Can’t Rest on the Times

I don’t have much to say about Bloodline.  I was never into the whole skinhead hardcore stuff.  Bill was a really nice guy.  Original roadie for Blind Approach.  Founding member of Extreme Noise.  I think they played in our basement once or twice.

This would have been their 2nd record, put out by Nemesis Records

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Disturbing the Peace

The late Earl Root was Minneapolis metal.  No one did more in this town to promote metal, than Earl did.  He was in bands, ran record labels, owned a record store, and had a late-night metal radio show on KFAI for more years than I can count.  Disturbed was one of Earl’s finest moments in my mind.  This record was a masterpiece of metal, long before another band came along and made it big with the same name.

There were some great videos that went along with this album.  They were shot in the same building that many of my early public access shows were shot.  If I ever stumble across them, I’ll post the too.  In the meantime, check out the album.  It’s well worth the download.

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A Conscience Left to Struggle With Pockets Full of Rust

Socialist mod-punks, The Strike started out as a 4 piece consisting of Macalaster College kids. They later slimmed to a trio and left the twin towns for Chi-Town where they continued to grow in popularity, but eventually broke up.

This is one of their later records after they moved to Chicago, but they’ll always be a MNPunk band.

Get it here or here.

(Sorry about the long break in posts)

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