Zines named after songs

[Emma Jane Falconer]

My zine Fanzine Ynfytyn is named after a Datblygu song. It's pronounced fanzine uhn-vet-in (schwa sound at the beginning like the e in the) and it means Fanzine Idiot. It's about a hideous teenage boy thinking he's Nick Kent II / King Morissey the Second. The lyrics are great if you can understand Welsh. (sorry if you can't)

Here's a video someone's made on you-tube. It sounds a bit slow though, maybe it's one of those songs that sounds faster on vinyl.


If your zine's named after a song, try to find something on youtube or another site that lets us listen to the song it's named after.

[Laci Marie]

The newest zine that I'm working on, Kitty Empire, is named after the song by Big Black. The song itself is meh, but I love the title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj5PNjtHOv4

[c.]

'nothing is rhyming' just got shortened to 'nothing rhymes' for the sake of being a little less clunky. i seriously love this song.

[Milo]

The first zine I ever wrote for was done by my besties when we were in high school. It was a Morrissey fanzine, and it was called "Maudlin Street" after his song "Late Night, Maudlin Street."

[Hannah / Frothy Press]

I'm considering changing the name of my perzine to Undestructable, after the Gogol Bordello song. If I don't go through with that I'll just make a GB fanzine of the same name.

[Rachel Lindan]

Oh wow, I had no idea so many other people named their zines after songs, this is brilliant :D

All three of mine had/have titles yoinked from songs...

'Intermission' was taken from the song of the same name by Nine Black Alps:

'Queenie' shares its title with a song by Brigade:

And 'Awaiting an Epiphany' is a lyric from the truly incredible 'Polar Swelling' by Grammatics:

[Johnny Misfit!]

my zine, the Muse the News and the Noose, is named after lyrics from a Crush song (Minneapolis band from the early 2000s who put out a cd on Adeline records).
In all my first few issues, the chapter titles were all named after songs.
I did a zine where I interviewed friends Sig transit gloria (from chicago).
Music is a big part of my life so it inevitably seeps into my writing.

Also, I'd be interested in knowing more about the Tegan and Sara inspired HOPE A PLANE zine and the zine named after that Anniversary song.

Thanks for posting this topic.

[Kate Haas]

Miranda isn't named for a song, but it has a regular column called "Motel of Lost Companions," a line from Neil Young's "Thrasher."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t00MXZKbW0M

[Tom Hendricks]

How about the other way around. Here is a song named after a zine.
Zine World by Hunkasaurus and Pet Dog Guitar. I make Musea and writer for Zine World.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVW-lz-dqE

[Tom Hendricks]

BTW I began my zine by calling it Muse News, and got a lawyer letter from a newsletter in Houston that used the name for their piano teachers monthly!

Johnny Misfit! said:

my zine, the Muse the News and the Noose, is named after lyrics from a Crush song (Minneapolis band from the early 2000s who put out a cd on Adeline records).
In all my first few issues, the chapter titles were all named after songs.
I did a zine where I interviewed friends Sig transit gloria (from chicago).
Music is a big part of my life so it inevitably seeps into my writing.

Also, I'd be interested in knowing more about the Tegan and Sara inspired HOPE A PLANE zine and the zine named after that Anniversary song.

Thanks for posting this topic.

[Johnny Misfit!]

That's pretty funny. Kind of odd how someone will go to great lengths to get a small independently publushed 'zine' to change its name.
If they want to come after me, so be it.
Thanks for the post.

Tom Hendricks said:

BTW I began my zine by calling it Muse News, and got a lawyer letter from a newsletter in Houston that used the name for their piano teachers monthly!

[Rachel Lindan]

A happy follow-up to my last post in here... I went to see Brigade on Saturday night, and met Will, the lead singer, afterwards. I told him that one of my zines is named after their song 'Queenie' and he was DELIGHTED by this! He was grinning and flailing and asking if he could have a copy (sadly I didn't have any left, but amma send him a copy of the next one). Awww. Such a nice man! I'm very glad he approves :D

[Josh Vidal]