Friday was the second day of the 16th Riot Fest, but the first full day of this year’s festival. The gates opened bright and early and there was plenty of things to do and bands to see right after they opened. The...
Riot Fest 2021 Day One 9/16/21 at Douglass Park
It has been a long two years since the last Riot Fest. The Covid pandemic took away many things that people took for granted, not the least of which was live music and the best outdoor festival of all time, but it was...
Megadeth, Lamb Of God, Trivium, Hatebrered 9/9/21 at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
After rescheduling the self-proclaimed “metal tour of the year” thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, thrash metal titans Megadeth, Lamb Of God, Trivium, and Hatebreed (replacing In Flames), packed thousands of metal fans...
Riot Fest announces lineup for Riot Fest 2021
If this isn’t the bright light at the end of a long dark tunnel that has been the current pandemic then I don’t know what is. Riot Fest unveiled their lineup and plans to return this September and boy did...
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...
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 –...
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...
R.I.P. Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun
We lost a punk rock super hero today. Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun lost his battle to cancer and passed away at the far too young age of 58. The influence Pierre left on this city from all the bands he played in, but...
Help Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun battle cancer
Pierre Kezdy is most known as one of the superheroes in Chicago punk legends, Naked Raygun but his super powers extend far beyond that. Pierre has been responsible for some of the best punk rock music to come out of...
New vinyl colors of Frontier Records punk classics
With people being stuck at home during this pandemic with not a lot to do, there’s no better way to spend your time than listening to music and buying yourself some records. Personally I’ve been making up...
New Suicidal Tendencies vinyl colors
There has been a few new vinyl colors of the first Suicidal Tendencies LP in recent months. Since my last report it has been issued on three new colors of vinyl and the album is now being manufactured at a new plant...
European color vinyl editions of Adolescents, Christian Death, and Suicidal Tendencies debut albums
Are you a punk rock fan that is also an obsessive record collector like me? Do you love the colored vinyl and collect different variations of your favorite records? If you answered yes then have I got a treasure hunt...
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...
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...
Drunk Injuns 2/21/20 at The Uptown
Friday night was a special night in Oakland, CA as The Uptown hosted MoFo’s 60th birthday party and it was a skate rock extravaganza! Drunk Injuns and JFA played together in honor of MoFo, and they were joined by...
The Adicts – 1/29/20 at House of Blues
Wednesday night, UK punk legends, The Adicts, made their long-awaited return to the windy city to headline a three band bill. The club was packed full of excited punk fans spanning a wide range of ages. First up was...
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...
Interview: Street Sects
Despite being obsessed with music for almost the entirety of my half a century on this planet, I’ve found that the older I get, the less likely it is that I become genuinely excited about new bands. Don’t...
