It’s time for Maximum Rocknroll #411, the August 2017 issue — our first-ever Pinoy Punk Special! This issue is absolutely packed with bands, activists, history, scene reports, and everything in between covering punk in the Philippines and beyond. Check out interviews with the organizers of Aklasan Fest — a Bay Area-based punk festival featuring all Pinoy bands, Manila infoshop Etniko Bandido, DIY organizers in the Flowergrave Collective, Quezon City environmental activist Chuck Baclagon, NYC migrant worker organizer Gary Kadena, and an extensive history of autonomous spaces and infoshops in the Philippines going back to the early ’90s. Zine coverage includes a conversation between femme zinesters elena corinne of Brown Recluse Zine Distro and Honey Andres, an interview with Bamboo Girl zine, and a rundown of some of the Philippines’ most interesting DIY zines and resources. On top of that we have interviews with bands including NYC’s MATERIAL SUPPORT and NAMATAY SA INGAY, Manila’s VEILS, THROW, the Bay Area’s HAFNER, and an update on grindcore across the Philippines. Oh, and did we mention a massive scene report covering a dozen different cities? All this, plus all your favorite columnists and all the reviews fit to print can be yours. Order today!
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Still available: MRR #410 • July 2017 issue…
Mexico City’s RIÑA, Iceland’s DAUÐYFLIN, Olympia’s XYLITOL, LIFE FUCKER from Berlin, Exotic documentary (Guam), Hiro the Aggression from Japan’s DISCLOSE, REPTILIANS FROM ANDROMEDA from Istanbul, Italy’s LOS FASTIDIOS, Y PANTS, IN FLUX from Portland, MYDOLLS, Chicago’s Fed Up Fest, photo spreads from KC’s Waynze World III fest and Olympia’s Book Your Own Fest.
Rotten Ron brings Lucifer to you undeserving little Shits
SKITZOPHRENIA – Fight for Survive
BLUE DOLPHIN – Licking and Kicking
UROCHROMES – I Don’t Wanna Be Like You
IMMORTAL WAR – Clawing at Your Grave
WHITE HELL – Lucifer
Horrible Halitosis let’s out some ole stinkers
THE LEATHER UPPERS – Scream If You’re High
THE JEWWS – Mercury to Mars
THE CRUSADERS – Supryse Packagge fore Mr. Matzkov
THE WEAKLINGS – Just Gettin’ By
THE BASEBALL FURIES – Sweat-out
THE PNEUMONIAS – Kill My Brain
Rotten Ron – War, Famine, Death and Mysery Every Fucking DAY!
ALLERGY – Disease
F2-10 – Guerra, Hombre, Muerte y Misma
FATIGUE – Tunnel Vision
POWER – Serpent City
KIKEIJI – Pressure
MORBID OPERA – Eat the Rich
Halitosis breathes a breath of fresh hair
THE LOVE SONGS – Satan’s Brats
THE OUTTA SORTS – Think Too Hard
THE MIDNITE SNAXXX – Love That Sticks
THE CONTROL FREAKS – Better Than You
Outro song:
M.D.C. – No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA!
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!
Anger
BUZZOV*EN – At a Loss
CAVITY – Shake Em’ on Down
DAMAD – Addict Arcade
CATTLEPRESS – Celebration of Wounds (Greetings from My Gut)
EYEHATEGOD – Shoplift
KARP – Dueling Banshees
GRIEF – I Hate You
MAN IS THE BASTARD – Heretic’s Fork
Aggression
ACME – Blind
BOTCH – Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb
CAVE IN – Moral Eclipse
ACRID – Synaptic Overload
CONVERGE – My Unsaid Everything
MORSER – Kirchang
COALESCE – Have Patience
SYSTRAL – Narrow Minded-Criteria
Outro song:
DISEMBODIED – Anvil Chandelier
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…
Artwork by Nick Welch
Band name:
SKULL CLAMP
Where did you start this project, and why? Josh: 2016 in Los Angeles, CA. As an outlet in which to channel the various anxieties I experience as a result of living with OCD.
Would you mind sharing more on that? I deal with this myself: Josh: I am not particularly comfortable with sharing the specifics of my OCD. I will say that when it first got bad, I thought I was losing my mind. It was like somebody had smashed a window in my brain and everything that I had previously taken for granted was suddenly turned upside down. It was pretty agonizing at first, especially before I received a proper diagnosis. But after going into treatment, I thankfully now have a much better handle on my OCD. Regardless, it is something I anticipate that I will struggle with for the remainder of my life.
What are your lyrics about?
Delusions, misanthropy, cosmic horror.
How would you describe Skull Clamp’s sound? Josh: A garbage bag filled with bones being crushed with a baseball bat.
Who’s in the bag? Josh: Me.
What are you up to outside of this? Josh: Outside of Skull Clamp, I work as an animator. When I’m not drawing or making music, I spend most of my time working on the house that I share with my girlfriend and two dogs.
What’s in the future for you? Josh: I’m currently working on another demo which will hopefully see release in the fall of 2017.
Date & location formed:
March-ish 2017 in Champaign, IL.
Reason for forming:
Vince (guitar) moved to Champaign from Chicago last year and asked two locals he didn’t really know (Olguie, bass/vocals, and Tyler, drums) if they’d wanna start a band. (This is Olguie’s first band ever!).
What are your lyrics about?
Dream Probe’s lyrics are influenced by Olguie’s experiences as a trans queer immigrant and their relationship with Puerto Rican diaspora.
How would you describe your sound?
Fast hardcore a la early Die Kreuzen/Poison Idea with vocals in Spanish. Mild D-beat adjacent riffs on the side.
What’s in the future for this band?
We are playing The Universe Is Lit fest in the Bay Area in early August and will have a 2nd demo out not long before then. After that some sporadic touring, 7″ next year?
Date & location formed:
June 2016 in Chicago. We practiced for three weeks and played our first show the same month.
Reason for forming:
Two members are from Brazil (Fortaleza and Londrina), two members are from Chicago, and one is from Birmingham, AL. Every time we would run into each other we would talk about bands from our respective hometowns, as well as old international punk and Oi! other people we knew weren’t into. Most conversations ended with, “we should start a band!” We finally did.
What are your lyrics about?
Our guitarist Matheus writes most of the lyrics, and they’re about observing American politics as a Brazilian living in the US. He writes drafts in Portuguese and then works with Beto to translate them to Spanish.
How would you describe your sound?
We try to cover all of our interests, from the SUB comp of Brazilian HC, to Italian and Japanese Oi! to Basque punk.
What’s in the future for this band?
Releasing a 12” on Foreign Legion Records (run by Ian, who plays guitar), working on new material in the winter for whatever releases come up.
Date & location formed:
We formed last August in South San Francisco.
Reason for forming:
We had all gone to high school together and our bands were fizzling out, and it’s shitty to have nothing to put your energy into. The four of us had vaguely overlapping music tastes and we like hanging out together, we were going to community college, and our singer Alessio had a sick darkwave bass/drum machine solo project at one point, so we decided to build off of that.
What are your lyrics about?
Alienation, finding a sense of identity, social pressures and relationships.
How would you describe your sound?
Music for retail jobs and vacant suburban streets late at night. Post punk or deathrock or darkwave, not sure.
What’s in the future for this band?
Playing shows in San Fran and San Jose here and there, setting up outdoors shows in our area when we find a good outlet and an isolated location. Maybe making a bad music video. Fighting capitalistic tendencies of the music economy. We’re finishing writing our first full length, which we are going to hopefully record and release this summer. Overdubbing some recycled cassettes.
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.
This fourth installment of MRR Remote Radio comes from Vincent Troplain, a veteran of the Rouen, France scene and all-round oracle of the last 30 years of French punk, hardcore and Oi! Vincent runs the label/distro Emergence Records and hosts his own show, Des Lendemains Qui Déchantent (Desperate Tomorrows), on Radio Campus Rouen. Tune in as he takes our collective hand and guides us through French punk, from the early ’80s to the present day.
Early ’80s (I got infected)
AUSWEIS – Suralimenté
HAINE BRIGADE – Vivre et Pas Survivre
VERDUN – Pourriture
HEIMAT LOS – Varsovie
Late ’80s (Still infected)
FINAL BLAST – Quelque Chose à Dire
SCRAPS – Apartheid
RAPT – Trash War
FLITOX – Envers et Contre Tous
Early ’90s (Punk rock saved my life)
GONOKOX – Le Retour de la Dezaï
BURNING HEADS – Hey You
LES THUGS – Stop the War
RAWNESS – Small King
Mid/late ’90s (Noise grinding violence vs emo)
VOMIT FOR BREAKFAST – Punk Rock Song
ÖPSTAND – Prejudice
COCHE BOMBA – Try to Say Hello
BODA – Kill Rock Stars
AMANDA WOODWARD – A l’Assaut
Early 2000s (Steal these records)
BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN – Love (As We Know It) Hurts With or Without You
TEKKEN – Back to the Roots
YOUSSOUF TODAY – I’m So Punk
THRASHINGTON DC – I Hate You Punk Rock
STRONG AS TEN – Zombies Don’t Run
Late 2000s/early 2010s (Long time running)
LA FRACTION – Sirènes
GASMASK TERROR – Mise au Pas
SEAL OF QUALITY – Power Failure
2016/2017 releases (Oi!, punk and more)
SYNDROME 81 – Seul Contre Tous
YOUTH AVOIDERS – Face up to It
SHORT DAYS – Suicide City
Outro song:
URAKEN – Perfection
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!
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Out now! MRR #411 • Aug 2017
Pinoy Punk Special featuring the SF Bay Area’s Aklasan Fest, Manila infoshop Etniko Bandido, the Flowergrave Collective, Quezon City’s Chuck Baclagon, NYC’s Gary Kadena, autonomous spaces and infoshops in the Philippines, Bamboo Girl zine, zinesters elena corinne of Brown Recluse Zine Distro and Honey Andres, MATERIAL SUPPORT and NAMATAY SA INGAY from NYC, Manila’s VEILS, THROW, the Bay Area’s HAFNER, Filipino grindcore, and a massive Pinoy punk scene report.
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