Byron Coley’s classic FLESH EATERS 1982 tour diary piece from Take It! fanzine has been digitized and posted online here.
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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.
A picture of UK DIY early 80s minimalists the INSTANT AUTOMATONS…? Now how about that.
- This is truly an era of No Fuckin’ Record Review Left Behind! We asked and and we received: According to one of our founding fanzine fathers – Jay Hinman – Alright! was written and published “by Rich and Sandra from the Long Beach band Jackknife.” Thanks Jay!
- Coincidentally, Jackknife is featured as the lead off band on Jay’s most recent podcast of stupendosity, Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio. Dig in!
ALRIGHT! #2 1993 (cover)
ALRIGHT! originated from Los Angeles.
We have no idea who was responsible.Help?
Those of you who may have listened to the most recent Dynamite Hemorrhage podcast (#20) might have heard me yammer on about this fanzine project I’m doing – a print version of this blog/podcast, slated to be completed at the end of 2013 or early 2014. I’d had this vague idea of trying to contact CLOTHILDE, the greatest of the great 60s yéye French pop singers, since a new reissue of her complete works has recently come out (it’s fantastic, of course, but if you’ve heard even one of her songs you knew that).
Turns out there’s no need. Both she and her svengali, Germinal Tenas, pictured here, are interviewed in the booklet that comes with the CD, and it’s a hoot. She’s pissed! 46 years later, she’s still in a huff about her brief career and is both hostile to herself and to the system that surrounded her.
The good news is that it’s reprinted in its entirety here. It bursts my bubble a little bit about the demure, lovely singer Clothilde, but that’s almost better – she is portrayed as more of an impetuous, tantrum-throwing 60s radical Frenchwoman. Isabelle Huppert would do a terrific job playing her in the Clothilde movie. Someone get on that, OK?
Everett True discovered one of our early 1990s New Zealand favorites, THE GARBAGE AND THE FLOWERS, yesterday. In true True fashion, he’s now hooked, obsessed, and the world’s biggest fan. Now I’ve learned that the band, relocated to Australia, is still active, and have new material and a reissue on the way. How about that? Read more 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.
FIFTY FOOT HOSE, the late 60s San Francisco electronic/psych band who’ve been my #1 jam this week in the car.
THE GORDONS “farewell” gig flyer; Wellington New Zealand. From what I can gather, this would have been 1981 or 1982, considering that Naked Spots Dance were also on the bill, who broke up in ‘83.
The Gordons reformed again in 1983, and again in 1984 with their original line-up. Later they morphed into Bailter Space.
AGONY SHORTHAND 