It All Comes Down To This

Trading seems to be a lost art these days. I was never that big of a trader because I rarely had money to buy spare records just to trade an...

The last record I received from Marcus is the repress of the Turning Point 7” on green. Alright, there was also as Taylor Swift record in th...

There was a time about 10 years ago when Spirits was a very important band to me. They played a style of hardcore that I love but which wasn...

The last record I got from the UK distro I purchased the previous three records from is Guilt Is Good by Secret World, a band from Sydney, ...

7” records are a dying breed in 2025 and split 7”s are a marginalised group within 7”s. So when a band I like decides to put out a split 7” ...

Another record I’d been really looking forward to was the latest Stand Still release, Steps Ascending . Actually, this came out already in 2...

2025 seems to be a slow year as far as new releases are concerned, or a least new releases by bands I like. One of the few records I was act...

My timing for deciding to pick up the Toyko CD couldn‘t have been worse, because a day or two later Bane and Equal Vision announced that th...

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I got to spend a weekend in Berlin without the kiddo. The reason we travelled there was a festival. I real...

My friend who sold me the Bane test press I posted about recently also had another interesting test up for sale. And of course there‘s also ...

A couple of weeks ago a good friend of mine offered up some rare records and I managed to get another piece of  the Bane puzzle. This was sh...

I’m slowly but steadily chipping away at the flood of represses of Bane releases. This translucent purple looks pretty cool at least.  I’m a...

The other record I picked up at the record store the other day was a best of by Diana Ross & The Supremes. I need to get more into soul ...

When I picked up the Beatles box set , I wrote that I fell in love with them when I listened to the red and blue album as a teenager. Well, ...

One of the more anticipated albums of 2025 was the new Turnstile LP. I‘m not a big fan of singles being dropped before the actual album rele...