Welcome to the music section of our site.   This portion of the page will contain straight-out punk rock and other great groups.  This site will be updated alot and will get better and better.

Bad Religion may be called the greatest punk band of all time.   First off, they just plain kick ass.  They perfectly blend anarchist beats with powerful lyrics.  Second, they have stayed true to themselves and their fans by not selling out and not following what society wants, but what they want.  Finally, they started Epitaph Records, which has spawned many of punk's greatest albums, including the #1 selling independent label album of all time "Smash" by the Offspring.   

"Lagwagon is the f##kin' best"

Lagwagon,a Santa Barbra band on Epitaph's branch of Fat Wreck Chords, is another great punk band.  They formed in their home town and have been kicking out great album after great album since 1990.  Their catchy brand of punk is an infectious blend of pop and hardcore, lyrically tackling an array of personal politics. This punky quintet has a touring schedule that would make the Stones blush. And we won't even mention their hotel-trashing on tour antics. . .

NOFX also ranks up with Bad Religion as being one of the greatest punk bands of all time.  They too have shunned almost all media attention on themselves so they can stay focused on having fun and making music instead of selling out and making money.  Besides being very talanted, they are also very funny, as demonstrated in such songs as "Straight Edge" and "Kill All the White Man."  NOFX has been making great music on Epitaph and their own branch(Fat Wreck Chords) for over 15 years.  If you enjoy punk music, I reccomend picking up their album "White Trash, two Heebs, and a Bean."

By 1984, when what would have become the Offspring formed. The third of four children born to a hospital administator father and a schoolteacher mother, Dexter kept busy being a "good kid" and hoped to be a doctor. "Sports were a really big thing," Holland says, "I was on the cross-country team." He also happened to be class valedictorian (thus his nickname, Dexter). Holland's cross-country teammate Greg Kriesel discovered punk even later. His investment-banker father saw law school in his son's future. And for most of high school, Kriesel was a sports fan and self-proclaimed jock (he also played baseball). The first punk records he ever heard were the ones the ones Holland played for him. "Music wasn't something that meant a lot to me," he says. "But I started listening to it because it was around, and I got used to it." Holland and Krisel formed their first band, Manic Subsidal, with two other cross-country teammates one night in 1984 after failing to get in a Social Distortion show. At the time, the two didn't even own instruments, much less know how to play them. "Bryan and I both learned together," says Kriesel, "and he wasn't even playing chords at the time, so he'd play on one string, and I tried to do the same thing. By the summer we were actually playing songs, but it took a while." That fall, Holland began premed studies at USC (he's currently a Ph.D. candidate in molecular biology). Kriesel was attending Golden West Junior College and later recieved a B.A. in finance from Long Beach State while working part time in a print shop (he's planning to attend law school). Weekends were the only time the band could rehearse. Once Holland had written a handful of songs with self-explanitory titles like "Very Sarcastic" and "Sorority Bitch," the fledgling band headed for a cheap studio. Momentarily waylaid when its guitarist jumped ship, the band recruited Kevin Wasserman, an older Pacifica grad who then worked as the school janitor. Pretty soon, Wasserman was "not doing a hell of a lot except practicing at Greg's house on weekends and drinking excessively." Being the only member of the band over 21, Wasserman was particularly useful when it came to buying beer. Ron Welty moved to Garden Grove for part of high school, and it was there that his older stepsister introduced him to Holland. "My mom's been through a few divorces," Welty says. "She'd get remarried and we'd move, and then she'd get divorced, we'd move." Welt was only 16 when he begged Holland to let him substitute for Manic Subsidal's drummer who had started medical school and wads missing lots of gigs. Two years and a pile of rejections later, the Offspring scored a contract with Nemesis, a small punk label distributed by Cargo. After tracking down producer Thom Wilson, who had crafted their favorite albums by T.S.O.L., the Vandals and the Dead Kennedy's, the Offspring recorded another 7-inch single, called Baghdad, and an album debut titled The Offspring. "All punk bands back in '84 wrote about was police, death, religion and war," says Holland. "So that's what we did." While recording a track for a Flipside compilation with Brett Gurewitz - owner of Epitaph records and then Southern California's biggest punk success story, Bad Religion - the Offspring glimpsed a rosier future. "A little after that, I got a tape," says Gurewitz. "But I have to admit I passed on it." A year later, when the Offspring began circulating demos for what would become their next album to every punk label they could think of, Gurewitz reconcidered. "It definitely had what people call the Epitaph sound," he says. "High energy, rebelleous punk with great melodies and cool economical song structures. "In 1992 Epitaph released Ignition, 12 brief but energetic Offspring songs that summed up the previous decade of Orange County Punk.In 1994 their breakthough single Come out and Play and top hit Self Esteem helped push thier third album, Smash to the best selling independent record of all time (9 million plus), and heavy MTV rotation. After the success of Smash, new fans discovered Ignition as it reappeared in stores. Due to the amount of overpriced, poor quality bootlegs, they rereleased their self titled The Offspring in 1995 with thier own label, Nitro. Nitro has released albums for several other bands, including The Vandals and Guttermouth. In 1996, the Offspring signed with Columbia Records after disputes with Epitaph. Their next album, Ixnay on the Hombre, was released in February 1997.

"Pennywise" is also an evil clown in a Stephen King book that can look into people's souls & turn into their worst fears. The only way to stop it is to confront that fear. Pennywise are from HERMOSA BEACH CA, a small beach community that is the birthplace of other notorious punk bands BLACK FLAG, DESCENDENTS and the CIRCLE JERKS. "FULL CIRCLE" is the new record, their fourth for Epitaph. "Full Circle" is dedicated to the life, music & memory of JASON THIRSK, original bass player & founding member of PW, who died in July 1996. Pennywise is very much like Bad Religion in their sound and values of staying true to themselves and their fans.  If you like hard punk sounds, be sure to pick up any of their four albums.  All of them are great.