Happy New Year! We made it through the apocalypse and, like the mighty cockroach, Maximum Rocknroll survives! Fresh off the presses comes the illuminating January 2013 issue — MRR #356! Here you will find punk-as-fuck ABSURDO discussing the absurdity of the world, a talk with Houston’s early experimental post-punk legends MYDOLLS, and dark crust with hints of hardcore from Milwaukee’s PROTESTANT. Sweden’s INFERNÖH tell us about their local scene and their version of furious Swedish hardcore, and truly polluted hardcore band DISGUISE fills us in to what’s happening in Irish punk. Brazilian filmmaker Carol Pfister discusses her new film Viva Viva about the São Paulo scene, while youthful grind merchants from San Jose, CA, TADROATEV (THESE ARE DA RESULTS OF A THOUSAND ELECTRIC VOLTS) let us into their reality in punk, blunt by blunt, and Grand Rapids, Michigan’s PROCESSION talk about their brand of dark, ethereal post-punk. Australia’s Off The Hip Records shares insight about making DIY garage happen in the Southern hemisphere and we hear from snotty hardcore punx from Finland via Texas, SECRET PROSTITUTES. We also have the second installment of Notes on the Peruvian Underground (part one is in MRR #353) and as always we have an array of columns, news and the most extensive review section in punk rock print!
Kapow! There’s no stopping us, I tell you! Another exciting month here at the Maximum Rocknroll compound… A new issue is hot off the press and MRR #357, the February 2013 issue, is brimming with the best from hardcore and punk worldwide. In this issue, legends of Japanese hardcore FORWARD discuss Burning Spirits, touring, recording and everything in between; LUNATIC FRINGE look back and discuss their gritty, gruff days as early British punk pioneers in Bristol during the 1980s; while Bay Area locals KICKER ponder their journey and talk about what it means to them to be punk in 2013. Swedish D-beat ladies CONTORTURE tell us about their inspirations and why people shouldn’t be surprised anymore by all-girl hardcore bands; we get the inside scoop on Denmark’s prominent Detonate Records and check in with some of the bands on their roster, including EXITHIPPIES and the WANKYS; plus, we catch Berlin-based hardcore outfit NOTHING just before they head east on a Chinese tour. Pennsylvanian straightedge hardcore band HOUNDS OF HATE talk about their home-recording processes and share future plans; Ohio’s BEATNIK TERMITES discuss their long-running pop-punk calling and how the ride has been so far, and a Detroit scene report fills us in on all the Motor City punk rock action… the excitement never ends! Plus, Shitworker of the Month: Kat Smith, all your favorite columnists, news and the most extensive review section in punk print.
n the May issue of Maximum Rocknroll — MRR #360 — we proudly present: a trip back in time with Greek punk mutineers STRESS (see video below!); Bordeaux post-punk outfit KALTE LUST and the importance of expression; AUTONOMY from Carbondale, IL, and the power and uses of aesthetics in anarcho-punk music; and a look into the mind of our cover artist, Alex Heir of Death Traitors. We also get a tour of the creative DIY space Blood Orange Infoshop in Riverside, CA, we discuss punk and politics in São Paulo with D-beat crusties NUCLËAR FRÖST, we get the latest on Montreal hardcore ragers PROXY, and chat with “looks like hell, sounds like shit, queer as fuck” powerviolence collective +HIRS+ from West Philadelphia. Wait, there’s more! Inside you’ll also find interviews with punk rock veterans THE KIDS from Belgium, and Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios, an idyllically situated recording studio in Western Massachusetts. There’s a special feature on the Elks Lodge Massacre, in a retelling of that chilling St. Patrick’s Day in L.A. in 1979, our new band feature “New Blood”, Shitworker of the Month: Matt Badenhop, all the columnists you love to read on the shitter and, of course, the most extensive reviews in punk print! Grab your copy it put that shit up on your wall!
Kathleen Hanna, Organize and Arise, RATS tour diary, NÖ PÖWER, Finland's MELUSAASTE, HARD FEELINGS from Duluth, FEAR OF EXTINCTION from Czech Republic, UK veterans the SHORTS, We Got Power zine, SoCal show report, and Shitworker of the Month!
