Hardcore Podcasts
September of 2010 I put together eight Hardcore Podcasts. You can check them out here if you are interested. For more insight into how I came up with the years 78-90 for the First Wave you can read about The Hardcore Superiorty Myth.
Category Archives: skate
Skate Death – You Break It You Buy It
Skate Death – You Break It You Buy It (Bullhead Records) 1985. We all would have loved Skate Death back in the day. It’s the kind of thing that would not have been out of place on the Blazing Wheels … Continue reading
New Jersey Punk and Hardcore
A friend of mine and I have had this on-going debate about how kickass Jersey punk and especially hardcore was. In my opinion, no scene was more of an underdog scene than Jersey. My friend contends that Jersey’s bad reputation … Continue reading
Posted in New Jersey, New York, Punk Rock, hardcore, skate
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Condemned To Death
Condemned To Death – Self Titled 7inch EP (r radical records) 1984. A while back I posted some Tales of Terror and Malfeitor as well a number of other folks started name-checking a band called Condemned To Death that I … Continue reading
Posted in hardcore, san francisco, skate
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Comp Tape From 1986
Recently I went digging through shit at my mom’s old house and came across an old tape in the basement. It was a piece of shit cassette that only I woulda bought back in the day. Probably at Radio Shack … Continue reading
Tales of Terror
Tales of Terror – Self Titled (CD Presents) 1984. Ahhh………Tales of Terror. You knew at some point I would post this monster. Problem is I don’t have my copy anymore which leaves me very depressed. Luckily Bob at drunkinjuns.org had … Continue reading
Posted in California, Punk Rock, hardcore, skate
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Con 800
So I haven’t posted in a while. Like Divine once said before eating a dog turd, “I got lotsa Female Trouble”. Wait….those are two separate movies. Anyhoo, said troubles are causing me to be too exhausted psychologically to write this … Continue reading
Posted in California, hardcore, skate
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Detox
I got an email from Steve Humann, the bassist from the great and woefully unrecognized LA punk band Detox earlier this week. It was entitled “I searched your site for an older LA band called Detox.” The first sentence of … Continue reading
Posted in Art-Punk, California, Punk Rock, hardcore, skate
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Decry – Falling
Decry – Falling (Toxic Shock) 1984. This may seem like an obvious one but Falling by Decry is out of print again. Sure there was that great re-issue a few years back on Cleopatra Records that collected everything by the … Continue reading
Posted in California, Punk Rock, hardcore, skate
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Riot.303 – Crowd Control
Riot.303 – Crowd Control (Cardiac Records) 1982. There just really isn’t much information available about this one out there. It’s not listed on either Flex or Kill From The Heart. Punk Rock Record Sleeves has it posted but alas no … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Punk Rock, hardcore, skate
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