NO — “Treating People Like They Don’t Exist” MLP These Londoners have really outdone themselves this time. While I whole-heartedly enjoyed the self-titled 12″ on Static Shock, this record is definitely the next level. The recording here is much akin to “the lunatic ravings of a one-off man-mental!” Somehow the guitar has this brittle clean […]
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Jack Pitt has sent a few flix to the Monday Photo Blog from the K-town Hardcore Fest this past June, which was held at Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen. For more from Jack, check out riotintheinfirmary. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com. Include your name, […]
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DVA MINUTA MRŽNE — “DoÅ¡ao Je Kraj” EP Cream of the crop Serbian punk from 1984 with a strong Oi! influence. No Plan records has done us a fine service here, as this EP was originally released in an unsatisfactory amount of 100 copies back in ’95, and most online sellers seemingly wouldn’t let a […]
Read MoreThis originally ran in MRR #329 theOct/Fall ’10 issue, which is out of print For those of you who have been long-time readers of Maximum Rocknroll, you may remember the cover of issue #204 which featured the seminal English punk band Cock SParrer. Well it’s been ten years since that issue and interview by the […]
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DOWNTOWN BOYS — “Full Communism” LP This is a seamless melding of so many punk touchstones. It’s X-RAY SPEX raised on hardcore and these saxophones (double fucking saxophones!) sound so LORA LOGIC and the rage in every moment is palpable and focused. It’s cathartic and faces the worst a capitalist, racist, sexist, classist (and so […]
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