Handle with care, this is fuggin’ deadly. Göteborg’s CONTORTURE goes straight for the jugular with their raging feminist käng, expertly toeing the raw/melodic line that has come to define Swedish crust in the last decade. Lyrics revisit familiar themes of autonomy, rape culture, and watching those around you age out of punk, but with a […]
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Up and down the coast of California, and one out in Texas for this Monday Photo Blog. Beau Patrick Coulon brings us shots from the likes of Extinction of Mankind, Framtid, Negative Approach and some other band. For more from Patrick, check out beaupatrickcoulon.com or beaupatrick.tumblr.com. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the […]
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It’s Friday Fuckin’ Funnies — the best comix section on the whole interwebs! Each 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! NOTHING MATTRESS by Brian Connolly! More at www.nothingmattress.com and facebook.com/nothingmattress Nothing Mattress book #2 is […]
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Dano is doing a two-day punk event (not a fest) in NYC called Brooklyn’s Burning, featuring a ton of great bands, from UK crust legends DOOM to my favorite Oakland rockers, LECHEROUS GAZE. I met Dano through the NYC booking community, where we’d all pass shows along to each other if we couldn’t help out […]
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Originally intended to be together on a LP, this is the second of two EPs S.H.I.T. has released in 2014, and boy, is it a scorcher. Furiously driven as much as it is restrained, this manic hardcore outfit sucks you into their realm of downstrums, metronomic drums and shrill squeals as they spew their branded […]
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