Doing a little something different for the Monday Photo Blog this week. Instead of a few quick nothing lines from me, I thought it would be a good idea to let the photographer share some thoughts on their work. Pat Blashill, who has been on here a couple times in the past, photographed Modern Life Is Warfare […]
Read MoreThis originally ran in MRR #301/June ’08, which you can grab here Interview By Tim Scott MRR: Where/when was Straightjacket Nation born? Listening to your music it becomes quite obvious that your mother was smoking a lot of meth during her pregnancy. Emily: The band started in early 2004 as a project between me and […]
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This interview originally ran in MRR #324/May 2010, now sold out There’s no sense in hiding the fact that Kleenex/LiLiPut (K/L) are my favorite girl punk band. There’s hardly even a reason to qualify them with “girl” and “punk”, as they made more amazing, wild songs than most bands ever will. In just a few […]
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TRAGIEDIA — “Punk ’Til Destruction” LP There’s a lot to be excited about with regards to punk in the 2010s, the seemingly endless flood of high-quality reissues being very high on that list. TRAGIEDA’s demos have been circulating among dedicated tape traders for decades, but until now these songs are probably best known via the […]
Read MoreThis originally ran in MRR #318/Nov 2009, which you can grab here In the City of Monterrey, Mexico, there are four noisy rodents creating punk at the speed of light without crossing the dimension’s barrier of the good old rock ’n’ roll. They are Ratas del Vaticano, and after hunting for them like a stray […]
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