Punk Rock – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com The blog is faster than the books... Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:53:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-BAZILLION_POINTS_B_GREEN_144.png.jpeg Punk Rock – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com 32 32 Boston Public Library 11/26: Nancy Barile’s I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/04/boston-public-library-11-26-nancy-bariles-im-not-holding-your-coat-book-talk/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/04/boston-public-library-11-26-nancy-bariles-im-not-holding-your-coat-book-talk/#respond Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:18:13 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=12825 Hey Boston, save the date! Nancy Barile, author of I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion has been invited to the Book Talk series at Boston Public Library on the theme of “Revolutionary Music.” The event is tentatively set to kick off on November 26, 2024 around 6 p.m. “I can’t tell you what a thrill it will be to speak in this historic and hallowed building…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/04/boston-public-library-11-26-nancy-bariles-im-not-holding-your-coat-book-talk/feed/ 0 Sun. 12/3, Los Angeles: Pat Fear and Other Stories, by WE GOT POWER! https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2017/11/16/sun-123-los-angeles-pat-fear-and-other-stories-by-we-got-power/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2017/11/16/sun-123-los-angeles-pat-fear-and-other-stories-by-we-got-power/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:38:56 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=10073 Pat Fear, the persona created by a young punk rock genius from Riverside CA Bill Bartell, sang and played guitar in White Flag, slammed with the Germs in the film Decline of the Western Civilization, and achieved many other wild things. As Pat Fear, Bill wrote music, produced records, and toured the world (including Iceland!) ceaselessly before his untimely death in 2013. On December 3…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2017/11/16/sun-123-los-angeles-pat-fear-and-other-stories-by-we-got-power/feed/ 0 WE GOT POWER!: Unique 40X Signed Copy on Auction to Benefit Chris Stein of Saccharine Trust https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/15/we-got-power-unique-40x-signed-copy-on-auction-to-benefit-chris-stein-of-saccharine-trust/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/15/we-got-power-unique-40x-signed-copy-on-auction-to-benefit-chris-stein-of-saccharine-trust/#respond Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:27:41 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9628 Place your bid on a one-of-a-kind copy of WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California, by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz, at this location: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172444434478 This is a special benefit auction for Chris Stein, long time bassist of Saccharine Trust, in an effort to help him offset expenses related to his battle with cancer. 100% of this auction will be…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/15/we-got-power-unique-40x-signed-copy-on-auction-to-benefit-chris-stein-of-saccharine-trust/feed/ 0 Sat 12/17, L.A.: Saccharine Trust Plays PAGANICONS at WE GOT POWER! Show https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/05/sat-1217-l-a-saccharine-trust-plays-paganicons-at-we-got-power-show/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/05/sat-1217-l-a-saccharine-trust-plays-paganicons-at-we-got-power-show/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:37:30 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9588 Los Angeles legends Saccharine Trust are set to perform their 1981 SST Records hallmark Pagan Icons release in its entirety, along with their 1981 SST single “A Christmas Cry.” The cerebral sermon goes down Saturday, December 17, at 6PM at Los Angeles’s vinyl-only haven Pop Obscure, 735 South Los Angeles Street in Downtown L.A. The show is part of a series of events in conjunction with the WE…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/05/sat-1217-l-a-saccharine-trust-plays-paganicons-at-we-got-power-show/feed/ 0 CITY BABY: Massive G.B.H. Clay Records Reissues Out This Week! https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/05/city-baby-massive-g-b-h-clay-records-reissues-out-this-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/05/city-baby-massive-g-b-h-clay-records-reissues-out-this-week/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:38:56 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9578 Restricted Release Records this week releases the first titles via its new Classic Music Series, including an avalanche of favorite titles from hardcore punk legends G.B.H. Grab a copy of bassist Ross Lomas’s hilarious memoir CITY BABY: Surviving in Leather, Bristles, Studs, Punk Rock, and G.B.H., and stage dive into these criminally long-unavailable titles in single digipaks or special triple-CD…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/05/city-baby-massive-g-b-h-clay-records-reissues-out-this-week/feed/ 0 SHERIFF McCOY: Hanoi Rocks Get “Strange” in Retrospective Six-LP Hanoi Box https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/19/sheriff-mccoy-hanoi-rocks-get-strange-in-retrospective-six-lp-hanoi-box/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/19/sheriff-mccoy-hanoi-rocks-get-strange-in-retrospective-six-lp-hanoi-box/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:51:20 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9432 Strange Boys, a remastered collection of the first five albums by Finnish glam-trash punk-metal legends Hanoi Rocks, will strut with style into stores on October 21. Get ready to mess up your hair and wake up somewhere new. Cleopatra Records has two versions of Strange Boys planned: one features five CDs, the other six vinyl LPs. Each will cover the group’s first four studio albums—Bangkok…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/19/sheriff-mccoy-hanoi-rocks-get-strange-in-retrospective-six-lp-hanoi-box/feed/ 0 Bloody Roots of Grunge and Metal on Sirius XM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/08/bloody-roots-of-grunge-and-metal-on-sirius-xm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/08/bloody-roots-of-grunge-and-metal-on-sirius-xm/#respond Sat, 08 Oct 2016 18:37:52 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9412 BLOODY ROOTS OF GRUNGE AND METAL Week of October 8, 2016 Sat 10/8, 6PM ET Sun 10/9, 1PM ET Mon 10/10, 9AM ET Tues 10/11, 4PM ET Thurs 10/13, 9PM ET Honoring Seattle-area long-haired punk music to mark the 25th anniversary of Nirvana’s surprise breakthrough Nevermind, Bloody Roots digs the distortion and flannel of grunge acts like Tad, Nirvana, Earth, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden.

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/08/bloody-roots-of-grunge-and-metal-on-sirius-xm/feed/ 0 EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Tad Doyle’s Brothers of the Sonic Cloth Rises Again https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/07/experiencing-nirvana-tad-doyles-brothers-of-the-sonic-cloth-rises-again/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/07/experiencing-nirvana-tad-doyles-brothers-of-the-sonic-cloth-rises-again/#respond Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:43:16 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9398 Slaying season has come once more to Seattle. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, the Emerald City doom circle fronted by “heavier-than-God” Sub Pop-era grunge legend Tad Doyle of TAD fame, has announced that multi-instrumentalist Andrew McInnis has joined the group. McGinnis, formerly of Girth, will debut as a Brother on October 29, unleashing the loud, the crushing, and the sludgy all over Seattle’s…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/10/07/experiencing-nirvana-tad-doyles-brothers-of-the-sonic-cloth-rises-again/feed/ 0 WE GOT POWER!: David Markey’s Rare 1980 Film Short Depicts the Death of Summer, Birth of a Punker https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/12/we-got-power-david-markeys-rare-1980-film-short-depicts-the-death-of-summer-birth-of-a-punker/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/12/we-got-power-david-markeys-rare-1980-film-short-depicts-the-death-of-summer-birth-of-a-punker/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:45:42 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9297 David Markey, revered director of Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, 1991: The Year Punk Broke, and The Slog Movie, not to mention coauthor of WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California, recently made available one of his early filmmaking efforts, Summer Has Been Over for a Long Time. The poignant three-and-a-half minute movie extracts and brings to life the youth beach…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/12/we-got-power-david-markeys-rare-1980-film-short-depicts-the-death-of-summer-birth-of-a-punker/feed/ 0 TOUCH AND GO/WE GOT POWER!’s Keith Morris Ventures Out with New Autobiography https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/02/touch-and-gowe-got-powers-keith-morris-ventures-out-with-new-autobiography/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/02/touch-and-gowe-got-powers-keith-morris-ventures-out-with-new-autobiography/#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:06:04 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9247 Keith Morris, early singer of Black Flag, longtime frontman of Los Angeles brute-rock legends Circle Jerks, and current-day outspoken and extremely vocal vocalist of Off! and Flag, has stepped up his writing habit after penning two essays for Bazillion Points books (Touch and Go and We Got Power!). This week sees the hardcover release of his full-length debut My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock…

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