Bad Newz #16 (San Francisco)

A year or so after moving to San Francisco, my buddy Bob Z (a/k/a "Robert Beaper") has fallen on some hard times. Benefit shows for Bad Newz have barely broken even, bands have backed out of their support, and it seems like Bob's just not having a very good time on the left coast after leaving NYC. That doesn't stop him from putting out another issue of his fun-to-read punkzine Bad Newz, though, even if issue #16 is smaller, somewhat disjointed, and offers up confusing pagination and lay-out.

Nevertheless, Bob includes the second part of his interesting Mike Gunderloy interview; by the time of this late publication, Mike had sold Factsheet Five and gotten out of publishing, but there's still a lot of interest for zine people to read. There are also interviews with New Mexico punk band Red, White & Black and with Debbie Jaffe of Master/Slave Relationship, some cartoons by Ace Backwards, and the usual bunch of album and zine reviews. Bob rails against the local SF scene with a couple of well-placed rants and there's your usual, invigorating "punkature" styled graphics as only Bad Newz could do it! By this time, methinks, Bob Z was spending more time and focus on his poetry and less on the zine, but this issue still provides a lot of value for a couple bucks.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #16
• 1991, no month given
• B&W, 32-pages (including purple/blue-colored covers)
• Style: punkzine

ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
Mike Gunderloy/Factsheet Five
Master/Slave Relationship
Red, White & Black
--> also live show reviews, album & zine reviews