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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Motorhead – Self-tiled LP reissue

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...

Three punk classics on Coke bottle blue vinyl

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...

Dangerhouse Collections now available on white vinyl

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...

Love and Rockets – Earth, Sun, Moon vinyl reissue

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...

Three punk classics on bourbon colored vinyl

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 LP vinyl reissue

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...

Ministry – The Land of Rape and Honey vinyl reissue

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...