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…
Category: punk
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…
Dollar Bin Dandies: Art Thieves 7″ (HoZac, 2009)
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…
“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,…
“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…