TOO FUN TOO HUGE! fanzine, issue #2, from 1988. The editor was Patrick Amory, and the magazine has a great, snark-heavy, uber-opinionated feel that was (and remains) right up my proverbial alley.
I’ve added a 1-page piece from this issue about record collecting from Amory. No doubt this guy lived it, and was a front-lines record collecting commando at Midnight, Bleeker Bob’s and St. Mark’s around this time.
Australia’s B-SIDE fanzine, issue #19 from 1987. That was the year that Australian Radio Birdman-style rawk was huge among a certain kind of record accumulator/nerd….like me.
Cosmic Psychos, Hard-Ons, Celibate Rifles, Reptiles at Dawn, Seminal Rats – I loved that stuff. Sold just about all of it with zero regrets within a decade.
From the SLASH magazine 1-year anniversary issue, Los Angeles 1978.
BOO BOO fanzine #1, published by Brett Sokol out of Cleveland, Ohio in 1994, and scanned by me at my house yesterday afternoon twenty years later.
DRUNKEN FISH was a label and (briefly) a fanzine based out of Santa Monica, CA.
Darren Mock was the guy behind the mini-empire, and a friendly guy to boot whom I met a couple of times in the early 90s. To the best of my knowledge, the ‘zine only came out once. Its focus was collector-scum 45s and underground rock music in limited editions. This great piece by Dave Stimson (one of the fellas behind Touch-n-Go fanzine) provides a nice flavour.
Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine is available for sale – but only for about 10 more days, because I’m moving to Norway for the summer, and I don’t think they have mail service or envelopes there (and I’m not going to haul my last box of remaining ‘zines there to find out).
So if you’ve been considering getting our first issue for yourself or a loved one, now might be the time. I’ll take orders until May 11th, then I’ll disable the Paypal link until mid-August, when I return with a big blonde walrus ‘stache and a belly full of whale.
Order Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 here.
It includes:
– An in-depth interview with Chris D., Los Angeles-based punk rock earth-turner, who founded and fronted The Flesh Eaters; ran a pioneering record label called Upsetter; almost released the first Black Flag album; wrote dozens of reviews and helped to edit the seminal Slash magazine; put out his own fanzine with Exene, John Doe & Judith Bell; and much more – all before 1979 was finished. This interview focuses solely on that period of his career
– The first and only retrospective and posthumous interview with SALLY SKULL, a fantastic 1990s all-female Scottish band who made raw, jarring garage punk music with dollops of angularity and dirty pop hooks
– Mail interviews with SEX TIDE and HOUSEHOLD, two current bands working the circuit who happen to be two of Dynamite Hemorrhage’s very favorites
– Quickie interview with BONA DISH, a recently-resurrected early 80s UK countryside band who are poster children for the rough-hewn, spaced-out DIY sound that we’ve all come to worship from that era and country
– Big retrospective on 1980s and 1990s underground music fanzines (like Damp, Butt Rag, Dagger, Two Hundred Pound Underground etc.) by the editor of Fuckin’ Record Reviews blog
– 60-something record reviews written by Erika Elizabeth and Jay Hinman
– 15-something book reviews by Jay & Erika
– Advertisements from today’s top labels
A modicum of praise for Los Angeles’ SIN 34 in NO MAG, circa 1982.
Sin 34 (whom the editors of Dynamite Hemorrhage have a bit of a guilty-pleasure soft spot for) were the perennial opening band on hardcore bills all over LA and the San Fernando Valley in the early 80s. Members later went on to Painted Willie; Dave Markey became an infamous underground filmmaker and was putting out We Got Power fanzine around the time of this review as well.
Not especially readable – but here’s a split interview w/ San Francisco’s ICKY BOYFRIENDS and Toronto’s LEATHER UPPERS – who shared a drummer – from the pages of Portland’s Snipehunt fanzine, a mag I’d love to find some back issues of (especially if anyone saved the “Zip Code Rapists break up” issue….). Enjoy your squinting.
From SKID fanzine #5, published out of Milwaukee in 1982. Extra points to publisher Jon Hope for calling out The Groinoids, and for giving the good word to Gang Green, whose tracks on this compilation are absolutely blazing.
I was interviewed for a new piece on KQED’s Arts website about Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #1, the return of analog culture and the process of over-marinating in and attempting to curate music in many online and offline formats.
AGONY SHORTHAND 