Covering some lost ground with reviews of zines sent in the last year or so: Getting Get in the Van, Magic Spaces, Out From the Void, Not Like You, and more. Send us your zines for review!
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Simmering, post-punk with steady guitars, Pestilent Planet sounds locked-in from the get-go. Of the past bands that make up their members’ pedigree, VEXX, USELESS EATERS, and DIÄT, this sounds most like the latter. The drums keep a sense of unease by making heavy use of toms, rather than a standard kick-snare punk beat, while the […]
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As a rapidly dying old punk, it will always warm my tepid, inflamed heart hearing a melody chastising the racist frat boys we’re supposed to call cops. What will really jumpstart my aorta faster than a hot defibrillator is an anti-cop ode sung by high school kids! Austin’s USER UNAUTHORIZED returns with a venomous EXPLOITED-meets-BLACK […]
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Crucial vinyl comp of two self-issued tapes, released about-simultaneously with the second (though you’re way late to grab either), by the solo project of Philadelphia’s Mac Kennedy. POÏSON RUIN is however operating as a band henceforth, which is good news as it invites the possibility of dragging this past lockdown-era online hype status and bringing […]
Read full "Poïson Ruin LP" reviewOn this week’s MRR Radio, take a trip through Maximum Rock’n Februaries past. Featuring a star studded cast with everyone from VOID to BORN AGAINST to ERASE ERRATA. (OK, not everyone).
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Final round of our favorite records of 2020. Parts one and two. MITCH CARDWELL Mitch Cardwell is a record reviewer for Maximum Rocknroll. CELEBRITY HANDSHAKE – No Space/No Time LP (Eastern Prawn) Their near-constant barrage of wonderful racket has been a reliable joy, but this one stands atop the flaming pyramid. Crawl inside the butthole […]
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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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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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