Well, looks like for this week’s Monday Photo Blog you’ll have to suffer with some photos I took from some years back. How about we step back to 1998, to a time when the PCH Club in scenic Wilmington, CA was thee place to be in the Southern California area. The club was really a two room rehearsal space with a chicken, or maybe it was pigeon, coop at the back. A lot of great bands came through, and due to the small space, it made for some intimate shows. These shots from the time Behead The Prophet/N.L.S.L. are testimony to that. I believe someone from Frankie Alpine is standing up front next to someone in a Batman shirt in a the photo second from the bottom. After viewing these, how about sending us some of your photos for upcoming editions of this blog?

Behead The Prophet/N.L.S.L. at the PCH in Wilmington, CA. April 23, 1998. (photo by Matt Average)

Behead The Prophet/N.L.S.L. at the PCH in Wilmington, CA. April 23, 1998. (photo by Matt Average)

Behead The Prophet/N.L.S.L. at the PCH in Wilmington, CA. April 23, 1998. (photo by Matt Average)

Behead The Prophet/N.L.S.L. at the PCH in Wilmington, CA. April 23, 1998. (photo by Matt Average)

Behead The Prophet/N.L.S.L. at the PCH in Wilmington, CA. April 23, 1998. (photo by Matt Average)

Behead The Prophet/N.L.S.L. at the PCH in Wilmington, CA. April 23, 1998. (photo by Matt Average)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

One of the more prolific and consistent contributors to the  Monday Photo Blog has to be Milo from Chicago. This is the third installment in less than a year. What’s your excuse? This time around we’re at the Blackhole on April 4 of 2009. Such a heady time, when we were all three years younger than we are now.

Bosque at Blackhole, April 4, 2009. (photo by Milo from Chicago)

Kakistokcracy at Blackhole, April 4, 2009. (photo by Milo from Chicago)

Protestant at Blackhole, April 4, 2009. (photo by Milo from Chicago)

Fall of Efrafa at Blackhole, April 4, 2009. (photo by Milo from Chicago)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

For this week’s Monday Photo Blog we go to Chicago via the camerawork of Jimmy Farabi, with photos of Cülo, Vile Gash, Raw Never, Merchandise, Sickoids, and Manipulation. Who’s the man who appears to be singing along at the Manipulation show? For more work from Jimmy Farabi, check out the blog chicagoisnowhere.

Manipulation at the Mouse Trap, April 14, 2012. (photo by Jimmy Farabi)

Culo at the Moustrap, April 14, 2012. (photo by Jimmy Farabi)

Raw Nerve at the Mousetrap, April 14, 2012. (photo by Jimmy Farabi)

Merchandise at the Mousetrap, April 25, 2012. (photo by Jimmy Farabi)

Vile Gash at the Mousetrap, April 14, 2012. (photo by Jimmy Farabi)

Sickoids at Crown Tap, April 26, 2012. (photo by Jimmy Farabi)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

Christina P, resident of Melbourne and editor of Stitches In My Head fanzine, has sent us some images the hardcore punk variety for this week’s Monday Photo Blog. From the safety of your desk and chair you can marvel at the likes of Kromosom, Straightjacket Nation, and more. At least from this vantage you don’t have to worry about having to find someone to hold your jacket while you get wild in the pit that is your room. For more of Christina’s work, and more information about Stitches In My Head fanzine, go on over to stitchesinmyhead.

The Zingers at Catfood Press. (photo by Christina P)

Kromosom at Black Goat Warehouse. (photo by Christina P)

Rort at the Pony. (photo by Christina P)

Soma Coma at the Pony. (photo by Christina P)

Straightjacket Nation at Gasometer. (photo by Christina P)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

The one and only Adam Juresko is man of the hour for this installment of the Monday Photo Blog, the blog you turn to on Monday to escape that nine-to-five drudgery collectively known as employment. From the safe confines of your cubicle enjoy some “in your face” action from the likes of Urban Blight, Midnight, No Statik, Raw Nerve, and Boston Strangler. Then you may want to go on over to Adam’s site, blooddays for more. If you’re feeling saucy, why not try and print some of these out on the office printer and hang them on your drab cubicle walls. Beats those stupid “Dilbert” comic strips and T.G.I.F. 20% off coupons your co-worker has posted on theirs.

Urban Blight at Emoda Gallery in Philly. (photo by Adam Juresko)

Midnight at the Level Room in Philly. (photo by Adam Juresko)

Raw Nerve at the Level Room in Philly. (photo by Adam Juresko)

No Statik at The Bikery in Philly. (photo by Adam Juresko)

Boston Strangler at 538 Johnson in Brooklyn. (photo by Adam Juresko)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

Aww fuck… Another Monday, another week of work stretches slowly out before you. Now that that snitch of a co-worker is nowhere near, take a few moments to escape the mundane tasks that lie before you and check this fine selection of photosbrought to you by none other than Pete Craven, who you may remember from the Shitty Limits final show photo spread in MRR #344, as well as early appearances in the hallowed halls of the Monday Photo Blog. He’s also responsible for Zonked fanzine.

Crude (Japan) at The Grosvenor, London. March 2012. (photo Pete Craven)

La Urss (Spain) at the Cowley Club in Brighton. April 2012. (photo Pete Craven)

Discarded (UK) at The Grosvenor in London. March 2012. (photo Pete Craven)

Sudor (Spain) at the Cowley Club in Brighton. April 2012. (photo Pete Craven)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

Hey hey hey! This Monday Photo Blog is from Kevin of the record label Pass Judgement, and editor of Fashionable Activism. This one is short and to the point. Just three photos for you to pass a few moments of your work day looking at. For more information on his label, or zine (I highly recommend picking it up!), you can reach him through his site:pass judgement.

Perdition at The Acheron in Brooklyn. October 16, 2010 (photo by Kevin)

Broken Water at Mortville in Chicago, IL. May 6, 2011 (photo by Kevin)

Wiccans at the Kostner House in Chicago, Il. January 7, 2011. (photo by Kevin)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

Over there in the Midwest, where it seems most of the raging US hardcore bands reside these day, comes this Monday Photo Blog  from the lens of Megan Reeves. A couple from the mighty Cülo, as well as Ropes, Pukeoid, and Hoax. Some of the heaviest hitters around at the moment. You can see more through her tumblr page: youvandallll.

Cülo at My Friends The Pit Fest 2, 2011 at the ES Jungle in Indiana, Indianapolis. (photo Megan Reeves)

Cülo at My Friends The Pit Fest 2, 2011 at the ES Jungle in Indiana, Indianapolis. (photo Megan Reeves)

Hoax at Water Works in Chicago. April 16, 2011. (photo Megan Reeves)

Pukeoid at My Friends The Pit Fest 2 at ES Jungle in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2011. (photo Megan Reeves)

The Ropes at Water Works in Chicago, April 16, 2011. (photo Megan Reeves)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever), and the band (or subject), date and location of each photo. Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions. Feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

This week’s Monday Photo Blog comes from the lens of Yoni Kroll, out of Philadelphia. All of these shots were taken in the past year. Live, and in living color! Not to mention, mostly from outdoor shows (the exception being the Skull Defekts show). For more work from Yoni, check out the flickr page: flickr.com/photos/corvussolus.

Erik Petersen/Mischief Brew at an Occupy Philly event at the camp in front of City Hall in October 2011. (photo Yoni Kroll)

Skull Defekts with Dan Higgs from Lungfish on vocals at Danger Danger Gallery last April. (photo Yoni Kroll)

Baltimore's Pilgrim playing the South Philly block party during Punx Picnic. (photo Yoni Kroll)

Bucket Flush playing at FDR last July as part of the Philly Punx Picnic. (photo Yoni Kroll)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com (note new email address!). Include your name, the band (or subject) in the photo, where and when it was shot, and a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever). Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions — and feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!

Perhaps you may remember Milo from Chicago from a not too long ago Monday Photo Blog . Now it’s time to once again scorch your  orbs with photos from the Apocalyptic Crust Fest in Chicago in the not too distant time of 2009.

Wartorn at Apocalyptic Crust Fest at Blackhole in Chicago, 2009. (Photo Milo)

Nux Vomica at Apocalyptic Crust Fest at Blackhole in Chicago, 2009. (Photo Milo)

PLF at Apocalyptic Crust Fest at Blackhole in Chicago, 2009. (Photo Milo)

Expendable Youth at Apocalyptic Crust Fest at Blackhole in Chicago, 2009. (Photo Milo)

Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com (note new email address!). Include your name, the band (or subject) in the photo, where and when it was shot, and a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, or whatever). Just send your best photos — edit tightly. Three to seven photos is plenty, and it’s best to send pictures of different bands. Please do not send watermarked photos. Please make your photos 72 dpi and about 600–800 pixels at the longest side. Not everything sent in will be posted, and a response is not guaranteed, but we do appreciate all of your contributions — and feel free to submit more than once. Thanks!