Brilliant follow-up to their fantastic debut—CLASS drops a banger of an album courtesy of Feel It Records. Channeling some truly classic-sounding tones colored in the rosiest tint of ’77-style punk, If You’ve Got Nothing careens from sounding like the BOYS to the sneering power pop of WHITE HEAT. The wizardry of songcrafting is something to […]
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Early ’00s Portland, Oregon was a fertile and dynamic time and place for punk. The hazy, jaded eyes of nostalgia might call it a high-water mark. House shows and venues were plenty, and the scene was filled with a talented, incestuous group of misfits. Following the breakup of the OBSERVERS, Doug Burns connected with Hajji […]
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Third LP (and the fifth release) from Paris’s MARY BELL, blaring out thirteen tracks of riot grrrl, grunge-laden aggression. Staccato guitar leads like you’d find from SLEATER-KINNEY with a super fuzzy rhythm guitar and a robust, gut-churning bass. Vocals vary from the sweeter side on “Watch Me Disappear” with a ’60s girl group influence, to […]
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Melbourne band CHILDREN OF SORROW existed for a short time during the mid-’80s and played moody hardcore anarcho-punk that bites similar to T.S.O.L. Thundering bass that struts and slams comes from a double layer of bass and fretless bass (that’s right, there’s no six-string guitar jangle in here), while vocalist David “Ossie” Eldridge unleashes a […]
Read full "Another Indestructible Dirty Sound LP" reviewOn this week’s MRR Radio, Rob rips through some new releases, flies over Boston, hits it hard with some crusty hardcore and gives a shoutout to the upcoming Lie Detector Fest. We got party!!
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And now, the conclusion of 2022 Year End Top Tens! Parts one and two. BEN PERKINS Ben Perkins publishes Another Subculture, a gig listings calendar zine, and edits Alternative Strategies, which is not a magazine. He works in the MSM and lives in London, England. It’s been a productive year, although it hadn’t started that […]
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And now, stay tuned for more 2022 Year End Top Tens! Part one is here, part three to follow next week. BEN MARSHALL Ben Marshall is a reviewer for MRR. A herbert with a heart of gold, and a short-haired rock’n’roller. So that was 2022. Shoutout to Static Shock Weekend returning to kill off a […]
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Welcome to the MRR 2022 Year End Top Tens. Once again, we asked MRR contributors and friends from around the world about their favorite punk records of the last year. Part one of three, part two to follow next week: ARTO HIETIKKO I’m the lazy editor of the long-running Toinen Vaihtoehto zine (which is on […]
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Huge archival review update — two years of reviews 1984-1986 have been uploaded over the last couple months — click the article for links.
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