Tag: LP

  • Brigata Vendetta – This Is How Democracy Dies LP

    Brigata Vendetta – This Is How Democracy Dies LP

    Brigata Vendetta This Is How Democracy Dies LP (Pirates Press Records) Okay, after the last few years of pundits both educated and ill-informed questioning the health and longevity of democracy and looking at the concept so closely the eye-strain could easily be attributable to a migraine, the idea of another punk band stepping forward to…

  • The Dwarves – Concept Album LP

    The Dwarves – Concept Album LP

    The Dwarves Concept Album LP (Greedy Media) To say that The Dwarves have been around and weathered a lot of pop cultural storms is an understatement. Since forming in Chicago in the mid-Eighties, The Dwarves have reinvented the concept of the revolving door; they’ve gone through band members (dozens of them – but guitarist Pete…

  • The Shouldies – ;) LP

    The Shouldies – 😉 LP

    The Shouldies ; ) LP (Graveface Records/Nevernotgoth Records) It’s uncommon enough an occurrence that one can never hope to count on it, but sometimes an album comes along at precisely the moment a listener needs to hear it. In my own case, I’ve been listening to a surprising amount of very moody, very texturally-centred music…

  • L7 – Bricks Are Heavy 30th Anniversary vinyl reissue

    L7 – Bricks Are Heavy 30th Anniversary vinyl reissue

    L7 Bricks Are Heavy (30th Anniversary reissue) LP (Licorice Pizza Records) Looking back on it now, it’s pretty pitiful how unprepared the music industry was for L7. When the band first appeared in 1988 with their debut album, it’s easy enough to understand how nobody noticed; L7’s self-titled debut came out on Epitaph Records (which,…

  • Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 2LP

    Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 2LP

    Ozzy Osbourne Patient Number 9 2LP (Epic/Sony Music) With the last good Ozzy Osbourne album having been released over twenty years ago now (2001’s Down To Earth was respectable – 2010’s Scream was both an earnest and mawkish expression of Ozzy’s strengths as it tried to update its styling for a new, digital generation which…

  • The Dils – Live! [Reissue] LP + CD

    The Dils – Live! [Reissue] LP + CD

    The Dils Live! [Reissue] LP+CD (Porterhouse Records) While plenty of punk bands have been well exposed since the public became interested in learning about the early days of the L.A. punk scene (X’s catalogue has been reissued by Fat Possum Records, Porterhouse reissued (MIA) by The Germs and other labels have reissued titles by The…

  • S-E-R-V-I-C-E – Drag Me LP

    S-E-R-V-I-C-E – Drag Me LP

    S-E-R-V-I-C-E Drag Me LP (Let’s Pretend Records) While fans already had a pretty good idea where Jon Spencer would end up following the dissolution of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in 2016 (other than making appearances in the multitude of projects to which the guitarist had offered both his name and talent over the years,…

  • Sweat – Gotta Give It Up LP

    Sweat – Gotta Give It Up LP

    Sweat Gotta Give It Up LP (Pirates Press Records) On the surface, the cliche that, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” writes itself into any discussion about Gotta Give It Up. Yes – from the opening notes of “Hit & Run,” the opening cut on Gotta Give It Up, Sweat presents itself like…

  • Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Blank Generation [reissue] LP

    Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Blank Generation [reissue] LP

    Richard Hell and the Voidoids Blank Generation (Record Store Day 2017 40th Anniversary reissue) (Sire/Warner Brothers) Not so very long ago, I was muddling through the stacks at my favorite record store when the sight of something surprising gave me pause. There, on a reasonably cool spring day, I found a copy of the Record…

  • The Monsters – You’re Class, I’m Trash LP

    The Monsters – You’re Class, I’m Trash LP

    The Monsters You’re Class, I’m Trash LP (Voodoo Rhythm Records) Arguably the greatest compliment one can pay to a punk record is not to call it “good” or “great” or anything like that (because such terms can be – and have been – dismissed as a matter of opinion or as a matter of perception),…