DUMP 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 […]
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In our continuing effort to post all archival reviews on the website, we present MRR #7 from July/August 1983!
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An in-depth examination of fascist Third World and First World Third Positionism and how they interact.
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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 […]
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In 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’!»
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Welcome 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 […]
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Nicolas 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 […]
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Preening presently thrives as this wonderfully terse and honking punk act from Oakland, California. The band members—Alejandra Alcala (bass/vox), Sam Lefebvre (drums) and Max Nordile (sax/vox)—are all fixtures in various local punk and punk-adjacent communities, each playing in multiple bands, making art and actively assessing and reshaping things from the inside.
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