#Music Zine

[womenofnoise]

Women of Noise Zine: Issue 2 is available for preorder on our Bandcamp!

60+ pages of interviews, illustrations, photographs, essays and more, all focused on noise, underground & experimental music.

[reality-nihilism]

Unknown artist.

[koddlet]

chappell roan zine i made at the end of may. wishing you the best in the worst way <3

[atomicraft]

oddly specific music recs; the zine !

[tuttertime]

little mini zine from last week x

[casheugh]

“Sing a song 4 California”- A mini zine about ‘TTLOTFK:California’

Happened to finish this one right on time (a day late) for Danger Day’s 13th birthday!!🎉🎉

[birdfriend-theband]

We started printing these brochures as free giveaways at our shows! It's a quick get-to-know-you for folks who are not sure where to start with our big discography.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

finished zine! apologies for my hands getting in the way in some of the pictures; I had a little trouble stapling it (as you can see!). anyway, this was such a fun project!

[ambulancevsambulance]

This is my Essay from the MCR Swarm Zine. I kept hesitating to put it up here, as I feel pretty tender about it. But after everything that happened yesterday, today. I feel like I have to put it out here. It's necessary. Needed. For myself, at the very least.

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"'Cause you only live forever in the lights you make”

It’s June 2022, and I’m watching My Chemical Romance perform songs of anger, community, and defiance in one of my favorite cities- Prague. 

The city of my father’s family. A city that has repeatedly stared tyranny in the face and decided to rise up despite the odds.  

It’s 1945 and the citizens have rebelled to take back the city from the Nazis, street by street.

It’s the spring of 1968, and citizens fight against another oppressive regime. They are supposed to be crushed in four days. 

They last eight. Months. 

It’s 1989, another uprising, one that comes to be known as the Velvet Revolution. The city is finally free, a culmination of every revolution and rebellion that has come before. 

In each instance citizens clawed towards freedom by any means necessary, fighting in the open to stop jackbooted goons from holding onto power. To save friends, family, and complete strangers from suffering for one more moment. Each time they lost, they made sure to make it hurt, and to make the oppressor remember how hard the fight had been. 

They didn’t always win the battle,

–The good guys die and the bad guys win–

but they won the war. 

These people keenly knew that institutions will not save you. Only your fellow comrades will.

It’s June 2022. My friends and I are facing calls of discrimination, for extermination. It can be a miserable time, but I find strength in watching one of my favorite bands. I join the hundreds on livestream, watching the thousands in the stadium. Our eyes fixed on the five on stage. 

As Gerard starts crooning out the notes of Heaven Help Us for the first time in fourteen years, again I’m reminded:

They will not save you.

What is this song but a scream to be saved by outside forces? That in the midst of a cruel martyrdom, the Heavens will be silent to pleas for help. It’s the punchline to the joke, right? No higher power is coming to save you, no matter how much you cry. 

Best they can offer is to watch you burn. 

Heaven Help Us has never been a hopeful song–and it’s a struggle to feel hopeful, some days. 

But the world is an echo of the past as much as it is a march towards an uncertain future. I feel those ghosts whispering to remember this city’s history while watching MCR on stage. To remember that the only solidarity that can be found is in mutual aid–in the community of our fellow freaks and queers and fags. That without intersectionality between it all we will fucking fail. It’s hard work, and we won’t always win.

That doesn’t mean we– I – should give up. And MCR agrees. In contrast to the despair of Heaven Help Us, there is Danger Days– which speaks more to me now than any other MCR album. Songs of radical love and resistance against fascist conglomerates and an uncaring apocalyptic world…that doesn’t feel as fictional as it did before. 

In Prague, MCR plays six songs from that album (Boy Division counts, damn it). Seeing Gerard, Frank, and Ray all screaming into their microphones about an apocalypse that is crashing down around our ears lights a fire inside of me. Reminding me that changing the world might mean dying, but hell yeah lets try anyways. Your sacrifice might light the path of victory for others. You get to be the fucking detonator–and isn’t that a privlege? To have your acts of resistance inspire the next in line. 

It’s in direct contrast to the lament of Heaven. Stop asking who, what will save us, and realize we have to save ourselves. By any means possible. 

The concert ends with Kids from Yesterday, and I finish the night listening to Gerard sing that the only people we can truly count on are each other. That fighting for your friends is the purest form of love alive. 

So in the face of extermination, say fuck you.

And make damn sure your friends want to leave graffiti on your grave. 

[gatorskulls]

This is my full piece for @ourlawyerzine! I was chosen to create a full page piece of spot art that would sit next to a poem based around the music video for Fall Out Boy's song Church 🥀🕯️🪻

Bundles are almost sold out, but you can still purchase some of the merch, physical zines, and digital zines here!! So happy i could be part of this!

[void-flesh]

“You’ve Gotta Check This Band Out” A multi-bandom micro essay zine

Is there a band you’re obsessed with? No matter if its 00s pop-punk, folk music from 1960, a rock band you saw in your friends basement and never forgot- If you’re excited about a musician, I want to hear about it.

The details: What’s a micro essay?

A micro essay an essay around 200-700 words in length. For the purposes of this zine, it can be any format or style, no matter how experimental, as long as its nonfiction.

What can I write about?

This zine is going to focus on bands but is open to works about any musician or musical scene that you feel passionate about

What should I write about?

i’m most interested in looking at how music functions in a broader cultural context, but anything you’re passionate about, I wanna see. This can include but isn’t limited to: - How the sexual politics of a time period affected music - Analysis of how a cover song affects the original piece - Why this band you saw that one time was so rad - How various identity politics and music intersect and interact - Why everyone is wrong about [Insert widely hated album name here] - Why DID that secret chord David played please the lord?

Submissions will be open until June 7th!

You can send plain text and I will lay it out, or if you want to design your own page, including text, illustration, stickers, cut/paste, etc, please make it 5.5in x 8.5in and 300ppi resolution JPG

Please send submissions to merlin.sabal13@gmail.com

Some other rules/FAQs

YES it can be a piece thats already been published as long as you include where it was first published (your blog, another zine, etc)

YES its ok if its a little bit longer or shorter- the word limit is a soft guide, if its 756 words etc thats fine

YES comics are ok as long as they are nonfiction

If you an illustrator who wants to work on illustrating essays, email or dm me!

Contributors will receive a print copy, zine will also be posted online for free, and will be sold at-cost in my shop.

If you have questions plz ask!

[womenofnoise]

Women of Noise: Issue 2 is now out and printed!

What's in the zine? 68 pages of art, photography, essays, and interviews, all focused on noise and experimental music and, well, women of noise, pretty much what our blog is about. Enjoy! You can still order your copy through our Bandcamp!

[reality-nihilism]

Unknown artist.

[koddlet]

reposting my first music zine from this year because i did not do it justice the first time round. some songs i listened to a lot in january!

[jellicores]

a quick zine of one of my favourite songs at the moment, check readmore for full image

this is an a4 foldable zine, so if you want to print it for yourself here's the full image. if you do, please consider leaving me a tip on ko-fi! and sending me pictures of it wherever you put it :)

[punkwithapencil]

THE MCR ZINE IS DONE !!!!! super happy with it !! and put a lot more effort into it compared to my other zines :)

I am relatively knew to being a crazy mcr fan + learning the lore so apologies if any of the info is inaccurate ':3