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May 2009 Blog Posts (84)

These musicians made the world's first best music list

Who made the BIG LIST this week? - first world "Top Forty" - list of 100 Plus, best favorites from myspace and youtube. It's Musea's way of celebrating the best of new music of all kinds from everywhere. (170 songs as of April '09)

HELP ME SUPPORT THE VERY BEST NEW MUSIC IN THE WORLD

1. From ITALY

Best Composer for Keyboards, Inventor of Modular Art Music, and Best Composer for Vocal Music Stefano Vagnini (Zoo) "Amaltea", "Via Crucis", " Arachne" (ms).

2.… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 31, 2009 at 9:24pm — No Comments

Join mailing list?...Yes.

We at Ms Valerie Park Distro are putting together a fun email newsletter thingy for June, with a bunch of links to fun things and a bunch of free mp3's and we think you should join. We're not in the business of pressuring people or being weird, but just wanted to let y'all know that we think it's fun and maybe you will, too.

send us yr email! msvaleriepark@gmail.com

P.S.- Also, that free-zines-for-zine-libraries-if-you-can-pay-a-few-bucks-for-postage offer still stands and I… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 31, 2009 at 6:55pm — No Comments

I Have A Proper Blog

Read my blog now: Bad Fotography Blog - Music Mp3s, Zine Reviews, And Badly Taken Photography

Added by Trent Rampage on May 31, 2009 at 1:17pm — No Comments

NEW ZINE REVIEW SECTION ONLINE - GET YOUR ZINE REVIEWED TODAY!

http://www.fallyrag.com/zine_review/pages/Book-Art.php

All our zine reviews so far have come from wemakezines members - submissions welcomed.

The Fallyrag team x

Added by Fallyrag on May 31, 2009 at 4:10am — No Comments

NEW BLOGGG !!! yeeee-haww!

So. THE VOX BOX, (the blog I previously wrote for - funded by The Spokesman-Review), has shut down.

We lost funding.

We lost the paper.

We lost the blog.

BUT! Never fear! Another blogger and I have officially cranked out a NEW BLOG! It's gonna be the resurrection of The VOX BOX, baby!! :D

Get your hineys over to the blog and show some love - as a total NEWBIE-BLOG it sorta blows..it's all void of… Continue

Added by Chloe Rambo on May 30, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Review of Crimsonheart Ring

This review first appeared on the Feminist Review website

( http://feministreview.blogspot.com/search?q=Chantel+Guidry)

(Sadly, I lost the ring before this review was even published. I just hope the person who found it loves it as much as I did.)

I found another beautiful piece of jewelry on Etsy. I was looking at member profiles on We Make Zines and found a link to a fellow zinester’s Etsy shop. I like seeing cool things other imaginative folks have made, so I… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on May 30, 2009 at 12:47pm — No Comments

Queer Zine Archive Project

Do folks know about the Queer Zine Archive Project? I just discovered it. I plan to spend some time (when I have some time) exploring the QZAP website.

Here's the web address: http://www.qzap.org/v5/index.php

Here's some info about the QZAP:

The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on May 30, 2009 at 11:56am — 2 Comments

Zine about my own personal queer invisibility

I was supposed to go to the Bash Back gathering in Chicago this weekend, but my friend had to change her plans when she got a gig to photograph a wedding down South. I decided not to go alone.

Some friends of mine have a lovely loft with huge west facing windows and hundreds of books on shelves lining the walls. They said I could spend the weekend here writing. I've been fortunate enough to make myself my own free, four day writing retreat.

So far I've used the time… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on May 30, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Urinal Gum #8 and t-shirts and sweet narwhal on unicorn action!

Urinal Gum #8 is now available at all participating locations. This issue includes many fine stories, including

How to get the homeless to give you money

How roller derby is destroying our economy

Top 5 Things that Should Disappear… Continue

Added by Urinal Gum on May 29, 2009 at 9:47pm — No Comments

Portland, Oregon Zine happenings... I just got back from a month long trip to the UK and France! I attended the London Zine Symposium, went on a mini UK zine tour, hung out with rad folks and then h…

Portland, Oregon Zine happenings...

I just got back from a month long trip to the UK and France! I attended the London Zine Symposium, went on a mini UK zine tour, hung out with rad folks and then headed to France for the 20th birthday party of La Fanzinotheque! You can be sure that there will be a zine about my adventures! Check out photos and what not from my trip here: http://alexwrekk.wordpress.com

Now I'm back in the… Continue

Added by Alex Wrekk on May 29, 2009 at 8:31am — 2 Comments

Selling / Swapping Back Issues

If you're looking for back issues of The Great Unwashed, get over to our Etsy store BobbieandLola quick smart.

We've got issues 6 -9 up for sale over there right now.

Articles include:

-Spontaneous Human Combustion

- The Naked Mole Rat

- Adventures of the Common Sense Crusader

- From Unicrons

- In-vitro Meat

- Hallo Grand Papi

and other delightful reading material.

If you're in… Continue

Added by The Great Unwashed on May 29, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Musea Extra: AOL Did Tank - Today

Many years ago I recorded my song, “AOL CAN GO AND TANK TOMORROW.

Seems they have. Or rather Time Warner has dumped AOL as announced today. Here’s some info and a link to my song.

As Variety Magazine writes, ”The merger with AOL was announced with great fanfare in early 2000 and closed a year later. It touched off a round of giant media mergers as other companies feared being left behind in a volatile media landscape. Time Warner changed its name to AOL Time… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 28, 2009 at 9:07pm — No Comments

zinecore radio #12: NICK ZEDD, Victor Bonacore, Ruby LaRocca listen NOW

www.blogtalkradio.com/thezineshow

zinecoreradio@gmail.com

THe next episode will be an OPEN MIC READING! sign up for a 10-15 min zine reading!!! contact me!… Continue

Added by Hannah Neurotica on May 28, 2009 at 8:42pm — 1 Comment

Excited to have our seventh year!

Philly Zine Fest is going strong, with a date set for our 2009 fest at the Rotunda in West Philly: Sunday September 20, 2009. Last year we had a great turnout, with distros and zinesters from across the mid Atlantic and Northeast showing up, as well as several workshops and cheap eats. We'll keep everyone posted with more details as they become available!

Added by Philly Zine Fest on May 28, 2009 at 8:23am — No Comments

Dear Zine Libraries...

(or home zine libraries/personal zine libraries), I realize I have a fair amount of quite good zines in multiple copies that I don't distro and I'm a little unsure what to do with. I've donated to all the local zine libraries, so thought I'd throw it out there that, if anybody wanted an envelope of random zines to add to their collection, I would totally send an envelope like that yr way. I would just need a couplefew dollars for shipping. It would probably be 5 or so zines...let me know if… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 28, 2009 at 1:28am — No Comments

so you think you're a junkie...

You Might Be A Junkie If....

You are searching the internet for survival tips on how to live with heroin addiction.

You only eat really sweet cereal out of cups or glasses.

You buy food with the few dollars in change you scrounge up after finding a ten dollar bill tucked away for emergencies.

You don't hang out with people unless you are on dope (social precaution)

You don't own a tooth brush.

You like Miles Davis a little too… Continue

Added by coles lee on May 27, 2009 at 1:52pm — 2 Comments

Musea E-mail Club #473 Summer Fun and Games

Readers, It's summer and time for some fun activities. Here's three to start off your summer.

The first is "CODE RINGS ON", a puzzle. It's TOUGH. I first published it many years ago with no one even attempting to solve it. So We'll try again.

The 2nd, "PAINT LIKE POLLACK" is a website where you can paint like Pollock. See the url and some tips. Thanks to the Art and Seek Blog for this idea.

The 3rd is "RIVErDALE RELATED" . Thanks to my sister Peggy for this… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 27, 2009 at 10:11am — No Comments

UPCOMING ZINE EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA

There’s some zine fairs and zine haps I thought I’d update you all on.

May 24 – Sydney

ZINE FAIR – In association w/ Sydney Writer’s Festival

Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art

Times: 11:00am to 5:00pm

This zine fair has more than 40 stallholders & some panels going on at the same time. Info on the panels is here: (link). Bird in the Hand and friends are located close to the bar – Tables 1,2,3 etc. Hope to see you there! Come say hello and buy some of our 70+… Continue

Added by Bird in the Hand Zine Shop on May 27, 2009 at 4:56am — No Comments

Adelaide, Aus - New Zine Shop

* Front Page

* About

* Getting your zine stocked

* Online Store

* Why ?

* Upcoming Zine Events

Adelaide Zine Shop

27 May, 2009 · No Comments

A new zine shop is soon to open in Adelaide and while in itself this is a great thing, it won’t survive on its own. They’ll be needing you dearly right now to fill those shelves and tables with your amazing zines. The shop will be opening on Sunday 7 June at a premises on 23 Peel St [between Hindley &… Continue

Added by Bird in the Hand Zine Shop on May 27, 2009 at 4:55am — No Comments

Razorcake

Today I put in my time to Razorcake a D.I.Y. music fanzine. To sound extremely trite I think it's great...I wonder why whenever something has to do with writing my writing voice sounds so 3rd grade and valley girl except I'm 28 and a man? Anywho, it's tough in this day and age for such an endeavor to survive and Razorcake is celebrating its 50th issue. I'm proud to say I have some record reviews in but I'm not going to tote my horn anymore. Overall the 50th… Continue

Added by N.L. Dewart on May 27, 2009 at 1:32am — No Comments