I started this site at the end of 2022 and have kept it exceptionally prolific over the subsequent 9 months. A pal told me he thought I’d totally lose stream after 10-15 posts, but I guess the evidence points to 3 pithy and prosaic posts a week having been the norm almost ever since it started. Given the amount of printed music fanzines I’ve built up over the years and the very, very important things I need to say about them in this forum, I’ve found it quite cathartic to just post whatever the hell hits my fingertips as I’m typing after a run-through of these fanzines, many of which I’ve stored in boxes and not looked at for up to 35 years.
Anyway, I’m going to take a short break this week and come roaring back shortly. In the meantime, I wanted to provide a few tips that might make reading the “blog” – and it’s most certainly a 2005-era blog – more enjoyable.
- Subscribe to this thing and get an email every time I post. Since so many of you kids spend all your time on your cellular telephones, you may not know that there’s a desktop version of Fanzine Hemorrhage that’s way better than the telephone version. If you come to the site on a computer, you’ll see right there in the upper right-hand corner that you can drop your email address in and subscribe – then you’ll get every post emailed to you the moment it’s out there. Wouldn’t that be amazing??!?
- There are tons of links to other posts on the sidebar. There’s a veritable cornucopia of fanzine blatherings on the right-hand sidebar; again, it’s not something you can see on your smartphone browser. Nearly every post is there, although now there are so many that I’ll post hyperlinks at the bottom of this post to some of the older ones that aren’t there any longer.
- Read Fanzine Hemorrhage in landscape view on your phone, not portrait. Hey, I didn’t make the rules for how it all looks on the internet, but I noticed that the cover scans looks all goofy and compressed when your read the mobile version length-wise (portrait view), and look great when you hold your phone width-wise (landscape view). And since this site is so incredibly forward-looking and graphics-rich, you’re going to want that full sensory experience for sure.
Meanwhile, my “trademark of quality” is that I will only yak about fanzines I personally own in physical form, which certainly precludes me from talking about the ones I don’t own, but I’ve also drawn the line at PDFs of incredible music fanzines that I’ve downloaded over the years (for now). Speaking of – if you downloaded a bunch of the punk fanzines that the Contextual Dissemination site had up before that site vanished, please let me know. I was an imbecile and somehow assumed they’d be there forever, just like everything on the internet. We can trade PDFs or something!
Finally, here are some of the earliest posts on Fanzine Hemorrhage from “the early days”, meaning December 2022 and January 2023:
Fanzine Hemorrhage 
“Some Tips to Enhance the Fanzine Hemorrhage Experience” – and here I was hoping it was going to be mushroom dosage suggestions….
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