Category - Records

There is so much music out there that even if you had nothing to do all day and unlimited funds, you’d barely scratch the surface of what’s out there that was released in any given decade. If you start...

If there was ever a “Killed By Death” (KBD for short) hall of fame then the Village Pistols – Big Money 7″ would have to be included in it. For the uninitiated, Killed By Death was a series of...

If I made a list of the all-time best punk albums from the 70’s/80’s it would probably be pretty long (and it would probably get shared around that Facebook a lot more than most of my articles because people...

The Three O’Clock started out as a little band called Salvation Army who put out a 7″ on New Alliance Records back in 1981. The single was an amazing little piece of power pop with a hint of psychedelia and...

Before embarking on a solo career with his band, The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave was a member of legendary post-punk band, The Birthday Party. The band existed from 1978 – 1983 and released a handful of great...

When it comes to American punk rock there is no greater record label than Dangerhouse Records. This label formed in 1977 and only lasted a couple of years but everything they put out was punk rock gold. In the late...

Fall is here which means the weather gets colder, the days shorter, the leaves change colors and the favorite holiday of death rockers/Goths takes place, Halloween. Tis the season for death rock and goth music and what...

If you have lived in a cave the last 30 years then you probably missed out on a band from Southern California called the Adolescents who in 1981 released one of the finest punk rock albums of its time. In fact the thing...

There must have been something in the water and the California sun back in the early 1980’s because it was the single greatest state for punk rock back in those days. So many legendary bands formed there and put...

I got into punk rock around 1981 which means I missed out on a lot of the first generation of United States punk rock as many of the bands from that first wave didn’t stick around very long but they certainly left...

A Certain Ratio first formed in Manchester, England in the late 1970s. They started as more of a punk band but quickly evolved into a post-punk band and then continued to experiment with their sound by incorporating...

This feature isn’t going to have a lengthy back story as an opener because truth be told I had never heard of the band, BFG, until I received this record in the mail. Looking at the cover I could tell you the...