Monty python animated a canardian vampire interviewing a dead hippy. Stop wars yo…

The 2006 documentary film American Hardcore does a decent job of telling the story of the rise and fall of the first wave of hardcore bands. One interesting segment in the movie occurs when the film makers gets all the original members from the Boston hardcore band Society System Decontrol back in the same room together. […]

of hair?  Found on WFMU.

It’s so nice when you stumble upon a sweet zipfile of music. Seeing Red blog has a posting on Philly hardcore and punk bands from 1980-1989. It misses some bands and lists some bands as from Philly when they were actually from outside the area but let’s not quibble - it’s got tons of great old music - […]

Check out this really weird, really short documentary on New York Hardcore.

Like a lot of punk rockers, cassette tapes ruled my life in the 80’s and early 90’s. I didn’t have a record player and I didn’t get a cd player until a while after they were readily available. I relied on cassettes - be they legitimate releases or dubs of vinyl records or mixtapes or, […]

Sean Finnegan (of Void) Passes Away At 43
Sean Finnegan, the drummer from the early D.C. hardcore band Void and an original member of the Dischord family, passed away on Wednesday January 30th of an apparent heart attack, he was 43. Sean played in Void while they we’re active from 1980-1983 and was recently working […]

I vaguely remember the first time I saw the video for Agnostic Front’s Anthem. I wasn’t really into heavy metal that much anymore but I used to religiously watch the late night Mtv shows Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes and the last hour of both shows would usually have some videos with some of the […]

Time Machine time: It’s back in they day and you are hanging out in Trenton at City Gardens wating for Quicksand to play. How do you kill that time in between bands? You could play pinball or try to scam on chicks. Nah! That’s stuff too jock-ish. You need something to read and Norm Arenas’ […]

Mike McKee is like the Punk Rock Mayor of Philadelphia! He’s in a bazillion bands, DJs at England Belongs To Twee, is a freelance writer, etc etc etc. Pretty much he’s one of the All Time Best Philly Punx.  Tonight he is kicking off a new event called Punk Rock Movie Night at the First […]

“I wanted to live with Exene and have her read the Bible to me, but I wanted to sleep in Chavo’s closet at the Black Flag church, under an American flag with cigarette burns in it. Lee Ving would be my uncle who would teach me about horse racing, and would let me drink one […]

Start your monday off right…At The Movies

Oh shit! This weekend is gonna be WILD!

So I’ve been searching the web for awhile now for footage of Straight Edge in the news media. I’m specifically looking for the 48 Hours and 20/20 reports from the mid 90’s and the local Philly news affiliate coverage (I remember they were in the now long gone C.I. Records store off
South Street) that […]

There are a million great things to do this weekend (including two amazing HC / punk shows!) !!!  Get out there and sweat it out, yo!

It’s no secret that I am a total junkie for the CW tv show Gilmore Girls.  I know, it’s sad.  I can’t help it.  I own a season on DVD.  I own a soundtrack cd (which, by the way, is actually pretty excellent.  I post about each weeks episode on ye olde salt board.  […]

Are you ready for May flowers? The April showers are on their way out, which means there’s plenty of reasons to leave the house.

Discharge in Philly playing the East Side Club in 1982!
Chuck Meehan (ex -YDI, sucka!) was a Philadelphia punk before you were a punk, punk. He told me a little bit about the show:

You puzzled panthers already know that what we do it secret but did you know that Don Bolles from The Germs was recently hemmed up by the Newport Beach Police Department?

Money makes the world go round or stated much more eloquently by the Wu Tang Clan, “cash rules everything around me”. Well, as instructed by the philosophy of C.R.E.A.M., I am no exception and must “get the money”. Having no traditional means of income i.e., an employer, this can pose as somewhat of an obstacle. […]