We’d like to take this opportunity to focus your clicks towards a crowdfunding campaign that struck a few distorted chords in our hearts: the almighty Maximum Rocknroll Archive & Database is finally on it’s feet and they need a few thousand grimy bucks from the masses to do the job and do it right. From Issue #1 in 1982, Maximum Rocknroll has been the single most influential punk zine on the planet, delivering scene reports, interviews, and record reviews with the utmost attitude and candor, all written and assembled by volunteers onto glorious monochromatic newsprint. You could call Maximum Rocknroll the ideal encapsulation of what being part of a music scene is about: highly curated (and defended!) taste, bold aesthetics and bonkers enthusiasm for new records. Slather all that with severe disdain for the mainstream monoculture (and outright hostility for mainstream posers masquerading as punks) and you start to get an idea of why a campaign to fund a searchable, online MRR Archive sends us straight into the pit.

Take a few and close your browser tabs out of those bland-as-hell four-paragraph album reviews and hokey “surprise” record release announcements and watch the video on the campaign’s website, maybe throw these MRR freaks the bucks you would have spent on beers this week, or just fall down the Google rabbit hole of old Maximum Rocknroll covers and reviews.