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Win tickets to see The Fall of Troy 9/24 at Metro in Chicago!

The Fall of Troy is an interesting band. They play what many refer to as “post hardcore” which bands like Since By Man did so well in the early 2000’s but The Fall of Troy had a different take on the style. The band was one of the...

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Win free tickets to The All Stars Tour at Chicago’s Metro August 6!

With summer comes not only outdoor festivals but big tours that feature almost a full day’s worth of bands playing at various clubs across america. One of those tours, The All Stars Tour, is coming to Chicago next Thursday, August 6th to...

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Social Distortion contest: Win tickets to the 10/12 Vic Theater show plus more!

Social Distortion is a band with a varied history spanning over three decades now. They started as a punk rock band at the end of the 1970s and their first album, [amazon_link id=”B000005EMY” target=”_blank” ]Mommy’s...

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Pelican “Final Breath” video

Pelican have just completed and posted a video for the final track on their latest album, What We All Come to Need, an album I still haven’t heard yet! It is their first for Southern Lord and this song also has the distinction of being the...

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Dwarves limited edition Throbblehead

I never thought I’d see the day that they made punk rock action figures, but first it happened with “The Misfits”, then GG Allin and the mighty Tesco Vee, and now The Dwarves. Aggronautix who released the aforementioned GG and...

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New items in the Punk Vault store

I just updated the store with some new items, all vinyl including the new Dr. Know and Ill Repute reissues. Check it out right here and please tell your friends.
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Giants – They the Undeserving

Giants – They the Undeserving LP The Mylene Sheath The Mylene Sheath continue to keep their batting average at an all time high as the new releases continue to stream out. Second in the batch of new releases for the label I received comes this...

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The Punk Vault Store has reopened

The Punk Vault store has just reopened. I had to replace the entire shopping cart system with a newer and better one. This one handles shipping much better than the old system. There’s also a bunch of new and some rare records for sale in...

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Happy bird day

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Today is historically my favorite meal of the year. I know the holiday isn’t really supposed to be about eating and to look back at what you are thankful for or something like that. I...

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November 22, 2007

R.I.P. Fabulous Moolah

I guess it has been a few weeks since I’ve written one of these and sadly that means it was time for the wrestling world to lose another one of its great performers. The Fabulous Moolah passed away. Unlike many in...

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November 5, 2007

R.I.P. Brian Adams

I guess since it has been a few weeks, someone up above (or down below depending on who you ask) decided it was time to take another wrestler from the world. Brian Adams was found dead today. So far there has been no...

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August 13, 2007

My photos on Spin Magazine’s site

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in shooing some photos of Juliette and the Licks for Spin Magazine’s website feature called, “It Happened Last Night”. I was pretty flattered to have...

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July 19, 2007

Why I will never buy an iPhone

It was revealed to me by a friend who was considering buying one that the iPhone has one major flaw in it. What is that flaw you ask? Apparently you can’t use your mp3s as ringtones! That’s right, your 600...

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July 6, 2007

R.I.P. Chris Benoit

This one hits a little harder than most of these I’ve reported as I was a big Chris Benoit fan and thought he was easily one of the best workers in the business in the past decade. Taken from the WWE...

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June 25, 2007

R.I.P. Sensational Sherri

I used to occasionally write about wrestling on this site when something about one of the shows compelled me to do so. Lately wrestling has been so bad that I stopped writing about it except for the all too often times...

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June 18, 2007

The invasion has begun

For those of you not in the midwest, specifically IL, you may not know about the Cicada, or the 17 year locust. This is the year they return and over the weekend seemingly out of nowhere, my back yard was filled with...

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May 29, 2007

When will it stop?!

Price of gas Sunday – $3.29 Price of gas yesterday when I had to fill up – $3.49 The shit went up 20 cents in one day, after going up about 10 cents every week or so for the past few weeks! What the hell is...

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May 15, 2007

Someone please punch me

Have you ever said something during an argument so completely mean, stupid, and out of line that you wish you could rewind life to the point and not said it? That just happened to me in an argument I had with the person...

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March 15, 2007

R.I.P. Bad News Brown(Allen)

It seems I have to post one of these every few weeks and wrestlers are dropping faster than old punks. Allen Coage, better known to wrestling fans as Bad News Brown, or Bad News Allen depending on where he was working...

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March 7, 2007

R.I.P. Mike Awesome

I just learned that former ECW champion, Mike Awesome, passed away on saturday. He was found hanging in him home from an apparent suicide by some friends of his that were coming to pick him up. Mike, whose real name was...

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February 19, 2007