The Punk Vault

Kreator, Voivod, +3 at Bottom Lounge 3/12

MXV — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:24:42 +0000

Friday night the Bottom Lounge played host to a big metal show featuring a couple big veterans playing alongside a few newer bands. The result was a little bit of something for everyone, providing the something you were looking for was fast, heavy and mostly brutal thrash or death metal. Newer band, Lazarus A.D. started the [...]

Vintage Chicago punk releases for Record Store Day

MXV — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:00:48 +0000

Hot on the heels of their release of the DVD/LP of the Chicago punk rock documentary, You Weren’t There, Factory 25 is releasing two albums of vintage Chicago punk on vinyl for this year’s Record Store Day! DA’s Exclamation Point and Tutu & The Pirates’ Sub-Urban Insult Rock For The Anti-Lectual are the first two [...]

Naked Raygun new 7″ announced

MXV — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:21:09 +0000

According to the fine folks over at Riot Fest, the second 7″ in the Naked Raygun 7″ series will be released on June 15th. The band also plan to film their first music video in over 20 years and tour Europe for the first time in just about as many! Looks like it is going to [...]

Shrinebuilder tour begins

MXV — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:42:04 +0000

American doom supergroup Shrinebuilder - comprised of Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Al Cisneros (Om, Sleep), Scott “Wino” Weinrich” (Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spririt Caravan) and Dale Crover (Melvins, Altamont) – today embark on their new US tour, kicking it off at The Casbah in San Diego, California. The band will pound the West Coast all week [...]

JFA “Pipe Truck” video

MXV — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:25:52 +0000

Here’s something I never saw before today, a video made by Placebo Records for the JFA song, “Pipe Truck”! This song, and especially this band, was one of many I’d skate to constantly during the 1980s and my teenage punk rock years There’s lots of great images of the band playing the old Mad Garden [...]