MAKING WAVES #3 just arrived in the mail yesterday. The mere existence of this fanzine, and its combination of professionalism & slipshod messiness, helped convince me that my own print fanzine still might be a viable option in 2013/2014.
Looking forward to digging in. You can grab your own copy here.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #1 is now available for purchase in the BigCartel store for purchase. It’s a 68-page fanzine featuring raw & sub-underground rocknroll from the last five decades.
It’s $7 + shipping anywhere in the world.
Get Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 here.
Issue #2 coming in November 2014.
Now available, once again – Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 fanzine. We put this out the final week of December 2013 but had to stop selling our remaining copies due to a summer-long stint in Norway, which is now over.
Head over here and take a look at the right-hand column to order and pay via Paypal if you’d like a copy of this 68-page behemoth. It’s $7 plus the true shipping cost to get it to you in your country.
(Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 is coming in October 2014 – more bloated and more obsessive than ever)
#1 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 (Household R.I.P.) 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
SUPERDOPE #3 “1991 Readers’ Poll Results”. They weren’t actually the result of any poll – simply my year-end “best-of” list.
I scanned this 1978 San Francisco punk rock fanzine on my other blog a few years ago – thought I’d do you a favor and let you see it here as well.
In 1999 I tried to resurrect my dead Superdope fanzine with an “email attachment” version. That lasted all of one email. Here it is.
I made this ad for our fanzine to run in Rubberneck magazine about 6 months ago, but never actually found out if the thing ran. Anyway, Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 is available right now from 12XU mail-order if you’d like a copy.
SONIC’S RENDEZVOUS BAND article written by Steve Watson for Superdope #1, a fanzine I put out in 1991. Steve passed away yesterday, and it’s hit those who knew him pretty hard despite ample warning that his passing was coming.
Funny story about this one: Steve gave me his typewritten pages for the piece and I published it as is. I thought the ending was a little clunky, but good, and neither of us thought anything of it until we actually saw it in print. That’s when Steve realized he’d forgotten to give me the last couple of pages (!). We talked about putting “Part 2” in Superdope’s second issue, and somehow it never happened.
The flyers in the piece came from Steve’s personal collection; this was his favorite band while he was growing up in Michigan. Best wishes to him in the great beyond, and to all who knew him.
Another fanzine from the boxes in the garage, this one an early CHEMICAL IMBALANCE, likely from about 1985 or ‘86.
“…they’re all wonderfully celebratory herks & jerks in the patented blink-and-you-missed style.” – J Hinman
DISTURBED #2 1995 (page 17), ROBERT PLANTE, Editor
- Last month we celebrated JIMMY JOHNSON as Fuckin’ Record Reviews’ inaugural UNSUNG HERO OF ROCKNROLL WRITING. There was a Forced Exposure discography at the end of the Jimmy Johnson interview in which Byron Coley tossed off comments about each release, with Disturbed editor Robert Plante adding unauthorized liftage from other sources.
- The Minutemen review above does not appear to include Coley commentary, but instead swipes an equally sharp JAY HINMAN review from Superdope #7 (1994).
AGONY SHORTHAND 