Ian from Absurdo has sent us some images from the recent Absurdo tour through the US of A for this Monday Photo Blog. Maybe you were there? I missed out. No idea where I was or what else was going on. But I’m living vicariously through these images. Thanks Ian! Send your tour photos, bands that […]
THE PiEOTS are a Japanese punk rock band originally from Kumamoto, Kyushu Island, but currently based in Tokyo. The four-piece started out playing music heavily influenced by the Swankys, but soon began writing their own take on classic ’70s snotty punk rock. So far the band has released a single and an album, and been on […]
This is a heavy, heavy edition of the Monday Photo Blog. With some help from Mark Murrmann, we have a few shots from Lucian Perkins, who documented some of the early DC punk/hardcore bands, such as the Bad Brains. These are collected into a book called Hard Art, DC 1979, from Akashic Books. Send your tour photos, […]
Kelly got on my radar due to being in solid bands and having solid mutual friends in Portland, Oregon. If you’ve been living under a rock, PDX is home of one of the strongest punk renaissances we have seen in the past few decades in the USA. Currently, Kelly is in PEROXIDE and doing Aseptic […]
Alberto Rivera was kind enough to send this obituary for the late Florida punk legend Stevie Stiletto. Stevie Stiletto, the better known and public face of Ray McKelvey, passed away at home, on March 24, 2013 in Jacksonville, Florida. He had been sick with cancer. On the surface of it, Stevie’s story is a rock […]