Mad At The World (NJ, 1997 48 pages, offset)
This has the best interview I have read with Breakdown in it. Hilarious, and introduced the word ?herb? into the Australian hardcore vernacular when a bunch of people read it in the late 90?s. Alongside this, there?s shit on Agnostic Front, Templars, Slapshot, etc.
??Vengeance? was written after I went to this party with one of my friends and we were leaving with some beers and this guy who was supposed to be a bouncer for the party or something (he didn?t do such a good job) said we couldn?t leave with the beers because of the cops. So he just grabs my friends collar for no reason and pulls him up in the air and rips his shirt up and shit. I took that herb, threw him into a tree, and started kicking his ass. In the end, he gave my friend $30 for a new shirt and apologized.? Jeff Perlin, Breakdown
Do The Pop #1 (Seattle, 1995 72 pages, offset)
Great mid-90?s punk fanzine from Seattle that hails proto-punk like Droogs and MC5, first wave punk like Radio Birdman, Alan Milman Sect, Dead Boys, and second wave like Consumers or Sham 69. No pop punk, these guys were probably freaks for In The Red and Crypt Records from the time and the approach was somewhat similar to early Ugly Things: exhaustive research and reportage on the cream of an era.
Chemical Imbalance #6 (NY, 1987 100 pages, offset)
This is a pretty insane document of underground late 80?s art / music crossover in NY. There?s an interview with Matt Groening pre-Simpsons, next to a comic featuring a character that looks suspiciously like Bart wearing a Germs shirt that would probably result in a lawsuit if anyone could prove Groening borrowed from the image for the Simpsons? Alongside this, interviews with Wire, Scratch Acid and Doldrums (conducted by Sheer Terror frontman Paul Bearer?!) and artist submissions by Gary Panter and Peter Bagge should blow your mind.
End Times #5 (MI, 1985 20 pages, photocopied)
Great issue of this mid-80?s US fanzine, in particular for the Ron Asheton interview which talks about the ground between The Stooges and Destroy All Monsters. The editors demonstrate an engagement with the better tunes of the time, from Samhain to Black Flag to St Vitus to Voivod to Massacre, all getting well-informed and esteemed writing. Includes a response to the infamous MRR ?Does Punk Suck?? issue that reads like an adult thought about it. Exceptional.
Forced Exposure #18 (MA, 1993 148 pages, offset)
Forced Exposure is a definitive US music fanzine, committed to exploring the niches and not settling on any style. For this reason, they missed a lot of great things happening in hardcore in the late 80?s and early 90?s, but they also dug into Chris Knox and Boyd Rice, two enduring figures, at in interim period in both of their notoriety. The ground they covered in reviews was as broad, and written with far more grit, than Wire is today. Admirable.
Puncture #11 (SF, 1986 48 pages, offset)
Incredible music mag from ?86 from editors Katherine Spielmann and Patty Sterling. Incredibly broad taste featuring Jesus and Mary Chain alongside The Clean alongside early SST / Black Flag roundup, Meat Puppets, Replacements, and a review that goes from Minor Threat to the Cannanes to Saccharine Trust to Beat Happening, and it?s well written and tastefully presented. One of the better mid 80?s US rags.
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