For the very first in a new series of MRR Radio shows hosted outside of San Francisco, Alex & Mette school us on the evolution of the punk scene in their native Copenhagen, Denmark, and what’s good now.

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Intro song:
SODS – Copenhagen

Before K-Town Was a Thing…
BRATS – I Do What I Wanna Do
ADS – Waiting for the War
KALASHNIKOV – Famler Sig Frem

The Birth of K-Town Hardcore
AMDI PETERSENS ARMÉ – En Borger Af Samfundet
ASBEST – Astumpet
PARAGRAF 119 – Fingrene Væk
GORILLA ANGREB – København I Ruiner

Mid-2000s Moshpit Fuel
NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS – Suicide City
BOMBEREGN – No Tomorrow
NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR – The Darkest Age
DEATH TOKEN – All Dreams Are Nightmares

New Wave of K-Town Hardcore
DOGMATIST – Small Roads
HALSHUG – Sort Sind
JUNTA – Krigen Kommer Snart Til Europa
THE WAR GOES ON – This Shitty Life
PLANET Y – Sort Verden
BIG MESS – Twenties
MOTH – Synthetic Hands

Outro song:
NIGHT FEVER – New Blood

Notes from the DJs:’ If you want to check out some of the albums mentioned in the set, go to www.thefatpunk.dk and look them up. Top recommendations are the compilations’ Pærepunk’ and København I Ruiner.

Find the latest gossip from Copenhagen on www.livinginthecity.dk and be sure to check out www.ktownhardcorefest.org for info on the 2017 edition of Copenhagen’s craziest punk get-together. Don’t miss it!

Your selectrix Erika Elizabeth brings you an episode of MRR Radio recorded from her satellite outpost in Portland, featuring some of the many post-punk obscurities & DIY weirdos covered in her Futures & Pasts column for MRR!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:09 — 81.3MB)

Intro song:
TARZAN 5 – Boys Game

Destroy/Create
GET SMART! – Just For the Moment
TOUGH CUSTOMER – Clean & Clear
OUT ON BLUE SIX – Party Mood
SUBURBAN WIVES CLUB – Guru Eye
OCCULT CHEMISTRY – Fire

Shut Up/Relax
MARAUDEUR – Institutions
CATASTROPHE BIZARRE – Furniture
PLAYTHINGS – Sit Down (Stand Up)
CONDITIONER – (We’re Living in a) Fashion Void
VISITORS – Electric Heat

Make A Break With You
MODEL CITIZENS – Animal Instincts
PHANTOM FORTH – I Don’t Know You
SEND NO FLOWERS – Playing for Time
THE SHIFTERS – Creggan Shops
THE PHOTOGRAPHS – Second Best

Lost/Found
CHANDRA – Get It Out of Your System
POLIO CLUB – Poison the Well

Outro Song:
THE VITAS – Roses

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Guest DJ & philanthropist, Chuck comes through from Pittsburg, PA to bless MRR Radio with some classic punk 7″s.

Intro song:
FLIPPER – Get Away

And we’re off…
KILLER OF SHEEP – Pawns
NO TALENTS – Easy Girl
CAUSTIC CHRIST – Doesn’t Anyone Want to Impress Jodie Foster Anymore?
BLOOD FARMERS – Cranked Up

Can yinz dig it?
HALF LIFE – Consider the Alternative
BARBED WIRE DOLLS – Killing Me
THE MOTARDS – Bombs Away
KROMOSOM – Paranoid

How about any of this, punker?
AUS ROTTEN – This Is Brainwash/Secret Police, Secret Army
PINK LINCOLNS – Cotton Mather
LSDOGS – You’re Done
SCARED OF CHAKA – Automatic

Three individual tracks and an entire B-side (because who wouldn’t want to hear an entire Lil Bunnies side???)
STEEL MINERS – What Can You Do
TEENGENERATE – Get Me Back
LIL BUNNIES – Carrot Juice Stomp/Hop, Fight, and Fuck/Bunnies
VIOLENT SOCIETY – In Crowd

Sam chimes in with a track while we peruse the inserts
SCREECHING WEASEL – Dingbat
SUBMACHINE – She Things (live)
D.R.I. – Against Me
TV FREAKS – D.Y.O.T.

Outro:
ZZZ HACKER – Zum Geburtstag

Guest DJ, Mimi rips through the punk slappers on her maiden MRR Radio show

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Intro song
CATHOLIC SPIT – I’m Your God Now

Maximum Slaps
THE CLEAN – Slug Song
SANG – Hem Perdut La Vida
HONEY BANE – Girl on the Run
G.L.O.S.S. – Lined Lips and Spiked Bats

This is My Best Friend’s Band, and more
KAMIKAZE PALM TREE – Doctor Wax
AISLERS SET – Mission Bells
POW! – Here Comes the Spade
COLD BEAT – Wave

Recommandé à moi
POT POURRI – The Sink
DORY TOURETTE ’ – The Independent Science Doctors
MEGAFLORA – Anxious
CRIMPSHRINE – Free Will

4 Lydia + Adam
SUBURBAN LAWNS – My Boyfriend
THE DICKIES – Fan Mail
FUGAZI – Break
45 GRAVE – Evil
WIRE – Outdoor Miner

Outro song
MAGAZINE – Shot by Both Sides