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Video of the Week: Street Eaters

Berkeley, CA’s STREET EATERS are probably in their studio practicing or painting/drawing/cutting and pasting art together for a new record as you read this. (Their first full length is being mastered right now!) We, however, are on our computers reading this. Check out this video for a little ditty entitled “Frigid Digits”! It’s from a […]

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Monday Photo Blog: FP!!!

  • Published April 25, 2011 By icki
  • Categories Photos

Hey everybody. It’s Monday, time for a new serving of photos from the staff here at MRR’s Monday Photo Blog department. This week features Catalan punks FP, sent by BarÁ³s Rass, shot by Toni Soldevila. BarÁ³s says, “The three colour pictures were taken at ‘Sugar il·legal Fest‘ 2007, a two-day free Punk/HC fest on the […]

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Record of the Week: TELEFON Smysl MalÁ½ch ÄŒinů LP

  • Published April 21, 2011 By Allan McNaughton
  • Categories Reviews

I had heard good things about this band from none other than The Wizard himself, Robert Collins. That’s a recommendation I don’t take lightly, and nor should you. When bands profess to play “stripped down, no-bullshit punk rock” I tend to find that there is, in fact, an abundance of bullshit. The Czech Republic’s TELEFON […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Kontrasosial

  • Published April 18, 2011 By icki
  • Categories Photos

Our regular photo contributor Wandi Rana sends another killer update from Indonesia! Thanks Wandi! If you shoot shows and have photos you want to submit for the MRR Blog, send them to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com. Be sure to put “MRR Photo Blog” in the subject. Include your name, the band, where and when it was shot. Just […]

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She’s Over It

  • Published April 16, 2011 By MRR
  • Categories Columns

by Brontez Purnell from this month’s MRR magazine To what extent do you get involved and to what extent do just let shit go? My mind instantly flashes to about a million scenarios: Rodney King, Oscar Grant, the Richmond gang rape case, etc. (There’s about a million and one I’m not naming.) Here were situations […]

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