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This amazing
zine was put together by someone locally and was inspired by their love for Raymond
Pettibon artwork. In an interview we did with the author this love developed at
an early age reading some of Pettibon’s early zines. As the author started collecting
Pettibon flyers the author found that a lot of collectors didn’t share the same
curiosity for meaning behind the artwork. All the artwork found in this zine
has been collected by the author and purchased. He has made a special
distinction between original flyers and copies, so only original pieces have
been commented on. Anyway, the author has applied a sophisticated art analysis
to Pettibon’s artwork with a look at the
evolution in stages compared through Black Flag’s history. He points out that Pettibon
never drew artwork for Black Flag. It was used by Black Flag so his artwork
should be looked at on it’s own. This is a book that the author wished was
around when he was a kid and has been pulled together through correspondence
with the Charles Dukowski and other sources listed inside. Here is a PDF download
of Art Through Intimidation.
A great new one off zine has come out of Toronto exploring Raymond Pettibon's artwork as used by Black Flag. The zine is called "Art Through Intimidation" and we interviewed the author / publisher of this zine a few weeks ago. Black Flag are in town this week so what better time to explore an aspect of Black Flag, namely the image in front of the band. You can download the show here.
BLACK FLAG - What I See (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Nervous Breakdown (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Spray Paint (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Police Story (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
CIRCLE JERKS - Wasted (Frontier)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Damaged II (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - My War (SST)
Interview with the author from Art Through Intimidation (CIUT)
BLACK FLAG - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (SST)
Steven Davey passed away last week. he played drums in the Dishes and the Everglades and wrote one of Toronto's greatest punk anthems "Rebel Unorthodox" performed and recorded by the Viletones. In memory of Steve's passing here are is a song by each pf those bands.
THE DISHES - Fred Victor's Mission (Regular)
THE VILETONES - Rebel Unorthodox
THE EVERGLADES - Rock n roll cliche
Tonight's demo feature is a new Toronto band called Conundrum. The demo was released in March and can be downloaded at http://conundrumhc.bandcamp.com/.
CONUNDRUM - Suppress (Self-Released)
CONUNDRUM - Consume Me (Self-Released)
CONUNDRUM - Drained (Self-Released)
CONUNDRUM - Intruder (Self-Released)
NEGATIVE RAGE - Sensitive City, Volume 2 (Self-Released)
I had heard about this zine through Ben from the School Jerks. He was very excited about it. I had forgotten about it until it showed up in the post. Then I started looking through it and as I started reading the zine I realized that there was an incredible amount of work behind the artistic analysis of Raymond Pettibon's artwork. And as I read through I started to realize that the artwork on Black Flag's flyers was often more powerful than the band itself. Pettibon pulled no punches and covered way more subjects that Black Flag didn't. Here is a review of the zine from the May 2014 issue of MRR (#372).
