Reviews – Vinyl

 As good or remarkable as any band would eventually prove themselves to be, history has proven conclusively that it’s truly rare for any band…

Easily the most underrated hardcore band since the genre’s inception in the early Eighties has been the Circle Jerks. The reason that claim is so…

A deeper look at the grooves pressed into The Slackers’ 12″ UV digitally printed vinyl single. Ignoring the, “Gee whiz!” quality of The Slackers’ new…

 It’s pretty uncommon for me to wonder where I was when I review a reissue of an album which was originally released after 2002…

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…

 More than the other things that Songs! From The Bathroom Stall? certainly represents for Houston and the Dirty Rats, the most important rule to…

The problematic thing about albums which come to be regarded as “culturally significant” is that, after it has been released and that cultural significance…

Punk bands have been called dangerous and have been accused of challenging every establishment with which they come into contact, but the truth is…

 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…

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…