The Punk Vault

Selections From The Punk Vault – The Bees

Way back in 1986 I had a promo copy of the first Skulls album, Dress Up and Die, sent to me from Buy Our Records. They used to send me records to review in my fanzine, Spontaneous Combustion. I played that record and became an instant fan. While it...

Selections from The Punk Vault – White Flag

The first place that I ever heard of White Flag was in one of two places: the We Got Power compilation or Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume One. A much younger me would have been able to tell you which of the two it was but the current me isn’t as...

Dazzling Killmen live at Lounge Ax

I was digging through the Spontaneous Combustion office last night and pulled out my boxes of DATs of shows I recorded. In the early 1990s I used to go to a ton of shows and I used to audio record them. I first had a Sony Professional Walkman D3 but...

Selections from The Punk Vault – Dazzling Killmen

Back in the early 1990s, I spent a hell of a lot of time going to shows at Lounge Ax in Chicago. That place was one of the best clubs ever in the world and at that time they were getting the coolest bands. During the late 1980s/early 1990s I was...

Selections from The Punk Vault [Peace Corpse]

This particular feature has been a long time coming. When I was a freshman in high school I heard a Peace Corpse song on Kathy and Shrub’s radio show on our high school radio station. The song was called “Jocko Macho” and I was an...

Selections from The Punk Vault [Toothpaste]

Toothpaste – EP (1983 Schwa Records) Toothpaste were a band from my own city that I really didn’t know anything about until recently. I had heard the name mentioned a couple of times over the years but never gave it much thought. It...

Selections from The Punk Vault [Seattle Syndrome]

Various Artists – Seattle Syndrome Volume One (1981 Engram Records)  It has been ages since I’ve done one of these and of course when inspiration strikes, it ends up being a record on a label that I know very little about and was unable...

Selections from The Punk Vault [The Matchheads]

The Matchheads – Cadillac 7″ (1981 Artiste Records) My first exposure to The Matchheads didn’t happen until about 20 years after this record was released. In fact if it wasn’t for a couple of songs from this single being...

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Selections from The Punk Vault [Monitor]

Monitor – Beak/Pet Wedding 7″ (1979 World Imitation Records) My introduction to Monitor happened in a rather odd way. I was at a record convention and this one dealer I was regularly buying a ton of records...

Selections from The Punk Vault [Justice League]

Justice League – Shattered Dreams LP (1987 Fartblossom Records) I can’t quite remember where I first heard Justice League. It was back in high school in the 1980s and it was likely either via a fanzine like...

Selections from The Punk Vault [391]

391 – 12″ EP (1981 Posh Boy Records) Recently on the KBD group, someone mentioned the band 391 and it made me remember, “oh yeah, I have that record”. I bought this record a long time ago when I...

Selections from The Punk Vault [No Thanks]

No Thanks – Are You Ready to Die 7″ 1983 Dead Space Records Quite a few years ago on a planned Xmas trip to MI to visit my dad, the holiday came a little bit early in what turned out to be the last great...

Selections from The Punk Vault [Noise From Nowhere]

Various Artists – Noise From Nowhere 7″ (1983 Toxic Shock Records) When I was a freshman in high school, my friend Mick Calhoun had more punk records than anyone I knew at that point (and the total amount of...

Selections from The Punk Vault [False Prophets]

False Prophets – Good Clean Fun 7″ (1982 Worn Out Brothers) My introduction to False Prophets came from the amazing P.E.A.C.E compilation on R Radical Records. That compilation single handedly introduced me...

Selections from The Punk Vault [Who Cares]

Various Artists – Who Cares LP (1981 American Standard) This is another in what is becoming a long line of records that should be reissued on some sort of CD but haven’t. This one also was a request from my...

Selections from The Punk Vault [Minutemen]

Minutemen – Spin Radio Show LP (1985 Spin Radio) Having seen that movie the other day, it inspired me to make the Minutemen a feature for one of these. It was something I was going to do anyway, but now it just...