The holidays are a great excuse to give gifts to the people in our lives who we appreciate. As much as we would love to [...]

These are my top 15 things that happened the weekend of Punk Rock Bowling. These are in no particular order, and this is all I [...]

In 1980, Shawn Stern started Youth Brigade with his brothers, Mark and Adam, after a failed attempt of making a skinhead swing band. He later [...]

I’m going to say this right off the bat: if you’re not considering buying this box set, there’s going to be an emptiness in your music collection, thus making the rest of your collection worthless without it.

Garnering mega plaudits for its historical significance for the Los Angeles punk community, as well as its 31-track CD featuring songs from its archives done [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #5 Within 15 seconds of listening to this CD I thought, Oh no, not another Irish folk punk band. Then I [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #5 Allusions to the Pogues and Billy Bragg aren’t far off, when talking about this band.  It’s made up of [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #4 This has got to be one of the most fun albums I’ve heard this year. When I first put [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #4 Somewhere along the line, punk rock made the transition from being dirty and in-your-face to consisting of whiny-voiced, spiky-haired [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #4 With a predictable sound, Pinhead Circus’s latest album revels in the sort of power chord driven new style punk [...]