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MRR Presents: Friday Fuckin’ Funnies! #65

  • Published December 19, 2014 By Funnies
  • Categories Comics

LIFE IS POSERS! Loads more at lifeisposers.com NOWHERE CITY by Vickie Smalls! More great comix by Vic at nowherecitycomix.tumblr.com Every Friday we have a selection of comic strips from punx like you… You make funnies? Send em to funnies@maximumrocknroll.com and maybe you’ll see yer comic here next Friday!

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Video of the Week! Distorted: Reflections on Early Sydney Punk

This month’s Maximum Rocknroll magazine features an interview with Des Devlin, the filmmaker behind the documentary Distorted: Reflections on Early Sydney Punk. Before you roll your eyes expecting yet another punk retrospective featuring career punk “spokesmen” telling you how cool everything was before you were around, give this film a look. Shown from the perspective of people involved in building […]

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Record of the Week: CADAVER EM TRANSE LP

  • Published December 16, 2014 By MRR
  • Categories Reviews

Based in SÁ£o Paulo and featuring members of RAKTA and SPEED KILLS, this is a refreshing take on goth-inspired post-punk that escapes some of the vampirical trappings that tend to mark this style. I’m reminded of CHRISTIAN DEATH, but with the driving quality of KILLING JOKE. The vocals, however, sung both in English and Portuguese, […]

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Guest Column: Sean Hocking on Genjing Records

  • Published December 15, 2014 By MRR
  • Categories Columns

Genjing Records: Connecting China’s Underground with the World, One 7″ at a Time Let’s head off to Beijing to have a chat with Nevin Domer, US expat, musician and founder of Genjing Records, one of Asia’s leading underground hardcore, punk and left-field labels. We had a talk that will be leaving any Communist Party eavesdroppers […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Fidel Gutierrez

  • Published By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

Here’s some pretty cool photos for the Monday Photo Blog sent over the Atlantic by Fidel Gutierrez. These are from the punk picnic held this past August in Txoritokieta, which is, as Fidel describes it, “An abandoned old fortress built in 1890 in order to defend the territory during the fourth Carlist war. An amazing place surrounded by […]

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