Hey folks, quiet on the podcast front I know, but did want to let you know that Dynamite Hemorrhage #9, Dynamite Hemorrhage #10 and our newest Film Hemorrhage #1 are all still available in our online store.

What’s more, the Fanzine Hemorrhage blog has been where I’ve spent the most time of late, and there’s a ton to devour over there if sub-underground music fanzines of the past (and sometimes present) are something you’re interested in. The whole shtick is that I dissect issues one at a time, looking for ways to shoehorn my own navel-gazing stories and opinions in wherever I can. Doesn’t that sound awesome? Check it out if so.

As per company policy, whenever we sell out of a Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine back issue, it goes up onto the site as a downloadable PDF. Our eighth issue from the tail end of 2020 is now officially gone – as are all the issues except for the two most recent ones – and so we’ve made the 8th – as well as all the other ones – available via PDF if you want to take a look.

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To make it easy for you, here are all the fanzines you can download from me right in one place:

Dynamite Hemorrhage #1
Dynamite Hemorrhage #2
Dynamite Hemorrhage #3
Dynamite Hemorrhage #4
Dynamite Hemorrhage #5
Dynamite Hemorrhage #6
Dynamite Hemorrhage #7
Dynamite Hemorrhage #8

Superdope #8
Superdope #7
Superdope #6
Superdope #5
Superdope #4
Superdope #3
Superdope #2
Superdope #1

We’ve got a new issue of the Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine, just out in August 2022, a big 64-page 10th issue. You can order a copy here. Here’s what’s in it:

• TAKE IT! fanzine overview: A look at what was probably 1981-1982’s finest fanzine, straight out of Boston and created by, among others, Byron Coley, Richard Meltzer, Mick Farren, Gregg Turner, Ira Kaplan, Phil Milstein, Julie Farman, Gerard Cosloy, editor Michael Koenig and more. We go issue by issue to wind back the proverbial hands of time and take ourselves deep into their passions and annoyances and the great underground rock debates of the day.
• CHILDREN MAYBE LATER: Interview with a new trio of San Francisco Bay Area bon vivants with an impressive pedigree and playful meld of loopy Syd Barrett flights of fancy; sparse Young Marble Giants-styled quietness & minor-key New Zealand sub-underground dissonance. Learn what makes them go!
• THE TWILIGHTERS: A phoned interview with Jay White of Texas psych/punk/fuzz face-melters who created that one 45, “Nothing Can Bring Me Down”, and no more. What was it like to be barnstorming teen clubs and swimming parties in the mid 1960s and getting exploited by the business for your youth and inexperience? Jay White tells all.
• ONYON: An interview with Leipzig, Germany’s raucous, distorted purveyors of a distinct strand of post-punk that’s got a big foot steeped in ragged garage punk, and a smaller one in throbbing, glassy-eyed coldwave.
• MOONLOVE: Lost 1985 college band from Kent, OH who were unearthed this past year with the re-release on LP of their archival tape “May Never Happen”, some of the most lovely and captivating Velvet Underground-inspired music of theirs or any other era. We assembled appx. two-thirds of the band to take a look at what went down.
• A SURVEY OF MODERN SOLO GUITARISTS: From Liam Grant to Alex Archibald, from Matthew J. Rolin to Gwenifer Raymond, from Joseph Allred to D.C. Cross to Laurel Premo to Daniel Bachman and beyond. These are the modern solo guitarists we thought it might be worth writing a piece about.
• A TRIP DOWN THE “SMILE” RABBIT HOLE: What happened to the editor when he truly immersed himself in the candy-coated 1966-67 world of Brian Wilson, and how the obsession snowballed, grew wings and took over life as we know it for a couple of months.
• FILM HEMORRHAGE: A column on film to complement the stuff we wrote about in Issue #9 – 1970s film, Eric Rohmer, Sean Baker, film noir and more.

Plus 25+ record reviews and many photos and an untold number of opinions on things.

Order here.

We’ve got a new edition of the fanzine out now, and it’s ready to order here. It’s a 48-page, black & white, 9th issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage. Here’s what’s in it:

** AMERICAN CINEMA IN THE 1970s: A big, non-music deep dive into 70s American film, that endlessly inventive, cinematic two-way mirror that wallowed in societal and personal alienation, criminal malfeasance, sexual malaise, political disillusionment, crumbling marriages, downtrodden cities, labor unrest, paranoia, organized crime and numerous other uplifting 70s hallmarks. Tons of reviews, a couple of essays, a piece on films about 70s films, and a definitive top 50 list so you can start an argument with our editor.

** BURNT ENVELOPE: Interview with Anthony Pasquerosa, the man coordinating the blitzoid proto-punk antics of “The Eye” and “Jesus” in the Burnt Envelope project. We get to the bottom of what this genius testosterone thug rock is all about.

** KNEELING IN PISS: Columbus, Ohio DIY homespun low-fidelity pop/garage absurdity and one of the best things going right now. We talk about it all with prime mover Alex Mussawir.

** RECORD SHOPPING IN THE 1980s: What was it like to be a music-obsessed teenage idiot in California in the 1980s? Our editor was there, and he paints the scene, with reports from 1981 Berkeley and 1987 Los Angeles.

** MICHAEL FESSIER, JR.: A tribute to the lost Los Angeles writings of a journalist who probably never really got anything approaching his due, but who was as sharp and insightful as Joan Didion was on even her best day. We take a brief look at why.

Plus some record reviews and photos and all sorts of opinions about things.

Order here.

There’s a new eighth issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine out now, and you can order it here.

Dynamite Hemorrhage #8 is, as usual, a 48-page, “digest-sized” music fanzine devoted to sub-underground rock music from the last six or so decades. Like the previous four issues, it’s an A5-sized issue with no advertisements.

This is a “very special” issue that is fully devoted to the Los Angeles punk magazine SLASH, which existed from 1977 to 1980 and could be said to be the greatest of its kind. We’ve interviewed Slash magazine founders Steve Samiof and Melanie Nissen, as well as multiple contributors to the magazine, including Allan MacDonell, David Allen and Chris D.

The issue also includes:

• A single-issue dissection of Slash from August 1979 – our means of understanding just how phenomenal this magazine could be on a per-issue basis
• The day The Decline of Western Civilization filmed at Slash
• Kickboy Face discovering, championing and helping to further hardcore punk – with a reprint of his amazing April 1980 Black Flag show review
• An interview with Peter Urban, remembering Slash‘s San Francisco scene correspondent Caitlin Hines
• An interview with Ivar Muñoz-Rojas on his “Underground Babylonia” book, his deep dive into the punk-era life of Slash co-founder Philomena Winstanley
• Vivian Goldman on Slash & Reggae
• Larry Hardy on discovering and buying Slash magazine as a teen
• and more

Order Dynamite Hemorrhage #8 here.

Hey folks, we’ve recently sold out of another back issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine (#6), and I thought I’d take the time to inform you that this event triggers our longstanding policy to therefore make that issue free to all as a PDF download. Right now Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 and #3-6 are all sold out – you can buy our newest, #7, plus 2014’s issue #2 right here.

So if you missed Issue #6 – the one pictured here – go ahead and download it here.

PDFs of out-of-print fanzines:

Dynamite Hemorrhage #1

Dynamite Hemorrhage #3

Dynamite Hemorrhage #4

Dynamite Hemorrhage #5

Dynamite Hemorrhage #6

Superdope #8

Superdope #7

Superdope #6

Superdope #5

Superdope #4

Superdope #3

Superdope #2

Superdope #1

The new issue of Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine (#7) is now available and shipping. It’s an A5-sized 48-page digest available for $4.50 US + shipping anywhere in the world.

*** Note: the printing of this issue was a little bit sub-standard. Everything is readable, but text is lighter than in previous issues. Therefore I’ve dropped the price on this to $4.50 from $6. PDF version available upon request, with purchase. ***

Here’s what we put in it:

*** A very subjective issue-by-issue overview of FORCED EXPOSURE magazine, detailing this legendary underground music fanzine’s early 80s beginnings through Issue #18 in 1993.

*** An interview with experimental, blurred blues guitarist & singer BRIDGET HAYDEN, and a trip through her career with Vibracathedral Orchestra, The Telescopes and her own amazing solo recordings.

*** SOFIE HERNER (of Neutral, Enhet För Fri Musik and her own solo project LEDA) interview, taking us through her travels through noise, experimentation and her own ferocious guitar work

*** 2006 interview we did with Mike Atta of original SoCal punk pioneers THE MIDDLE CLASS, before he passed away in 2014

*** Twenty of the best 1980s / 1990s garage punk 45s you’ll ever hear, from the likes of The Brides, The Rondelles, Man Tee Mans, Nights and Days, Workdogs & many more

*** The definitive, heretofore-untold story of THE EX-LION TAMERS, a New Jersey WIRE cover band who ended up opening Wire’s entire 1987 North American tour

*** Twenty-something record reviews, from Vivienne Styg to Honey Radar to Alexander to Soot to Matt Gimmick and back again

Order Dynamite Hemorrhage #7 here.

Company policy over here at Dynamite Hemorrhage is to post PDFs of any issue that’s sold out, and is going to stay sold out. Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #5 is the latest to be fully snapped up by the people – thank you.

This issue featured two interviews with Nick Schultz of the amazingly out-there 1990s label Majora Records; an interview with Maxine Funke; a feature on would-be punk era 45rpm singles that didn’t exist; a short interview with Edible Arrangements; a bunch of reviews and more.

Download Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #5 here.

While we’re at it, here are links to the other out-of-print back issues of fanzines I’ve done, from Dynamite Hemorrhage to Superdope, my fanzine from over twenty years ago. Any questions, please let me know – and if you’d like to order print copies of the stuff we DO still have, you can do that here.

PDFs of out-of-print fanzines:

Dynamite Hemorrhage #1

Dynamite Hemorrhage #3

Dynamite Hemorrhage #4

Dynamite Hemorrhage #5

Superdope #8

Superdope #7

Superdope #6

Superdope #5

Superdope #4

Superdope #3

Superdope #2

Superdope #1

I’ve got the next issue – #6 – of Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine at the printer now, and it’s available to pre-order here. They’ll be shipping out the week of January 7th.

It’s a 48-page, digest-sized issue, featuring the following:

— A complete guide to the many strange & wonderful side projects from the members of New Zealand’s THE GARBAGE AND THE FLOWERS during the 1990s and 2000s. Dan Vallor is your informed shepherd through recordings, lathe-cut and otherwise, from Dress, Entlang, The New Zealand Guitar Orchestra, Pit Viper, The Slow Scrape and others.

– An overview of the most mind-blasting VELVET UNDERGROUND bootlegs, from “Sweet Sister Ray” to “The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes” to “Caught Between The Twisted Stars” and beyond. 10 pages on the best unofficial VU recordings outside of their core four albums, the post-breakup collections & the box set.

– Interview with CARLA DAL FORNO, the London-based Australian who’s created a couple of phenomenally icy, ultra-minimal electronic pop records in recent years, as well as having been a prime mover in DIY projects such as Mole House, F Ingers and Tarcar.

– Interview with Paul Messis of SUBURBAN HOMES, our favorite angst-ridden and fuzzed-out DIY punk band. He breaks the news that they’re no longer a going concern, and weighs in on social media, corporate garage rock, ennui and alienation and more.

– Overview of Los Angeles punk compilation LPs from 1978-1983: “15 LA Punk Comps That Made a Man Out Of Me”. We provide the lowdown on everything from YES LA to AMERICAN YOUTH REPORT to TOOTH & NAIL to LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, SO WHY NOT EAT HEALTH FOODS, celebrating The Germs, The Minutemen and Red Cross along the way, while castigating the likes of China White and drippy Orange County punk turds.

– PLUS: We declare our fealty to experimental dark folk group BRANNTEN SCHNÜRE (that’s them on the cover) & review a whole bunch of new records as well.

Order Dynamite Hemorrhage #6 here.

I was interviewed by Andy Wood from UK sub-underground/experimental/improv fanzine TQ in his ninth issue about Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine, podcast and whatnot. Andy gave me the green light to re-print it here in case you’re interested, and of course, you’ll probably want the analog version of his magazine instead & can subscribe, order back issues and learn more about it right here.