

Mable 5: Top 5 Tee-Shirts
KANAN’S TOP 5 BAND TEES OF 2018 5. THE BOMBPOPS – “Dear Beer” tee I love my Bombpops “Dear Beer” tee. I have a slight feeling that it was...

Mable 5: Top 5 Shows
5. Face to Face, Less Than Jake, Direct Hit, at Gas Monkey, Dallas, TX, April 21 This was one worth travelling for. I am lucky that my...


Mable 5: Top 5 Podcasts of 2018
So as everyone knows, 2018 was a tough year for me personally. I have made it very well known that music was absent from my life and live...


Mable 5: Top 5 Albums of 2018
Normally, I would follow each listed album with paragraph after paragraph of why I loved each and every one of them. I would describe the...


Remembering Pete Shelley
Punk rock was all but dead in 1989 and I missed it. I’m old enough to have seen The Clash and some other punk bands of the early 1980s in...


Stories From The Scene: The Girlfriend Experience
My ex and I met in 8thgrade when my family moved from Chicago to the suburban hell scape that was Elmwood Park Illinois in the late 80s....


LAX to ATL
Music is a lot of things to a lot of people. It can be a way express ourselves, a way to amp ourselves up or to decompress. Sometimes,...


You go to shows ALONE???
The other day I was listening to a podcast where women were talking about going to concerts (not punk rock; we are the only podcast that...


The Family That Discovers Punk Together, Stays Together.
If you listen to the podcast, it’s inevitable that you’ve heard a handful of conversations that start with “how did you end up getting...

Girl-ify Band Shirts
Ever since I met Jessica, I've envied the way she girl-ifies band shirts. I mean, look how hot she is: I always look like a boy with a...