Ramones. That’s the tweet. Sire Records formed almost sixty, yes, SIXTY years ago and is still active! Wow, what a difference! Anyway, we attempt to…
Lots of crazy stuff happened in 1986 via the wacky Washington worlds of arts, politics, entertainment, and horticulture: Rick Moranis’ “Little Shop of Horrors” hit…
“Damn the man! Save the Empire!” These were the rallying cries of every spirited “teen” working at the fictional store in the film “Empire Records.”…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Retail conglomerate Target announced today that they would be participating in Record Store Day by offering 35 separate versions of Taylor Swift’s…
There’s always a lot of talk about how 1994 was the year of punk with all the mainstream success of bands like Green Day, The…
SAYVILLE, N.Y. — Local man Dave Greggory added a pack of condoms to his handbasket to distract from the fact that he was about to…
Record labels in the scene can be quite polarizing, to say the least, but we’ve yet to hear about anyone besmirching the entity known as…
PITTSBURGH — Self-proclaimed audiophile Klein Drexel dismayed his longtime partner yesterday after getting himself stuck in the horn of his vintage Victrola yet again, sources…
Whether you discovered sunny Huntington Beach, California by way of icey New Haven, Connecticut’s Revelation Records from reverential New York Hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits or…
Los Angeles-based punk/alternative label SideOneDummy was founded in 1995, the year that Rancid, Alanis Morissette, The Presidents of the United States of America, Foo Fighters,…
Richard and Stefanie Reines’ Drive-Thru Records ruled the early-aughts Warped Tour world with such bands like Floridian pop-punk kings (A) New Found Glory, Philadelphia pop-punk…