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…with lyrical content including topics like abortion and women’s rights, human and animal liberation, and a big middle finger to the pigs. Sonically, ROT//WOVEN is a three-piece with fuzz-maxed guitar…
…difficult to quit. “Pigs At the Trough” and “Scorched Earth Policy” are absolute bomb blasts of hardcore punk that’ll get you head-bobbing in swift order. A little more refined than…
…Little Pigs.” How this informs their sound is not for me to say, but there is a level of proficiency at play that signals that these guys have been at…
More lean than a ‘roid-raging gym rat, GOVERNMENT ABUSE tears through four songs in less than four minutes. Don’t be fooled by the ultra-generic band name—this flexi rules! It sounds…
On this week’s MRR Radio, Jennifer plays a lot of new releases and some things that are new to her. For the last set, she gets a little nostalgic and plays some formative favorites from the 90s.
INTRO LILY AND THE LOVEBITES – Girl Shit THE THREAT JUDY AND THE JERKS – Candy Troll NURSE JOY – Alpha Gal HEARTS AND ROCKETS – Clown Town SPECIAL INTEREST […]
On this week’s MRR Radio, Rob gets down with label highlights on Iron Lung Records and To Live A Lie Records! And throws in lots of brutal hardcore punk in between the chaos. 50 songs in 60 minutes!
Intro BASUKO – Lasting Ordeal Pigs Can Be Our Friends PIG CITY – Guillotine WARTHOG – Feral HOGG – Stuck HOLEHOG – We Never Truly Sleep PIG DESTROYER – Cheerleader […]
…I have not heard any of the NIGHTINGALES’ albums. I acquainted myself with their first record Pigs on Purpose before heading into Hysterics, and between both I found a distinctive…
RIK AND THE PIGS join forces with Jim Colby, one of the all around best musicians I know, to bring us CLASS, with a new cassette tape released on the…
…the pandemic, where tensions in the United States are at a boiling point, and it shows. Five tracks of inspired hate for fucking pigs, patronizing politicians, and even pointing a…
Olympia’s RIK & THE PIGS were absolutely one of the best bands to ever do it. And that 2015—2018 stretch of releases they put out was so flawless and so…
…PIGS – The Last Laugh LP (Lumpy) My beloved PIGS’ last testament, rescued from two sessions recorded in California at the height of their powers as a live group. And…
Welcome to another round of Maximum Rocknroll Year End Top Tens! Once again, we asked MRR contributors and friends old and new from across the globe about their favorite punk…
…followed by a huge, belching “agony” that quickly erupts into the finest mash-up of USHC aggression. The weirdness of UNITED MUTATION and WHITE PIGS moshing with the anger of NEGATIVE…
Right from the evil opener “Suckling Pigs,” LEPER’s second release on Germany’s Kink label spills out fresh-sounding, fast, and nasty hardcore. Crisp production gives a biting edge to the fury…
…a more expansive creative outlook. Pigs on Purpose landed in somewhat of a UK post-punk liminal state, right in between the scratchy eccentricity of the late ’70s/early ’80s SWELL MAPS/FALL…
…vocals and the occasional stompy breakdown. Nothing revolutionary here, but very solid nonetheless. “Caged Pigs” has a 1-2 beat that could get a circle pit going in no time. And…
…Pigs” vocals over some other funky sounds. Kind of interesting, kind of too clever by half, and some of it lost on me, cos I don’t recognize either the non-punk…
On this week’s MRR Radio, Bobby provides a jam-packed mix of 1980s punk/metal crossover tunes for your (hopefully!) listening pleasure.
Intro NUCLEAR ASSAULT – Hang the Pope East Coast USA NYC MAYHEM – Ashes to Dust LETHAL AGGRESSION – No Scene LOSS FOR WORDS – Conspiracy FEAR ITSELF – Beast […]
As a rapidly dying old punk, it will always warm my tepid, inflamed heart hearing a melody chastising the racist frat boys we’re supposed to call cops. What will really…
…doom! (So many are saying this that it practically feels played out noting so, but…they’re doing that for a reason.) I remember XYLITOL’s …Is Toxic To Pigs? EP being a…
…Sword Fever EP from a couple years back. THE PIGS — Youthanasia LP (Breakout / Rave Up) This compilation collects the killer, catchy, and crucial UK ’77 punk of the…
…worlds of US hardcore legends WHITE PIGS and NO TREND alike, but managing to sound refreshing throughout. Their selling point is immediacy and a not over-intellectualizing approach to hardcore that…
First-wave UK punk outfit the PIGS left us just one artifact in their brief existence, the venerable Youthanasia EP. Little did we know there were seven more songs from the…
The vocal patterns remind me of HANK WOOD (with some obvious nods to WHITE PIGS), the changes of pace remind me of HOAX, and the lack of interesting riffs backed…
…such a pleasure to listen to. Just endless kicks and dance offs, but what they’re saying is off the pigs, bringing forth an anti-male-gaze reality you would only dream of!…
…and libidinal feedback from the little pigs that could, doin’ it like a street gang with analysis. Uncompromising vision, naught schemes. The New Aesthetic ain’t so new anymore, but they’re…
…demos if you squint just right. All this while sounding like fresh music for the future revolutions and marches in the street. Death to Fascist Pigs! or something like that….
…pigs—visionary jams for pre-Altamont, pre-Manson beatniks. But in 1978, under the David Peel & Death moniker, he released the King of Punk LP, in which he sang against everything that…
The slinky ’60s organ on this will make you cry 96 tears, the rhythm section has a collapsing beat that almost feels like watching a movie about mechanical failure, the…
Layla plays new and dynamic sounds from the MRR record collection
RIK AND THE PIGS – America Recently Reviewed Records part one! NUMBER ONES – Breakin Loose CHILD’S POSE – CCMMD GEN POP – Din BLACK ABBA – Feel Good MIDNITE […]
Dan plays things both newly and never released
Intro song: ART OBJECT – (I Don’t Wanna Grow Up to Be a) Juvenile Delinquent RPA practice tape RPA – Edteds RPA – Rebel RPA – Don’t Vote RPA – […]
Layla and Miranda venture through the slog of reality and discover ELECTRIC EELS are America’s only band.
Layla plays from the new and now review bins AQUARIUM — Hex SPECIAL INTEREST— Disco LITHICS — Excuse Generator DRINKS — Corner Shop WARM BODIES— I Need a Doctor Miranda […]
This week Matt pulls some rarities out of the vault to make the scums and punks drool.
Intro song: STENGTE DÁ˜RER — Alt Er Alt Ingenting Er Mer Skidmarks across the U$A FHAB 4 — Dead Beatles FUNERAL — Waiting for the Bomb Blast LATIN DOGS — […]
…went his own way to do other project when the band dissolved in 1986. Most notably with a punk outfit called the Rhythm Pigs, and he also hooked up with…
…World, Outcry, The Not, Execute, and Massacre. First Mike LaVella contribution. Out of print. MRR #25/May — June ’85 — 72 pgs Oi Polloi, Christ on Parade, Detonaters, Rhythm Pigs,…
Layla has numerous radio related technical disasters that make her question the reality of continued existence, however there’s a soundtrack from the recently reviewed in MRR bins and the archives…
…the vibe PISS TEST – Basement DREAMDECAY – Joy RIK & THE PIGS – Don’t Tell On Me Outro song: FRED & TOODY – I Was Free Maximum Rocknroll Radio…
…Intro song: UPRIGHT CITIZENS – Fuck the Army Bärchen und die Milchbubis Erhebe Deine Hand Gegen Deutsches Vaterland! VORKRIEGSJUGEND – Vaterland BUTTOCKS – Kill the Pigs R.A.F. GIER – Sheer…
…Zouk THE BOARS – By My Side LOS JACKS – Esperando al Eskuadron RIK AND THE PIGS – Nothing Rotten Ron Ron brings up the Mad Bum CROWN COURT –…
…Intro song: JJ DOLL – She’s Onto You Vox WHITE PIGS – Victims THE NEXT – Cheap Rewards THE VICTIMS – I Understand GG ALLIN + THE JABBERS – Cheri…
…– Kill Greedy Pigs LA FLINGUE – Porcelaine God Halitosis goes Alzheimer on yer Arse THE FACTION – I Decide for Me PAGANS – Hopped Up MEAN JEANS – Allergic…
…DEAD SQUAD – Disociar Horrible Hal – Bat Guano Blowout! SEA PIGS – Two Ton Ken HOT SPIT DANCERS – Sometimes REBEL TRUTH – Monkey Paw OPERATION IVY – 6-10…
…sing of death to pigs, the premature aging of baristas, Television the band, our ninety-year-old friend, and of the tough life that small insects have to plug through in a…
…AND THE PIGS – Feed the Animal PINEN – Emancipation PATSY – Tu Ley Tude High CRUDE HUMOR – Dylan’s Dead FRAU – Mira Horrible Hal amuses the sock monsters…
…Whom They Beat By VOMIT PIGS – Useless Eater CARDIAC KIDZ – Get Out RED SQUARE – Time Change CHEATERS – Ice Man NORMALS – Almost Ready Maximum STRIPES –…
…GORDONS – Coalminer’s Song PUBLIC EYE – Public Eye DEATH TO PIGS – SS Slave NO – Reculeo Our tears will break their dams and burst the banks of their…
…Our EP “Final demands” will be released on cassette in april. We will continue to record our songs and are planning a split-7″ with the band “King of Pigs”. We’re…
…PMA 2000 GORDON SOLIE MOTHERFUCKERS – Tears of a Clone GRAVY TRAIN!!!! – Burger Baby LOOK BACK AND LAUGH – Fuel the Conquest Shit we like BLEED THE PIGS –…
…the Pigs THE KIDS – Fascist Cops REALLY RED – Teaching You the Fear Newer Faves LAS CRUCES – Supersida/Matarte LEVITATIONS – Partners in Crime PURA MANIA – Sospechoso VIVID…
…band. We usually write about anything from the trials and errors of growing up, finding happiness, and maintaining relationships to guinea pigs and beer. How would you describe your sound?…
…a new one and a new reissue THE JUMPERS – This Is It BLOTTER – No Country for Old Kids Outro song: VOMIT PIGS – Baby’s Playing Games Maximum Rocknroll…
…bombs of glitter rock and ultimately punk rock. PORK is a four letter word and it is a way of life. How do you feel about the pigs? KEEP KOPS…
…to fit in the windows when there were shows, so that “the pigs” couldn’t see or hear all the fun we were having. I had never really painted anything that…
…now but in the past he’s played in 50 MILLION, THE HICKOIDS, CORDUROY, J CHURCH, THE REACTION, OFF THE PIGS…the list goes on, too many to name. How do you…
…getting pulled over and detained for two hours while drug sniffin’ dogs were sicked on our ripped apart rental car. She would have loved it. Fuck the pigs! Great and…
…Brooks demonstrates the depth of Texas DICKS – Pigs Run Wild MYDOLLS – Soldiers of a Pure War BOBBY SOXX – Scavenger of Death FOAMS – Paint Me TEENAGE QUEERS…
…the World Act Two (land of nod + other shit) BUKKAKE BOYS – Born Dead Generation RALPH – Ralph WILD CHILD – You Know Rough WALLRIDES – Cops are Pigs…
…SHALLOW NORTH DAKOTA – Open Minded CELLOS – Mailroom Blues Scott – Kills it SORE SAINTS – Timewaster THOU – Smoke Pigs Rob – Goes to Japan GAUZE – Crash…
…also inside. Taang! announces Hate Your Friends by LEMONHEADS. …Maybe a reprint on good paper quality would also make sense? No Pigs (photo by Hanz Vermaas) Over the years, punk…
…2000’s SHARK ATTACK – Blood in the Water GATECRASHERS – Kicked Out THE FUTURES – Evil VIOLENT RAMP – Grind the Pigs/Pay to Skate BLASTFO-ME – Chit Chat with the…
…vol. #4206669 NO PIGS – Broken Promises NO LABELS – Compromises NIHILISTICS – Black Sheep MECHT MENSCH – Land of the Brave Outro song: THE LEFT – Fuck it http://media.blubrry.com/mrrradio/radio.maximumrocknroll.com/wp-content/uploads/mrrradio1307.mp3…
…image. Punks arrested, shaven, “washed” and given a lecture by the pigs. They are still being detained. (Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images) Since being arrested at a punk rock concert in…
Rampant sarcasm and a less than tight, ripping hardcore style are the trademarks on this debut LP by the SHAVED PIGS. The song structures are not always distinctive in these…
…content-wise) magazine, this LP contains some great stuff from SCREAM, SOCIAL UNREST, VICTIMS FAMILY, RHYTHM PIGS, and 76% UNCERTAIN in the U.S., and CHALLENGER CREW, THE EX, DEPRAVED, BGK, EVERYTHING…
…I tried playing their first EP after hearing this, and the contrast is telling: the conciseness and good hooks of the old RHYTHM PIGS has been lost along the way….
Well done pop-punk, but the vocals are mixed way up front (and are a bit annoying), and the music itself is so produced that it loses a lot of bite.
Dated 1986, this one slipped by us but I’m glad I found a copy. BAD BRAINS type vocals and pop-thrash music combined with stuff like “Too Fat To Flirt” make…
Every time I see this band, they get tighter, but on this LP, too many weak songs just drive this record into the ground. Maybe it’s just a case of…
…— some really good bass playing. Most of the songs are slower and come closest to HONOR ROLE or the RHYTHM PIGS in performance. Not thrash, but very good punk….
ANGRY RED PLANET has developed their own unique and accessible punk style, passionate and full of immediacy, and this LP is dynamite when it connects. “Mediocrity” and “Pasturetime”, in particular,…
An early CLASH sound on both sides, though it’s not just limited to that early punk derivation. Good tunes, good playing, not too nostalgic….
An hour of some of the best old and new talent from the Bay Area, including SHORT DOGS GROW, CLOWN ALLEY, VICTIMS FAMILY, RHYTHM PIGS, plus many, many more. Mostly…
Excellent debut album by the PIGS that shows they’ve grown by leaps and bounds in both their lyrics and music. Everything from a tough western feel to a punchy, fuzzy…
Put out by the guys from DEAD SILENCE, this sampler contains quite a variety of styles as represented by such bands as RHYTHM PIGS, DEHUMANIZERS, BLATANT DISSENT, GLORIOUS DIN, AGAINST…
All manner of “death” rock here, from metal to SIOUXSIE-style dreariness to TSOL-type moodiness, from a host of bands known and unknown. Includes ILL REPUTE, SUBTERFUGE, WHITE PIGS, MESS, AWOL,…
A three-song release displaying WHITE PIGS’ newer “metal” direction. This is more apparent lyrically than musically, with lots of Satanic B.S.; but the music still kicks ass, with minimal lead…
An incredible comp from Holland featuring seven bands with a good selection of several songs each. Lots of good Dutch thrash from NO PIGS, who continue the madness evident on…
Two to five songs each by ten intense hardcore bands. ACTIVE INGREDIENTS, UNEXPECTED, PSYCHO, RED BERET, U.S. DISTRESS, URBICIDE, WHITE PIGS, KNOCKABOUTS, HOMO PICNIC, and DEFORMED (the only non-US band,…
More political thrash from Holland (except for the slower “Shoplifting”). NO PIGS don’t really break down any stylistic barriers, but their trebly buzzsaw guitars and flailing, high-pitched drumming provide plenty…
RHYTHM PIGS play good “meat and potatoes” thrash with surprisingly effective vocal harmonies and musical changes of pace. Most of the songs here manage to break the typical thrash mold…
An extremely hot “live” tape that demonstrates why so many people have raved about these guys. It’s highly energized and even thrashy at times, but always innovative, tight, and powerful….
The WHITE PIGS are a young Connecticut band. Although their themes are somewhat predictable and their music is in the straight-ahead thrash category, the production on this EP is appealingly…
Radical teacher at local school is let loose in a recording studio and manages to produce a politically astute critique of Reaganomics within a humorous garage punk format. Pretty good…
