Cro-Mags – Outbreak – at Chain Reaction – Anahiem, CA

We arrived at the show long after it sold out and the venue was like a tropical rain forest during monsoon season. Outbreak were getting ready to go on and it was obvious that most of the people in the audience were totally stoked even though they were already drenched with sweat. Outbreak has come a long way since they first Read more

Music play list for the week ending May 31, 2009

Top 25  - In no particular order -

Gaslight Anthem – Great Expectations
Descendents – Can’t Go Back
Screeching Weasel – Surf Godess
Fucked up – Son the Father
Bad Brains – Rock For Light
Agression – Rich Kids
NOFX – Soul Doubt
Garbage – Special
The Raveonettes – The Great Love Sound
Too Short – Too Real
Youth Brigade – Sink with California
Danger’s Close – Back to Hell
The A.G.s – I Like Boobs
No Doubt – Blue In The Face
Suicidal Tendencies – Cyco Vision
Sham 69 – Rip Off
The Briefs – Dolly Parton
Cock Sparrer – Don’t Blame Us
Slaughter & the Dogs – Anthem for the Kids
Have Heart – The Worth
Jack Off Jill – My Cat Read more

The Briggs – Time Again – Viva Hate – Majority Lost – at The Knitting Factory – Hollywood, CA

When summer rolls around, it means different things for a variety of people. For me, and I’m sure it’s the same for others, summer means going to shows regularly and having the time of your life, and the Time Again/Briggs show Read more

Is Twitter a big threat to newspapers

With newspspers quickly becoming known as "history papers", online media in many forms is challenging the way people get their news and information. Now they are pondering if Twitter can become and even bigger threat. Granted in 140 letters it may be hard to tell a detailed story, BUT it still is enough to cause an effect and spoil a newspspers scoop. You can even get the items we publish on this site right as they are published by following Big Wheel on Twitter  twitter.com/bigwheelmag

Social Task – Demo

Social Task follows their 7" with an eighteen song demo CD. This band that formed in the late 1970’s from the Huntington Beach punk scene, reunited about three years ago and have since been creating a new legacy for themselves as one Read more

Punk Rock Academy Fight Song – When It Began

Once you’ve arrived somewhere its always a good idea to see how you got there. I remember reading an article somewhere where Lars Frederiksen from Rancid says that nobody was born with a mohawk. This is a pretty succinct way of calling out those people who seem to think they have some kind of cooler than thou status on being Punk and have never listened to any other kind of music. Read more

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