Word: zine
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...which hit the newsstands yesterday, picks Heavenly for the "Cute Band Alert" box. Assuming you read FM the day it came out, it's safe to say you "read it here first." And (making the same assumption) you might remember that the word of the week this week is "zine," which is a contraction of "fanzine," which was coined sometime in the 70s from "fan" plus "magazine"; the missing "maga" (yes, I'm making this up) stands for "mega," since fanzines are by definition produced not by megacorporations intent on market shares, but by individuals (or small groups of people...
PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE Run out of London, by the Bevis Frond and his friends, who--both in the records they make and in the zine they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send...
...means I don't get new records for my birthday; for this column, however, it's a virtue disguised as necessity. This week, I'll talk about some older records that have been hard to get until recently; next week--probably--the word of the week will be "zine...
...This is one of the largest maga- zine launches in the past five years," he said. "More than 200,000 copies will reach 78,000 retail outlets...
Largely patched together from back issues of Mondo 2000 magazine (and its precursor, a short-lived 'zine called Reality Hackers), the Guide is filled with articles on all the traditional cyberpunk obsessions, from ARTIFICIAL LIFE to VIRTUAL SEX. But some of the best entries are those that report on the activities of real people trying to live the cyberpunk life. For example, Mark Pauline, a San Francisco performance artist, specializes in giant machines and vast public spectacles: sonic booms that pin audiences to their chairs or the huge, stinking vat of rotting cheese with which he perfumed...