Alla you punksa get offa my lawn! Extreme Noise is the Midwest USA’s hotspot for punk rock records. It’s located on Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis. It’s completely volunteer run and operated and it’s full of records. It’s been in business since 1994 and it’s basically black and white with punk music and punk publications.

Extreme Noise Records
407 West Lake St. (Lake St. at Grand Ave.)
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-824-0100

Extreme Noise began as an idea in the winter of 1993-94. A group of local scenesters were fed up with the lack of a punk record store in this punkest of punk towns. Local independent record stores carried some punk but not enough. Several local labels and distributors had been selling records at gigs, by mail, at record conventions and a few punk record swaps had been organized. Although each element of the scene would have been unable to support a store of its own, by joining together it was felt a store could serve the whole punk scene in the spirit of unity.

It’s also full of cds, zines, DIY publications, t-shirts (most/all black with white ink,) and that unmistakable smell. Ohh that smell. Also they have buttons and free posters and info about local shows and online sales and mail-order and a ton of utterly down-to-earth friendly folks behind the counter.