Purgative Pamphlet #5, by the Montreal-based artist Nat Halford. Picked up last weekend at the excellent Chicago ‘Zine Fest.
New Public Collectors publication and event alert! Just finished: UNDERGROUND MUSIC ‘ZINES from the late 1980s - early 90s. Buy a copy here from Half Letter Press or pick one up for free in Chicago on Saturday or Sunday, August 6 & 7, 2011 at The STOREFRONT on 2606 N. California. From 12-5 PM each day you’ll be able to read around 200 ‘zines from this period, while listening to over 200 cassettes of the music they feature. It would be great to meet some of you. Please spread the word.
Travel and out of town guests have kept me away from blogging for the past week. Whenever I travel to Philadelphia, I get an opportunity to look at stuff in my old bedroom and my mom’s attic, and this will provide much material for future posts. Here are two boxes of old zines, mail, zine layouts and other underground music culture goodness from over 20 years ago. There’s even more in the attic, and I’m only taking about 50 zines back to Chicago, but I’m excited to share this stuff. I found some nice concert photos that other people sent me and plenty of show flyers as well. Most of the zines will be on view at an event in Chicago later this summer. More on that closer to the time.
Threatening Society #4. Published by Tony Mattei, Philadelphia, PA, 1987. See many more scans of ‘zines from my collection here.
Poser Death #2. Published by Chris McClain and Todd Walsh, West Chester, PA. circa 1987. See many more scans of ‘zines from my collection here.
Real World Fanzine #2? Published by Todd Felzer, Huntington Valley, PA, circa 1987/88. More scans of ‘zine covers from this period here.
This Zine Sucks #5. Published by Bob Conrad, Trenton, NJ, 1987. More scans of ‘zine covers from this period here.
I4NI #10. Published by Tony Rettman, Trenton, NJ, 1989. After not having contact in over 20 years, I just exchanged emails with Tony, who still writes about music and recently wrote the book Why Be Something That You’re Not? about the Detroit Hardcore scene in the early 80s. More scans of ‘zine covers from this period, including other issues of I4NI here.
Hell Toupée #4?, Published by Alyson Mead and Phoebe Love, New York, NY. Circa 1988/89. More scans of ‘zine covers from this period here.
Bullshit Monthly #21, published by Mike Bullshit, New York, NY, 1989. More from this ‘zine collection here.
