SPIDER review from Ryan Wells, Z GUN fanzine #1. And yeah, he’s totally right about this one – one of the great small-batch 45s of the last ten years.
Tag: fanzine
The first decade of the 21st century was not particularly known for its print fanzines, for reasons that should be obvious.
A phenomenal exception was Z GUN, published out of Sacramento, CA by Scott Soriano and Ryan Wells. 3 issues in total, one per year from 2007-2009. Garage, art, punk and noise, along with detours into international/global musics, think pieces and dozens upon dozens of records reviews.
Here are the covers for all three.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #2 fanzine isn’t merely 84 pages of pompous underground rocknroll interviews & commentary. Only 78 pages of that.
The other 6 of those pages are devoted to an article called “The Layman’s Guide To 1970s Jamaican Dub”, which is my attempt to provide the most cursory and opinionated of overviews to the shimmering, jarring and wild experimental world of 70s dub.
There’s a history of the form, some personal anecdotes, photos like the one you see here (that’s Glenmore Brown, breakin’ the law), plus an explanatory Top 10 list of the greatest 70s Jamaican dub recordings from the likes of Augustus Pablo, Prince Jammy, Mikey Dread, Joe Gibbs, Tappa Zukie, Impact All-Stars and more.
We still have copies of the 84-page Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 fanzine for sale right here. Podcast listeners: this is effectively our phony radio show in print form.
Get all the details on what’s in it, and order your copy, here.
Two issues of Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine are available to order.
Issue #1 came out the final week of 2013. I’ve only got about 40 of these left to sell, and they’re going pretty fast. Learn more and order yours here.
Issue #2’s only a few months new. Plenty of these to be had. Learn more and order yours here.
Now available, in case we hadn’t reached you before – DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #2. It’s an 84-page fanzine and you can order it here.
It features:
– An interview and career-spanning retrospective with BILL DIREEN, the New Zealand-based musical iconoclast and creator of some of the
most weird and wonderful underground pop music of the last 35 years.
Great old photos of Vacuum, Six Impossible Things and more – with
Direen’s take on his many recordings, bands and general outlook on
creation & creativity.
– Tim Warren from Crypt Records, on the eve of two new volumes of the mind-destroying “BACK FROM THE GRAVE”
60s punk compilations, takes us through in profanity-strewn detail how
he’s been putting these comps together since 1983, and the pain the man
has endured to make sure you and I get to hear some of the most raw and
rare rocknroll chaos of all time…!
– Interview with bedroom lo-fi pop savants HONEY RADAR, currently making many short, abrasive and lovely mini-masterpieces out of Philadelphia
– Interview with NOTS, raw and slashing earworm punk band from Memphis
– KING TEARS MORTUARY, Sydney, Australia’s answer to the question “What would a mix of C86, KBD punk and The Gories sound like?”
– Erika Elizabeth’s overview of lost and neglected female-fronted punk and post-punk bands and records you’ve never heard of
– The Layman’s Guide to 1970s Jamaican DUB
– an overview of wild, weird and wacked dub reggae created during its
peak era, along with ten essential dub recordings, explored
– Interviews with Jon Savage and Stuart Baker on the new PUNK 45 series of archival 70s punk reissues
– 87 record reviews
– 15 book reviews
– Advertisements from today’s top hitmaking labels
The new (and final?) RUBBERNECK fanzine (#11) just arrived in our mailbox yesterday, and we jammed through it in record time. Not difficult, as it’s always been mostly a photo zine with a bit of print content (short interviews, record reviews etc.).
Editor Miranda Fisher was extremely helpful to Dynamite Hemorrhage as I was trying to figure out how to get a print magazine rolling again in 2013; she and photo editor Jon Chamberlin gave me heeded advice on ad rates, proper weight of paper and what to look for in a printer.
The new issue features an interview w/ Life Stinks, and they reference a review I wrote of ‘em in Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 (scanned for your reading pleasure, as is my own original review).
Byron Coley & Thurston Moore’s new print fanzine BULL TONGUE REVIEW is now ready for you to order for a mere $5 here.
Time to wrap up the year. Last post for 2014, so we’ll make it a totally self-serving one.
Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 fanzine is now available here. Wait, did we not mention that before?
Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 is an 84-page music fanzine dedicated to raw and sub-underground rocknroll from the last 5 decades. This one just came out in late November 2014.
It features:
– An interview and career-spanning retrospective with BILL DIREEN, the New Zealand-based musical iconoclast and creator of some of the most weird and wonderful underground pop music of the last 35 years. Great old photos of Vacuum, Six Impossible Things and more – with Direen’s take on his many recordings, bands and general outlook on creation & creativity.
– Tim Warren from Crypt Records, on the eve of two new volumes of the mind-destroying “BACK FROM THE GRAVE” 60s punk compilations, takes us through in profanity-strewn detail how he’s been putting these comps together since 1983, and the pain the man has endured to make sure you and I get to hear some of the most raw and rare rocknroll chaos of all time…!
– Interview with bedroom lo-fi pop savants HONEY RADAR, currently making many short, abrasive and lovely mini-masterpieces out of Philadelphia
– Interview with NOTS, raw and slashing earworm punk band from Memphis
– KING TEARS MORTUARY, Sydney, Australia’s answer to the question “What would a mix of C86, KBD punk and The Gories sound like?”
– Erika Elizabeth’s overview of lost and neglected female-fronted punk and post-punk bands and records you’ve never heard of
– The Layman’s Guide to 1970s Jamaican DUB – an overview of wild, weird and wacked dub reggae created during its peak era, along with ten essential dub recordings, explored
– Interviews with Jon Savage and Stuart Baker on the new PUNK 45 series of archival 70s punk reissues
– 87 record reviews
– 15 book reviews
– Advertisements from today’s top hitmaking labels
See you again in this space in 2015. New podcasts coming as well.
AGONY SHORTHAND 