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    The Cysts Turn It Up or Throw It Away / S.I.S.T.S LP

    At the time of this writing, this record is not available to be streamed, which is oddly fitting given the content. The CYSTS were active in the late ’00s, and everything about this album feels like it’s of that era. Not to say that what they produced doesn’t hold up—to the contrary, their style of […]

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  • Screaming Fist Santa Plaga EP

    The first offering in several years from Oakland’s SCREAMING FIST. They play the kind of ripping hardcore punk that you’d expect from a band composed of members of several veteran bands. Santa Plaga translates to “Holy Plague,” and most of the lyrics here are political in nature. It’s got killer riffs, Spanish vocals that command […]

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  • Rosie Rosie demo cassette

    Five-song debut demo of sleazy, nasty, riff-heavy rock’n’roll from Barcelona, Spain. This appears to be a recording project of sorts, with only two people credited. The songwriter handles all the guitars as well as vocals, while the other person is responsible for the entire rhythm section. The guitars on this recording are sharp and discernible, […]

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  • Vitamin X Ride the Apocalypse CD

    Hardcore thrash titans VITAMIN X have been around the block, and it shows on their seventh album, Ride the Apocalypse. A pristine display of experience and skill, these seventeen tracks show a band who can seemingly write ripper after ripper in their sleep. Melding hardcore punk with metallic crossover, the formula works and sounds classic […]

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MRR Radio #1983

(Temporarily) escape harsh truths and distorted realities with this week’s episode of MRR Radio from Erika Elizabeth.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:29 — 52.6MB)

Intro
HEAT RASH – Pretty Little Houses
Sink Into the Flesh
GUIDING LIGHT – Shackled by Lust
LIFE IN THE FRIDGE EXISTS – Have You Checked the Children?
KENICKIE – Private Buchowski
FRONT – Alternativ
No Principles
アケボノイズ (AKEVONOIZ) – クレバス
SPEC REALISTS – On a Frolic of Your Own
MAX AND THE MAKEUPS – Let Go
LOST CHERREES – You’re You I’m Me
There is Not Enough Time
LEXICON – Shame
LAKE OF DRACULA – Green-Glassed Moves
DEBT RAG – Solar Shirt
MNK PROJECT – Birthday Eve
Facing the Past
CHOW-CHOW – No More of This
NOXEEMA – Sick
PARANOIA – Shattered Glass
THE TERRAPLANES – Treasure of the Damned
THE MAGGOTS – 2/2/79
Outro
EMILY – Doomed to Fail
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