Older Sounds

Simple Minds - Real to Real Cacophony. amazon.com. Used.

Grace Jones - Island Life. AKA Music. Used.

Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet (Single 1). AKA Music. Used.

The Band - Music From Big Pink. AKA Music. Used.

I Hate You - Discography 1995/1998. AKA Music. Used.

Newer Sounds

Cult Leader - Useless Animal. Deathwish, Inc. New.

Fucked Up - Year of the Hare. Deathwish, Inc. New.

Earth Crisis - The Discipline. Extreme Noise. New.

Frankie & The Heartstrings - The Days Run Away. amazon.com. Used.

New Order - Live at Bestival 2012. amazon.com. New.

Newer Sounds

Blur - The Magic Whip. amazon.com. New.

Palma Violets - Danger In the Club. amazon.com. New.

Straight Razor. React! Records. New.

Stick Together. Triple B Records. New.

Cold Cave - Full Cold Moon. Deathwish Inc. New.

Newer Sounds

Unified Right. Triple B Records. New.

Integrity - The Blackest Curse. Deathwish, Inc. New.

Night Sins - Down to Drown. Deathwish Inc. New.

Peace - Happy People. amazon.com. New.

Disengage. Youngblood Records. New.

Newer Sounds

Liberez - Sane Men Surround. amazon.com. Used.

Give - Sonic Bloom. Revelation Records. New.

Bernard + Edith - Wurds. iTunes.

Turnstile - Non Stop Feeling. React! Records. New.

Blacklisted - When People Grow, People Go. Deathwish, Inc. New.

Newer Sounds

Hooton Tennis Club - Kathleen Sat On the Arm of Her Favourite Chair. iTunes.

Code Orange - I Am King. Deathwish Inc. New.

Fury - Kingdom Come. Triple B Records. New.

Crush Beaks - Rising Sign. iTunes.

Palm - My Darkest Friends. Six Feet Under Records. New.

Newer Sounds

Cold Cave - Oceans With No End. Deathwish Inc. New.

Culture Abuse - The Day Dreams of Nothing. 6131 Records. New.

The Mongoloids/Broken Teeth. 6131 Records. New.

Forced Order - Retribution. Revelation Records. New.

Prom - Celebrate. iTunes.

And Again

I had to repurchase this album. I'm fairly certain I loaned it to someone and never saw it again.

I don't know why anyone ever thinks they'll get a CD back when they loan it out.

I never have. And I never learn that lesson.

Modern Life Is War - Witness. amazon.com. Used.

Filing

I can never decide what band to file and catalog splits under. I keep a spreadsheet of my records. And an alphabetized box of the physical copies.

I generally defer to the the first band alphabetically. But for some reason I had this one filed under "S."

The Hope Conspiracy/The Suicide File. Mike. Used.

Sum Of Its Parts

I like Some Girls.

But not nearly as much as I like its parts.

Struggle. Swing Kids. Unbroken. American Nightmare. Etc.

Some Girls - The Blues. Mike. Used.

"New" Releases: Go Buy It

Whip/Chains - Master/Slave. Deathwish Inc. New.

Go Buy It

End Of A Year. Deathwish Inc. New.

Go Buy It

Horror Show - Our Design. eBay. Used.

Go Buy It

108 - 18.61. Deathwish Inc. Estore. New.

Go Buy It

Reign Supreme - Testing the Limits of Infinite. Deathwish, Inc. Estore. New.

Go Buy It

Trash Talk - Plagues... Walking Disease. Deathwish, Inc. Estore. New.

Go Buy It

Blacklisted - ...The Beat Goes On. Deathwish, Inc. Estore. New.

Go Buy It

Narrows - New Distances. Deathwish Inc. New.

This is Being Posted Sunday as Saturday was a Loss

For years I thought they were stoner rock.

(They weren't.)

I put off hearing them. Because of that.

Then I wondered if they sounded like Sweetbelly Freakdown.

(They didn't.)

I put off hearing them. Because of that.

Jesuseater. Princeton Record Exchange. Bargain punk.

You're Kidding Me. A Radiohead Song?

Between 2000 and 2002 I lived in Astoria. Give or take a few months. Roughly. Two years.

I had lost interest in hardcore. I had the remnants of my compact disc and vinyl collection. No shows.

I was a temporary employee at Credit Suisse First Boston. My department moved. I sat next to Josh. He looked familiar.

We became friendly. He had been a year ahead of my at Syracuse University. Hence. Familiarity.

He also collected Stryper vinyl.

And enjoyed Pretty Girls Make Graves. And the Murder City Devils. He convinced me on one. Not the other. Cathy has done a better job. But not great.

Josh informed me Adeet worked down the street. I hadn't seen or spoken to Adeet in a few years. We got in contact.

Nine-Eleven happened. CMJ was pushed back.

Dave got us into the Drive-Thru Records showcase. We ran into Chris. I decided to go to the EVR showcase at CBGB the following day. Tim was there. Maybe Eric. My first show in a long time.

I missed a lot during my self-imposed exile. Especially in my hometown. My home region. Philadelphia. Not Langhorne. Between Ink & Dagger and Blacklisted is a gap of missed music. Missed shows. Missed bands.

Knives Out - Heartburn. Acquired on eBay. This appears to be out of print. Per Deathwish Inc. If not. Let me know.