My Top 5 Photographers Number 5 Alison Braun (Mouse) I met her once, through a friend. She was the subject of many crazy Flipside letters, but produced a huge amount of great images for Flipside, and that crappy ‘zine Maximum Rock & Roll. She once dated a friend of mine, and took all the pictures [...]

After noticing that the link to my site from the Chicago Punk Database page on Blatant Dissent was broken, I reupped the album. Originally posted here in July of 2005, this is the only full-length album by the Chicago band that would later morph into one of my favorites, Tar. This album was given to [...]

The Exploited Punk’s Not Dead 1981 – Secret Records Produced by Dave Leaper and The Exploited Wattie Buchan – vocals Big John Duncan – Guitar, Vocals Gary McCormack – Bass guitar, Vocals Dru Stix – drums 1. Punk’s not Dead – 1:51 2. Mucky Pup – 1:42 3. Cop Cars – 1:52 4. Free Flight [...]

Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant (single) 1977 Warner Brothers Records Producer Chris Thomas, Bill Price John Lydon – vocals Steve Jones – guitar Paul Cook – drums Glen Matlock – bass (and feet-washing) 01 Pretty Vacant 02 No Fun In the past couple of years I’ve written a couple of times about Wayside, and some of [...]

Plasmatics Butcher Baby (7 inch single) 1980 Stiff UK Records Wendy O. Williams – Vocals, Richie Stotts – Lead guitar Michael David – Bass Stuart Deutsch – Drums 01 Butcher Baby 02 Fast Food Service (Live) 03 Concrete Shoes Years ago, a little while after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, my Brother and I had a [...]