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When I tried to order The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore from my local workers-collective-anarcho-metal-punk store, War On Music , the ...

A while back the Pop Punk Message Board lit up over a troll-ish thread claiming that all the bands that have followed the Exploding Hear...

To see my list of ten (more) great Lookout Records singles, please visit The Big Takeover ! We'll end the series commemorating th...

Last week on MRML , we mentioned that, "Jesse Michaels former lead singer of Operation Ivy (more HERE ), Big Rig and Common Rider h...

“(In 1992) I was still co-producing with Blaise Barton – who had worked with (Bob) Dylan – I’d always felt that his unique understan...

Just as pop-punk was about to enter its millennial hibernation, Newcastle, USA's The Lilligtons offered the genre one last shot at ...

I love New Hampshire pop-punk legends The Queers but I bet their leader, Joe 'King' Queer, would hate me . Sure I kicked off th...

Cover by GloriaWhatsername   Pinhead Gunpowder (named after a very strong tea) are a sort of Gilman Street super-group...

Okay while readers are still offering some back-n-forth on how damaged Screeching Weasel's legacy is (see HERE ), I'll offer a ...

Yesterday's episode, The Tragedy of the Weasel - see HERE , generated some smart responses, so in hopes of furthering the discussion ...

Point One: Screeching Weasel were one of the most influential bands of the nineties. Point Two: Ben Weasel's cowardly attack on ...

To see my list of ten great Lookout Records singles (part one) please go visit The Big Takeover . Monsula (Paul Lee on vocals, Ch...

The Parasites (more HERE ), spent much of the nineties being recklessly prolific, sporadically brilliant and sadly marginal. The1996 s...

Cinder Block was a dominating presence in nineties pop-punk band Tilt (more HERE ), which seemed to rub some listeners the wrong way. Wh...

  Sewer Trout , with the late Jim MacLean, bass, vocals Hal MacLean, drums Keith Lehtinen, guitar Erik Benson were a huge part of the scen...

East Bay pop-punk band The Invalids (Tony on bass guitar, Sean on drums and Scott on guitar and vocals) really wanted to be Green Da...

During their almost-decade long lifespan, nineties pop-punks Tilt never hit it big. They never seemed to escape their reputation as a s...

I've heaped praise on the departed Lance Hahn before (see HERE ). Now I'd like to offer up an important single from Lance's...

Green Day were polarizing. From the beginning the knock against them was their lack of punk boanfides; no breakneck tempos, no yelled v...