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Every Record I Own - Day 332: Don Martin Three s/t

I promise not to be the old punk guy that lectures you on what constitutes true emo. But if you’re a grumpy old guy like me, hearing the term…

Every Record I Own - Day 331: Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns

Don Caballero’s third album What Burns Never Returns starts with the same drumbeat that closed their sophomore album Don Caballero II. And to be fair, it’s…

Every Record I Own - Day 330: Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch!

Italian author/philosopher Umberto Eco once argued that the most important books in one’s library aren’t the ones that have been finished, but the ones that have yet to…

eliciaforever:

sirikenobi167:

camillabech:

gahdamnpunk:

Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af

How could you forget all the cool heavy metal ladies!? The metal scene of Botswana is NOT just a boys club

Anyone know any of…

Every Record I Own - Day 329: Dog Faced Hermans Those Deep Buds

My Dog Faced Hermans vinyl collection is a little thin. I would encourage anyone that’s curious about the band to check out Hum of Life or their…

Every Record I Own - Day 328: Dog Faced Hermans Mental Blocks For All Ages

I can’t say enough great things about Dog Faced Hermans. As I mentioned here on Tumblr four years ago, I bought my first album…

dannyhellman:

FROM THE FLAT FILES, 1993: Dog Faced Hermans illo for NYPRess, 3/20/93, art direction by Michael Gentile.

#illustration #Dogfacedhermans

Every Record I Own - Day 327 Distorted Pony Instant Winner

The first 7″ I ever purchased was Distorted Pony’s Concrete Bruises EP. I bought it at Jelly’s Records & Comics in Honolulu sometime back in ‘91 or ‘92. I…

Every Record I Own - Day 326: Dismember Like An Ever Flowing Stream

Apparently my blog has been deemed explicit by the overlords at Tumblr, so I doubt very many people will actually be able to see this post. It’s…

Every Record I Own - Day 325: Disma The Graveless Remains

Sometimes bad people make good art.

As I mentioned in my last post, Disma makes exceptional sludgy death metal, but their reputation is tarnished by their singer having…

Every Record I Own - Day 324: Disma Towards the Megalith

Sometimes bad people make good art. 

Let’s get the positives out of the way… Disma is a New Jersey death metal band who excel at stupidly heavy, barbaric, gross…

Every Record I Own - Day 323: Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

Sometime in my mid-30s I decided I needed to catch up on all the punk classics absent from my formative teenage years. Some records were total…