pirates press records

As the founder of Pirates Press, the largest broker of vinyl in the world, owner Eric “Skippy” Mueller’s introduction to record collecting taps into the zeitgeist of a post-depression United States where kids began amassing comic books, baseball cards and tiny plastic military figurines that would later be gamified in value.  Since the rapid rise […]

Downtown Struts Victoria! If punk rock had a musical version of comfort food, Downtown Struts would certainly be on the menu. From the opening strains of “Prologue,” it’s clear the 10 tracks on Victoria! are primed to combine all of the key ingredients in the melodic-punk recipe: some sprinkles of the Replacements-esque wild abandon and […]