For this week’s Monday Photo Blog we have a glimpse into Andre Torrez’s vision of the mania that was GONERFEST! Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: mrr@maximumrocknroll.com. Include your name, a link to your website (or flickr, Facebook, […]
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DISCLOSE — “Yesterday’s Fairytale, Tomorrow’s Nightmare” LP This is a monumental record, even without considering its place as the final DISCLOSE LP released before Kawakami’s passing in 2007. His death casts an enduring pall, particularly evident here in the new liner notes from Stuart Schrader. While Schrader primarily writes about the ill-fated DISCLOSE / FRAMTID […]
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A Wailing Of A Town: An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk and More Craig Ibarra 344 pgs “¢ $20 End Fwy Press endfwypress.bigcartel.com Yet another punk related oral history. Can the collective punk bookshelves take another addition to the seeming endless array of “I was there” sprawl? Has punk overtaken the hippie nostalgia […]
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CONFLICT — “Last Hour” LP If there were any justice in this world, punks would think Tucson, Arizona, not London, England, when they heard the name CONFLICT. The superior American band released a demo tape and a single LP in the early ’80s and the record gets the reissue treatment here, complete with a deluxe […]
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NEGATIVE SCANNER — LP The brilliant promise of that first NEGATIVE SCANNER single was the way it oscillated between moody, off-kilter rhythmic trance and classic “Moon Over Marin”-style hookiness, and I guess they could have gone either way with their full-length. It seems like they mostly stuck with the latter, which was the one disappointment […]
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