FATAL MICROBES, UK shamble-punk band, 1979.
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Super-early (February/March 1978) photo of THE FLESH EATERS, just shared by Chris D. on The Flesh Eaters’ revived Facebook page.
We have a new fanzine out. It’s a digital-only ‘zine, solely about books and authors called The Hedonist Jive Book Review – and it’s 100% free to download the PDF or read on your tablet, computer or even smartphone via Issuu.
We interview the amazing Jodi Angel, who’s written some of the most moving and transcendent short stories of this or any era. There’s a big piece on the Rick Perlstein trilogy on 1960s-1970s American upheaval and turbulence. I’ve even crafted “The Final Word in Defense of E-Readers”. And over 20 book reviews to round the thing out.
We still have copies of DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #1 for sale – but not a whole lot of ‘em. They’re moving somewhere between rapidly and glacially, but there are only enough left to tuck under my arm.
If you want one, please come and get it – and if you want to learn more about what’s in it, check this out! And order Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 while you’re at it, why not?
OPAL on the cover of a 1987 Italian fanzine.
SPIDER review from Ryan Wells, Z GUN fanzine #1. And yeah, he’s totally right about this one – one of the great small-batch 45s of the last ten years.
The Kiwi Animal, active in Auckland, New Zealand from 1982-1986.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #2 fanzine isn’t merely 84 pages of pompous underground rocknroll interviews & commentary. Only 78 pages of that.
The other 6 of those pages are devoted to an article called “The Layman’s Guide To 1970s Jamaican Dub”, which is my attempt to provide the most cursory and opinionated of overviews to the shimmering, jarring and wild experimental world of 70s dub.
There’s a history of the form, some personal anecdotes, photos like the one you see here (that’s Glenmore Brown, breakin’ the law), plus an explanatory Top 10 list of the greatest 70s Jamaican dub recordings from the likes of Augustus Pablo, Prince Jammy, Mikey Dread, Joe Gibbs, Tappa Zukie, Impact All-Stars and more.
We still have copies of the 84-page Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 fanzine for sale right here. Podcast listeners: this is effectively our phony radio show in print form.
Get all the details on what’s in it, and order your copy, here.
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