issue five: safety in numbers
interviews with rock 'n' roll superstars: oldstar, exene cervenka (x), matt johnson (the director), cashier, badger hunt, and tsunami. i discover my foot is broken, make a case against guitar solos, receive letters from jill, and talk to a lot of my heroes. games, photographs, and other nonsense are interspersed amongst the sounds. limited edition risograph covers printed by burn all books (www.babandfriends.com). 60 pages, black and white on cream or pink paper. february 2025.
issue four-and-a-half: what we do is secret
unofficial issue covering summer happenings featuring interviews with bratmobile, lifeguard, kan kan, redd kross, hotline tnt (again), and swapmeet– all conducted in the month of july in chicago, nyc, and australia (over the phone!). 44 pages, black and white, printed on random colored paper. september 2024.
issue four: cease to exist
featuring interviews with andy bernick of the swirlies, ex pilots, stephin merritt of the magnetic fields, and heavenly– as well as a tour of john waters' baltimore, anecdotes from my 20th birthday, a how-to guide for putting on generator shows, and a handful of photographs I took. jill and ethan on the front cover (thank you). full color, saddle-stitched, 56 pages. july 2024
issue three: nyc's like a graveyard
includes interviews with her new knife and the paranoyds, show reviews and photos (bar italia, geese, dino jr., blimp, the breeders, and more), a comic regarding blue nail polish, more on my one-sided beef with international superstar julian casablancas, playlists, journal entries, and even more opinions. for the first time in full color! saddle-stitched! and it's fifty-six pages! it's getting professional around here. februrary 2024.
issue two: how serious can anything be anyway? not very
the second issue: complete with typical show coverage (sword ii, horsegirl, wednesday, yo la tengo, cryogeyser, & more), tales from my nineteenth birthday, an interview with hotline tnt, journal entries, my gregg araki obsession, pictures, drawings... the works. cover color is random. hand-bound, numbered, and printed. black and white. june 2023
issue one: yr city's a sucker
the first attempt. no interviews. i recount tales of joy and woe–namely seeing pavement and wednesday back-to-back and then getting stuck on rockaway beach with mitchell in the cold (and watching him get hit by a car dressed as lydia tár on halloween.) lots of journal entries, photographs, drawings, and everything else detailing my first few months in nyc/at college. a few show reviews too. forty pages. black and white. january 2023.
