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The Coldest Zine The Coldest is a print and online zine focusing on soul music, oi! and working class life.

Congress Theater, Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago, IL (January 2024)This place has been closed for a while. The one t...
04/07/2025

Congress Theater, Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago, IL (January 2024)

This place has been closed for a while. The one time I've been here was for Riot Fest 2008. I was in the city for a conference of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN). At the time, I was living in Iowa City, IA, living in a cooperative house, working in a Proctor & Gamble contractor warehouse and was involved with the local (mostly) student antiwar group.

Me and this girl that came to the conference decided to bounce to go to Riot Fest. I can't remember everyone who played, but definitely Leftover Crack, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jay Reatard and DOA were there. Even then, Congress probably could have been condemned. Some of the floors seemed like they were headed in the direction of collapse and I thought at the time it was a fire trap.

I ended up getting drunk as s**t off Hennessy shots. As the day went on I sobered up, then got a hangover. We were all supposed to go back to Iowa City that day but everyone with a licence was too scared to drive at night. So me, with no driver's licence, and a thumping headache, downed a Red Bull and drove back from Chicago...hoping we didn't get pulled over...

Shot with Kodak i60 camera on Kidal Tri-X film

04/07/2025
Beton Arme, Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL (September 2024)📸 by Gerri Fernandez
02/07/2025

Beton Arme, Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL (September 2024)

📸 by Gerri Fernandez

Iggy Goleczynski, co-founder of the Two Tone store in Passaic, NJ passed away last month. I believe he was in his late 7...
16/06/2025

Iggy Goleczynski, co-founder of the Two Tone store in Passaic, NJ passed away last month. I believe he was in his late 70s.

If you're following this page, you likely already read the short history of the store I wrote for Issue 2, but link is in the comments if you haven't. A friend of the zine visited Iggy last year with a printout of the article, so I'm grateful he was aware of it.

He couldn't have been aware of how popular the article was and is. It is easily the most popular thing I've written or posted for the zine. It is constantly being reposted in various Facebook groups and has the highest visitor stats on the zines site. A lot of people have fond memories of Iggy and the Two Tone store.

There is an 'Iggy Memorial' show scheduled for August 1st at Dingbatz in Clifton, NJ.

Me and the fam went down to the "No Kings" protest. Was one of the bigger ones I've been to in Chicago. Not sure if thes...
14/06/2025

Me and the fam went down to the "No Kings" protest. Was one of the bigger ones I've been to in Chicago. Not sure if these things make much of a difference, but them anti-working class, anti-migrant parasites need to know not everyone is going along with their bulls**t.

The homies Fuerza Bruta have a new 4-track EP coming out on 7/25/25! Pre-orders for the 10" are available through Wartho...
13/06/2025

The homies Fuerza Bruta have a new 4-track EP coming out on 7/25/25! Pre-orders for the 10" are available through Warthog Speak Records , who describes the new release as "The Brute Force rises again, hard as ever, with a new 4-track, 10-inch, 45rpm EP of tried and true, oi!-rooted-in-classic-Spanish-language-punk barrage we've come to expect from this lot. No surprises, all gusto. Especially that closer."

The EP release party will be at Cobra Lounge in Chicago on 7/25 featuring Brick Assassin, The Slads, Criminal Kids and Splatter Pattern.

.case has a new band, Oubliette, and they are playing their first show this Thursday at  !First photo by
09/06/2025

.case has a new band, Oubliette, and they are playing their first show this Thursday at !

First photo by

Consensus Madness is a band out of Chicago that plays 1970s influenced punk with the energy of 80s hardcore. Although fo...
08/06/2025

Consensus Madness is a band out of Chicago that plays 1970s influenced punk with the energy of 80s hardcore. Although formed a few years prior, they burst onto the scene in 2023 with their self-titled EP and '2023 Demo'. Their members are a staple at Chicago area shows, which they often book, attend or play in other bands at. One of my favorite groups now, I was able to interview lead singer Sarah in February of 2025.

Consensus Madness is a band out of Chicago that plays 1970s influenced punk with the energy of 80s hardcore. Although formed a few years prior, they burst onto the scene in 2023 with their self-tit…

05/06/2025

On this day, 5 June 2013, teenage anti-fascist and unionist Clément Méric was killed by neo-Nazis in Paris. Méric and some of his fellow antifascists happened upon a group of fascists at a sale of Fred Perry and Ben Sherman clothing – popular with both antifascist and fascist skinheads.
Despite being physically far smaller than the neo-Nazis, and recovering from leukaemia, 18 year old Méric reportedly mocked them. A brawl then erupted in which Méric was punched in the face five times with brass knuckles before the fascists fled.
Méric was a member of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union, and was active in movements for LGBT+ and migrants' rights. His killers were part of the Third Way fascist group. Two of them were jailed for terms of 11 and seven years imprisonment in 2018 but one was released after 55 days pending an appeal.
In the years following his death, thousands of people have gathered to demonstrate in his memory around the anniversary date, and have been addressed by individuals including Assa Traoré, sister of Adama Traoré, a young Black French man who was killed by police in 2016.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10544/Cl%C3%A9ment-M%C3%A9ric-killed-by-fascists

Looks like we're getting a second CIDADÃO 7"!Information below from Mendeku Diskak's Bandcamp-088- CIDADÃO "O Mundo É No...
14/05/2025

Looks like we're getting a second CIDADÃO 7"!

Information below from Mendeku Diskak's Bandcamp

-088- CIDADÃO "O Mundo É Nojento" 7" (Pre-order May 23rd!!)

Second installment of this Chicago side-project with members from FUERZA BRUTA, LOST LEGION and FULMINE, among many other bands. 4 tracks of Hardcorepunk sung in Portuguese, influenced by the '80's Brazilian Hardcore but with a early NYHC twist and some Oi! residues.

Pressing info:
-220 copies on black vinyl
-80 copies on translucent lime yellow vinyl
-10 test pressing copies with hand-stamped and hand-numbered white labels + hand-numbered alternate jacket.

Recorded by Ian Wise
Mixed and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
Art by

THE PRE-ORDER STARTS ON MAY 23RD!
(Shipping from June 25th on)

https://mendekudiskak.bandcamp.com/album/088-cidad-o-o-mundo-nojento-7-pre-order-may-23rd

Fuera De Sektor @ Fallen Log, Chicago, IL (August 2024)Spanish post-punk band Fuera De Sektor came to Chicago last summe...
13/05/2025

Fuera De Sektor @ Fallen Log, Chicago, IL (August 2024)

Spanish post-punk band Fuera De Sektor came to Chicago last summer and put on a great show. Their debut LP from last year, "Juegos Prohibidos" came out on LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS and is one of my favorite releases from 2024.

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Happy May Day (the real Labor Day)!Here's an interview I did with Cole from Rogue Trooper. It originally appeared in Oi!...
01/05/2025

Happy May Day (the real Labor Day)!

Here's an interview I did with Cole from Rogue Trooper. It originally appeared in Oi! The Black Book Vol. 2. I mostly asked him their 2018 record "Class Decline", released on Rebellion Records. Covering such issues as deindustrialization, unemployment and gentrification, it's one of my favorite albums of the past decade.

https://thecoldestzine.com/2025/05/01/interview-rogue-trooper/

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