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Mad Parade: Cat-Bitten Tongue (1996)
Unlike some of their early 80's SoCal pop/punk/hardcore brethren like Bad Religion or Social Distortion, Mad Parade has never had a really wide audience. Like Channel 3 or D.I., the band has had to...
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D.O.A. Live at Club Me, 1988
Ya can give Joey 'Shithead' Keithley a beard and a new guitar player but D.O.A. just kept spitting out that ferocious rock-punk that made D.O.A. semi-famous. The band's late 80's period (including...
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Mr. T Experience: Live 13/7/1992
Thanks to Mister Poof, we are now able to view an entire MTX show from the possibly-golden era of 1992 (the Milk Milk Lemonade tour). This show was videotaped in Störtebeker, Hamburg and is typical of...
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Toxic Reasons: Nobody Tells Us (1980)
We've had a slew of Toxic Reasons (see HERE) posts, which is all the more Reason to offer up one more Toxic rarity. This 7'' was released in 1990 on SelflessRecords, though the recording was done on...
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Dot Dash: Half-Remembered Dream (2013)
It seems like the members of Dot Dash are in a race to build a mighty discography. In two years the band have released three albums (see here), each possibly better than the one before, that showcase...
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Comics Rock!
As a kid, I loved rock n' roll and comics with equal abandon. Both were gifts of escape; the comic books came from my older brother, the rock n' roll records were left behind by an American...
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A Very Anchovy Christmas EP
Toronto power-pop-punkers Anchovy (see HERE) have released a spiffy, catchy Christmas single, all proceeds of which will be donated to the Médecins Sans Frontières emergency relief fund. Good times for...
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The Mockers - (There's No War On Christmas) When Christmas Is In Your Heart
Virginia's The Mockers 2012 track "(There's No War On Christmas) When Christmas Is In Your Heart" continue their thirty-year old tradition of power-pop with an attitude (or in their words, "Powerpop...
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Fifteen Underappreciated Albums That Rocked 2013
The TL;DR version of all previous lists (see HERE) is: indie rock doesn't, so MRML vouches for the under-valued rocking and/or rolling albums of the year, based on our scatter-shot listening...
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Merry R.A.B.S. XMAS - Vol 8 (Free Download!)
If you missed our Best Albums of the Year list, please go HERE!Whatever your seasonal preferences, enjoy this Christmas-themed collection of artists from the U.S.A, Australia and the U.K. as a free...
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The Story Of The Pogues'"Fairytale of New York "
Just watched this amazing BBC documentary on the Pogues & Kirsty McColl's "Fairytale of New York". Highly recommended for the early (or late) hours of Christmas Day.Follow @jeffen69 on Twitter
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All the Small Things: Top Singles, E.P.'s etc. of 2013
If you missed our Best Albums of the Year list, please go HERE!Our second BotY list covers all the releases too short for that "Best Underappreciated Albums That Rocked 2013" (see HERE). Once again the...
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Best Comics/Graphic Novels of 2013 Pt. 1
I read a lot of comics this year, stuff from all over the history of the form. As a result, I certainly didn't read any significant fraction of the year's new material. Here, comics differ from music,...
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Top Ten Comics/Graphic Novels of 2013 Pt. 2
As I said for Part One (see HERE): I read a lot of comics this year, stuff from all over the history of the form. As a result, I certainly didn't read any significant fraction of the year's new...
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Beyond the Maypole Documentary ft. Billy Bragg, Oyster Band and more
In this documentary the late Biggie Tembo (of Zimbabwean band The Bhundu Boys) does a fascinating inversion of the staid reporter goes to a strange land to investigate its traditional music trope. In...
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R.I.P. Phillip Seymour Hoffman: 1967-2014
There were a lot of amazing roles that Phillip Seymour Hoffman inhabated but it was his channeling of the late, great Lester Bangs in Almost Famous that endears him to music nerds the world over!...
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Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World by Robbie Robertson
Legends, Icons & Rebels is a hard book to classify. It works as kids' guide to rock n' roll, as a gorgeous hardcover coffee table book on music history, as an art book, as a compilation album with...
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Ten Covers for Bruce Springsteen to Play in Winnipeg
(Image from the crucial Springsteen2Wpg)Bruce Springsteen is gonna play Winnipeg, Manitoba...eventually! After all, we've got a big new stadium, a fanatic fan-base and a musical history he can plunder...
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Words vs. Images
"...The artist does more than 50% of the writing in comics, a reality of which most enthusiasts remain completely unaware, and most writers don’t want the enthusiasts to know, as it would compromise...
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The Haywains: Get on Board With...( 2014)
Some bands use the 'tag option on Bandcamp with deadly accuracy: The Haywains labels themselves: "alternative, c86, indie-pop, jangle-pop, punk-pop, twee, United Kingdom" and that says it all. Well,...
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Ramones: Live at Arturo Vega's Loft (1975)
So, Tommy Ramone, the last of the original Ramones is dead. Sad, fucking sad. Tommy was one of the architects behind the the band, supposedly only taking the drum stool after auditions failed to secure...
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Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra: Road Gore (1985)
"Jerry Jerry wasn't a serious band at the time it started, either. It was what we called a "fuck band". It took four or five years before I considered myself to be a performer."Jerry JerryAt the height...
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Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra: Battle Hymn of the Apartment...
"Turn around and be some one better; time permitting and shit."Jerry JerryIn 1986 Jerry Jerry and his ever-changing Sons of Rhythm Orchestra emigrated from Edmonton, Alberta to Montreal, Quebec. The...
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Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra: Don't Mind If I Do (1992)
"Everybody's gotta believe in something, no matter how stupid, destructive or wrong; case in point, Aleister Crowley."Jerry JerryAquarius Records re-released Jerry2& SRO's masterwork,Battle Hymn of...
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Jerry Jerry: The Sound and the Jerry (1997)
"A part of me felt Like Elvis, it was not a large part."Jerry JerryJerry ended his recording career and his contract with Aquarius with a 1997 solo album named The Sound and the Jerry. It's truth in...
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