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Monday Photo Blog: Sylvain Zayard, pt. 2

  • Published October 3, 2011 By icki
  • Categories Photos

About a month ago, we posted some killer photos by Sylvain Zayard, with the promise of more to come. I am here today to deliver on that promise. Here’s round two of Sylvain’s photos. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com. Include […]

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Website of the Week: Occupy Together!

By now we know you’ve heard about Occupy Wall Street, and maybe you’ve been thinking, “We should do that here too!” Well, folks, your time has come. Occupy Together is a website dedicated to solidarity “occupations” nationwide and worldwide. Check in to find the actions in your area, and if you don’t see it on […]

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Record of the Week: MORBO De Baja Calidad LP

  • Published September 29, 2011 By Mariam
  • Categories Reviews

So stoked to see a full length from this Peruvian punk band, who I first noticed on the BRUTALES MATANZAS compilation also on the Cintas Pepe label. The first track reminds me of my favorite song by SORELLA MALDESTRA with the robotic effect filtered vocals at the beginning. This the sound of really early punk […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Return to Indonesia

  • Published September 26, 2011 By icki
  • Categories Photos

Of any country besides the US, Indonesia is probably the best represented here on MRR’s Monday Photo Blog. We get a steady stream of submissions from Indonesia photographers. Today’s came back in June from A. Okhi Irawan, a longtime MRR reader. Most of these photos are from the early ’00s “where the Indonesia’s despotic goverment […]

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Record of the Week: CONTRA TODOS MIS MIEDOS Colera EP

  • Published September 24, 2011 By Ken Sanderson
  • Categories Reviews

MRR HQ is located in San Francisco a few blocks from where the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church used to be located—a church that was centered around an explosion of spirituality and free jazz. While John Coltrane’s avantgarde cutting edge has dulled with the recognition of his more traditional material as breakthrough classics of […]

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