I met Beau Patrick Coulon in passing in many places over the years. He gets around the USA punk scene and documents it well by camera. I feel like I run into him everywhere. Since I keep seeing his photos published (even in MRR!) I thought I would interview him as to break a bit […]
92 — “Cenzura/Cukrarnar” The travel back in time continues! Next stop: Ljubljana, Slovenia circa 1978. Like many bands from former Yugoslavia, 92—who get their name from the police’s phone number, the equivalent to 911 in the US—fuse new wave sounds with reconstructed regional and traditional musical elements, all filtered through punk with a keyboard twist. […]
ANDY HUMAN AND THE REPTOIDS — LP “Reptoid Rock Revenge” is the motto on the collage/lyric sheet. How and by whom were they slighted? The answers may be in Fortean Times rather than these pages. I, however, can tell you that so much of what makes this record great could have gone terribly in lesser […]
Interview by Brontez MRR: Do you remember the first gay punker you knew or saw or made an impression? Paul:I didn’t know any gay punkers. I didn’t know very many gay people let alone punks. MRR: You can’t remember a first one? I know it’s a hard question; the first one I met was […]
Gurpaul sings in this band from Fresno called MUTANT ITCH. They play the Bay all the time and I almost feel like they are a local band here in Oakland. I really respect what the punks in Fresno are doing from MUTANT ITCH to Dark Raids Records. I thought I’d find out more about this […]