Teenage Mark Arm, reviewing Seattle’s THE U-MEN just as they were coming onto the scene in early 1983. Scanned from ATTACK fanzine #8.
Tag: fanzines
Fanzine ad for ADULT CONTEMPORARY Records, scanned from Forced Exposure #11 in 1987. None of the promised “forthcoming” records – Laughing Hyenas, Drunks With Guns, Terveet Kadet (!) – never came out, at least not on Adult Contemporary, which pretty much folded up shop right around this time.
While it’s not the greatest scan my flatbed has ever rendered, it’s a fantastic fanzine from the early 90s – WIPE OUT! #6, penned by Eric Friedl/Oblivian, straight outta Memphis.
Teenage Mark Arm, reviewing the first NEGATIVE APPROACH single in Attack #8, early 1983.
As you can see, my copy got a little waterlogged and/or damaged over the years, but this is a lost early 1983 hardcore punk fanzine from Seattle called ATTACK, #8. It was published by Jo Smitty, aka Jeff Smith, then of the band Mr. Epp & The Calculations, and later the man behind Feminist Baseball fanzine, a record label and even a pizza place.
His teenage bandmate Mark Arm contributes many of the reviews in this one, some of which I’ll be posting in the weeks to come.
John Brannon from LAUGHING HYENAS, scanned out of Conflict fanzine #48, 1988.
Chris Knox on THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, from New Zealand’s Rip It Up fanzine, November 1982.
A treatise and call to action on the band V-3, published in Siltbreeze fanzine #6 around 1990.
Just got hipped to a new issue of Gerard Cosloy’s CONFLICT magazine, “first in 22 years”. Truly a “formative” magazine in my, uh, musical development and retardation. There was that spring break around 1986 where I borrowed Jackie Ockene’s huge stack of Conflict back issues and read them cover-to-cover at my parents’ house. Never looked back. Indie rock was on.
So I haven’t read Gerard’s latest, but I’m certain the snark will be off the charts, and the musical taste will be superlative. Click here to download Conflict’s first post-Information Superhighway edition.
Ad for the 3-song HALO OF FLIES single Siltbreeze Records put out in 1989, the very first release for that label.
AGONY SHORTHAND 