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Flyers, posters, magazines, files, and zines relating to American punk and alternative culture collected or created by Aaron Cometbus, including his own work as a writer and musician.

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Approximately 245 pieces of fan mail and other correspondence sent to Kinon from fans around the world, including questionnaires, zines, show flyers, photographs, handwritten and types letters, and other ephemera.

Scope and Contents 24 Xerox self-published zines produced in Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic. All approximately 6 x 8 ¼ in. Largely staplebound. Zines created in the early to mid-1990s by the Czech youth underground during the fall of Communism. Titles include Euthanasia, Vostnatej Drat, View Beyond, Different Life, Autonomie, Stage Diving, Fan Club Hasiaci Pristroj, and more. Reflecting the broader punk sensibility of the time, many of the zines include anarchist sloganeering and symbols—a political valence...

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Xerox Revolutionaries was a zine distribution service created by Hank Thigpen in 1999 that distributed over a hundred different issues of queer punk zines. The collection contains zines and zine flats, ephemera, correspondence, and business materials related to the operation of Xerox Revolutionaries as well as personal items from Thigpen.

Content Description Approximately 150 flyers, zines, documents, and other pieces of ephemera tracing the history of hardcore punk through its 1980s network of bands, venues, record labels, radio stations, and underground publications that linked hyper-local scenes throughout the United States and internationally to form a broader subculture. The collection features many of the genre’s defining bands, including Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Fugazi, Necros, and Negative Approach, as well as acts largely...

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Approximately 33 music, art, and culture zines, along with 3 generations of IPods from the collection of Jeremy Braddock. Titles include 18 issues of Roctober along with scattered holdings of other zines such as Verbivore, Plotz, and the Duplex Planet.

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Underground zines and magazines, photographs, correspondence and interviews, ephemera, notebooks and other manuscripts, drawings, and associated publications.

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Collection of zines and books from the Punk, Goth, Metal, and Emo scenes that emerged in Mexico City’s flea market, Tianguis Cultural del Chopo.