Now this is a convenient assignment: SIEGE FIRE’s first album The Devastating Cost (a reference to contemporary shipping prices in the States, I believe) might end up in my Top Ten of 2024. If they send me a bribe, they definitely will be in it. This noisy bunch comes from Portland and was originally a […]
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Italian punks LUCTA recently released Eterna Lotta, which is a boiling cauldron of hardcore that mutates and evolves in chugs and thrashing. The opening song starts with what sounds like an organ, but then guitars merge with it, soon a bootstomper starts to assemble, and then the tempo doubles into lightspeed. I really get into […]
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The coarse and creative lo-fi of the Montana-born MORDECAI reemerges for a sixth full-length outing. While the loose abstraction of the cover art on Seeds From the Furthest Vine broadly fits the band’s approach, its stark minimalism is in striking contrast to the music it foretells. Nearly a decade and a half from their inception, […]
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Not to be confused with the other proto-Oi! band with the same name, I’ll take these guys. This LP is the band’s whole story from ’78-’80, a time capsule of perfect pints and songs of drama. The sound is all super tight and brolic pub pop with fringe elements of harmonizing guitars in the THIN […]
Read full "Walking on the Water LP" reviewOn this week’s MRR Radio, Zu From All Over witnesses a murder in her own apartment while she celebrates her 2nd annual Murderween Party, with the best Horrorpunk, Post-Punk, and Deathrock to calm the chaos and embrace the fear.
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And here is the final round of Maximum Rocknroll Year End Top Tens! Be sure to read all the way though for the surprise at the end. Parts, one, two, and three, in case you weren’t staying tuned. BEN C. TROGDON Ben C Trogdon lives in NYC, puts together NUZZZZZZINE punk fanzine, and plays drums […]
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And now, part three of the 2023 Year End Top Tens! There will be a part four next week, as we got a huge response this year! Stay tuned, as Tim and the Gang would say! Parts one and two, in case you missed them. ANNALIESE REDLICH Annaliese Redlich makes cathartic clang in LOTHARIO and presents the […]
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And now, stay tuned for more 2023 Year End Top Tens! Part one is here, part three to follow next week. ALLAN MCNAUGHTON A NEUTRAL and former MRR shitworker. I’m on a FUGAZI-esque indefinite hiatus from writing about music so will keep these brief. To be honest, I constantly feel like I’m missing out on […]
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Another year wrapped up, another round of Maximum Rocknroll Year-End Top Tens! As always, we asked MRR contributors, friends, and extended family from around the globe about what punk records made their 2023. This year, we had plenty of long-time YETTers, a number of folks returning after one or more years absent, and a good […]
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