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 for [...]

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 – 3:35
5. Army Life, Pt. 2 – 2:37
6. Blown to Bits [...]

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 the characters I met there. As I was preparing to [...]

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 roommate named Jeff. Jeff was a really good guy. [...]