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    Laughing Torso Dead Homies EP

    Humid and dense, like their hometown of New Orleans. Their suffocating sound is hard to map cleanly as it leaves a swampy trail. The whole record just runs on hatred and forward motion with the deadliest of insistence. Repetition becomes erosion with every riff, feeling like it’s sanding another layer off the original idea. They […]

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  • Extracts Extracts cassette

    Oh my holy mother of HOT SNAKES, did I enjoy this EXTRACTS release from the very first note strummed. Fantastic four-piece outta New Orleans, a city whose scene awesome gives us dirge-y and heavy and humid, but this self-titled recording, released February 6, 2026, is light and airy and high-flying. The album’s second song, “Currency,” […]

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  • GNP 1985 Demo LP

    Formed in Birmingham in 1982, GROSSEST NATIONAL PRODUCT (GNP) was one of Alabama’s first hardcore bands. These goofball thrashers cut this sixteen-song tape in 1985, preserving songs with titles like “Teenage Abortion,” “Rabid Lassie,” and “I Married an Astro Zombie” for posterity. It’s wacky old school stuff with remastered sound that cuts some of the […]

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  • Pretty Baby Layaway Plot LP

    You know what the toughest thing a punk band can do in 2026, a year dominated by horrible people doing and saying horrible things to each other? Be radically vulnerable; emotionally transparent and available. Charlotte, NC, post-hardcore band PRETTY BABY purges stories of grief, loss, and hope on their gorgeous debut LP that sounds like […]

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MRR Radio #1982

On this week’s MRR Radio, Zu From All Over throws down the gauntlet for a Punks vs Goths costume contest, with the best Punk, Hardcore, Oi!, and even some Goth to determine once and for all which side’s uniform is the most offensive!

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’Cause All In All You’re Just A, ‘Nother Prick At The Door
WHO KILLED SPIKEY JACKET? – Punks Dress Punk
THE EXPLOITED – Punks Not Dead
Newsflash Bucko
DIESEL BOY – Punk Rock 101
THE STEAL – Wonderstuff
NONE MORE BLACK – Genuine Malaise And Misery
FIFTEEN – Punk Song
Scaring Normies and Signaling Like Mindeds
THE UNSEEN – Punks Attack!
STREET DOGS – Punk Rock And Roll
H2O – Nothing To Prove
DANGERS – We Broke the P.A.
I SPY – Appliances and Cars
Hiding From The Sunshine
DEAD CELLS – Salem
OVER – Silence
CATAPHILES – RUBBISH KIDS
CHRISTIAN DEATH – Spiritual Cramp
Peace Offering?
CONVERGE – Disintegration (THE CURE cover)
SOME GIRLS – Release The Bats (THE BIRTHDAY PARTY cover)
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