By George Lastman How smart is too smart? How funny is too funny? For Actual Water, the answers to these questions are not mutually exclusive. To them, being Toronto’s resident “musically inclined intellectuals” (their words, not mine) goes hand in hand with being jokers of the scene. It seems natural to Actual Water that their […]
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You may know Robin Wiberg as the drummer for DISFEAR, or from his Instagram account where he regularly posts his punk art. His drawings are stylistically very raw, which is fitting as he hails from Scandinavia, which is the birth place of “raw punk.” Here is an interview with Robin for Create to Destroy! What was growing up […]
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Handle with care, this is fuggin’ deadly. Göteborg’s CONTORTURE goes straight for the jugular with their raging feminist käng, expertly toeing the raw/melodic line that has come to define Swedish crust in the last decade. Lyrics revisit familiar themes of autonomy, rape culture, and watching those around you age out of punk, but with a […]
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Up and down the coast of California, and one out in Texas for this Monday Photo Blog. Beau Patrick Coulon brings us shots from the likes of Extinction of Mankind, Framtid, Negative Approach and some other band. For more from Patrick, check out beaupatrickcoulon.com or beaupatrick.tumblr.com. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the […]
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It’s Friday Fuckin’ Funnies — the best comix section on the whole interwebs! Each 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! NOTHING MATTRESS by Brian Connolly! More at www.nothingmattress.com and facebook.com/nothingmattress Nothing Mattress book #2 is […]
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