80’s Hardcore
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It’s a Judge Bringin’ It Down on green vinyl
Read more: It’s a Judge Bringin’ It Down on green vinylI have always advocated buying several versions of a record instead of having multiple of a certain version. Recently I was strengthened in believing in that approach. Why? Because I discovered that I have mistaken a first press JUDGE Bringin’ It Down on black vinyl for a third+ press. The mistake actually laid in the…
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I’m Learning from 70’s and 80’s Reissues
Read more: I’m Learning from 70’s and 80’s ReissuesCollecting doesn’t always have to be expensive in order to be interesting. Because somehow in the USA all the classics manage to survive by being repressed from time to time. And that’s in my opinion one of the fantastic properties of the culture over there. Most of the euro stuff from the same era (although…
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Agnostic Front Victim In Pain Bridge 9 Test Press
Read more: Agnostic Front Victim In Pain Bridge 9 Test PressBridge 9 Records is doing an amazing run of reissues lately. With the goal of educating and making available the most important NYHC classics, they recently reissued the Victim In Pain Lp from Agnostic Front. They also made an Underdog discography also and a reissue of Underdog’s first 7″. On top of that, the Antidote…
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Embrace and a 90’s benefit compilation
Read more: Embrace and a 90’s benefit compilationA few weeks ago, when I was searching after Nations On Fire stuff on the bay, I found this compilation CD. I already knew it existed, because I saw it on the Blindfold discography page on Discogs, but I thought I’d never come by a copy for sale. When I read the item description I…
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Floorpunch Discography
Read more: Floorpunch DiscographyIt is hard to describe Floorpunch! But I figure I have to look at this in two ways; from the inside (like a fan) and from the outside (by doing a contextual reflection). Inside of the lyric sheet you can find several approaches of Floorpunch insiders and also a brief history / genesis of the…
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Project X: Bridge 9 Records reissues
Read more: Project X: Bridge 9 Records reissuesAnother great achievement and merit of Bridge 9 is the Project X reissue. The first press of this record was white and came with the Schism book, that compiles all three issues of Schism Fanzine. I wasn’t already into collecting records from Bridge 9 when this was released. So the numbered out of 500 and…
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Underdog Matchless discography
Read more: Underdog Matchless discographyThe two records compile the 2 demo-sessions from 1985 and 1988 along with their debut LP from 1989 called “The Vanishing Point”. The double LP came in a gatefold cover and was accompanied with a poster and a small book compiled by Russ Iglay and Richie Birkenhead. It contains numerous photo’s, letters, interviews and press…
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The Icemen: Two 7 inch Titles
Read more: The Icemen: Two 7 inch TitlesThe Icemen were founded in 1982 by singer and songwriter Marco Abularach. Noah Evans from Bad Brains and Mackie Jayson from The Cro-Mags joined him. The band was mostly active on shows and didn’t put out official records until in 1991, Blackout! Records released an ep counting 4 tracks which was available on CD and…
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Striving For Togetherness Records
Read more: Striving For Togetherness RecordsThe label was founded in 1990 and released some New York Hardcore during the nineties. Very underground label with records that have become very hard to find, especially those I will show and discuss here. The first one is the District 9 7 inch, released in 1995 and called “Schoolahardknox”. It exists on three colors;…
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