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Untold stories about the unheard music: Punk, hardcore, ’60s rock, psychedelia and beyond. Words in The Guardian, Narratively, Maggot Brain and elsewhere.

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  • Seth Lorinczi

    Untold stories about the unheard music. Words in The Guardian, Narratively, Maggot Brain, Fretboard Journal and elsewhere.

  • Greed Magazine Vol. 2

    Kurt Sayenga’s semi-legendary post-post punk zine, risen from the dead. Celebrations and interrogations of unpopular culture and the people who make it. Music, film, comics, humor, and Deep Thinkers.

  • Alec Bourgeois

    I grew up in and around Washington DC and its satellite suburbs. I got turned-on to punk rock in middle school, to art in high school, and haven't veered too far from either one since.

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