It All Comes Down To This

A couple of weeks ago I got to spent a quiet Saturday evening lounging on the sofa, having some TV show I’ve seen a hundred times in the bac...

Another band I still have some gaps of in my collection is Fugazi. I have all their full lengths, but there are still some bit and pieces mi...

Getting the repress of It All Comes Down To This hasn’t been this hard. Pricey, yes, but not really hard. The only variant that was hard t...

Unlike Marcus, whose recent dive into Less Than Jake was inspired by an actual trip to Gainesville, Florida, I merely wanted to close anoth...

Towards the end of last year I saw Quicksand for the first time and thus crossed off one of my main wants on my bucket list of bands/artists...

Another classic by what now can also be considered a classic band. Illadelph Haflife is The Roots‘ third LP and is broader in its musical a...

On my quest to add more non-hardcore/punk records to my collection I picked up this absolute hip hop classic from 1989. I‘d never listened t...

People seeing the Bad Brains in the late 70s and early 80s usually run out of superlatives when they talk about those shows. I sure wish I c...

Last year I picked up a couple of Bob Marley & The Wailers records and I always knew I wanted to get more of their discography. When I s...

When a bunch of record collectors hang out together, obviously they will go to the local record store sooner or later. Well, that‘s exactly ...

A Collection of Oldies , not only an apt name for this record, but also if anyone wanted to refer to three older guys hanging out talking ab...

Happy new year, everyone. I spent the beginning of the new year with a good friend and his family. People I love and don‘t nearly get to see...

I must confess that I‘m not that well versed in the current hardcore scene. Nowadays it feels like I‘m always at least two steps behind, whi...

While taking the pictures for my year end post, I realized that I haven‘t made a post about one of my favorite demos/7“s this year yet. Look...

Prison of Hope is a relatively new band from Stuttgart aka Stu York. As you might have guessed from the band name, the people in the band ar...