P22, a Los Angeles mountain lion who traversed two busy freeways to stalk the hills of Griffith Park, is an apt namesake for this band, whose debut 12” begins with Jackie Beckey’s viola climbing to a nauseating crescendo, which one can only imagine parallels the feeling of running across the 101. P22 borrows heavily from […]
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As the world seemingly races to unearth and re-release every scrap from the now vast history of Japanese hardcore, there’s a reason why this job is often best left to their local scene who knew the bands and were part of their evolution and history. This expansive and detailed collection of Hiroshima’s KATHABUTA features 20 […]
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Ripping fast hardcore punk from Buffalo, NY. I know that PINK GUITARS originally began as a solo project, and being from Buffalo myself I saw an early line-up of his live band play once. I’m not sure if this cassette is still just the one guy or if it’s now a full band, as there […]
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This….this is where I want it to go. You’ve got the modern fury—the weird kind. The stomps that lurch into unintentional D-beats and the vocals that are so treated they sound like a Sun Studio reverb room in a horror flick. But there’s also Los Angeles 1979 nihilism and effort crammed in here—and I mean […]
Read full "Unique? EP" reviewOn this week’s MRR Radio, Michael from the North Bay trudges through a scattered existence trapped in his room and his head, with the best modern Avant-Punk, Skramz, and Hardcore within reach.
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Antisemitism: pattern recognition vs racism.
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If any MRR readers out there are still questioning the need for a book of feminist punk history in 2020, allow me offer the following example: consider a certain popular book on the history of Spanish punk that includes a section listing important countercultural figures and musicians in Spain during the 1980s. Out of a […]
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In the days following the defeat, people took to the internet, as people in shock often do, to talk about the ‘what next?’
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Jos Houtveen is the bass player of the legendary Dutch hardcore punk bands Seein’ Red and Lärm. In 2011, he had to quit his bands and give up playing music due to serious ear damage due to multiple infections and exposure to noise. Against all the odds, Jos was given the OK to perform again […]
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