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.
Tag: fanzines
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.
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.
SKID was an early-80s Milwaukee-based fanzine published by one Jon Hope, who later published a great music blog called Underneathica during the 00s. SKID was put together whilst he was a teenager, and this one, issue #5, even has a “thanks to Dad” in it, which is pretty great.
Jon’s taste at age 15 or 16 was quite stellar, ranging from hardcore to experimental post-punk to Flipper to some happy English new wave. He recently wrote liner notes to the AMA-DOTS reissue, having been a fiendish devotee of the band in their time. I’ll be posting a few other scans from Skid #5 as the week progresses.
“…you really DO need to own any and all Fireworks records of the seven-inch variety.”
SUPERDOPE #7 1994 (no page #)
FIREWORKS review by JAY HINMAN, Editor
- Superdope was then, Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 is now.
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.
Sincere apologies for always flogging the Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine in this space – but if not here, where, right? So here’s the deal – the 100 or so copies I have left are all for sale here.
Starting in mid-May, I’m going to have to stop selling them for 3 months, because I’ll be living in Oslo, Norway (!) until August, and unable to ship from there. I mean, I think they’ve got post offices in Norway, perhaps inside whaling stations, but am still not sure. Better safe than sorry.
So if you’re interested in owning what some people have called “One of 2014’s fanzines”, here’s what’s in it:
– 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
AGONY SHORTHAND 