S/D fanzine anthologies (or reprints) covering "punk"/"new wave"/etc 1975-1995

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recently picked up the astonishing Descenes/Discords book compiling Howard Wuelfling's two related DC zines from 1980-1981, this is great stuff.

I've also read the Touch & Go anthology which is pretty essential, and the Sub Pop zine collection is also worth yr time.

anything else like this out there? I want to get the UK collection of the "Vague" zine for sure, I would love other recommendations. I already have the "Search And Destroy" zine collections, which are essential.

the Creem anthology book covers some of this same territory and is great, but scattershot and incomplete by nature as that mag ran forever. I'm most interested in the 77-82 era. I do have the John Balance zine anthology book (Stabmental) which is also great but OOP and expensive.

mark s to thread?

online archives also welcome - for example, beloved 00's mag Arthur just put all their stuff up as pdfs online.

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 02:45 (three months ago)

https://arthurmag.com/2025/06/30/composting-arthurs-remains/

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 02:47 (three months ago)

If you have any interest in Australian stuff Inner City Sound is a pretty good collection of writing from the time

Cod:Shellfish (emsworth), Friday, 26 September 2025 03:44 (three months ago)

Sniffin' Glue (UK first wave punk zine) was anthologized a couple of decades back, used to have a copy.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 September 2025 03:55 (three months ago)

https://www.circulationzero.com has the complete run of Slash, Damage, No Mag, and Dry along with most of Boston Rock

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 September 2025 09:19 (three months ago)

Flipside on the internet archive: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Flipside%22

Maximum Rock N Roll: https://archive.org/details/maximumrnr

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 September 2025 09:23 (three months ago)

https://archive.org/details/zines

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 September 2025 09:24 (three months ago)

Misc Punk Zines. 2089 items, 463GB

koogs, Friday, 26 September 2025 11:57 (three months ago)

hell yeah, thanks Elvis

Sniffin Glue is a good call, I need that one

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 14:36 (three months ago)

I haven't read it, but Julia Gorton and Rick Brown's punk and no wave zine comp Beat It looks good:

https://www.juliagorton.com/coming-new-products/beat-it-zine-compilation

Position Position, Friday, 26 September 2025 14:38 (three months ago)

I've got the Sniffin' Glue, Touch & Go and Search & Destroy (vol 1) books

I've got my eye on this Raising Hell collecion https://amorphouspieces.bigcartel.com/product/raising-hell-zine-omnibus-1982-1990-a4-double-book-set-500-pages but that's slightly outside your date range as it started in 1982 - the guy who did this restarted it a few years ago and I've got some of the recent issues

and this one which again probably goes a bit later - https://housmans.com/product/best-b4-1984-fanzine-and-flyer-images-from-the-anarcho-punk-underground/

but I don't have them yet so can't say if they're good or not

Colonel Poo, Friday, 26 September 2025 14:40 (three months ago)

definitely down with later 80's and early 90's - I really really miss my complete collection of Sound Choice which was stolen from my living room circa 1999

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 14:43 (three months ago)

this one is great too, focused on early industrial/noise

https://archive.org/details/unsound-zine/unsound-1-1/

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 15:55 (three months ago)

the only issue of Sound Choice archived is #5

https://archive.org/details/SoundChoice51986

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 15:55 (three months ago)

xp Cheers, sleeve. Love those early industrial zines. ND was also a favourite although Dan P has only archived a few there.

sawdust lagoon, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:23 (three months ago)

oh yes I used to read that one too! also Carl Howard's fantastic Art/Itude zine, which I still have all of most of.

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:27 (three months ago)

"all or most of"

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:28 (three months ago)

I have the complete Sniffin' Glue, for some reason it was in the EFL library at a school I ran and nobody knew how it got there.

Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 September 2025 19:30 (three months ago)

Ya I regret having ditched so much of my zine collection over 20 years ago

sawdust lagoon, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:36 (three months ago)

oh hell yes the Artitude issues are archived

https://archive.org/search?query=artitude

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:36 (three months ago)

Yes I saw them! Will now upgrade from my existing jpg scans

sawdust lagoon, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:38 (three months ago)

asking mods to update thread title for the date range 1975-1995 as that is more what I had in mind

sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:45 (three months ago)

Less punk, more experimental. It's an old blog but many of the links are still active

https://smallprintpress.blogspot.com

sawdust lagoon, Friday, 26 September 2025 19:59 (three months ago)

Wuelfing did a great job in descenes and discords covering US and UK 80 & 81 punk and artsy rock. I have some of the original issues from back then but I bought the collection book just to have it all in one spot.

curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 September 2025 04:03 (three months ago)


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