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Reviews of DIY, hardcore punk, political, and personal fanzines and punk-adjacent literature from around the world. If you’re a zinester interested in having your publication reviewed, please contact us for our mailing address.
Zine Review: The Coming Strife #3
The Coming Strife Records has been one of my favorite edge metal imprints for a while now. The London-based label launched in 2018 with a mission to revive the '90s-influenced metallic…
Zine Review: More Than Ever #3, #4, #6
More Than Ever is a hardcore music fanzine based out of Melbourne, Australia. Its creators, Michael Fitzsimmons and Nicole Goodwin, are well known in the hardcore and straight edge scene for…
My Life: Antifa (Book Review)
To chronicle your life as a militant antifascist is not a novelty. Some of these chronicles have found a pretty broad readership, for example Sean Birchall’s Beating the Fascists and DJ…
Zine Review: Passion Means Struggle #2
Passion Means Struggle is a hardcore punk fanzine from the city of Plauen in East Germany. In addition to working on this zine, the author also runs a label of the same name, releasing some…
I Don’t Give a Fck #4: There’s No Tomorrow, There is Only Today
My dear fellow international punks, here is a very special zine from Spain that I want to share with you. It's called I Don’t Give A Fck Zine. Without the u in Fuck, as they prefer it (it…
Zine Review: Voice of Strength #1 / #2
As soon as I found out about this zine on their instagram account, I was immediately eager to check it out. I know, international shipping from the States might be pretty steep these days,…
Review: Influences Zine #1
As soon as I found out about this zine I was hooked and read it from cover to cover. The cover features a great set of photos of X'd up people from some of my favorite bands, and it managed…
Zine Review: Papercore #3
It's been more than a year since I wrote about the first issue of Papercore zine, and I'm quite happy to say that fourth issue is already on its way with deadlines for making contributions…
Raw Punk Spirit: JUST A NIGHTMARE Zine
If you like d-beat raw punk and haven’t spent the last ten years living under a rock behind an abandoned squat in the mountains, you must have heard (or at least heard of) Disease from…
Conferencia Mundial del Ripoff: Wrecked Tales of Fast Music
The punk scene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is well documented and so are other scenes from all over the world.
But there's always something new lurking in some poorly lit corner, just…
Zine Review: Grindcore For Life 💀🔪
This is obviously a zine made out of the pure love for all type of things with a crossed out musical note as signifier. Its author is the total grindcore fanatic Andrzej Dumala, who also…
Zine Review: Papercore #1
Papercore is a new international, political, DIY punk zine started by three people whose native language is not English. This zine is an example of how awesome punk zines can be—it's a…