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Loitering on the same Berkeley streets that birthed Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Crimpshrine, Pot Valiant (AKA Vagrants) developed their own style of Gilmangaze in the early-’90s Compiled here are the band’s Lookout and Sunny Sindicut 7”s, Transaudio LP, comp tracks, and three previously unissued songs Remastered from the... -
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Repressed again with liner notes The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to a power station, wailing and screaming, with nervous riffs piled on and taking off for the planet Mars Both John and Rick were also...
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Since emerging in 2015, Sextile have been a party-provoking force on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar Sextile are now ready to rage with a serotonin-boosting new album, a new group dynamic, faster BPMs, and an even wilder new direction...
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In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools...
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By June 1993, when Washington, DC's Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater and 1991's impressionistic follow-up Steady Diet of...
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New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare: destitute, dirty, and dangerous As the country collectively turned its back on the Big Apple, two musical vigilantes rose out of the miasma Armed only with amplified AC current, Suicide's Alan Vega and Marty Rev set out to save America's soul Their weaponized noise terrorized...
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In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more revolutionary musically than the rest of the competition Few punk bands moved beyond...
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To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into the pre-punk UK Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was...
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Sleater-Kinney's 1997 album Dig Me Out is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's competing guitars, Janet Weiss's muscular rhythms, and layered vocals that teeter between an urgent, banshee-like vibrato and a lower accompaniment Dig Me Out was the band's third studio album, but the first one written and recoded with Weiss...
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Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the...
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Babes in Toyland was one of the most influential and underrated bands of the 1990s They rode the wave of the Minneapolis grunge scene crafting a unique sound composed of self-taught instrumentation and unabashed banshee raging vocals Their stage presence was enigmatic, their lyrics vitriolic, and their Kinderwhore fashion ironic...
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Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs an awning with the new name for his venue The place will be called CBGB & OMFUG which, he tells them, stands for “Country Bluegrass and Blues & Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers” That's exactly the...
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Queer tweemo from the pop fringe of Little Rock, Arkansas’s thriving ’90s DIY scene Paper Airplanes, Paper Hearts gathers Everyone Asked About You’s complete recorded works, including the Let's Be Enemies LP and their two and a half 7"s released between 1997-2000 Remastered from the original DATs for maximum nostalgic...
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With little more under their belt than a relentless string of live performances, and a twice pressed (subsequently sold out) Self-Titled Demo, NYC based band Lathe of Heaven have proved themselves to be a potent and cohesive element amidst the torrent of hardcore punk and synth-driven pop revival currently proliferation throughout...
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"An antidote to the tough-guy hardcore spreading from CBGB’s, emo outliers Native Nod’s unique genre juxtaposition of damaged art-rock, daring/naive songwriting, and raw, poetic vocals have set them apart from the glut of early-’90s...
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Reissue of their second album on coloured vinyl A super mix of punk/glam and sub-Kinks pop! On this album, they branched out from straight ahead punk rock and added a bit of glam while maintaining their snotty, melodic approach It's a classic Originally released in...
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Reissue on coloured vinyl One of the undisputed European punk classics, Hubble Bubble's 1977 debut LP is back on vinyl again for the joy of all true KBD punk rock conoisseurs A true legend for the few, featuring a very young Plastic Bertrand on drums, Hubble Bubble formed in 1973 and released their first album on...
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Fontanelle is the second studio album by American punk rock band Babes in Toyland, which was originally released in 1992 After extensive touring throughout 1991, the band entered the studio to record their major label follow-up to their debut album Spanking Machine The album was co-produced by Kat Bjelland with Lee Ranaldo...
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To prime the pump for the upcoming 1977 box set In The Red will be dropping next year, they are proud to announce this reissue of the 1976 debut single from The Saints "(I’m) Stranded" was the first punk rock record to come out of Australia, one of the earliest punk singles from anywhere, and one of the greatest seven inches...
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A collection of demos including 1975 demos featuring Richard Hell, and recorded by Brian Eno Killer stuff from before Marquee Moon (many of the songs on this tape ended up featured on that album) while Richard Hell was still in the...
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When NYC hit its punk stride in the mid 1970s, the one-of-a-kind ‘Neon’ Leon Matthews was already in the thick of it Getting his start in music in the late 60s and having incredible luck in his friendships along the way, Neon Leon’s life story could easily be made into a really amazing film Along with being roommates with...
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The electric eels were the first punk band, full stop They may not have “started” the genre, but they were the first to tick all the boxes The eels rejected every 1970s rock convention—professionalism, virtuosity, subject matter, image Dave E’s caustic vocals, complete with an aggressive lisp and a head full of snot,...
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Originally issued in 1998, End Hits is the fifth full-length from influential Washington DC post-hardcore group Fugazi led by Ian MacKaye, formerly of Minor Threat and Embrace, and also featuring guitarist/vocalist Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty Recorded at famed Inner Ear Studios in Arlington,...
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Sub Pop is thrilled to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Six Finger Satellite's debut album, "The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird", with a brand new, fully remastered reissue Formed in 1990 in Providence, Rhode Island, Six Finger Satellite quickly signed to Sub Pop for the "Weapon" EP and quickly jumped into making their debut...
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While working on his solo albums, JJulius put together a live band consisting of Clara Flygare (Standard) on drums and vocals, Gustav Danielsbacka (Incipientium) on guitar and Mattias Rörström (Happiest Place Records) on bass The all star incarnation debuted in Gothenburg in October 2021 and the following year the group recorded...
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Reissue, originally released in 1979 During the late 1970s, after No Wave pioneer Lydia Lunch met saxophonist James Chance, she began setting her angry and disjointed poetry to anti-music, founding her ground-breaking band Teenage Jesus and The Jerks with Lunch's shouted lyrics matched by her non-conventional use of electric...
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Reissue Visionary No Wave legends Teenage Jesus and The Jerks created a confrontational sound, with a shifting line-up as a platform for Lydia Lunch's shouted vocal shocks, accompanied by her jagged guitar noise, non-melodic bass, and minimalist drums This must-have live anthology is culled from six performances undertaken during...
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Reissue, originally released in 1980 After the demise of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch launched her solo career with Queen of Siam, arguably her greatest LP In true No Wave style, the album is a mishmash of irritants, but her palette is far broader here, lurching from slow dirges, excessive feminist exhortations, and...
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Since their 2012 debut, Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage The group’s sixth album was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, TX with producer Jake Aron “The desert is more of a metaphor...
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"The greatest punk rock album never made—by a band that played on stage with a toilet (inside joke) At this time (2023), it’s been 24 years since the last foray of DA SLYME 45 years since it’s first Time is a great leveler It separates the feelings you had about a project at the early incarnation from an accurate assessment...
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Hypnotised was the bands top 10 second LP, released in 1980 The album has been remastered in 2016 from the original master tapes The album includes the hits My Perfect Cousin and Wednesday Week pressed on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl, with the original artwork replicated The Undertones ·...
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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing The Undertones' 1979 debut LP has often been called Ireland's most sublime piece of pop-punk ever, thanks to straight-as-an-arrow pop melodies and Feargal Sharkey's quivering vocals Appearing in both the Q magazine list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever and the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear...
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First repress since the original in 2001 of "Weird Revolution", the eighth studio album by Butthole Surfers, released on Surfdog Records and Hollywood Records It is in large part a re-recorded version of an earlier album, tentatively entitled "After The Astronaut", that was abandoned in 1998 As always, The Surfers teeter on the...
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Singer-songwriter Syoichi Miyazawa’s tale is a confounding one He grew up in a small town in Yamagata Prefecture (in northern Japan), loved Dylan and The Beatles, and had very little exposure to, or interest in, underground music And yet, shortly after 24-year-old Miyazawa arrived in Tokyo in 1978, he began performing solo...
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This is the new edition of Soul Jazz Records’ long out of print first New York Noise collection, Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978-82 This new 2016 edition features classic New York post-punk, punk funk and no wave tracks from Arthur Russell/Dinosaur L, James White and the Contortions, The Theoretical Girls,...
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HAMMERTIME” vinyl edition pressed on West Ham colours Half transparent violet & half turquoise There’s an ordeal that underpins Low Life’s ‘Dogging,’ and looking back at it, perhaps this was inevitable given the album’s exceptionally derogatory attitude to its own scattered sense of time and debris It’s an...
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Frame & Canvas is a landmark Released in April of 1998, Braid’s third studio album and first full-length with Polyvinyl wasn’t their first nor last important statement, but its urgency, precision, and non-stop rush of innovative ideas lined up perfectly with the time it was created in to effect a profound shift In the...
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"G was made by guys within the Midwest scene strictly for the edification of scenesters and pals in other cities like DC, Philly, Boston, LA, SF, Chicago, et al Inspired by magazines such as Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessy and Chris Desjardines, TV and DS pumped out seventeen naughty, irreverent issues...
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Raw Power is the third studio album by American rock band the Stooges (credited as Iggy and the Stooges), released on February 7, 1973 by Columbia Records The album departed from the "groove-ridden, feel-based songs" of the band's first two records in favor of a more anthemic hard rock approach inspired by new guitarist James...
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Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly was the one and only full-length album by experimental post-punk innovators, Moss Icon Recorded in 1988, Lyburnum would not be released until 1993 – several years after Moss Icon’s demise Originally released on Vermiforn – the esoteric noise label founded by Sam McPheeters of Born Against –...
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"The Argument is the sixth studio album from Fugazi released on October 16, 2001 through Dischord Records It was recorded at Don Zientara's Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA and the Dischord House between January and April 2001 Upon release it was met with critical and commercial success It was the band's last release...
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PUNK 45: I'm A Mess, a new collection of punk and D-I-Y rare 45s from the UK on Soul Jazz Records "Soul Jazz Records' long-lasting Punk 45 series are high-quality editions of early punk 45s While previous editions have focused on LA, Cleveland, Akron, France, and proto-punk, this new edition focuses on mainly self-released 45s...
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REISSUED ON VINYL!!! The legendary unreleased studio recordings from 1986 produced by IAN MACKAYE! Formed after the breakup of RITES OF SPRING by EDWARD JANNEY, BRENDAN CANTY, GUY PICCIOTTO, and ex-FAITH guitarist MICHAEL HAMPTON! Twelve massive songs of pure DC punk! Only the cut "Burning In The Undertow" has ever been previously...
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Chisel’s hook-laden 1997 swan song Set You Free presaged the turn of the century garage rock revival, surfacing in the purgatory between second-wave emo and Internet 20 Set You Free by...
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If Songs of Praise was fuelled by pint-sloshing teenage vitriol, then Drunk Tank Pink delved into a different kind of intensity Wading into uncharted musical waters, emboldened by their wit and earned cynicism, they created something with the abandon of a band who had nothing to lose Having forced their way through their second...
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The Revelons are known to punk prevaricators one of best “lost bands” of the CBGB era who simply released one earth-moving 7” single on Ork Records in 1979, didn’t get signed to a major, and shuffled back into the shadows of an ever-growing scene Fronted by Gregory Lee Pickard, the band dug into the trenches of New York...
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Another FUGAZI classic, now remastered and reissued with a free download In On The Kill Taker by...
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