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Which era had better punk records, December 2019 or September 1983? Click here to find out the shocking truth!
Read full "New Reviews Published!" articleWhich era had better punk records, December 2019 or September 1983? Click here to find out the shocking truth!
Read full "New Reviews Published!" articleInternational socialism versus leftist ethnic socialism versus Fascism/Third Positionism in a discussion of socialist Zionism and Israel.
Read full "What’s Left?" columnUrin is a fairly new group based in Berlin with members of numerous ex-bands and current projects, who arrived to the city from Poland, Sweden and the United States. This source-rich density is true to their music too, as it draws from everything far and beyond radikal music, with the aim to play short, angry […]
Read full "Urin Interview" interviewDUMP HIM is a queercore band from Massachusetts, based in Boston and Northampton. Though it would be quick to label their sound as “pop punk,” their influences draw much more from legends like Team Dresch, Dahlia Seed, and Unwound. In their lyrics, the band eloquently conveys insightful sociopolitical and emotive topics alongside catchy riffs while […]
Read full "Dump Him Interview" interviewOn this week’s MRR Radio, Rob highlights Tankcrimes Records, jams some classic Swedish punk, goes spastic for SPAZZ and plays some new punk tunes pulled from our reviews. Are you ready to rock?
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When hearing Soot, conservative ears may feel like they might have in 1977 when stumbling upon, say, the Sex Pistols, or in 1956 when hearing Cecil Taylor. “What the hell is this racket?” they will grumble. Or maybe they’ll just shrug, impatient to clean their eardrums with some mild goth-punk. An exaggeration? Yeah, right. If […]
Read full "What I Do Is Little of My Own Business (An Interview with SOOT)" interviewIn 2006, Scott Soriano (SS Records) interviewed Tom Lax (Siltbreeze Records) for Terminal Boredom. When Soriano declared The Fugs «the first great American punk band», Lax agreed they were «great on so many levels; they were provocateurs, city radicals, literate, thinking, rapier-sharp people.» «Aha!» commented Soriano; «words like that will get you crucified by today’s ‘punk rockers’!»
Read full "Provocateurs & City Radicals" columnWelcome to the fuckin’ future! No more ink-stained fingers, no more magazines lost in the mail, no more having to wait a month to see your column in print because somebody forgot to run it…you know, the future isn’t that bad if you really think about it. Of course, life isn’t all cyber-rainbows and byte-rflies […]
Read full "Welcome to the Fuckin’ Future!" columnNicolas Walter was born in England in 1934 to a family of dissenters. He wrote or edited for a number of radical rags in the early ‘60s until he retired in the early ‘00s. Although the following story is a digression I think it might best exemplify the author’s credentials as mentioned in his daughter’s […]
Read full "About Anarchism" review