Shawna Potter is the singer of War on Women, the founder of the Baltimore chapter of Hollaback!, and the author of Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather.The guide has tips for people in all roles on scenes, including musicians, show attendees, and bartenders. It also […]
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For a moment, I thought I’d wandered into the pages of a young adult novel. Then again, there’s more sex and drugs, murder and mayhem in The Hunger Games then there is in Mark Powell’s turgid fiction Firebird. This is a sadly bloodless, oblique effort fashioned as a behind-the-scenes story of recent historical events. Powell’s […]
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Here it is—the final installment of MRR’s Top Ten (or so) Records (mainly) of 2019!
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Another round of 2019 picks from the Maximum extended family.
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It’s the end, the end of the decade. But before we get to those top ten lists, it’s time for another round of year-end top tens! As always, we asked MRR shitworkers and friends from across the globe to write about their favorite records from 2019. This was, of course, the year that the print […]
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Punk politics, personal politics and post-political politics.
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I never hewed to the belief that punk died after 1976 or 1977. Most people reading this would agree with that assessment. It just reinvented itself and expanded into different realms.
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Urin 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 […]
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