The August issue of MRR is here — issue #339 to be precise… This month we have interviews with Swedish hardcore originators HEADCLEANERS, Tomek Lipinski from Polish punk legends TILT and BRYGADA KRYZYS, and we’ve got Oakland garage veterans and cat ladies MIDNITE SNAXX. There’s two doses of grind with Minneapolis’s COKSKAR and Britain’s AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN. Plus we’ve got Canadian ragers GROWN UPS, New Orleans’ own pop-punkers SMALL BONES, and French hardcore from YOUTH AVOIDERS. There’s an extensive look at legendary record and tape label and early ’80s international punk and hardcore disseminator Xcentric Noise Records, and the second part of our look at the history of punk in communist-era Czechoslovakia. All of this plus the usual columnists you hate yourself for lovin’ and the most extensive review section in punk!

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The newest issue of Maximum Rocknroll is hot off the presses! In MRR #338, the July 2011 edition, we bring you an extensive interview with Japanese punk legends ZOUO discussing being a punk Japan, the current state of punk and more! Also check out our interviews with Mexico’s garage- and snot-punk fusion blowout INSERVIBLES, Australian Confuse-influenced noise punx KRÖMOSOM, and USELESS EATERS: garage rockers from Tennessee taking cues from Jay Reatard. We talk to blown out, gloomy, Confuse/Gai influenced D-beat punx from Arizona NIGHTGAUN, Canadian street-punk tinged hardcore band NO PROBLEM, Portland’s dark, heavy, mysterious, feedback laden RAW NERVES, Germany’s modern hardcore punks FAMILY MAN, and Virginia’s synthy death rock, dark wave punks LOST TRIBE. And we have a report/interview with Spain’s GATILLAZO in Mexico, playing with bands like Sedición, Alergia, Disolucion Social and more, plus the first part of an in-depth history of Czech punk. All of this, the most extensive record review section in punk rock, and all the columnists you love to hate to love!

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Another issue of Maximum Rocknroll is hot off the presses. MRR #337, the June 2011 issue, features an interview with one of the architects of punk, John Morton of electric eels and X_X amongst other bands, discussing his Cleveland punk days and artwork. We talk to Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly who put together the amazing recently published Destroy All Movies!!! book, an exhaustive study of punks on the silver screen (and straight to VHS!). And don’t miss our interviews with Finnish hardcore champs YDINPERHE, doom inflected crust punk NUX VOMICA from Portland, Oakland mutants UZI RASH, Southern California psyche-punks WHITE FENCE, and Swedish garage stompers BLACK FEET. Plus, we have a look at the life and struggle of Russian anti-fascist activist “Vanya Kostolom” Khutorskoy, who was tragically murdered by Nazis at age 26; a Buffalo, NY scene report, and a look at a 1980s HC flyer archive in New Orleans: From Stapleguns to Thumbtacks. All of this madness along with the most extensive review section in punk rock, and all the columnists you love to hate!

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It’s in! Maximum Rocknroll #336, the May 2011 issue, has hit the stands and it is not to be missed! We have interviews with powerful Japanese hardcore ragers KRIEGSHÖG, and Steve Ignorant explains his motivation for his controversial recent solo tour playing CRASS songs. TEARGAS from Australia give us some insight about their imagery and the drive to make their style of hardcore, TANTRUM delves into what it is to be a punk in Japan and the motives behind playing Italian style thrashcore, and we talk to London’s disjointed, aggro post-punkers HYGIENE. We have the SHOPPERS from NY discussing their politically tinged, melodic pop punk; punk author and publisher Chris Walter keeps it gritty; old schoolers ADRENALIN OD; and ’80s style hardcore band SPASTIC PANTHERS from Canada. In “Crass Commercialism” our writers discuss the seemingly paradoxical nature of Steve Ignorant’s tour and the message of Crass, and we have a great Hungarian scene report covering “Defekt Punks.” All of this plus a massive amount of record reviews, news, and columns!

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In this holiest of months in the MRR calendar, we present to you the holiest of issues, the April 2011 Christian punk special! That’s right MRR #335 has arisen! An incisive look at the state of punk through the lens of our Christian brethren. We also managed to squeeze in interviews with New York punk maniax CRAZY SPIRIT, Finnish post-punk anarchos 1981, and creative Detroit music destruction force TIMMY’S ORGANISM. Plus we’ve got North Carolina hardcore courtesy of DEVOUR and SUNSHINE SS, some Gainesville Noize Not Music from MAUSER, and Pittsburgh, PA’s own ICON GALLERY. That is not all! We have a look at Hartford, CT punk house/show space the Whitney House, an interview with Rob from Boston’s legendary SIEGE, an extensive Michigan HC scene report, and an interview with that state’s hardcore basement dwellers ATTENTION SPAN. All of that, plus more reviews and columns than you can shake a Christ on a Crutch at!

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With amazing cover art by Eliza Childress, the new issue of Maximum Rocknroll is on the loose! This is MRR #334, the March 2011 issue, and features the ever-coveted Top Tens of 2010. This year’s Top Tens are the largest in Maximum Rocknroll‘s history with submissions by our reviewers here at home and a number of people active in the punk scene overseas. Also in this issue: an interview with the classic, Crass-influenced, Bay Area anarcho punk band A STATE OF MIND; and the heavy and noisy USELESS CHILDREN from Australia. Another Aussie band, KITCHEN’S FLOOR, discusses their brand of noisy downer-pop, and author Gabriel Kuhn discusses his new book, Sober Living for the Revolution, covering the political movement within punk through the straight edge niche. We have a Washington, DC scene report and all the great columns and reviews, including the most extensive review section in punk. Get it now!

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It’s the February issue of Maximum Rocknroll — #333, halfway to the Number of the Beast! This issue’s cover stars are the WELDERS out of St Louis. Formed in 1975 by four teenage girls, they were arguably that city’s first punk band, and their recent, never-before-issued 7″ is exciting stuff… We also have an extensive interview with RAI KO RIS — raging, feminist, anarchist punk from Nepal — a report from ESKAPO‘s  recent tour of the Philippines, and an interview with long-running Balkan hardcore heroes HITMAN. There’s a look at the recent  Touch & Go fanzine book with Tesco Vee, an interview with another teenage girl band from the 70s, the UK proto-twee pioneers DOLLY MIXTURE,  Australian garage maniax STRAIGHT ARROWS, and a look at punk-run record store Celebrated Summer. We also have two great scene reports: one that covers the Venezuelan punk scene from a historical and current perspective, and an Olympia, Washington scene report that, in old school MRR style, includes interviews with tons of local bands from that area, including MILK MUSIC, HPP, WEIRD TV, BROKEN WATER, GUN OUTFIT, RVIVR, HAIL SEIZURES, SON SKULL, WHITE BOSS, and the HYSTERICS. All of that plus the most extensive review section in punk! Get it or regret it…

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Are you ready for another exciting issue of Maximum Rocknroll?! The December issue, #331, is here! This month features Finnish hardcore band KYLMÄ SOTA following their amazing full length release. Chicago punk legend Vic Bondi gives us an inside look into past and present of ARTICLES OF FAITH. TOTAL ABUSE answers some questions about their failures, successes, and image. From the border town of Nogales, Mexico, LA MERMA gives us an important and intimate interview about the realities of a punk band struggling to survive in a city that is being torn apart by drug violence and the constant threat of Arizona’s violent approach to immigration. Hailing from Venezuela, DOÑA MALDAD discusses the state of anarcho-punk today, the value differences between punks in different countries, and the real dirt on current day, Chavez-ruled Venezuela. Both in Spanish and in English! FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS gives us some insight into their melodic, garagey, dreamy sound. Tallahassee punks, LITTLE LEAGUE, discuss the trials and tribulations of a DIY scene in a small town, and the integration of activism and punk. Aberdeen anarcho punks, VERSIFICATOR, talk about Scottish punk today, their music and their message. We have scene reports from Frankfurt, Germany, and Belgium, and as always the most extensive review section in punk. Plus all your favorite columnists and a few new ones, including Alex from Ratcharge zine!

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Hey punk rockers, the November issue of MRR is here! On the cover this month we have FOREIGN OBJECTS from Boston who take the inventiveness and power of the riot grrrl idea and make some of the raddest hardcore you will hear.  We have interviews with local metal crust behemoth ACEPHALIX, the Swell Maps-esque garage punks PHEROMOANS the from the UK, and the the C86-styled, pop inflected punk of LA LA VASQUEZ. We talk to the FORGETTERS from NYC, a band that features former members of JAWBREAKER and plays packed basement punk shows — yes, the kids are psyched — and we’ve got Boston’s most recent pop punk export, the CREDENTIALS. We also interview BUKAKKE BOYS, representing Atlanta’s hardcore underbelly; NEGATIVE LIFESTYLE, representing small town Sweden, and HANK IV from San Francisco, who’re keeping Crime’s legacy alive. And last but not least we have TYRANNA, one of the early Canadian punk bands, playing a cool mix of classic US punk and UK art punk with amazing female vocals. All of that plus a scene report from Ireland, the last part of a look back at ’80s Finnish punk photography with Katriina Etholén, and the best reviews, news and columns in the world!!

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