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Monday Photo Blog: One more look back…

  • Published July 30, 2012 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

Today is the final look back at the  Monday Photo Blog in celebrating 30 years of MRR. Once again I need your help in identifying most of the bands posted here. Obviously the first photo is of Extrem, as it’s stuck on the actual photo. But the rest are a mystery. I think the second from […]

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Life During Wartime interviews:
Light Brigade

  • Published July 27, 2012 By MRR
  • Categories Interviews

Hey, the Life During Wartime interviews are back! Our pals at the Life During Wartime radio show on KBOO in Portland, OR, like to share with us their talks with bands who perform live in the studio. This time Colin During Wartime interviews Portland’s new sensations LIGHT BRIGADE, whose 7″ was recently released on Raw […]

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This Must Be the Place: Post-Punk Tribes 1978 — 1982

  • Published July 25, 2012 By Marc Arsenault
  • Categories Interviews

This weekend San Francisco’s Roxie Theater is bringing to the big screen several super-obscure film documents of the late-70s/early 80s post-punk explosion. THIS MUST BE THE PLACE: POST-PUNK TRIBES 1978 — 1982 is a unique show featuring eight San Francisco premiere screenings that is not to be missed. We talked to Roxie Theater programmer Mike Keegan, […]

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The MRR archive project:
Maximum Rocknroll #4 “¢ Jan—Feb 1983

  • Published July 24, 2012 By MRR
  • Categories Archive

Next in our MRR Archives series, in celebration of our 30th Anniversary: Maximum Rocknroll issue #4 (download available in our webstore soon). For this issue we asked Brian Edge to tell us about his experience working on the earliest issues of MRR, and beyond. Brian likes to keep a low profile but his hard work […]

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Monday Photo Blog: More treasure from the murky depths…

  • Published July 23, 2012 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

The  Monday Photo Blog is still in nostalgia mode celebrating 30 years of MRR. A few more mystery bands, along with one of Infest ( and Kent McClard off to the left). Thanks to true-believers who helped identify some of the bands from last week. You are now proud recipients, and the first, of the […]

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