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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Angry Samoans – Inside My Brain vinyl reissue

I remember the first time I heard the Angry Samoans. It was the summer after eighth grade and two older friends of mine (Kath and Robert) had a radio show on the high school’s radio station. They had the only punk...

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June 4, 2014

The Insults – Population Zero 7″ reissue

It was tough back in the early punk rock days from the pre-internet age of the ’70s and ’80s to discover bands and records. Mainstream stores rarely stocked punk records on small labels, especially in the...

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May 15, 2014

Adolescents LP yellow marbled vinyl

As much as I loved where I grew up back in the 1980s, if I could have lived anywhere else I’d have easily picked southern California. That place not only didn’t have the shitty season known as winter but...

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April 11, 2014

Fire Exit – Time Wall 7″ reissue

I was never a big collector or follower of “foreign punk”. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike it and I could easily make you a list of many bands from overseas that I like, it is just that I...

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March 27, 2014

Suicidal Tendencies LP blue marbled vinyl

The first Suicidal Tendencies LP has to be one of the best-selling punk rock albums of all time. I’m talking real manly punk rock with testicular fortitude, not that shitty emo pop that tries to pass itself off as...

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March 18, 2014

Redd Kross – Born Innocent LP coke bottle vinyl

Redd Kross has been around in one form or another for a very long time, 34 years and counting! The one constant has been the core members, Jeff and Steve McDonald, who just so happen to be brothers.  They started the...

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February 20, 2014

The Middle Class – Out of Vogue 7″ red vinyl

A lot of 7″ records have been arriving at The Vault lately and it is nice to see the 7″ format get some love again as it has taken a back seat to its larger sized brother in recent years. In the early punk...

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February 18, 2014

The Skinnies – Kill the Beat 7″ reissue

New Orleans isn’t the first city that comes to mind when I think about early punk rock. In fact, it wouldn’t even be in a top ten list of early punk scenes if you asked me to make a list. The truth is that...

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February 4, 2014

Adolescents – Welcome to Reality 7″ white vinyl

For as great as the first Adolescents LP is (one of the finest punk records of its time), I think I like their Welcome to Reality 7″ more. Back in the mid ’80s finding a copy of this single with the picture...

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January 16, 2014