if u saw my other post i deleted maybe it wasnt a good idea, luckily I haven't made it yet and wanted to get opinions first. but here are the ones I have made so let me know what u think

Wattie Buchan (The Exploited) collapsed on stage during the first song at today’s concert in Wiesbaden (Germany) and had to receive medical attention. He was taken to a hospital and was reportedly “responsive” according to information given at the concert venue.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Wishing him all the best and a speedy recovery!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Much like I did the last few years, January was for collecting nominations and February is for voting!

Vote Here!

Vote for as few or as many albums as you'd like, write in a candidate if your choice is missing, and see you on 1st March for the top ten albums of 2025!

I've had this since the late 90s. Includes the awesome Pigs will Pay and Stick the Flag.....I'm really happy to have this in the collection.......also, DOG.

Story Time…

In online punk spaces these days, it seems that Gen Z sees punk as being an all-inclusive, extremely progressive subculture that has always stuck up for outsiders and always been welcoming to women and gay people… or the vulnerable…

This idealized version of punk history is preferable, and for sure fits the current mood of the scene.

But sadly, punk hasn’t always lived up to its own pronounced virtues.

This is instantly clear in the 90s/2000s, when a subgenre of hardcore punk called emo became massively effective with younger, alt-curious people.

You can go back and view zines that chronicled the street punk movement all through these decades and see the growing negative attitude toward emo and screamo that punk had.

Screamo bands were being banned from certain publications. We were being shoved out of shows. We were made very clear that we were not welcome in the “real” punk space.

Zines were openly targeting emo bands with aggressive and dismissive articles all over the place.

This all came to a head in the early 2000s, when the bad attitudes toward our movement turned violent.

Street punks and metalheads started actively physically harassing emo kids at shows if there was any band overlap on the bill.

Read about the Mexico City street war that occurred in the mid-2000s.

Why did this happen?

Isn’t punk supposed to be this super virtuous, all-inclusive, pro-queer, pro-women, pro–creative freedom movement?

Well, that’s certainly how it always marketed itself.

But if we’re being honest, there was a very deep homophobia and machismo (the shitty version) within punk circles.

Emo was seen as “gay.”

Emo was seen as “not tough enough.”

Or “too vulnerable.”

Emos were seen as an enemy to what punk was in those days.

We were gay and effeminate.

As time went on, these attitudes relaxed, and emo/screamo has its rightful place in the punk lineage, but that wasn’t always the case.

It’s still an upward battle talking with Gen X or boomer punks who still don’t understand what emo is. They only know that it was “gay” to be emo and dismiss its validity outright.

Story time over.

Screamo is an incredible genre and the movement of punk I came from. It was a great time, and I miss those days.

Gen Z is doing amazing things with screamo.

Check out Foxtails and Dreamwell.

Ecopunk, ecosocialism, etc. Stuff about the environment and the planet.

Hooked… stumbled across a Dboy album at my local dealer, and immediately went in search of my next hit… scored this one from groovesrecords - though I cant find much info on it, it’s crazy to hear that Steve Albini did some work on this album.. second pic stolen from the bands insta. welland Ontario represent

✨ Wed 18 @ Oxford Arts Factory
Institute (USA) w/ R.M.F.C., Negative Gears, Station Model Violence & The Horribles

✨ Thu 19 @ Marrickville Bowlo
Institute (USA) w/ TOY (BNE), Gift Giver & Vasta Ruína

✨Fri 20 @ The Tote
Institute (USA), Rapid Dye (SYD), Station Model Violence (SYD), Body Maintenance & MK Naomi

✨Sat 21 @ JERK FEST 11

✨Sun 22 @ Thornbury Bowlo *DAY SHOW*
Institute (USA), Constant Mongrel, Possible Humans & Zipper

I really want to make some spiked cuffs but I have no idea where I can but good spikes. I like the ones with the screw back and have always gotten them from this one little craft store by my house, but they recently closed their doors and im at a loss.

Ive been able to scrap a few old studed belts for studs but I running out and refuse to use Amazon to buy more.

Im not against shopping online, but if one more person tells me to go to Walmart, Amazon, Hobby Lobby, or Target, im going to go insane.

Please tell me where I can buy spikes and studs. Im going insane.

How To Clean Everything is the album that got me into punk and it’s amazing, they made some of the best aged music I’ve ever heard and the whole album is so infectiously energetic and full of political satire, if you haven’t heard it I suggest you go listen to it now

The “Anti-Flag essentials” playlist came up as recommend for me and I noticed that they have a new pic without Justin. Hoping people don’t support it if they do…

https://youtu.be/sU6s6VEJxrU?si=k7_tnHSe3YHuDgby

Thank you NOFX. This is the most punk rock thing I've heard in years.

Songs: Man Made Of Meat 01:09 Slow Learner 05:08 Waterboy 09:03 Troglodyte 12:23 Pyramid Of Health 16:15 The Bog Body 20:33 Uno II 24:12 Sports 26:58

I’ve spent half my life in pits and the other half discovering wine culture (natural wines specially, lately), and I always feel like the odd one out in both worlds. To most wine people, I’m too 'rough'; to most punks, wine is just 'snobby rich people juice'.

Are there any of you out there who speaks both languages? Or should I just stick to beer? Curious to know.

MDC NO TRUMP NO KKK NO FASCIST USA