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V. Card - Bright - 7 inch on Allied Records
V. Card - Bright - 7 inch onf Allied Records

Compilation - Buried Alive: Best From Smoke 7 Records 1981-1983 - CD on Bomp Records
Compilation - Buried Alive: Best From Smoke 7 Records 1981-1983 - CD on Bomp Records

Government Issue - Joy Ride - Cassette
Government Issue - Joy Ride - Cassette

Saint James Infirmary - ST - Seven inch vinyl on Allied Records
Saint James Infirmary - ST - Seven inch vinyl on Allied Records

Uniform Choice - Region Of Ice - Cassette tape on Giant Records
Uniform Choice - Region Of Ice - Cassette tape on Giant Records

Rail - Turn It Around - Yellow Vinyl 7 Inch members of Kraut on New red Archive Records
Fearless Leader - !#$:! - Vinyl album on Hell Yeah Records

Compilation - Program Annihilator - Double LP with Saint Vitus Black Flag Overkill DC3 SWA on SST Records
Compilation - Program Annihilator - Double LP with Saint Vitus Black Flag Overkill DC3 SWA on SST Records

Dog Faced Hermans / Jonestown - Split RED VINYL 7 Inch vinyl on Compulsiv Records 1991
Dog Faced Hermans / Jonestown - Split RED VINYL 7 Inch vinyl on Compulsiv Records 1991

Grant Hart - 2541 - Vinyl album featuring Ex Husker Du member on SST Records
Grant Hart - 2541 - Vinyl album featuring Ex Husker Du member on SST Records

Strawman - Politics On The Pavement - 7 inch vinyl on Allied Recordings
Strawman - Politics On The Pavement - 7 inch vinyl on Allied Recordings

Haywire - Private Hell - Vinyl album featuring members of Half off on New Beginning Records
Haywire - Private Hell - Vinyl album featuring members of Half off on New Beginning Records

Fiddlehead - Bleat - Seven Inch on Allied Records
Fiddlehead - Bleat - Seven Inch on Allied Records

Compilation - Emergency Broadcast Systems Volume 4 - 7 inch with Sake, Nevertheless, Crease and mary Me on Allied Records
Compilation - Emergency Broadcast Systems Volume 4 - 7 inch with Sake, Nevertheless, Crease and mary Me on Allied Records

Overkill LA - Triumph Of The Will - CD on SST Records
Overkill LA - Triumph Of The Will - CD on SST Records

Daddy Longhead - Classic - CD for members of the Butthole Surfers on Mans Ruin Records
Daddy Longhead - Classic - CD for members of the Butthole Surfers on Mans Ruin Records

Naked City - Torture Garden - Cassette featuring John Zorn on Shimmy Disc Records
Naked City - Torture Garden - Cassette featuring John Zorn on Shimmy Disc

TSOL - Live - Cassette tape on Restless Records
TSOL - Live - Cassette tape on Restless Records

76% Uncertain - Hunka Hunka Burnin Log - Cassette tape on Wishingwell Records
76% Uncertain - Hunka Hunka Burnin Log - Cassette tape on Wishingwell Records

D.O.A. - Talk Minus Action Equals Zero - Cassette tape on Restless Records
D.O.A. - Talk Minus Action Equals Zero - Cassette tape on Restless Records

English Dogs - All The Worlds A Rage - Compact Disc
English Dogs - All The Worlds A Rage - Compact Disc

Amazing 7 inch vinyl, colored vinyl albums and great CDs from old school punk rock bands


Kill Sybil - ST - Vinyl LP on Empty records

Kill Sybil - ST - Vinyl LP on Empty records

Seattle quintet Kill Sybil - initially just Sybil, the name under which the group issued a 1991 single - once had future Hole batterer Patty Schemel sitting on its drum throne. (Her brother Larry Schemel was one of the band's two guitarists.) Her drumming on two tracks, however, is not the best feature of the band's lone album. Kill Sybil boasts impressive three-dimensional sound and tempers the rage of punk hormones with bright pop tunes that could have been snatched from tweepoppers like Tiger Trap. Frequently resembling Hole's Live Through This (which it predates) in presence if not temper, Kill Sybil is better than good in every department other than Tammy Watson's unsteady lead vocals. And even that problem is successfully addressed with overdubbing. Additionally, Stevescott Schmaljohn of Treepeople joins his moonlighting bandmate, drummer Eric Akre, to sing "Broken Back," and guitarist Dale Balenseifen takes the mic for "Something to Tell." Except for a brief blurt of in-concert incoherence, the songs have shape, substance and dynamic variety ("Best" even waxes gently atmospheric before unleashing its power); the guitarists' furious strumming layers unconventional chords into intriguing textures and then punctures them with noisy solos. Best of all, there's more diverse melodicism than should be expected from such an energetically clamorous band. Even when the music is jumping around wildly, Kill Sybil keeps its feet on solid ground.
Another Pretty Face - All The Boys Love Carrie - 7 inch record of Mike Scott of The Waterboys

Another Pretty Face - All The Boys Love Carrie - 7 inch record of Mike Scott of The Waterboys

The name Another Pretty Face also belonged to a Scottish indie band in the mid-1980s who recorded some fine singles for their own New Pleasures label, which sold in the hundreds, and one for Virgin, 'Whatever happened to the West?' that sold only a little more, despite being acclaimed in the music press. This band's lead singer Mike Scott founded the Waterboys and the rest is history...
Seam - Headsparks - Cassette tape on Homestead records

Seam - Headsparks - Cassette tape on Homestead records

Bitch Magnet started getting a fair buzz of attention right when they fell apart, so it's little surprise that Sooyoung Park's next band, Seam (which also initially included Bitch Magnet's bassist, Lexi Mitchell), would benefit in part from that -- as well as the appearance of Superchunk's Mac McCaughan, proving himself to be a very good drummer on this album as well as two preceding singles. The just over half-an-hour-long Headsparks, literally recorded the month before Rock Changed Forever ('90s Style) with the release of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," contains plenty of touches soon to become hyperfamiliar. There's hints of Pixies, the Louisville underground, the incipient Merge scene, and even a touch of Neil Young's storming melancholia, resulting in a blend that's at once powerful, heartfelt, and anthemic almost in spite of itself. Certainly that could describe the opening song alone -- "Decatur," kicking things off on an emotional (but happily not "emo" in any sense of the word) note. Park's singing throughout varies between the murky and somewhat more straightforward -- while not sounding anywhere like its various shoegaze contemporaries in the U.K., there's a similar use of voice-as-cryptic instrument, often sounding a little lost in the kick of the music. Combined with some of the arrangements, it almost obliquely suggests a parallel to the Wedding Present -- the alternation between gentle chime and pepped-up crunch on "Pins and Needles" really suggests Dave Gedge's crew circa 1990 -- but the sentiments of wounded feeling, vocally and musically, have a wistful catch all their own. Highlights in that vein include "Sky City" and the epic collapse of "Feather," both of which do a fantastic job in showing the strength of Park's guitar playing as well. Two guest performers -- Velocity Girl's Sarah Shannon singing lead on "Shame" and Erectus Monotone's Jennifer Walker handling backup on "New Year's" -- add an enjoyable touch of further variety to an excellent album.
Meat Puppets - Huevos - Cassette tape on SST Records

Meat Puppets - Huevos - Cassette tape on SST Records

Huevos means "eggs" in Spanish. It also, slangily, refers to balls. It's clear which connotation the Meat Puppets were alluding to when they named this record. It's as if they traded in their stoner VW bus for a muscle car. To push the metaphor further, it's as if they put away the hallucinogens in favor of Jack Daniels. There are far fewer overtly psychedelic touches on HUEVOS than on previous records. Whereas the group's records used to travel a circuitous path, on HUEVOS, the Puppets stick to the main road.You know you're not listening to your grandfather's Meat Puppets from the opening notes of "Paradise," which bears the unmistakable mechanized churning of MTV-era ZZ Top. The sound is altogether thicker, and the vocals are less from the upper chest than the lower diaphragm. But amid the balls-to-the-wall rockers like "Automatic Mojo" are starbursts of color, most notably "Fruit," with its jiggly beat and sighing backup vocals, and the molten, sublime axe work that decorates "Dry Rain."
Buzzov-en - Unwilling To Explain - CD on Allied Records

Buzzov-en - Unwilling To Explain - CD on Allied Records

Buzzov-en has been cranking out drug-fueled, misanthropic sludge punk in various incarnations since their inception in 1990. Known almost as much for their out-of-control and sometimes violent live shows as they are for their music, the band carries on a tradition shared by such fellow Southern troublemakers as Eyehategod and Antiseen. They have endured several lineup changes and apparent breakups over the years, with the only permanent member being singer/guitarist Kirk Fisher (alternately credited on albums as "Reverend Dirtkicker" or simply "Kirk.") With drummer Ashley Williamson (aka Ash and Ash Lee) and bassist Brian Hill in tow, they recorded their first EP (Wound) and full-length (To a Frown) on the Allied label in the early to mid-'90s. Eventually signing with the more prominent Roadrunner Records, the band unleashed their second full-length, Sore, in 1994. (By this time, they had added a second guitarist in Buddy Apostolis, aka Buddy and Little Buddy.) Yet instead of garnering the type of recognition as some of their labelmates (see Sepultura or Fear Factory, for example), Buzzov-en remained very much a cult band, continuing to tour heavily (including a stint opening for GWAR) but ultimately disintegrating before they could issue a Roadrunner follow-up. By the time of their next full-length, 1998's At a Loss, Fisher was the only original member left, with bassist/vocalist Dave "Dixie" Collins (later of Weedeater) among the new recruits. Assumed to have broken up once more, Fisher and company nonetheless returned yet again in 2001 with the long-delayed Revelation: Sick Again, this time on the Hydrahead label.
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb - Cassette tape on Homestead Records

Naked Raygun - Throb Throb - Cassette tape on Homestead Records

From its onset, the tube-crunch surf guitar intro of "Rat Patrol," Throb Throb sizzles like grease in a frying pan until it comes to a halt some 30 minutes later. Like the tank on its cover, Throb is largely informed by an antagonism that rails against the Reaganism that helped spawn intelligent '80s post-punk groups much like Naked Raygun. Titles like "Surf Combat," a song about the effects of napalm at popular beaches, "Gear," a braggadocio commentary about nuclear weapons and the arms race, and "Managua," in which troops march to their impending death, exemplify Throb's political mentality and musical gravity, which are a direct result of the '80s Cold War. Naked Raygun sends the songs up with a sense-raping frazzle and dissonance. While not as furious as Hüsker Dü or as angry as the Misfits, Throb is no less vehement, and ever the more working-class. With comprehensible lyrics everyone can understand and chant, and a plethora of race-against-time guitar melodies, Throb is rare in that it appeals to academics as well as rednecks, straight-shooters as well as in-the-know punks. Borrowing from the big-guitar sound of English heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and carving catchy melodies usually reserved for Top 40 pop songs into firebrands like "I Don't Know" and "Libido," Naked Raygun assures Throb's place as a classic that is forever ahead of its time, regardless of when it is heard.
The Dickies - Killer Klowns From Outer Space - Cassette tape on Enigma Records

The Dickies - Killer Klowns From Outer Space - Cassette tape on Enigma Records

After paying tribute to a number of trashy B-movies and writing a number of original songs that sounded as though they were based on similar junk culture, the Dickies got to indulge their obsession in reality by contributing the theme song to the low-grade comedy/horror film Killer Klowns From Outer Space. The remainder of the EP is not quite as inspired, but fans will want the album for that track, as well as a cover of Jet Screamer's "Eep Opp Ork (Uh, Uh)," a rockabilly tune featured in an episode of The Jetsons
The Jack Saints / The Idiots - Split - CD on Mans Ruin Records

The Jack Saints / The Idiots - Split - CD on Mans Ruin Records

Jack Saints is a garage Punk/Rock 'n Roll band formed in Palm Springs, California, in 1995. In 1996 they moved to San Francisco and became part of the underground music scene there, releasing three singles, three albums, and appearing on many compilations.
GBH - From Here To Reality - Cassette tape on Restless Records

GBH - From Here To Reality - Cassette tape on Restless Records

G.B.H.'s sixth album, 1990's From Here to Reality, marches on in the same direction as the preceding A Fridge Too Far -- only the hardcore is harder, the speed metal is faster, and the energy on display defies any suggestion that G.B.H. were anything but the same committed mob they'd always been. The new musical approach may not have been to everyone's taste -- their most loyal audiences were now in Japan and the U.S., from whence the hardcore influence oozed in the first place. But, within the parameters of that audience's demands, there was no respite. "New Decade" sensibly opens the album, and does so with a discordant edge that proves to be this album's key. From "Trust Me I'm a Doctor" to "The Old School of Self Destruction" and "Just in Time for the Epilogue,"classic latter-day G.B.H. permeates every cut and, though it's all a lot less melodic than Fridge, From Here to Reality compensates for that via a succession of chopstick rhythms and dislocated riffs, a series of edgy anthems whose relentless hammering established this among the crucial punk albums of the 1990s, before the decade was even a year old. Besides, there is respite at the end of the rainbow, as "Moonshine" uncorks a country & western-style knees-up, all sheet-keecking geetars and the world's worst Southern accent, and a guest appearance from Angus Young's cousin, the pseudonymous Casper Wyoming. It's a lunatic way of ending such a hard-hitting album, and it works all the better because of it. Welcome to the 1990s!
The Frogs - Bananimals - CD on 4 Alarm records

The Frogs - Bananimals - CD on 4 Alarm records

Once again unexpectedly emerging with an official album after a long silence, the Frogs stepped back from the smooth sounds of Starjob with a new collection of often rough, perversely charming, and always entertainingly offensive tracks. A fair number of songs could easily constitute a part two of It's Only Right and Natural, mixing the same elements of sweet folkiness and gay-themed lyrics. "La Da Da Da, La Da Da Dee, La Da Da Dum Dum" -- indeed the title as well as the chorus -- talks about French kissing some guy and not minding his dentures. Meanwhile, "Love in the Sand" lazily describes a scenario with another fellow where he "blew me...a kiss." Not everything is quite so focused -- thus, of course, "Love Me or Die, Bitch" ("make up your mind which!"), with alternately beautiful and stomped piano. An even more perversely pretty example is "Golden Showers," where the music and tender singing are quite lovely, even if the water sports being celebrated aren't swimming and water polo. The hints of melancholia and distress which underpin a lot of the band's best work crop up more than once, sometimes in the simplest of ways, as they do in the lead piano on "One of Them Wore Wings, the Other Did the Painting." Dennis Flemion is still in fine, scraggly voice -- alternately breathy, aggressively camp, or just plain screwed up (refer to "Evil Arnold [With the Ugly Name]" for a good example of the latter). When he gets to slamming down some of the morons of the world -- thus, "U Bastards" ("you should be sent to hell/you rotten motherf*ckers") -- his singing is at its sweetest. "Fur z Musik Biz (10 Years to Waste)" is perhaps the perfect epitome of such an approach -- a sickly sweet, tenderly arranged "up yours" to the industry that is simply mind-blowing.




Shirk Circus - Summer Sun - Yellow Vinyl 7 inch single on New Red Archives Records

Corrupted Ideals - Anti-Trend, Anti-System And Anti-Faction - 3 colored vinyl 7 inches on New Red Archives Records


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