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I’m feeling confident, so let’s going ahead and make the argument that the Sadies are essential listening for the punk rock crowd. Now this is by no means an under-appreciated band; they find no shortage of critical praise with each successive record (and there’s been something like ten at this point). Yet coming as we [...]

Here’s my year end list as originally published at Punknews.org. I think all of the staff lists this year left a lot of the regulars scratching their heads, but I’ll comment on that later.
Crisis on Infinite Orgs
If my efforts this year seem a bit abbreviated, I moved into the house I’ve been renovating for the [...]

High Tension Wires feature members of The Marked Men, The Riverboat Gamblers, Reds and Chop Sakis among others. The Marked Men have been on hiatus for the past while as Jeff Burke has been going to school in Osaka, Japan, but that didn’t stop them from releasing one my favorite records of 2004 before he [...]