While we’re busy at work on our first Dynamite Hemorrhage print fanzine, the folks at Austin, TX’s RUBBERNECK have just cranked out their seventh. This one’s got features on folks we like at the ‘Hemorrhage as well, including Spray Paint, SS Records and The Sleaze. Order it for a mere 5 bucks here.
New print fanzine from Montreal devoted to female-fronted punk, post punk etc – ONLY DEATH IS FATAL. You can order it here. It even comes with a compact disc or something called a"tape".
COSLOY YOUTH fanzine from Houston, TX, 1988. Ray Shea, one of the two movers behind this one, was a late 80s/early 90s DJ with me at KFJC. He was moderately embarrassed and blown away when I told him I had a copy of his fanzine.
The title refers, of course, to Conflict Magazine’s Gerard Cosloy, who also helmed Homestead Records at the time. Many, many ‘zines of the day emulated the man’s “cutting” prose stylings and encyclopedic knowledge of pretty much every band in the rocknroll underground.
This fanzine, SUPERDOPE #8, is one that I put out in 1998, and one of which I still have multiple copies left. I’m selling if you’re buying.
It’s a digest-sized ‘zine with a long piece on my then-favorite 45rpm singles, each individually reviewed and explained. You can get a sense from the cover of what kind of music we’re talking about here. The magazine also has reviews of then-au courant rocknroll acts as well.
Only $3 to US residents ($4 Canada, $7 rest of world), via Paypal, to jayhinman(at)hotmail(dotcom). Make sure you provide your address to me there and I’ll wing one out to you right away.
My scanning of SUPERDOPE fanzine, which I used to write and put out myself back in the 1990s, continues apace. I’ve already scanned the previous six issues, which were published 1991-1993, and you can download and read each of them here. Here’s the lone issue that came out in 1994, SUPERDOPE #7. It was a small digest-sized mag centered around two in-person interviews I did with the bands Doo Rag and Virginia Dare. The interviews are then followed by a few book reviews and then a whole mess of record reviews.
Nineteen years later, it seems to read pretty well. I can’t say that I’ve spent a whole lot of time listening to either Doo Rag or Virginia Dare since then, but hey, that’s where my 26-yr-old head was in 1994, and I still like ‘em both. Around this time I was also “running” a small record label called WOMB; you can see on the back of this ‘zine the ad I made for the Monoshock 45 I put out. A few months after this came out, Anthony from Past It Records and I put out a Demolition Doll Rods 45 as well, and that was the end of Womb Records.
Turned out it was pretty much the end of Superdope fanzine, as well – at least for four years. In 1998, I came back and published one final issue of the magazine. Alas, it’s the only one I have any copies of anymore, and if you’re interested in it, this post provides some details on how to order it. #7, the one I’m posting here – well, I’m afraid you’ll have to scour the fanzine aftermarket. Or just download it here.
DOWNLOAD Superdope #7 (1994)
THE GERMS evolve and win friends – review from RAW POWER #5 fanzine in 1978, as scanned and written about in the excellent Waitekere Walks blog this week.
ZERO GRAVITY fanzine #2, circa 1992 or so, which was published by Truman’s Water’s Glen Galloway, aka Glen Galaxy, out of San Diego.
Interview w/ Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom on the cover of Gerard Cosloy’s CONFLICT magazine #48, Summer 1988.
WIPE OUT! fanzine #9, published in Memphis by Eric Friedl/Oblivian circa 1993 or 1994….
Great overview on the demented doofus-rock of South San Francisco’s THE BRENTWOODS, taken from Wipe Out fanzine #9. The band featured Darren and Karen, immediately post-Supercharger, as well as Danielle from The Trashwomen and the resplendent “Patty” on vocals.
AGONY SHORTHAND 