The Punk Vault

F.U.’s – Death Squad Nostalgia

F.U.’s – Death Squad Nostalgia EP Yankee Vandal Records F.U.’s are a legendary hardcore band from Boston, MA. In the early 1980s, Boston had a really great hardcore punk scene back when that genre was just starting to spread across...

The Berzerkers – Can’t Stand Still LP

The Berzerkers – Can’t Stand Still LP Hostage Records Hailing from the punk rock hotbed known as Orange County, CA, The Berzerkers present us with their debut album on Hostage Records, a label with impeccable taste. The Berzerkers play...

Pezz – More Than You Can Give Us LP

Pezz – More Than You Can Give Us LP Truant Records Hailing from Memphis, TN, Pezz has been around since 1989. While they haven’t been as active recently as they were in the past, they seem to surprise us every now and then with new...

Spider – Energy Gone Wrong 7″

Spider – Energy Gone Wrong 7″ Cpryt Cntrl Records Spider is a fairly new Southern California punk rock band and this three song 7″ is their debut release. While you may not be familiar with them, if you are a fan of early...

Channel 3 – The Bellwether 12″ EP

Channel 3 – The Bellwether 12″ EP Hostage Records It is amazing to think about that next year, Channel 3 will celebrate 40 years of being a band! Four decades! It is scary to think how fast that time has flown by if you have been a long...

Hotlips Messiah – Disco Miscarriage LP

Hotlips Messiah is one of the best and most underrated Chicago punk bands of the last 15 years. They’ve been around a long time and have played a ton of shows in the Chicago area but somehow they aren’t the household punk rock name they...

Channel 3 – Put ‘Em Up LP

Channel 3 – Put ‘Em Up LP TKO Records Few things make me happier than great punk bands I grew up listening to still playing and making music. It is even better when the reason the is still at it is that they are still friends and...

Sorex – Portrait Of a Prisoner LP

Sorex – Portrait Of a Prisoner LP Radio Raheem Records By the mid 1980s, hardcore punk was spreading like wildfire and there was a punk scene in pretty much every major city in the United States, and many in the suburbs too. While the genre...

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Shattered Faith – Volume III LP

Shattered Faith – Volume III LP Hostage Records It’s no secret that the Shattered Faith single is one of my favorite releases on the Posh Boy label. That and their songs on The Future Looks Bright were real...

Mad Parade – Underground

Mad Parade – Underground 7″ Hostage Records I know I’ve mentioned this before but Mad Parade will go down in history as one of the most criminally underrated punk rock bands of all time. These guys...

Salad Days Blu Ray

Salad Days – Blu Ray New Rose Films/MVD Visual In punk and hardcore’s formative years most major cities in the United States had a pretty active punk scene that transcended the area to get national...

Mad Parade – The Fool 7″

Mad Parade – The Fool 7″ Hostage Records There’s a list that I keep in my head of underrated punk rock bands that I feel never got the recognition that they deserved and perhaps the band on the very...

Caustic Defiance – 7″ EP

Caustic Defiance – 7″EP Way Back When Records/Kangaroo Records Back when I was in early high school, a friend of mine named Keith played in a local hardcore punk band called Negative Element. When he gave me...

Adolescents – La Vendetta… LP

The Adolescents have been around in one form or another for the better part of the last 35 years which is one heck of a long time. The band formed in 1980 in southern California and their début, self-titled album is...

Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records

Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records By Kevin Prested Microcosm Publishing As a once avid reader of MaximumRocknRoll fanzine, I was well aware of the Gilman Street Project, a punk club the zine helped start...

Sacrificial Youth DVD

A punk rock musical that is a really fun ride from start to finish. Sacrificial Youth DVD A Film by Joe Losurdo Regressive Films Joe Losurdo hit a home run quite a few years ago when he made the Chicago punk documentary...