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  • Joined: January 10, 2009
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WLOL Radio

FEAR commercial for WLOL Okay, okay. FEAR is not from Minnesota. But WLOL was, and there are few bands that say “punk” more than FEAR. WLOL was a Top 40 pop radio station back in the 1980’s in the Twin…

1983 Minneapolis Punk & Hardcore

WCCO TV report How many people in this video do you recognize? Wow! Classic video. Big thanks to Ollie Stench & John Kass for posting this.

The Tranques

KCOR Willful Neglect evolved into The Tranques. They released a 2 song 7" on Prospective Records (Heavy Whispers) which was actually two songs from the never released 3rd Album, Big Enough to Get it. About half that unreleased album was…

Disrespect

Disrespect (self titled) More crust punk from Minneapolis.   From the Profane Existence website: Veterans members of Misery, Destroy, Pissed, and Civil Disobedience, plus a couple of new faces, have joined together to play the style of music that brought them…

The Khayembii Communique

The Khayembii Communique (Self Titled) Emo   Past my active time in the scene, and I was never much of an emo fan, so I really don’t know much about them.  This guy seems to though. Get it here :

State of Fear

Wallow in Squalor From Profane Existence #27: State of Fear are a bunch of fucking goons that hang around the PE office entirely too much. Having no better space-filler and nothing better to do on a cold December evening, I…

Cleveland Bound Death Sentence

Cleveland Bound Death Sentence CD Aaron Cometbus & Paddy from D4 team up for some good old punk rock.  Put out by Lookout Records, I believe this was a compilation of the early singles. Get it here .

Man Sized Action

Five Story Garage Easily my favorite of the two MSA records. This one just kicks some serious ass. One the phone, can’t get enough….this record is full of great early 80’s midwest punk. If you liked the first record, or…