Remote Outposts

   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...

   I could tell you all about southern punk scenes that you never knew you cared about. I could tell you about the entire history of a sin...

  ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!! thrashed around Richmond for the first few years of the 00's, playing manic hardcore that was informed by s...

Think of this as "Part 2" of  the post about  Matty Luv and Sarah T.    Matty Luv was gone and the next day we still went...

   Ever since I met Jason (wild haired drummer guy in this band) back in 1995 (96?), he has been playing his style of no-slow-all-go hardc...

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

   I'm back from tour! Oh, the stories I could tell you about wild drunken punks in Vancouver, playing shows at 3 AM, our bass player Br...

SHAFFERS playing in a backyard somewhere in the 90's. Photo by Josie.    This is part two of  yesterday's post .    If yo...

   I have been fully on board with the bands of one Mr Jason Griffin since I first met him way back when he drummed in  TRES KIDS . He has...

   A few nights ago, I was at a punk show in Oakland and I got into an annoying conversation with yet another person who grew up in Californ...

   SMUT consists of two friends who met and started playing music together years ago in middle school when living right outside of Flint,MI....

   The only time I ever saw STOCKHOLM SYNDROME was when they thrashed through an insanely fast, no breaks (or brakes) 10 minute set at Miss...

    I'm trying to think of what I could possibly tell you about CHEESE-ASS CHRIST from St Mary's GA (don't even act like you k...

    One of the first punk bands that I ever saw was THE CRAMPS, but one of the first totally DIY punk bands that I saw was THE VOMIT SPO...

   Fast, manic hardcore from Athens, GA. I didn't pay a lot of attention to this band when they were around, even though I lived in the ...

   RESURRECTUM was around for a little while in the early '00's, growling their metallic, bullet-belted asses off about topics such ...

Divorce was a band that was not to be fucked with...or a band to fuck with relentlessly. Take your pick. They had 2 singers , both large a...