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MRR Presents: Friday Funnies Fifty!

  • Published August 29, 2014 By MRR
  • Categories Comics

Yes, it’s our Fiftieth Fuckin’ Friday Funnies, and this week we have a special all-contributors edition. Our flagship comix Nothing Mattress and Life is Posers take a break to make way for….YOU! That’s right, you too can be featured in the best punk comics section in the world(wide web) by sending ’em to funnies@maximumrocknroll.com. Do it now! NOWHERE CITY by Vickie Smalls! More great comix […]

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Record of the Week: QLOAQA LETAL Nunca, Siempre LP

  • Published August 26, 2014 By MRR
  • Categories Reviews

Recorded in 1983 in Valladolid, Spain, mastered 30 years later right here in California, and released shortly after by the Mallorca-based Metadona Records, this legendary punk tape has finally been properly dignified in the vinyl format. Like their contemporaries in Spain, you can tell their sound resulted from simultaneously digesting both first wave punk and […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Nick Goode returneth!

  • Published August 25, 2014 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

It has been some time since Nick Goode has visited us at the Monday Photo Blog. But as the youth of today are fond of saying these days, no time better than the present. Or something like that. Anyway, here are a few from Nick from the past few years of bands that have come and gone, […]

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”Too smart for their own sake”:
Toronto’s ACTUAL WATER

  • Published August 22, 2014 By MRR
  • Categories Reviews

By George Lastman How smart is too smart? How funny is too funny? For Actual Water, the answers to these questions are not mutually exclusive. To them, being Toronto’s resident “musically inclined intellectuals” (their words, not mine) goes hand in hand with being jokers of the scene. It seems natural to Actual Water that their […]

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Create to Destroy! Robin Wiberg

  • Published August 21, 2014 By Amelia
  • Categories Interviews

You may know Robin Wiberg as the drummer for DISFEAR, or from his Instagram account where he regularly posts his punk art. His drawings are stylistically very raw, which is fitting as he hails from Scandinavia, which is the birth place of “raw punk.” Here is an interview with Robin for Create to Destroy!   What was growing up […]

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