X-MAS TREE

Maybe you don't care about this ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF JACKIE O side project from the early '90s, but maybe you should. Fuzzed out, ...

GRG

My pal John sent me this a few weeks back - fast, dirty, mean hardcore from Oklahoma City. From the crushing low end opening notes to "...

BRUTAL GARDENERS

This wasn't my first band, but rather my first side project. After Dan left behind the brilliant ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF JACKIE O , moved f...

GRASSEATERS

I hated living in Oklahoma, even more in retrospect than I did at the time, but I still retain a strange affinity for my time there. If som...

VIOLENT CONSPIRACY

This is courtesy of the same dude who said he was the BLASTING AGENTS manager a few weeks back. Ultra low fi and only marginally competent ...

UG-IT

I wasn't initially sure if this was a compilation packaged for actual release, or if it was just a mix tape of bands that Dan Riffe play...

FYRCE MUONS

A while back I spent a few months on The Escape posting weekly contributions from Oklahoma - I'm not sure how many people not from Okla...

FUCKFACE

This band mastered flying by the seat of their (our) pants. Seven tours in just over three years, including eighteen weeks on the road over ...

FROM THE CROTCH OF THE BIBLE BELT

1994 compilation of Tulsa, Oklahoma bands assembled by BROTHER INFERIOR's ginger haired axeman. There was a time in the '90s that th...

BLANCHE DEVEREAUX

I got this gem in the mail from my pal Ross a while back. Ross operates the killer but seldom updated Oklahoma centered Trapped In Oklahoma ...

SAVE THE DEAD

From the opening riffs delivered by Oklahoma's BLEEDING NUNS, and the lyrical assaults that make up "Fuck Fashion" and "N...

NO MAN'S SLAVE

The two best things about going on tour are seeing people you like and seeing bands you like.  Luckily, a few weeks back I managed to take c...

DIET OF WORMS

Three weeks in a row with Oklahoma posts culled from the tapes that Blake lent me...and I haven't even dug into the BCT shit yet! DIET O...

FENSICS

Today's Oklahoma post comes from the same batch of tapes that I pulled last week's RANDYS  record off of (cheers again for the loane...

RANDYS

As even semi-regular readers have surely gathered by now, I spent my teenage/pre-punk and formative early punk years in Oklahoma.  I hated i...

BLEMISH

To an outsider in Norman, circa early 1990s, BLEMISH were the cool kids.  While we were recent transplants from the shithole towns all over ...

HATE FARM

This is the first post thus far on Terminal Escape that does not come from a cassette that I held in my hand, I almost opted out in favor of...

CONCEPT OF NONSENSE

When it comes to punk in Oklahoma, Tulsa has always seemed to have their shit dialed in way better than Oklahoma City or the university town...

CHRISTIANISTAN

Ultra raw political crust-o-rama for this Sunday's Oklahoma post.  CHRISTIANISTAN were from Norman, and we played with them at a warehou...

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Matt, the guitar player for my first band, was the singer for MULTIPLE CHOICE... I heard the 4 track recordings that Matt and John (guitar) ...