Get ready for Maximum Rocknroll #398, the July 2016 issue and the second edition of our Ex-Yugo retrospective special! This one features Croatian bands including the wild synth-punk of KAOS, Rijeka’s PARAF as well as KUD IDIJOTI and BESPOSLIČARI from the small yet bustling scene of Pula, plus some classic Slovenian groups such as BULDOŽER, LUBLANSKI PSI, and Ljubljana’s NIET. We also got a chance to get in some of the latest and greatest in North American hardcore, interviewing the globetrotting Bay Area straightedge outfit TØRSÖ and Toronto teenage maniacs MOLLOT. The UK’s DOMESTICS talk about their unrelenting dedication to punk in East Anglia, and RED RED KROVVY also sit down for their first MRR interview ten years after their formation as a high school punk band on Australia’s isolated north coast. Also featured: an article on Mabel Valdiviezo, whose upcoming documentary Prodigal Daughter tells her story as a punk woman in the DIY subterráneo scene in Lima in the ‘80s, coming to the US as an undocumented immigrant in the ‘90s, and her subsequent return home. This issue also includes an Iowa City scene report, a photo spread from Nothing Nice To Say fest, hundreds of reviews (records, demos, books, films; you name it), another fix of your favorite columnists; in short, another high stakes, buy-or-die edition of MRR.
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Still available: MRR #397 • June 2016 issue…
LUMPY AND THE DUMPERS from St. Louis, NEWTOWN NEUROTICS from the UK, Pittsburgh hardcore courtesy of CONCEALED BLADE, Minneapolis punks KITTEN FOREVER, Western Mass hardcore mutation from UROCHROMES, Vienna punk racket from LIME CRUSH, late ‘70s lost post-punk from the VISITORS, ‘80s Barcelona teenage hardcore from FRENOPATICSS, Portland’s TINY KNIVES, DOKUGA from Portugal, Hattiesburg, MS scene report and photo spreads from SIN ORDEN’s last show and Damaged City fest.
Layla gets angular and fatal
QUANGO – Fatality
THE FALL – It’s the New Thing
ANGRY ANGLES – Blockhead
TERRY – 8 Girls
Layla ingests some demented calories TWINKEYZ – Tonight
COUNTER INTUITS – Dementia/Dementia
CAL & THE CALORIES – My Calorie
ANDY HUMAN – Sarcastic
Grace destroys brains daily EFIALTIS – Efialtis
KALEIDOSCOPE – Elephant
MYSTIC INANE – We Tell Ourselves Stories
IN SCHOOL – Awakening
Layla realizes America is a dream ALICJA POP – Calm World
THE WORLD – Lullaby
SUICIDE – Dream Baby Dream
CURLEE WURLEE – I Wanna Know
CRAIG BELL – America Now
Outro song:
LANDLORDS – Countess Sophia
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Dive into the new arrivals bin
ANARQUIA VERTICAL – Vales Para Todo/No, Jodete
DEAD HERO – Traicionados
PESSIMISTS – Mask & Uniform
SECTA – Oposicion
RED SQUARES – Time Change
“If the underground is dead, then what the fuck is this?”
DARK THOUGHTS – Why Should I Care/Nothin to Do
SCUMRAID – Control
BIZNAGA – Cul de Sac
INTREPID HEARTS – Paying Attention
RÜZ – Blame the Badge
From the tower of broken tape decks
COMMANDO – Effigy
DIGI BOYS – No Clue
OLD CITY – Leap of Faith
LA VASE – Submission
FCKR – Elite
Greg throws around a bunch of records and tapes
NATURE BOYS – Bent Again
LOST BALLOONS – Jump Ship
DJ BO & TESS STEWART – Cosmic Mean Mug
FYP – Smarter Than the Average Bear
DEEP THROATS – Creature Feature
NADIE – Copy Me
Outro song:
THE PENETRATORS – Shopping Bag
Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. Our rotating cast of DJs picks the best of the best from MRR magazine’s astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials, and more at radio.maximumrocknroll.com. Thanks for listening!
“New Blood” is our weekly feature spotlighting new bands from around the world! See below for info on how to submit. Now, check out some killer new shit…
DELETE (photo by Jonathan Hall)
Band name:
DELETE
Date & location formed:
OAKLAND 2016
Reason for forming:
CONTROL
What are your lyrics about?
CRITIQUE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Date & location formed:
Winter 2015/2016 in Portland, OR.
Reason for forming:
We wanted to form a band like this for cathartic reasons but also for empowering ones. Some of us are introverted, AFAB, queer, and/or femme, and it feels good to be in a heavy, fast band because people wouldn’t necessarily expect that from us. its fun to fuck with peoples perceptions on what art you should make based on your appearance or your personality. fuck that shit.
In Flux (photo by BRYAN)
What are your lyrics about?
Depression, death, fucked up family dynamics, strength through solidarity and friendship, being genderqueer, patriarchal bullshit.
How would you describe your sound?
Sprinkled ignorance admist the d-beat.
What’s in the future for this band?
Demo tape out on GET BETTER records soon!
West Coast Tour in August:
8/10–Portland, OR
8/12–Seattle, WA
8/13–Boise, ID
8/14–Salt Lake City, UT
8/15–Denver, CO
8/16–Flagstaff, AZ
8/17–Tucson, AZ
8/18–San Diego, CA
8/19–Los Angeles. CA
8/20–Oakland, CA
8/21–Olympia, WA
Date & location formed:
late 2015 (played our first show in February 2016) Ottawa Ontario, Canada.
Reason for forming:
Our singer and first bassist drunkenly talking about forming a band.
The CHUDS (photo by Fig Reilly)
What are your lyrics about?
Our Lyrics are about the pain/struggle/frustrations of being a poor, non passing trans woman and the dehumanizing effects of how society treats you when you don’t fit. We sing about trans phobia in punk and the silence of so-called allies. We sing about the constant struggle to survive and the drugs we do to cope. Mostly it’s just the pissed of screaming of a woman trying to survive by any means necessary.
How would you describe your sound?
Our influences are grunge, noise rock and hardcore.
What’s in the future for this band?
Writing new songs, playing as many shows as we can, touring and just trying to live through the next day.
Date & location formed:
Cleveland OH, about a year ago.
Reason for forming:
Because what else are you going to do in Cleveland?
Vanilla Poppers photo by Kat Cade)
What are your lyrics about?
Being a creep. Turning to the bottle. SNIFFING POPPERS. Having your rags, living in the 21st century, boys, the usual bullshit.
How would you describe your sound?
I dunno, punk? It’s fast, it has a lot of hardcore tendencies but the high pitched vocals (the singer is a guy punching himself in the nuts over the duration of the whole set) make it all yappy. We did a COMES cover but then we also wanted to cover ZOLAR X and then CRISIS so it’s kinda across the board. RAMONES FOREVER.
What’s in the future for this band?
A 3 week US tour in August.
A 7″ off Negative Jazz and a 7″ off Lumpy sometime after that.
A 12″ if we don’t kill each other with love first
Do you have or know of an awesome new band*? It’s easy to submit to be in MRR’s New Blood feature — just email us the following info, and keep keeping’ it real…
1) Band name:
2) Date & location formed:
3) Reason for forming:
4) What are your lyrics about?
5) How would you describe your sound?
6) What’s in the future for this band?
7) Links and contact info:
Along with the answers please send a band photo at least 600px on the longest side (with photo credits), and a logo if you have one, to:
*By “new band” we mean a band that formed within the past year or year and a half.
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Out now! MRR #398 • July 2016
Ex-Yugoslavian punk retrospective special part II: featuring KAOS, BULDOŽER, KUD IDIJOTI, BESPOSLIČARI, LUBLANSKI PSI, and NIET. Also: Bay Area hardcore from TØRSÖ, Toronto’s MOLLOT, East Anglia’s DOMESTICS, RED RED KROVVY from Australia, a feature on Mabel Valdiviezo’s Prodigal Daughter (an upcoming documentary on growing up in and out of Peru’s punk scene), an Iowa City scene report, and a photo spread from Nothing Nice To Say fest.
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