Remote Outposts

   Portland, Oregon's SHARKS KILL may already be familiar to some readers of the blog because I have mentioned them in posts with  AL...

"I'm still nervous, I ain't been broken, I'm still churnin' and burnin' inside and I can't stop smoki...

   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...

   This is the 511th post on this blog, which is a large number but by no means a milestone. I just wanted to take a moment to say thanks...

   When DEAD MOON broke up in 2006, I was so heartbroken. I honestly felt like I had been dumped by a partner or kicked in the stomach or...

   Melissa and I met years ago in Chattanooga, TN, during what some people refer to as a "fest", but I like to call a family re...

   You know how some bands form and then it seems like everything they do is immediately all over the internet? Like, there are times whe...

   I'll be honest...when I first got this cassette a couple of years ago, I didn't exactly rush to my stereo to throw this in the...

   I ride a bike almost daily in the city of San Francisco and most of the time, it feels like I have to be on my guard as soon as I mount...

   Sometime around the dawn of humankind in negative 84 BC, Joey Ramone decided to invent punk after knocking himself unconscious from run...

   Two of my friends, Erin and Icky, put this zine out years ago but it somehow eluded me until very recently. Erin gave me her last copy ...

   I'm a big fan of used record stores, street sales, yard sales and just plain looking through the trash for treasures. Some of the rec...

    I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that you read this blog because you are into punk music. I'm also going to assume that...

   Remember a while back when I posted that  CURSE  tape? Well, here is their first tape from a year earlier when they were a four-piece ban...

   CHAOS L.R. started, fittingly, in Little Rock, AR in the mid-90's. Their singer was a very tall, mean-looking, drunken beast named ...

   My friend and former CHASED AND SMASHED drummer, Erin Yanke is in San Francisco this weekend. When she braved my germ-filled house for a ...

    I know what some of you are thinking.."I thought this was a tape blog. Why do you keep posting all of these CD's?" Well, m...

   I think it was  my friend, Angie  who first stumbled across this 7" at  American Beat Records  in Birmingham, AL back in 1994. I p...

   Dean (formerly in the mighty LOS RABBIS) and Morgan (from SHARP KNIFE) had previously played together in a band called FUCK YEA! AVOCAD...

   HARUM SCARUM were an anarcho-punk/hardcore band from Portland, OR who were tough as shit and super fuckin' punk. They recorded this...