TVM Numero Trois. Does this count as part of the fest? Are you bothered? Okay, technically a pre-fest gig, this late night exposé at Chain Drive marked our initiation into that inimitable live hardpunk music gigger experience native to Austin, quite outside of the whole Fest deal. We learnt that in the case of WOMEN […]
OBEDIENCIA — Edificios EP Holy shit!!! Is every punk in Spain ordered to play in fifty bands or pay the price!? This is rad, desperate punk rock that will make you wanna quit your job and off the pigs and skate or die (on the freeway) all at once… SÁ³lo Para Punks only puts out […]
Back in the ’90s I used to trade zines with a guy named Stéphane, from France. He did the awesome Rad Party zine (he also put out the translated Cometbus collections). I stopped doing my zine about ten years ago, but Stéphane has kept it up, with his 42nd issue due out this fall. All […]
The DVD of the documentary From the Back of the Room has just been released and it looks amazing. Check out the trailer below and this interview with the filmmaker, which appeared in MRR #308 “¢ Jan ’09 (available on our Back Issues page) Amy Oden (a.k.a KC, a.k.a kc/dc) is, among many other things, […]
Welcome to the second installment of TVM, this time brought to you from the sticky floor of Austin mainstay Beerland. Despite being kinda low down on the bill, and playing only one time at a sort of peripheral-to-the-fest show, the chance to catch NÜ SENSAE live was a serious deal breaker in our attendance all […]