Remote Outposts

   As a vague testament to how shitty 2016 has been, I've only posted three things in the past three months and they've all been ...

    When I wrote about JACOB THE TERRIBLE's demo , I said just about everything I could possibly say about the band. By the band'...

Today's post is brought to you by Jacob Khepler    It's common for a band to make a "tour release"- a limited object...

   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...

   Look...I know that there's been a time in your life when you were sitting around in the gutter in a shitty part of town and though...

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

   Sometimes, you're sitting around the kitchen drinking whiskey, listening to tapes late at night and your friend puts on some harsh...

    Do you ever have that feeling that you want to see a punk band who sounds like they only have a record collection that consists of ...

  I already knew I liked FUNERAL CONE before I ever even heard them because the band was comprised of total winners in life. My band play...

    Rather than have me prattle on more and more about how A: I love THE TERRIBLES and B: they've been a band since 9th grade, I figu...

   I tried to track down information about this band, but I know next to nothing. I only heard about them for the first time last week wh...

   I'm taking a bit of a break from the blog again to work on some real world stuff. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, go see FUN...

   When I was really getting into punk in the mid-90's, it seemed like there were so many fucking pop-punk bands that just aped THE RA...

    I'M WRITING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I JUST LISTENED TO THIS DEMO, SNIFFED A BUNCH OF GLUE, TIED A FUCKIN SHOESTRING AROUND MY HEAD AND...

   Since I know next to nothing about this band, today's installment of Remote Outposts is brought to you by their old bass player, Mi...

   So, I just got back from tour a couple of days ago and I believe it was one of the best I have ever been on. I have been fortunate enou...

   Okay, I admit, it's been a while since I updated this but that's not because I've been burned out or lazy. On the contrary....

   Sometimes, I get my hands on a badass tape and then I realize that I've never seen the band and I have no frame of reference for what...

   THE HUMBLEBEES were a very short-lived band from Worcester, MA. They probably weren't the most short-lived band from that magical to...

   This is the first album that I ever heard by TERRIBLES and it also the one that enamored me to them, thereby making me a lifetime fan (...