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May 2025

MAPLEWOOD RECORD FAIR TMRW: 7 INCHERS
I’m just letting you all know the seven-inch EP’s shown on Thursdays’ post have been sold already.
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MAPLEWOOD RECORD FAIR THIS SUNDAY: EVERYTHING MUST GO!
This Sunday June 1st, I will be selling all my worldly possessions at the Maplewood Record Fair at The Woodland located at 60 Woodland Road in…
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HBD: MELTZER AT 80
Happy 80th birthday to the godfather of rock crit, Richard Meltzer!
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VENOM/BLACK FLAG/OVERKILL 4/2/86
In the past few months, I’ve been packing up and sending out many records from my collection in exchange for much needed money.
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April 2025

INTERVIEW: ROB OSBORN OF FORCED DOWN
Founded in San Diego during the late 80s by the dearly departed Mike Denny and Pitchfork drummer Joey Piro, Forced Down were a unique entity on the…
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THANK YOU KIND STRANGER!
I know he’s not everyone’s cup of comedy tea, but I absolutely adored Tim Dillon’s special I’m Your Mother which premiered on Netflix last week.
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FROM THE NYHC BOOK ARCHIVES: MIKE JUDGE INTERVIEW PART I
This interview with Mike Judge was conducted in the fall of 2013 for my second book, NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980 - 1990.
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SEEKING SOME SEMBLANCE OF SOLACE
I’m not sure if listening to something so harrowing as Mess Esque’s Jay Marie, Comfort Me is a smart idea right now, but it fills the void between…
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FULFILLING MY QUOTA AT THE BOO-HOO FACTORY
In moments when you’ve been slung out on your ass due to your health and mental issues being too much for someone else to handle, the simple wham-bam…
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RIP AL BARILE
As a child, the back cover of SSD's 12”EP Get It Away was stared at for hours on end in the bedroom I shared with my brother in our childhood home.
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March 2025

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