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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Empire – Expensive Sound vinyl reissue

When UK punk band, Generation X, broke up everyone knew what happened to Billy Idol afterwords as he had an incredibly successful solo career but you never really heard about what the other guys from that band did. In...

The Members – At The Chelsea Nightclub vinyl reissue

The Members is a UK punk band that formed during punk’s infancy in 1976. The band put out a few albums and disbanded in 1983 and remained that way until reuniting a few years ago and actually released new material...

New Heatmiser colored vinyl releases

When you hear the name Frontier Records the first thing that probably comes to mind is their amazing back catalog of early 1980’s punk rock releases. The label is a home to some of the all-time greats like Circle...

The Lords of the New Church – LP vinyl reissue

When I was in high school I was eagerly learning more and more about the wonderful world of punk rock. I would buy records every chance I got, read any zines I could get my hands on, and share knowledge and...

Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes vinyl reissue

As I get older I find myself expanding my musical diet not by moving forward (because most new mainstream music is horrendous) but by looking back at the rock music I grew up with before discovering punk rock. Before...

Circle Jerks – Group Sex opaque orange vinyl

Keith Morris is one of the best punk rock front men of all time, some may even argue he is the best. When I think about punk/hardcore singers when asked to list a top ten, Keith Morris would be in the top three for sure...

Suicidal Tendencies LP navy blue vinyl

I spent a lot of my teenage years up in my bedroom listening to records. If I wasn’t out skateboarding or at the local video arcade I was in that room playing my records. I spent nearly every dollar I earned in my...