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Straight Edge Netiquette? Kevin Smith, Mr. Robot, and the Hollywood Reporter

I have had a number of discussions lately online that have me questioning how best we can relate to each other online.

It made me think of a time when I was confronting many of the same issues inside my local punk rock community way back in the day. Is it time for Straight Edge Netiquette?

April Band Roll: What Bands Were on #OPS Playlists In April

I wanted to see how many bands I covered in April on the blog and this is just the bands from my playlists. All the bands, with links to their pages, the playlists they were on, and their record labels.

Not sure I can do this every month (took HOURS) but I will try.

Enjoy!

OpinionJoshua B. HoeMay 10, 2016Spotify Playlist, #Spotify, #SpotifyPlaylist, YouTube, #YouTubePlaylist, #YouTube, A Place To Bury Strangers, Straight Tripping Witch Playlist, Mute Records, Acid Baby Jesus, Ha Magic Tomboy Playlist, Slovenly Recordings, Beastie Boys, The Beastie Boys, Blues Rock Rap Playlist, Def Jam Records, Black Francis, Bad Teeth Island Playlist, Cooking Vinyl, Black Mountaiin, Haunted Faith Attack Playlist, JaJaguwar, Blondie, Chrysalis Records, Buke and Gase, Houdini Trash Rash Playlist, Brassland Records, Cannibal Ox, Definitive Jux, Captain Beefheart, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, A&M Records, Chain and the Gang, Chain & the Gang, K Records, Clorox Girls, Explore This Playllist, Burger Records, Cloud Nothings, Wichita Recordings, Cosmic Psychos, Normal Records, Cypress Hill, Colombia Records, Dalek, Ipecac Recordings, Dead Milkmen, Blog Mischief Playlist, Restless Records, Deposit Man, Deposit Man EP, Destruction Unit, Rock Ain't Dead Playlist, Sacred Bones Records, Downtown Boys, Don Giovani Records, Dread Zeppelin, IRS Records, Drive Like Jehu, Interscope Records, Elvis Presley, RCA Records, Fear Of Men, Kaninie Records, Frankie Cosmos, Double Double Whammy, George Clinton, Parliament, Capital Records, Gleaming Spires, Scotti Brothers Records, Greys, Carpark Records, Guerilla Toss, DFA Records, Hallelujah the Hills, Hallelujah The Hills, Misra Records, Honduras, Black Bell Records, HTRK, Blast First Petite, Hunx and His Punx, Hardly Art, Institute, Jay Reatard, In The Red Records, Julien Casablancas, Atlantic, Kweku Collins, Closed Sessions, L7, Slash Records, La Misma, Toxic State, LCD Soundsystem, Lil' Yachty, Lilys, Manifesto Records, Love and Rockets, Haunted Faith Attack, Makthaverskan, Run For COver Records, Meatbodies, Minor Threat, Dischord Records, Mojo Nixon, No Age, Sub Pop Records, Not On Tour, Diner Junkie, Parquet Courts, Rough Trade Records, Patto, Vertigo Records, Personal and the Pizzas, Personal & The Pizza's, Go! Records, GO! Records, Preoccupations, Viet Cong, Flemish Eye Records, Prince, NPG Records, Public Enemy, Radiohead, XL Recordings, Reverend Horton Heat, Sub Pop, Run DMC, RVIVR, Rumbletowne Records, Sheer Mag, Katorga Works, Sports, Father/Daughter Records, Smashing Pumpkins, Virgin Records, Stars, Soft Revolution, ATO Records, Stepsisters, Palaver Records, Sudakistan, PNKSLM Recordings, Summer Cannibals, Kill Rock Stars, Tacocat, Tenement, Grave Mistake Records, The Autumn Stones, Immediate Records, The Bad Plus, EmArcy Records, The Clash, Epic Records, The Coathangers, Suicide Squeeze Records, The Courtneys, The Darkness, Atlantic Records, The Meanies, Poison City Records, The Rolling Stones, Decca Records, Queen, EMI, The Rentals, Maverick Records, The Saints, Fatal Records, Total Widow, Relapse Records, Wilco, Nonesuch, Wire, Pinkflag Records, Youth Code, Dais RecordsComment

"Explore This" #OPS Playlist 4/30/2016

Every weekend I put out new #YouTube playlists.

My "explore this" playlists try to emphasize great artists that you might not know (with a few old favorites thrown in).

As always, you can click on the highlighted band or artist names for more information.

Enjoy, Explore, and Celebrate music!

Expert Opinions: Rolling Stone Top 40 Punk Albums of All-Time List

In response to the release of Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "Top 40 Punk Rock Albums of All-Time," I started sending out requests to people I respect and asking each of them for 5 albums that they would have included.

I did not just ask random people, these are people who have forgotten more punk than even I know and I have been into punk since 1983.

Enjoy!

OpinionJoshua B. HoeApril 7, 2016G.I.S.M., Detestation, Discharge, Why?, Avengers, Cosmic Psychosis, Go The Hack, Famous Breathers, The Cramps, Mommies Little Monster, Circle Jerks, Golden Shower of HIts, Social Distortion, Bad Music For Bad People, The Exploited, Let's Start A War, Suicidal Tendencies, Minor Threat, The Stooges, Velvet Underground, Iggy + The Stooges, Nico, Andy Warhol, Plasmatics, New Hope, Motorhead, Stiff Little Fingers, Inflammable Materials, The Modern Lovers, Big Black, Earth Atomizer (Let's Go), Earth Atomizer, MC5, Kick Out The Jams, Dead Boys, Younger, Younger Louder and Snottier, Crucifucks, Dead Kennedys, Nomeanso, Wrong, The Stranglers, Rattus, ATV, Image Has Cracked, Alice Donut, The Pop Group, Y, Fugazi, Repeater, Songs The Lord Taught Us, Saccharine Trust, Surviving You, Public Image Ltd., PIL, The Saints, Call The Doctor, Sonic Youth, EVOL, Janet Weiss, Cosmic Psychos, Blink 182Comment

I'm Not Furious at Rolling Stones Top 40 Punk List

Rolling Stone Magazine just put out their list of the top 40 Punk Albums of all time. Here are my initial thoughts (I am sure I will have more to say later).

Very much want to hear what people think of the list.

Playlist: "Touch Real Maths Love"

Every Thursday I post a new Spotify playlist.

This week's playlist includes songs by Amnesia Scanner, Art of Noise, Paul McCartney, Father, Nap Eyes, Buzzcocks, and many others.

Enjoy!

LA Weekly's Punk Rock Fantasy

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Ramones album Ramones and also the rise of punk rock in London. Unfortunately, this has caused the punk rock haters to come out of the woodwork to mock punk rock's ultimate impact on music as a whole.

One of these punk rock "hater" articles was published by LA Weekly, this is my response to that and most of the others.