Maximum Rocknroll, historic San Francisco punk zine, ceases print publication

The band Crimpshrine performs at 924 Gilman in Berkeley. Maximum Rocknroll founder Tim Yohannan founded 924 Gilman, an all-ages non-profit venue in 1986. The band Crimpshrine performs at 924 Gilman in Berkeley. Maximum Rocknroll founder Tim Yohannan founded 924 Gilman, an all-ages non-profit venue in 1986. Photo: Murray Bowles Photo: Murray Bowles Image 1 of / 45 Caption Close Maximum Rocknroll, historic San Francisco punk zine, ceases print publication 1 / 45 Back to Gallery

Maximum Rocknroll, the vociferous and influential San Francisco punk zine, announced Sunday in a statement that it will cease print publication this year.

The zine's first iteration was as a radio show on KPFA in 1977. In 1982, the founders of the show, including the late Tim Yohannan, launched MRR as a print fanzine dedicated to a strong anti-corporate sentiment, radically leftist politics, and a zealousness for DIY scenes around the world.

There will be three more print issues this year before the zine switches to its new online-format.

MRR is edited and managed by volunteers who live rent-free at the magazine's headquarters in San Francisco but are not otherwise compensated, KQED reported. Over the last few years, the magazine had reportedly crawled its way out of financial crises and had been fundraising to start a online database of its content.

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"These changes do not mean that Maximum Rocknroll is coming to an end," the statement read. "We are still the place to turn if you care about Swedish girl bands or Brazilian thrash or Italian anarchist publications or Filipino teenagers making anti-state pogo punk, if you are interested in media made by punks for punks, if you still believe in the power and potential of autonomously produced and underground culture."

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There will be a public meeting at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20 to discuss the zine's future.

"...The landscape of the punk underground has shifted over the years, as has the world of print media...."the statement read. "Yet with every such shift, MRR has continued to remind readers that punk rock isn't any one person, one band, or even one fanzine. It is an idea, an ethos, a f**k you to the status quo, a belief that a different kind of world and a different kind of sound is ours for the making."

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