THIS WEEK: Greg and Alex try to help out Thrillhouse and play some hot jams…

Intro song:
FEARLESS IRANIANS FROM HELL – Blow Up the Embassy

Thrillhouse Records (illustration by Sonya Katcher)

Greg plays stuff from Thrillhouse Records.
SURRENDER – Guillotine/Surrender
ONION FLAVORED RINGS – Funny
SONGS FOR MOMS – Kill Coyote
SHOTWELL – Dust of the Dawn
SEXY – Crows

Alex curls up with a dead pig
SON SKULL – Wiped Clean
DESTINO FINAL – Ahogate
SICARII – Even With Our Hands Tied
SJU SVÅRA ÅR – Storma Varje Hjärta

Greg plays some new stuff from the bins
NO STATIK – No Hospice
FASTBOYS – The Kids Are Back in School (Again)
CLEANSING WAVE – LLSS
AYE NAKO – Good Grief
JESUS H BOMBS – No Longer Listening

Alex plays less tough songs than his last set
OK? – Duress
FROZEN TEENS – New Year
PIPSQUEAK – Wolves
1981 – Faster and Forward

Outro song:
TWAT SAUCE – Voices

Occultist at Alley Katz in Richmond, VA, October 2011. (photo by Sarja Hasan)

SSR at Wonderland in Richmond, VA, April 2010. (photo by Sarja Hasan)

Night Birds at Strange Matter in Richmond, VA, October 2011. (photo by Sarja Hasan)

Wasted Time at Alley Katz in Richmond, VA, June 2009. (photo by Sarja Hasan)

Parasytic at Strange Matter in Richmond, VA, October 2010. (photo by Sarja Hasan)

Nightfall at Alley Katz in Richmond, VA, February 2009. (photo by Sarja Hasan)

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!

MRR #346, the March 2012 issue, features rad German punkers, BÄRCHEN UND DIE MILCHBUBIS, as our cover stars. They play a dark, urgent, yet somehow charming and goofy style of punk. Check out their 25 year old video below! They are joined in this issue by Hazard, Kentucky’s only punk, the one-man-maniac-band, GLOBSTERS! We also have a manic destruktion tour diary penned for us by Australia’s own KRÖMOSOM on their 2011 tour of Japan. (It involves GAUZE — you will not be disappointed…) Meanwhile, WHO KILLED SPIKEY JACKET puts the glue back into punk, making sure Boston stays nasty, and NIGHT BIRDS put the HC back into NJ. We finish up this issue with a look at the world of DIY record labels, featuring Neil from Tribal War, plus Give Praise Records and Refuse Records. All of this plus the usual assortment of news, columns, and the most extensive review section in punk print. As always, feel free to change!

Buy issue #346 of MRR here:

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Still available: MRR #345 • February 2012 issue…

The 2011 year-end top ten issue(!) with our shitworkers top picks for 2011. Also: CRASS symbol creator Dave King, Sweden’s TERRIBLE FEELINGS, New Jersey’s BIG EYES, ZERO PROGRESS from the Bay Area, Canada’s UNRULED and RAPID LOSS. Cover art by Alex Ratcharge.

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It’s with great sadness that I relay that Brendon Annesely, friend to many of us, and the prolific and twisted voice behind Negative Guest List zine and records, and the band Meat Thump left this plane yesterday. I started typing “left us” but, there could be nothing further from the truth. He was only twenty-two years old, but the mark he has left on our underground DIY culture and on those of us he shared his life with is immense.
They broke the fuckin’ mould.
—Kevin Failure

Blogger, punk flyer collector, and MRR reader Willona Sloan recently sent us a link to her free eBook of amazing flyers called Come to Our Show. Originally intended to be a printed book, this project was put on the back burner for a few years, but now it is finally available to one and all thanks to the wonders of the interweb. The book contains a very impressive collection of flyers from many decades of DIY punk, mostly concentrated on DC bands and the ’80s, but represents a pretty wide variety of genres and regions. No extra info is given with the flyers, leaving you to guess sometimes where or when exactly the show is from. Yet I find that the parts of the story that are left to the imagination can be just as inspiring as the artifacts themselves. And, besides, it’s free and it’s fun — what have you got to complain about?

Willona’s eclectic blog DC Scorpiongirl is worth checking out too. Send her kudos on a job well done while you’re there.

Milo of Illegales Sin Fronteras at the Lake, NY. 11.11.06 (photo by Milo)

Brendan of Krang, at Crown Liquor 5.22.11 (photo by Milo)

Welkin Dusk, ex-vocalist of Expendable Youth at Chicago by Night, 11.17.11 (photo by Milo)

Ralph of Raw Nerve at Rancho Huevos 4.24.11 (photo by Milo)

Mark McCoy of Failures at Panchos in Chicago 7.10.10 (photo by Milo)

Juan of Lechuza at Treasure Town 7.22.11 (photo by 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!

THIS WEEK: Rob pulls lots of new tunes from the record bins and whips out an Ian MacKaye tribute. Rock on!

Intro song:
JOHN HENRY WEST – Ten Thousand Words

Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Rob Plays the Rock ‘n’ Roll
ARMITAGE SHANKS – Did Punk Rock Make You a Millionaire?
MEAN JEANS – Freaked and Geeked
MANDATES – Photo in My Wallet
THERAPISTS – I Need It
COMPLAINTS – Falling Down
LEADERS – Mental Abuse
THE ILLS – I Kill Me
NAUGHTY GIRLS – Bad Habits
FUTURE VIRGINS – No Echo
IDOL LIPS – Down By L.U.V.
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – You Let Me Be Honest With You
GOVERNMENT ISSUE – They Know

Rob Visits Ian MacKaye
TEEN IDLES – Teen Idles
MINOR THREAT – Stand Up
EMBRACE – Give Me Back
SKEWBALD – ???
PAILHEAD – I Will Refuse
FUGAZI – Waiting Room

Rob – Pummel Time
NO COMMENT – Dead Stare for Life
NO COMMENT – Past Tense
NO COMMENT – Sarcastics
NO COMMENT – Distant
NO COMMENT – Hurt
NO COMMENT – Hacked to Chunks
BESTHÖVEN – Destroy Capitalism (CRUDE SS)
SKITSYSTEM – ??? (Ebba Grön)
BASTARD NOISE – See the Same Fate
REPROACH – …And for What

Outro song:
VOID – Condensed Flesh

“All that class privilege stuff, that’s behind me now…”