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    Repeat Offender Weapon Fetish LP

    Burly debut full-length from Southern California’s REPEAT OFFENDER. This album fits neatly into the Convulse catalog. The band is incredibly tight, wound-up, and primed to detonate. Crystal clear production allows all the nuisance to cut through, and there is more articulation than can be found on most hardcore records. Nothing subtle to be found here—everything […]

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  • Debt Rag It Is Clear What’s Going On LP

    New LP from Olympia’s DEBT RAG featuring atonal, no-wave-inspired punk jams that comfortably ride the line between playful and pretentious. Sonically akin to ERASE ERRATA or NAPE NECK, the tracks feel improvisational at times, like on “Drumbo” and “Drumbo 2,” where it feels like listening in on the band working out promising syncopated drum loops, […]

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  • Bart and the Brats Brats Being Brats EP

    Bart De Vraantijik runs BART AND THE BRATS by himself out of La Rochelle, France, and he has churned out a ton of releases in the last few years, including contributions to a bunch of splits with acts such as JACKET BURNER, MITCH KRAMER, the BATTLEBEATS, and TENEMENT RATS. Brats Being Brats is four more […]

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  • Car vs. Driver Deja Grateful LP reissue

    This record came out during the big schism of the mid-’90s when Tim Yo sharpened the focus of the MRR review policy, thus giving way to the launch of large numbers of publications (Shredding Paper, HeartattaCk, Punk Planet, etc.) channeling the areas of the musical underground that were left uncovered. However, I always thought that […]

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MRR Radio #1990

Erika Elizabeth calls the shots again on this week’s episode of MRR Radio.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:36 — 54.6MB)

Intro (R.I.P. David Fair)
HALF JAPANESE – Double Trouble
Don’t Believe What They Say Anymore
CALIFORNIA LIGHTENING – Basement
ALPACA BROTHERS – The Lie
PLEBS – Corporate War
TEAM WORK – I Burnt My Tongue With F-icience This Morning
This is My Heresy
SPORTEN ÄR DÖD – En Pistol Och Glas
MARS – Look at You
DELTA Z – Der Arbeiter
SHADOWLAND – Fire & Silver
A Thousand Years Brings a Little Change
SHRINES – Cathartic Life
EX-DIEL – Fishtank
ALISON’S BIRTHDAY – Further Than the Moon
DRUM BUNNY — Rhapsody in Purple
SPREAD JOY – Vindicated By
Your Silence Will Not Save You
SCREAMING SNEAKERS – Abnormal Reflections
DADDY’S BOY – Polite
SPLITTING IMAGE – Unwilling Participant
SOFT SHOULDER – The Ballad of a Mechanical Lull
MONOTON TID – Vågorna
Outro
SECOND LANGUAGE – On the Edge
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