Ben Pepin from Canada sent in these killers for this week’s photo blog:

Brazen Hell @ Le Zaricot, St-Hyacinthe, QC, Jan 9 2010 (photo by Ben Pepin)

Mad Men @ Barfly, Montréal, QC, January 10 2009 (photo by Ben Pepin)

Omegas @ Rancho Relaxo, Toronto, ON, Oct. 31 2009 (photo by Ben Pepin)

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

We’d love to mix it up with some old photos in the next few weeks. Dig into your archives and send some of those lost gems.

AYS 31 December 2009 @ Rootsclub, Mönchengladbach (photo by Annabelle)

PRESS GANG 9 April 2009, Beat Club, Stuttgart (photo by Annabelle)

THE BABYSHAKES 6 November 2009, Hegel Tübingen (photo by Annabelle)

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

Will Butler from To Live A Lie Records sent in some of his latest:

Acid Reflux @ BCHQ, Raleigh, NC, 20 February 2010 (photo by Will Butler)

Thieves @ Slims, Raleigh, NC on 12 February 2010 (photo by Will Butler)

Deathrats @ Slims, Raleigh, NC on 12 February 2010 (photo by Will Butler)

Devour @ BCHQ, Raleigh, NC on 20 February 2010 (photo by Will Butler)

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

Defect Defect, Lager House, Detroit, MI (photo by icki)

Color Girls Broke Down outside Minneapolis (photo by icki)

Short Eyes (Vince sleeping), Monkey Mania, Denver, CO (photo by icki)

Going on tour is the most fun a band can have. And the least fun. Here are three shots from the road, because it’s been far, far too long since I’ve gotten to go on tour.

Thanks to everyone who came out for the MRR photo issue photo show. Lotsa people came to Needles & Pens and had a great time. Hell, I left an hour after it was supposed to end and the place was still full. I’d call that a success. Stay tuned for info on how to get postcard sets and silkscreened posters from the show.

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Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

Angela Owens gives us four from the Southeastern USofA:

Failures @ Lunchbox Records, Charlotte, NC, December 28, 2009 (photo by Angela Owens)

Iron Lung @ 1982, The Fest, Gainesville, FL, October 31, 2009 (photo by Angela Owens)

Salvation @ Lunchbox Records, Charlotte, NC, December 28, 2009 (photo by Angela Owens)

Young and in the Way @ The Brewery, Raleigh, NC, September 11, 2009 (photo by Angela Owens)

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

Weekend Nachos @ the Blvd, Boyle Heights, CA. 6 December 2009 (photo by oldhcdude)

Big news here in the MRR photo department. Needles & Pens in San Francisco is hosting a photo show of work from the blockbuster MRR Photo Issue! Details:

Needles & Pens presents
Maximum Rocknroll Issue #321’s Release Party & Photo Show

Maximum Rocknroll #321 is a special photo issue featuring contributions from over 75 punk photographers from around the world. Among the list are: longtime MRR contributor Murray Bowles (If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries…), Helge Schreiber, (compiler of the last MRR photo issue, Welcome to Cruise Country, 1987), 924 Gilman St.’s house photographer Larry Wolfley, Brazilian photographers and editors of Fodido E Xerocado, Mateus Mondini and Daigo Oliva. Also, Karoline Collins, Chrissy Piper, and Patrick Baclet (publisher of the photobook, Out of Vogue). Plus, garage punk turkeys Mark “Icki” Murrmann & Chris “Canderson” Anderson. …and many, many more!!

N&P will be displaying photos featured in the issue and more. Photos on the walls! Photos in the mag! Lots and lots of photos!

Please join us for the opening: Friday, February 12, 2010 • 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Needless & Pens
3253 16th Street / San Francisco, CA 94103

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The photo show will be a benefit for MRR, with money from prints sold going to help out the mag. We’ll also have postcard sets from photos in the show. Sure to be a blast. If you’re in town, drop by!

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

Today we have four hot photos from Diana Lee Z in Philadelphia:

Attentat at the International Waters House, Philadelphia, 2009 (photo by Diana Lee Zadlo)

Vulcan at Disgraceland, Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 2008 (photo by Diana Lee Zadlo)

The Holy Mountain at the Bread Box, Philadelphia, Oct. 2006 (photo by Diana Lee Zadlo)

Cannabis Corpse at the Where House, Philadelphia, 2009 (photo by Diana Lee Zadlo)

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

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Stay tuned for news about the upcoming MRR Photo Issue photo show at Needles & Pens in San Francisco. The opening will be February 12th. Mark your calendars!!!

Playing a bit of catch-up today on the Photo Blog…three photos that were sent in a little while ago.

Hatred Surge at The Charleston in Brooklyn, July 2009 (photo by Justina Villanueva)

Moritz from Derby Dolls doing some kind of voodoo. Oschatz, Germany 28 Nov 2009 (photo by Biene)

Seditius (photo by Paolo Proserpio)

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

As you can see from the last post, the MRR photo issue is finally out! Fuck yeah!

Another hearty thanks to everyone who sent in photos, to the people who sent in interviews and those who helped with the bibliography of punk photo books. Extra big thanks to Will Kinser who offered some long distance help from Germany, coming through not only with two interviews, but he sent in an awesome batch of photos too. Here are a few of ‘em:

Abrupt (photo by Will Kinser)

Peligro Social (photo by Will Kinser)

Skitkids (photo by Will Kinser)

Deathcharge (photo by Will Kinser)

I wanna clear a small point of confusion — I had mentioned a silk-screened cover version of the photo issue being available for subscribers. Due to various technical difficulties, it didn’t happen. The photo issue is available directly from MRR or anywhere that usually carries Maximum.

In the (near) future, check out MRR for interviews with some great punk photographers from the past, including Ed Colver, James Stark, and lots more.

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Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

Robbie Wobbles sent in a few local Bay Area bands for the Monday Photo Blog. Thanks Robbie!

Black Fork at 924 Gilman St., 26 September 2009 (photo by Robbie Wobbles)

Fleshies at 924 Gilman St., 21 November 2009 (photo by Robbie Wobbles)

No Bunny at Albany Bulb, 30 August 2009 (photo by Robbie Wobbles)

Wanna submit a photo for the MRR Photo Blog?

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: marmurrman {at} gmail(.)com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just send your best photos – edit tightly. Three to five photos is plenty. We will be exercising a little quality control here…not everything sent in will be posted. Please size your photos so they are 500 pixels (72 dpi) at the longest side.

There are a lot of awesome photographers out there shooting shows…and there are a lot of unseen archives of old shows. Show us what you’ve got!

And keep an eye out for the upcoming MRR photo issue, due out soon! Subscribers get a copy of the limited silk-screened cover version, so pony up and subscribe now!