CRUSH! fanzine #3, published in 1990 out of an Iowa college town by a guy whose name escapes me right now. Brian?
Jesus I don’t remember, but this ‘zine came in various guises and wasn’t always called Crush!, either. Classic snotty scene in-joke vibe, leaning heavily toward independent pop and away from punk, garage etc.
Maybe today’s youngsters don’t know it, but HoZac Records out of Chicago was once a pseudo-porn/garage punk fanzine called HORIZONTAL ACTION. This seems to be the only issue (#3) I could find in my fanzine boxes in the garage, but I know I had the other ones around…..
BRAIN TRANSPLANT, an LA-based “KBD”/garage punk fanzine from the late 1990s, edited by Roger Mah.
CURIOSITY IN STOUT SHOES was a short-lived (one issue?) fanzine put out by Christina Madonia in Austin, TX. Very soon thereafter she married one Tom Carter, moved to Houston, and became the Christina Carter whom we know and love from Charalambidies and solo recording fame.
She put together a fanzine very much in keeping with the earthy, ethereal, poetic and dissonant nature of her music. We were in touch pretty frequently back then – by letter, kids – we didn’t have no internet – and I was sorta stunned after pulling it out of a box last week to even see myself thanked in this issue from about 1991, for providing encouragement. Hey, I didn’t do nothin’.
Only 4 more full days before I have to turn the ordering button off for Dynamite Hemorrhage #1….if you’d like to have one in your home, please order before next Monday 5/12 – thanks!
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
DAMP fanzine #3, late 1980s, edited by Kevin Kraynick.
“Sue Hoffs” from THE BANGS, in the pages of LA fanzine NO MAG, 1983.
Fantastic Swedish garage punk fanzine from the late 90s, put together by Henrik Olausson in Landskrona, Sweden. HUMAN GARBAGE DISPOSAL was written in flawless English, and moved beyond the Rip Off Records/In The Red sound it initially mined into old 78rpm stuff, blues, books/film and various stripes of underground rock.
If anyone knows where Mr. Olausson is, can you have him drop me a line?
TOO FUN TOO HUGE! fanzine, issue #2, from 1988. The editor was Patrick Amory, and the magazine has a great, snark-heavy, uber-opinionated feel that was (and remains) right up my proverbial alley.
I’ve added a 1-page piece from this issue about record collecting from Amory. No doubt this guy lived it, and was a front-lines record collecting commando at Midnight, Bleeker Bob’s and St. Mark’s around this time.
Australia’s B-SIDE fanzine, issue #19 from 1987. That was the year that Australian Radio Birdman-style rawk was huge among a certain kind of record accumulator/nerd….like me.
Cosmic Psychos, Hard-Ons, Celibate Rifles, Reptiles at Dawn, Seminal Rats – I loved that stuff. Sold just about all of it with zero regrets within a decade.
AGONY SHORTHAND 