Video: SAVES THE DAY "Holly Hox Forget Me Nots"

WOW! Can't believe it's been fifteen years since "Through Being Cool" came out! SAVES THE DAY were so good back then. I saw them with KID DYNAMITE in Detroit, MI. Fun times.

Sophie's Floorboard: "More Than Life" // Awesome Blog Filled with Hardcore, Emo, Indie Rock, and Punk ``

Sophie's Floorboard: More Than Life: More Than Life are a five-piece melodic hardcore band from South West, United Kingdom that formed in 2007. Since then, they've come ...

MATT SKIBA AND THE SEKRETS

GREEN DAY w/ Tim Armstrong "Knowledge" @924 Gilman St.

If you'll recall GREEN DAY covered this OPERATION IVY song, the band Tim Armstrong was in before RANCID.

Great Quote from Thomas Paine ~

"I love the man that can smile in troubles - that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. It is the business of little minds to shrink; but he, whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

"I dwell not upon the vapours of imagination, I bring reason to your ears; and in language as plain as A,B,C, hold up truth to your eyes."

- Thomas Paine, American Crisis I

Warning!: Excellent Midwest Hardcore Here ~ Expire "Abyss"

"I never wanted this. I'm really sorry Ms. I pulled you down with me, into the abyss!"

 

Video: ALL 'Punk Rock Bowling' 2014 Festival Full Show!!

ALL / DESCENDENTS have always been two of my favorite bands! Check out this great show from the "Punk Rock Bowling" 2014 festival!

Black Flag "My War"

My favorite song from the "My War" album. Rollins is great on this. Yes, he is my favorite BF vocalist. Now there. Piss off.
 

Video: "411" Live in Long Beach, CA 1991 // Dan O. from NO FOR AN ANSWER & CARRY NATION -- Super Rare Footage

Great full show from 411 around the "This Isn't Me" album / tour back in 1991!! Pretty rare stuff actually, considering there's just not a lot of live 411 on YouTube -- or anywhere else on the interwebz for that matter.  In case you didn't know, Dan O'Mahoney, the singer of 411, also sang in NO FOR AN ANSWER, CARRY NATION, SPEAK 714, GOD FORGOT, and more recently another band whose name escapes me at this moment. He also wrote an excellent column for MRR (Maximum Rock-n-Roll) fanzine during, I believe, the late 90's thru early 90's. Or maybe early to mid 90's. I've always loved Dan's vocal delivery, and for the most part, his lyrical content.  Dan O. is no longer straightedge, and he owns a bar/club somewhere in Cali.  Regardless, he's still a solid guy in my book (though admittedly I've never met him & don't know him --I just feel like I do through his music and his well written monthly articles from MRR) and a hardcore punkrock legend of sorts. 
This video (and many, many great others like it) were recently uploaded to YT via a great new channel called "Come Join Friends."  Lots of awesome 80's/90's hardcorepunk like SHELTER, YOUTH OF TODAY, GORILLA BISCUITS, INSIDE OUT, and several other Revelation Records bands and straightedge stuff.  Subscribe to their channel to keep abreast of their new (old) videos on YT and get into it!! -Always Use Love, m//r.
 

More from Police & Thieves // Get Into It!!

"Youth Youth Youth" Three Videos Including the Entire "Sin" 12" LP

One of my favorite Canadian hardcore bands from the mid 1980's!!
 

FRAIL "Make Your Own Noise" // Real Emotional Hardcore aka "Emo"

FRAIL were a fantastic emotion hardcore, aka "emo" band from Pennsylvania, who
were active in the early to mid 90's.  I never got to see them that I recall.
I had three of their 7" records released on: Earthwell Recs, Kidney Room Recs, 
and Bloodlink Recs.  Later on, maybe in '99 or so, Scott Beiben of Bloodlink
Records released all of FRAIL's music onto one convenient CD format.
"Make Your Own Noise" is the name of it.
FRAIL play very loose, chaotic, jangly political hardcore.  If you guessed
that they were on the far left of the political spectrum, you'd guess correctly.
Polar opposite of my political beliefs, but a fantastic band nonetheless.
This music is emotionally drenched hardcore punk.  Not the tough guy kind 
of hardcore, but the introspective political type.  Well done.  I forgot what the
members went on to do afterwards, but I think one of the dudes played in gothic
influenced post-hardcore band, INK & DAGGER.  They released something on 
Initial Records, formerly out of West Bloomfield, MI but relocated to Louisville,
Ky, run by the talented business man Andy Rich.  Initial Recs are the folks who
put on 'Krazy Fest' every summer during the late 90's / early '00's.





 

EARTH CRISIS "To Ashes" (I'd Call it "Firestorm II" --Let Every Meth-lab BURN!)

Great video, great story. Watch it all the way through. Read the headlines. Figure it out. Get into it. Ask yourself, "What would YOU do?!"

 

FIRST BLOOD "Killafornia" 2006 Album!

"They drew first blood, not fuckin' me!!"  Such a great and underrated album.  I bought it as soon as it hit the stores, and jammed it non-stop for a month.  Great, great, great record!!

INFEST Live Set From "Destroy LA 2013 Fest" Get Into It!! ~

This is just great! Excellent drummer, excellent sound, excellent show. Another band I didn't get into during their hey-day. Like 'em now.   Again, this fkn drummer!!  He looks to be in his late 40's, which he probably is, and he is playing on a little Fischer Price drum kit, but he's a fkn rager!  This is a bad-ass video.  The videographer has several full live sets up on YouTube.  I'm trying to watch all of his vids, and I will update this post with more of 'em.  Cheers, you bastards!

 

CHAIN OF STRENGTH "True Till Death" circa 1988 [Full 7" ep] & Live at Destroy LA Fest 2013

Original 7" record. Sounds like it IS ripped straight from the vinyl! Meaning it sounds fkn great! I never got too into this band when they were around. In fact I think the first time I heard them was on the Revelation Records "In Flight" CD sampler they were sending out for free, back in 1995 or so. Watching the COS reunion shows video's over the past year has been great! (That sentence doesn't sound grammatically correct.) Certainly odd to see guys in their mid-40's still tearing things up, straightedge hardcore style. I'm gonna post the live at Destroy LA Fest 2013 video here. I love the drummer & the fully sound he gives the band. A different take on the simple hardcore beat.


     

STRONGARM "The Advent Of A Miracle" Lyrics!!

you're my beloved and all together lovely 

as a gift that cant't be bought 

as if gold could favor outweigh 

your meaning to me 

the secrets of the heart made manifest 

even beauty's priced beside thee proportioned lot the less 

wishes fade as dreams break promise made 

takes away your will
takes your whole heart 

captive
just for one promise 

sell it all for one true word to hold on to 

face the shame of it all 

safer to neglect than open your callused heart 

piece by piece you have lost a part of yourself 

you share to gain but lose at love and learn to hate yourself 

more and more each day 

and all the days thereafter 

they labor to put back together and regain what is gone forever 

wishes fade as dreams break promise made tomorrow takes 

the most costly mistake is to try to change the past today
(what a void) 

the filth and the shame they all wash away
for you Christ will clean the slate 

only love can fill the void 

when the world has taken its toll 

hand in hand by your side
we'll walk down this path together 

i'll take you to the place where promises will never break 

to the advent of a miracle 

for love is a miracle 

true love is to die for
and is why i cry for you 

and the pain you feel and feed can heal
if you'd just walk with me toward the light" 

RVIVR Full Live Set Nov. 18, 2013 // Excellent Melodic Hardcore Punk Inside!! ♥

Great band! Hardcore & hardcorepunk. It's all the same. TERROR? BANE?! TRAPPED UNDER ICE? Hardcore. Hardcorepunk. RVIVR! It's all good to me. Some parts of RVIVR remind me of ooooold MONEEN. Weird. Weird that they sound like old MONEEN or that MONEEN was good at one point?! Both. Remember when SAVES THE DAY was good? '99....First two great albums. Then no more. None no more. 108. On top of the world or on your "Death Bed?" Death Bed, great song. Great watching live videos of that song from 1993. I was there, front & center. Always. SHELTER, 108, FALLING FORWARD, EMPATHY, CHOKEHOLD, STRIFE, INTEGRITY, it's all good. All good to me.

RVIVR "Edge of Living" Live with Excellent Sound!!

RVIVR.....fuckin' awesome sing-along, catchy, DIY underground hardcorepunk band!! Someone turned me on to them about five years ago. I loaded their "Derailer" 7" record (ostensibly a record put out to benefit an indie bicycle sales/repair shop...thus the record title "Derailer") on to an old mp3 player but never listened to it. About three months later I was waiting at the bus stop and it was pouring rain, dark as hell, no jacket and of course no umbrella, when my mp3 player automatically played that 7". I was totally shocked at how good they are! This live clip has awesome sound also! Get into it!

Top Ten Perfect Albums

Got me thinking earlier.......so I hurriedly put this list together.  I could change it at any time. But I probably wont.....or maybe I will.....


MISFITS "Legacy of Brutality"
EMBRACE s/t
MISFITS "Walk Among Us"
SLAYER "Reign in Blood"
DANZIG s/t
SAMHAIN "Initium"
The CLASH s/t
The CLASH "Give 'Em Enough Rope"
The CLASH "London Calling"
10,000 MANIACS "In My Tribe"
BAD RELIGION "No Control"
BAD RELIGION "Suffer"

DAG NASTY "Can I Say?"
ALL "Allroy's Revenge"
SLAPSHOT "Step On It"