{"id":1701,"date":"2009-01-07T22:54:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2015-07-10T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:32:05","slug":"the-decline-and-fall-of-zine-culture-part-785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-decline-and-fall-of-zine-culture-part-785\/","title":{"rendered":"the decline and fall of zine culture part 785"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Why do you think I do a blog? Cos it’s less work than doing a fanzine and it costs sweet F.A to ‘publish’. Sorry if I’m more advanced in my commitment to the anarcho-socialist utopia of the 24\/7 leisure society than some.”<\/em> – Martin, BTI<\/a><\/p>\n

There seem to be less and less magazines out there I am interested in as time passes. Maybe that’s because I’m more fussy and cynical these days, but I think the simple fact is that there is just less self-published material being produced.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’ve been reading recently, anyway:<\/p>\n

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Savage Messiah #10
\n<\/strong>London 2013 and things look bad. Laura Oldfield Ford paints a bleak picture of the Olympic legacy, with various subcultural tribes wandering the decaying urban wastelands of a post-apocalyptic Britain. Perhaps the most shocking indictment of all is the fact that these wretches seem to be reduced to painting Flux of Pink Indians<\/em> graffiti on the walls….<\/p>\n

Order direct<\/a> or buy from Housmans<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n

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Aufheben #17<\/strong>
\nBrighton-based marxist magazine which won’t be to everyone’s tastes -very text heavy, lots of footnotes, quite wordy. Still worth a read in places though – I have linked to their piece on opposition to the Criminal Justice Bill <\/a>from the uncarved “critical look at anarchopunk” pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This issue includes some surprisingly readable interrogations of New Labour and the Socialist Workers Party\u00a0and their relationships with the “muslim community”. Good to see a worthwhile class<\/em> analysis of the situation for a change.<\/p>\n

Order from AK Distribution<\/a> or buy from Housmans<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n

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Shook #4<\/strong>
\nMusic mag – a bit too much focussed on soul, funk, hip hop, crate diggin’ business for my liking but still pretty good as these things go. This issue has a nice feature on UK reggae soundsystems – largely inspired by the Musically Mad DVD. The piece has some nice quotes from Shaka’s box boy Norman Felix and Benji Roots of Brixton’s Supertone shop. Other features I found interesting include Greg Wilson on Legends – Manchester’s seminal electro club and a feature on Emory Douglas – graphic artist and Minster of Culture for the Black Panther Party.<\/p>\n

Order direct.<\/a> Or download a free sample pdf<\/a> (for the first page or so of many articles).<\/p>\n

Otherwise it’s back to my archives for a print media fix. Or (bah) onto the net:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/zinewiki.com\/<\/a> was<\/em> a great resource about independent publishing – hell I even added some stuff on there about reggae fanzines. It now seems to be down, bah. I was looking forward to going back there and genning up on first wave Riot Grrl zines after listening to a compilation CD of the music Martin did for me.<\/p>\n

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When zinewiki was<\/em> up, browsing through lead me to discover that there is now an almost complete online archive of queer punk zine Homocore<\/a>. That was always worth checking – a nice counterpoint to the increasingly rigid and tedious punk scene.<\/p>\n

See also:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/qzap.org\/v5\/index.php<\/a> which includes Homocore precursor JDs<\/strong> and lots more besides.<\/p>\n

JDs is interesting because it is said to have willed into existence<\/em> the homocore \/ queer punk genre just by writing about it, over emphasising some things and probably mythologising a lot. Perhaps worth comparing to Taqwacore, the relatively recent eruption of Islamic Punk which was apparently inspired by a novel<\/a>?<\/p>\n


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“Why do you think I do a blog? Cos it’s less work than doing a fanzine and it costs sweet F.A to ‘publish’. Sorry if I’m more advanced in my commitment to the anarcho-socialist utopia of the 24\/7 leisure society than some.” – Martin, BTI There seem to be less and less magazines out there …<\/p>\n

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