Oblivion

Oblivion was a punk rock band from Chicago Illinois. Founded in 1988 the band’s three piece lineup remained the same throughout it’s twelve year history. There was the main contributor Pete Kourim on lead vocals and bass, Scott Ozark on guitar and Brian Czarnik on drums. While Oblivion was never a mega popular band they [...]

Operation Ivy

I was really into punk music back in the early nineties. Having been a budding youth at the time I could truly identify with it’s aggressive nature and more importantly it was fun to skate half pipe to. I recall back then hearing about a place three thousand miles away called “924 Gillman Street”. It [...]

Descendents

First formed in 1978 in the mighty city of Los Angeles, California the Descendents would eventually have one of the biggest followings of any band from the era of early punk rock. For the first couple years the Descendents were a three piece made up of it’s founding members, Frank Navetta(guitar), Tony Lombardo(bass) and drummer [...]

Tiger Trap

When I was lad and in the midst exploring the indi-rock scene everything was done by mail order. The biggest problem with mail order is you rarely got to hear a band prior to making a purchase, unless a friend happened to already have the recording or you were lucky enough to hear them on [...]

Minor Threat

Minor Threat entered the Washington DC hardcore scene in 1980 and set the stage for pretty much all hardcore acts to follow. Their lyrical content, song structure and production quality created a listening experience that was bar none at that time. I honestly can’t say where I first heard Minor Threat. I was barely in [...]