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Video of the Week: RAW NERVE (RIP)

This Video of the Week submission came from MRR reader Tyler Bonam. You can contribute to the MRR website too! Just send text, links, and images to webzine@maximumrocknroll.com. No guarantees that that we’ll post everything we get, but we appreciate any and all submissions… Now take it away, Tyler! RAW NERVE may be dead, but […]

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Blog of the Week: Jason Traeger

My attempts at writing an introduction to Jason Traeger’s blog have so far proven fruitless. The man’s writing really speaks for itself. On his blog you will find wonderful tales and artifacts from the past, anecdotes of discovering punk in the far outskirts of Seattle in the early ’80s, growing up in the scene in […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Hey, look! It’s more from Milo from Chicago!!

  • Published May 14, 2012 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

One of the more prolific and consistent contributors to the  Monday Photo Blog has to be Milo from Chicago. This is the third installment in less than a year. What’s your excuse? This time around we’re at the Blackhole on April 4 of 2009. Such a heady time, when we were all three years younger […]

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Punk in North Korea?

  • Published May 11, 2012 By Paul Curran
  • Categories News

The public radio program The World on Boston’s WGBH (Charged!) had this very interesting report the other day about Ri Seong-Woong, “North Korea’s most famous punk rock star.” While Ri Seong-Woong, and any form of punk rock in North Korea, does not actually exist, the extent to which the purveyors of this “hoax” went is impressive, […]

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Video of the Week: Welcome Friends

One of the first rules of storytelling is “show, don’t tell.” Jordan E. Lopez adheres well to that rule, and so will we… So sit back watch this nice little 5-minute film about Carbondale, IL‘s long-running punk house, Lost Cross.

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