ANDY HUMAN AND THE REPTOIDS — LP “Reptoid Rock Revenge” is the motto on the collage/lyric sheet. How and by whom were they slighted? The answers may be in Fortean Times rather than these pages. I, however, can tell you that so much of what makes this record great could have gone terribly in lesser […]
Read MoreInterview by Brontez MRR: Do you remember the first gay punker you knew or saw or made an impression? Paul:I didn’t know any gay punkers. I didn’t know very many gay people let alone punks. MRR: You can’t remember a first one? I know it’s a hard question; the first one I met was […]
Read MoreGurpaul sings in this band from Fresno called MUTANT ITCH. They play the Bay all the time and I almost feel like they are a local band here in Oakland. I really respect what the punks in Fresno are doing from MUTANT ITCH to Dark Raids Records. I thought I’d find out more about this […]
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NO FORM — 12″ I must sound like some kind of sycophantic anglophile the way I’ve been raving about UK hardcore lately, but something is really happening over there. Apparently this thing that is happening is not limited to any particular major city, but is happening all over the island. I have been told NO […]
Read MoreThis originally ran in MRR #319/Dec 09 which you can grab here Can’t Fix This: The Brutal Urgency of The Fix Hailing from Lansing, MI, a college town full of copycat, run-of-the-mill, faceless rock bands, The Fix were a blunt concoction of raw power stolen from the “Gimme Some Skin” era Iggy and Stooges […]
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