Songs About Ghosts #2 / :20 / $1.00 / 64S / Jasmine Wagner, 252 Norman Ave., #203, Brooklyn, NY 11222 / http://www.songsaboutghosts.com / I only realized that the title of Jasmine’s zine wasn’t just a nice sounding collection of words after reading through the entirety of this issue. This time, Jasmine takes us back to a summertime camp, interspersing eir narrative with snippets of eir current life. Through this narrative,…
Solid Café / :05 / ? / 12S / 2692 Madison Rd Ste N1, PMB 220, Cincinnati, OH 45209 / More of a thought than a zine, Solid Café discusses Da Malatesta’s desire that Che Guevara was a transgender individual than the bio-male that eir was during eir life. With a few words per page, I can’t honestly say that the read was a long one, but the desire expressed…
Slug & Lettuce #89 / Free|Postage / :45 / 20M / [email protected] / Slug & Lettuce is a magazine that I try to pick up each time I see it available. Sure, I do not know many of the bands that are covered, but Chris’ work in uniting solid zine and CD reviews with intellectual opinion piece is far beyond practically any other magazine out on the market. The zine…
Slug and Lettuce #77 / Full Sized / 20 Pages / Christine, PO Box 26632, Richmond, VA 23261-6632 / [email protected] / Released Autumn 2003 / While Chris might have the tag for eir magazine be “A zine supporting the do-it-yourself ethics of the punk communityâ€, the simple fact here is that Slug & Lettuce is more than just a zine. After a lifetime of publication, literally (Slug & Lettuce is…
Slug and Lettuce #71 – I’ve always appreciated the work that Christine has did for the zine community, but with this issue, eir has transcended all hopes that I had for this zine and put out something that will permanently be on my top 10 zines of all time. This issue centers itself around the death of one Sera, an individual that I was not aware of, and a number…
Slug&Lettuce #69 – For a more general review read the review of #64. Being printed quarterly might pose a problem for some zines, but Adrienne (of Aus-Rotten) is able to keep a piece about the time immediately following 9-11 timely with some of the most rational rhetoric I’ve heard. Ecopunk’s piece is a modern-day metaphysical assessment with a very knowledgeable base of the environment around him. Sascha’s piece is revolutionary…
Jun-Aug 2000/ Free-17 by 11.5, Newspaper style. Very small print. The opening article is incredibly well-written, who is accomplished enough to write for Maximum Rocknroll. The ads are very heavily interspersed in the magazine, but it makes sense, as Chris(tine) (the editor) needs some source of income for this very awesome magazine. “Zero Content†is a very funny and professionally drawn comic, of which I would like to see more.…
Slug #218 / Free / 1:10 / 68M / http://www.slugmag.com / Slug is one of those scene magazines that has information about what is happening in the local scene. Slug’s focus is on the Salt Lake City area, and the zine itself is miles beyond many of the other scene magazines that are on the market. That is to say that Slug is much more of a melding of magazines…
Slingshot #92 / Free / 16L / :30 / http://www.thelonghaul.org / Slingshot is one of the longest-running anarchist-oriented zines out on the market (is Fifth Estate still being published?)/ This issue is free and beyond the great center-fold poster, provides leaders with information about the latest arrests made in the Earth First-realm of things. Also in this issue is a description of the current state of politics in Oaxaca, Mexico.…
This zine is done by Sarah, known best for her Quixotic Distro (not the zine Quixotic Potential, thought). Sleep in sweet change really forces one to think in a different way, as the method of Sarah’s madness is to recap her experiences through a collection of journal pieces. This in itself is not anything innovative, but she shows her reading audience that long-distance relationships do work over longer periods of…
Skyscraper #23 / $4 / 124M / 2:00 / http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com / Skyscraper is solid. In each issue, there are always pieces that the magazine conducts with larger artists, more up and coming artists, and other related pieces to keep individuals interested. This time, the large acts include The Rapture, The Blood Brothers, and Erase Errata, where the more up and coming acts are Wires on Fire and Captain Ahab. Individuals…
Skyscraper #22 / $4.99 / 2:00 / 124M / http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com /Â Skyscraper is the same that it always was. It does not make sense to change something that works so well time after time. What I really appreciate about Skyscraper is that the editors have laid out this issue so that readers have to go through bands they have never heard of (Such as Grizzly Bear, Akimbo, Shooting At Unarmed…
Skyscraper #21 / $4.99 / 2:30 / 132M / http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com / Skyscraper has a lot in common with magazines like Shredding Paper and The Big Takeover. Skyscraper is more like The Big Takeover because each of the magazines cover in an exhaustive way the music that the editors find most cutting-edge. While The Big Takeover has much more in the way of classic acts, Skyscraper showcases the newest, most buzzed-about…
Skyscraper #20 / $4.99 / 1:30 / 140M / http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com / [email protected] / As usual, Skyscraper finds itself throwing out its tried and true formula; up and coming bands are interviewed by the barrelful, in-depth reviews find their way through a large section of the magazine, and pictures are visible for all who wish to see. The cover is cute in an “off†sort of way; done by Jeremy Wabiszczewicz,…
Skyscraper #19 / $4.99 / 1:30 / 188M / http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com / [email protected] /Â Skyscraper is a tri-partite zine; featured in its run each time are equal parts of advertisements, band features, and reviews. This may seem to some to be a strength for the zine, but with this extremely long issue and a lack of mixture of these three parts, it becomes hard to read through the zine throughout with…
Skyscraper #17 / 1:30 / $4.99 / 200M / Skyscraper Magazine, PO Box 1595, New York, NY 10276 / http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com /Â With each subsequent issue of Skyscraper I receive, the editors seem to go further and further into the pop-alternative with the end result being issue 17. Skyscaper has moved from being a post-emo and hardcore magazine to a zine that tows the Pitchfork Media line. Using interviews with Franz…
Skyscraper #16 / $4.99 / Full Sized / 178 Pages / [email protected] / http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com / One of the most jam-packed zines that I’ve read in the last few months, Skyscraper has stayed remarkably close to the earlier issues: #6 has interviews with bands I never have heard of just like the current issue, #16. While the layout has gotten more appealing in the five years since #6, the choice of…
Skyscraper #13 ($4.99 , PO Box 1595, NY, NY 10276) First off, if anyone tells you that $4.99 is too much to spend on any zine, they have obviously never seen a copy of Skyscraper. While I received a copy of Skyscraper back a few years ago (and still read it to this day), I don’t even think I was ready to see #13, which shows a music zine that…
Skeptic Vol. 12 No.2 / $5.95 / 2:00 / 100M / http://www.skeptic.com /Â I picked this magazine up from the 2006 American Atheist conference, and while it is a pretty glossy and large circulation magazine, it is not something that the average reader of NeuFutur would be familiar with. This is a magazine that will take listeners a good chunk of time to finish; the overall theme of the magazine…
66 Thousand Miles Per Hour #1 / :14 / 32M / $3.50 / PO Box 974, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 / http://www.66thousandmilesperhour.com / While there have been a few goings-on in this issue, the fact is that Michael’s story-telling uses a lot of pages to sum up what should take only a page or so. This really makes me think that 66TMPH should be a cartoon instead of a comic.…