Category - Records

Two labels, two covers. That’s the history of the first Redd Kross album, Born Innocent. The album was first released by Smoke Seven Records in 1982 when the band was still going by the name, Red Cross. The threat...

Peter and the Test Tube Babies are a UK punk rock band that started in the early 1980’s. They are probably best known for their punk rock anthem, “Banned From the Pubs” which was not only the...

You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger talent in southern California punk rock than Rikk Agnew. Everything Rikk touched was punk rock gold and he had a hand in writing some of the most memorable punk songs in...

I can’t think of another band that took such a varied and strange musical path as Ministry did. The band that was the brainchild of Alain Jourgensen not only had a variety of members and collaborative partners...

I remember when I was in high school a lot of the girls I was friends with (or liked) who were into The Cure also liked Love and Rockets. I remember hearing their song, “Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man”...

Southern California was the greatest place for punk rock in the late 70’s through the mid 80’s. More great and influential bands came from that area than any other place in the United States, even if you add...

When Bauhaus split up in 1983 it didn’t take too long before all four band members started making music again; Peter Murphy embarked on a solo carer while the other three members, Daniel Ash, David J., and Kevin...

Death in June started way back in 1981 but didn’t release their début album until 1983. The band started as a post-punk band but after some key members left, the remaining founding member, Douglas P, moved the...

Joy Division is one of those bands that while popular at the time, became far more popular after their untimely demise and their musical influence is timeless and still continues to this day. The band’s music is...

One of the things I loved most about The Damned was that no two of their albums sounded alike. They didn’t pick one formula and stick with it forever like The Ramones or AC/DC and by the time that 1980 rolled...

The Damned did a lot of things first and they did a lot of things better than many of their early punk rock peers. They put out an album before the Sex Pistols, thus having the first UK punk album in most people’s...

The first punk record I ever bought was 999’s Concrete. It was the band’s fourth album and I fell in love with it when a classmate played it for me on a school field trip.I quickly purchased it as soon as I...