Part two of MRR’s 2020 Year End Top Tens. Part one can be found here, with part 3 to follow next week. IRON LUNG RECORDS I’m Jensen. I spend most of my days packing boxes and making questionable decisions for Iron Lung Records, a windowless concern located inside the compound walls. Futureless, featureless, we exist. […]
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MYSTIC INANE give us a posthumous collection of four songs that were recorded prior to them disbanding a few years ago. If you are late to this group of New Orleans weirdos, they sound like RUDIMENTARY PENI meets SACCHARINE TRUST in a dumpster. Their essential EP’s of M/I collection is always in rotation around these […]
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If any record crossing my turntable in the last year has made me feel extra sad that we can’t be in a room dancing together for the foreseeable future, it’s this one. RUBBLE incorporates the unstoppable enthusiasm for punk that Portland bands seem to be able to perennially channel. They pull from the most fun, […]
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This is how you do it. People from TORSÖ, VAASKA, and NEGATIVE STANDARDS (among others) doing rough D-beat with raw sound and political lyrics in Spanish. It’s a perfect combo: manic drums that don’t follow the same beat for more than twenty seconds, loops of skilled riffs punching your head over and over, and a […]
Read full "Templanza EP" reviewJoin Victoria, Jeremy, and Niles in their quest to put Harrisburg, PA on the punk map in this episode of MRR Remote Radio!
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MRR zine reviews return for the online era, starting off with the latest issues of Fluke, $pare ¢hange, Fuzz and more.
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Once again, we asked MRR shitworkers, contributors, and extended friends and family about their favorite records of the year.
These lists have often began with declarations of how much the past year sucked. Enter 2020. Part one of three
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How many people who started punk bands in high school are together ten years later? Such is life for Red Red Krovvy, an Australian trio originally from Cairns, Queensland, who have stayed prolific mates through this admirable feat of arrested development. RRK’s latest record ‘Managing,’ out today, keeps a child’s unforgiving eye trained the absurdity […]
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Perspex are a hardcore group from Sydney, Australia, dealing in deranged mosher sonics. We caught up with singer Toto on the occasion of their debut single, released on verified banger outlets No Patience and Sexy Romance. We talk Faustian deals, being falsely accused of a terrorist plot and life below the Tropic of Capricorn… MRR: […]
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