I had heard good things about this band from none other than The Wizard himself, Robert Collins. That’s a recommendation I don’t take lightly, and nor should you. When bands profess to play “stripped down, no-bullshit punk rock” I tend to find that there is, in fact, an abundance of bullshit. The Czech Republic’s TELEFON […]
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Our regular photo contributor Wandi Rana sends another killer update from Indonesia! Thanks Wandi! If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just […]
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by Brontez Purnell from this month’s MRR magazine To what extent do you get involved and to what extent do just let shit go? My mind instantly flashes to about a million scenarios: Rodney King, Oscar Grant, the Richmond gang rape case, etc. (There’s about a million and one I’m not naming.) Here were situations […]
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There are some people in our little microcosm of punk rock who manage to transcend genres. They are people who in any other world would be shuffling on everyone’s iTunes, playing on car ads. The likes of Mark Ryan (Marked Men, Mind Spiders), or Jay Reatard — people with an ear for a song, who […]
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* L.A.’s RAYOS X and POLISKITZO also played this show but we showed up too late to catch them. Punk Time is hard to gauge in this part of the state, so you don’t know whether to show up an hour after the flyer’s start time or, like, 3 hours… Well, we guessed wrong and […]
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