Adam Ritchie and his band inside the DMZSteve Schmidt and Link Smith skating in DMZ parking lotSteve Schmidt, somewhere between the heights and downtownGrove Circle Punx - Andy Conrad, Utrillo, Bryan Spinas, Matthew Thompson, Jason White, Josh Bentley (92)
Mark Drenzek added story to The Link Springs Forms
Brad Sims added story to New Wave Festival
Chris Johnson added story to DMZ opens
cHe added story to DMZ opens
Jason Matthews (Livingston, Montana) added story to New Wave Festival
Jason Matthews (Livingston, Montana) added story to Econochrist forms
Jason Matthews (Livingston, Montana) added story to Hatful Day plays their first show
Robert Borden added story to Big Boss Line forms
Michelle Morton added story to Women's City Club Show
Adam Ritchie and his band inside the DMZ
Steve Schmidt and Link Smith skating in DMZ parking lot
Steve Schmidt, somewhere between the heights and downtown
Big Boss Line - 10ft Tall
Grove Circle Punx - Andy Conrad, Utrillo, Bryan Spinas, Matthew Thompson, Jason White, Josh Bentley (92)
Towncraft Clip 6: A Generation of Vipers
Towncraft Clip 5: Kick Out a Light Socket And Go
Towncraft Clip 4: A Show of Force
Towncraft Clip 3: They Were Doing It For Little Rock
Towncraft Clip 2: Little Rock Pride
DMZ turns into Mandrake's
dmz, mandrakes
Ben Mistak // After a week of coaxing my mom very reluctantly agreed to drive my friend Ian Chisholm and I downtown to go see Sick of it All at the DMZ (or Mandrake's, whichever it was at the time). It was the first real show I had ever been to. She almost wouldn't let us out of the car when we pulled up. There was this unforgettable look of sheer terror on her face, like she was dropping us off in a minefield (we were 12 or 13 years old).

The front room was really dark, had a few couches and a big mural of the galaxy on the wall. There were lots of punks and scary metal dudes there -before then I had only seen people that looked like that in the pages of Thrasher. The show was so loud the hair on my arms stood up. It was (and still is) a relatively small space and I think they were set up to play bigger venues. We stuffed toilet paper in our ears to compensate for the volume. I was still in the early stages of puberty and too small to be anywhere near the pit so I kept to ... (More)
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Green Day's Bill Joe at DMZ
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