Category - Records

Sometimes you come across a record and/or a band from the past that you were completely unaware of and it is like finding buried treasure. These things often happen when someone introduces you to a record they liked and...

Before Nick Cave had his Bad Seeds and became an alternative rock sensation (something well-deserved I might add), he was in a band called The Birthday Party. The band actually was first known as the Boys Next Door...

I am pretty sure my discovery of The Lords Of The New Church happened because they showed a video for one of their songs on MTV’s 120 Minutes and the host, Dave Kendall, said that the group featured the original...

As the temperatures continue to drop here in the Midwest and the threat of snow is always looming, one snow related thing I never mind is getting some snow colored (white, before the dogs and pollution soil it) vinyl in...

While the world lost one of the all-time greats in Lemmy recently, the music Motorhead made is timeless and will last forever, as long as someone keeps the music in print in some format. Shortly before we lost Lemmy...

Just like the seasons change, so does the colors of the vinyl over at Frontier Records when it comes to their big selling classics. Winter reared its ugly head recently and with the crappy temps and god awful snow came...

The greatest punk label in the world was Dangerhouse Records. In their short time as an active label they put out some of the greatest punk singles of all time (along with one album and a compilation 12″ EP. The...

When the Lords Of The New Church hit the scene there was a pretty good buzz about them due to the band containing members of The Damned and Dead Boys and their début album was pretty fantastic. The band followed up...

I can remember exactly when I first heard Love and Rockets for the first time actually knowing it was them. I was watching MTV and they showed a new video for their song, “No New Tale To Tell”. It started...

To many, punk rock and drinking go hand in hand. “Someone give me a beer” was Darby Crash’s most famous quote. Murphy’s Law often sang about drinking, Gang Green made an entire career based on it...

The Only Ones were a UK band that formed in 1976 and put out three studio albums before breaking up in 1982. They became associated with the punk rock scene at the time even though they were a lot more diverse than most...

In the late 1980’s into the early 1990’s, Industrial music was on the rise.  The Wax Trax label and bands like Skinny Puppy and Ministry paved the way for the genre in North America and it was an exciting...