brief rants but of course birdpunking It's a funny image right? A badass punker peeping assiduously through binoculars like a bookish birder. Well the ink had barely dried before I came upon this article on birdpunking.
Oi Polloi oi polloi okay My mind got to racing on the crucial matter of whether or not I still had the Oi Polloi red demo tape with the pigs on it. The next day I dug through my single box of tapes and sure enough, there it was.
photos dr. martens presents ... Imagine my joyful surprise when - after alighting from my steel steed and bending to the task of locking frame and front wheel to bike staple - my slow gaze fell on this sticker with Ian mugging at me.
Void touching the void Not once but twice, on two separate radio shows within the last couple weeks a show host made reference to almighty Void. If that ain't serendipity nudging your esteemed Papa Punk off the sofa and back to posting with a sharp kick, I don't know what is.
radiohead this is the radiohead Radiohead still has the power to make me lose my mind, and that's a damn good thing.
The Stooges gimme danger Movies are turning out to be an unlikely source of inspiration for me to post here. For whatever reason I seem to find my muse in the hallowed confines of our nearby indie
songs the week after So I've been trying to wrap my head around the fact that nearly half the people in this country have chosen to send a pig to the White House. I'm at a loss
brief rants ex-lion tamer I've got to give it to the Spotify artificial intelligence sorcery used to cook up the Discovery recommendations for me this week. It's downright spooky they were so on the nose with some
photos black flag bicycle Vintage Black Flag punk rock bicycle sighting, be still my heart: And then for some reason this goes through my head ... "Grab my blue backpack, my walkman, grip my bicycle" Deftones,
long rants papa punx is high school And school is back in session! For the many tens of readers out there, my apologies for the lack of posts this summer. As lamented in this Die Kreuzen standard: "it's been
this day in punk this day in punk - Sep 3, 1987 I love this flyer, it has that DIY quality to it while capturing the political urgency of those times. Pretty good line-up too, eh, including a not-too-shabby opening band - all for $5
lists top crowd energy shows As I pulled together remnants of memories of long-past shows to do a little post about slam-dancing, I had more vivid recollections of a certain few shows that particularly stood out due to
long rants slam dancin' babe Slam dancing and stage diving are pretty mainstream these days. Most everyone has seen it and maybe experienced it. Indeed, I would not be in the least bit surprised to find footage of
brief rants time for some german punk music Now ist the time on Papa Punk when we dance ... to some German punk rock music. After watching Green Room, it's hard to ignore that some of the more unsavory elements had a
brief rants musings on green room So I got a chance to watch the Green Room movie everyone's been buzzing about. It definitely is a helluva good movie - raw, intense and lots of gore (though truth be told,
Government Issue give us stabb, don't give us death It was quite a sad thing to learn of John Stabb's passing on Sunday. I'm not in any position to eulogize Stabb - I never knew the man, don't have any personal anecdotes
The Jam paul weller stamp Speaking of The Jam and Paul Weller. Now that we've rightfully got Harriet Tubman on the 20 dollar bill, can we please make this happen also ... Paul Weller on a postage stamp. Sweet
songs opening tracks that hit me over the head Not necessarily the best songs or my favorite songs but songs that made a lasting impression on me when I was in my early punk discovery days. *[editor's note: let's see how the
long rants on punk t-shirts Let's face it. The discovery of obscure bands with hard-to-get records and titles that ran the gamut from irreverent to profane was personally gratifying. But nothing proclaimed punk rock credibility as much as
records scoring big boys no matter how long lp So I stopped by 2nd Avenue Records for Record Store Day 2016 and was happy to pick up the Big Boys No Matter How Long The Line Is At The Cafeteria, Theres Always
brief rants taxes is the reason As I was knee-deep in taxes during the week, this adaptation of the Misfits classic Bullet was playing on endless loop in my head ... Taxes is the reason that the president's dead!
records Killroy revisited In my epic post on getting to my first show I mentioned Killroy at the RAR in 1984 and the Believe in the Ruins 12" EP I picked up while there. In
long rants welcome to the show I might've mentioned that when I was coming up there was no World Wide Web that we know and hold dear in these here modern times, right? I'll likely say this in every
records records that got away From the early years when I spread my trove of records across various and sundry friends' homes through the college years - when the impracticality of moving a bunch of filled crates each
records my very first punk records In reminiscing about my epic journey to punk vinyl, I am struck by the vaguest memory of the first records I bought: I'm pretty sure it was the TSOL 12" EP and
