MN Punk celebrates the Minnesota punk scene.\u00a0 It is not my intent to rip anyone off or piss anyone off.\u00a0 Pretty much everything you’ll find here can be found elsewhere on the interwebs, or is from my personal record\/video collection.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If your stuff is on here, and you want it gone, just drop me a note, and I’ll take it down.\u00a0 If I got something wrong, let me know.\u00a0 I’ll fix it.\u00a0 If you’ve got something you want me to post, let me know.\u00a0 Most important to me, to the best of my knowledge everything that I’ve posted or linked to is out of print.<\/p>\n
So what makes this stupid blog different from the rest?\u00a0 Well, it’s exclusively Minnesota based.\u00a0 You won’t find early Black Flag demos, or some rare NYHC\u00a0 7" from 1992.\u00a0 If the band or label wasn’t from Minnesota (or just played in Minnesota like they lived here) you just won’t find it here.\u00a0 It’s all about Minnesota and the bands and folks that really made a scene here.\u00a0 In fact, if you’re not clued in, head over to TCPunk.com<\/a> where other old folks in the Minnesota punk scene hang out.<\/p>\n When I was working on my cable access show in the early 80’s, I went on a binge for about a year buying just about anything locally released so I could play it on the show.\u00a0 Most of that stuff is packed up in boxes, probably never to be looked at again.\u00a0 That’s why I really got to liking these music blogs all over the interwebs. \u00a0 I’m able to find a lot of the old records that I owned back in the day, but never transferred to CD\/MP3, or that I just plain missed out on because of poor distribution or limited supply. No matter what folks in the music industry will tell you about how the internet has killed their business, it has become awesome for old farts like myself that just want to hear some of those old vinyl records, and cassette tapes that I have piled up in the basement but will probably never play again.\u00a0 It’s also been a great way to check out he bands I missed the first time around…most of which are completely non-existent today.\u00a0 It’s also been great to revisit some of the 7" records & cassette demo tapes that I bought at shows and record stores over the years that I was actually active in our scene. \u00a0 Those are the bands that I celebrate here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MN Punk celebrates the Minnesota punk scene.\u00a0 It is not my intent to rip anyone off or piss anyone off.\u00a0 Pretty much everything you’ll find here can be found elsewhere on the interwebs, or is from my personal record\/video collection.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If your stuff is on here, and you want it gone, just drop me a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P39jV0-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}