Punk Planet #9 (Chicago)

It's unusual, for any publication, but Punk Planet found its voice very quickly, issue #9 showing the same independent spirit and developing the basic editorial direction that the zine would pretty much follow for the next dozen years. Editor Dan Sinker had moved from Hoboken, New Jersey to Chicago, where the zine would be published for many years. This issue is a fat one, growing better than 20% in page count from #5 in our archive.

There are interviews with the Mr. T Experience, the Lunachicks, Reverend Norb and Earth Crisis, as well as MR&R style columns from folks like Sinker, Larry Livermore, Julie Cole and David Hake. There are a slew of record and zine reviews, some fiction and the issue's "DIY" column is offers up a dated view of the Internet and web. This issue also includes a 7" flexi disk bound in the zine with tunes from the Mr. T Experience, Squirtgun, the Queers and the Hi-Fives. For you youngsters out there, a flexi disk (or "sound sheet") was a paper-thin square of vinyl that was grooved like a 45RPM single that zines during the '80s and '90s used to hype their favorite bands. Much likes zines themselves, the flexi disk is a media relic of a quaint time long passed.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #9
• September/October 1995
• B&W, 112-pages (including covers) on newsprint
• Style: punkzine

ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
Mr. T Experience interview
Lunachicks interview
Rev. Norb interview
Earth Crisis interview
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