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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Adolescents LP green marbled vinyl

The Adolescents have been around in one form or another for almost 35 years now. They are still at it today and have a brand new album that was just released last week (look for a review of it on this site in the near...

Johnny Thunders – So Alone vinyl reissue

Johnny Thunders was easily as famous for his drug use and reckless lifestyle as he was for being a musical pioneer. As a member of the New York Dolls, Thunders helped change the future of music and influenced what would...

David Johansen – Self titled LP vinyl reissue

David Johansen is probably best known for being the singer of the New York Dolls who are largely credited as being one of the bands that influenced and helped spawn punk rock in the 1970’s. The short-lived band...

Redd Kross – Born Innocent gray marbled vinyl

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...

Rikk Agnew – All By Myself LP blue marbled vinyl

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...