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MRR Presents: Friday Fuckin’ Funnies! #68

  • Published January 9, 2015 By Funnies
  • Categories Comics

LIFE IS POSERS! Loads more at lifeisposers.com NOWHERE CITY by Vickie Smalls! More great comix by Vic at nowherecitycomix.tumblr.com Every Friday we have a selection of comic strips from punx like you… You make funnies? Send em to funnies@maximumrocknroll.com and maybe you’ll see yer comic here next Friday!

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Create to Destroy! with Larry Livermore

  • Published January 7, 2015 By Amelia
  • Categories Interviews

I met Larry Livermore through Mike Berdan in Brooklyn right before I moved to the MRR HQ to be the distribution coordinator. It was one of those, “Oh, you have to meet Larry”-type meetings. He had some funny stories about what it was like living in the old MRR HQ with Tim Yo and was […]

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Record of the Week: BOSTON STRANGLER Fire LP

  • Published January 6, 2015 By Justin Briggs
  • Categories Reviews

Right out of the gate, Fire just feels like a more mature BOSTON STRANGLER. The difference seems to be that where Primitive was more of a genre exercise or homage to their Boston hardcore forefathers — albeit the best example I have ever heard (and a perfect record) — Fire shows “the STRANGLAH finding’ their […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Ethan M. Sigmon

  • Published January 5, 2015 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

Ethan M. Sigmon photographed the recent Southern Ties fest (now in its second year) in Wilmington, NC. Here’s four for the Monday Photo Blog. Check out his flickr page for a ton more. I particularly like the Society Sucker photo, which is why it’s at the top here. Though I do wonder what the singer from Death […]

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Reissue of the Week: ALIANS Gavroche LP

  • Published January 2, 2015 By Ken Sanderson
  • Categories Reviews

Named after the street urchin child of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, Gavroche was a cassette-only LP originally released in 1994 by ALIANS (Alliance), a prolific Polish band from the early ’90s which blended the classic, upbeat mid-tempos of Polish hardcore punk with rhythmic doses of reggae and ska and additional folksy instrumentation on accordion, congas, […]

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