To coincide with the Top Ten of 2015 issue of MRR this week’s Monday Photo Blog features photos by Morgan Davis, a top ten of international punk shows, all shot using a disposable camera! Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com. Include […]
I saw the Tampax “Suck My Cock/Snivell” 7″ for sale on Punk & Destroy’s website in Osaka. (I still have yet to see it in the USA minus Discourage Records.) I then furiously got in touch with the label in Rome, Italy directly as there were only 445 copies or so pressed and I had […]
HEX — “Poison In The System: The Demos” CD If you liked your punk, the UK in the early to mid ’80s was a good place to be. Not only were all kinds of genres flourishing within said rubric, but there was a significant community of like-minded souls, putting on gigs, writing (and distributing) fanzines, […]
G.L.O.S.S. — “Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit” EP This exists perfectly as a solid hardcore record, nothing necessarily freaky or weird just excellently solid but a thing that makes it stand out (other than the context it exists in) is that you can hear all of the lyrics. No reading along with lyric sheets necessary—somehow, […]
HUNCHES — “You’ll Never Get Away With My Heart / Like I Could Die” The HUNCHES, if you are unfamiliar, were a Portland punk rock band that’s been dead, dead, dead, for over five years now. They used to do that to their audiences you know, knock em dead. They had this front guy, Chris […]