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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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.
This week on MRR radio, Pete and Langford thrash their way through sick riffage and sweet licks to bring you the hottest new tracks from the world of punk rock. We also played some songs.
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VEXX – I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are
STILL LIFE – Broken Boy
THE FEELIES – The Boy with Perpetual Nervousness
GUIDED BY VOICES – Gold Star for Robot Boy
MARK WYNN – Boys Don’t Cry (Massive Turn On)
The Now Now
WHIPPING POST – Open Your Eyes
US WEEKLY – American Piss
MOLAR – What Kind of Monster Are You?
DANA – SPEED GHOST
THE Now Nower
BEHAVIOR – Topanga Keepsake
AURÓRA CIRKÁLÓ – Robotok
BENT – Bless You
THE MARVIN GAYS – Alerte Niveau 4
JOYRIDE! – Rumors
The Now Nowest
NOTHING OF MERIT – Factor of 10
CLOUD RAT – Fish in a Pool
POLYCHROME VIOLENCE – Up on the Spot
Outro songs:
J CHURCH – I Can’t be Nice to You
SHOTMAKER – Satellite Screens
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…
Band name:
ICED
When and where did ICED come to be? Elle: Jordan and myself started writing the demo in Spring/Summer 2016 on our own here in Eugene, OR. Rehearsed and recorded the demo in Jordan’s garage in winter and released it in February 2017.
Your lyrics aren’t just hardcore platitudes, there’s rich and sensitive content. If you don’t mind, Tell me about them: Elle: I think our goal is to write personal lyrics that people can relate to. In specific, women and femme people. Our lyrics don’t necessarily pertain to only a single topic, but I think there’s always an underlying theme of overcoming obstacles and issues that people face on a day to day basis. Be it something simple and obvious like a shitty job, or something more personal like dealing with abuse, rape culture, or oppression. Writing these songs and expressing these emotions has helped me heal and feel empowered, and we hope to make others feel the same way.
How would you describe your sound? Jordan: Energetic and intense hardcore punk with slammy mosh riffs. That pretty much sums us up musically. We wanted to create music that would be fun to see live. We want everyone at our shows to enjoy themselves and have fun. That’s definitely our goal as far as sound goes.
What’s in the foreseeable future? Jordan: Currently working on new material. Our goal is to have another release by the end of the year. In the meantime we’re gonna continue playing shows everywhere we can, and we hope to hit the road again soon, perhaps next spring. Something bigger and better this time around.
Tell me about yourselves, and how your band came to be: Lee: We’re 4 punks living in London with a love for 80s UKHC.
How did you all come to form Farce? Cal: I moved to London last year and wanted to start a new band there as a couple of my other bands were spread across a few cities. Myself and Ola (guitarist) played with the idea of starting a band that sounded like the UK hardcore classics e.g. Ripcord/Heresy/Extreme Noise Terror. When we’d wrote a couple of tunes we recruited Olly to drum who’d previously played in a crust metal band and fit the bill perfectly. We then got Jyoti on bass to complete the line up and finished the rest of the demo, recording it with Jonah Falco in May.
What are your lyrics about? Cal: A few of the songs are about the cruelty of the meat industry and the abhorrent animal abuse caused everyday. All of us are vegan and its something we feel strongly about. A lot of the other lyrics deal with politics in terms of feeling hopeless as Tories defund our NHS, cut numerous benefits for vulnerable people and trade arms in secrecy. You know all the typical shit that continues to happen everyday.
How would you describe your sound? Cal: I’d like to think we sound reminiscent of the 80s UK bands. We’ve taken influence from both the hardcore and crust/d beat bands of that era as we’re all massive fans and I hope our music is a mixture of those styles.
What’s in the near future? Cal: Our demo tape is out via Quality Control Records and we’re doing a weekender in the UK at the end of July.
Tell me about yourselves:
We are Fuse. Just 5 people who love catchy and groovy tunes with a hint of heavy beats. Representing Singapore, the little red dot.
When and how did Fuse come about?
Fuse started out around October 2016. It started with just a random idea from our vocalist to gather girls in a band. Finding girls who love music and would commit to this idea was not an easy thing to accomplish here in this small community. It took awhile for me to get to know more females in the scene. Finding guitarist and bassist was still manageable. However, finding a drummer was a tough one. But lucky for us, we found Ikaa! As most of us do not have experience in or even picked up the particular instrument to play in the band, the start of the band was very rocky. But we are glad we took the time that we need to get to where we are now, also we would want to mention that it wouldn’t be possible without the help and guidance from our other friends.
How would you describe your sound?
We would like to describe our sound as catchy, groovy and slam-my. With a few influences from Freedom, The Rival Mob and Primitive Blast. These are just bands that first come to mind but there’s a few more. However, we still want to create that unique tinge of what Fuse is all about. Through the self-teaching, we were also focused on finding ourselves. We’ve also demo-ed songs that we decided not to use as we don’t feel like it is who we are and who we want to be.
What’s in the future for you?
We’ve got few plans that we are pretty excited about. First, we will be working on our Demo and also have some plans on releasing some merch which also includes tapes. We have some friends overseas who have requested for physical copies of our music and we would love to do that too! Which we are working on!
Reason for forming:
3/4 of us are relatively new to Richmond and have been making sorta weirdo noise punk/post-punk for a while in other projects. We all knew each other in some way or another and our tastes overlap and we just sorta gave it a shot. We *think* it turned out well!
What are your lyrics about? Emilie: Well they’re mostly about dying or social anxiety or wanting to shake someone who is making me mad until their head rolls off their neck and into some mud.
How would you describe your sound?
We’re not saying to use this, but people have been calling us gremlin punk, which is silly but accurate. I guess the best way to describe us is ‘weirdo noise punk’
What’s in the future for this band?
Playing a lot of shows in the hot hot Richmond swamp summer, and eventually doing some lil tours and putting out more recordings!
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.
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!
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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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