Big
Takeover
the big daddy of all underground
music zines, put out twice a year by Jack Rabid in New York
Blondie, From Punk to Present: A Pictorial History voluminously detailed 512 page book compiled by Allan Metz on the
history of Blondie, the most definitive work on the band to date
Chicagopunkpix.com,
site of the great Chicago photog Marie Kanger-Born
Cool
Beans,
San Francisco based magazine put out by Matt Kelly
The
Last
history of The Last and Joe Nolte’s 1979 journals of LA punk
Dead
Milkmen,
website of the Dead Milkmen, source for Dean Clean’s 1985-86 tour diaries
Dementlieu Punk Archive incredible online archive of zine material and interviews by James “Obik” Sinks,
concentrating mainly on 1979-85, with emphasis on Washington, DC, and Chicago
Ear
Pollution,
online music journal from 1998-2004, presently
on indefinite hiatus
Flipside since Al Flipside retired, former Flipside journalist Michelle Alessi has carried on Al's legacy by
putting up this great site documenting the magazine from 1979-84
Forced Exposure dominant East Coast underground magazine of the 1980’s, based out of Boston and run by
Jim Johnson, now a modern mail order, but with many back issues still available
Heckler, Sacramento-based skate/snow/music magazine
Idle Time Archive, home of the work of 80's Austin photog and zine writer Dixon Coulbourn, the lad who was
responsible for the title of the Big Boys album Lullabies Help the Brain Grow
Iowa
Underground Archives,
history of Iowa punk run by David Wilkins
Lumpen
Times, Chicago based magazine since early 1990’s, over 94 issues to date
Maximum
Rock and Roll,
magazine started by the late Tim Yohannon and Jeff Bale that was the first underground
zine to document
punk scene by scene throughout the nation and the world, still going strong
today
Noise
for Heroes, San Diego-based zine of the late 80’s
Punk
Planet,
big punk zine that documents punk history along with
coverage of modern punk
Razorcake, excellent modern punk zine run by former Flipside writers Todd Taylor and Sean Carswell
Re/Search Publications, the company V Vale founded to release provocative underground books after
Search and Destroy, including the collected issues of Search and Destroy, Vol.1-6, and Vol.7-11
Slit , Howie Salmon's zine documenting the '80-'81 Tucson, AZ scene, now compiled into a book
Smash
It Up,
cool site of 80's LA photographer Brian Trudell
Spontaneous Combustion, www.spontaneous.com, a record label, blog, and punk vinyl treasure trove of information
run by Mike Vinikour
Sound on Sound, soundonsound.org, the phenomenal Big Boys website run by Scott Pellet
Sound
Idea Distribution,
run by Florida punk guru Bob Suren, carries thousands of punk and hardcore
titles
from around the world, and his Burrito Records label has re-issued classic 80's Florida punk
like Gay Cowboys
in Bondage, Hated Youth, and Roach Motel. Records, CDs, tapes, t-shirts, books, videos, etc.
What
a Way to Die,
site of New York photographer Justina Davies, lots of cool early 80's NYHC
photos
While You Were Sleeping, bi-monthly, “an irreverent yet clever incarnation of stories, features, interviews,
art,
and photography that sates the devilish curiosity of freethinking young men and
women worldwide”
Zeno Records, website of the Wipers and Greg Sage’s record company