Austin TX’s MUJERES PODRIDAS return in time to end your plague-filled summer with the perfect feel-good record for a vacation in hell. Their sound is fuller, the vocals and musicianship are stronger, and they veer out of the land of shred into some post-punk, surf, and darker themes of misery. Don’t get me wrong. You’ve […]
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The first thing that strikes you is the vocals. Laura’s snarl is formidable to say the least, and it stands in contrast to the clean (though damaged) guitar and advanced, inward hardcore attack. They drop “Sorry, Not Today Pt. II” near the end of the first side, and that’s when you truly start to feel […]
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Athens, Greece-based CHAIN CULT gives us a take on the pandemic through their post-punk lens with lines like “We always know / We’re not alone,” and “Now I pretend to be normal / When life used to be normal.” For a threesome, the sound is full in body, and Dino’s picked-apart guitar lines are maybe […]
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The all-time greatest THROBBING GRISTLE-connected record, go ahead and fight me. Before the arrival of PSYCHIC TV, Alex Fergusson of ALTERNATIVE TV crafted these alternate-universe pop hits in collaboration with the notorious Genesis P. and Dorothy Max Prior and released them as a one-off single on Industrial in 1980, with Dorothy subversively described on the […]
Read full "I Confess / Softness 7″ reissue" reviewInterrupt the monotony of your daily routine with this week’s episode of MRR Radio with Erika Elizabeth.
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With their welcome wake-up call of a demo unleashed back in Feb still reverberating, we caught up with the singer of Morocco’s Taqbir to find out more about the origin and circumstance of their group, and what’s next.
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Covering some lost ground with reviews of zines sent in the last year or so: Getting Get in the Van, Magic Spaces, Out From the Void, Not Like You, and more. Send us your zines for review!
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MRR zine reviews return for the online era, starting off with the latest issues of Fluke, $pare ¢hange, Fuzz and more.
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Huge archival review update — two years of reviews 1984-1986 have been uploaded over the last couple months — click the article for links.
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