Largest punk archive to find new home at MTSU's Center for Popular Music

By Stacey Tadlock MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Popular Music, housed within the College of Media and Entertainment, is about to become the epicenter for punk archiving and exploration. The world’s largest collection of punk records — the iconic Maximum Rocknroll, or MRR, archive — is relocating from the Bay Area in California to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The archive includes an estimated 60,000 vinyl records, photos, zines and documents spanning decades of punk rock’s global evolution. Weighing in at around eight tons, the collection is a defining piece of music history — and it will now be part of the Center for Popular Music’s research legacy inside the College of Media and Entertainment Building. The world’s largest collection of punk records — the iconic Maximum Rocknroll archive — is being packed up to be relocated from its current location in California to its new home at Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Popular Music locat ... Read full article.