Australia’s own UV RACE and TOTAL CONTROL are here to annihilate US shores! Both bands feature Maximum Rocknroll columnist D X of “All Foreign Junk” and Distort fame. The Bay Area shows  are all supported by other MRR miscreants: Needles feature Martin Sorrondeguy, former distro coordinator and current reviewer, Young Offenders has got two reviewers, Tim Brooks and Dougie, and Wild Thing contains the one and only last punk, Brace Belden!

Aug 26- San Francisco, CA @ the Eagle Tavern w/ Needles, Arms & Legs, Once They Were Human
Aug 27- San Francisco, CA @ the Hemlock w/ Kelly Stoltz, the Young Offenders
Aug 28- Oakland, CA @ Sugar Mountain w/ Wild Thing …
Aug 31- Sacramento, CA @ the Hub
Sept 01- Portland, OR @ Black Water w/ Nerveskade
Sept 02- Portland, OR @ The East End
Sept 03- Ballard, WA @ the Sunset Tavern w/ the Intelligence
Sept 04- Seattle, WA @ the Black Lodge w/ Walls
Sept 05- Seattle, WA @ the Fun House
Sept 07- Olympia, WA
Sept 09- Minneapolis MN @ tba w/ Formaldehyde Junkies, Condominium, Much Worse
Sept 09- Minneapolis, MN @ Hexagon w/ the Blind Shake, Voytek, Teenage Strangler
Sept 10- Chicago, IL @ Lucky Gator Loft w/ Raw Nerve, Population
Sept 1…1- Cleveland, OH @ Now Thats Class w/ Homostupids, Civil Victim, Anal Warhead, Flying Trichecos
Sept 12- Buffalo, NY w/ Brown Sugar, Rational Animals
Sept 13- Albany, NY @ Valentines
Sept 14- Boston, MA
Sept 16- Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio w/ Pink Reason, Super Wild Horses, Home Blitz
Sept 17- Brooklyn, NY @ Acheron w/ Crazy Spirit, Wild Thing
Sept 19- Bethlehem, PA @ the Burners w/ Pissed Jeans, Black Tar
Sept 20- Philadelphia, PA @ the Ox w/ Pissed Jeans, Home Blitz
Sept 21- Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/ Southside Stranglers, Wasted Time, Slugz
Sept 22- Pittsburgh, PA @ Gooski’s
Sept 23- Columbus, OH @ Legion of Doom w/ Vile Gash, Human Boys
Sept 24- Memphis, TN @ Goner Fest
Sept 25- Memphis, TN @ Goner Fest
Sept 26- St Louis, MO @ Apop Records w/ Sweet Tooth, Medical Tourists, Shaved Women, Egg Chef
Sept 27- Milwaukee, WI
Sept 28- Detroit, MI??
Sept 29- Chicago, IL @ Crown Liquors

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Layla and Mariam play only records that are gonna be reviewed in the next issue of MRR! #326 — out next week, dudes…

Download here

Conversions at MRR!

Intro song:
BIG BOYS – We Got Your Money

Layla hearts tuff girl vocals
RATAS DEL VATICANOS – Cancer de Prostrata
LIBYANS – Paralyzed
RELIGIOUS SS DISORDER – Insecurity
CONVERSIONS – No-one Is Watching

Layla investigates the new tuff sounds of doom
PUFFY AREOLAS – 1981
CIRCLE PIT – Total Waste
WHATEVER BRAINS – Love Taps
TIMMY’S ORGANISM – I’m On a Hunt

Mariam blasts some hardcore in your face
CÜLO – Nuke Abuse
HOLY SHIT – Black Out, Call In
ORGANIZED SPORTS – 1086
LOS MONJO – Esclavos
DURESS – Guilt

Mariam doesn’t know where she’s going with this
BEYOND PINK – 150 Spän For Ingenting
CULTURE KIDS – Keep Control
OLHO SECO – Botas, Fuzis, Capacetes
VILE GASH – Life-rot
LAURENCE WASSER – Mummy Gelly

Layla gets twizted on the kitchen floor
TWISTED SHOUTS – Statues Lose
HYGIENE – Fixed Odds Betting Terminal
LÖGNHALSMOTTAGNINGEN – Nyalögnhaser
KITCHEN’S FLOOR – Orbit
BRILLIANT COLORS – Bad Vibes

Outro song:
HUSKER DU – Real World

This month’s issue of MRR features an interview with Freak (formerly Fred) of Beefeater. A fascinating look back at his time in the harDCore scene, which touches on his experiences as a black punk. We were sent a few of these flyers and they somehow disappeared, missing publication, so I thought I would post ‘em here…

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We’re starting a new feature here on MRR.com: Blog of the Week, where we’ll share our favorite blog sites/posts from the DIY punk blogospshere. If you have suggestions for a Blog of the Week, send them to webzine {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. And now our inaugural post, from Layla…

Threadbared is a blog by former MRR shitworker Mimi Nguyen, that focuses on the politics of style and fashion from a feminist and academic perspective. It’s not really the focus of MRR, but this post struck me as something that would cross over, so to speak. I always argue that punk is an idea, and a possibility, a musical idea or sound rather than a specific look, but having been written off my whole life for not looking the part or wearing the acceptable “punk” clothes it’s clear not everyone is on the same page as me. Mimi outlines more of the history of punk as a specific subcultural style, but what you will probably be more interested in is the fact that this artifact pictured to the left, a guide to punk style from early ’80s LA, features a pre-Go-Go’s Belinda Carlisle, and what looks like Helen Killer?? Plus the zine/booklet is downloadable as a PDF… I saw something similar at a second hand book store: a guide to punk and skate slang and trends in SF from a slightly later era, by Jennifer Blowdryer, and I always regretted not buying it. I love subcultural ephemera….

Friday April 2 at Thee Parkside
$7 • 21 and over

Texas Thieves
Sharp Objects
Ruleta Rusa
Bad Tickers

To benefit Bruce Roehrs’ memorial service. More info here.

Bruce Roehrs passed away in his home on Saturday, March 13th, 2010.  He was a genuine friend to many and always had your back and a kind word to boot.  An ardent music fan as well as a long time column writer/contributor for Maximum Rocknroll, Bruce lived and breathed punk rock. Bruce will be sorely missed.

The Bruce Roehrs Memorial Fund
Bruce took many of his friends, both locals and out-of-towners, to the Columbarium in San Francisco, where he had happily made his home since the mid ’80s. Built in 1898, this San Francisco landmark is home to the memorial sites of some of SF’s founding families as well as some of its more notorious occupants, such as Dirk Dirksen (the punk music promoter nicknamed “The Pope of Punk”). It is a non-denominational memorial site that Bruce loved for its beauty, craftsmanship, and tranquility, and it was where his memorial service was held on Friday, April 9th, 2010. All money donated to the Bruce Roehrs Memorial Fund will be used to secure a spot for Bruce in the Columbarium, a place that is truly worthy of his memory.

We still need to raise a good deal of money for this, so please give if you can.

Feel free to continue to leave comments here. Let us never forget the great Bruce Roehrs!

In a sneak preview of what’s to come in MRR #324, which doesn’t hit the presses till next month, this week’s new band alert focuses on a some teenage Danish punks, iceage who have made one of the best 7″s I have heard this year. It was recorded by Peter Peter, of the Sods and Sort Sol, who also, I believe, recorded my last favorite group of Danish teenagers, Hul. iceage do not capitalize the first I of their band name, in a ee cumming stylee, and their sound is taught, tense, and sounds like it could have been recorded in ’79 — truly great post-punk with an urgent and disturbing nervous energy.

(photo by Adrian/Annoyed Photo)

Their 7″ came out on Escho Records, which usually puts out dance music, I believe, so it’s not something I woulda discovered if not for the fact my friend Ethan saw them play when he was touring with his band in Denmark and mailed me a 7″. Unfortunately, I think it’s out of print now, but apparently they are working on an LP, which I can’t wait to hear…

(photographer unknown)

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This just in from MRR correspondent Kate Wadkins…

The International Girl Gang Underground compilation zine aims to document and dissect how Riot Grrrl’s legacy has manifested twenty years later, as well as provide guidance for those who want to transform “revolution girl style now!” into “REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE FOREVER!”

We want your submissions!

If Riot Grrrl doesn’t resonate with you or your cause, that’s okay! We also want to know about all the do-it-yourself, grassroots music movements currently being run by women/girls/trans/genderqueer/queer folks today.

Talking points include, but are not limited to:

• ESSAYS ON…
  
  • What would a modern-day “Riot Grrrl manifesta” look like?
  • The successes and failures of Riot Grrrl and what we’ve learned from them
  • Your experience as an immigrant grrrl, genderf**king boy, revolutionary pornographer, Muslimah punk, working class queer, etc
    
• REPORTS ON…
  
  • What was your experience as a Riot Grrrl in the ’90s?
  • What’s going on in your community that supports feminist & queer DIY musicians today?
  • Scene reports from regional DIY music scenes that traditionally are lady- and queer-friendly (London, Berlin, NYC, or your town)
  • Individuals who are making a difference–musicians, activists, writers, whomever!
  • “Where are they now?” (Riot Grrrl edition)
    
• HOW-TO…
  
  • “Get off the Internet and meet in the street”
  • Reclaim feminism for the 4th wave
  • Organize conferences, protests, benefits, etc
  • Combat the “dude-first” mentality of your music scene
  • Use new technologies to organize effectively
  • Start a band/go on tour/create a zine/etc
  • Create spaces for working class, POC, international and rural women and queers
    
• BAND/ZINE/COLLECTIVE/ACTIVIST GROUP INFO…
  
  • We’re creating a directory for the International Girl Gang Underground–send along info on your project to be included!
    
• ART…
  
  • Print, digital, audio, video, whatever–so long as it’s in an easily rendered format for a black & white zine or can be included on an accompanying CD-R for distribution, we want it!
    

I have one thing to ask of you: PLEASE, SUBMIT!

I am surrounded by amazing people that make music and participate in feminist cultural production – that play in bands, write zines, make art, and live life in a do-it-yourself feminist context. We want to hear from you! We want to encourage a multitude of voices in this project, and in particular want to encourage POC voices and trans/queer/genderqueer/ally folks – including transguys and cisguys, to submit their work. The due date is May 31st, 2010, at 11:59 PST.

Go to our website or email us at girlgangunderground {at} gmail(.)com