zines – Rocknerd

B-Side #14, early 1986: Wet Taxis, Porcelain Bus, Feedtime, Ups & Downs, Mick Harvey/Bad Seeds, John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong.

12 October, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

This is the last of the B-Side for the moment. I have a few scraps of other stuff to put up …

B-Side #13, December 1985: Deniz Tek, Ku Klux Frankenstein, Ed Kuepper/Laughing Clowns, Huxton Creepers, X, Happy Hate Me Nots, Beach Nuts, Louis Tillett, Itchy Rat

7 October, 20217 October, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

And a four-page cartoon in the middle.

B-Side #12, late 1985: Scientists, The Eastern Dark, The Stems, Deniz Tek, Behind The Magnolia Curtain, Mark Ferrie, Reactor Records.

10 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

More procrastination on other things!

B-Side #11, June 1985: Tex Perkins, The Shindiggers, Decline of the Reptiles, Eugene Chadbourne, 21 Faces, The Celibate Rifles, Harem Scarem.

5 September, 20216 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

I basically commend all of this coverage.

B-Side #10, April 1985: James Baker Experience, Triffids, Lipstick Killers, Saints, Tactics, New York garage psych roundup.

1 September, 20211 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

Remember when you could get this sort of goodness for a dollar?

B-Side 4½, June–July 1984: Celibate Rifles, True West, J.F.K. and the Cuban Crisis, Clinton Walker on The Next Thing

31 August, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

B-Side was the Australian indie rock fanzine of the time. Just slabs of text about good bands and records. I straight-up lifted its format for Party Fears.

Vortex #6, Dec 1987–Jan 1988: Kryptonics, Kim Salmon, Stems, Stolen Picassos, Errol H. Tout, Bacen Asagai, Cremator, Scarlets, Die Monster Die, And An A, 10,000 Maniacs, White Cross, The Cult

8 August, 20218 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 0

And that about wraps it up for Vortex!

Vortex #5, August 1987: Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Go-Betweens, Stolen Picassos, Gay Marvins, Martha’s Vineyard, Weddings Parties Anything, Chad’s Tree, Concrete Blonde

6 August, 20216 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 0

I’m on a roll here, or I’m procrastinating like hell on other things.

Vortex #4, May–June 1987: Palisades, Scientists, The Cult, Sparklers, Reels, New Order, Matt Johnson/The The, Errol H. Tout, The Clash.

5 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 3

I said previously I’d have the rest of Vortex up by the end of 2020, no worries. This proved incorrect.

Vortex #3, March 1987: Triffids, Ed Kuepper, Greg Dear, Kno Matter, White Cross, OMD, Paul Weller.

30 July, 201830 July, 2018 Indie, Writing 0

Yes, I finally got Vortex #3 cleaned up and online.

Vortex zine #2 is up.

9 April, 2017 Indie, Writing 0

From the bowels of time, Vortex, Perth, December 1986.

1986-87 Perth fanzine Vortex scanned and up on the Party Fears page.

11 March, 201712 March, 2017 Indie, Writing 4

From the bowels of time, we bring you Vortex magazine, Perth 1986-1987.

Links: Nirvana, fanzines, music as violence.

30 June, 201624 August, 2016 Punk, Writing 0

Apropos to sociological conditions in the early 1990s, here’s Nirvana just after Nevermind hit big.

LA punk zines Slash and NoMag scanned, courtesy Circulation Zero.

1 December, 20154 September, 2016 Writing 0

Ryan Richardson has put up lots of old archival material before, and his latest is Circulation Zero, on which he plans to make available the complete runs (or, at worst, the complete interesting runs) of ancient punk rock history.

The James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection of fanzines (the SF sort).

2 July, 20156 May, 2017 Writing 0

Of course, the first zines were science fiction zines, and they sprung up in the 1930s just about as soon as mimeographs were physically