To dig up some remotely negative bluster thrown at flannel-flyin,’ bass-pluckin’ Minutemen/fIREHOSE/Stooges punk-rock guru and super-nice dude Mike Watt is no small feat. Enter Watt’s ol’ SST Records ...

The Urinals and Friends Remember D Boon: Late Minutemen frontman D. Boon was born on April 1, 1958. This past Saturday, he would have turned 65 had he not been killed in an automobile accident in 1985 ...

Of all the senseless, way- before-their-time deaths in rock 'n' roll history, few continue to hit me as hard as that of D. Boon, frontman for the Minutemen. Obviously, Boon doesn't come close to ...

It’s always the right day to listen to the Minutemen, but especially this week, since it was 25 years ago today that the band’s singer and guitarist D. Boon was killed in a van crash in Arizona. He ...

Brevity of song length initially gave the Minutemen their name, but their influence has been anything but brief even though the life of the band and founder guitarist D. Boon was cut short some 20 ...

Corndog (Noun): An undercover weenie. When someone is a dork, nerd, etc., but tries to hide it, not being themselves. (Urban Dictionary) We’ve all been corndogs at one time or another, struggling ...

It's April Fool's Day. So it was hard to tell if Danger Room was pulling my leg, posting the hilarious vid for The Minutemen's "This Ain't No Picnic" as part of their continuing soundtrack. Cali punk ...