A Thread for Praising Your Favorite Defunct Print Zines

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I used to read a lot more of these before music writing on the web blew up. But let's here about some of your favorite print-only zines which have ceased publication. I'm most interested in the smaller ones w/ out a huge circulation, but whatever.

I was a huge fan of Space Age Bachelor, and I am surprised about how little I hear about it now. The writing seemed to me very ILM-friendly – intelligent, personal, broad cultural perspective. Anyone else enjoy this one? One issue had a fantastic interview w/ Greil Marcus that I enjoyed more than any of his actual writing.

Also, I wish Tuba Frenzy was still published, great coverage of Wire-ish & indie stuff, along w/ other esoterica, but with a more personal angle.

And you?

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

POPWATCH!
it was like posted to become the next forced exposure.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Definitely Puncture.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

UGLY AMERICAN...

― ddb, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Still missing Select, although they weren't as great during the last couple of years. Around 1995-96 (that is, the Britpop explosion), Select were perfect and the best of the entire bunch.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Answer Me!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't be the only one who sorely misses the (Lime) Lizard. R.I.P.

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorbooty.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Forced Exposure
Nice Slacks
Superdope
Speed Kills
Pope
Conflict
Rock Mag
Modern Rock
Wyatt Riot
Chemical Imbalance
Away From The Pulsebeat
Killer
The Continental

...

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

2nd - Ugly American.

hi ddb.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Held Like Sound!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh man, so many. For Paper Airplane Pilots, Popwatch, Kickstand, Conflict, Forced Exposure, Matter, Puncture, Cupsize, Gogglebox, Kelp (though Mary's about to release a final issue), and the list goes on.

Those who miss Chemical Imbalance should search out Yeti, Mike McGonigal's new zine. It's very much in the same spirit.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Have I shared my theory, by the way, that websites, mailing lists and blogs killed print zines?

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Speed Kills
Motorbooty
Hello, Sailor!

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

the slampt house zine fast connection was always nice
otherwise zines r usually shit

― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

others I miss:
Incite!
Adventure Playground
Fast Connection

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

the cartoons by ms c (of golden starlet and ISF fame) in fast connection were rox0r

― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Space Age Bachelor? Did I imagine this one?

(because everyone wants to live in their record collection)

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

There is actually tons of blog writing that's much better than what you'd get in a lot of the zines. Not sure why that is.

Rock Mag was great. Loved his ELP as a no-wave band piece. Didn't I see that guy posting around here at some point?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

option, and puncture.

― pauls00, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I miss Op. (But not Sound Choice, which suffered from poor writing and layout.)

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

yep, another lizard fan.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. D-

Tim started Modern Rock (changed the name to?) but I'm not sure what he's doing nowadays.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

a couple more:
* And Suddenly (James McNew pre-YLT)
* Disaster (Bill Callahan pre-Smog)

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I 2nd Motorbooty

― fred burrows, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i knew i forgot one:
Escandalo!

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

bill callahan/dame darcy/cindy dall also contributed to:

rollerderby

lisa carver got a piece of ethan buckler, don't you think it's time that you do too?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

yeh, me too miss Option (tho I managed to intermittently get copies only from the early 90s onwards)

and then, huh, there's the twisted issue of Melody Maker - while its last breaths smelled unfathomably foul, of the way it was in the late 80s I have mostly very fond memories of

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Offense, Offense Newsletter

― Jeff Wright, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

No mention of Creem, esp. since it just came back online?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

NYRocker
Creem!

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

If any of these are archived online, please post a link.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Some Space Age Bachelor archives.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i only liked zines that came with 7"s that could be sold later to gullible suckers for drug money

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

answer me
rollerderby
no answers
and
yes, Space Age Bachelor was cool

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot 18 Wheeler...Lil' Tommy Scharpling's zine

Hi gygax!

― ddb, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Slash.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Popwatch is gone? Sad.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Grand Royal you mother f'ers!

― steve k (http://go.to/stevek) (stevek10), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Flipside!

― Bob Crain, Thursday, 20 March 2003 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow! it took 40 responses to remember Flipside

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Strange Things Are Happening

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Revive

― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Op
Forced Exposure
Cle
Search & Destroy
NY Rocker
Space Age Bachelor
and what was the mag that Albini and all tnem guys wrote for before FE? Contrast or something? Published out of Chicago maybe? Contrast?

Bonus question... what label is alphabetically (and all tnem guys wrote foreographically) tied to Op magazine, and how?

PS. this is cool for the FE and Op mentions http://www.fuzzlogic.com/hni/index.shtml

― factcheckr, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I have a little problem with repeating myself...

― factcheckr, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

MATTER is i believe the 'zine you are thinking of.

and yes it was great.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

SUPERDOPE, absolutely.. the 45 45s that shook the earth or whatever issue is AMAZING and i use it as a checklist, more or less. a time when siltbreeze releases & crypt releases were all given the same attention from overlapping spheres..

― ian, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Spiral Scratch

― Stewart Osborne, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely POPWATCH! and Puncture. Sadly never got around to obtaining a copy of Motorbooty. :-(

― nathalie, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

MATTER was a little uhm earnest for my taste when it wasn't printing Albini's fag-bashing tripe.

CHEM IMBALANCE had some great interviews -- online or anthologized?

speaking of homophobia 'n racism BLACK 2 COMM was nutz but covered some cool 70s obscurities

FORCED EXPO should be anthologized or put online too if it's not already

I'm not sure if a complete set of NY ROCKER still exists, I've got a few copies from 1980-82 somewhere.

there was a funny comix-filled zine called TAKE IT! from the early 80s that only lasted couple issues

― m coleman, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

but my all time fave zine was michael weldon's PSYCHOTRONIC

― m coleman, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

and who could forget KILLER put out by some Alice Cooper/Grand Funk fans down in Chinatown?

― m coleman, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Short Newz

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Held Like Sound!
Yanc3y (ystrickler) on Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:00 (3 years ago)

I wrote for that one!

― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Swellsville

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Answer Me!

I never liked this magazine. But you can always check out some of Jim Goad's columns about stuff like how slavery wasn't that bad in Vice Magazine these days, if you're missing that contrarian-libertarian/rape roffles/wife-beaty perspective!

Then again, I'm a hypocrite, because I always liked Selwyn Harris' Happyland and Crank 'zines, which were just as racist, misogynistic, and scummy... but Harris always seemed like he was at least having a laugh, too.

I miss Sleazoid Express.

― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

An interesting question, also, is how these print zines that pretend the Internet never happened manage to survive (Under the Radar, Skyscraper). I'm glad they're hanging on, but also wondering how. Big Takeover I can see, all those super long interviews, and it's such a product of one guy's outlook, it would never work as well online. But these zines doing 150-word reviews, really surprised there is still a market for that.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

What about the early 90's UK Industrial/experimental zines..

Music From The Empty Quarter
Impulse
EST
Soft Watch
Fractured

Oh and anyone else here remember UK Goth/Indie Mag "House Of Dolls" each issue came with a compilation 7"

― Jack Battery-Pack, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yessss... Matter.

And of course let's not forget... Sub Pop.

I gotta thank NY Rocker for tipping me off to hip hop in the early-80s. Couldn't find the stuff in SF until "The Message" broke on the radio.

― factcheckr, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Crank Automotive (different from Crank), I have one issue that has the most fascinating and extensive interviews with Stefan Jaworzyn and Richard Youngs. At that point I didn't even care of Jaworzyn's music (Ascension/Descension) but discussing both music and his own mag Shock Xpress are great.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've toyed with the idea of putting the old ugly americans online.

― Edward III, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

In the late 80's I loved both Matter and The Bob (remember the flexi-discs that came with this?)

― kwhitehead, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

...oh and The Pope as well.

― kwhitehead, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

...and Non-Stop Banter.

― kwhitehead, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Brian Berger's zines, Bite Down, Constant Wonder, Crush and Strange Affair, the latter of which was especially compelling in a bizarre way. Writer's Block and Caught in Flux which you all know is ILM-er Mike Appelstein. Yakuza was great too. Non-Stop Diatribe. Emily's Hip Pocket (and the Audrey's Diary label), Chickfactor (of course, but no mention so far!). I was a great believer in Waaaaaah! (and their label!).

I have to go against the grain and say that I hated Rollerderby, what a pretentious load of crap! Bananafish, otoh was great!

I skipped all the obvious ones, except no one seems to have mentioned Your Flesh.

Also special mention for Factsheet Five, which was maybe sort of the Google of its age...

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

CHEM IMBALANCE had some great interviews -- online or anthologized?

A book is in the works for this book imprint I'm just getting off the ground, Yeti Pubs -- the C.I. book will be out in a year and a half: large format book with a CD of songs from the 7 inches -- lots of work to scan those things in -- OCR is not what it's cracked up to be especially off old newsprint.

Funny reading all these names of 'zines I used to read all the time and/ or meet the creators when they dropped their stuff off. I worked at See Hear for two years, '86-'88. I was the first employee Ted ever hired in fact, so I got paid basically (very little, but not complaining) to sit and read 'zines and chat in that dank little store.

When the place flooded and most of the stock ruined, I put on a benefit for the place that was pretty fun: BALL at the height of their two drummer goodness, Galaxie 500, Sonic Youth, and I think Mofungo 'cause they were big fans of the shop as well. Good times.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever happened to Brian Berger?

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

This blog has scans of old Conflict/FE-styled zines (including Cosloy Youth!):

http://teengluesniffer.blogspot.com/

― mike a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

<i>Whatever happened to Brian Berger?</i>

shit, yeah, there's a good question. Now there's a guy who would've done an interesting blog. Perhaps he was a decade ahead of his time in that regard.

― mike a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

OCR is not what it's cracked up to be especially off old newsprint.

haha, no kidding. I tried a couple of programs with wildly varying results, abbyy finereader 8.0 seemed to work the best. it helps that the ua's layout is the print equivalent of ilm, though. I imagine any mag with a normal layout would be slow going.

― Edward III, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

I also liked Space Age Bachelor, which I felt had a kinship with:

You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

-and-

Feel Good About Your Body

― henry s, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever happened to Brian Berger?

I hung out/put up Brian on a few visits to Chicago around the time of Strange Affair (still one of the singularly great issues of a fanzine ever, IMO) and every once in a while he drops me a line. Last I heard from him was probably two years ago -- he'd kind of lost interest in rock/indie rock music as I recall, gotten more into jazz. I believe he was living in Austin, but I could be mis-remembering -- might've been NYC.

And, yeah, my list off the top of my head:

Matter
Conflict
FE
Hypertension (Paul Lukas)
Chem. Imbalance
Big Yeah (Mike Greenlees)
Chickfactor
Wind-Up [___] (Liz Clayton)
Blurt! (Michael Ehlers)
The Offense
that one Ohio-based mag where the guy talked about the Crummy Fags a lot
Black to Comm and Stigliano's other zine before it (Pfhudd?)
Away from the Pulsebeat

most of the above were really influential in forming my tastes/"tude" while doing The Pope. In the aftermath, there were several zines that kept the flame alive, like Superdope, Crank, Opprobrium, Rock Mag, Nice Slacks, and probably a dozen more I'm forgetting. The mid/late '80s were way fun.

― Baked Bean Teeth, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Strange Affair (still one of the singularly great issues of a fanzine ever, IMO)

def OTM!

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, also:

Siltbreeze (I'm sure Mike McG has a different take on this :) )
Too Fun Too Huge (Patrick Amory)
Disaster (Bill Callahan)

― Baked Bean Teeth, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone remember Steve Erickson's fanzine Cut?

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I do, Tim. Somebody I know is on a film message board with him and pointed me to his current website, which takes the cake as far as non-design design: http://home.earthlink.net/~steevee/ .

I credit Steve for introducing me to Tim Buckley and Neu! back when were sharing tapes with each other. So salut!, Steve Erickson.

― Baked Bean Teeth, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Raygun. it looked cool.

― daria-g, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Kogan did Why Music Sucks (that I and others here contributed to). In the early 80s Tony Lombardi and I (with the help of others) did Thrillseeker (published in the DC area). Other DC zines included Infiltrator, Truly Needy, and later WDC Period.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Forced Exposure
Away From the Pulsebeat
Raygun
Option
Lime Lizard
New York Rocker
Slash
Search and Destroy
The Offense

― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, Cut. This IS fun...

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Halana
Despair
Tantrum
Bananafish
Murder Can Be Fun
Cimarron Weekend (sp?)

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Not too many, but I miss Option and Seconds, which I probably said upthread, but I'm too lazy to check.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

(Once asked for Option at a news-stand and the guy offered me a porn mag. called Option. "No, not that Option.")

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

I think I still have some copies of Option's predecessor, Op, lying around somewhere. I loved those David Greenberger articles where he had this old African-American former musician who lived in a nursing home comment on all kinds of music from punk to jazz.

Hey Mike McG...:

What waas that Florida zine that the guy who owned See Hear used to publish before he moved to NYC? At least, I think it was his zine.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

X-post: I've nothing against Siltbreeze, man -- I just found it silly, even at the time -- unlike with Coley, who really bummed me out with the whole Headache insert debacle. Of course, such old school analog flame wars seem quaint to me now. (Looking back, I was a weirdly full of myself yet self-deprecating mess. OK I was kind of a tool, and far more pretentious than I could ever have realized. But I was just a kid at the time, and somehow I was able to publish some compelling stuff from far more interesting writers/ artists.)

Curmudge: Hello back. I think you might be referring to SUBLAPSE? That was published by Barry -- pretty great 'zine though I've not seen it in years; its final issue in video form was tremendous, for sure, and I wish I still had a copy. That totally inspired me to do the 'Mout Full of Sweat' thing for Atavistic. Anyway, Barry also released the first Psycho Daisies album (basically the Eggs w/o Charlie) which kind of kills. Last I saw Barry he was doing OK and working at some record shop on St Marks, not Venus.

Ted from See Hear, when he still lived in South Florida, helped to run OPEN RECORDS, the store and the label. The label did a decent FL comp. (I think -- 'Land that Time Forgot'?) and of course Charlie Pickett and the Eggs' first two singles, the 'Live at the Button' album, and the phenomenal 'Cowboy Junkie A Go Go' EP, probably the best rock and roll record to ever come out of FL, even better than the Eat EPs, imho). Just saw Ted's ex-partner Leslie and she says Ted's ukulele band Sonic Yuke is doing umm, as well as a ukulele band called Sonic Yuke can be expected to.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ohh, and the guy who wrote reviews in OP (and later in Duplex Planet) was Ken Eglin -- years ago David G. had a book of his reviews all set to go but it never got funding, alas.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Mike -

I loved Chemical Imbalance. Bought it unconditionally w/ each issue and it turned me on to so much I
am eternally thankful for (Rene Daumal comes to mind). Thanks for that! One question: whatever happened to that
incredible painter/comix artist who used to play in the band Woodpecker? You featured him in a couple of issues - I think his name was Ross? Ring a bell? He was fantastic.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, glad to hear it -- Daumals is awesome.

The painter is Alexander Ross -- fallen out of touch with him since he stopped showing at Feature; now it looks like he shows at M. Boesky? Anyway, he's taken hsi shit to a weird place but it's still really great. Woul dlove to see a big career retrospective of his. PS: If you ever heard the CD 'Chinny Chin Chin' I released for the half a second I had a label with Kramer, he recorded under the name Fantastic Palace, too. Great, great musician.

http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/alexander-ross/

― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think Sound Choice was far better and more influential than mike a's brief note upthread. probably the zine in the 80's and early 90's that had the most influence on me. I miss my back issues so much, they all got stolen from me sometime in '99.

― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost) Thanks Mike! -- I 'll search out the Chinny Chin Chin CD. And thanks for the links, too.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sound Choice started out as a worthy successor to OP. They were early champions of Jandek, DQE and Daniel Johnston, and they had some good writers early on, like Glen Thrasher and Jay Hinman, etc. But I'm sorry, the last few issues were just dire. I think the death knell sounded the moment they decided to categorize the record reviews into hilariously inaccurate categories, which resulted in rap records filed under "world music," etc.

― mike a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm embarrassed to admit I left out Mike A.'s excellent zines Caught in Flux and Writer's Block, plus Tim Alborn's Incite! Hi, Mike.

― Baked Bean Teeth, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Rock Mag was great. Loved his ELP as a no-wave band piece. Didn't I see that guy posting around here at some point?

Mr. Diamond (diamond) on Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:49 (3 years ago)

haha!

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

i miss "Steal Softly Through Snow", the Captain Beefheart zine. that thing was awesome. hardcore Beefheartology

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hey there, Tim. I wouldn't list WB either if I were you. Those issues were useful for learning to write and edit, but most of them make me cringe now save a feature here and there. I guess I'm glad I got those issues out of the way before the Internet. CIF was a better and more confident effort overall, and a more representative reflection of how I wanted my zine to look and feel.

― mike a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

i think a bunch of the stuff upthread is what got me writing about music. THANKS A LOT YOU JERKS!

m.

― msp, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

And What Goes On for hardcore Velvetology... Same people as did the 50 Skidillion Watts label. great folks actually.

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

btw, Sound Choice definitely hit the crapper after like issue 16... I think it was some kind of ownership/biz thing. I never really thought much about it since but noticed it at the time. I had found it kind of refreshing prior to that.

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 8 March 2007 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Cornfed.

― ng-unit, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

a few print 'zines i miss the most -- all of which should be anthologized thoroughly right away, please (many of these are thirds/ fourths):

THE MAN'ZINE
HALANA
MUSIC
SOUND COLLECTOR
CONFLICT
78 QUARTERLY
OP
FORCED EXPOSURE
BADABOOM GRAMOPHONE
J.D.'s
GENTLEWOMEN OF CALIFORNIA
GREAT GOD PAN
ROCK MAG
BANDITS ONE TO FIVE
KILLER
WHO PUT THE BOMP
OPPOBRIUM
NY ROCKER
SLASH
POPWATCH
RUH ROH
SMUT PEDDLER
LCD
BEER FRAME
PULSEBEAT
TPOS
FEMINIST BASEBALL
KICKS
CAUGHT IN FLUX
TRIPPING CORPSE, et. al.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

also, not sure THE BAFFLER and HERMENAUT have aged so well but i def. read their early issues cover to cover...

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

many of the above, esp Matter, The Bob, Non-Stop Banter and Outpunk. (I was a regular at See Hear.)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

The fourth and final issue of Eighteen Wheeler was pretty great; the first real flowering of the attitude and approach of what would become The Best Show on WFMU and other Scharpling & Wurster projects. It's even got a Superchunk interview (pre-Wurster though).

― mike a, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dementlieu.com/~obik/arc/zines/index.html

Punk fanzine archival listings. He scanned in some stuff from my (and Tony Lombardi's) early 80s DC zine Thrillseeker.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking about this thread yesterday while musing on Carl Howard's old Art/itude magazine. He also ran Audiofile Tapes cassette label in the 80's and the mag filled me in on a lot of info about Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Pink Dots, Organum, et al. That info was hard to come by at the time and the articles were detailed & enthusiastic. He probably did 12 issues around 1984-85.

― sleeve, Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Infected Faggot Perspective

Agony

Fuh-Cole

― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I found a stack of Bananafish magazines a year or so back, and that's got to be the most inspiring music (or otherwise) magazine I've ever come across. The compilations were choice, too. Just crazy, and introduced me to a lot of great stuff. Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, for one.

And I'm surprised Muckraker hasn't had a mention here. Pretty sure I've seen people raving about it elsewhere. I've got one copy, and it's virtually identical to Bananafish in format and layout, and there's quite an overlap in the music discussed within. Not quite as surreal though, although the interview with Miguel Tomasin from Reynols is up there.

― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Not an "apostrophe-z" 'zine, but I've never got over the demise of Reflex Magazine in the mid-90s. The first issue that I picked up (Oct. 1991) featured a Julian Cope cover story and Penn Jillette interviewing Too Much Joy. They also mentioned the Butthole Surfers prominently on the cover. Somehow this got past the mean old man who ran the local corner store where I bought it.

Each issue came with a flexi-disc. In this case it was Violent Femmes "Special (live)" b/w Killing Joke "Money is Not Our God (Hideous Remix)". Old Mr. Hinckle was selling me Killing Joke records!!!

Evan Dorkin also had a recurring comic strip in it where he complained about shows he went to (Fishbone: "I can't skank! I can't mosh! I can't even "pick it up"!").

I don't have any copies of it anymore, so I can't vouch for its quality (except the Jillete/TMJ interview, which I clipped and saved for a few years afterward), but it kicked ass for me as a kid.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I used to enjoy Cool Beans. Couple good 7-inches along the way as well. That's where I first heard Mountain Goats.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

dddd, obsessive eye, plane truth, easy tiger, space age bachelor.

― djh, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

can't believe no one's mentioned Gourmandizer here yet, so I will. I believe big parts of it are online now as well.

― Matos W.K., Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

yep, still there: http://www.gourmandizer.com/ezine/

― Matos W.K., Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

I'm looking for a copy of Issue 1 of Halana magazine. If anyone has one that they might be persuaded to part with ($$$'s!), or any leads, then please let me know. Thanks very much.

― krakow, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:52 (sixteen years ago)

I might have a copy - in a shed under a lot of stuff....... give me a minute.

― sonofstan, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

Yep..... slightly wrinkled and mild discoloration on the back page: yours for the postage - email me (I think I have the single as well)

― sonofstan, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks sonofstan, just sent you a webmail on here with my email address etc.

My OCD means I'd love a mint one eventually, but for postage I'd certainly like to take up your kind offer. Moving to email...

― krakow, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:14 (sixteen years ago)

One thing I love about Halana (I want Issue 1 because I just got a copy of the last of Issues 2, 3 & 4 that I was missing and it reminded me of it), is looking at the adverts for various distros and labels in it, and all the old releases, some long long gone into the mists of time. Very interesting in itself, let alone for the articles.

― krakow, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

sonofstan deserves big kudos and respect for his most kind provision of Halana Issue 1, complete with the 7'' as well! A most fine chap if ever the was one. Thank you!

― krakow, Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:11 (sixteen years ago)

ten years pass...

every issue of 1973/1974 fanzine shakin' street gazette:

https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/shakinstreet/

― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 17 August 2020 23:34 (five years ago)

Amen to all the mentions I'm familiar with. A couple not yet mentioned (if Ctrl F worked): clemenza'a Radio On, incl. several regulars from xpost Why Music Sucks, and Jane Dark's Sugar High! (! in original, well-earned, in a cool cadenced way, kinda like Daria's best friend, Jane)(speaking of Daria, 2020 news I hadn't heard:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria)

― dow, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 00:40 (five years ago)

Also, Jane Dark showed up in Radio On.

― dow, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 00:40 (five years ago)

one year passes...

I recently stumbled across this '97 newspaper coverage of the efforts to save Ptolemaic Terrascope & the broader culture around fan zines. Fascinating stuff to someone who (like me) wasn't around for it, & perhaps a fun time capsule for those who were:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-04-20-9704200190-story.html

― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 19:08 (four years ago)

one year passes...

Stumbled on a relatively cheap copy of volume 2 of The Offense Book of Books (anthology covering The Offense issues 9-15 / July 81-March 82). Have flipped through during work a little and there's a zillion reviews, local scene reports from around the country, and unexpected interviews (like one with Ivo Watts-Russell from 1981 about 4AD). Reading a few reviews and interesting seeing how some bands and records were received at the time (like early New Order singles) instead of after years of canonization.

― city worker, Monday, 20 March 2023 18:17 (three years ago)

is it online by chance?

― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Monday, 20 March 2023 18:21 (three years ago)

probably not i guess, what a silly question, sorry! but it sounds pretty cool. are there any controversial opinions about now canonized groups, or worship of a totally unknown band?

― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Monday, 20 March 2023 18:22 (three years ago)

in print only, as far as i know, and a pretty hefty price to purchase both vol 1 and 2 together (not certain why this vol 2 only i found was priced so low). but they did a good job of reproducing each page as it was printed, colored ink/pages and all.

i've only skimmed through between work stuff the last few hours, but definitely reviews and coverage of lots of local stuff (i think this was Ohio based) that i'd never heard of. the controp i saw about new order seemed lamenting the direction new order took with procession/everything's gone green 7". but they'll have two different reviewers for one record sometimes and the other dude loved it so i guess it's balanced reporting for a zine.

― city worker, Monday, 20 March 2023 18:28 (three years ago)

Columbus Ohio based . I have a few hard copies around somewhere. Editor Tim ( tka) loved 4AD, Joy Division, Brit postpunk

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 21:44 (three years ago)

Tim Anstaett who did the Offense is on Facebook. When asked in November 22 about it being digitized at some point said:

My digits aren't very good at digitizing, but The Offense Book of Books has been available for a while, and what will be an equally comprehensive Offense Book of Newsletters might get published in a year or two.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 21:49 (three years ago)

For a moment I wondered why this topic was so new. Then it struck me that the first message was posted on 19 March 2003! That's, like, before 9/11. If only we could reach back and talk with those people.

The thread reminded me of Ben is Dead:
https://zinewiki.com/wiki/Ben_Is_Dead

I never actually read it, but I did have Retro Hell, a spin-off book which irritatingly seems to be a rare and valuable antique nowadays. Presumably it had one print run and was never reprinted. I think I gave my copy away. I often wondered what the magazine was like. They were like little websites, weren't they? Like TVTropes. Bite-sized chunks of trivia mixed in with interviews. Those were the days.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 21:58 (three years ago)

I still have my box with 50-60 zines from 1996-2000 in the garage, wonder what to do with it. Some of them must be runs of only 20 or so copies. I know I didn't sell or give away much more than that.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 22:08 (three years ago)

If any relate to DC punk , there are 2 archives in Washington DC area who might be interested

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:15 (three years ago)

the first message was posted on 19 March 2003! That's, like, before 9/11

I mean... sure, before September 11th, 2003 anyway

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:46 (three years ago)

The font foundry/graphic design zine Emigre did an issue full of Envelope 23 and 4AD interviews and articles, which I mail-ordered direct.

For maybe 8 or 10 years after, I would get postcards, fliers and newsletters announcing new issues and new font releases. I still get a font-nerd thrill when I see one of their typefaces in the wild.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 24 March 2023 05:16 (three years ago)

curmudgeon at 6:15 23 Mar 23

If any relate to DC punk , there are 2 archives in Washington DC area who might be interested

nope! many relate to a completely forgotten minor scene in late-90s London, barely a mention of it to be found on the internet, and certainly nobody cataloging it afaict.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 24 March 2023 07:04 (three years ago)

I still have my box with 50-60 zines from 1996-2000 in the garage, wonder what to do with it. Some of them must be runs of only 20 or so copies. I know I didn't sell or give away much more than that.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 10:08 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

my partner works on the zine library at a london university. if yr interested i can see if they would be interested?

― devvvine, Friday, 24 March 2023 11:29 (three years ago)

I used to have so many music-related ones from the 92-98 era but given/thrown away a few apartment moves after that. Only have held onto the last two Tuba Frenzy issues, one of which has the massive deep dive into 99 Records interviews, context, photos. Highly recommended (maybe it's online somewhere??).

― city worker, Friday, 24 March 2023 17:35 (three years ago)

Two I used to read and contribute to:

Tapeworm ('90s) - Jeff Pike would have people compile mix-tapes for him and write about what was on there.

Kitschener ('90s) - Sarah Riegel (daughter of Creem writer Richard) would send out a questionnaire where you could write as much as you wanted in response to all or some of the questions. Sample question: "When was your last giggling fit?" (Actually, that wasn't one of her questions, but I did take some question she asked and use that as an excuse to write about my last giggling fit.)

― clemenza, Friday, 24 March 2023 18:05 (three years ago)

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