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Record of the Week: COPYCATS An Idea Died LP

  • Published December 9, 2014 By Lydiya
  • Categories Reviews

Listen up, because this one’s great, straight outta Granada in the autonomous region of Andalusia! Super catchy, poppy, guitar-driven garage rock, with unabashed punk ’77 flares and lots of very memorable, well orchestrated hooks and choruses. Their name and the post-modern subtitle concept of “an idea dies…another is born” matches the smart and excited execution […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Luis Fierro

  • Published December 8, 2014 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

Luis Fierro from Peru joins us on the Monday Photo Blog with a few shots of local happenings in his area this past year. When you’re finished looking at these, sneak a look at facebook.com/audiofobia for more photos and information about his local scene. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best […]

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MRR Presents: Friday Fuckin’ Funnies! #63

  • Published December 5, 2014 By Funnies
  • Categories Comics

LIFE IS POSERS! Loads more at lifeisposers.com PUNKTUALLY LATE by new contributor Matthew Chaney! 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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Reissue of the Week: DEATHWISH Tailgate 12″

  • Published By Justin Briggs
  • Categories Reviews

Finally, one of the truly mythical, long-lost giants of American…nay, world… hardcore is unearthed from the sweeping sands of time. In December of 1983 this Boston hardcore powerhouse recorded seven songs with Jimmy Dufour at Radiobeat Studios in Kenmore Square, with the intention of mixing three songs — “Tailgate,” “Break the Chains” and “Condemned for […]

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Create to Destroy! ABC No Rio

  • Published December 3, 2014 By Amelia
  • Categories Interviews

My first punk show ever was at ABC No Rio, a DIY and punk institution in New York City’s Lower East Side. I volunteered and booked ABC No Rio hardcore/punk matinees for a few years. In the process, I got to know Steve Englander as the glue that binds No Rio together and keeps it running as […]

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