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Record of the Week: TERCER MUNDO Ser Nosotros Mismos LP

  • Published September 2, 2014 By Grace Ambrose
  • Categories Reviews

In the years since their instantly classic and universally lauded first EP, the punks behind TERCER MUNDO have relocated from Monterrey (epicenter of the Mexican drug wars) to Mexico City (a place with plenty of its own problems—and also the subject of this month’s scene report). Their 12″ isn’t quite as in-your-face as that record […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Madball! Madball! Madball!

  • Published September 1, 2014 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

It’s over to Esdtergom, Hungary, for this Monday Photo Blog. JÁ¡nos Kummer has sent over some photos of Madball playing a small club called Sportalso to a crowd of about 250 people. For more from JÁ¡nos, check superjkummerus.tumblr.com. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. […]

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MRR Presents: Friday Funnies Fifty!

  • Published August 29, 2014 By MRR
  • Categories Comics

Yes, it’s our Fiftieth Fuckin’ Friday Funnies, and this week we have a special all-contributors edition. Our flagship comix Nothing Mattress and Life is Posers take a break to make way for….YOU! That’s right, you too can be featured in the best punk comics section in the world(wide web) by sending ’em to funnies@maximumrocknroll.com. Do it now! NOWHERE CITY by Vickie Smalls! More great comix […]

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Record of the Week: QLOAQA LETAL Nunca, Siempre LP

  • Published August 26, 2014 By MRR
  • Categories Reviews

Recorded in 1983 in Valladolid, Spain, mastered 30 years later right here in California, and released shortly after by the Mallorca-based Metadona Records, this legendary punk tape has finally been properly dignified in the vinyl format. Like their contemporaries in Spain, you can tell their sound resulted from simultaneously digesting both first wave punk and […]

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Monday Photo Blog: Nick Goode returneth!

  • Published August 25, 2014 By Matt Average
  • Categories Photos

It has been some time since Nick Goode has visited us at the Monday Photo Blog. But as the youth of today are fond of saying these days, no time better than the present. Or something like that. Anyway, here are a few from Nick from the past few years of bands that have come and gone, […]

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