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MAXIMUM ROCK'N'ROLL
#327 Aug '10
This month’s cover is graced by the amazing handiwork of Brazilian photographer Mateus Mondini, featuring Brazilian rippers OS ESTUDANTES with a killer interview inside! A revelation awaits you when you read about North America’s first all-female punk band, THE CURSE, from Toronto, Canada. Punk professor Conta of PEKINSKA PATKA delivers us an insightful perspective about old school punk and new wave of late ‘70s and early ‘80s in the former Yugoslavia, during the country’s oppressive and turbulent time, with a smart, funny and moving interview. Get your hardcore mind blown with an epically long interview the mysterious and dark THOU from New Orleans. This issue is also proud to present an amazing nine page Italian scene report, packed full of info on labels, fanzines and venues, and descriptions of new regional bands and where to hear them! The VENEREANS of Valencia, Spain, give us an interview about their beach punk stylings. We have a long chat with Alex, creator of the killer French zine Ratcharge, inspired by raw, punk, Discharge-influenced music. Midwestern antisocial, bratty hardcore punks, CULO, deliver their musings on punk life. The letters section picks up, a great prisoner column, the usual columnists, and the most comprehensive review section in punk all await you in this issue!
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#326 Jul '10
The July 2010 issue of Maximum Rocknroll is here! This month we have some killer cover art courtesy of Avi Spivak of Humanbeing Lawnmower zine… And a delightful selection of content to match, starting off with U-Ron of REALLY RED, who offers a different perspective to the controversial interview with his former band mate John Paul in MRR #323. Japanese hardcore destruction comes courtesy of SLANG, alongside the definitive Scottish crust of SEDITION. Australia’s CIRCLE PIT provides some dirty punk, London England’s TRASH KIT brings to mind the post-punk energy of bands like New Age Steppers, Rip Ring and Panic; San Francisco’s HIGH CASTLE plays ragged, noisy, art inflected punk rock, plus we got some East Bay punk weirdness courtesy of STREET EATERS. MARCEL DUCHAMP from Chile plays politically charged and very raging hardcore, but we also got some brutal grind inflected hardcore represented by Florida’s own MEHKAGO NT, the long running and much loved RANDOM CONFLICT straight outta Alabama, and yet more twisted Midwestern hardcore from Michigan’s BUNNY SKULLS. We got scene reports from Calgary Canada and New Orleans, plus all our usual columnists, and the most comprehensive review section in punk, punk!
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#325 Jun '10
the June 2010 issue, features interviews with San Francisco garage punk TY SEGALL, plus we got Hungarian hardcore courtesy of RÁKOSI, and heavy noise wildness from Canada’s NÜ SENSAE. From England we have the WANKYS, who are aiming for a sound closer to CONFUSE or GAI than anything outta their homeland, and we have LOTUS FUCKER, who are also drawing from that Japanese hardcore sound with some added East Coast crust brutality, plus some heavy yet nuanced crust courtesy of MORNE from Massachusetts, and New York’s POLLUTION adding further mutations to the idea of what hardcore is. Chicago’s DAYLIGHT ROBBERY evoke the darkness of the WIPERS with the best male/female vocal trade offs we’ve heard in a long while. We have classic, genre defining Australian punk with X, just prior to their first ever US tour, some off kilter 1980s West Virginian hardcore from TH’INBRED, and the BAD SPORTS demonstrating some early punk influences filtered though a Texan lens. All of this, along with the usual news, columns and the most extensive review section in punk!
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#324 May '10
The May issue of MRR has just hit the presses, featuring a tribute to one of the cornerstones of the magazine who tragically passed away this month, Mr. Bruce Roehrs. Bruce worked on the magazine for over fifteen years, first in the review section-he was the first shitworker of the month in 1993, but he is most known for his monthly music column, through which he became a defining part of MRR. There are also interviews with Japanese cult punkers ISTERISMO, New Orleans hardcore mutants NECRO HIPPIES, Swiss girl punk innovators KLEENEX / LILIPUT, and Pittsburgh antagonists ROT SHIT. We got pop punk covered with Florida surf punks TUBERS and the North Western sounds of RVIVR. Denmark is represented with the surly teenage post punk ICEAGE, and there's a piece on some punks who moved to CAIRO, IL... All of this plus the most extensive review section in punk and all the usual columnists...
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#323 Apr '10
MRR #323, and it’s full of the usual things you expect from the miscreants at MRR. We have cover stars THE SPITS revealing their true warped psyches, then there’s San Francisco’s post riot grrrl punkers DADFAG, along with a history of 1980s garage rock sensations, the PARTIBREJKERS from the country formerly known as Yugoslavia. A controversial interview with John Paul, bass-guitarist of ‘80s Texas punk legends REALLY RED, plus an interview with Chuck Warner, proprietor of the reissue label Hyped to Death, who are responsible for the classic Messthetics compilations. French punx ATTENTAT SONORE check in, as do Scottish crusties SCATHA and the Bay Area’s own skate punks FACE THE RAIL. There’s some heaviness from the East Coast courtesy of BATTLETORN, a look into the early Canadian punk scene thanks to film maker Colin Brunton who made the genre capturing punk movie The Last Pogo, and British hardcore is represented with MOB RULES. Plus all the usual photos, columns and the most extensive review section in punk… Cover art by Kevin McCarthy, Cover photos by Canderson.
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#322 Mar '10
The March 2010 issue of Maximum Rocknroll is hot off the presses! Our cover feature is an interview with DEATH, the almost forgotten, classic 1970s Detroit African-American proto-punk band. We also talk to straight-edge rockers DEFENSA ABSOLUTA from Peru, and we get the skinny on the controversial band DRY-ROT, whose religious undertones have caused quite a stir. Midwest mutant hardcore kids KIM PHUC reveal their secrets, and we hear from Japan’s answer to Pushead, Sugi, a legend in the world of Japanese hardcore record art. We’ve also got an interview with Michigan’s art-noise party-starters, DRUID PERFUME, and we leave you with a huge list of our contributors’ top ten favorite records from 2009. All that plus tons of columns, news, and the most extensive record, book, and zine review section in punk!
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#321 Feb '10
Maximum Rocknroll rings in the New Year with a special photo issue. Featuring contributions from over 75 photographers, issue #321 is chock-a-block with killer punk photos from around the world. It includes an Aaron Cometbus/Anna Brown interview with longtime MRR contributor Murray Bowles (If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries…). We talk with Helge Schreiber, compiler of the last MRR photo issue, Welcome to Cruise Country (1987), and we also interview 924 Gilman St.’s house photographer Larry Wolfley. Brazilian photographers and editors of Fodido E Xerocado, Mateus Mondini and Daigo Oliva go head-to-head, Karoline Collins and Chrissy Piper interview each other, and Patrick Baclet talks about publishing his photobook, Out of Vogue. Token garage punk photographers Mark “icki” Murrmann and Chris “Canderson” Anderson get grilled. This special photo issue also includes an extensive, illustrated bibliography of punk photo books. But really the focus is on the photos. Lots and lots of photos. All this plus the usual columns, news and the most extensive review section in punk. (Cover shot of Spain’s INVASION by Mateus Mondini)
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#320 Jan '10
Decade-End Top Tens Issue! The first issue of the decade seems a good place to discuss the music of the decade we are leaving. MRR #320, the January 2010 issue, features numerous MRR columnists, shitworkers, and reviewers pontificating on what went before musically, the platters that mattered in the—what do we call ‘em—the zeroes? We also have interviews with cover stars from Japan, D-CLONE, Olympia, Washington’s BROKEN WATER, Montreal’s COMPLICATIONS and street punk from the UK, courtesy of CONTROL. We talk with author Ian Glasper, who has just finished a three volume series on the UK underground, starting from the spiky punk of the early ’80s in Burning Britain, then moving onto the anarcho-punk scene with The Day the Country Died, and ending up with a book on the UK hardcore scene of the late ’80s, Trapped in a Scene. And as always, we feature the most extensive punk music review section in print, plus all yer usual columnists… The cover was designed by Randy Ransome.
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#319 Dec '09
For this month’s cover feature/tongue twister we’ve got “Punk On Kuollut, Eläköön Hardcore” a retrospective of the birth of Finnish hardcore! Also in this issue: interviews with early ’80s hardcore legends, THE FIX; Pittsburgh hardcore miscreants SLICES; the Midwestern-by-way-of-Russian PINK REASON; and Dubai’s first punk band, GANDHI’S COOKBOOK. We have San Francisco sounds covered with interviews with the NODZZZ and post-punk- and C86-influenced BRILLIANT COLORS. We’ve also got the Messthetical SCROTUM POLES, the classic Northwestern punk sound provided by GUN OUTFIT from Olympia, and some Canadian hardcore courtesy of POSITIVE NOISE. All of this plus a Goner Fest photo spread, and of course all the usual columns, news, and more punk rock reviews than you can possibly conceive of!
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#318 Nov '09
Hot off the presses, it’s the November issue of Maximum Rocknroll! This issue features interviews with Spanish distort-punkers DESTINO FINAL, the similarly noisily minded WARNING/WARNING from France, and Mexican punk deconstructionists RATAS DEL VATICANOS. There’s an interview with hardcore legend and CRO MAG, John Joseph and one with the classic genre defining Brazilian hardcore masters RATOS DE PORÃO. Austin, Texas, garage punks HEX DISPENSERS drop us a line, EXPLODE INTO COLORS continue with their post-SLITS/ESG girl-punk experimentation, and we have an Eastern European tour diary from Polish bands ANTIDOTUM and CZOSNEK. The fun doesn’t end there — we’re also covering Canadian hardcore band DISCO ASSAULT, and Chile’s female fronted straightedge hardcore punks FUERA DE LINEA. All of this and the usual columns, news, film and book reviews, plus the most extensive music review section in punk rock!
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#317 October '09
The much anticipated Queer Issue is here, with features on queer punx around the globe, from Austin to Berlin, Portland to Brazil. We’ve got a great autobiographical piece by Gary Floyd, front man of Texas punk pioneers THE DICKS, and a feature on queerness in early TX punk, from the MYDOLLS to the THE DICKS and the BIG BOYS — hence our cover boy being the late, great BIG BOY, Randy Biscuit Turner. We have a talk with the formerly straightedge but always hardcore LIMP WRIST, and Jos of classic Dutch hardcore bands such as SEEIN RED and LÄRM. Also not to be missed are interviews with Chicago’s BROMANCE, Philly’s EXTRA TONGUE, and the Bay Area’s YOUNGER LOVERS, fronted by our very own MRR columnist Brontez. We got some hardcore queer punk from Brazil with TEU PAI JÁ SABE? and scene reports on queer punx in Brooklyn and Brazil. Josh Ploeg of classic queer punk bands MUKILTEO FAIRIES and BEHEAD THE PROPHET talks about his new band and life as a vegan chef, and there’s a piece on the queer Berlin-based squat, Schwartzer Kanal. If that’s not enough, we have interviews with drag artist and musician Vaginal Davis and the filmmaker GB Jones, who were in the first MRR queer issue a few years back, and one with Kali of the NASTYFACTS, who were a part of the early NY punk scene. All of this plus the usual news, columns and the most extensive review section in punk!
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#316 September '09
features killer cover art courtesy of Guillem of Barcelona’s DESTINO FINAL, and an epic interview with classic crusters AMEBIX, from their recent US tour… There’s an interview with Oakland’s own BORN/DEAD, one with an Australian hardcore band MEATLOCKER, and some more heavy hardcore with Florida’s DIVISIONS. We got a European tour diary from Chilean punkers ALTERCADO, and a feature on the three day hardcore punk party that is the No Way Fest. There’s the buzzsaw pop-punk of SOMETHING FIERCE from Houston, and MUTATING MELTDOWN, who are continuing the Austin lady-made art punker tradition… There’s a Lance Hahn feature on Crass Records’ poet in residence Nick Toczek, an interview with Isy from the Cowley Club, an anarchist community center and show space in Brighton, UK, as well as an Albany scene report, and a piece on Albany’s teenage dirtbags ANAL WARHEAD. All of this plus the usual columns, news, movies, books, and the most extensive record review section in punk!
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#315 August '09
The August issue of MRR features an extensive interview with the all-time classic Midwestern hardcore band the ZERO BOYS, as well as a piece on early New York City art punkers COME ON. There’s an interview with ETACARINAE, from Barcelona, Spain, who plays heavy hardcore with a Japanese influence, plus another with INSOMNIO, from Zaragoza, Spain, who plays dark, melodic hardcore with a hint of Greg Sage’s WIPERS. We’ve got Bay Area hardcore covered with two East Bay favorites: the heavy hitting SKIN LIKE IRON, and the female-fronted fastcore of PUNCH. Mississippi garage misanthropes the BLACK AND WHITES are interviewed by the band LOVER! And we’ve got a feature on the mystery bedroom sounds of the BLANK DOGS, along with Portland crust heroes RESIST. There are also scene reports from London, UK, and Brest, Belarus, along with the usual columns and, as always, the most extensive review section in punk!
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#314 July '09
The July issue of MRR is just about to hit the newsstands! We’ve got some killer interviews and scene reports this month from around the world. But Boston and DC are in the spotlight—we get the skinny on female-fronted Boston hardcore punks, THE LIBYANS. The current wave of DC straightedge hardcore bands is represented with COKE BUST, and we’ve got an interview with the raging, non-sxe, but DC based all-girl hardcore punk band, TURBOSLUT. We’ve also got interviews with Austin’s garage flavor of the month, STRANGE BOYS, who dish about brotherly love, and another with the elusive Belgian hardcore band, VOGUE. The controversial early ’80s styled Italian band, SMART COPS weigh in, and ZYANOSE also get a feature, true sounds of noise damage from Japan. There’s an extensive scene report, a recap of all that has happened in Canada’s fine city of Toronto over the past couple of years, from the break up of THE BAYONETTES to CAREER SUICIDE’s upcoming LP to bands like URBAN BLIGHT and BAD CHOICE. We also cover the political and social history of squatting in Italy, from the communist uprisings of the late ’60s and punks in the early ’80s right through to the current situation. Finally, we catch up with one of punk’s most striking artists, Portland’s Dennis Dread, whose stunning and provocative artwork has graced the covers of punk and hardcore records for years. All this plus the usual columns, news, and the most extensive review section in punk—all the recently released records, zines, demos, books and films!
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#313 June '09
With interviews from Florida’s dissonant hardcore reprobates CULT RITUAL, New York’s own Pick Your King-fueled goofs ACID REFLUX, and the damaged hardcore of Milwaukee’s HERDS. We’ve got features on San Francisco’s lady post-punkers GRASS WIDOW, and the Spanish punk influenced NN, featuring Martin Sorrondeguy, who is both a former MRR coordinator and a former member of LOS CRUDOS! There’s a piece on HUNX AND HIS PUNX, who offer up some bratty, queer flavored power-pop, along with an interview with Sweden’s politically charged PROJECT HOPELESS; and Portland’s DEFECT DEFECT talk about life on the road, from Eastern Europe to Cuba. We have another Lance Hahn anarcho-punk history piece on cult favorites TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN, and a piece on the late ’70s Toronto punk scene through the lens of the mod-punk EXISTERS. There are BOSTON and SYDNEY scene reports too! All of this plus the usual columns, and the most extensive review section in punk!
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#312 May '09
The May issue of Maximumrocknroll is filled with tons of exciting punk projects, new and old. Our cover feature is a long-overdue interview with Portland’s Criminal Damage. We talk to Stef Petticoat of the legendary late 1970s/early 1980s one-woman German punk band, the Petticoats, as well as current New Jersey wailers, Screaming Females and Bay Area veterans, Never Healed. We’ve also got interviews with Minneapolis art-drenched hardcore, Condominium, Pioggia Nera from Italy, Ottawa’s Germ Attak, and a history lesson with the 1977 UK punk band, The Passion Killers, and musings by long-time British garage rockers, The Masonics. All that plus scene reports from Belgrade and Illinois, new columnists, and tons of record, zine, book and demo reviews from around the world! If that weren’t enough, MRR #312 also includes the exciting second part of our Punk Health Issue (see MRR #310), featuring pieces about epilepsy, dope, and the toxic ground beneath San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point.
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#311 Apr '09
Print media is dead? Long live print media! In response to the allegations that print media is on its deathbed, we decided to put together an issue of the magazine focusing on fanzine culture and its significance in the punk community. In this month’s issue we have an interview with Erick Lyle of the long-running San Francisco zine Scam, as well as, one with John Holmstrom of the legendary Punk magazine, one of the first punk zines from NYC. The artist Rich Jacobs compiled a history of skate zines, and we have an interview with Janelle Hessig of Tales of Blarg, the classic East Bay punk zine. There’s a feature about the politics and symbolism of punk flyer art, and an interview with Ryan Wells and Scott Soriano of the outsider garage zine, Z-Gun. Stuart Schrader of the Shit-Fi website discusses fanzine culture in the face of blogging, and for another perspective we have an interview with Rich of the music blog and online community Terminal Boredom. PLUS we asked numerous zine makers to make a page of MRR as if it was their own zine. All of that alongside the usual columns and the most extensive review section in punk!
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#310 Mar '09
The March issue, #310, is our much-anticipated annual year-end top ten edition, in which our many reviewers and contributors discuss the music that mattered the most in 2008! It is also the first part in a series covering the debacle of health care in America, dedicated to the memory of longtime contributor and Bay Area musician Lance Hahn. The cover art, a portrait of Lance, is a collaboration between Tim Kerr of the BIG BOYS, and renowned skate artist Rich Jacobs. A wide range of punks contributed, on subjects ranging from getting shot in the face, to finding a lump in your breast, and not having any insurance. There are pieces on finding out you have a terminal disease, curing a stomach condition through fermented foods, and a piece by Fat Bob of South London's own HARD SKIN on why crusties should wash! There are pieces by punk doctors, punk nurses and nursing school drop-outs! And all the usual columns and the most extensive review section in punk rock
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#309
feb '09
This month’s cover was created by Hèctor of Spanish punk band Otan and the issue features interviews with Mexican punks Los Monjo, the classic sounding avant-garage of the Ooga Boogas, and the D-beat sounds of Extortion and Deathcage, all of whom hail from Australia. Utrechts first all girl punk band, The Nixe also get a look in and we have extensive pieces on long-running Chicago trashed-out-in-the-garage punks Cococoma, and the frenzied Arizona hardcore of Think Fast. Early ’80s teenage Fresno punks, and MRR Radio faves, the Maniax are interviewed, along with a Lance Hahn special on the cult Anarcho sounds of Null and Void. We also got local character Mr California, longrunning indie-punk hero Stuart Boyracer, Portland by way of Montana crustpunks Squalora, and the mysterious Swedish punks Lögnhalsmottagningen along with the usual mix of columns, news and the most extensive review section in punk!
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#308
Jan '09
It’s the January issue, #308, and it’s a themed issue! Our second punks at the movies issue, the first one came out in ’85. This one features interviews with Joe Rees of Target Video, KC, a DC-native whose upcoming film documents women’s experiences in punk, Mark Huestis of the early 80s drag queen punk movie Whatever Happened to Susan Jane? The film-makers behind Midwest punk documentaries, Cleveland’s Screaming and You Weren’t There are also featured and we also take a glimpse into the world of ‘80s Brazilian punk with Botinada, plus a look at a film being made about the Muslim-punk movement known as Taqwacore, and there’s even an interview with the local Bay Area video-zine punks of Mondo Vision. There are featured writings on Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, Times Square, plus contributors dish on their favorite punk moments captured on the silver screen. All this as well as the most comprehensive underground punk music review section in print and all the usual suspects in the columns section.
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#307
Dec '08
Another month is here and with it comes another issue of Maximum Rocknroll! We have an epic interview with our longtime international correspondent Luk Haas about his experiences in the global punk community from Nepal to Morocco and his current humanitarian work in the wartorn Congo. International noise disruption is provided in the form of the mysterious BILLY BAO, the band, the myth; from the streets of Lagos, Nigeria to Bilbao, Spain. THE HOMOSTUPIDS fill us in on the past, present and future of Cleveland's art damaged music scene, there's also the second part of our interview with classic '70s Canadian punkers THE DIODES. Midwestern lo-fi garage scrawl is covered by THE YOLKS, and we have an interview with perhaps the only Finnish/Chilean/Austrian hardcore band SOTATILA! As is the case in every issue we have the most exhaustive review section in punk, plus our monthly columnists, news and the end of the classified ads!
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#306
Nov '08
The new issue of Maximum Rocknroll is out, featuring cover art by renowned skate artist and BIG BOYS comrade Rich Jacobs! Pittsburgh hardcore mutants BRAIN HANDLE check in with an interview, alongside psyche-pop wonders VIVIAN GIRLS. We've also got interviews with Oakland's newest art damaged garage jerks NO BUNNY, classic UK DIY messtheticians ANIMALS AND MEN, retro Swedish hardcore ragers SISTA SEKUNDEN, plus the Brooklyn-based punk ruckus that is SHELLSHAG, all of that plus Ohio crust-punks BLACK DOVE and Chicago punkers 97 SHIKI. There's a Lance Hahn penned feature on '80s Anarcho punk heroes THE ASSASSINS as well as part one of feature on Canadian punk legends DIODES. Plus the usual MRR reviews, columns and punk rock news...
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#305
Oct '08
This month we have Northwest rock’n’roll legends the Pierced Arrows on the cover. Fred and Toody Cole have been involved in music since the garage rock explosion of the ‘60s with Fred’s Nuggets featured Lollipop Shop through to cult favorites Zipper, The Rats and of course Dead Moon. There are also interviews with classic Colombian punkers I.R.A. covering the punk scene in Medellín, Colorado early ‘80s hardcore heroes Bum Kon, Baltimore Ginn-inspired thrashers Deep Sleep, Pittsburgh’s own Test Patterns and Puerto Rican punkers Diente Perro and Stations from Philly. We’ve featured two of Lance Hahn’s histories of classic anarcho punk, this time covering Reality Control and Legion of Parasites. All of this plus the most exhaustive punk review section in print!
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#304
Sep '08
Get ready for another issue of Maximum Rocknroll! This month features an extensive interview with renowned artist Raymond Pettibon, alongside Mexican art-damaged punx XYX, Canada's proto-punk legends Simply Saucer, NYC's original political Oi group the Press, tri-state area pop punkers the Measure [SA], and Denmark's finest Bloodstains-influenced band, the Cola Freaks. Also contained within is a recent conversation with harDCore veteran and Government Issue frontman John Stabb, Lance Hahn articles on Anarcho-punk pioneers Kulturekampf and Andy T., a report on the current scene in Colombia, and a photospread of Japanese hardcore bands. Of course we didn't forget to include all the usual letters, columns, and zine, book, film, and record reviews for your enjoyment and edification!
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#303
Aug '08
This time around stalwart North Carolina hardcore punx DOUBLE NEGATIVE let us know why there still punx, and UK two-piece anarcho-punkers BURNT CROSS explain why they do what they do. Also featured are cool interviews with Chilean record label extraordinaire MASAPUNK, Chi-town young’un thrashers INTIFADA, NYC pop punk heartbreakers THE UNLOVABLES, Danish crust bulldozer NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR, and Italian hardcore trailblazers RAW POWER sat down to talk about their twenty-plus year history as a band. And that’s not all! On top of all that madness and our usual barrage of reviews of the newest punk shit, columns, reader’s letters, and movie reviews, we’ve still managed to find room for Houston, TX and Grand Rapids, MI scene reports, a Lance Hahn (R.I.P.) retrospective on WASTE, and an overview on this year’s Chicago Clitfest.
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#300
May '08
MaximumRocknRoll is 300 issues old!!! In honor of this milestone we’ve gathered a heap of Northern California punk and hardcore coverage. In this issue you will read interviews with youngster hardcore punk LSD enthusiasts ECOLI, older and wiser angular punk rockers YOUNG OFFENDERS, Mission punk stalwarts BLACK RAINBOW, defenders of the Cali punk aesthetic TRADITIONAL FOOLS, and exhumers of Pig Champion’s ghost FIX MY HEAD. We’ve also included seven Northern California scene reports, MRR staff top five NorCal punk record lists, label highlights on TANK CRIMES and SIX WEEKS, a retrospective interview of CHURCH POLICE, who also graced the pages of issue #1, and a Bay Area zine history collage. If you get sick of all of the rampant localism, you can read the ever-abundant columns, news, and letters, and don’t forget the record, zine, book, demo, and movie reviews.
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