After doing reviewing records for a long time, you start to notice there are very few bands doing something completely original. Or even modestly original. Most bands create music that reflects (at times shamelessly) the music that inspires them. And that’s great, that’s fine. No problem. But every once in a great while you come […]
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This installment of the Monday Photo Blog comes to us from photographer Victor Mauro. The band is Deaf Kids from Volta Redonda-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Deaf Kids is a one-man project run by Douglas from Homer Elefante and Speed Kills. For live shows he recruits fellow bandmates from Homem Elefante, as well as Lifelifters, O […]
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The Encyclopedia of Doris Cindy Crabb Doris Press The long awaited Encyclopedia of Doris is here, and it is the so-very-special collection of all of Cindy Crabb’s zines that have come out since the Doris Anthology. If you somehow missed the past decade of Doris, Cindy has been organizing her writing within the framework of […]
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With the the help and hard work of Mariel Acosta, one of the translators that helps out MRR, we bring you this synopsis in both English y espaÁ±ol of this documentary that I came across a few months ago. Even if you don’t speak Spanish, use Mariel’s great article here, and the music and cool […]
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For this Monday Photo Blog we have five shots from Jake Cunningham covering the Richmond, VA scene. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com (note new email address!). Include your name, the band (or subject) in the photo, where and when it […]
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