SUPERDOPE #5 1993 (no page #)
AGUATURBIA review by JAY HINMAN, Editor
- There was this point in 1992 where the incipient Forced Exposure catalogue tilted toward gonzo psych obscurities, about four years before the website and prior to Jimmy’s conversion to outré 808 digitalis. Jay references this early turn in the header above.
- Aguaturbia were easily one of the more exciting early rediscoveries of the era for former B.A.L.L. fans. As we all know, the late 6Ts/early 7Ts period has been mined quite extensively during the past twenty years, and much has been offered up in exhaustive legit reissue digit/vinyl formats. Our 1992 heads would swoon.
- Interested in the complete remastered works of Aguaturbia? Try Record Runner, South America’s finest exporter of vintage hard rock and symphonic prog.
- What has Jay Hinman said about Superdope #5 since he published Superdope #5? From 2/24/11: “Finally, I find way more to cringe about in this issue than even in the earlier ones. I was getting cocky, with a fanzine that (a few dozen) people actually liked, and started writing a little over my head. I was just 25 years old, but should have known far better than to start cracking so many BANANAFISH-like dumbass in-jokes that I don’t even understand to this day. My credo at the time appeared to be, “If this line will make my friend Brett (or Doug, or Steve, or Grady, or Mitch, or whomever) laugh, then I’ll put it in there”. Other fanzines seemed to employ this trick, and perhaps at the time I thought it helped cultivate an air of mystery – like something I might want to get in on – but there are things in this one that would have made me just put the thing down and call the editor an insufferable bore. But it was a blast at the time, and perhaps you’ll like it better than I do.”
- We L-U-V it!
…and lovers of intense fanzine dorkery and great writing should know that Fuckin’ Record Reviews contributed an excellent piece to our upcoming fanzine.
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68 pages; 5 interviews; 1 big piece on 80s-90s fanzines; 60+ record reviews; 15 pages of book reviews – and more. Watch this space.
A single of the week for the wiry rebel girl rock of Nots
I’m a big fan of this record as well. There are some vocal histrionics you need to get comfortable with – and I’m quite comfortable – and the music is a wild ride of garage punk & panic pop. Another aces review from Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine contributing editor Erika Elizabeth.
Tim Hinely is a great American whom I’ve known for a while, though I believe we’ve only clinked glasses together a couple of times, and never since the 1990s when he lived in the SF Bay Area (if Santa Rosa counts).
Tim’s been doing DAGGER fanzine since I was a teen and perhaps even before you were born. He’s just put out issue #46. It’s good (a fairly quick newsletter-style read, but good). You can get it from him for a few stamps or even a dollar. Learn more here.
The new HOUSEHOLD EP “Elaines” is out, and it’s very much in a league with their excellent past compositions, with with a slightly softer core than moves them a step away from, say, The Urinals and marginally more into Young Marble Giants/Marine Girls territory – while remaining very much their own thing.
They employ customer-friendly pricing, too – the whole 6-song thing can be downloaded for a mere 3 bucks here. There’s vinyl too.
Look for an interview with the band in the upcoming Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #1, which is nearly done and goes to the printer next week.
Sick, sad readers: I am thrilled and honored to share with you the first official music video from my favorite act currently tearing shit up in the Midwest: Sex Tide. Their new video for the track …
How about another great new band from Australia? This time it’s THE CLITS, who, contrary to their name and cover art, are not a intense, totally rad, sex-obsessed femme-punk band, but rather an excellent laconic, shambling, lo-fidelity pop band (with a dude singer) who made four pretty goddamn great songs on their debut EP.
You can listen by clicking the button, and you can buy it here.
FORCED EXPOSURE #3, back when it was nearly a pure (and really good) hardcore ‘zine.
AGONY SHORTHAND 