#jangle pop

Susanna Hoffs - The Bangles, 1988 - "Be With You" video

Hello, thank you for the kind words! You didnt specify which album(s) to do so I just did these two..

Heavenly CD gifs + pngs

Le Jardin de Heavenly

The Decline and Fall of Heavenly

EPIC ALBUM COVER #357

Beat Happening - self-titled

Released: 1985 (K)

I was totally late to Matter. Part of it is that I was a punk rock knucklehead during the years of 1984-1986 so it wasn't until a year or so later that I became interested in some of these bands. 

This was the first issue I saw of it. A friend of mine, Neko, had come out to NJ to visit during the summer of 1985 and brought this issue with her for me and my music loving pals to check out (akso Neko had a huge crush on Thurston Moore and talked about him incessantly!).

Matter had started in Chicago by Elizabeth Phillip and then at some point in there she moved to Hoboken and that is where the mag remained until it wound down. 

Aside from being a great looking mag (glossy which a lot of zines were not back then) she also had a great staff of writers contributing every issue. Just in this issue alone she has Steve Albini, Byron Coley, Gerard Cosloy, Ira Kaplan (who was chief copy editor), Jim Derogatis, Jimmy Johnson, Jim Testa, Howard Wuelfing and many others That's a lineup of heavies if ever I saw one!

Anywho, as you can see on the cover it's got Sonic Yoof, Redd, Kross, Great Plains, Killdozer, Game Theory, the Hoboken scene and plenty more, 

I've got about 6 or 7 issues of Matter floating around here and I always enjoy randomly picking them up and paging through them. Another great one!

<3 Big jacket update <3

After months of figuring out what to make my back patch I realised the perfect inspo was Heavenly’s “riot twee” shirt design! It felt very me (although I did take some creative liberties with the colours)

I’m insanely proud of this! It came out so clean and accurate to the original design and I didn’t even use a stencil for it! Also the lace detail around the edge turned out beautiful too. I’ve only been making patches/DIY properly for a year now but I’ve seen myself improve so quickly and I’m glad this is a representation of how that has culminated.

Until another big idea strikes again I might leave the jacket alone for a little while and focus on some pants I’ve started which has no particular theme - it’ll just be more music I like of multiple styles jumbled together.