” He was referring to Keith Hufnagel, pro skateboarder and founder…
Category: punk
Minimum Table Stacks Presents: Dollar Bin Dandies™ featuring: Mudhead “The Jumbo Sound Of Mudhead” 7″ (self-released, US, 1988)
Dollar Bin Dandies are great for stocking up on in case you need a last minute gift or the loan shark you owe money to happens to love obscure pre-1999 independent rock music so I advise you make a little…
“If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It’s the ultimate hustle.” – Marlon Brando… The August Sons “I Am Not A Vampyre” 12″ EP (Eyes In the Woods Records, US, 1989)
Context is a funny thing. I cook food for a living in a “research & development” capacity and one of my biggest pet peeves is when I’m working on something and I’m looking for honest feedback and I hand something…
“I don’t watch the news. I don’t read the papers. I’m not really in touch with society. I was born. I’m here, but I don’t believe any of it.” – Jim Shepard
A few posts back when I reminisced about my first encounter with Pussy Galore and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion I ended up with the longest post I’ve ever written. I probably spent more time editing and going back to…
“What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king.” – Ignatius J. Reilly… V/A – “East of Croydon” LP (Nothing Shaking Records, UK, 1981)
The thing about music (and most art for that matter) is that if you try to define something by coming up with a label for it, there’s a good chance you’ll end up spending more time thinking and talking about…
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” – Winston Churchill…Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “A Reverse Willie Horton” LP (Pubic Pop Can, US, 1991)
The first time I ever heard The Birthday Party was when a slightly older but very wiser friend played me “The Bad Seed” 12″ EP after I told him about my recent life changing experience seeing The Jesus Lizard live.…
Pegged In the Head With A Lawn Dart.. Ed’s Redeeming Qualities “Ed’s Day” 7″ (Aurora Records, US, 1989)
As a goofy high school freshman in 1989 who had already memorized the catalogs of the Dead Kennedy’s, Black Flag, The Misfits, etc etc etc, “punk rock” was still a wondrous world of discovery where anything that fell outside of…
Yet Another ‘Dollar Bin Dandies’: Space Dust “Cool Car” 7″ (18 Wheeler, US, 1994)
New Zealand “sloppy psych rock band” (their words) Space Dust’s debut 7″ was released in 1994 via Tom Scharpling’s New Jersey-based 18 Wheeler label. In case you weren’t buying vinyl-only releases by New Zealand indie bands in the early to…
“I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.” – Ron White… Bagpipe Operation “Little Twitch” 7″ (City Center, US, 1992)
Not too long ago I saw someone whose taste in music I really respect talkin’ smack on an internet website about some tunes I’d previously waxed ecstatic about on this very blog and I was kinda taken aback at how…
Roman Dirge vs Joe Coleman: Pick Your King…Incomplete Monday “I Am” LP (Silent Records, US, 1985)
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…