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Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster 40th Anniversary Edition LP

Social Disortion’s Mommy’s Little Monster turned 40 years old this year. Originally released back in 1983, the album connected with just about every punk rocker in the United States and many overseas and has continued to do so with the...

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New Lilys colored vinyl reissues

Frontier Records didn’t just put out some of the most iconic punk rock albums of all time, but the label has also released and reissued some pretty stellar indie rock stuff too. In recent times, the label really did a huge favor to the world...

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New Adolescents vinyl colors

As we continue to catch up with the recent runs of colored vinyl punk classics on Frontier Records, we now get to the first Adolescents album, affectionately known as the “blue album”. Is there any readers of this site that isn’t...

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New Christian Death vinyl colors

Continuing on catching up with recent colored vinyl editions of classic Frontier Records releases, we now look at Christian Death. Only Theatre Of Pain was the album that pretty much set the blueprint for death rock back when it was released in 1982...

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Catching up with the recent Suicidal Tendencies vinyl colors

It has been awhile since we last did one of these Frontier Records features, but it is time to catch you up. Since the last feature, the first (and best) Suicidal Tendencies LP has been issued on a handful of new colors of vinyl, a couple of them...

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The Mentally Ill – Gacy’s Place The Starbeat Sessions LP

The Mentally Ill was one of the best relatively unknown first wave Chicago punk bands that started way back in the late 1970s. They put out two 7″s before going on a hiatus that would last for years and many people, especially people like me...

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Adolescents – Welcome To Reality 10″ orange vinyl

My apologies for somehow neglecting to include this one in the last Frontier Records update posted on this site but there was one more colored vinyl release that came with that batch and it was the Adolescents – Welcome To Reality 10″ on...

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Thin White Rope colored vinyl reissues

Thin White Rope was one of those very good indie rock bands that for whatever reason seemed to have been overlooked by a lot of people, myself included. They were around from the mid 1980s until the early 1990s, leaving behind five studio albums...

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The Mentally Ill – Gacy’s Place 7″ reissue

Way back in 1979 a little-known punk rock band from the Chicago area (Deerfield to be exact) had the distinction of being one of the earliest punk bands from the Windy City (the actual first Chicago punk band title is...

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April 26, 2012

Suicidal Tendencies – LP mixed color vinyl

One of the best-selling albums in punk rock history got itself a multicolored tan for the spring. The album I refer to is the first (really the only great) album by Suicidal Tendencies, an album that had no title but...

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April 3, 2012

Circle Jerks – Group Sex LP mixed color vinyl

This weekend it will be time to change the clocks ahead so it will no longer get dark out before you get home from work/school and along with the changing of the clocks comes the changing of the colors… of vinyl...

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March 6, 2012

Adrenalin O.D. – Let’s Barbeque reissue

In the 1980’s, New Jersey was a hotbed of quality hardcore bands. The kingpin of the NJ hardcore scene that revolved around the Buy Our Records label was Adrenalin O.D. who also happened to be one of the best...

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January 10, 2012

Adolescents – Welcome to Reality mixed color vinyl

Way back in the 1980s I got an Adolescents 7″ in a record trade from a good friend of mine. This single was called Welcome to Reality and it quickly became one of my favorite singles at the time and is a record...

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November 8, 2011

Government Issue – GI5 vinyl reissue

Government Issue was one of the two longest running punk rock bands from Washington DC (Fugazi being the other one) and they were certainly one of the best bands to ever come from that area. The band was rare in the...

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November 4, 2011

Adolescents – The Complete Demos purple vinyl

It has been awhile since we’ve seen some new colored vinyl action from Frontier Records. Some distributor problems and the summer saw a vinyl drought from one of the longest running and finest punk labels from the...

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November 2, 2011

The Undertones LP vinyl reissue

The Undertones were a punk rock band that actually started before the first wave of punk rock and quickly found their calling after hearing bands like the Ramones and Sex Pistols. They were from Ireland and were...

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July 15, 2011

The Clash – Black Market Clash vinyl reissue

Way back in October 1980, Epic Records in America released an EP that collected a bunch of Clash songs that weren’t available on any releases domestically. This EP was a 10″ vinyl record that was part of...

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July 5, 2011

Suicidal Tendencies LP smoke colored vinyl

Much like the changing of wardrobes from winter to summer clothes, the Suicidal Tendencies LP (I’m talking about the only Suicidal Tendencies LP that matters, the first one) went and got itself all dolled up for...

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June 19, 2011

The Briggs – Back to Higher Ground LP

The Briggs are a Los Angeles punk rock band that is celebrating their tenth birthday this year. The band has built up quite a following with not only putting out some very strong albums but also through a lot of touring...

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May 17, 2011