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Round 1:
Which title do you like better?
Donât Show This To Anyone
I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense...
Donât Show This To Anyone
Artist: Mackintosh
Release: 2020
I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense...
Artist: Fushitsusha
Release: 2000
Underground music fanzines and the worlds they defined, one at a time.
 Chicago clubs in July/August 1981, and I only became aware of Chicagoâs Coolest Retard fanzine from that era this year, 2024. Thank you Todd N. Once I got the lowdown on it and was allowed to see â and touch! â a couple of copies of the thing, I resolved to track down a copy somehow, and Coolest Retard #15 is the one I chose as âthe one to grabâ. I mean, that cover, right?Â
Somehow the tribute piece to Mark E. Smith as âRetard of the Yearâ is even better than expected. Grotesque is the newest Fall record at this point, and like Kickboy Face, editor Craig Schmidt totally gets it. (At least I think itâs Schmidt â the piece is uncredited, but itâs the best writing in here, and who else but the fanzineâs editor gets to bestow the honor of coolest retard?).Â
One of the great tabloid fanzines of all time, Damage published thirteen issues in San Francisco from 1979 to 1981. Iâve had the pleasure of talking with you in this forum about it before: Damage #6 and Damage #7. Now letâs take a peek at the very first issue, Damage #1 from June 1979, even if it does have Jello Biafra on the cover. Trust me, my copy wasnât âcomplimentaryâ, as you can see stamped along the top here, but it leads me to believe that my copy belonging to a previous owner once was.Â
Damage #1 also talks to bands, I assure you. Thereâs a rare one with The Urge, an all-female band that included Jean Caffeine, who did New Dezezes fanzine (which I wrote about here and here) a year or two before this band, and who, along with her bandmates, went to Washington High in the Richmond (two members are still there at the time of this interview). Thereâs a talk with No Sisters, a band of brothers, all of whom wear nerd glasses. There are strange utterings from Coum Transmissions, i.e. the Throbbing Gristle folks, a collective very popular with a certain San Francisco archetype of the era, as you may well know. Craig and Alice from The Bags do a perfunctory Q&A, and MX-80 Sound, whoâve just moved to SF from Bloomington, IN, get their own small grilling here.
60s issues of the original Crawdaddy! â âThe Magazine of Rockâ â and Iâm quite aware that it wasnât a true self-published fanzine, as werenât the magazines Rock Scene, Teen Screen, Trouser Press, Cheetah, Beetle, Sounds and a few others Iâve bantered about here. Itâs a great window into the ârock as cultureâ movement of the late 60s, in which rock music was dissected as intellectual fodder, the whole âbut-what-does-it-all-meanâ ethos that was part & parcel of the eraâs zeitgeist. Itâs still a point of chagrin in my house just how picked-over Bob Dylanâs lyrics were at the time, but I know Bobby Z has his fans, and who am I to say they were wrong to do so.
Puncture #9
 the best San Francisco music fanzine of the second half of the 1980s? I feel like the contenders were probably BravEar, Wiring Dept and Puncture, right? Unless Iâm forgetting someone. These three fanzines were the most adventurous in terms of traversing the wider underground and going deep where necessary, and yet all three suffered a bit for their overtly sleeve-wearing left wing politics, and for pandering a bit too heavily to quote-unquote college rock at times. But listen, I did myself at the time, no question. Thatâs why I still own copies of all these mags that I bought during 1984-87. I think itâs probably a pretty easy call at the end of the day: Wiring Dept, then BravEar, then Puncture.Â
Said the guy whoâs here to talk about Puncture #9 from Spring 1985! Weâre not talking about Forced Exposure or Conflict levels of quality, taste and information here â those east coast zines really set the standard during this period in my unforgiving eyes.
New Zealandâs Alley Oop for years, and so hats off and a big thank you to Brendan, who made it happen. Aside from Garage, which Iâll likely never see an original copy of, it was the NZ mag Iâd most seen quotes pulled from and reviews swiped from, and upon the evidence presented here in 1988âs Alley Oop #5, there was ample reason for doing so.Â
While no formal editor is presented on any masthead here, at least judging by the amount of content contributed, it looks like Paul McKessar helmed the fanzine or at least was very deeply involved. He apparently got #me-tooâed a few years ago. Right away thereâs a very NZ-centric gossip page, with some excited early Xpressway news. Heads-up is provided about the Dead Câs forthcoming The Sun Stabbed EP,
 NY Rocker collection, and Iâve been making good on this important promise (to myself). Yet Iâd never, ever seen any ones with this typeface, one of the first four mythical issues, in the wild â that is, until I came upon New York Rocker #4 and struck up a bargain with its seller at the 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair. This 1975-76 era is one of my favorites for rock music writing due to its anticipatory excitement, with much undefined underground exploration in the air and on the fuckinâ streets, with absurd decadence and drug bottoming-out the norm. Nowhere was this more the case, of course, than in New York City.Â
When punk first hit North American consciousness in 1977, I get the picture that unless you were living in New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco, or perhaps Seattle and Cleveland, the records you were coming across in stores and were hearing on late-nite ânew waveâ radio programs were almost entirely English in nature. This 1977 Montreal fanzine, Twist & Shout #2, certainly aspires to be Anglocentric in the extreme; or, whether it aspires to be or not, it most certainly is. Canada is part of the queenâs commonwealth, of course, but just based on the features and records reviewed here, it feels a lot like a Canadian version of Trouser Press, who were proud Anglophiles, and/or one informed very much by Britainâs own Zigzag.Â
 âmy cup runneth overâ fanzine from 1977. Itâs somewhat amazing to even be allowed to look at it. I was not aware of the existence of New Wave #1 until I found a way of procuring a copy on eBay â nor was I aware of the absurdly great bounty within it, save for a drunkenly-written Lester Bangs piece about punk that ended up being sadly uneventful once I actually read it.Â
Iâm 99% sure that this is the only issue of this San Francisco-based newspaper-style fanzine ever created, and Iâm just as assured that a 1-issue run was not at all what the editors had intended when they excitedly put this together in August 1977
we discussed Tim Ellisonâs Rock Mag, there really wasnât a music fanzine quite like it before, and there definitely hasnât been since. I mean, Iâve subsequently come to have read much of the strange, erudite and serious rock writing of the 60s and 70s, but even that stuff in Crawdaddy or Beetle or Cheetah doesnât really have the potent mix of over-the-top earnestness and below-the-surface humor of Rock Mag, and of course, none of those mags were tied so utterly to the outlook and informed worldview of one single rock-obsessed man.Â
Rock Mag #6 doesnât call out its time of publication, but I believe just by the records covered that itâs probably late 1996 or early 1997. It starts off with a bang: âHaving gotten so far away from what Rock originally (and for the better) meant, this is probably the worst ever period for Rockâ. âIf I were running a major label I could enquire about signing many artists: VON LMO, maybe Silver Apples and The Godz if they were up for it, The Fall, The Red Krayola, The Dead C, Ghost, Ruins, High Rise, Fushitsusha, Cheater Slicks, The Dirt Bombs and The Inhalants, Run On, Satisfact, Los Cincos, maybe old-timers like Blue Oyster Cult and Voivod
came out in 1998 I was of two minds about these guys, David Dunlap and Giles Palermo (aka Andrew Earles) and their The Cimarron Weekend. I felt perhaps they were getting a little too high on their own supply, going a bit too âgonzoâ; writing whilst drunk; over-revering the 70s rock critic aesthetic (Bangs/Meltzer/Saunders et al) and so forth. But they truly did make me laff repeatedly, and I was highly pleased by their off-the-charts snark and snidely dismissive takes on modern indie rock. I busted out The Cimarron Weekend #6 this past week and have come to find that itâs aged far, far better than Iâd imagined, and Iâm now ready to put it in an upper-tier 1990s fanzine pantheon that exists only in my head.
Forced Exposure from the blessed day in 1986 when I bought Forced Exposure #10 at Rockpile Records in Goleta, CA until they wrapped it all up in 1993, Iâve struggled over the years to procure one of the magâs âhardcore eraâ issues and hold it in my trembling hands for any longer than a few minutes. These would be FE issues #1-5 from the early 80s, all of which appear to have been somewhat better-distributed than most punk fanzines, yet still really hard to come by, particularly on the US west coast, where Iâm from. These issues had been disavowed, more or less, by editor Jimmy Johnson by the time heâd teamed up with Byron Coley and edged more fully into the deeper rock, psych, noise and experimental underground. Back issues of these five were long said in no uncertain terms to be âthankfully out of printâ.
 Coolest Retard #15 earlier this year and promoted my logghorea about it on âInstagramâ, it turned out to be the single most popular thing Iâd ever posted. That Mark E. Smith cover somehow slipped its way into the algorithm, and all of a sudden Iâm right up there with the Kardashians or Britney Spears or whatever it is thatâs popular with you kids today. And let me state that I was so smitten with this collectable Chicago fanzine from 1981 that I went right out and collected another one, Coolest Retard #13 from April/May â81.
Like The Offense, being published âdown the roadâ in Columbus, Coolest Retardâs a have-cake-and eat-it compendium of pretty much everything interesting going in rock music in 1981, with few meaningful compartmentalizing lines drawn between English post-punk, American hardcore and all things indie/underground. I mean this cover shot of Bauhaus â I thought it was actually Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun at first, a band also featured here and another dude with abnormally high cheekbones
Fushitsusha.
withdrawe, this sable disclosure ere devot'd (1998)

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Amazing excerpt from KĹji Wakamatsuâs âEndless Waltzâ, a film on Kaoru Abe.
Fushitsusha