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I02586 | A Collection of Alternative Music and Culture Magazines and Zines. Various Publishers, 1996.

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BID PER WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PHOTO, NOT THE AI GENERATED TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS! A Collection of Alternative Music and Culture Magazines and Zines. Various Publishers, 1996.

This group comprises six publications focused on alternative music, industrial culture, and independent publishing dating from mid-1996. The collection includes a variety of formats from professionally printed magazines to smaller press zines.

Included titles:

Small Publisher: Volume 4, Number 2, 1996. Tabloid format on folded newsprint. Cover features Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen regarding book sales and copyright.

Exotic Magazine: Features an interview with Larry Flynt and comic-style cover illustration.

Instant Entertainment Magazine: Issue 6, July/August 1996. Features Ramona Silver on the cover with interior content regarding Napalm Death, The Wrens, and Pulp.

Industrial Nation: Issue 15. Features Switchblade Symphony, Laibach, and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. Includes listings for Forma Tadre and Apoptygma Berzerk.

Motion Sickness: Issue #2, September 1996. A zine-style "Warped Tour Special" featuring Blanks 77, The Vandals, and Guttermouth.

Option Music Culture: No. 70, September-October 1996. Features a cover story on Tricky titled wicked! it is tricky, with additional coverage of Sleater-Kinney and DJ Spooky.

The publications are primarily quarto-sized saddle-stitched softcovers in color and monochrome wrappers, with the exception of the folded newsprint tabloid Small Publisher.


Condition report:

Items are in good vintage condition showing light signs of shelf wear. Small Publisher exhibits a permanent horizontal fold as issued. Other magazines show minor creasing at the corners and edges of the wrappers. All covers remain bright with minimal scuffing. Interior pages appear intact.