Punk Fanzine Archives from around the world.
A punk fanzine or ‘zine’ is a DIY publication related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre. Often primitively or casually produced, a fanzine can feature punk literature, such as social commentary, poetry, news, gossip, music reviews and articles about punk rock bands or regional punk scenes.
Below is a list of punk fanzine websites and archives from around the world, as well as related publications, papers, articles and books.
Archive.org - Zines
Bacteria Netherlands - 70s and 80s Dutch zine archive and International Zine Archive
Bored Teenagers - A collection of UK punk fanzines (covers) from the late 1970
Brob Tilt’s zine-world - (fan)zines that are interesting, historical, meaningful, influential, funny, intelligent, surprising, peculiar and inspiring
Circulation Zero - West Coast Punk Music Zines from the 1970-80s: Damage, Slash & No Mag.
Contextual Dissemination - Punk fanzine archive, 1977 onwards - The sole purpose of this website is to make underground, out-of-print, punk zines accessible to anyone doing research.
Digital Fanzine Preservation Society (DFPS). A collection of hardcore and punk music fanzines remastered and collected on the DFPS blogspot by Nagus from 2009-2011.
Essential Ephemera - UK Punk Literature & Images 1976-1984
Florida Punk, Indie, and Hardcore Archive - Florida Punk Flyers, Posters, Fanzines, and Photographs sponsored by Visual Vitriol.
Gary Storm Songs - Punk and New Music Fanzines – Late 1970s to Early 1980s
Grrrlzine Network - Here you can find rebellious feminist zines: grrrl and lady zines, riot grrrl zines, transgender zines, zines by grrrls of color, lesbian/queer zines and many others!
HeartattaCk - An internationally distributed punk zine with a strong bent towards hardcore punk and anti-consumerism. It was published by Kent McClard and Lisa Oglesby from March 1994 through June 2006. In the final years of its publication it remained one of the most popular zines available.
International Institute of Social History - The world’s leading institute in socio-economic history
Punk in the East - Punk in the East is a digital collection of original punk photographs, gig ticket, posters, clothing and ephemera from Norwich, Norfolk and across East Anglia. As content continues to come in it is fast becoming the largest digital UK punk archive to be found anywhere on the internet.
Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene (Australia) - punk fanzines from 1977 - 1987.
Punk Planet Archive - Punk Planet was a punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen.
Punk Rocker Fanzines - Sites for Sore Eyes
Rockmine : The Fanzine Archive - A Fanzine & Fan Club Magazine Archive.
Stitches in my Head Blog
Swedish Punk Fanzines - A site about collecting punk, hardcore and black metal records and Swedish punk zines.
Talkin’ Bout Fanzines - Fanzines from the Southend Area of the UK
UK Zine Library - 100s of(mostly)UK Zines from late 70s to early 90s, scanned and downloadable archive.
Weed - UK punk / post-punk fanzines 1980-1986.
Zineopolis - Art Zine Collection
Definition of a fanzine
Punk zine - Wikipedia
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Zine
Related Publications/Archives:
Like Punk Never Happened - Brian McCloskey’s Smash Hits archive from 1978, through to July 1985.
Monash University Library recently acquired a small collection of important punk zines, fanzines, and magazines to add to the Rare Books Collection.
Punk Globe - not a fanzine but a long running magazine that offers a free DIY website for people to get the latest news, reviews, articles, interviews plus much more.
Punk Magazine - Punk was a music magazine and fanzine created by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn, and “resident punk” Legs McNeil in 1975. Its use of the term “punk rock”, coined by writers for Creem magazine a few years earlier to describe the simplistic and crude style of 60’s Garage rock bands, further popularized the term.
Roadrunner - Roadrunner was a rock magazine published in Adelaide between 1978-83. Its founding editors were Stuart Coupe and Donald Robertson, who worked together on the single-issue Punk zine Street Fever in December 1977. Though primarily focused on Australian and overseas rock music, it also covered areas of the burgeoning counterculture and issues such as punk. The final edition of December 1982 / January 1983 was published in Sydney. To accompany the release of this collection in May 2017, publisher Donald Robertson penned a history of the magazine. It is available here: The History of Roadrunner.
State Library of Victoria - The State Library of Victoria has the largest public collection of zines – independent, not-for-profit, and often hand-made publications – in Australia.
Related Books:
Adventures in Reality: The Complete Collection book - Put together by Alan Rider, Adventures in Reality, was a fanzine from Coventry in the early 1980s.
Mass Movement: The Digital Years, Volume 1 and 2 - A compilation of the best interviews and features from the second half of Mass Movement’s digital period.
Punk Faction BHP ‘91 to '95 - A collection of BHP fanzines that cover a range of subjects that were important to the youth of the 1990s and are still relevant to the alternative scene of today.
Ripped and Torn: 1976 - 79 The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK - Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped.
Ripped, torn and cut - Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976 - A book that offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.
Search & Destroy #1-6: The Complete Reprint - Search & Destroy, a zine self-published from 1977-1979 by V. Vale, was a thorough anthropological survey of an emerging social-change movement: the San Francisco punk scene.
Sniffin’ Glue The Bible - An edited compendium of the first 10 issues of Mark Perry’s seminal Punkzine Sniffin’ Glue.
Sniffin’ Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory - It was the most influential rock magazine of its time. It was called Sniffin’ Glue and it’s about to be recreated as a book
The Best of Punk Magazine - A book that includes high-quality reprints of hard-to-find original issues, as well as rare and unseen photos,essays, interviews, and even handwritten contributions from the likes of AndyWarhol, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Lester Bangs,Legs McNeil, Lenny Kaye, and many more.
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83 - Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979.
We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews - The first compilation of the riveting and provocative interviews of Punk Planet magazine, founded in 1994 and charging unbowed into the new millennium.
Related PDFs:
A Destabilising Pleasure: Representations of Alternative Music in Irish Fanzines
Art-Zines, The Self-Publishing Revolution: The Zineopolis Art-Zine Collection
Bay Area Dadazines and Punk Zines in 1970s San Francisco: Interactive, Ephemeral, Live
Before Blogs There Were Zines: Berman, Danky, and the Political Case for Zine Collecting in North American Academic Libraries
CATALOGING AND DESCRIPTION OF FANZINE AND ZINE COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Doing it ourselves: Countercultural and alternative radical publishing in the decade before punk (2018)
Flood the market with alternative writing! – Fanzinesrepositories in Europe
FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE: British anarcho -punk 'zines (1980-1984) as sites of resistance and symbols of defiance
Global Network Zines - The Public Face of Mail Art
Hands-on Communication: Zine Circulation Rituals and the Interactive Limitations of Web Self-Publishing
In the Ruins of Zine Pedagogy: A Narrative Study of Teaching with Zines
London Punk Fanzines 1976-1984: The Celebration of the Every Person
“Minor Threats” (Radical History Review)
Music fanzine collecting as capital accumulation
Punk, Politics and British (fan)zines, 1974-84:'While the world was dying, did you wonder why?
Punk ‘zines – ‘symbols of defiance’ from the print to the digital age
Punk’s Not Dead: Resurrecting Punk Fanzines at Michigan State University Libraries
Print is Dead: The Promise and Peril of Digital Media for Subcultural Resistance
Riot Girl from Zine to Screen and the Commodification of Female Transgression
The D.C. Punk & Indie Fanzine collection
The Octapod Zine Collection: Developing a preservation and access strategy
Value and Validity of Art Zines as an Art Form
Zines Will Survive
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