Author Archives: b. murphy
WIZARD SLEEVES!!!
This shirt has nearly everything I look for in a crucial piece of hardcore merch. 1. Sick Of It All. Fucking awesome band. 2. Choice sleeve print. 3. Quality logos overall. 4. Blaze orange. Great color. But then BOOOOOM. Wizard Sleeves. These have got to be a weird European thing. I usually only see them […]
666
The Number of The Beast. Get scary, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. I never got into the whole “scary, evil” vibe of punk rock. Goth metal just wasn’t my bag. It’s not my life and has no relation to my life. I don’t even like horror movies. Again, not my bag. But I can dig on The Misfits / […]
Ending Soon – QUIT SLEEPING!
Y’all sleeping. Casali posted that sweet Statue shirt earlier, and people were psyched. But this shades apart shirt is languishing with ZERO bids. Who likes Statue more than Shades Apart? Don’t forget Shades Apart released an LP on Wishingwell, afterall. Is that a macaroni man on the front?? And what about this ONE of ONE […]
Title Fight
Winter may be over (at least in the Northern Hemisphere. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, may I suggest looking into Penfield? Hudson Mass represent!), but looking cool NEVER goes out of style. Granted, I wouldn’t know much about looking cool. But I’ve heard from a few very cool people, and they all agree […]
Throw The Cards
Another Worcester story. Back in 1999, a lot of poker was played at & Einhorn under the shadow of the Samhain Poker Hand poster. Now, I’m not sure if that’s the name of the design, but that’s what I always referred to it as. Now the poster I have has quite the pedigree. I got […]
Record Labels
Ok. All you whippersnappers, listen up. Before you were born**, there were some record labels KILLING it at the distro table. You could purchase most of these albums with a vegan cookie and some tulsai. First up. Ebullition Records. This label was huge in the political hardcore scene. They pretty much went in the opposite […]