The Punk Vault

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Redd Kross – Born Innocent LP opaque blue vinyl

Redd Kross was (and is as they are still at it at least part-time) a very interesting band. When they started they were considered a punk rock band but they quickly evolved into something much more unique which probably...

Lilys – Eccsame The Photon Band black vinyl edition

Do you like the shoegaze genre of music? Do you like records but have some strange aversion to colored vinyl and prefer the black vinyl ones? If you answered yes to both of these questions then have I got some good news...

Heatmiser vinyl goes hot pink

Two indie rock classics just got a new vinyl colored facelift courtesy of Frontier Records. Heatmiser’s Dead Air and Cop And Speeder LPs have recently been pressed up on an opaque hot pink vinyl. For those of you...

Three punk classics go back to black

Remember the old days when records almost always came on black vinyl? Remember when a new LP only cost seven dollars? While the days of seven dollar albums are gone forever, black vinyl hasn’t gone anywhere. It is...

Modern English – After The Snow vinyl reissue

One year after their début album was released, Modern English returned with a follow-up that saw a shift in direction for them and found them to be pop stars with their smash hit, “I Melt With You”. After...

Modern English – Mesh & Lace vinyl reissue

If you are anything like me, your only exposure to the band, Modern English, is their ultra-catchy 1982 hit, “I Melt With You”. Angry punk rock teenager me couldn’t even deny how good that song was and...