Shotgun Seamstress

This guy I volunteer with at the queer youth center grew up here and brought this one-page #zine for me to check out. He said someone handed it to him when he was hanging out downtown sometime in the #90s. After asking around, I learned it’s by a guy who they used to call Brett Not Bombs (he also headed up Food Not Bombs). Cool piece of #Florida #punk ephemera.

Absolutely transcendent experience watching Music for 18 Musicians by #SteveReich at Sarasota Opera House. I had to capture this moment when three musicians were playing the same marimba. #ExperimentalMusic #LiveMusic

Every issue of HOMOCORE anarcho-queer punk zine created 1988-1991 by @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org is now available as a print anthology. This is an incredible example of #zines as lifelines—vital touch points for psychological survival. Resist psychic death!

Print anthology: https://www.flukemags.com/product/homocore

FREE SCANS: https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/HOMOCORE/index.html

#punk #queer #LGBTQ

Thomas Sankara, revolutionary and musician from Burkina Faso, from “Shadow Comms” zine issue zero, August 2021 by Shiva Addanki.

We’re gonna go see #TheInvite at the movies tonight. Been loving Edward Norton since I was a kid and I’m a big #A24 fan. Hope it’s good. I’ll report back. #movies

#NowPlaying #vinyl #RockNRoll

“Early Black Rock’n Roll No. 2 (1949-1959): I Smell a Rat” (Trikont, 2010)

Back to this one. The recording quality of these songs plus whatever remastering magic makes this comp such a great listen. Big Mama Thornton, Guitar Slim, Lonnie the Cat, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Maybelle, Sandra Meade…. and more well-known artists like Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Etta James. The title track is incredible.

Second run of #ParadiseLost available now! It’s the story of the 80s & 90s #punk scene in a small city with few visible reminders of its subcultural past, told through interviews. 1980s #hardcore and #skateboarding culture is heavily featured in the #zine, including an interview with Dan Destructo of the band No Fraud. https://shotgunseamstress.blogspot.com/2026/02/paradise-lost-sarasota-florida-hardcore.html #zines

“Punkhouse Oakland, the Podcast is an outgrowth of the instagram Elizabeth Whitney started during the pandemic, sharing photos of the many people she'd lived with in 20 years in a punkhouse. She invited everyone to share their photos, one tag led to another, and before long there were 6,000 followers and a huge backlog of photos to share…” #punk #BayArea #1980s #1990s #podcast #ErinYanke
https://www.erinyanke.com/projects/punkhouse-oakland-the-podcast

Liz Phair and Sleater Kinney are touring together like it’s the 90s.

#NowPlaying #vinyl #ExperimentalMusic

“Turtle Dreams” Meredith Monk
ECM Records, 1983

Still soaring high from that Steve Reich concert and it’s making me reach for other similar records.

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org especially for the musician playing upside down!