Remote Outposts

       This tape was put out by Big Shank (Jeremy "Big Shank the Bandit" Johnson) and Little Shank {Josh Mayfield) in 2001 and act...

         So, it's been a minute...or two whole years, honestly, but quarantine and isolation do weird things. Let's get to the point...

   Rice Harvester was a zine I made for 20 years. A zine is a bunch of paper that someone scribbled on, photocopied for free at a chain s...

    Ever since receiving the excellent LP "I've Got the Bible Belt Around My Throat", I've been on a bit of a tear thou...

    Bands like to bill themselves as "inept", but then you hear their tape (bandcamp/8 track/cloud shitter) and they seem to ke...

  Besides my old friend, Heather, who I met when I was 5 years old, I only keep in touch with one other friend from the Nascar days of my...

   When I was 18, I played drums in a band called JOEY TAMPON AND THE TOXIC SHOCKS  with my friends Joey and Neil. We played for a couple...

   This tape is a companion piece to the  DICK VAN DYKES  post from yesterday because it was recorded on the same day in the same place w...

   THE DICK VAN DYKES started abruptly in the north Alabama bedroom of a teenage boy who went by the name of Bob. Bob started showing up ...

   This is the second in a collection of songs and random bullshit that doesn't really fit elsewhere. I make no excuses or apologies ...

   If you've lived in Alabama (or the southeast) in the last 25 years, you've undoubtedly heard of RANDOM CONFLICT. Bill Reeves h...

    I grew up in a tiny town in the middle of Alabama and discovered punk when I was in 6th grade through a tape of the MINUTEMEN's ...

   Back when I posted SUCKERPUNCH's  demo tape , I was under the impression that they never recorded anything else. I've always love...

SHITHEAD JONES was a teenage punk band from the bowels of Huntsville,AL who were known by very few during their brief existence. Like many...

   Since the beginning of this blog, I've been dusting off many tapes from my shelves and digitizing piles upon piles of forgotten music...

   Remember last October when I talked about how my favorite JARVIS tape was the one with the worst sound quality (no, I don't expect ...