It All Comes Down To This

One of the highlights of our trip to Australia was the opportunity to catch up with old friends, which was true especially for my wife becau...

After The Searchers, I went to Strangeworld Records. The owner was a nice guy and of all the record stores I went to, Strangeworld had the b...

So, the reason why this blog was rather quiet over the summer was that my family and I took a rather long trip to Australia. It was sort of ...

A few months yet another birthday came around and a very good friend of mine was kind enough to gift me two records when we saw each other a...

Back in 2014, my favorite band released another album, which sadly was also supposed to be their last one. After having released Don’t Wait ...

When Change released  Closer Still, the world was still very different. As you can see Change went on tour in Europe in February 2020. They ...

Desire Line are a relatively new band from the Cologne/Munster in the northwest of Germany. Two of the people in the band played in Tides De...

Lately, I’ve been listening to the A Tribe Called Quest records I already own, Midnight Merauders and People’s Instinctive Travels a lot. ...

If you’re into hardcore and / or punk and you’re of a certain age, there’s almost a 100% guarantee that Die Ärzte (aus Berlin) were a gatewa...

A few weeks ago I went to see Be Well at one of my favorite venues. Truth be told, I‘m not a big fan of Be Well. I tried to get into them a ...

The other record I‘d mentioned in my previous post was another colored version of Bad Brains‘ I Against I . It‘s been a lot of fun collectin...

I don‘t know why, but Underdog always flew a little bit under my radar. But when I bought a record on Discogs recently, I checked the rest o...

Taang! Records was a pivotal record label in the early days of hardcore in general and for the Boston scene in particular. The singles the l...

We played a weekender a few weeks ago and to make time on the road pass by a little easier, my bandmates and I made a playlist every one cou...

I don‘t like to listen to Spotify radio or to playlists I didn‘t create myself, but every once in a while the algorithm actually points me t...