The Vault of Punk

In the honored annals of punk rock many a worthy band remained virtually unknown, their esoteric creations familiar to only a few devotees. The purpose of this page is to illuminate some of these forgotten acts, and make their creations available to a wider audience. All of the recordings featured here are from my own collection, and carry the official Gabe Seal of Approval. I hope you enjoy them. I can be contacted at ozarkpunkrock * hot/mail dot com.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Plugz-Electrify Me and Better Luck

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The Plugz were notable for being the first Mexica...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Croatan-Wrong Hole, Dumbass! And Separation Anxiety 7”s

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Croatan is a weird two-piece punk/metal act from Cincinnati, Ohio. A husband and wife team, the band has released a couple of full-length al...
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Friday, February 5, 2010

Three Liter Hit-My Life Before The Accident Cassette

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I saw Three Liter Hit play at the Magic Bean coffee shop in Springfield in the mid-1990’s. They played punk/alt. rock with a goofy abandon,...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

The Clash-Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg Bootleg CD

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I’ve never been as much of a fan of the Clash as lots of my friends are. In my opinion, they had two truly memorable albums. The first was t...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Inspector Luv And The Rideme Babys-Another World 7”

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Inspector Luv and the Rideme Babys were an obscure garage/groove band that played around the Pacific Northwest in the late 80’s and early 90...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Uniform Choice-Screaming For Change

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I’ve always thought of Screaming For Change as being the album that Minor Threat forgot to record. Maybe I should back up here and mention t...
Friday, December 11, 2009

The Whole Sick Crew-Demo CD-R

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The Whole Sick Crew was a sadly short-lived St. Louis-based acoustic pirate band. From what I can gather this was actually a brief musical f...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Wingnut Supreme-F96

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I booked Wingnut Supreme at a show opening for Earth Crisis in 1998. I’d never heard them before, but I was impressed with their ridiculousl...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

The Trashwomen-Lust 7” and Spend The Night With The Trashwomen LP

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The Trashwomen were an all-female surf/punk act based in San Francisco in the 90’s. They alternated between instrumental surf numbers and pu...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

The Kill-A-Watts-Seven Inches Of Rock

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I love the internet. Back in the day if you wanted to release a bootleg you had to have your master tape taken to acetate, then send it off ...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Teddy And The Frat Girls-I Wanna Be A Man 12” EP

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This experimental Florida band started out playing under the moniker Sheer Smegma around 1980, and released a 7” entitled “Social Suicide”. ...
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Friday, October 2, 2009

Nomeansno-Wrong CD

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I like all of the music I post on my blogs. But there are only a few things that I post that shake me to my very musical soul. The album “Wr...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Instant Girl-Post-Coital CD

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Spitboy was an all-female punk band formed in the early 1990’s in the San Francisco Bay area. They played heavy mid-tempo punk with strong ...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Red Aunts-s/t 7”

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The Red Aunts were one of a huge number of riot girl acts to spring up in the U.S. in the 1990’s. For my money, they never outdid their debu...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

Sick Pleasure-Destroy the Human Race bootleg 7”

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I spent years trying to track this sucker down, and it was worth it. These scummy punkers started a band in San Francisco in the early 80’s...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Doc Dart –Patricia LP

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Doc Dart was the singer in the Crucifucks , a notorious 1980’s punk act from Wisconsin. After that band folded, Dart recorded and released t...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Fear-WOW Hall, Eugene, Oregon 10/17/82

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Fear is a love-em’ or hate-em’ kind of band. Given their right wing, sexist, homophobic, and uber-nationalist lyrics, I can certainly unders...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Terminal City Ricochet

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This uber-obscure 107 min. film was made for Canadian TV in 1990. It’s a somewhat heavy-handed satire of pollution and political corruption,...
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