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How minimal can you get?
You familiar with a site/tablet app called ISSUU? Turns out it’s a place for folks like you to publish their fanzines in digital form (for free), and they’re already gathering a pretty great collection of musical chaos from the past and present. To wit:
- Gerard Cosloy’s CONFLICT #54, published “in honor” of this past SXSW
- All the issues of a fantastic New Zealand music fanzine from the mid-80s called GARAGE
- This one pictured here called TOO MANY CREEPS
- The first FLIPSIDE
- a whole bunch more from all aspects of underground publishing
I’ve got a hankering that this is going to be a blossoming hub of uploading and digital page-flipping. I might even put my own mag up here so you can read it on your iPads and whatnot.
SEPTEMBER GIRLS put out one of the best pure-pop 45s of 2013, and they’re fixing to put out a full album very shortly. Here’s the review we wrote on ‘em in Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 – oh, which you can order here.
This Thursday night. Perfect for stagediving and fistfights. See you there.
I bought my first-ever copy of SLASH magazine last week – it’s the one I posted a few scans from already, and the one you see pictured here, from early 1980.
I thought the magazine was going to be compiled in a book one day by some enterprising young moneymaker – lord knows they’d get a few buyers. Erudite, opinionated and on the scene of Los Angeles punk rock ‘77-’80 as it was happening, it’s a huge cut above most other fanzines of its day or any other. I got to read my punker cousin’s copies a couple of decades ago, and figured I’d wait for that book to finally get made, just like the two books of SEARCH & DESTROY fanzines were – which was the (inferior) San Francisco counterpart to SLASH.
Eventually I started bidding for copies of Slash on eBay, without winning, and eventually found other routes to procuring this copy – with five more on the way soon. If I can get over my nervousness about creasing, spindling, folding and mutilating the magazine, look forward to more scans from these magazines here in the near future.
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Oakland’s PANG have a new 45 out. While that one’s OK, this is not that. This is their 45 from last year on Play Pinball Records, and it’s a wiry, keyboard-hum bit of garagey all-female post-punk. Supremely addictive. They broke up, now they’re back together; you can buy the new one here; and this one here.
FLESH EATERS ad for debut LP “No Questions Asked”, SLASH magazine, 1980.
THE DILS’ final record (the one that was the now-obvious precursor to Rank & File), reviewed in SLASH magazine by The Flesh Eaters’ Chris D., 1980.
“Yow! This one nearly gave me a heart attack!”
SEVEN: SCAT RECORDS QUARTERLY Number Two Spring 1990 (no pages #s)
ROBERT GRIFFIN, Editor
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Listen to: Double White Denim by Good Throb
Just ferocious new punk rock music from the United Kingdom, featuring a vocalist two steps shy of John Brannon who sounds like she’s spitting teeth and shredding her throat with every couplet. Simple clang-over-the-head garage punk bellringer of the highest order.
