Robert Collins is a Bay Area character — you may know him from numerous bands he’s been in or tours you’ve spotted him on. I first remember him from Chaos in Tejas in 2009 when I bought a Judgment shirt off him in a sea of punk buying frenzy. Mr. Collins has reviewed many cassettes […]
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For this Monday Photo Blog we get a look into the punk rock archives of Svin Panov. Maybe you read the article in issue #375? For more check out svinpanov.ru. Send your tour photos, bands that have come through your town, the best of your local bands, etc. to: photoblog@maximumrocknroll.com. Include your name, a link to your website (or […]
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After my recent fascination with ’80s French Oi! and coldwave, here comes something equally interesting, one to add to my list of grande musique de France: keyboard-, drum- and bass-driven synthpunk right out of current day Grenoble! I love everything about this release: the mixed bag of influences (punk, post-punk, electro, hip hop, Renaissance music!) […]
Read MoreEast 7th was seriously holding it down in Los Angeles as a haven for punk and creativity. Unfortunately it was recently closed, but the East 7th punx’ Beserktown Fest is still happening at Los Globos, August 15th through 17th, with affordable tickets. This is a true community effort with the purest of intentions and a backbone of […]
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DOES PUNK SUCK??? Well, does it? We now travel back in time to 1984 to hear what Doc Dart, Tim Yo, Pushead, Allison Raine, and Frank Discussion have to say about punk’s future… Also included in this discussion from Maximum Rocknroll issue #13 — now available to download in its entirety here — are Glen E Friedman, Rev NÁ¸rb and many other punks from […]
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