I’ve done a few posts about where you can hear enough new free obscure punk to keep your eardrums bleeding for years to come, but sometimes just a single sense stimuli just isn’t enough.

For all those of you generation X media casualties and generation Y nerve burnt multi-taskers who need to satisfy as many of their senses as possible at all given times to combat the boredom of focusing to hard on one thing I have the perfect fix - Blank TV has compiled thousands of punk videos including live footage, official music videos, & some Grade A fan Videos Like the Misfits Video Featured here.

You can visit their website to submit your own videos to their collection or visit their You Tube account HERE to easily search their offerings.

So if you’ve been feverishly sampling the collection of vinyl uploaded at Punk Not Profit since my post about it then you’ve been waiting for Vinyl Punk.  It’s also the perfect solution if you’re stuck waiting to see if you can outbid the other punk kid 3000 miles away who wants the same bootleg Misfits/Ramones 7″ Split you’re trying to score on E-bay.

Vinyl Punk is a one man project out of Germany; Nils has taken the time to transfer his collection of 7″ punk vinyl to mp3 and upload them onto his blog complete with scans of the front & back covers. With new content every few days this is a site worth bookmarking , some of the records are rare bootlegs you may not get to hear unless you happen upon them in your local record store or search your heart out on e-bay for days, weeks, or months.

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So it’s not so much a vault as it is a stack of cd’s with various videos I have taken over the years mostly on digital camera’s. But until now these videos have never been publicly available.

This video from A Global Threat is the 1st song of a complete set I am working on Posting on YouTube. Watch my YouTube account for new videos from A Global Threat & more.  I wanted to post the set from A Global Threat 1st because the video quality is on par with the great audio. My band at the time opened for them and were able to set up a tripod in a corner & film the entire  set without interfering with the mosh pit that moves in & out of the cameras line of vision.

I have always enjoyed taping shows although I did not always have a nice camera & the lighting in a lot of punk clubs is just perfect, that is unless your trying to shoot a video. Then the dim dingy light doesn’t always give you the best video of the band on stage, but the sound is there in all of them. Look forward to future videos from the likes of  Subhumans, Citizen Fish, TSOL, & Leftover Crack.

If you have a video you’d like to share send it my way If you are OK with it being posted on the Raise Your Fist Inc. – YouTube Channel and possibly on this blog if it is previously unreleased footage. {Any submitted videos will be credited to their submitters unless otherwise noted} It’s about sharing a show the rest of the world might have missed because we can. Back in the 1980′s it was way harder to swap videos on VHS now all you gotta do is e-mail it to Ben@raiseyourfistinc.com , sit back, & let that warm feeling that you just enriched the DIY punk community by barely lifting a finger fill you up. It doesn’t even have to be anyone famous either so squat houses, warehouse shows, & basement show are all welcome!

Let’s all dig out our old punk video’s & get them out there for the  rest of the punk world. If you’ve really got old video you want to share, but can’t change the format shoot me a message and I might be able to help you out digitizing it & copying it to DVD before the last VHS player in your town dies out.  Thats a  real free offer!!! All that is asked in return is that you allow the video to be shared with the online punk community.

El Chivo Stencil

I think we are all familiar with Banksy by now. After all he made stenciling and street art famous – he even has a book at Urban Outfitters, but don’t let it stop you from trying your hand at the art. People all over the globe have been using stencil art to spread political messages and good humor alike since long before the current modern street wear & urban art culture explosion.  If you wanna check out what some other folks are doing check out some galleries at  Art  of the State & Stencil Graffiti.

Anyone can make a stencil and you can use it again and again to plaster everything in sight with whatever you can cut out of a piece of cardboard or mylar with a razor blade. I remember crudely cutting my band’s logo out of the back side of a cereal box pulled from a recycling bin, and using regular spray paint to tag it on scraps of canvas, it wasn’t anything fancy but I think we were the 1st band in the school to have “merch” ; a term that would imply we sold them, when we really just gave them to anyone who would actually safety pin it to something!

If you wanna give it a shot snag a blade, an old box and a sharpie and have at it. If you’re stumped for original ideas you can find tons of Free Stencils for personal use & public enjoyment (read not for resale) at STENCILPUNKS.org and start making your world a more colorful place. If you have an original design you don’t mind sharing you can even submit it to them and get credited to live on forever in Internet Infamy & have punk kids across the globe tagging your art on every surface known to man.

I wish the scribble happy taggers that slopped up some initials all over our alley knew about the site. They could have put up 2x as many 4x as fast and have it look 10x better.  Artistic graffiti is like urban renewal, it’s not like that dumpster in your apt. complex wasn’t an eyesore before you stenciled that mural on it!

I hope you have heard of Rudimentary Peni, if not stop here and go hear it before continuing…………..Now that we are all on the same page Check out the lead singers Schizo Art featured above.  Blinko Plays Guitar and sings in this epic 3 piece band that pioneered a new dark punk sound in the early 80’s . I have been a fan of his art since I first saw it on an album cover, but when people ask who my favorite artists are no one ever knows about Nick Blinko and many young punks haven’t heard Rudimentary Peni. I think that should change.  If you share this post you could help change that, it’s not gonna bring Darby Crash back from the dead, or end the war, but shit we gotta start building the world we want somewhere. Why not start with a little old school punk rock and some schizophrenic art.

If  your punk music selection is feeling a bit stale & you’re wearing deep grooves in all your vinyl or maybe you tired of being stumped when looking for something fresh at your local record shop; then this is for you. At Punk Not Profit you can access reviews & download entire LP’s & 7″ inches many of which were never updated to cd format. I bet you can find something here you haven’t heard before that will blow your mind. My Vinyl wish list grows as I scroll down their page.

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