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Record stores are magical places. A good, well-stocked and curated record shop with a knowledgeable staff can influence tastes, expand horizons and serve as the hub for a local musical community. It can be a community center, a place to meet with your friends, promote your band’s upcoming shows by hanging up flyers, even sell […]

To consider Alternative Press’ list of 1994’s top 15 punk albums, one has to bear in mind two factors: Green Day’s Dookie was released Feb. 1. Kurt Cobain died by his own hand April 5. The alternative nation’s voice was suddenly, shockingly stilled. After three years of the most popular music being an agonized scream […]

Welcome to Alternative Press’ 15 best punk albums of 1989. It’s easy to look at the final year of the decade and see it as transitional. But there are portents of the future all over this list. Yet, truth be told, haven’t we seen that with all these lists? As we’ve worked on this series, […]

Kepi Ghoulie I Bleed Rock ‘N’ Roll Kepi Ghoulie wasn’t messing around with the title of his latest solo effort. Falling somewhere between Social Distortion, the Exploding Hearts and Violent Femmes, I Bleed Rock ’N’ Roll is decidedly the most straightforward rock record of his 15-plus-year career. Kepi’s signature silliness is still very much a […]