punk Archive
22 Feb 2021
The 411 on 415
Last November I wrote a cover story for SF Weekly; it focused on a series of reissue/compilation CDs on the Liberation Hall label. Those releases contained music originally released on […]
19 Feb 2021
Boxed Set Review: Iggy and the Stooges – From KO to Chaos
In music fan and critical circles, the concept of “blues police” comes up in conversation from time to time. Simply put, blues police is a pejorative term applied to self-anointed […]
18 Feb 2021
Hundred-word Reviews: February 2021, Part 3
These five are all archival, reissue and/or compilation releases. There’s even a vinyl release here. Wolfgang Lackerschmid & Chet Baker – Quintet Sessions 1979 I was only recently introduced to […]
08 Feb 2021
Album Review: Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks — Lone Ranger of Love
Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks released Lone Ranger of Love in 2016; as good as it was, it quickly went out of print. But Black and Wyatt Records has had […]
28 Jan 2021
Album Review: The Fuzztones — NYC
Though they first came on the scene in the middle of the ‘80s garage rock revival, The Fuzztones have endured. And they’ve remained busy this past decade and a half. […]
26 Jan 2021
Album Review: The Gun Club — Miami
I recall sometime in 1982 when a friend attempted to turn me on to The Gun Club’s Miami. I wasn’t having it: I got most of the way through “Carry […]
11 Jan 2021
The Discs: Old New Wave is New Again
When punk and new wave were exploding in New York City in the late ’70s and early 1980s, Allan Day wasn’t old enough to drive a car, much less play […]
30 Nov 2020
Album Reviews: Redd Kross — Phaseshifter and Show World
Over the span of a decade-plus, Hawthorne, California band Redd Kross navigated the tricky path from punky indie band to one that sounded like the epitome of arena rock. And […]
14 Nov 2020
Hundred-word Reviews for November 2020, Part One
Today marks the triumphant return of my hundred-word reviews. My last roundup of new releases in the form of brief critical summaries came way back in February, before the world […]
09 Sep 2020
Album Review: Wipers – Is This Real?
Often held up as the first punk band of consequence from the Pacific Northwest, Wipers (no article; just Wipers) played against type and – unlike so many others of the […]