Remote Outposts

   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...

   There's a floppy haired maniac who lives in Athens, GA and I've known him since our bands crossed paths in 1995. Every time an...

   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...

   For the last week or two, I've been combing through stacks of tapes to digitize for the blog and coming up with stuff that I'm...

   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...

    Two friends named Andrew and Travis got together and wrote some 100% no-shit-sick-ass hardcore riffs. Then, they hauled all of their ...

   Stardate: 1998. The location was Maxie, MS . The whole town consists of a mobile home, a house, a church and a graveyard. Some drunks ...

   "Sounds like BAD BRAINS"   "Internet hype band"   "I don't listen to hype bands"    A copy of the...

Today's tape and write-up is brought to you by Alex Turner. This show happened in 1994. 21 years ago, RANCID and KARP played to...

   I think when I first heard this, I described it as "grindcore", a sub-genre I know almost nothing about. Now, I don't kn...

   So, this tape will sail right by the folks who look here to find the lowest fidelity melodic punk on the internet and that's their...

    It's 6 am. I've been awake for 20 hours and I won't get a chance to sleep for another few hours. I'm not complaining....

   DARK LION almost didn't happen. The way I was told, Zak and Sean got together to play some music while they had both dropped ancho...

   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 ...

   Sometimes you drink coffee...sometimes you don't....maybe you get that feeling in your head that you want to listen to something s...

   The fun thing about making a mix tape for yourself is that you don't have to give a fuck. You can jump to different genres and not...

   TREMARCHE and MOTEL MATTRESS are two bands from the great state of Massachusetts. The former is from Worcester and the latter is fro...

   The one time that I saw VACCUUM, it kinda went like this: Show up at venue Pay money to get in Walk up to the front to see VACCUUM ...

   Possibly one or two people noticed, but I took a week off to go to a different part of the country, see snow, hang out with some of th...

   I want to start this off by just taking a minute to tell you about one SANDAL STOMP member named Danny. I met Danny in 1998 when he sh...