Bad Newz #17 (San Francisco)

Bob Z bounces back after a fractured issue of Bad Newz with a slightly bigger, but much more focused issue of his erstwhile punkzine. Issue #17, from sometime during 1992, includes interviews with Greg Sage of the Wipers, Gifthorse, the Lie Detectors, Internal Malfunction Institute and an older-but-still-cool interview with Fred Frith from 1987. There's a lot of stuff on the death and attempted rebirth of the legendary zine Factsheet Five, and lots of poetry crammed in between scores of album and zine reviews.

Bob gets more political with this issue of Bad Newz as well, running the anti-corporate satire "Union Of Time Thieves #00," another piece on unrest in Yugoslavia and, ahem, my rant on the Ice T and Body Count controversy from the time. The "punkature" styled graphics are still present, and although not as busy and claustrophobic, still delightfully crowded on the page. Altogether another enjoyable issue of Bad Newz courtesy of Bob Z.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #17
• 1992, no month given
• B&W, 34-pages (including purple-colored covers)
• Style: punkzine

ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
Greg Sage/The Wipers
Fred Frith
Gifthorse
The Lie Detectors
Factsheet Five zine update
--> also live show reviews, album & zine reviews