04/19/2026
Well, this is stupid...like most of my ideas. For a while now, I've desired finding some music magazine in my mailbox and afterwork I could drop the needle on a Zipgun or Radio Birdman album and sit and read articles about bands I'm into, or find out about some hot s**t new band from wherever, or read about Nicke Andersson's current project, or some beloved album from 1998 that originally came out on CD only is finally getting a limited run vinyl pressing, but print media is dead, no one does punk-n-roll focused zines. So in all things punk, if you can't find what you're looking for, you do it yourself, hence I've decided to start doing a printed, physical, actual hold in your hands zine focused on punk-n-roll.
I took this stupid idea to other guys I know who also own record labels, doing what I do, like Spaghetty Town, Ghost Highway, Heavy Medication, I-94, Screaming Crow, etc, and told them what I'm doing and asked those guys to contribute, and write something, and to prove this is stupid, they all agreed.
I reached out to my pal Tim Na**lm and other career music journalist, and my artist friend Adam PopArtist, who's work I'm using for the front cover of the first issue, and they said this is a bad idea, and are excited to see it happening.
To make matters worse, I reached out to some friends, who are musical heroes of mine, like Scott Deluxe Drake, Mighty Joe Vincent, and Hector Penalosa, and told them this stupid idea and asked if they wanted to be part of it and write something, so you know it's a dumb idea when they all agreed to write something.
The thing about punk-n-roll is it's not just a sound or type of music, it's an attitude that we first heard vocalized in rock-n-roll when Bo Diddley sang "I'm just twenty two and don't mind dying". I've described punk-n-roll as being music performed by punkrockers who grew up listening to KISS, ACDC, Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, TRex, and the Sweet. Sure, it's punk music, but it's got swagger and bravado that is equal parts Steve McQueen and John Belushi, where cool meets absurd.
I told everyone the idea, that it was middle of April, get what you wanna contribute to me by the middle of May so I can get it to the press to hopefully get it out by the first of June. I can cover the cost of doing a 48 page zine with a print run of 200 copies to gauge interest or generate interest to see if anyone else has been craving something like this, and if this has wings and people want more, then I'll figure out ad rates and the business end of this.
To all my friends that are going along with this and are willing to contribute, you mooks are a bad influence and I love you for it. Thank you. To my wife, who's now just finding out about this, thanks for understanding and always being supportive of my bulls**t.
At this point, print has been dead for several years, and it makes no sense to do this when you can find out anything right now via the internet, but I literally remember articles from MaximumRockNRoll and Flipside from 30 years ago or more, but can't remember the article I read online 15 minutes ago. I've not seen any studies or proof, but I think the way your brain processes and absorbs what you read from print is totally different than how it works when you read from a screen.
Meyers
