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
Match/Mismatch 7”
Minnesota’s first punk band, with what I believe to be the first release on the label soon to be knows as TwinTone. If you don’t know of the Commandos, then you haven’t been paying attention. A lot of people credit Husker Du and the Replacements with being some of the earliest punk bands, but they were still in Jr. High when there guys started rocking it. Must own for anyone that likes 70’s punk. Must own for any punk-rocker Minnesotan that wants to know where it all started.
Next Time 7″
Misery are Minnesota’s longest continuously operating punk band. 22 years and still counting! Minneapolis crust punk. Myspace page
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Blanks 77 Split 7″
No one in this state has ever done goofy-punk better than Quincy Punx. The Minnesota version of the Meatmen. A couple of albums, a bunch of 7 inchers and compilation tracks to their credit (and probably at least as many bass players). C’mon Bob from the QP’s even released an album by FEAR on his “I’ll Be Dead in Hell Records”. What’s more punk than that?
Once again from the Up the fuckin’ punx blog. MySpace page
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The brothers Batson know how to deliver the rock better than most Minnesota rock bands could ever dream of. Amazing covers, and even more amazing originals. If you ever run across the studio version of 6654321…It’s a classic! Post it somewhere so I can link to it.
Hypstrization
Great record. Balls out rock from 1979. Recorded at Jay’s Longhorn in Minneapolis. A very hard to find piece of wax the first time around, the second release is almost as hard to find.
Self Titled 7″ 1996
Bob fuckin’ Murderer. Right on. Was anyone more drunk than Bob? Ever? Drunk punk rock from Minneapolis by way of Indiana. From the Havoc Records website: Totally chaotic Punk/HC in the Disorder, Bad Posture tradition. At the heart of the Murderers is the legendary Bob Murderer who has kept versions of this band going since the early 80’s. One incarnation backed GG Allin for a while. Bob also played in the Vampire Lesbos and many other bands in the 80’s. Moving to Minnesota Bob got a new line up together and recorded these songs, some new, some from the mid 80’s. Totally irreverent drunk drugged chaos punk with a ton of energy and power. This 7″ is a blast of pure chaos. The Murderers lineup changed several times. Sid From Misery took over on drums when Mitch Useless left to play in Servitude and later Code 13. The Murderers sound changed somewhat later on. Their subsequent recordings sounded more like the US Bombs or Sex Pistols. But this 7″ is pure, hate filled hardcore punk. The Murderers released a split 12″ picture disk with the Jerkoffs on Beer City in 1999. They played a final show and broke up in 2000.
This record went out of print in 2008.
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