BASEMENT BENDERS — “Native Tongues” EP Sometimes when you hear that a handful of your favorite music-makers are joining hands and starting a new band it turns into exactly what you wanted to hear and it’s fucking fantastic. Sometimes, as we all know, it’s embarrassing and unspeakably bad. This record is great! Sorry for the […]
Read MoreSergey Seregin submitted some pictures from this summer’s Raw Fest in Moscow for this week’s installment of thee olde Monday Photo Blog. Check out more of his work at his website here. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: mrr {at} maximumrocknroll(.)com. with […]
Read MoreI met Chris when I was with Perdition on a small Montreal/Albany tour in 2010. I think that’s when I met Chris? Anyway, he’s always been a go-to person in Albany and I wanted to find out more about his label and his recent Noise Annoys record store turned web shop. Here is Chris from […]
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C.C.T.V — “Quiet” EP The coolest record of the year so far at least to these ears, total nervous frantic post-punk created in the furtive fertile NW Indiana scenery…The songs are tightly wound fraught invocations of the indignities of modern life, anxiety and paranoia, everything sounds like it was recorded on a boombox at the […]
Read MoreThis originally ran in MRR #312/May ’09. which you can grab here Stef Petticoat is best known for her pioneering, one-woman punk band, the Petticoats. As a German lesbian, Stef also stands out with her entirely unique approach to the blossoming late 1970s European punk scene. Her self-recorded, self-released Petticoats single was “Record of the […]
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