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...

   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...

   Olympia, Washington. Love it or hate it. For whatever reason, it's a small town that brings up a lot of different emotions for peo...

   My friend Monica  was attending all kinds of shows in the Bay Area (and beyond) ten years ago and she usually had some kind of recordi...

Epicenter Zone. 1994. Photo by Helge Schreiber    Epicenter Zone was a record store / info shop / zine library / show space / punk ...

   Today, I went to a yard sale in Oakland and ran into a tiny boatload of cassettes. Of course, I was drawn to them like a moth to a fla...

   There are very little details that I know about this tape. I do know that it showed up in my P.O. box years ago with an accompanying z...

   Yesterday, I went to my friend Danielle's birthday party where she had made a simple request of all the guests: Show up with two m...

   When I'm at my job, I rarely let down my guard to reveal details of my personal life to my co-workers because I feel like there...

   "Everything Went Pink" is a tape that was released by  Dan B  back in 2000 that specifically covered the DIY punk scene in A...

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

      No long-winded stories today. I wasn't living in the Bay Area when most of these bands were active and hardly saw any of th...

                                                  Most of the time, when punks think of San Pedro, CA, the first bands to come to mind ar...

    I lived in the Bay Area off and on during 2002 and 2003. For the most part, I lived in San Francisco (and specifically, the Mission D...

   Before we get into the music part, I just wanted to update you all on the Mediafire business (see here  for reference). The account is ...

    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 ...