Although it was released in 1983, this collection represents just about everything San Francisco's late,
great Avengers recorded from 1977-1978. By contemporary standards, it's by-the-book punk thrash: Greg Ingraham's guitar spews up hairball after hairball of distortion, while Penelope Houston ...
Before they had even released 3-Way Tie for Last in the fall of 1985, the
Minutemen had blocked out plans for their next album, which was to be a sprawling three-LP set featuring three sides of studio material and three ...
Appearing one year after Rhino's Ramones box set Weird Tales of the Ramones, and appearing
four years after Rhino's first single-disc Ramones collection Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits -- which itself appeared after Rhino's excellent double-disc Hey! Ho! Let's ...
Although Halfway to Sanity still bears remnants of the heavy guitar attack of Animal Boy,
it's actually a much sharper record than its predecessor, since it doesn't ignore the Ramones' trashy pop roots. There's still a noticeable lack of consistent ...
When the Descendents finally ended their first run as an on-again/off-again pop-punk band in 1987,
a pair of live albums (Liveage and Hallraker) was compiled by their only constant member, founding drummer Bill Stevenson. As Stevenson writes in the liner ...
The self-titled debut from Washington, D.C.'s quintessential exponents of hardcore appeared on the (then) tiny
Dischord label run by the young and energetic Ian MacKaye, who as vocalist for the band uttered some of its most incisive lyrics, not to ...
One of the more entertaining mysteries of 20th Century Popular Culture is how a decaying
industrial city in the Midwest somehow produced some of the most exciting, intelligent, and forward-thinking music of the '70s, with only a tiny handful of ...
The loud-and-fast, campy-and-catchy formula began to wear a little thin by the time of the
Ramones' fourth album, Road to Ruin. Following the exact same blueprint as its three predecessors, Road to Ruin simply doesn't yield the same results as ...
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