Month May 2009

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…