PLUTOCRACY

Fuck. PLUTOCRACY was in a league (and often a world) all their own. Death metal weaned on powerviolence and genuine disenfranchisement, perh...

JOE YAMANAKA, R.I.P.

Akira "Joe" Yamanaka was the vocalist for the insanely influential Japanese psych outfit FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND, and 1971'...

CRINGER

It's ironic that it took me until I was an adult to appreciate the eternal teenage enthusiasm and energy of Lance Hahn's music. It w...

HICKEY

This is HICKEY in 1995, a pre-LP greatest hits juggernaut recorded live on WFMU in East Orange, New Jersey pleading for shows, places to sle...

R.I.P. Mark Sheehan

OUT COLD have been criminally under appreciated since their inception more than 20 years ago. Through a gauntlet of guitarists and bass play...

FLIPVILLE

This record/toy/junk store was across the street from the bar where I worked in Milwaukee, and I stopped in often. For months I would just m...

BRUCE ROEHRS, R.I.P.

Bruce Roehrs, legendary punk rocker and punk writer, unifier of punks and skins around the world. I am completely and truly devastated, and ...