Wankin' Stiphs has three releases for your listening pleasure, bringing you the best of vintage punk rock from Los Angeles and a new scorcher by the Horehounds out of Norfolk, VA.

Three releases by Wankin' Stiphs Records are finally here!!  How can you resist buying from these fine young punks!!

The Wanker        The Stiph

Don't forget to get a copy of the new Horehounds album!  See the special offer below.  26 songs total which includes 15 new tunes and the entire remixed "No Time For You" album originally released on LP only on Rockin' Bones Records. 

And the reviews just keep piling in...

The CD is fabulous.  Thanks a mill.  I love those horehounds.  The sound quality is really good too.  I was rockin' out while I jogged.
--  Tina Walden, Friend

Sounds great.  Looks great!
--  Steve Stiph, Former world's oldest teenager and original L.A. punkster

I'm having fun playing it at extremely loud volumes. I think it just sounds better that way.
--  Mario Solis,  Founder of Plastic Idol Records

Thanx SO much, they're great. I have been able to listen to about the first 10 songs so far. I like...I like it a lot. It sounds like the kind of stuff I would like to play now around the local clubs. The kids here would eat it up. I mean, titles like " Big Fuckin' Tits " and " Snatch"....you gotta love it. Some of the material, the pace and beat remind me of the Gears...remember them???? Good old school Punk. 
--  Dan Wasko, Red Army

The Horehound CD is great.
-- Torbjorn Karlsen, Coach to Olympic medalist skier

Fuckin Rocks!!!
-- Rover, Original L.A. Punk

Hey, I really like this Horehounds CD. Leave it to Wankin Stiphs to find the great rock and roll gems. yyyeeeeaaaahhhh!!!
-- James Lerie, Black Jax and Deadbeat Sinatra, among others

Your Horehounds CD came at a great time.  I was in a poop mood so I just did as instructed - ROCK OUT.
-- Bente Hassel, my cousin

So what if they're all friends of mine?  They've got great taste in music.  

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Final Ride

Wrong Side of the Tracks 

Summer Sun

Sample 3 Songs by the Black Jax via RealAudio here.   

Reviews:

Shock + The Silencers
If you have any taste whatsoever, you will like this CD. So go get it! Don’t even bother reading the rest of this review. I’m just full of shit anyway. Head on over to http://www.punk-information.com and buy yourself a copy of this disc! You won’t regret it (unless you like shitty music...in which case, you deserve to be disappointed).
Nouveau 70s punk is great and all....but nothing beats the real thing. Try as they might, none of today’s “old school” revivalists can manage to fully duplicate the pure electrifying coolness of early punk rock. There’s something about those old punk records that I just love: the way they were sloppy & poppy at the same time...the way they translated the fuck-you insolence of youth into raw, exciting three-chord anthems...the way the vocals always sounded so “cool”....Yeah.
If you own either of Shock’s ultra-rare 1978 singles, you know that this late 70s LA band was damn near as good as contemporaries like Black Flag, The Weirdos, The Dils, X, The Avengers, Controllers, and Simpletones. For real! Here you get BOTH Shock singles in their entirety---plus four “previously-unreleased” tunes (nine songs in all!). This is great shit: explosive, tuneful goodtime punk rock that oozes wanton California cool. Fans of the early Descendents will approve.All in all, this sounds exactly like the sort of stuff that delinquent suburban teens would have cranked at full blast back in the days of skinny ties and cool haircuts. It might sound tame in comparison to the angry nu metal music “the kids” dig today, but oldsters like me are bound to hear these songs and find themselves nostalgic for their long-gone adolescent shenanigans. Remember getting into trouble and fucking shit up, and then going home to listen to the mixed tape that your cool punk rock friend made for you? Every time I hear “This Generation’s On Vacation” or “I Wanna Be Spoiled”, I can’t help but pump my fist in the air and pogo around my room.
When Shock broke up in 1978, main dude Steve Reina formed The Silencers (who also featured singer Kat Arthur and guitarist Brian Hansen, later of the great Legal Weapon). Here you get seven of the band’s tunes---the first Silencers songs to ever see the light of day. I have to chuckle hearing one of the most unique & gifted punk rock vocalists of all-time singing in a bratty faux English accent...but this is good stuff nonetheless. Nothing mind-blowing or world-altering, and the sound quality is lousy. But this is still very cool tuneage in the “early California punk” mold. Crude, snotty, fun, and catchy...just the way I like it. “Boyfriends and Girlfriends” is fucking awesome! At the very least, I’ve gotta be stoked that Wankin' Stiphs has rescued this material from the dustbin of history. It deserves to be heard.
Now I just wish someone would reissue all the classic Legal Weapon stuff!
---Joshua Blake Rutledge, opinionated asshole
www.geocities.com/nowwave 

BLACK JAX
"Self-titled " CD
Look, the fact that I was a member of a later version of this band is of no
consequence because A) That version of the band was completely different
from the version presented here and B) I was a fan long before I was a
participant in any of their shenanigans. So there. All of you screaming
"conflict of interest" can kiss my ass. Now, on with our story. I first saw
the Black Jax in late '85/early '86 at a party in Montebello, if I'm not
mistaken. I was a little, bald, hardcore shithead who thought that you had
to play fast and hard to be considered a good punk band. They proved that
particular belief of mine was ridiculous. The band was hard, up-tempo and
(gasp) melodic at the same time. The fact that Pogo was a fuckin' madman
didn't hurt much either. We later got chased out of the party 'cause a drunk
Vietnamese kid who was with us was claiming to be a "Suicidal" in a party
filled with skinheads (Suicidals and skins didn't get along back then, mind
you) and he ended up jumping into the swimming pool. I left that party
humming the song I later learned was called "Fooled By a Pretty Face" and
considered myself a fan from that day forward. Over the next year, I saw
them many times and, each time, I stood awed at how utterly goddamned good
they were. They could pull hooks out of thin air. They laid waste to almost
any band dumb enough to play with them. They were, to sound like a high
school geek, fucking awesome. Sadly, though, they never got their moment in
the sun or the chance to put their amazing set on vinyl. This release, which
consists of two demos, will hopefully rectify that injustice. The first nine
songs were recorded in 1986 and later (coupled with a live show from Raji's
that ain't on here on the other side of the tape) became the band's official
demo. The sound is what is now referred to "77 punk" with a good dose of old
So Cal punk for good measure, yet, 14 years later, they don't sound dated at
all. The recording is excellent (which is amazing considering that it was
recorded on a four-track in a bedroom) and the tracks are tight and fat with
instantly hummable hooks. Their finest moment, the song "Growing Pains,"
which begins with a quiet guitar intro and quickly kicks into overdrive,
still gives me chills. The remaining three tracks are from an earlier demo
that I've never heard (dammit, Gary, you were holding out on me!). The sound
on these are a little rawer, but the songs shine through and transcend the
primitive recording limitations. A note of gratitude goes out to Steve Stiph
for finally giving this great, long-gone band their due. Now those of us who
have been listening to shitty, worn out cassette copies of the demo all
these years can give them a decent Christian burial and rock out once again
to one of the best punk bands East LA/San Gabriel ever produced. -Jimmy
Alvarado </contributors/jimmy_alvarado> (Wankin' Stiphs, PO Box 6480, Mesa,
AZ 85216) -5/14/2001 4:25:00 PM

Now it's 1984, in the depths hundreds of America's garages, basements, and backyards, lurked some of the most powerful pent-up punk rock energy ever felt. This bottled up fury was only further energized due to it never having been unleashed to the world. One of these vessels of frustration and overflowing talent were LA's Black Jax. A shining example of 80s California punk, sound, style, and passion. Formed in 1984 and deformed in 1987, these 12 nostalgia induced punk rock gems total to everything they've ever recorded. Sound and influence point to 70s NY, LA, and UK punk, courtesy of New York Dolls, Ramones, Weirdos, Zeros, Stiff Little Fingers, Vibrators and Buzzcocks. Never having toured farther than 100 miles from LA, and having played no more than 100 shows, The Black Jax' claim to fame probably would've been opening up for the Adolescents and the Weirdos in 86. Other than that, most of the Black Jax shows probably took place no further than various backyards and basements.   -- Ken   World Wide Punk

After sitting in the can for 14 years, the first (and last) Black Jax album finally saw the light of day late last year. And check it out: This little time capsule relic from punk rock's darkest days is NOT an exercise in tuneless macho hardcore posturing! Instead it's solid proof that classic punk rock didn't totally die out in the midst of crossover hell! This is rocking, melodic, energetic punk with a genuinely FUN attitude!
The Black Jax were one of the few bands playing '77-style punk rock in 1986, but they never toured or released an album. When they broke up in 1987, they were certainly destined for eternal obscurity. But thanks to the magic of recording, this L.A.-area band finally gets a fair shot at immortality. BLACK JAX is a nice collection of raw, catchy roots-punk smackers anchored by the infectious smash-hit anthem "Wrong Side Of The Tracks". "Mine All Mine" and "Fooled By A Pretty Face" also pack a punch and deliver a hook.
Besides the Fastbacks, Descendents, Ramones, and Mr. T. Experience, not many punk bands were taking a melodic approach circa 1986. BLACK JAX sounds more like '78 or '95 than it does like '86, but what makes it vital isn't just the formula. It's the tunes, pal! The better songs have stood up to the test of time and made the release of the CD a worthy endeavor.
Countless bands throughout punk history have similar stories to the tale of The Black Jax: They played dozens of shows, wrote a bunch of songs, and broke up before they could spread their rocking madness outside of their hometown. In most cases, such obscurity was hardly a great loss to the world-at-large. But in the case of The Black Jax, the trip into the archives is far more than just a tip of the hat to nostalgia. The all-important hooks are there, so BLACK JAX is far from a vanity pressing. 
-- Josh Rutledge   Now Wave Magazine 

BLACK JAX = Killer tunes Dude..  this self-titled album was recorded in 1986 and was finally released in part by our keen friend Willy @ www.punk-information.com..  Check it out.. Cuz it rocks..  This band which had a short lived life span from 1984 to 1987 really uses it's influences to the fullest..  they have this sound that is driven by the drive of old 80's hardcore, and roots style brit pop, and in part glam rock.. very cool.. it reminds me of hook laden Descendents without a vocal whine..  which I must say is more in tune with an unique Angry Samoans attack..  This was definitely a band that could have gone somewhere other than the L.A. area..  VERY COOL... GOTO www.punk-information.com  
-- Chris Imperfekt  Imperfekt Records

1990s pop-punk was the rebirth of original 1970s punk in another time and place. In between those decades was something called the 1980s, during which time there wsas a surprisingly paucity of poppy punk bands. There were a few though. This is a really cool item, a full-length recorded in 1986 (!!!) and only finding its release a couple months ago. Los Angeles was the home of BLACK JAX, a very poppy four piece that wrote some first-rate punk anthems. Well crafted guitar buzz with a couple little ripping solos, very solid material that sounds completely fresh -- the missing link between 1970s and 1990s pop-punk. Seriously, there are very, very few good pop-punk bands from 1986, this is a real lost classic of that year.
-- Tim Chandler  Mutant Pop Records

Ain't there any new music out there?  Another posthumous release, this L.A. band is from the mid-80's (not to be confused with the Beantown band with a similar name from the same era) tho they claim to channel the '70s punk sound.  They never really toured or put out any records during their heyday, but they did record an LP's wortha who in 1986.  Had they put this out then, it'd probably be really cool, but now it sounds like way too many pop punk bands of today and will probably get no attention.  However, fans of BEATNIK TERMITES or WOOLLY MAMMOTHS (or name-a-pop-punk-band) will find it nestles quite nicely in their collection.  I like it too.  
-- Henry Yu   Maximum Rocknroll 

The Black Jax are a punk band outta California circa the mid 80’s. The band members cite some of their influences as the Ramones, Toy Dolls, Weirdos, and the Business. All of these groups are accurate descriptions of the Black Jax. Plus all of their tunes are catchy, melodic, and fun, particularly the small guitar solos. The sound quality is a little stale, but not dreadful. And what I find even more interesting is the fact that a newer band called the Teenage Knockouts has a sound almost identical to the Black Jax, curiouser and curiouser… Collector geeks should take note.  
-- Joe Domino   www.blankgeneration.com

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