Goldmine

Chicago punk band The Effigies have been around for 45+ years, performing everything from small clubs to Riot Fest along the way. After a hiatus for most of the 1990s, the band came back strong with the album Reside, a return to their early sound, and more recently, Burned in 2024.

Bassist Paul Zamost talks to The Dollar Bin's Alan Bristoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (singer of The Drowns) about being turned onto The Beatles via Ed Sullivan and producing music known as punk rock's "Chicago Sound." Of course, Zamost has a few albums on his want list — if any listener is willing to be gracious enough to find them.

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On this episode of Record Shop Talk, where Gen Z and Gen X record collectors — co-hosts Patrick Prince and Holden Russiano — talk shop about record store culture, the recent Rolling Stones record launch event for the Foreign Tongues album is discussed, as well as recent releases in the brick-and-mortar (Luna Record Shop) and virtual (Goldmine Shop) record store space. Always a fun listen for record collectors and those who love to hang out at record stores!
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Frontman Frank Casillas of Voodoo Glow Skulls, an influential Southern California ska punk band, comes on The Dollar Bin podcast to chat with hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc) and Rev (Singer of The Drowns) about records and the history of the California punk scene.

Casillas talks about how he got the initial itch to be in a theatrical rock band after seeing Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' tour as a kid. The band also managed their own record shop, producing their records in both English and Spanish, and once packaging a DIY 7-inch with a joint in it. The hosts point out their love for a classic scene with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin blasting Voodoo Glow Skulls in the movie Bio-Dome, 30 years ago.

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Mass Giorgini is well known in the pop-punk world, which gained its popularity in the 1990s. As a bassist, singer and saxophonist, he has performed and/or recorded with Screeching Weasel, Common Rider, Squirtgun, Rattail Grenadier, The Mopes, Teeth and the Man, Torture the Artist and Sweet Black And Blue. As a producer, he has worked with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Kris Roe of the Ataris, Rise Against, Anti-Flag, The Queers and Alkaline Trio, to name a few. As a composer, Giorgini has written songs for films such as Mallrats and Bubble Boy.

Giorgini is also a linguistics scholar specializing in forensic literary analysis. He is the son of the renowned Italian artist Aldo Giorgini.

On this podcast episode of The Dollar Bin (with hosts Dr. Disc and Rev of The Drowns), Giorgini shares his influences via the vinyl format, and talks about his latest studio endeavor (on bass) with Squirtgun. The band's first release in over two decades is a 12-inch single called Ghostly Sunflowers, which was released in late February on Pirates Press Records.
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Gen Xer and Goldmine editor Patrick Prince talks to his co-host, Gen Zer Holden Russiano, about this year's Record Store Day experience at Luna Records in Franklin, Tennessee (and, of course, other record stores). What RSD releases sold the most? Was there an overnight line? How many people showed up? Was there a great sale on used records? The hosts run the gamut, and discovered that they liked the used records that they found on sale as much as the RSD releases that they were lucky to pick up. Overall, a great day for record collectors.
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