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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Razorcake #59

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Razorcake #59

(www.razorcake.org) As a dude of a certain age, and someone who always considers the eras of pre-and-post Green Day/Hot Topic/not-getting-beat-up-in-high-school-for-dressing-punk-rock, I will always see Maximumrocknroll as the legit “punk bible” and everything else as a pretender or riff on it. That said, I can honestly say I never waited anxiously for the next issue of MRR, but after part one of the Nervous Gender interview in Razorcake #58 I couldn’t wait to read this issue. The story of an L.A. 70s/early 80s punk band I’d heard of but knew little about turning out to be the tale of triumph/tragedy/absurdity involving a band made up of gays, Latinos, artfuck geniuses and at times L.A scenester-turned lesbian folk singer-turned Duke Kahanamoku statue restorer Phranc, and a German illegal alien toddler on drums. This story is crazy interesting, and even though part two didn’t match the pure absurdity of part one it had a lot more human emotion and beautiful narrative. This is an amazing thing to cover, and while I still don’t care about most of the new bands they feature, I can’t point out enough how much I appreciate the magazine really doing legwork to cover under-documented historic bands (Thee Undertakers article a few issues back was also awesome). This issue also has an interview with cult actress Mary Woronov. (note: I wanted to put a weblink up to a story or photo of Phranc doing the restoration work on the Waikiki beach statue of the father of modern surfing Duke Kahanamoku but it wasn’t online anywhere, but it really happened, I swear).

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

power pop criminals: BOMP ISSUE #18 (March 1978)

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SUNDAY, APRIL 4

BOMP ISSUE #18 (March 1978)

Greg Shaw did a lot to Power Pop to be more popular (as pop music meaned it in the 60's with The Fab Four).

Bomp magazine was started in 1970 by Greg Shaw, who had previously edited and published Mojo-Navigator Rock & Roll News, one of the earliest rock fanzines. Originally called "Who Put the Bomp", the new zine was to be different; not a news sheet at all, but a place where serious fans and professional critics could talk openly about music, its culture, and the rock press. The first issues were slim, hand- printed, and of very limited circulation. Issue #16 (early '77) was a transitional one, until this famous #18 with the classic "Power Pop!" front page.

Info
Format PDF - Acrobat Reader 5.0 and others
bookmarks added - direct access to features
complete issue: 72 pages !!! (vintage advertisements included)
size: 28mb

You still can listen to vintage Bomp compilations posted here on PPC
Waves Vol 1 (1979)
Waves Vol 2 (1980)
Vampire From Outer Space (1979)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's hard to explain how influential this issue was to guys like me in 1978 when it came out....i remember reading it back to front, hundreds of times, learning about all this great music that, sadly, in suburban Philadelphia, was all but impossible to find...between this, and buying "Raspberries Best" in teh summer of 1976, THIS was the start of it all for me.....AWESOME post!!! jim horan

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KingSizeMong said...

It's kind of freaky how much the dude on the cover looks like ex UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, making a sex face. Shudder.

Interesting read though. Thanks for sharing.