Living in Tijuana while working and studying in San Diego was a good way to double dip on shows, awesome people, and record stores.

I probably would never have picked up a guitar if it weren’t for Eddie Van Halen. I know a thousand other yokels with mullets and meth habits in the same area code as you would say the same thing, but...well...I’m a yokel.

When I go on vacation, I want there to be a show every night, I want people I know to be everywhere I go, and I want them to be drunk.

Jamming space rock? Not for everyone. I fuckin’ love them. Whenever I’m out and loaded I think everyone sounds like Hawkwind. Which is awesome.

It’s a challenge for you, a person, not merely a consumer, to tune into more humble, honest modes of communication; even if, in this case, they’re just “dumb punk songs.”

Since it's summer and people are out and about traveling the world, I thought I'd put together a podcast full of current bands from diverse locations.

I hastily picked out some familiar favorites and threw together this playlist. Mainly I just wanted to get to use the Razorcake HQ's pro setup for recording podcasts.

The chords and lyrics aren’t perfect. Isn’t that the point, though? To embrace ridiculosity?

In it you’ll find tunes from old standbys and new jacks, well-known institutions and more obscure noise-mongers, covering the many subgenres of punk they inhabit.

I’ll be the first to admit that I had a lotta fun back in the early ‘80s and yes, it was indeed a very special time, but I’ve also had a helluva good time in every decade since.