I’m just going to come out and state the following: this zine rules. Honestly, I had never heard of the zine or the dude behind the zine, but from here out, I plan on keeping posted about both. In a day and age where HeartAttack is on its last leg (literally), Punk Planet is mediocre and Maximum Rock N Roll is just plain blah, this zine really sticks out. And not like a sore thumb, more like a giant, positive middle finger. Yeah, you heard me, positive.
Interview after interview, article after review, just top notch reading all around. Just consider the interviewees: The Geeks, Modern Life Is War, This Is Hell, Lahar, Paint It Black, Bane (photo tour diary), Ruiner, Kiss It Goodbye, Killing The Dream, Isis. Literally, all over the board, but somehow it all comes together and just works. The Champion remembrance piece is classic journalism too. Each issue is packed with at least 50 pages of print. You can’t funk with that.
Some pretty dope columns too. I’m partial to Nate Hough Snee’s “Feeding The Fire” vegan recipe corner. Eat like it’s 1995, bitches. Not fronting on Nate’s recipes (especially since he stocked me up with those Names For Graves EPs), since I’ve had many of them before, but why not try and track down Sarah Kramer? She is obviously an internationally published vegan cookbook writer, but she also seems to be down with the core. I know she has a slew of Trial pics that she took on her photo blog … If that is the sort of column they are looking for, why not track down a “professional?”
Track this zine down now. But don’t attempt to look up this guy/zine on MySpace. He doesn’t believe in it. The same goes for Instant Messenger. How this guys survives without them, I’ll never know. Now that I know what life without AIM is like (courtesy of a work wide ban), I can really appreciate the benefits of AIM. You can, however, check out the site online. Make sure to hit up the site and get some crucial back issues, too.
I guess it used to be called A Bond Still Strong. Sounds like some posi-ness that I could back.