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Monday Photo Blog: Dutch Hardcore!

  • Published January 31, 2011 By icki
  • Categories Photos

Vincent Hansen from the Netherlands sent this batch of photos in back in November. “Hardcore Night” at the OCCII in Amsterdam. Thanks Vincent! If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the […]

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Monday Photo Blog: OK/Oklahoma

  • Published January 24, 2011 By icki
  • Categories Photos

Ross Adams sent a batch of photos in from Oklahoma City. Personally, getting photos from places like Oklahoma is as exciting to me as getting photos from more “exotic” locales like former Eastern Bloc countries, South America or even Asian scenes. If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR […]

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Record of the Week:
”Punx Don’t Drink” comp EP

  • Published January 21, 2011 By Justin Briggs
  • Categories Reviews

Right from the starting gun this comp is quite awesome. The first band here, POISON PLANET opens with a song called “The Victim,” which bears a postscript on the lyric sheet that reads, “Drugs and alcohol taken willingly do not make you any less culpable for your actions.” Right fucking on. I see my opportunity, […]

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From the Vaults: Lost Cassettes, Digital Magic, and Sado-Nation

  • Published January 18, 2011 By Bryony
  • Categories Reviews

My creepazoid lurking around rad old punkers’ Facebook profiles (what?) is always bearing fruit, but never more so than today. It appears obsessive archivist and collector Dwayne “Bonedog” Mileham has uncovered quite a gem! This is a long lost, three-track SADO-NATION basement recording from 1982/83. Details are hazy but it seems these snarly Portland ragers […]

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