Remote Outposts

    Bands like to bill themselves as "inept", but then you hear their tape (bandcamp/8 track/cloud shitter) and they seem to ke...

   Sometimes, the tape is just there and you have no information. You listen to the tape over and over and over, but still wonder if the ...

    Today's post is brought to you by Gaylen, who sang for the raging Brooklyn punk band, BEER GARDEN back in 2002. She sent over t...

      Imagine, if you will, a San Francisco between booms. The year is 2002. Friends are squatting buildings on Market Street. Punks Agai...

Once I was terrorized by everything But now I don't fear anything     The last time I wrote about PEDRO SAYS HI, this tape ha...

    These stupid little CD-R's are not built to last and I found this one rolling around in the bottom of a filing cabinet, all scrat...

   There is a certain power in the simple punk riff when executed correctly, but it's up to the listener to decide what constitutes ...

    Years ago, I posted a link on the blog to this tape on another site, but now it's not available, so I'm reposting it here. Th...

   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 ...

This one is intended as a companion piece to this post      Barker was starting to wind up WET SPOTS around the same time that our b...