The Punk Vault

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Category - General

Put yr mind inside a little box

The weekend in review: Friday: Went home after work, hit Potbellys, then over to the Clown Ranch to meet up with everyone to go down to Lyon’s Den for punk rock fridays. We had a bigger group this time, two car...

Friday 5

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails? Spontaneous Combustion Records/Webzine 2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven’t graduated yet, what would...

Worth every penny

So I captured that Skinny Puppy show to make a DVD of. What took 2 days to encode on my old machine, was done in under 6 hours on the new one! Buying the new computer was a wise move indeed. I have a pile of stuff now...

Putting it to the test

Got the new PC up and running. I’m putting the new machine to the test by capturing the video of Skinny Puppy live at the metro 10/20/88 to make a DVD of. I’m sure the encoding time is going to be a fraction...

Booze, bowling, back at work

Friday: After work went home, changed and hit Potbellys for dinner. After that went over to the clown ranch to meet up with 1, 2, Hannover Fist and skingallery Chris to go to Lyon’ Den for Punk Rock Fridays. It...

Reclaiming old friends

I failed to mention this before, but in the past couple months, not only have I regained contact with one old friend that I really wanted to find again, but I have now heard from a second one! The first one was Aubrey...

Add this to the want list

You can be damn sure I’ll be buying this when it comes out at the end of the month!
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Huh?

I was just handed a fortune cookie. Upon eating it, I read the fortune: You are careful and systematic Um, how exactly is that a fortune? It is not telling me anything that will happen. Lazy fortune writing bastards...