Music Review

Max's Kansas City 1976 (1996)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Lead Performance: Various Artists; Genre: Rock

The 20th- anniversary CD reissue spotlights many of the lesser-known habitues of New York City's other notorious punk playground. But aside from Wayne County and the Back Street Boys' signature title track and the contributions of trailblazers Pere Ubu and Suicide, Max's Kansas City 1976, in the end, is more a quirkily amusing snapshot than a priceless time capsule. B-

Originally posted Sep 27, 1996 Published in issue #346 Sep 27, 1996 Order article reprints

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