Angela Owens sent a nice batch of photos in a few weeks ago, right as we were kicking off the “From the Vaults” series of photos here on the Monday Photo Blog. We might remember her from the December ’09 post. Here’s another round from the South. DIG IN!

Ceremony @ The Warehouse, Richmond, VA, 15 June, 2010 (photo by Angela Owens)

Coke Bust @ GSS2, Raleigh, NC 6 May 2010 (photo by Angela Owens)

Young And In The Way @ PS Warehouse, Atlanta, GA, 20 June, 1010 (photo by Angela Owens)

I know a lot of you saw (and shot) some killer shows this summer. Did you go on tour and get some awesome pics? We wanna send photos!!!

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send 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!

Mariam Bastani

Mariam Bastani
INSERVIBLES – Triguena – EP
EUNUCH – Stillborn – EP
CHANCLETA/CRANI SEPTIC – split EP
YOUNG OFFENDERS – Leader of the Followers – LP
DRESDEN – God Has No Mercy – EP
ACEPHALIX – Aporia – LP
SKIND OG BEN – 12” / LAS RODILLERAS – LP
D.L.50 – Hardcore Desde el Tercer Mundo – EP
VALIUM KIHARAT – EP / PAHAA VERTA – LP
DIRTY BEACHES – Golden Desert Sun – EP

Brace Belden

Brace Belden
MIRRORS – Shirley/She Smiled Wild – 45
USELESS EATERS – Mr. Oscillations – EP
FREESTONE – Church/Bummer Bitch – 45
WIPERS – Out Takes – LP
TIMMY’S ORGANISM – I’m a Nice Guy Now – 45
WHITE LUNG – live
POLI STYRENE JASS BAND – Drano in Your Veins – 45
IDI AMIN AND THE AMPUTEES – 45
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – live
JONATHAN RICHMAN – live

Tim Brooks
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – live
ACEPHALIX – Aporia – LP
SKIND OG BEN – 12”
DOOM – Rush Hour of the Gods – LP
HEALTH HAZARD – Discography – LP
FOUR EYES – City Feeling – EP
IRRITONES – (We are) Negative Dots – LP
THE ALTARS – LP
ARCTIC FLOWERS – EP / SUPER WILD HORSES – LP
MORKT KAPITTEL – Uten Fabel – EP

Robert Collins

Robert Collins
PLUTOCRACY – live
CZOSNEK – LP / BASTARD NOISE – 2xLP
GAS CHAMBER – LP / TINO VALPA – EP
MASSHYSTERI – LP / TRASH KIT – LP
SKIND OG BEN – 12” / ACEPHALIX – LP
LET’S GROW/JAIBO – split LP / THE ALTARS – LP
SLANG/WORLD BURNS TO DEATH – split EP
INSERVIBLES – EP / DIRTY BEACHES – EP
WANKYS/LOTUS FUCKER – split EP
EUNUCH – EP / D.L.50 – EP / ARCTIC FLOWERS – EP

Sean “Dougie” Dougan
IRRITONES – (We are) Negative Dots – LP
SWINGING UTTERS – Brand New Lungs – EP
COMPLAINTS – Secret – EP
FIRE DEPT – A Flames from the Fen – CD
PARANOID VISIONS – Black Operations – CD
LOST BOYS – Work, Life, Regret – EP
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – live
SLANG/WORLD BURNS TO DEATH – split EP
MASSHYSTERI – LP
SPECTRES – Last Days – LP

Layla G

Layla Gibbon
TRASH KIT – LP
SUPER WILD HORSES – EP and LP
INSERVIBLES – Triguena – EP
POLLUTION – R Smut – LP
EUNUCH – Stillborn – EP
TIMMY’S ORGANISM – I’m a Nice Guy Now – 45
LAS RODILLERAS – Horror Pleni – LP
WIPERS – Out Takes – LP
FREESTONE – Church/Bummer Bitch – 45
WHITE LOAD – My Wall – EP

Bob Goldie (circa 1986)

Bob Goldie
IRRITONES – (We are) Negative Dots – LP
YOUNG OFFENDERS – Leader of the Followers – LP
HEALTH HAZARD – Discography – LP
FREESTONE – Church/Bummer Bitch – 45
THE EAT – Communist Radio – EP
PAHAA VERTA – LP
LOST BOYS – Work, Life, Regret – EP
SIDETRACKED/HUMMINGBIRD OF DEATH – split EP
CITIZEN PATROL – LP
THE SPLIT – UPS – Action Man – EP

Kenny Kaos
SWEET NOTHINGS – When You’re Around – EP
SHANE LOBOTOMY – I Can’t Help Myself – 45
SLEEPOVERS – Secret – EP
USELESS EATERS – Mr. Oscillations – EP
PERCULATORS – White Trash – EP
IDI AMIN AND THE AMPUTEES – 45
DEFECTORS/LARIOTS – split EP
THE NOT AMUSED – Totally Destroyed – EP
THE SPLIT – UPS – Action Man – EP
THEE FINE LINES – She’s Kind of Evil – 45

Carolyn Keddy
SUPER WILD HORSES – LP and EP
USELESS EATERS – Mr. Oscillations – EP
TIMMY’S ORGANISM – I’m a Nice Guy Now – 45
PEOPLE’S TEMPLE – Make You Understand – EP
IDI AMIN AND THE AMPUTEES – 45
YOUNG OFFENDERS – Leader of the Followers – LP
PERCULATORS – White Trash – EP
POLI STYRENE JASS BAND – Drano in Your Veins – 45
P.T.L. KLUB – 1984 – 1987 Complete Discography – CD
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – live

Ray Lujan
LITTLE LEAGUE – Frames – CD
YOUNG OFFENDERS – Leader of the Followers – LP
THE NOT AMUSED – Totally Destroyed – EP
HOT NEW MEXICANS – LP
RUBELLA BALLET – Never Mind – CD
DOPAMINES – Expect the Worst – LP
WILD AMERICA – EP / IRRITONES – LP
NOBELKOMMITTEN – CD / HOT TODDIES – CD
THE PRISONER – EP / SWINING UTTERS – EP
LOS OLVIDADOS – live

Mark Murrmann

Mark Murrmann
CHEAP FREAKS – Play 4 Songs – EP
THE EAT – Communist Radio/Catholic Love – 45
TIMMY’S ORGANISM – I’m a Nice Guy Now – 45
POLI STYRENE JASS BAND – Drano in Your Veins – 45
MIRRORS – Shirley/She Smiled Wild – 45
WHATEVER BRAINS – Mt. Whatever – EP
SLOPPY SECONDS – You Can’t Kill Joey Ramone – 45
IDI AMIN AND THE AMPUTEES – 45
WIPERS – Out Takes – LP
YOUNG OFFENDERS – Leader of the Followers – LP

Ken Sanderson
CZOSNEK – Sometimes – LP
FIREBIRDGASS – Punk Rises from the Pigpen… – LP
ARCTIC FLOWERS – EP / TINO VALPA – EP
VALIUM KIHARAT – Kierre – EP / PAHAA VERTA – LP
BASTARD NOISE – A Culture of Monsters – 2xLP
THE ALTARS – LP / AMEBIX – Redux – 12”
GAS CHAMBER – LP
EUNUCH – Stillborn – EP
D.L.50 – Hardcore Desde el Tercer Mundo – EP
POLLUTION – R Smut – LP

Fred Schrunk
RAG RAGE – Good, Wholesome, and Sexy – LP
AGATHA – Nothing is Static – EP
MASSHYSTERI – LP
V/A – Do Ya Hear We? – By All Means – LP
POST REGIMENT – Czarzly – LP
MAX LEVINE ENSEMBLE – Lucky Ones – EP
RENEGADES OF PUNK – Difference – EP
ARCTIC FLOWERS – Slouching Towards Bethlehem – EP
CZOSNEK – Sometimes – LP
THE EAT – Communist Radio/Catholic Love – 45

Martin Sorrondeguy
PAHAA VERTA – LP
DIVORCE MONEY – Names/Use Your Imagination- 45
IDI AMIN AND THE AMPUTEES – 45
WANKYS/LOTUS FUCKER – split EP
LOST BOYS – Work, Life, Regret – EP
ARCTIC FLOWERS – Slouching Towards Bethlehem – EP
INSERVIBLES – Triguena – EP
VALIUM KIHARAT – Kierre – EP
D.L.50 – Hardcore Desde el Tercer Mundo – EP
PASSION KILLERS – They Kill Our Passion… – LP

Top Ten Zines
The Negative Guest List #11, #12
Radikal #6
Reich #5, #6, #7
Standard Issue #10
We Are Pretentious Assholes #1
Adaptation #4
Antipatia #9, #10, #11, #12
Abolish Restaurants: A Worker’s Critique…
Trainwreck #8
Toinen Vaihtoehto #226

MRR Radio is a weekly radio show featuring the best DIY punk, garage rock and hardcore from the astounding, ever-growing Maximum Rocknroll record collection. You can find the MRR Radio podcast, as well as specials, archives, and more info at radio.maximumrocknroll.com. Thanks for listening, and stay tuned!

THIS WEEK: Layla and Marissa harness technology to bring you the most recent set of bloopers and technical errors.

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Pink Section

Intro song:
V; – Wardrobes in Hell / You’re a Weapon

Layla plays some new selections from the MRR review pile
SUPER WILD HORSES – Enigma
HOME BLITZ – Perpetual Night
BURNING YELLOWS – Urinal Cakes
CHARLES ALBRIGHT – I’m Waiting
TRASH KIT – Filipino Song

Marissa hails some ladies from long ago
PINK SECTION – Midsummer New York
BAGS – Survive
8-EYED SPY – Diddy Wah Diddy
KEBAB – Weekend
VULPESS – Me Gusta Ser Una Zorra
ESSENTIAL LOGIC – Aerosol Burns

Layla had some technical issues

DIET COKEHEADS – High Country
MANIPULATION – Violence
RAW NERVE – Secondhand
WITCHHATS- Peppercorn
WHITE LOAD – Endless Bummer/No Struggle

Marissa channeled doom sounds
THE CYSTS – Worst Fears
JAILHOUSE FUCK – Haunted Letter
DIVORCE MONEY – Use Your Imagination
MUTATORS – Blackroom
PIGEON RELIGION – White Fluff

Outro songs:
DELINQUENTS – Do You Have a Job for a Girl Like Me?
SUBURBAN LAWNS – My Boyfriend

Here’s one of the greatest punk bands, Hüsker Dü, appearing on network TV on what might have been the verge of stardom, if not for the fact the mainstream would never really be ready for their brand of hard driving pop. And of course the punk scene (or MRR at least) had decided they had no longer hard enough. For yours truly, however, Warehouse: Songs and Stories has always been a guilty pleasure, and I think that this rendition of “Could You Be the One?” is phenomenal. No matter what you think of them in this period, this video is pretty fascinating…

MRR #328 has hit the newsstands! This month we have an interview with Roger and Vinnie of AGNOSTIC FRONT, the last interview by Mr. Bruce Roehrs (RIP), from his all time favorite hardcore band. The PUFFY AREOLAS are continuing Ohio’s fine tradition of musical mutation, whilst SUPER WILD HORSES from Australia have been described as FLIPPER trying to play the SHOP ASSISTANTS, and we have some politically charged, female-fronted new wave from Macedonia courtesy of BERNAYS PROPAGANDA, which features ex-members of FPO. RAPE REVENGE from Canada is a mostly female, mostly power violence band, and DEATHRATS from DC are part of a crew of bands who are making sure hardcore stays harDCore in a most thrilling manner. Boston’s CONVERSIONS played driving complex punk inflected hardcore with some of the most ferocious female vocals. There are scene reports from New York City, and Brno in the Czech Republic, supposed to be one of the best places to play when touring Europe. We have cover art by Welly of long-running UK zine Artcore, and as always, the most extensive review section in punk, and all your favorite columnists!

*This issue mistakenly got labeled as the October issue when it shoulda been September. Don’t worry, the real October issue will come out as scheduled, and subscribers will get 12 issues this year. We apologize for the confusion.

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Okay, last trip we’ll take in the MRR time machine for a while, but this one is a DOOZY! Layla dug up these photos from the cobwebbed confines of the Maximum Photo Vault:

The Wipers (photographer unknown)

Black Flag (photographer unknown)

Tim Yo and Grant Hart (photo by Murray Bowles)

As promised, next week we’re gonna go back to the future, so if you’ve taken some killer photos this summer, send them!!!

If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send 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 are currently phasing the MRR Radio site into the main MRR site (this one). In the meantime you can still find the podcast and all the current shows, as well as specials and archives, at radio.maximumrocknroll.com. Thanks for listening, and stay tuned!

David, Vicente and Rob spin the rock and wish David a farewell as he prepares to take off for La La Land.

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Thee Oh Sees (photo by Canderson)

Intro song:
UNDERTONES – Here Comes the Summer

David – Is Already Missing SF
HUNX AND HIS PUNX – U Don’t Like Rock n Roll
HANK IV – I’m Quitting
THEE OH SEES – I Can’t Get No
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS – I Wanna Go Home
ERASE ERRATA – Another Genius Idea from the Government

Vicente – The Sounds of San Francisco
HELLER CORPORATION – The Sound of San Francisco
THE SPACE LADY – Ballroom Blitz
STAROCK – Changing Faces
ALVIN D AHN – You’re Driving Me Mad
JASON FORREST – My 36 Favorite Punk Songs
JOHN DOWIE – Mew Wave

Rob – New Rocking Releases
POLICE BASTARD – God Off
IN DISGUST – Parasites
PTL KLUB – Real Thing
ACEPHALIX – Rectal Grave
TETSU AREI – Dangers Latent

David – Longing For SF Part Duex
TRICLOPS! – Mi Plisboy
EL DOPA – Dormant
CONQUEST FOR DEATH – Nightcrew
XIU XIU – Ceremony

Vicente – Impresses the Masses
EL AVIADOR DRO – La Vision
LOS DOLTONS – Santo

Outro song:
ANTI CIMEX – Raped Ass

LAS RODILLERAS is a three-piece that hails from Spain, which is kicking out some rather impressive beach punk and garage as of late. This band (whose name means “knee pads”) has a new LP, Horror Pleni, which is yet another great release skirting the same genre, but uniquely combining elements of goth punk, garage and surf punk. These three ladies could share a stage with ULTRATUMBADOS or RATAS DEL VATICANO — even TY SEGALL fans might be into it, if they can take the darkness… Reminiscent of PARALISIS PERMANENTE in mood, and at times in vocals, their songs are atmospheric with reverbed guitars and somber yet rocking mid-tempo melodies. The vocals are a raspy and echoed female crooning that has some VIOLATORS and RICHARD HELL moments with great backups, like a more goth and more punk CRAMPS. They cover the GERMS’ “Forming.” Their lyrics are morbid and, no, this all-female band does not sound like SPITBOY. There are only 525 copies of their screen-printed LP, so get your hands on it! Check out this video of the title track!

Hey, it’s a new column! A web exclusive from our friend and yours, Arwen Curry. And there’s more where this came from, so stay tuned to this website…

Hello Again

“I feel no pain.”
—The Guilloteens, “Call on Me” (Memphis, TN, 1965)

“I feel the pain.”
—Big Star, “Try Again” (Memphis, TN, 1972)

I know it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me, but can we just not talk about it? I’m always working on three movies and one book. I always have a new band probably. Half of my friends moved to New York or L.A., and it’s sometimes hard to focus when they don’t come around to sit on the stoop. I had my reasons, and you’ve moved on, and that’s OK. But now I have my reasons again, so I hope you’ll read along. I missed you.

So let me tell you about New York earlier this summer. One night toward the end of my stay I went to see a band that used to be from Memphis. I ran into my friends playing foosball in the basement of the club. I was glad to see them, but I didn’t want to be in the basement, although the lighting was nice. They were engaged. Everyone was engaged. I’d spent hours walking up and down Broadway in the rain looking for red shoes to wear while preceding Megan down the aisle when I got home. Congratulations, Megan and John! I was learning to make boutonnieres from tutorials on the internet.

Upstairs, nobody was dancing, even though it was that kind of band. Their sound connects directly to major nerves. It’s organ-rich. Listening to the records, you can feel the heartbeats of the people in the crowd that must be gathering outside the studio to beat time with their heads against the doors. But now the band seemed tired, either that or just not loud enough; it was hard to tell. Their faces were etched, like caricatures of musicians, and their weariness, if it was weariness, made me want to take them out for milkshakes and fries. After a while, though, it became clear that it was not weariness but steadiness. They were in it for the full ride.

The dance floor thawed. Everybody was grinning, sweaty, packed in like sardines. The guy behind me seemed to be dancing pretty close, seemed to be touching me, was definitely touching me, lightly on the hips, like we were posing for a prom picture. It was a strangely anachronistic way to be touched. Was it just creepy, or also exciting? I couldn’t tell. I turned to face the groper and found him modestly good-looking, a total stranger. What the hell is this, I asked with my eyebrows. He smiled and shrugged. Pretty, he mouthed. The band wasn’t breaking a sweat. A gorgeous punk rock girl from San Francisco reached out her hand. I took it and danced off into the crowd. People, you can’t omit both a pronoun and a verb and still expect strangers to make out with you.

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