Tag: vinyl

  • Jane’s Addiction – “Stop!”/”Three Days” and “Been Caught Stealing” 12” singles

    Jane’s Addiction – “Stop!”/”Three Days” and “Been Caught Stealing” 12” singles

    Now thirty years and several significant cultural movements later, it’s difficult to get a sense of how much excitement and promise there was surrounding Jane’s Addiction at the height of the band’s fame. Simply said, the band represented a way to transition from the staid, well-established values and forms evident in classic rock to the…

  • Come Closer – Pretty Garbage LP

    Come Closer – Pretty Garbage LP

    Come Closer Pretty Garbage LP (Pirates Press Records) While it’s very easy for me to get excited about a new punk band that I’ve never heard before (I’ve been listening to a lot of punk, for a for a lot of years), running across something which makes me excited because I can’t immediately qualify it…

  • 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 Lorrainas – Party ‘Til It’s Dark [Reissue] LP

    The Lorrainas – Party ‘Til It’s Dark [Reissue] LP

    The Lorrainas Party ‘Til It’s Dark LP (Reissue) (Surfin’ Ki’ Records/Mom’s Basement Records) Sure, this vinyl reissue of Party ‘Til It’s Dark – The Lorrainas’ first and only full-length studio album – may seek to re-introduce material which is now seventeen years old, but anyone who hears it will excitedly admit that the music sounds…

  • The Vapids – Charm School Dropouts [Reissue] LP

    The Vapids – Charm School Dropouts [Reissue] LP

    The Vapids Charm School Dropouts LP (reissue) (Surfin’ Ki’ Records) For almost three decades now, The Vapids have been one of the hardest working bands in Canada. Since the day they started in 1993, The Vapids have never stopped working; the band has toured regularly as well as doing one-off shows from their home base…

  • Rise Against – Nowhere Generation LP

    Rise Against – Nowhere Generation LP

    Rise Against Nowhere Generation LP + 7” (Loma Vista Records/Universal Music Group) It feels difficult to believe that, with Nowhere Generation, Rise Against has been making records for twenty years. Now, that isn’t to say any band making music together uninterrupted for twenty years is unheard of, just that it’s uncommon for a punk band…

  • 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),…

  • Acid – Acid Box [3LP]

    Acid – Acid Box [3LP]

    Acid Acid Box (3LP box set) (Narnack Records) There’s no question that bands have come up with some pretty unusual items to include with their albums and/or box sets in the twenty-first century, but Acid – the band formed by Jeff Hassay and Imaad Wasif (Wasif – the guitarist who filled in for James Iha…

  • Black Label Society – Doom Crew Inc. [2LP]

    Black Label Society – Doom Crew Inc. [2LP]

    Black Label Society Doom Crew Inc. (2LP) (eOne) Funny thing about the bands and/or projects launched by guitarists, they tend to focus heavily on guitar. It is not uncommon, for example, for songs on such albums to feature extended examinations of the guitar as the central thematic and sonic element of every composition; the instrument…

  • Long Range Hustle – I Am Alive But Only If You Say I Am LP

    Long Range Hustle – I Am Alive But Only If You Say I Am LP

    Long Range Hustle I’m Alive, But Only If You Say I Am LP (Sans Shoes/Anti-Fragile) While the nature of the album’s title seems inherently soft, on its face (most bands want to exclaim, “We are here,” but the title of Long Range Hustle’s sophomore full-length album seems to ask for the validation that most other…