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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Channel 3 – A Home For The Homeless LP

Channel 3 – A Home For The Homeless LP Wanda Records On top of being some of the nicest guys in punk rock, Channel 3 (CH3 for short) is also one of the longest running punk rock bands from Southern California who...

The Cramps – Gravest Hits vinyl reissue

Way back when I was in junior high school and just discovering punk rock, The Cramps was among the first handful of bands I heard about alongside The Sex Pistols, 999, The Damned, and a few others. My first exposure to...

Lilys – Eccsame The Photon Band reissue

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...

The Birthday Party – Prayers On Fire vinyl reissue

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...

The Weirdos snow colored vinyl reissues

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...