My name is Dave, and I grew up in Minnesota listening to the many punk & hard core bands that I'm featuring here. More important though, is that I'm not just posting the stuff that like, but I'm making an attempt to document every band that had something to do with the punk scene in Minnesota. From your Husker Du & Replacements to Dirt Poor & the Kung Fools. Bands that played bars, and bands that played basements and garages. I'd like it all represented here.
I'd also like your help. I can't possible do it all by myself, so if you want to see something here, let me know. If you see something on the net that deserves a mention here, let me know. If you'd like to contribute, let me know.
If you are in a band that I've posted here, and you want your stuff removed, just ask, and it will be removed. Most of my posts are links to other people's posts. Some of it is from my personal record collection. It is my intent to only post stuff that you can not otherwise buy. Long out of print stuff. If I link to stuff that is in print, I will try to include a link to actually purchase it. That won't happen very often though, since I try to post only stuff that I know to be out of print. If the band has an official website, I'll try to post a link to it. If I get something wrong, or you'd like to contribute something, let me know.
All I ask is that you enjoy the crap I post and if you have any suggestions, send me an email at: webbastard at mnpunk.com
Before there was a THD Records, there was the THD Radio hour on WMMR. WMMR was the student run radio station at the UofM that was broadcast to the campus dorms, but everyone else had to plug their cable TV wire into their stereo to listen. Years later, WMMR would become Radio K.
Doug, Jason & Tim brought the punk rock to this college radio station, and punk on punk rock basement shows in the THD house. Later they went on to start the record label that we all know and love.
No Statik is a bay area band but with one important tie to the land of 10 bajillion Mosquitoes. Mark Wilcox. Old folks like me will remember him from Destroy! & Impetus Inter. I know him as my former roommate at the THD house. That bastard used to pull his loose hair out of his dreads while showering and leave them hanging on the shower curtain rod for the rest of us to enjoy. Oh, and the only guy in the house to send his clothes home to mom to wash and fold for him. True story. However, Mark is also one of the nicest guys on the planet. The Mark I knew would bend over backwards to help out a complete stranger, and I’m guessing that has not changed.
So while this band may not be from MN, Mark is, and for that I gladly link up this video of their entire set at Chaos in Tejas 2011.