The hotly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s Dead and Gone cassette is finally here, and it fucking rips! Four tracks packed with even more crucial lyrics—Manda pushes the vocal limit beyond the brink, while the band plays an even tighter and heavier version of their D-beat-styled hardcore crust. Desperation and urgency are the strong emotional undercurrents […]
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This is a D-beat barrage from Australia that is like a sonic scavenger on fire—that was actually meant to compliment them and describe the rad cover art. Drum fills cascade with intense fury, vocals are bellowed out until the last gasp, with a powerful range. Distortion is crasher-level red. This is hitting like ENZYME, FRAMTID, […]
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This EP from Plymouth, UK’s the DWEEBS is ten tracks of British punks playing fast ’80s-style USHC akin to the earlier Dischord catalog and bands like YOUTH OF TODAY or UNIFORM CHOICE. Reminiscent of another USHC-inspired band from the UK, the STUPIDS, but despite having a similar fast approach to their sound, it’s still quite […]
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Cool split between bands from the US and England. The DISSIDENTS feature MISCHIEF BREW’S former bass player on drums and play your typical sloppy punk rock, but the vocalist is so intense and charismatic that it brings everything together. A true pissed-off poet, and the kind of singer I’m sure a lot of bands wished […]
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And now, the conclusion of 2022 Year End Top Tens! Parts one and two. BEN PERKINS Ben Perkins publishes Another Subculture, a gig listings calendar zine, and edits Alternative Strategies, which is not a magazine. He works in the MSM and lives in London, England. It’s been a productive year, although it hadn’t started that […]
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And now, stay tuned for more 2022 Year End Top Tens! Part one is here, part three to follow next week. BEN MARSHALL Ben Marshall is a reviewer for MRR. A herbert with a heart of gold, and a short-haired rock’n’roller. So that was 2022. Shoutout to Static Shock Weekend returning to kill off a […]
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Welcome to the MRR 2022 Year End Top Tens. Once again, we asked MRR contributors and friends from around the world about their favorite punk records of the last year. Part one of three, part two to follow next week: ARTO HIETIKKO I’m the lazy editor of the long-running Toinen Vaihtoehto zine (which is on […]
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Huge archival review update — two years of reviews 1984-1986 have been uploaded over the last couple months — click the article for links.
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