Lion’s Law – The Pain, The Blood and The Sword
There’s a certain comfort which can be found in a record which, while new, sounds familiar. As albums like that play, it can be…
Reviews – Vinyl
Houston and the Dirty Rats – Songs! From the Bathroom Stall?
More than the other things that Songs! From The Bathroom Stall? certainly represents for Houston and the Dirty Rats, the most important rule to…
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks…
The problematic thing about albums which come to be regarded as “culturally significant” is that, after it has been released and that cultural significance…
Young Canadians – Hawaii
Punk bands have been called dangerous and have been accused of challenging every establishment with which they come into contact, but the truth is…
X – Wild Gift
As good as Los Angeles was and as important as that album would ultimately prove to be in the presentation of X, the band’s…
X – Los Angeles
It might not be the first thing that fans think of when they’re looking at punk rock and trying to decode how the genre has…
Green Day – Father of All Motherfuckers LP
After a span of sixteen years spent examining a series of high-concept creative endeavors (American Idiot started the trend in 2004 which catapulted the…
Territories – Short Seller (CD Record)
On paper, my mind wobbled at the idea of this release. “This is a playable vinyl record made using a CD press,” proclaimed the…
Charger – Watch Your Back (picture disc single)
At this point, each member of Rancid’s musical personality has been established in both the annals of punk and pop music as well as…
Naked Giants – Green Fuzz 10″ single
After releasing their debut album, Sluff, in 2018, even the softest, newest and least tested critics figured they had Naked Giants’ career path pegged…